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Documenting All Your Properties and DRM Formulas in Seconds

Daniel — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:40:23 +0000

One of the little known secret in the Oracle DRM 9.3.2 and after, as I have outlined in one of the previous post, is the migration utility. Sure you can understand from the name what this utility does, but today I am going to cover something it’s also good for – documenting what you did inside of DRM, especially with those several hundred properties that you’ve created.

After you bought Oracle Hyperion DRM, and used it to consolidate several of your silo hierarchies from a number of systems, you’re likely to have the need to start documenting them. One reason is for ease of administration. If you’re like me, created a lot of Properties inside of DRM for the purpose of storing information, and generating the necessary output, then these are good candidates for documentation for now and the future.

One of the biggest pet peeve I have before version 9.3.2, is that if I have these masses of Properties, I’d have no choice but to do cut and paste from the DRM Client into an Excel spreadsheet or Word. Besides the pain of going back and forth doing copy-n-paste with this method, you’re also likely to make mistakes. Of course, the biggest factor is that it’ll take alot of hours.
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The Missing Link in BI

Daniel — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:57:45 +0000

Business Intelligence systems are designed to help organizations understand their operations, customers, financial situation, product performance, trends and a host of key business measurements. Good BI system allows quality decisions to be made. Similar, bad decisions can be resulted from poor decision making. Over the last decade, I see alot of effort being spent on tools. We’ve seen the rise of portals, web analytics, widgets, BPM, EPM you name it. In fact, how many millions of dollars have companies spent with the promise of report automation and hundred of hours saved from replacing manual Excel reporting? When I go to different companies, what I see are more manual reporting, not less. I see multi-billion dollar companies still don’t have their dream BI system. How’s this possible? The answer is simple.

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History of Hyperion MDM

Daniel — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:26:30 +0000

The history of Oracle DRM goes way back to a company called Razza Solutions pre-1995. The company marketed a product called Razza Dimension Server (Razza DS), and had about thirty Fortune 500 as customers. In January, 2005, Hyperion acquired the company with Razza’s 15-person staff became Hyperion employees. Since Hyperion’s acquisition, the product was marketed as Hyperion Master Data Management (MDM) Server. They also integrated it as part of Hyperion’s System 9 Business Intelligence Platform.
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The BI Mumbo Jumbo

Daniel — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:07:43 +0000

You’ve heard the acronyms but do you know what it all means? Here’s a list of the common Business Intelligence lingos:

GLOSSARY

B
BA = Business Analytics
BI = Business Intelligence
BPM = Business Performance Management
BPO = Business Process Optimisation
BPP = Business Process Platform

C
CDI = Customer Data Integration
COM = Customer Order Management
CPM = Corporate Performance Management
CRM = Customer Relationship Management

E
EAI = Enterprise Application Integration
EPM = Enterprise Performance Management
ERM = Employee Relationship Management
ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning
ESA = Enterprise Services Architecture
ESOA = Enterprise Service-oriented Architecture
ESPC = Enterprise Services Community Process

G
GRC = Governance Risk and Compliance

H
HCM = Human Capital Management

P
PIM = Product Information Management
PRM = Partner Relationship Management

M
MDM = Master Data Management

S
SaaS = Software as a Service
SCM = Supply Chain Management
SMB = Small & Midsize Businesses
SME = Small & Midsize Enterprises
SOA = Service-Oriented Architecture
SRM = Supplier Relationship Management

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Case for Hierarchy Management

Daniel — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:11:22 +0000

In most organization, transactional systems which acquires massive amount of data requires data profiling and data quality tools to achieve consistent and accurate reporting. Data quality tools are typically geared towards a bottom up assessment of the integrity of transactional data. (...)Read the rest of Case for Hierarchy Management (212 words) © Daniel Poon for [...]

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