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Top 10 IT trends for BI professionals

BI careerBusiness Intelligence professionals are not living in their own island and most of the time they are influenced by general IT trends. ExpertsTown presents them the top ten IT trends here:

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CPM – Corporate Performance Management

Performance Management is considered to be an integral part of Business Intelligence (BI). Corporate Performance Management has been defined as ‘set of processes that help organizations optimize their business performance. It is a framework for organizing, automating and analyzing business methodologies, metrics, processes and systems that drive business performance.‘ Let us have a look at some of the processes that form part of Corporate Performance Management. If we do a walk through in the corporate environment, we can experience the use cases and examples in real time.

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Microsoft BI Solutions for Governments

business intelligence governmentsThe impact of Information Technology is widespread and far reaching; the use is at varied levels at various geographies and societies. Governments are no exception. Though they are the ones mostly deciding on rules and policies of technology development and usage, Government themselves have been significantly affected by the demand and use of Technology. As they are challenged by the diversity, scale, urgency and constraints, in fact Governments, whatever is their level-Central/State/Federal/Local, are more in need of better information management.

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Oracle interview questions

oracle interview questionsIf you are looking for a career opportinity at Oracle you will need to study before going to any interview. If you google Oracle interview questions you will get tons of results in the search engine results pages.

You might find some odd sites with lots of ads popping up. We have done the search (and research) and we finally got this ranking of the best sites to read the frequently asked questions in Oracle’s interviews:

  1. IT Toolbox Wiki: A lot of questions and answers, classified by category. Inludes interview questions about: PL/SQL, DBA, SQL/SQLPlus, tunning, installation/configuration, data modeler, UNIX and troubleshooting.
    Source link: IT Toolbox Wiki
  2. Orafaqs Wiki: This wiki have a lot of questions and answers. They are not grouped by categories but the site is very easy to read.
    Source link: Orafaqs
  3. Best Sample Quesions: This site has many questions as well. As this is a specialized site, you might find some samples about other kinds of interviews such as behavioral interview questions (initiative, ability to learn, analysis, decision making, teamwork, leadership, etc.)
    Source link: Bestsamplequestions
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BI, most sought after IT skill

bi jobsIn the past decade (2001-2010), IT careers have flourished in all respects. Most of the global young graduates have taken their choices diligently. And IT careers have paid them back. There have been two distinct lines of IT careers predominant. One is computer software engineers or computer programmers. Another is, Computer System, Network and Database Administrators. By end of next decade (2011-2020) both these are expected to generate employment exceeding 3 billion as per the projection by National Employment Matrix, Bureau of Labour Statistics.

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