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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. How can we have BI that is completely business focused?
A: BI & Analytics becomes completely business focused when they have ‘business decisions’ as the cornerstone of their implementation. The starting point to build / re-engineer a BI system is to identify the business decisions taken by business stakeholders in their sphere of operations. Business decisions can be operational in nature (taken on a daily basis) and/or strategic (taken more infrequently but they tend to have a longer term impact). To reiterate, the starting point for BI is to catalog the business decisions taken by business stakeholders and collect the artifacts that are currently used to take those decisions.
Q: The starting point is fine – What are the other pieces?
A: The next step is to identify the metrics and key performance indicators that support decision making. In other words, any metric identified should be unambiguously correlated to the decision taken with the help of that metric and by whom. Next we need to identify the core datasets in the organization. Please refer to my earlier blog post titled ‘Thinking by Datasets’ on this subject.
Q: What about the operational systems in the landscape? Aren’t they important?
A: Once we have documented the relationship between Business Decisions to Metrics to Datasets, we need to focus on the transactional applications. The key focus items are:
Q: All this is good if we are building a BI system from scratch – How about existing BI systems?
A: For existing BI applications, the above mentioned process could be carried out as a health-check on the BI landscape. The bottomline is that every single report / dashboard / any other analytical component should have traceability into the metrics shown which should then link to the decisions taken by business users. BI & Analytics exist to help organizations take better business decisions and that defines its purpose & role in an enterprise IT landscape.
The answers mentioned above provide the high-level view of Hexaware’s approach to Business Intelligence projects. We have worked with many organizations across industries and a business focused analytical approach has provided good value for our customers.
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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:
| Date | July 31st, 2012 |
| Day | Tuesday |
| Time | 4:00 PM IST |
| Dial-in Access Numbers | |
| Mumbai | Primary Access:+91 22 3065 0539 Secondary Access:+91 22 6629 0539 |
| Hexaware Participants | Atul Nishar– Chairman P. R. Chandrasekar – Vice Chairman & CEO R. V. Ramanan – Executive Director & Head – Global Delivery Prateek Aggarwal – Chief Financial Officer Deependra Chumble– Chief People Officer Sreenivas V– Chief Strategy Officer |
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For further information: please contact – Sreenivas V
[e-mail: sreenivasv@hexaware.com; phone: +91 99401 90091]
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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:
| Date | July 31st, 2012 |
| Day | Tuesday |
| Time | 4:00 PM IST |
| Dial-in Access Numbers | |
| Mumbai | Primary Access:+91 22 3065 0539 Secondary Access:+91 22 6629 0539 |
| Hexaware Participants | Atul Nishar– Chairman P. R. Chandrasekar – Vice Chairman & CEO R. V. Ramanan – Executive Director & Head – Global Delivery Prateek Aggarwal – Chief Financial Officer Deependra Chumble– Chief People Officer Sreenivas V– Chief Strategy Officer |
Replay Facility*
Playback number: +91 22 3065 1212
When prompted, please enter the Conference ID 32580 followed by #
*The replay facility of the conference call will be available 60 minutes after the call ends and for three days from July 31st to August 02nd 2012.
Participants are requested to kindly dial-in 10 minutes in advance.
Thank you!
For further information: please contact – Sreenivas V
[e-mail: sreenivasv@hexaware.com; phone: +91 99401 90091]
More: http://hexaware.com/news/earnings-conference-call-on-tuesday-july-31st-2012-at-4-00-pm-ist-2/
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 repository (the .RPD file.) These tests will include testing with appropriate dimensional filters on the metrics and the formula used to compute those metrics. Testers can build two sets of comparable queries within the repository interface.
c) The next step in testing will be to verify the dashboard / reports against comparable queries on repository metrics. In these tests, testers verify dashboard charts / reports against corresponding results from queries they execute on metrics of the repository.
d) Finally, the functional interface tests will cover tests to verify the lookups, performance, ease of use, look and feel etc.
The first three types of tests are performed by testers who can create simple SQL statements.
Structure and organization of test cases:
The choices on test cases naming convention and structure can help organize the test artifacts better and aid a great deal in implementing the overall testing strategy.
For example: If the test cases are grouped based on the nature of the tests, like, source to target verification, RPD metrics tests, functional, security, performance and usability, it would be easier to pick and choose the tests based on the testing context and tester capabilities.
1. User acceptance criteria:
Users typically have an existing legacy mechanism to verify if what is displayed in the new solution makes sense. Testers should dig into this and understand how the end users built the project acceptance criteria. Testers should challenge the assumptions made by the business community in deriving the acceptance criteria. This activity helps get an end user perspective built into the testing efforts from early on.
2. Validating Master Detail Report:
Master Details linking of views allows you to establish a relationship between two or more views such that one view, called the master view, will drive data changes in one or more other views, called detail views.
3. Time series functions validation: Time series functions provide the ability to compare business performance with previous time periods, allowing you to analyze data that spans multiple time periods.
Time series functions enable comparisons between current sales and sales a year ago, a month ago, and so on.
a. Ago: With ago function we can compare period to period
b. To date: Time series functions enable comparisons between current sales and sales a year ago, a month ago, and so on.
c. Period rolling: The PERIODROLLING function does not have a time series grain; instead, you specify a start and end period in the function.
4. Oracle bi-publisher validation: Oracle BI Publisher known as XML Publisher offers efficient scalable reporting solution available for complex, distributed environments. It provides a central architecture for generation and delivering information to employees', customer and business partners both security and in the right format.
Unlike your neighborhood clinic, comprehensive holistic healthcare services will diagnose and cure your problem through natural remediation. Stuffing another antibiotic in to your body is not their technique, yet striving for health through completing one of their many hands on services. When you report to the office with a never ending back pain, they will use their chiropractic service to fix the stressed area. They are determined to find the actual source of your problem, not just quick relief. For instance, sometimes back problems can cause so much stress to the body that headaches and migraines arise.
Although antibiotics are not part of their cure, they do provide a healthcare solutionthat offers deep analysis of your lifestyle to begin the process of freeing you of any previous malnutrition your body may be used to. Between evaluation and the use of their laboratory testing service, they are able to target the exact nutrition your body is lacking. Whether your problems are due to your metabolism, diet choice, hormones, or any related factor they are able to isolate the cause and provide you with a cure for the long run.
Once these deficiencies are targeted they will undoubtedly inform you, but it is not always easy to leave the building and begin an entirely different lifestyle. For this reason, they have created a service that allows the professionals to do a full mind and body analysis of the patient to be able to target the inner problem and heal the body from deep within.
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The healthcare services that you decide upon must be equipped with positive reviews and references. To gather knowledge about the same, you can visit certain websites that offer this information. You can also ask around in your circle of friends regarding the reputation and standing of the concerned agency. If someone has had a personal experience with the agency that is highly positive, you should definitely consider going in for it.
The number of hours that you need a professional to be present in your home must be clearly communicated to the agency in advance so that your needs are adequately met. If you need someone to stay overnight in your house, this should also be communicated to the healthcare services agency so that you can be sure that they have staff to fulfill these requirements.
It is a great proposition to visit the agency and interact with their staff to gather an idea about their policies and the way the staff works. You should go in for a healthcare service that has an amiable, cheerful and friendly staff equipped with the ability to induce an atmosphere of ease with regard to the person to be cared for. If you encounter rude and unhelpful staff, you should consider going somewhere else.
The staff that you invite into your home must be verified thoroughly for credentials and background so that you can safely and securely leave your house without worrying about possible thefts or any other such crime. You should ask to see proof of certification and other qualifications before allowing any such professional into your house.
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