Just heard that the Keel is still not attached to the bottom of our boat, and there’s no mast either! Looks like we’re going to miss the first race of the season. Damn. adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
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How good IS good?
I’ve been interviewing loads of candidates recently (you may have seen my ads on Jobserve and LinkedIn) for Siebel Analytics consultants. By the way, if you would like to connect on linkedIn (www.linkedin.com) please send an invite to adrian.ward@majendi.com; in the note say you are reading the blog.Most of the…
Technology!!
I have the worst phone in the world. It’s the O2 XDA lli. Oh it may also be a PDA, has windows, can pay music, runs Excel/Word/PDF, has a web browser to connect to the internet, has email and can syncronise with my Outlook, has vidoe and a camera, plays…
Questions, Questions
Why have I not written a blog for ages ?Does Siebel Analytics work on IE7 ?Is there a version 8 of Analytics, if so what is it called ?What is the difference between Siebel Analytics and Oracle BIEE ?Where are all the best Analytics consultants ?How do I find good…
Just Another Date
Well there’s lucky, Justin had dates in mind and so did I! I have been fortunate toenough to have easy access to W_DAY_D and a plethora of pre-calculated YTD andaccount period end figures so all plain sailing.As we are working on Analytics for a Siebel Financial Services implementation wehave a…
Date Formats in the Analytics Application
Justin Townsend, a member of the Majendi team has some useful advice… Dates are often a point of consternation – for users and developers alike – in theanalytics application, but there are many reasons why they are used. Dates andtheir derivations are often drawn from the warehouse table W_DAY_D, but…
For Instance
Bit of a techie one today, a short introduction to instanceconfig.xml. Instanceconfig.xml (we’ll call it IC) is a configuration file for the Analytics web. It is a replacement for using the registry. You could use the registry but there’s little point, and you probably won’t have access rights anyway. The…