by CRM Team | Oct 22, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, Data Warehousing, Perspectives
1. There are two primary techniques used in today’s statistical world a. Descriptive techniques describe and summarize data b. Inferential techniques allow us to estimate and draw conclusions about populations from samples 2. Data can be formally categorized in three...
by XTIVIA | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Infrastructure
Talend Open Studio does (TOS) not have versioning like the Talend Integration Suite (TIS). In order to set up versioning for TOS we decided to use Tortoise SVN as the client & Slik SVN as the server. After installing Tortoise SVN & Slik SVN, close TOS if you...
by CRM Team | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, Data Warehousing
Occasionally we find ourselves in situations which do not meet the standard e.g. users placed in a directory tree a few levels deep or the distinguished name uses the common name which has spaces. Below are some tips on handling these situations. A useful tool to...
by XTIVIA | Mar 27, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence
To pass parameters from the Main report to the datasets, the parameters have to have the same name. That is, if the name of the parameter in the main report is ‘Region’, then the Datasets which need this parameter will have to have a parameter with an identical name....
by XTIVIA | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Databases, Perspectives
This is an important question that anyone responsible for a data warehouse should ask periodically and with some frequency as well. The following table will give you some concrete ideas on what to look for and how to use the metrics. The details of how you collect...
by XTIVIA | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Sometimes customers want to view more detail on a transaction or a field in a report. A convenient way to do this is to create a more detailed report which accepts parameters which are present in the summary report. To create a drill through right click on the field...
by XTIVIA | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Java
Occasionally JasperServer throws of errors in the Domain usually because of change in the Data Model. The actual error may not be obvious at first: Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the actual error: Sometimes you only get a message saying ‘There was an...
by XTIVIA | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Building on the Scrum thoughts I shared in December, I’d like to discuss how we should focus on what we are trying to deliver vs the “how” of delivery. It is entirely natural and easy to focus on the tasks, but the team needs to focus on the...
by XTIVIA | Jan 7, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Perspectives
Economic considerations are at the heart of any business decision. They not only affect how we implement business intelligence (BI) solutions but also what we can do—and we give up other opportunities in the process of doing so. Here are three principles I have...
by XTIVIA | Dec 26, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence
This is the first in a series of small posts aimed at new Scrum teams or those who have been doing Scrum for a while but are struggling to net the positive results they’ve heard about when going Agile. I’d like to start with a handful of highlights...
