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	<title>Dylan's BI Study Notes</title>
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	<description>My notes about Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Master Data Management</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Use ANSI SQL for Outer Join</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/use-ansi-sql-for-outer-join/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/use-ansi-sql-for-outer-join/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The OLTP source applications like PeopleSoft and Siebel applications can run on many different databases including Oracle, MS SQL, or DB2.  The target data warehouse can also run on different database platforms, incluidng the above databases, plus Teradata.
Various technologies can be used to enable the cross database platform support in the pre-packaged BI apps. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use SQL*Loader with Named Pipe</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/use-sqlloader-with-named-pipe/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/use-sqlloader-with-named-pipe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Sunopsis]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Typically using SQL*Loader assumes that a flat file will be used as the input.  The file will need to be created and generated before the SQL*Loader can take the data from the file and load the data into Oracle.  The performance can be improved and the disk space can be saved if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyperion Essbase Dimension Terminology</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/hyperion-essbase-dimension-terminology/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/hyperion-essbase-dimension-terminology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[PeopleSoft]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[essbase]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hyperion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OLAP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I found the the language used in Hyperion Essbase documentation is very useful for describing the dimension hierarchy.  To communicate effectively, sometime we need precise teams to describe things.  The terms defined in the Hyperion Essbase documentation helps.

Member: A node within a hierarchy.
Root: The root is the top member in a hierarchy.
Parent: A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changed Data Capture in ODI</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/changed-data-capture-in-odi/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/changed-data-capture-in-odi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ODI is the tool will also be used to develop the ETL (or ELT) for Oracle BI Applications.  ODI supports Changed Data Capture by its journalizing module.
My understanding of CDC flow in ODI is as follows:
ODI creates the Journal tables in the source database. The Journal tables store/publish the references to the changed data. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5 is out</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/oracle-bi-applications-795-is-out/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/oracle-bi-applications-795-is-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 02:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5 is released early this month.  Here is a quick summary of the features introduced in this release and where you can get more information about it.

1. Informatica PowerCenter 8.1.1 SP4 - Informatica delivered the PowerCenter 8 in 2006. Oracle BI Apps has been used PowerCenter 7.1.4 until Oracle BI Apps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Management in OLTP</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/credit-management-in-oltp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 10:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Account Receivables Analytics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Account receivables can have a big impact to the cash flow of an organization.  Bad credit can hurt your company&#8217;s bottom line.  Manging customer credits help the company to manage the risk and avoid the issues.
In this post, I will touch credit check and credit limit, centralized and decentralized credit management, and credit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC Analysis in Inventory Management</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/abc-analysis-in-inventory-management/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/abc-analysis-in-inventory-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ I did some study on the ABC Analysis in Inventory Management.  It is also useful in business analytics.  I will cover what it is and how it is supported in various ERPs. Finally, how it may be used in analytics application.
What is ABC Analysis in Inventory Management?
Here is the link to the definition in wikipedia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RFM Analysis</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/rfm-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/rfm-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RFM (recency, frequency, monetary) analysis is used by marketing to determine their campaign targets.  It is based on three metrics from the previous sales records:

Recency -  How recently a customer has purchased
Frequency - How often they purchase
Monetary - How much the customer spends

It should be considered as part of Marketing Analytics since it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do people not report by Month in the Gregorian calendar?</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/why-do-people-not-report-by-month-in-the-gregorian-calendar/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/why-do-people-not-report-by-month-in-the-gregorian-calendar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The number of days is different in each calendar month.
The week and month cannot be aligned.  The number of weekends is different in each calendar month.
The number of working days is different in each calendar month.  It ends up that the number of days in each quarter is also different.
The period closing day will fall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Period Calendar</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/13-period-calendar/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/13-period-calendar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I will discuss the following topics:

What is  the 13 period calendar?
Who uses the 13 period calendar?
How is it different from the 4-4-5 calendar?


