by Shane Gibson | Mar 26, 2015 | AgileBI, YellowfinBI
Making the impact of editing the semantic layers visible. When you edit a semantic layer that is being used by users, there is a high chance that you are going to effect the Dashboards and Reports they are using. Why? Because you are changing the underlying layer that...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 19, 2015 | YellowfinBI
Additive and Semi Additive Measures! When creating measures in your semantic layer (called Views in Yellowfin, Universes in BO, Information Maps in SAS, RPD in OBIEE etc) its important to be able to define your measures as additive or semi additive to ensure they...
by Shane Gibson | Oct 21, 2014 | YellowfinBI
One of the frustrations I have with many BI products I have used is that they often state all their components are fully integrated. But when you go to use it in anger you find gaps that increase the effort required to do simple things. Often its around metadata...
by Shane Gibson | Oct 6, 2014 | CloudBI, YellowfinBI
One of the things you often hear is people discussing how sexy or easy to use a BI tool is. I remember when I was at Oracle and for my (future) sins was trying to sell Oracle Applications up against Peoplesoft. We constantly got our arses whipped and one of the...
by Shane Gibson | Sep 17, 2014 | AgileBI, CloudBI
As part of our adoption of AgileBI, we have started the journey using the BEAM* methodology, to introduce Agile in our requirements gathering and data modelling approach. We have used this approach on a couple of projects, and as Shaun has blogged, we have also done...
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