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		<title>Oracle Bi Testing Strategy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/quality-assurance-and-testing-services/oracle-bi-testing-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 07:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SurendraRao</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quality Assurance and Testing Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filter Validation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OBIEE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OBIEE Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Bi Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Report Data Validation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The primary focus of DW/BI testing is to ensure competent and perfect database structures, ETL processes, front-end access and that BI reports generation processes completely support the client requirements.
What is OBIEE?
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) is a comprehensive business intelligence platform that delivers a full range of analytic and reporting capabilities. Designed for scalability, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predictive Analytics – The Cure for Business Myopia</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/predictive-analytics-%e2%80%93-the-cure-for-business-myopia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 05:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthikeyan Sankaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Process Simulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Myopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statistical Simulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Text Mining]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

Myopia = Shortsightedness. Theodore Levitt published his landmark paper titled ‘Marketing Myopia’ in 1960 that led to a paradigm shift in how companies viewed their business models. Marketing Myopia refers to ‘focusing on products rather than customers’, and how such a short-sighted view is bound to eventually lead to business failure.
One reason that short sightedness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask for Maps &#8211; Location Analytics!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/ask-for-maps-location-analytics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 09:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muneeswara C Pandian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[location analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we look at a metrics performance, we are interested with three W’s ‘What happened’, ‘When it happened’ and ‘Where it happened’.
The ‘What’ informs about the metric’s health whether it’s doing good or bad against a pre defined threshold. The ‘When’ informs the time period of measurement whether it’s current day or YTD etc. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Informatica Upgrade Challenges – Update from INFA NY User Group Meeting</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/informatica-way/informatica-upgrade-challenges-%e2%80%93-update-from-infa-ny-user-group-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Senthil Kumar Aiyappan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informatica Way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9.1.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Informatica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Informatica User Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerCenter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended a meeting organized for Informatica User Group recently in New York City. There was a good participation from in and around the city. The major commotion among the crowd was “Informatica Upgrade”. With our recent successful upgrade, people were eager to hear out the challenges faced and how we resolved it.  I felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategies for Testing Data Warehouse Applications</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/quality-assurance-and-testing-services/etl-and-bi-testing/strategies-for-testing-data-warehouse-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hexaware.com/quality-assurance-and-testing-services/etl-and-bi-testing/strategies-for-testing-data-warehouse-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>VinodG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ETL and BI Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Applications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data warehouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETL process functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETL-Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=5927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction:
There is an exponentially increasing cost associated with finding software defects later in the development lifecycle. In data warehousing, this is compounded because of the additional business costs of using incorrect data to make critical business decisions. Given the importance of early detection of software defects, let&#8217;s first review some general goals of testing an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BI Testing-SQL Performance tuning</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/are-you-being-served/bi-testing-sql-performance-tuning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HariprasadT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Are You Being Served]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problematic Queries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SQL Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Subqueries]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=5913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction:
Generally ETL performance testing is confirmation test to ensure that an ETL ‘system’ can handle the load of multiple users and transaction.  For any project this is primarily ensuring that the ‘system’ can easily manage the throughput of millions of transactions.
You can improve your application performance by optimizing the queries you use. The following sections outline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETL testing Fundamentals</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/are-you-being-served/etl-testing-fundamentals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HariprasadT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Are You Being Served]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constraint Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Validation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data warehouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extract Transform Load]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operational Readiness Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[report testing.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snow-Flake Schema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Schema]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=5960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction:
Comprehensive testing of a data warehouse at every point throughout the ETL (extract, transform, and load) process is becoming increasingly important as more data is being collected and used for strategic decision-making. Data warehouse or ETL testing is often initiated as a result of mergers and acquisitions, compliance and regulations, data consolidation, and the increased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIG DATA – Beyond the Hype</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/big-data-%e2%80%93-beyond-the-hype/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/big-data-%e2%80%93-beyond-the-hype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthikeyan Sankaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apache Hadoop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hadoop connectors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Map Reduce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unstructured Data]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If one were to run a Map Reduce job on a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), consisting of all white-papers, articles and presentations created in the past couple of years on Business Intelligence &#38; Analytics, to count the most frequently occurring 2-grams (2 words that occur together), BIG DATA would most certainly trump others. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loading data into Hyperion Planning Applications through Informatica 9.1</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/informatica-way/loading-data-into-hyperion-planning-applications-from-informatica-9-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hexaware.com/informatica-way/loading-data-into-hyperion-planning-applications-from-informatica-9-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hari harasudhan S</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Informatica Way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Load to Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyperion Planning and Informatica]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Informatica 9.1 doesn’t support Hyperion Planning Application connection, hence when we upgraded from 8.1 to 9.1, we had think of alternate options for loading data into Hyperion Planning. We determined two options:
1. Build Java code which makes use of Hyperion planning library files.
2. Have ODI (Oracle Data Integrator) which gets delivered with Hyperion platform
Bringing ODI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BusinessObjects Administration &#8211; Custom Access Levels</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-objects-boogle/businessobjects-administration-custom-access-levels/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-objects-boogle/businessobjects-administration-custom-access-levels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manikandan Elumalai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Objects BOOGLE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Objects Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Objects Security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi BOOglers,
Another interesting feature in business objects, Custom access level is going to be the topic of discussion for this blog. Please note the custom access levels are introduced only from Business Objects 3.0 onwards.
As you all know Access levels are groups of rights that users frequently need. They allow administrators to set common security [...]]]></description>
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