Quick Hit: XML Publisher for PeopleSoft
There is a nice reporting tool in PeopleSoft which is seldom used or not used enough. That tool is PeopleSoft XML Publisher.
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Larry Zagata | MIPRO
Now Open: Business Intelligence ‘Lunch & Learn’ Reservations
Last summer, we debuted a series of free Business Intelligence (BI) lunch & learn sessions for interested clients. We were tremendously impressed by the amount of interest this generated, so we’re doing it again, starting now.
Read More...Business Intelligence for PeopleSoft Maintenance Management
MIPRO is a nationally-recognized leader when it comes to the successful implementation of the PeopleSoft Maintenance Management (MM)/ALM suite. We have performed more implementations of this product than any other services firm out there. This is a bit of a bragging right, of course, but also an important fact to support our knowledge and expertise in the MM space. We have blogged about both ERP and Business Intelligence and the takeaways from those post is simply that ERP allows your organization to run your business and BI allows you to manage it. In this post we bring the world of BI to the world of PeopleSoft MM/ERP together in complete harmony.
Read More...Building an Effective BI Dashboard
In our BI manifesto whitepaper, we discuss and outline how to effectively build a dashboard and avoid common mistakes. Dashboards have a very specific use and should not be confused with reports; this in itself is a common conceptual mistake. The following are key elements of a well-designed dashboard: Dashboards should be designed to answer
Read More...Business Intelligence and CPG/Retail
In a former life I led a national CPG (consumer packaged goods)/Retail practice focused on assisting clients with implementing their business intelligence (BI) solutions and helping them understand how to get the most value to their organizations from these systems. As with every industry vertical, there is some uniqueness to CPG/Retail market. I am very
Read More...BI Sidebar: Master Data Management and Data Quality
We have discussed previously the importance of data quality to business intelligence. I’d like to go a bit deeper on that topic here in this post. It is plainly obvious that your business intelligence will only be as good as the quality of your data; this, in turn, means the quality of business answers derived
Read More...MIPRO Workshop: Business Intelligence Requirements Gathering
If our server logs are credible, Business Intelligence requirements gathering continues to be one of the most highly searched terms and asked-about BI subjects that we encounter. We have authored several posts on this subject, including outlining at a high level the MIPRO approach to ensure business intelligence requirements are gathered and assessed appropriately. This
Read More...PeopleTools 8.5 and OBIEE: There’s Value in Those Hills
We have posted multiple posts on the new PeopleTools 8.5 release (here’s our most popular; here’s our shameless plug), in addition to several posts on the value of Oracle OBIEE and BI apps. However, today’s post will talk about PeopleTools 8.5: for customers who have both PeopleSoft and Oracle OBIEE, there is some additional value
Read More...It’s All About the ROI: The Value of Oracle BI Apps for PeopleSoft (Part III)
Previously, we have discussed the value of Oracle BI apps for PeopleSoft, and we have examined some key implementation considerations. Today, in this final post on the topic, I would like to chat about the biggest buzzword of them all: ROI. The key question for many customers is this: does it really make sense to
Read More...The Value of Oracle BI Apps for PeopleSoft (Part II)
Now that I have provided my opinion and thumbs up approval of the Oracle BI apps, let’s discuss the nuances of implementing them. With all of Oracle BI’s pre-built ETL, data structures and reports, one would probably think it should be very straightforward. Well, if your shop is totally vanilla and you accept the metrics as
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