Operations

Introduction SSAS 2012 provides three different approaches for creating a business intelligence semantic model: tabular, multidimensional, and PowerPivot. Tabular solutions use relational modeling constructs such as tables and relationships for modeling data, and the xVelocity in-memory analytics engine for storing and calculating data. Multidimensional and data mining solutions use OLAP modeling constructs (cubes and dimensions) […]

When an OSB 11g project using the JCA transport is imported to JDeveloper 12c, you might see the following error. oracle.tip.adapter.sa.impl.fw.ext.org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.wsif.WSIFException: Please specify a Service. Choices are: This is one of the known issues in the project migration. You need to manually edit certain files to resolve this error. Here are the steps to resolve […]

At the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference, Ajay Kadakia with IBM talked about how the API economy is affecting legacy IT companies versus the newer cloud-based companies. The challenge is how to provide more agile, market reactive content off the legacy systems when competing against seemingly more agile, cloud based systems. Ajay talked about the […]

  Now that June is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in May – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 

  We recently discussed reporting and the tracking of E2B transmissions in Oracle Argus Safety. Today, we’ll highlight some of the dashboards that are available in the drug safety and pharmacovigilance system. As you can see from the menu in the first screenshot below, these are the dashboards built into the system. 

We examine SCD Type I and Type II here. Overview of Kettle transformation Here is overview of transformation. It will be loaded from excel source file and loaded into database.

  As you may have read in our most recent “cloud fact or fiction” post, we confirmed that companies have the ability to perform system administration activities for solutions hosted in the cloud. Let’s now tackle configurations and customizations. 

In this blog we will talk about how to implement various types of slowly changing dimensions (SCDs) with Kettle in details. And I will introduce the examination of SCD Type I and Type II in Part2. Types of Slowly Changing Dimensions Following Kimball, we distinguish two main types of slowly changing dimensions: Type I, Type […]

Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.9) As you might know, Oracle has released OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0.   There are a host of new features that I know some of my clients have been looking for; including the ability to save calculated fields for reuse in other analyses, enhanced export functionality, and Hyperion Planning data source support.  We […]

Note: Today’s blog post comes from Vadim Tabakman, Technical Evangelist for Nintex with over 8 years of experience in SharePoint and Nintex technologies. He understands how SharePoint, business process automation and forms can join forces successfully in numerous industries and business scenarios to drive business adoption and succeed in SharePoint projects. Vadim brings an excellent […]

  It’s not uncommon for sponsors and CROs to perform version upgrades on their clinical and safety systems or move away from certain ones altogether. They’ve been doing it for years. But why, when it impacts so many different parts of a company, both operationally and financially? The answer is relatively simple: Because what’s at […]

  The pharma industry undoubtedly gets a bad rap. “Drug companies charge too much.” “They are only in it for themselves.” And it goes on and on. But are these accusations truly justified? In a recent Forbes opinion piece, John Lechleiter, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Eli Lilly, brilliantly debunks the more common […]