SriniCenthala

Wish You Happy New Year 2011 !

2011-01-01T09:41:00.001-05:00

Wishing you wonderful season greetings - Wish You Happy New Year 2011 !

Wishing you a wonderful time with family and friends as you usher in the New Year. Have a great 2011!

Do you know?, my book "One Stop Project Management" is released.
Please take a moment to preview the book and recommend it to your friends. Visit http://www.OneStopProject.com

Buy Now : http://www.onestopproject.com or Copy link to browser : http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000367639

To enlighten our business please do buy the book and refer to all of your family and friends to benefit them to complete projects successfully.

[Notes: Please do the same for your friends & family to send out this as Email Campaign]

Thanks,
Srini

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Srini Centhala
Absolut-e Data Com, Inc.,
820 Sheridan Ridge Court,
Alpharetta, GA 30022
USA

Phone / Fax : (001) 888-402-2765 Ext: 1 [(001) 888-4ABSOL Ext: 1]
Mobile: (001) 678-570-6353
Email: srini@absolut-e.com
http://www.absolut-e.com

check out

http://www.OneStopProject.com - Project Management Book & Training on-demand
http://www.PairWorks.com - Agile Project Management tool on-demand
http://www.eduhelp.in - Education Portal for India.
http://www.iPractice.in - Why do students find it addictive? check yourself
http://www.eserviceplace.com - Online Services Market Place.

Study in India: www.eduhelp.in

2010-02-20T20:39:00.001-05:00

Study in India: www.eduhelp.in

With more than 17,000 colleges, 400 universities, 13 institutes of national importance and various other vocational institutes, the higher education system in India is one of the largest in the world. However, it is the fast integrating world economy and corresponding rise of students mobility that have made studying in India an attractive option.

Check out www.eduhelp.in

Stay Agile & Succeed - Pairworks - Agile Project Management Tool On-Demand

2009-10-13T12:14:00.004-04:00

Pairworks - Agile Project Management - On-Demand

Pairworks was built to adapt and deliver in the world of constantatly changing processes and business priorities we use pairworks on a daily basis to plan and execute our tasks we use the resulting real-time feedback to keep our projects inline with business visions and constraint.

Features:

Plan and deliver frequently
Frequent feedback on the health of the project
An easy to use , visual tool
Makes Agile project management simple and powerful

Check out www.PairWorks.com in new look & feel

Dashboard - One-click visibility to your Projects
Iteration board - Your teams work space
Team Wall - One click visibility to your Team
Product-backlog - prioritize your Projects / Customer needs
Reports - Delivery simplified with burn-down, velocity chart.
Issue Tracking - with Lighthouse Zero configuration Set-up.

PureApp.com - Monitor & Control Continues Integration On-Demand

2009-06-23T14:58:00.010-04:00

What is PureApp.com?

Web based Continues Integration On-Demand for your Software Project environment.

What is Continues Integration?

Continues Integration is a software development practice of automated build, automated test and Notifies the problem.

Benefits of PureApp.com:

* Monitoring and controlling of source code
* Compiles for every change
* Run automated tests
* Notifies if there are problem occurs
* Rapid Feedback.
* Decreased time in the debugging.
* Early identification of bugs.
* Localization of bugs.
* Minimizes duration of Code Freezes.
* The product is always in a stable/releasable state.
* Always system up and running and keep it up to date.
* Test coverage GAP Analysis

* Monitoring of your project source code management system such as CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Clearcase, Visual Source Safe, git, etc.
* Every time code changes, PureApp.com system checks for the latest version.
* PureApp.com compiles your latest version of project source code using the build scripts that is robust and repeatable build procedures/steps.
* Automated Test runs on the compiled new build.
* Notifies the results

Advantages of PureApp.com:

* No need to setup your own Continues Integration server environment such as CruseControl, Integrity, ContinuesBuilder, etc.
* Pureapp can take care of your QA / Test environment.
* Pureapp manages build management of parallel builds and distributed builds.
* Automate your Tests [Unit Test, Functional Test and Integration Test].
* Test Coverage GAP Analysis.
* Receive Notifications in email, twitter, basecamp and campfire
Web based online Reports:
* Report of Code Coverage [Each line of code & Test Coverage]
* Listing of Cyclomatic Complexity on each method / function
* Reports code duplication [Common code smell detection for ruby]
* Analysis structural similarities
* Warning report on potential design issues

"There are times brick hits your head!"..."Do not lose your faith on what you love to do!"

2009-06-07T22:52:00.009-04:00

Listen to this!
Steve Jobs great speech!
Click the link below to listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

I am happy to be an Innovative Entrepreneur.
Join to group Entrepreneurs Seeking.. & Innovative Business IT Solutions
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1899052&trk=hb_side_g
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1786740&trk=hb_side_g

Agile Project Management Tool - www.PairWorks.com

2009-06-06T17:47:00.007-04:00

Agile Project Management Tool - www.PairWorks.com

Why Agile Project Management ?
In the current Market Scenario, Top Executives and Project Managers are all under ever-increasing pressure To satisfy their customer needs and To deliver quality results with slashed budget and with less number of available resources.

No more Long year long projects, Companies and Customers wanted immediate results and expect the progress immediately as quick as possible in terms of days.

The main issues of any project not to be successful are

In-proper Project Management
Rapidly changing requirements
In-Efficient use of Time , Resource and Money

The Agile Project Management Methodology helps to avoid all of the above issues of Top Executives and Project Managers.
The agile development methodologies promises Rapid Delivery and flexibility while maintaining quality.
The Agile methodologies such as eXtreme Programming (XP) , SCRUM, Feature-Driven Development and also new Test Driven Development strive to reduce the cost of change throughout the software development process.

Some of the interesting features of Agile methodologies are

For Rapidly changing requirements, Rapid iterative planning and development cycles in order to force trade-offs and deliver the highest value features as early as possible.[XP]
Feature driven Development provides the chance to focus on the important and valuable features first to buy-in customers quickly.
Test Driven Development provides early defect detection and resolution even before the development is started.
To Efficiently use Time,Resources and Money: Pair Programming , test-first design , Continues Integration and much more..

