Big Data and the Goldilocks Principle

I was inspired to write this post (I can hear all of you sighing ‘Yet Another on Big Data’) due to another ‘Big’ reason. I listened to a TED (www.ted.com) talk by David Christian titled ‘The History of the World in 18...

Business Focused Analytics The Starting Point

Having been a Business Intelligence practitioner for the last 13 years, there has never been a more exciting time to practice this art, as organizations increasingly realize that a well implemented BI & Analytics system can provide great competitive advantage for them. This leads us to the question of – ‘What is a well implemented BI system?’ Let us follow the Q&A below. Q: What is a well implemented BI system? A: A well implemented BI system is one that is completely business focused. Q: Well, that doesn’t make it any easier....

Business Focused Analytics The Starting Point Part 2

Business decisions are the cornerstone of a successful BI implementation. Cataloging the decisions taken by the key stakeholders in an organization is the first step in understanding the information requirements for a data warehouse. Capturing business decisions – strategic and operational, is not a simple task as most business decisions tend to be complex requiring diverse data points. Further, when all decisions are collected, how will we know the decisions that have the most impact on the business? Here’s a simple framework based...

Earnings Conference Call on Tuesday, July 31st 2012 at 4.00 pm IST

The Board of Directors of Hexaware Technologies is scheduled to meet on July 31st, 2012 to consider the audited results for the quarter ended June 30th, 2012 (Q2 2012).The company is hosting an earnings conference call for investors and analysts on the same day to discuss the results.Details of the conference call are as follows:DateJuly 31st, 2012DayTuesdayTime4:00 PM ISTDial-in Access NumbersMumbaiPrimary Access:+91 22 3065 0539Secondary Access:+91 22 6629 0539Hexaware ParticipantsAtul Nishar– ChairmanP. R. Chandrasekar –...

Quality Assurance and Testing Services: Strategy of Oracle BI Testing

This Document gives an overview of OBIEE Testing and commonly used in BI Components while doing validation.1. Testing in Levels: In a typical OBIEE project, it is advisable to test in multiple areas rather than attempting to test everything at once.a) The first set of tests can verify the accuracy of the column to column transport of the data between the source and target. This verification is typically done using SQL statements on the source and target databases.b) The next step is to verify the accuracy of the...

Quality Assurance And Testing Services: OBIEE Validations

Hexaware has developed a variety of accelerators that combine Oracle's technology with Hexaware's functional and technical expertise to effectively meet your business needs. Oracle E-business suite range consists of financials, supply chain, manufacturing, HRMS & CRM.Source to target validation: Here source is represented by metadata repository and Target represents OBIEE Reports & Dashboards, BI Publishers.1. Presentation layer object validation:This is the layer of the logical business model that is accessible for the client...

Quality Assurance And Testing Services: OBIEE Validations

Hexaware has developed a variety of accelerators that combine Oracle's technology with Hexaware's functional and technical expertise to effectively meet your business needs. Oracle E-business suite range consists of financials, supply chain, manufacturing, HRMS & CRM.Source to target validation: Here source is represented by metadata repository and Target represents OBIEE Reports & Dashboards, BI Publishers.1. Presentation layer object validation:This is the layer of the logical business model that is accessible for the client...