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New Face on the Corporate Board – The CDO
People who read the last post on this blog “What is a Data Warehouse” would probably accept my view that for an organization to get better at anything worthwhile, “data” is everything. If you accept this notion, I propose the immediate creation of a new ‘C’ level organizational position – Chief Data Officer (CDO).
Authored by Karthikeyan Sankaran on May 30th, 2007 under Business Intelligence. Comments: none
Inter Process Communication with Unix Operating System – How Peoplesoft Uses them?
First of all, I am going to tell you something about IPC System on Unix Operating System and how it is related managing a Peoplesoft based environment.
I took this topic first since PeopleSoft uses this for the application server and Process Scheduler server level; we need to know IPC System to understand how these PeopleSoft [...]
Authored by Vijayakumar Chinnasamy on May 30th, 2007 under PeopleSoft. Comments: none
Perils of DataMover Access – Part 1
Did you know that users connected to DataMover will have database access similar to access id?
What does this mean for you in a Production Environment? This can be really scary if you do not have security in place to ensure that DataMover access is restricted and controlled. Use the below SQL to determine who has [...]
Authored by Nitin Pai on May 29th, 2007 under PeopleSoft. Comments: none
My journey – From Web Development into the world of Unix and PeopleSoft!
Long long ago, I started my software career as a web developer who wrote coding on Perl CGI and running them using Apache….. Good or bad, I forgot most of the coding part now, except If I see part of the code, I am able differentiate whether this is a shell script or a perl [...]
Authored by Vijayakumar Chinnasamy on May 24th, 2007 under PeopleSoft. Comments: none
What is a Data Warehouse (DW) ?
To define the term Data Warehouse (DW) especially to software developers who are new to the industry, have tried asking them a few simple questions before getting to the classic definition in the words of Bill Inmon. Some of the questions which leads to defining a Data Warehouse are:
Q: What is Data?
A: ‘Data’ is a [...]
Authored by Muneeswara C Pandian on May 24th, 2007 under Business Intelligence. Comments: none
Is this the right choice???
When I began writing this blog, I really thought that why did I even think of broaching the topic of change in the aviation sector. I am not an expert in this area so to say. But I am not a novice either. I mean around 4 years in this area has made me realize [...]