Setup Your Project For Success,Deliver Results with PairWorks:

Simple yet Powerful
Practice Agile Methodologies like eXtremeProgramming(XP), SCRUM, Feature-Driven Development easily
Prioritize your user stories(features) in product backlog
Identify problems in iterations with burndown charts
Check all your projects easily with dashboard

New Agile Project Management web based tool is released: Check out & Register it and use it for free www.PairWorks.com

Provide us your feedback and let us know if you want any specific features to be included in the PairWorks Agile Project Management Tool.

www.absolut-e.com - Innovative Business IT Solutions
Working Hard To Make Your Life Easier

Planning for "eServicePlace LinkedIn Application"

2009-06-05T17:12:00.007-04:00

Planning for "eServicePlace LinkedIn Application":

eServicePlace LinkedIn Application is a SERVICES MARKETPLACE that connects and collaborates LinkedIn SERVICE REQUESTERS [Public Requests] and SERVICE PROVIDERS [Skilled Professionals, Freelancer , Business Owners etc ]

So, What is for LinkedIn Users?

1. To facilitate LinkedIn USERS to POST PUBLIC SERVICE REQUESTS.

2. To facilitate LinkedIn Professionals & SERVICE PROVIDERS to post their SERVICE OFFERS.

3. Allow LinkedIn SERVICE PROVIDERS to Bid on the PUBLIC SERVICE REQUESTS.

4. Bid comparison, Manage Vendors, Pick Winner, Sign Contract, Issue Work Order

5. Book Appointment to Perform Service

6. Manage Work Progress

7. Issue Invoice & Payment

eServicePlace provides all of the above features of connect & Collaborate already exists for free, we would like to extend these functionalities and features to the LinkedIn Professionals.

Check out www.eServicePlace.com

New Launch of Datamartist

2009-05-30T12:01:00.002-04:00

Datamartist is a desktop tool that provides users with a graphical, easy to use environment where they can manage and transform their data.

It is real good tool. Please try it out. I am impressed with the way it works.
I was thinking about similar kind of tool , why nothing is available in late 2005s.
Congrats James! on Your new Datamartist tool. Now it is available!

http://www.datamartist.com

eServicePlace.com How it works

2009-05-30T11:46:00.002-04:00

Buying And Selling Services Made Easy

	Place Service Request: This is the first important step to buy a service request will convey you requirements and expectations about you work to the providers. Place a service request now.
	Bidding: Qualified providers will bid on your service request. Providers, who have service offers, in the same category as you service request, will be allowed to bid.
	Pick Winner: When the bidding is completed, you can go your service request page and click "pick the winner" link, our provider selection screen is designed to make the provider selection process easy, smooth and informative you will be asked to pay 2% security deposit to make this process legitimate.
	Sign Contract: Winning provider will create a contract and sent it to your acceptance you can electronically accept the contract.
	Issue Work Order: You can issue work order to the provider to get the work started. Work order will be created automatically using the details from the winning bid. Provider has to accept the work order before starting the work.
	Perform Service: Provider will book an appointment using your availability and will perform the service to fulfill your request.
	Issue Invoice & Pay: Provider will issue invoice to you for the work done. You can pay him directly. Please make sure you 2% security deposit have been deducted from your final bill.
	Rating: Once service is completed, you can rate the provider. Please let your voice heard by rating the provider appropriately.

http://www.eserviceplace.com/services/howitworks/home.do?active_tab5=1

New Services Market Place , so What for you?

2009-05-30T11:40:00.002-04:00

New Services Market Place :
1. Buy and Sell Services
2. Find your next assignment here in www.eServicePlace.com

Benefits

	Place Service Request about what you Want and Expect.
	Providers Bid with services and cost to achieve your goal.
	Select the Winning Provider by comparing bid specifications and provider track record.

	Place a Bid to fulfill a service request.
	Requester will select the winner based on price and value that suits his needs
	Requester will rate the service which will be used for evaluating future bids

Reach more providers with less effort.
3 provider selection types to suite your needs.
Balance price and value using powerful provider selection tool.
Save time by specifying your availability.
Help others by rating the provider.

Couldn't find provider and tired of dialing and flipping through yellow pages?

eServicePlace can help you, its a Services marketplace that connects and collaborates Service Requesters (Public Requests) and Service Providers [Freelancer,Business owners,skilled Professionals etc].
When you place service request with us, your neighbour providers will bid to win you over.
You can make an informed decision by using our enhanced bid comparison tool.

Try us now, its free and amazed at how easy it is.

Selecting an Engineering college that matches your marks / cut off made easy! How?

2009-05-24T11:54:00.000-04:00

Selecting an Engineering college that matches your marks / cut off made easy! How?

Go To http://www.EduHelp.in
+2 results are out. Counseling is not far way. How to select the best college from among the colleges, your cut off could probably gain a seat for you? Follow the tips given below.

1. Work out the cut off from your scores in Maths, Physics and Chemistry.
2. Decide on the branch you would like to pursue in engineering.
3. Make a note of your community.(OC, BC, MBC, SC, ST)
4. Get the list of colleges that offered seats for your cutoff in 2008. There will not be a lot of variation in the trends this year. So this will be a fair indicator of the current trend.
5. Take note of the colleges.
6. Go to the respective college’s page and see how the college fares against the vital parameters. (Infrastructure, Faculty, Students-teachers ratio, Results, Placements, Research facilities, Tie-ups etc)
7. Rank the colleges on the basis of their scores against the vital parameters.
8. Make your considered decision.

Attended Microstrategy 9i BI class today

2009-05-21T17:36:00.002-04:00

Attended Microstrategy 9i BI Class today:

Real good BI tool & lot of good things on the Microstrategy 9i.
Microstrategy identified lot of previous issues had been resolved with this new version. I had worked in the Datawarehouse environment more than 10 years starting from MSTR 6 , 7 , 8i & now it is 9i.

The main thing I see compared to other BI tools:
1) OLAP Cube + ROLAP / HOLAP together using MSTR architect.
2) While drilling it can go from predefined cube to regular reports to detail level executed from database. No tool supports this. [I liked this very much]
The problem with other tools are :
While building cube you need to specify all of the levels / dimensions into one cube , there is no way you can link multiple cubes link together in other tools. But In New Microstrategy , it supports that.
3) Dashboards are really interactive, I am sure users are going to like it very much.
4) Way to implement quick & dirty way of importing excel data sources directly to MSTR & do the quick Proof of concept to satisfy immediate needs of urgent user without going through the regular ETL Process & getting the data out through DB.
-- This satisfys the short term goals of any BI Project to show the progress quickly & it would be temprary solution until the actual and real proper solution. And also Quick Proof of Concepts.
Since I experienced with lot of bigger clients they wated immediate needs of some analysis , I happend to hard code some of the stuff & put into table directly & do similar approach & configure in the MSTR as a sepearte projects to satisfy the short term solutions. But now it is going to be the quick through regualr MSTR project itself.
5) Prepackaging integration of schema objects from distributed team environment also good. Because most of the BI projects are in the distributed environment nowadays. It is kind of similar to sending Cognos metadata files & migration.
6) Lot of things which done through MSTR Desktop now , regular business users can do , so less problem for the IT team to support these kind of Public object creation & Maintanance.
7) Creating Dashboard made it very easy in MSTR 9i.
8) Web Single Sign On is added through configuration
9)MSTR architect user interfaces seems to be easy now. Conceptwise it is samething.