A 13 period calendar is different from a 4-4-5, 4-5-4, or 5-4-4 calendar.  A typical Gregorian calendar month has 12 months and the number of days in a month vary depending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Warehouse Basics</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/data-warehouse-basics/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/data-warehouse-basics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a link to my Data Warehouse Basics presentation slides.  I explain  what is a data warehouse, what is characteristics of a data warehouse, and what the data warehouse deployment looks like.

The work is actually incomplete.  I will continue enhancing it.
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		<title>A good OBIEE web demo from New York City&#8217;s City Wide Performance Reporting</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/a-good-obiee-web-demo-from-new-york-citys-city-wide-performance-reporting/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/a-good-obiee-web-demo-from-new-york-citys-city-wide-performance-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New York City now enables the public to monitor the city&#8217;s performance by making the OBIEE based dashboard and report online.
Here is the link to their CPR (City Wide Performance Reporting) site : http://www.nyc.gov/html/ops/cpr/html/home/home.shtml

The mayor said &#8220;Welcome to the next generation of data reporting for New York City.  CPR will help YOU the public can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Database Tuning - drop unused indexes</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/database-tuning-drop-unused-indexes/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/database-tuning-drop-unused-indexes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Data Warehouse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Index is very useful during query, especially in data warehouse.   However, it adds the overhead in the storage and ETL process.
I found an excellent article about how to monitor  the index usage in Oralce.   You should periodically run the index monitoring process and pro-actively drop those un-used indexes.
Monitoring Index Usage in Oracle9i, by Daniel T. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bitmap Index - when to use it?</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/bitmap-index-when-to-use-it/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/bitmap-index-when-to-use-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I will cover how Bitmap index work, when to use it and how to use it in this article.
How does it work?
The bitmap index stores the column values in bits.  Each bit represents a single value.    For example, the gender column has two possible values: Male and Female.  three bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BI Applications and Embedded BI, Part 4</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/oracle-bi-applications-and-embedded-bi-part-4/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/oracle-bi-applications-and-embedded-bi-part-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my 4th post about the embedded BI.  The key is that a OBIEE and OBIA warehouse based solution is embeddable to the OLTP system as long as the OLTP system can provide the basic support.
In this article, I will discuss one of the key enabling technology - integrated authentication.

Business Requirements
The data provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BI Applications and Embedded BI, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/oracle-bi-applications-and-embedded-bi-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/oracle-bi-applications-and-embedded-bi-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to go over some of the embedded BI related technologies you can use to make the data from BI Apps embedded in the OLTP systems.
In this post I will describe the Micro ETL feature from DAC.
Typically the ETL jobs are executed as a nightly job.  The last refresh date of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost Center Hierarchy and Performance Management</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/cost-center-hierarchy-and-performance-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cost Center Hierarchy is an important dimension is the Performance Management system.  The cost center concept is described in many Managerial Accounting books.  I think that going back to where it was originated help us to understand how it should be designed and used in a Business Analytics Data Warehouse.
A cost center is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your questions about OBIEE or OBIA</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/your-questions-about-obiee-or-obia/</link>
		<comments>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/your-questions-about-obiee-or-obia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people left me messages in my MeeboMe.   If you have questions about Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle BI Applictions.  Here are the links to the public discussion forums:
Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition
Oracle BI Applications
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		<title>A white paper on leveraging the power of UNSPSC for BI</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/a-white-paper-on-leveraging-the-power-of-unspsc-for-bi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a white paper on www.UNSPSC.org site about the same topic I wrote last week:
Here are what I learned about UNSPSC:

It has a 4 level hierarchical structure. It can be used for drill down and roll up data.
It is very useful for spend analysis.
It can also be used in sourcing to identify the suppliers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use the Industry Standard Code in Data Warehouse</title>
		<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/use-the-industry-standard-code-in-data-warehouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Several well-developed industry standard code schemes can help you to capture the information.  Here are advantages for you to adopt the industry standard codes in your information system:

Save the time to develop the coding scheme by yourselves
Apply the best practice  from the industry
Ease the exchange data between trading partners (B2B)
Facilitate the data and [...]]]></description>
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