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Webinar on Performance, June 7th, 1pm EST

I’ll be doing a webinar called Planning for High Performance OBI.  I’ve given this preso a few times before, but it’ll be good to do it on the web for a change.  I discuss some of the basics you should...

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Performance Tuning and Financial Analytics

In the past I’ve written and presented on OBI performance from the ‘before perspective’: before you begin development, what are the things you should plan on and how should you implement them.  This...

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Still room for next week’s Performance Webinar

There are still slots open for my KPI Partners webinar on High Performance OBI next Tuesday at 1pm EST.  I hope to see you there! Filed under: Notifications and Updates Tagged: KPI Partners, OBI,...

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Making Dims & Facts Work Together

This is a very common RPD modeling question on IT Toolbox – it comes up every week it seems.  The problem is stated something like this: I have 2 fact tables and 3 dimension tables.  One of the...

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Prototyping with OBI

I’ve always felt that traditional approaches to developing BI content left much to be desired. Going through a traditional requirements approach with users to determine what reports should do, then...

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OBI’s Nested Aggregation > Ralph Kimball

Ok so I put a provocative title on this post for a reason.  This post will explore why some of Kimball’s concepts may be out dated when newer query generation or database capabilities are taken into...

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BI Apps / Performance Layer Preso

This is my presentation from last week’s Rittman-Mead BI Forum in Atlanta.  Incidentally it happens to be the same topic (similar slides) to the KPI Partners webinar from April and what I gave in...

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The Single Most Important Thing to Know About the OBI RPD

Over my OBI career I’ve had to review dozens of customer and consultant developed RPDs as part of either a formalized health check engagement or simply a developer code review.  Frequently the customer...

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Build Your Own Time Hierarchy

Every single BI system has a time/date/period/calendar hierarchy in it. If you use the BI Apps, it actually comes with 2 different tables for this purpose alone, along with a ton of OOB capability....

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Minimalist Design for the Criteria Tab

The picture above is an example of minimalist design. It features an uncluttered and simplistic visual scheme that is almost relaxing to the eye and mind. Optional or unnecessary elements are removed....

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