I will write more about it once I go through full.

Thanks,
Srini Centhala,
www.absolut-e.com

Risk categories

2009-05-14T09:29:00.001-04:00

Broad Categories of Risk to help identify Risks
It is much easier to identify risks if attempt is made to determine the possible categories that the risks may fall under. Typical categories with risk are:
• Market risk
• Financial risk
• Technology risk
• People risk
• Structure/process risk

Ground rules for the team to work in Harmony

2009-05-13T13:27:00.001-04:00

For the team to work in harmony they must have ground rules as listed:
• Allow time for teams to go through the basic team-building stages.
• Be patient and kind with your team.
• Fix the problem instead of blaming people.
• Establish regular, effective meetings.
• Limit the size of work teams to three to seven members.
• Nurture team members and encourage them to help each other.
• Plan some social activities to help project team members and other stakeholders get to know each other better.
• Stress team identity.
• Take additional actions to work with virtual team members.

What is Recession? Detailed explanations

2009-04-20T17:53:00.028-04:00

What is Recession?
Before, understanding “Recession”, we need to understand the market economy;
A] TWO STAGES OF MARKET ECONOMY
A1] Growing Market Economy
A2] Declining Market Economy

A1] Growing Market Economy:

A2] Declining Market Economy

B] TWO FACTORS OF MARKET; - DEMAND & SUPPLY
Producer wanted their demand always to be high
Consumer wanted their buying cost always to be low.

Actually, Demand is the price at which consumer is ready to buy and producer is ready to sell;

Usually, we think;
Demand = Quantity
But, here Demand = Price; This is because,
Price decides the Quantity of Sales;

Competitive Price = More Demand;
In competitive Price = Less Demand;

What is Recession?

Recession is the economy shrinking for two consecutive quarters (=6 months) with a
decrease in the GDP (=Gross Domestic Product).

GDP = Value of all the reported goods and services
produced by the people operating in the country.

What is GDP & How it is calculated ?

GDP = MONEY VALUE OF {C + I + G + (X – M)}

C = Consumables, I = Gross Investments, G = Government Spending,
X = Exports, M = Imports

GDP is a good indicator of economy; Other
indicators could be;
-Unemployment Rate
-Consumption Rate
-Actual Personal Income
-Etc..

If GDP is growing, then market is growing due to increased demand;

Note: If the recession continues for next quarter, (>6 months) then we go through “DEPRESSION” Economy;

There is a joke that economists quote to explain the Difference between “Recession & Depression”:

RECESSION = WHEN YOUR NEIGHBOR LOSES HIS JOB
DEPRESSION = WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR JOB

What is a Business Cycle?

1. What goes up; Has to come down;
2. Growing economy has to come down if the production rate of goods & services was
more than the actual consumption;

Why Recession happens?

1. OVER PRODUCTION
2. LOW CONFIDENCE LEVEL

1. OVER PRODUCTION:

PSEUDO DEMAND:
ACTUAL NEED WAS NOT THERE; due to the WRONG PROJECTIONS & hype , COMPANIES
PRODUCED MORE.

A situation in which the supply exceeds the nation’s ability to consume what has been produced;

Supply > Demand

2. LOW CONFIDENCE LEVEL:
2.1 : Word of mouth:
Low Confidence Level of Millions of consumers and producers after they
hear many job cuts,Demand coming down, Companies’ bankruptcy, etc;

Consumers are fearing that they may lose their jobs;
So, they have less confidence to spend money and buy goods;
This will result in reduction in demand in the market; Consumers start saving money instead of spending money; This is a downward spiral in the economy;

Example: September 11 Terrorist Attack in US;
International Airport block in Thailand;
Mumbai Attacked in India; etc…

Series of such incidences leading into a kind of War;

Terrorists’ Attack on 11th September in US - Case Study

Created fear in people
People cancelled their travel plans
Resulted in low occupancy rates
Airlines & Hotel Industries badly hit
Airline & Hotel Industries offered discounts, gift coupons, to attract people
But, still, no improvement in occupancy rate
Airline & Hotel Industries started “Cost Reduction” activities

Airline & Hotel Industries started “Cost Reduction” activities:

i] Reduce No. of flights:
In flight meals reduced , Meals supplying company got the hit; Catering company lays off people.
ii] Lay off people:
Low or No income to spend and buy goods.Demand for other goods come down
iii] Salary reduction to “Not laid off people”
They became careful due to the fear of loss of job , Started saving money instead of spending;
Demand for other goods come down;

So, you can see how the hit on Airline and Hotel
industries can affect “Un-related” industries
in the end;
One industry can hit many other industries when the
confidence level of millions of consumers & producers drastically comes down;

How to know recession?

Indicators to say a nation is in recession;
- People buying less stuff
- Decrease in factory production
- Growing unemployment
- Slump in personal income
- An unhealthy stock market

How to come out of recession?

It is unhealthy for any nation to be in Recession;
So, Government will take certain countermeasures to eliminate or reduce the Effect of recession for turnaround;

Important Point: Today, it is a market Economy;
Producers Can produce and sell at their prices
Consumers Can decide to buy or not;
Both Producers and Consumers are free to act; Not a forced action

Government has 2 plans:-
Fiscal Policies (By Govt.):
Government influences the economy by changing how it (Government) spends and collects money.
Monetary Policies (By US Treasury):
US Treasury manipulates the available supply of money in the country

Fiscal Policies (By Govt.):

1] Tax cuts for businesses or for individuals
--> More money available for spending
2] More Spending by Govt. to create jobs
--> Individuals get salary and spend money
3] Automatic fiscal policy; Unemployment Insurance
--> Some income to unemployed people to spend

Above all could result into Demand picks up; Market can recover;

Monetary Policies (By US Treasury) :
1] Reduce reserve ratio
--> More money available for bank to give loans
What is Reserve Ratio?
Each bank has to keep a high % of their assets in
US Treasury. These assets do not earn any interest to banks. This money kept in
US Treasury is called “Reserves”; US Treasury sets certain ratio of this reserves and it is
called “Reserve Ratio”.

