Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

Assigning Active Directory User to a particular Role in Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) does not acquire the Application Role in the OBIEE 12c. This issue can happen when the user Display Name and the sAMAccountName are not the same. For example: In the Enterprise Manager, a user, Joe Doe, is added to a BIAdministrator Application […]

This issue applies not only to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c, but also to other 12c infrastructure. When a database OPSS user account password expires or when you update the OPSS user account with a new password, you might encounter the following error when you try to bring up the WebLogic Admin server: […]

If you ever had a requirement or thought of creating an analysis report in BICS to display report columns dynamically, but later had to give it up due to the complexity, you might find this blog post is what you’ve been waiting for. I am going to show you how easily such a report can be created […]

This is the era of “wanting to be engaged and needing to be informed”. For ages, lagging indicators such as customer sales and customer problem solving were the driving factors for customer satisfaction. However, using predictive analytics to understand valuable customers and appropriately engage with them is a key aspect of business intelligence, as pointed […]

While we rolled into 2017, I thought it would be neat to see what our readers were, well, reading. Without further ado, here are the top 10 blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote that seemed to be popular among readers. They’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. The 8 […]

As businesses expand into new areas of marketing they’re adopting hybrid applications, both on-premises and cloud, to support their growing needs. But multiple applications silo customer information across the business, limiting a 360-degree view of the customer and the ability to analyze different marketing initiatives. Join us for this encore presentation delivered at Oracle OpenWorld […]

In my last post, I described the methods of reporting from Oracle Cloud (Fusion) Apps.  In that post I illustrated the advantage of using BICS and Data Sync to provide a true Enterprise Data Warehouse due to its abilities to integrate data from all our your cloud, relational, big data and flat file sources.  This […]

In Part 1 of this series, I explained how to prepare your system for VirtualBox and download and extract the .ova file from the Oracle OTN site.  This post describes how to deploy the image, setup the virtual machine settings, how to set up your network adapters and run a critical patch.  At that point […]

Shortly after the release of OBIEE 12.2.1.1, OBIEE Sample Application version 607 was released.  This Sample App is extremely robust and nicely highlights the updates to OBIEE 12c including Data Visualization improvements and really shows off what OBIEE 12c can do.  In addition to the core Sample App, an EPM Plug-in for Sample App is available, […]

As head into the fall, industry-watchers will begin releasing market predictions and trends that will define the rest of this year and the year ahead. As cloud adoption and migration continues to grow, so do the industries that depend on cloud technologies including business intelligence and big data. For enterprises, business intelligence and big data […]

OBIEE release 12.2.1.1 not only boasts improved Data Visualization capabilities as I outlined earlier this week, but there are many important updates to source system support.  One of the main drivers of this is that OBIEE now supports DataDirect 7.1.5.  For those of you unfamiliar with DataDirect, it is a set of ODBC drivers from Progress Software […]

Every industry experiences cybercrime, but probably none more than financial services, at an average annualized cost of $13.5 million. If you look at the Breach Level Index, you will notice that some type of security breach occurs at financial institutions almost daily. These breaches can involve anywhere from a handful of records to tens of […]