In the press Closed loop Performance Management at H.Essers This case was first published in IBM Inspire"We have been able to do our financial closing each 10th of the month, Friday, 15 May 2015
Insights Oracle HFM Basics and comparison to SAP BPC In this insight, we try to do a side-by-side comparison of the main functionality of Oracle HFM against SAP BPC, 2 of the leading solutions in the Gartner Corporate/Enterprise Performance Management Magic Quadrant. Both solutions are trying to address one of the major functionalities of CPM : financial consolidation and management reporting. Short History of Hyperion-Oracle Hyperion started as an independent company IMRS in 1981. Its focus has always been on the EPM-market, initially consolidation. Some major milestones of the company included : Friday, 15 May 2015
Recommended books Building the Data Warehouse Bill Inmon is one of the true pioneers of data warehousing and his "Building the Data Warehouse” is an absolute must read for every self-respecting data warehouse professional. Thursday, 30 April 2015
Insights Drilling across Analysis Services cubes using Power Query Introduction Drilling across different fact tables is a very important technique when analyzing data from a data warehouse. It gives us the possibility to analyze facts from different fact tables using conformed dimensions. Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Bi-kipedia Business intelligence competence centers (BICCs) A business intelligence competency center (BICC) is a team of people that, in its most fully realized form, is responsible for managing all aspects of an organization's BI strategy, projects and systems. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Data Latency Data latency, in a data warehouse context, is the time between the creation of data in a source system and the exact time at which the same data is available for end users on the business intelligence platform. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Anaplan Anaplan is a web-based enterprise platform for business planning, budgeting and forecasting. Anaplan is also the name of the company that created the platform. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia End user layer The End user layer is the user interface on top of the multidimensional structures designed for data access tools. Here, the technical layer (databases & relations) is transformed into a business layer, understandable for the end-user. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Entity relationship diagram (ERD) A diagram that pictorially represents entities, the relationships between them and the attributes used to describe them. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Forecasting Forecasting is a way of using historical data and future business plans to forecast the future. A forecast will reveal where the business is going to. Forecasts are revisions to the finalized budget. i.e. You have a 2015 annual budget and your 2015-Q1 Forecast would be your revisions to the Q1 budget figures for the 2015 year. However you would still have both your annual budget and your forecasts as finalized documents for reporting and comparison purposes. Sunday, 22 March 2015