2] Lower the interest rates:
--> Individuals take more loan
3] Use its own reserved money to buy Govt. bonds
--> It becomes an income to Govt. to inject money into the market
Above all could result into Demand picks up; Market can recover;

US Treasury’s Power or Government’s Power is double-edged
sword; Sometimes, their policies to recover from recession
can be counter-productive and it may further worsen the
situation;

If we advise our people to save money, then, the multiplication effect is that
the demand will not pickup and recession will continue; Very peculiar!!!!! But, I
am not misguiding you; Just think from a macro level, if everybody in the
country stops spending, what will happen?

Nation’s recession is controlled by the actions of everybody living in that country;

As a small & growing company Absolut-e Data Com , Inc (http://www.absolut-e.com)

What is it doing to help improve the economy:-

1. To Promote your Service skills & make money out of your known Service skills
2. To encourage entrepreneurship than employment through companies who never care about employees even some one worked for their life time.
3. Irrespective of you work for some company right now or not , keep finding out your own skills & promote your skills to start making money.
4. Post your Service Requests / public requests to post to www.eServicePlace.com to help people / small companies to survive.

SERVICES MARKET PLACE : www.eServicePlace.com
Post your Service Requests for free & find your right Provider.
Post your Service Offerings for free & Find your next Services contract job.

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What companies could do ?

Proper forecasting
Proper Projections ,
What-if Scenario analysis to avoid extreme case scenarios
Build the proper Decision support system
Proper Planning of Plan A , Plan B , Plan C .. using Project Management Methodologies.
Setup Project Management Office (PMO) to guide properly to achieve Business goal & be successful.

Absolut-e Data Com , Inc can help you to build your Decission Support System to help in all scenario cases such as what-if analysis. Full blown Enterprise DataWarehouse to make proper decissions & provide the marketshare in your own industry nich.
Build Key Performance Indicatiors (KPI) such revenue , Sales , Expenses , revenue leaks , how to improve your revenue , how to improve performance , identify wastes & plan to reduce and much more..

Please contact me : srini@absolut-e.com to build your DW System to help your company grow & easiest way of setting up the PMO (Project Management Office) as Shared Service model.

My suggestions to media is to promote in a positive manner:

That itself put the people in confidence to get better & soon will be upward spiral.
Promote new kind of companies help the economy &
promote small companies like Absolut-e Data Com, Inc

Thanks,
Srini Centhala

Why PairWorks.com ?

2009-04-14T10:11:00.003-04:00

www.PairWorks.com :

Project Management tool to Manage your Project.
Project could be any thing from IT Project , Construction Project , Manage your resources & track the progress of the work performed.
Maintain your Product backlog & their iterations.
Manage your user story.

We felt no tool is suitable for our need to follow the agile methodology through a web based Project Management tool, so we have decided to create as per our unique need , thought that would be nice to release as one of the online tool to help the agile community.

We need your valuable input so that you could participate in www.PairWorks.com development.
Please go head & submit your Name & email to get notified when it is available to play around & provide input.

Thanks,
Srini Centhala

Currently writing Project Management Book fourth Edition - eBook

2009-04-08T21:16:00.000-04:00

Currently writing Project Management Book forth edition.Currently writing Project Management Book fourth Edition eBook

Initially it is going to be eBook & then we go to Publish as a Book.
Looking for Volunteers who would like to participate in reviewing process & and also suggestions to improve.

Main Author : Dr. Archie Addo , PMP
By : Absolut-e Data Com , Inc

Please contact me srinicenthala@gmail.com or post comment here in my blog.

Join : http://www.linkedin.com/in/srinicenthala

Innovative IT Business Solutions (IIBS) Network

2009-04-01T07:58:00.003-04:00

Innovative IT Business Solutions (IIBS) Network

Vision of the group:

Throughout the world to solve business problems using state-of-art technology. Invent to secure electronic environment (e-environment) that helps mankind for a better life.
New Concepts to realty.

Purpose of this group: Innovative IT Business Solutions (IIBS) Network

Develop group of Innovative IT Business Solutions (IIBS) Network.
Exchange Innovative Ideas
Discuss and get solutions from group of experts
New concepts to reality , find help from feasible study to completion
Promote your business & help each other
Are you new to Social Media Marketing ? Experts are here to help you promote your business ideas
Do you have business plan? Get Help from Experts to prepare your business Plan.
Do you want your Business Plan to be reviewed? We are here to help you?
Do you want your Innovative Ideas to be Workable Solution ? We are here to help you!
Do you want to Information Technology solutions ? We are here to help you.
Do you have public request or Service Request ? Post your request here to find your Service Provider!
Are you entrepreneur? Need Help? Post your request here. We are here to Help you!
Your success is our group success!
Looking for Investors? We are here to Help you!
Looking for Technical savvy? you get it here!
Looking for researcher ? you get it here!
Looking to setup Project Management Office (PMO) , you get it here!
Want to create new web application ! you get here!
Want to start your next assignment! You get it here!
Looking for new Business Proposal! You get it here!
Do you want to build your BI System ?
Anything you want ? you get it here!

How to join ?

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1786740&trk=anet_ug_hm

Anti Virus Removal - Easy way to restore to before it installed

2009-03-29T22:11:00.001-04:00

I was working on my laptop on Mar/27/2009 & somehow I accepted virus threat which installed into my laptop & it was showing the security alert for every action I do in my laptop.
The Problem:
1) every action like mouse movement or click or enter or open new application or visiting to any website ..etc , It was openning popup window & says " Scan for free" Once scanning is over , it takes you to the antivirus software's web site [ Antivirus software it self introduced these kind of malwares] , it asks for your credit card to buy their software so that it cleans. Never buy these kind of antivirus softwares.
2) I had Symantec anti virus which is still running as auto protect. but it did not detect & it allowed to install above mentioned malware. These kind of malwares makes any antivirus which is auto detect enabled would also overrides. It is nothing worng with Symantec antivirus.
3) I tried to look for answers how to remove , I have found lot info & all of them say that you need to delete lot of exe files , Dlls & stop the tasks & Processes. And finally the were saying that use some other antivirus to eliminate / get ride of this problem using their antivirus software , looks like most of them were scams. No body provided proper solution to this problem.
4) I ran Windows defender , Symantec -- Nothing detected or no improvement.
5) Then I decided to format the system to rebuild from scratch.
6) I took all of the important files to backup in my external drive.
7) I took full image of my laptop using imaging software acronis true image software.

I remember there is MS restore usage which my friend mentioned to me. I wanted to try that future to restore my laptop to before this virus installed. It worked with out any issue at all.
So actually this is the you can also restore it.

Steps to recover using Microsoft Restore.

