Operations

Sometimes I’m amazed with what some of our developers do.  I’ve seen so many examples of code just thrown together. I’ve seen that code produce infinite loops, slow down load time by a factor of 10, and take down servers.  So when I see an example of someone thinking through how to efficiently create code, […]

Windows Server 2003 will reach end of life on July 14, 2015. Support and security patches will no longer be available after that date. If you are still running Server 2003 in your environment, hopefully you are already planning how to migrate your workloads to a supportable platform. If you are just beginning to consider […]

Let’s face it. Companies capture Customer Information  in multiple stages through multiple systems even in a Small / Medium Business (SMB segment). Not all the latest Customer information is readily available for all the applications.  Applications need Customer Master Data to link the transactions and every Application has different data model for capturing the Customer […]

As I have been putting together my ODI blog posts I wanted to put together another post discussing the different types of ODI repositories, “Master and Work.”  But the repository I want to touch upon the most in the “Work” repository and the different options the ODI work repository has to offer.   Now before I get into […]

Today’s Cloud solutions range from platform services to full-blown ERP holding the key to Enterprise Information. It is very easy to get carried away and forget the efforts of creating the Enterprise Data and existing Analytical capabilities. Getting rid of the cost of managing the HW/SW and other Operational expenses is only part of the […]

This will probably be one of my shortest posts on ODI, but I figured if I am covering  pretty much all the basics of ODI, it would be good to show you how to use ODI’s scheduler and also show you how to schedule your ODI load plans. As title of the post states “Oracle […]

The new trend in the Analytics world, Cloud Analytics is slowly becoming a norm. Except for the Cloud tag, companies have used Cloud or External Analytics for a long time. Historically Campaign Management has been part outsourced, part managed by Marketing, using external data besides ‘Enterprise Data’. Traditional Data Vendors / Credit Score providers like […]

Hopefully everyone has been enjoying my many post on Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), again its starting to become one of my favorite ETL or E-LT software solutions.  With that being said, I wanted to continue my discussions with ODI and create a post showing you all how to create a ODI scenario and load plan. […]

Perficient has many great partners that support our development and deployment of the best of breed solutions we provide for our clients. This post is one of them in a series that will highlight some of the products available from our partners. Today, I’ll be presenting K2 and and their Workflow and Forms Apps for […]

So I’m hoping you all read my previous post on “Creating an Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) Interface” and hopefully it was simple to follow.  Today, I want to show you how to take your interface and bundle it into a ODI package with other ODI components in which will all you to run more than […]

Hopefully you all had a chance to check out my recent blog posting “Getting to know Oracle’s Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).”  If you haven’t checked it out yet, I urge you to check it out.  Well to continue on the topic of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), I wanted to put together a few posts on […]

Myths & Realities of Self-Service BI The popularity of Data Visualization tools and the Cloud BI offerings are new forces to reckon with. I find it interesting to see how the perception Vs usage of these tools in reality. Traditionally IT likes the control and centralized management for obvious reasons of accountability and quality of […]