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Information on Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Services (BICS) After Oracle Open world the buzzword is Oracle BI Cloud Services (BICS). Stoppage of further Informatica version of Oracle BI Applications 7964 (OBIA) and focus on Oracle Data Integrator is talking point. Customers are worried about the direction taken by Oracle as they invested a lot and suddenly Oracle changed its focus. For Service providers it's a challenge as well because on behalf of Oracle we have to convince our Customers how smoothly we can move them to this new world without impacting their business. Oracle BI Cloud Service is bundled with 2 products: 1. Oracle BI 2. Oracle Database Oracle BI Cloud Service is one of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) that is provided by Oracle Cloud. In a nutshell we can define BICS in 4 steps: 1. Load Your Data - In present BICS for all kind of reporting we need to upload data to Cloud Oracle database. Sources can be files, on premise systems (local sy...

Oracle and Metadata Management

Gartner defines Metadata Management is all about the organization's management of its data and information assets. Metadata describes various facets of an information asset to improve its usability throughout its life cycle. Enterprise metadata management (EMM) encompasses the roles, responsibilities, processes, organization and technology necessary to ensure that the metadata across the enterprise adds value to an enterprise's data and information. Reducing Risk and Increasing Trust in Data Enterprise Metadata Management reduces the risk inherent in making any changes to the data in the organization, be it from the source to the final report. Where many business applications and decision systems rely on the same set of data, it is important to be able to authoritatively determine the impact that a change can affect to upstream and downstream applications. By providing in depth, easy to read and interpret lineage reports, Enterprise Metadata Management reduces these risks by...