1. Make sure you have all the required files & softwares are backed up in case if it crashes , you should not loose any data & softwares.
2.
Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> System Restore

3. System Restore wizard opens up. Select "Restore My Computer to earlier time"
4. You need to know when did this spam antivirus affected your system. & make that previous to that date as your restore point. I have selected Mar/26/2009 in my case.
5. Confirm your system restore.
6. It restored my laptop to Mar/26/2009 all of the installations were removed.
7. It restarted & it worked fine.

So , if you know when this spam software installed , you should be able to restore your system to the previous to that state very easily.

Please contact me if you have any questions or if you want any help.

Architectural patterns

2009-03-22T21:20:00.005-04:00

Architectural patterns are software patterns that offer well-established solutions to architectural problems in software engineering.

Fundamental structural organization schema for a software system
Approach to the architecture , it is not real system as such.
One or more Architecture pattern may be chosen for one software system.
Multiple Design patterns may be used with in one Architecture pattern.

A software architect makes a choice of which architectural pattern(s) best provide the system's desired qualities.

Examples of architectural patterns include the following:

* Layers
* Presentation-abstraction-control
* Three-tier
* Pipeline
* Implicit invocation
* Blackboard system
* Peer-to-peer
* Service-oriented architecture
* Naked objects
* Model-View-Controller

Design Patterns

2009-03-21T19:22:00.027-04:00

Design Patterns:

It is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design , description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations.

Use of Design Patterns:

Design patterns can speed up the development process by providing tested, proven development paradigms.
New Designs are not visible until later in the implementation, Reusing of Design patterns help to prevent this.

Classification of Design patterns:

Creational Pattern
Structural Pattern
Behavioral Pattern
Concurrency Pattern

Typical Creational Patterns:

Abstract Factory
Factory method
Builder
Lazy initialization
Object pool
Prototype
Singleton
Multiton
Resource acquisition

1. Abstract Factory Pattern:

It provides a way to encapsulate a group of individual Factory that have a common theme.
Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes.
Example :

diagramFactory --> Round , Triangle , Line
DocumentFactory --> Letter , email, eBook

2.Factory method Pattern:
Define an interface for creating an object, but let subclasses decide which class to instantiate. Factory Method lets a class defer instantiation to subclasses.
The factory method pattern is an object-oriented design pattern. It deals with the problem of creating objects without specifying the exact class of object that will be created. The factory method design pattern handles this problem by defining a separate method for creating the objects, whose subclasses can then override to specify the derived type of product that will be created.

Example:
ConcreteCreator Inherits Creator; Both will have method factoryMethod () Returns Product.

3. Builder Pattern:
Separate the construction of a complex object from its representation so that the same construction process can create different representations.

The Builder Pattern is a software design pattern. The intention is to abstract steps of construction of object so that different implementations of these steps can construct different representations of objects. Often, the Builder Pattern is used to build Products in accordance to the Composite pattern, a structure pattern.

4.Lazy initialization Pattern:

In a software design pattern view, lazy initialization is often used together with a factory method pattern. This combines three ideas:
* using a factory method to get instances of a class (factory method pattern)
* storing the instances in a map, so you get the same instance the next time you ask for an instance with same parameter (compare with a singleton pattern)
* using lazy initialization to instantiate the object the first time it is requested (lazy initialization pattern).

5. Object pool Pattern:

An object pool is a set of initialized objects that are kept ready to use, rather than
allocated and destroyed on demand. A client of the pool will request an object from the pool and perform
operations on the returned object. When the client has finished with an object, it returns it to the pool, rather than destroying it. It is a specific type of factory object.

6.Prototype Pattern:
Specify the kinds of objects to create using a prototypical instance, and create new objects by copying this prototype.
A prototype pattern is a creational design pattern used in software development when the type of objects to create is determined by a prototypical instance, which is cloned to produce new objects. This pattern is used to:
* avoid subclasses of an object creator in the client application, like the abstract factory pattern does.
* avoid the inherent cost of creating a new object in the standard way (e.g., using the 'new' keyword) when it is prohibitively expensive for a given application.

7. Singleton pattern:
The singleton pattern is a design pattern that is used to restrict instantiation of a class to one object.
Ensure a class has only one instance, and provide a global point of access to it.
Example: Only one instance of a database Object

8. Multiton Pattern:
The Multiton pattern expands on the Singleton concept to manage a map of named instances as key-value pairs.
Example: Java Runtime java.lang.runtime

9.Resource acquisition Pattern:
It is initialization Ensure that resources are properly released by tying them to the lifespan of suitable objects.

Structural Patterns:

Adapter :Convert the interface of a class into another interface clients expect. Adapter lets classes work together that couldn't otherwise because of incompatible interfaces.
Bridge: Decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.
Composite: Compose objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies. Composite lets clients treat individual objects and compositions of objects uniformly.
Decorator : Attach additional responsibilities to an object dynamically keeping the same interface. Decorators provide a flexible alternative to subclassing for extending functionality.
Facade : Provide a unified interface to a set of interfaces in a subsystem. Facade defines a higher-level interface that makes the subsystem easier to use.
Flyweight: Use sharing to support large numbers of fine-grained objects efficiently.
Proxy : Provide a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access to it.

Behavioral Patterns:

Behavioral design patterns are design patterns that identify common
communication patterns between objects and realize these patterns.
By doing so, these patterns increase flexibility in carrying out this communication.

* Chain of responsibility pattern: Command objects are handled or passed on to other objects by logic-containing processing objects
* Command pattern: Command objects encapsulate an action and its parameters
* Interpreter pattern: Implement a specialized computer language to rapidly solve a specific set of problems
* Iterator pattern: Iterators are used to access the elements of an aggregate object sequentially without exposing its underlying representation
* Mediator pattern: Provides a unified interface to a set of interfaces in a subsystem
* Memento pattern: Provides the ability to restore an object to its previous state (rollback)
* Null Object pattern: designed to act as a default value of an object
* Observer pattern: aka Publish/Subscribe or Event Listener. Objects register to observe an event which may be raised by another object
* State pattern: A clean way for an object to partially change its type at runtime
* Strategy pattern: Algorithms can be selected on the fly
* Specification pattern: Recombinable Business logic in a boolean fashion
* Template method pattern: Describes the program skeleton of a program
* Visitor pattern: A way to separate an algorithm from an object
* Single-serving visitor pattern: Optimise the implementation of a visitor that is allocated, used only once, and then deleted
* Hierarchical visitor pattern: Provide a way to visit every node in a hierarchical data structure such as a tree.

Concurrency Pattern
Object Oriented Design patterns typically show relationships and interactions between classes & objects targeting on the Design problems rather than application problems.

concurrency patterns are those types of design patterns that deal with multi-threaded programming paradigm.

