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The little things I love about YellowfinBI #4
Subqueries! Often you want to manipulate the data you are using to get a report just the way the user wants. And often this requires you to do sub queries on the data you are using (for me it was creating columns for my measures based on offset periods, so I could...
The little things I love about YellowfinBI #3
Up to date and easy to find documentation! One of the coolest things about Yellowfin is that they do releases every month which includes squashed bugs and a raft of smaller new features, as well as point releases every six months or so, that typically introduce major...
The little things I love about YellowfinBI #2
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...
The little things I love about YellowfinBI #1
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...
Yellowfin makes changing view names seamless
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...
Yellowfin just makes a noob feel welcome
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...
We are BEAM’ing Lawrence Corr to NZ in 2015
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...
UX Design, looks like a fun journey, and lots of opinions
We are at the stage with MagnumBI that we will soon be starting to develop the web front-end that enables business users to configure their own data warehouse structures. Its going to be based on a business model construct rather than a ETL construct (what business...
Meet the Orange Family
When we were deciding what software components we would embed in MagnumBI to provide all the capability we needed, without having to build it all ourselves. we evaluated them based on a couple of core criteria such as: Features/functions of the product Licensing cost...
The Art of Weeding
The other weekend we weeded our garden at home. It was a funny old thing, one of us would start on an area that was covered in weeds, pull them out on mass and then eventually move on to another area (either believing we had done a good job and finished the area, or...
RapidMiner Repository Database Options
When you install RapidMiner Server it automatically installs a repository inside the database of your choice. And the choices are (in RapidMiner Server 6.x): MySQl Postgres Oracle Microsoft Sql Server Ingres The repository holds all the metadata, config etc for your...
RapidMiner Documentation
As we delve into using new tools, one of the first things we do is list all the resources we can find for the given product/tool etc so we can easily find it later. So i'm going to put everything I find in this blog in case your looking for it too. RapidMiner Official...