* Active Object
* Balking pattern
* Double checked locking pattern
* Guarded suspension
* Leaders/followers pattern
* Monitor Object
* Read write lock pattern
* Scheduler pattern
* Thread pool pattern
* Thread-Specific Storage
* Reactor pattern

The Active Object design pattern decouples method execution from method invocation that reside in their own thread of control. The goal is to introduce concurrency, by using asynchronous method invocation and a scheduler for handling requests.

The pattern consists of six elements:
* a proxy, which provides an interface towards clients with publicly accessible methods
* an interface which defines the method request on an active object
* a list of pending requests from clients
* a scheduler, which decides which request to execute next
* the implementation of the active object method.
* a callback or variable for the client to receive the result.

The Balking pattern is a software design pattern that only executes an action on an object when the object is in a particular state.

There are some in this field that think this is more of an Anti-Pattern, than a design pattern.
If an object cannot support its API, it should either limit the API so that the offending call is not available or it should …

* be created in a sane state
* not make itself available until it is in a sane state
* become a façade and answer back an object that is in a sane state.

Double-checked locking is a software design pattern also known as "double-checked locking optimization". The pattern is designed to reduce the overhead of acquiring a lock by first testing the locking criterion (the 'lock hint') in an unsafe manner; only if that succeeds does the actual lock proceed.

Guarded suspension is a software design pattern for managing operations that require both a lock to be acquired and a precondition to be satisfied before the operation can be executed. The guarded suspension pattern is typically applied to method calls in object-oriented programs, and involves suspending the method call, and the calling thread, until the precondition (acting as a guard) is satisfied.

In concurrent programming, a monitor is an object intended to be used safely by more than one thread. The defining characteristic of a monitor is that its methods are executed with mutual exclusion. That is, at each point in time, at most one thread may be executing any of its methods. This mutual exclusion greatly simplifies reasoning about the implementation of monitors compared with code that may be executed in parallel.

Monitors also provide a mechanism for threads to temporarily give up exclusive access, in order to wait for some condition to be met, before regaining exclusive access and resuming their task. Monitors also have a mechanism for signaling other threads that such conditions have been met.

Used in Banking Software design to avoid multiple withdraw of amount from same account.

A read/write lock pattern or simply RWL is a software design pattern that allows concurrent read access to an object but requires exclusive access for write operations.

In this pattern, multiple readers can read the data in parallel but an exclusive lock is needed while writing the data. When a writer is writing the data, readers will be blocked until the writer is finished writing.

scheduler pattern is a software design pattern. It is a concurrency pattern used to explicitly control when threads may execute single-threaded code.

The scheduler pattern uses an object that explicitly sequences waiting threads. It provides a mechanism to implement a scheduling policy, but is independent of any specific scheduling policy — the policy is encapsulated in its own class and is reusable.

In the thread pool pattern in programming, a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks, which are usually organized in a queue. Typically, there are many more tasks than threads. As soon as a thread completes its task, it will request the next task from the queue until all tasks have been completed. The thread can then terminate, or sleep until there are new tasks available.

Please check back again , I would update with examples.

Cloud computing compared to grid computing

2009-03-21T14:44:00.004-04:00

Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources are provided as a service over the Internet.

Grid computing is the application of several computers to a single problem at the same time. It is widely used where you need lot of computer resources to process resource intensive computational works such as web scrolling of Goolge search. it is also called distributed and large scale clustered computing.

It is a form of distributed computing whereby a "super and virtual computer" is composed of a cluster of networked, loosely coupled computers, acting in concert to perform very large tasks. This technology has been applied to computationally intensive scientific, mathematical, and academic problems through volunteer computing, and it is used in commercial enterprises for such diverse applications as drug discovery, economic forecasting, seismic analysis, and back-office data processing in support of e-commerce and Web services.

Top Social Media Sites - Market Share

2009-03-07T14:49:00.005-05:00

Top Social Media Sites - Market Share

Total Internet Users : 1.6 Billion
Top Social Media Sites Total Users : 1.3 Billion
Other Social Media Users : 312 Million

Name	No Of Users in Millions	Rank
1. Blogger	222	1
2. Facebook	200	2
3. MySpace	126	3
4. Wordpress	114	4
5. Windows Live Spaces	87	5
6. Yahoo Geocities	69	6
7. Flickr	64	7
8. hi5	58	8
9. Orkut	46	9
10. Six Apart	45	10
11. Baidu Space	40	11
12. Friendster	31	12
13. 56.com	29	13
14. Webs.com	24	14
15. Bebo	24	14
16. Scribd	23	16
17. Lycos Tripod	23	16
18. Tagged	22	18
19. imeem	21	19
20. Netlog	20	20
Others	312
	1288
Total Internet Users	1600

IT Employment Continues to Decline in December

2009-03-06T22:26:00.001-05:00

After dropping markedly in November by approximately 36,000 jobs or .92% (revised), IT employment continued its decline in December dropping by an additional 13,900 jobs or .36%. With the December decline, IT employment stands at 3,857,200. Despite the drop over the last two months, IT employment was still up year-over-year--- continuing to outperform the general employment marketplace.

Looks like IT is in the slow down mode

Source: http://www.smci.com/Newsletter/Cand/Winter2009/articles.aspx?item=1#1

Business Intelligence Software Market boosts up

2009-03-06T22:06:00.004-05:00

Business Intelligence Software Market boosts up:

The economy downturn & recession is fostering interest in BI software & Implementations , which helps companies analyze the data they collect for new cost-cutting or sales opportunities.

BI software tops the list of technology spending priorities for companies in 2009, according to a Gartner survey of more than 1,500 CIOs worldwide released in January. That priority remains, even though IT budgets are expected to be essentially flat in 2009. Market researcher Forrester Research (FORR) expects the BI market to generate more than $12 billion in revenue in 2014, vs. $8.5 billion in 2008.

Do you want to implement your Business Intelligence / Data warehouse ?
Do you have data but you don know how to make use of it to do analytics ?

Contact me at SriniCenthala@gmail.com

Source : http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc2009032_101762.htm

Whats new in Microstrategy 8.1.2 Dashboard ?

2009-03-05T13:53:00.025-05:00

Intro :

The designer can create more flexible data presentations with dashboards than with documents, since more users can be served with a single dashboard. Each user can interact with the dashboard to display only the subset of data they are interested in (using panels and selectors) or only specific attribute elements or metrics (using a selector).

What is a dashboard?
A dashboard is a display of related sets of data on one screen. A dashboard is commonly used to assess company or personal performance work or work group contributions to overall goals of the business. Dashboards summarize key business indicators by presenting them in visually intuitive, easy-to-read, interactive documents.

Provides interactive functionality so users can change how they see the data. Used online rather than printed out.

While Designing Dashboard ,
you can choose selectors, widgets, panels, and other controls, to create a personalized, custom dashboard that suits your user’s specific needs. Various formatting options such as gradient colors and 3D effects also help you create dashboards with a style appropriate for the boardroom.

Adding interactivity to dashboards:

A key aspect of a dashboard is the interactivity it allows. Interactivity lets analysts dynamically change the data displayed in Grid/Graphs or change other objects on the dashboard.

Button bar
Analyzing ranges of time: Slider
Analysis at a glance: Gauges, thermometers, cylinders, funnels

Gauges :

Thermometer

Organizing interactivity features on a dashboard

The result of a user’s interactive selections can affect multiple objects simultaneously. You can design this using a panel stack, which is a collection of panels, each of which can contain groups of objects. Panels help you display only those groups of data that should be seen at the same time.Additional features let the user navigate between panels, and quickly change the display of data within a panel.

Panels and panel stacks :

Text field, line, rectangle, image, panel, panel stack, selector, or Grid/Graph object are controls and grouped together put into a place holder is called panel.
A panel stack is a collection of individual panels, stacked on top of each other. Example of Panel Stack
panel stack to provide the Corporate, Regional, and Detail Data “views.” Each view is an individual panel in the panel stack.

Selectors
A selector can be displayed as a button bar, a drop-down list, radio buttons and much more..

Title bars
A title bar is simply an area across the top of a panel stack or Grid/Graph.
•The title identifies the panel, panel stack, or Grid/Graph.
•The buttons allow users to minimize and maximize Grid/Graphs in MicroStrategy Web.

Quick switch
Quick switch is a button that allows an analyst to quickly change a Grid/Graph from Graph view to Grid view and back, with a single click.

Widgets

A widget is a type of Report Services control that presents data in a visual and interactive way. You can think of widgets as interactive Flash-only graphs that dynamically update when you select a new set of data to view. The dashboard user can even interact with some types of widgets to manually select a set of data to analyze. A variety of widget types, such as Gauge, Heat Map, and Stacked Area widgets, are available for use in MicroStrategy dashboards.

Graph styles for dashboards
•Gauge•Funnel•Area•Vertical stacked bar•Combination: Line and horizontal bar•Bubble•Pie

Important points to be consider in the interactive dashboards:

Layering data on dashboards: Panels & Panel Stacks
Providing interactivity to users: selectors
Enabling Grid/Graphs to control other Grid/Graphs
Providing Flash analysis and interactivity: widgets
Enabling transition animations in Flash
Adding title bars to Grid/Graphs
Quick switch for Grid/Graphs
Drilling in documents

Layering multiple dashboards in a single document

It is similar to having tabs created in one web page. It used call Page Bys in the earlier versions of Microstrategy like having Corporate level , Regional level ..

Defining a selector

DHTML style Selectors

Flash Style is how the selector is displayed in Flash Mode in MicroStrategy Web

Automatic: Default DHTML type even in the flash style
Fish Eye Selector: An interactive style of selector that is displayed only in Flash Mode. It magnifies an item when a user hovers the cursor over it. This style of selector is useful because it allows a user to choose from a large list of elements without having to see all of the elements displayed at once

Action Type determines whether the selector displays elements, metrics, or panels.

In non-Flash modes in MicroStrategy Web, a Fish Eye Selector can display as a Grid/Graph (if it was created as a widget) or as a standard selector such as a listbox or button bar (if it was created as a selector).

selector items of a Fish Eye Selector with images instead of Names.

Design View

Understanding and working with widgets:

Bubble Grid: Bubbles of different colors and sizes representing the values of two metrics.
Cylinder: A simple status indicator that displays a vertical cylinder with fluid in it. The level of the fluid within the cylinder is a visual representation of a single metric value.
Data Cloud: A list of attribute elements displayed in various sizes to depict the differences in metric values between the elements.
Fish Eye Selector: An interactive selector that magnifies an item when you hover the cursor over it. It allows a user to choose from a list of attribute elements, metrics, or images without having to see all of the elements, metrics, or images displayed at once.
Funnel: A variation of a stacked bar chart that displays data that adds up to 100%. It allows a user to visualize the percent contribution of a metric to the whole.
Gauge: A simple status indicator that displays a needle that moves within a range of numbers displayed on its outside edges.
Graph Matrix: A group of area graphs that display actual values and line graphs that display forecasted values. It allows a user to quickly analyze various trends across several metric dimensions.
Heat Map: A combination of colored rectangles, each representing an attribute element, that allow you to quickly grasp the state and impact of a large number of variables at once.
Interactive Bubble Graph: A conventional bubble plot that allows you to visualize the trends of three different metrics for a set of attribute elements.
Microcharts widget :The Microcharts widget consists of compact representations of data that allow analysts to quickly visualize trends in data.

Mainly lot of the issues had been fixed & introduced easy way handle interactive dashboards. Previous versions we used create & configure using SDKs now it gives very powerful interactive dashboard.

And also went to the Microstrategy 9 Road Show in Atlanta , GA , mainly that has multiple data sources ROLAP & Cube together , Report Developer no need to worry about how it picks up which ever is efficient data source , similar to summarization on the FACT to get the right aggregation in the earlier versions.

Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have to explain.

How Technology is used in DC & now to Federal Government ?

2009-03-05T01:16:00.003-05:00

D.C. Tech Chief Headed For White House Slot:

President Obama plans to announce today that Vivek Kundra, chief technology officer for the District, will be the federal chief information officer, according to two administration officials.

Who is Vivek Kundra ?

Vivek Kundra, 34, is expected to oversee how government agencies purchase and use information technology and will be in charge of all federal technology spending. He also will be responsible for making sure agencies' networks and systems work together and share information while maintaining security and privacy standards.
Source :
http://www.octo.dc.gov/octo/site/default.asp?octoNav=|32777|

Interesting :
New Technology adoption to implement cloud computing rather than traditional application development: Check out presentation
http://www.octo.dc.gov/octo/site/default.asp?octoNav=|32777|

by Innovating IT Staff Augmentation :
http://www.octo.dc.gov/octo/cwp/view,a,1301,q,640349.asp

Kundra will have budgetary authority to launch entirely new systems within government departments, or kill existing multimillion-dollar IT projects. His decisions could have a large impact on government contractors, such as SAIC and Booz Allen Hamilton, that have come to provide the bulk of IT services to agencies.

He also will be charged with using technology to lower the cost of government operations and making government data more accessible to citizens, two things he championed as the District's chief technology officer. In that role, he got attention for letting independent developers create online applications using government information, for example, posting training videos on YouTube and creating an internal "wiki" site called DCpedia, for employees.

Looks like lot of new technology implementations to the government Sector.

Let we also suggest some new Innovative IT Solutions & stream line US Government Process to be effective and cost effective.

check out in CNN ireport - eServiceplace

2009-03-04T21:28:00.000-05:00

check out in CNN ireport - eServiceplace
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-223978

How Can eService Place Help the Economy?

2009-03-03T19:01:00.001-05:00

How Can eService Place Help the Economy?

Economic recession proof environment answer is right by your door! How about having an environment where you can make money by utilizing your skills and expertise, and get you out of the gloom feeling of current economic pinch?

Yes, eServiceplace is an environment (market place) that can be utilized by people of all background with skills to make money, and service requesters to save money. People with skills can offer their skills as service providers. We see a lot of people out there who need some sort of service such as tax preparation, carpentry, plumbing, and other service needs; 4500 Service Categories are grouped in eServicePlace. We have individuals who can offer their skills and are able to provide service work with high quality, but at an affordable cost.

So, what does it all mean to the service provider and the service requester? The service provider can earn money and does not have to wait for an employer to hire. The service requester can get the same work done with all the high quality at an affordable cost, saving money. In the end it is a win-win situation to everyone contributing to the economy. Hope you take advantage of this opportunity! It is there to help you come out of the gloomy economy. Check out www.eServicePlace.com!

Website: www.eServicePlace.com

Email: support@eServicePlace.com

Total Population

2009-03-02T22:27:00.002-05:00

Multilevel pyramid schemes actually work–for the people at the top. But really it is not.
Check out how quick it can reach to max out.

Probably this diagram would be helpful for the business people to calculate the potential in terms of
reaching out to public or people.

US Population : 362,797,056
World population : 13,060,694,016

Think about if I / we come up with something sell able to US Population alone with $1 profit. It is worth of about 362 Million if $1 as the profit. But reaching out to every one is the most tough issue.

Video Evan Williams , CEO of twitter

2009-03-02T20:22:00.003-05:00

Video: Evan Williams explains Twitter on Charlie Rose (or tries to)

It is very interesting,
Evan Williams
Co-founder of Blogger.com and sold to Google ,
now found twitter.
Hope some one look at www.eServiceplace.com to see the potential & provide help on venture

http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/02/video-evan-williams-explains-twitter-on-charlie-rose-or-tries-to/

Dr.Abdul Kalam's Vision

2009-03-02T12:43:00.000-05:00

ndia’s former President APJ Abdul Kalam unveiled a seven-point Vision 2030 plan for the Anna University on the occasion of the Madras institute of technology’s 30th anniversary celebrations.

Read further : http://www.eduHelp.in

Social Media - What & Why & How could we use it for business

2009-03-01T18:54:00.004-05:00

Social Media - What & Why & How can use it for business
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Social Media is game changing
Social Media is not a closed system
Social Media is not just another media
Social Media is transparent
Social Media is more than blogs
Social Media is decentralized and real-time
Social Media is measurable

What is Social Media ?
Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups to develop friendships and business relationships.

Why ?
To establish a community of "group of people" or "group of corporations"

How could we use it for Business ?

Have Blog first
Have linkedIn profile
Have Facebook profile
Have myspace profile
Have twitter profile

Update your social network details of above profiles into company website.
Identify & group all of the targeted user /customer or who really need your offerings.
Try to promote where they gather by providing their need & then build up trust.
While doing so , recommend your service offerings , usually they look at your one of the profiles to know more about you or your service offerings. Sure they would make use of it , if they like your service offerings.
Continue to proceed & keep updated with latest trends.

See how radian6 is used as a case study:

1. http://twitter.com/radian6 -- Radian created this profile in twitter
2. Updated to their web site , http://www.radian6.com/cms/index.php

See how we are in the process of promoting www.eServicePlace.com

1. Create eServicePlace blog
2. Create eServicePlace twitter account
3. Create linkedIn account
4. Create facebook
5. Create myspace
6. Update web site with details
7. Update "share with" in the www.eServicePalce.com & www.absolut-e.com

Building a Better Web Site

2009-03-01T17:47:00.001-05:00

The Perfect Host: All Web hosts are not created equal. Inc.com's technology columnist Anne Stuart describes how to evaluate Web hosts and to choose the one that's best for your business.
Checklist: Monitor Your Web Site's Performance: Discover what aspects of Web site performance are critical to your e-commerce success.
Make Sure Your Web Site's Working for You: Internet logjams losing you sales? Speed up your site with these smart strategies.
Weed Out Your Weak Links: Everyone likes to link to other sites because, well, that's what you do on the Web. But having too many links -- or outdated links that don't work -- will distract and dismay your visitors.
Site Maintenance Utilities: Here's an overview of various HTML checkers, which can help ensure that your Web-site visitors have an error-free experience on your site.

Content Is King

Writing Well on the Web: Hardly anybody really likes reading online. No surprise there, since so many websites are so poorly written. Here are easy ways to make your Web words more reader-friendly.
Traffic Magnets: With imagination and a clear sense of their customers, Earth Treks and Merriman Capital Management keep their Web visitors coming back for more.
Blogging for Business: Blogging has been popular with teens, geeks, and flamboyant extroverts for years, but today, it's garnering more attention from businesses as a way to connect with customers and prospects.
When Blogs Go Bad: Blogs can be a great marketing tool. But when they bite back, it's all about damage control.
Blog Rules: The blogosphere is a world unto itself, with its own set of rules and regulations. Newcomers break them at their own peril. Here's what you need to know before jumping into the fray.
The Top 10 Things You Should Know Before You Blog: Three business blogging experts share their best tips for getting started in the blogosphere.
Don't Focus on the Razzle-Dazzle: Flashy graphics and shock-wave downloads do not a successful site make. Content is what really brings back customers.
Create Your Own Web Content: To take the last article a bit further, good content brings back customers. Second-rate editorial and graphics will send them away faster than an e-mail chain letter. Here's how can make your site full of the former.
Proofread Your Content: There are a distressing number of typo-ridden, grammatically incorrect Web sites out there. Stand out by showing your potential customers that you pay attention to detail.

Know What Your Users Want, and Give It to Them

The Survey Says...: Want to know what consumers think? Put down the comment cards and poll them online instead.
The Skinny on Survey Software: With more than 100 online polling software packages to choose from, picking the right one can be tricky. Here, three options to suit various needs.
May I Help You: New live-chat software helps Web merchants convert browsers into buyers.
Live Aid: There are scores of live-chat vendors, and finding the right one can be tricky. Here are three options to suit your various needs.
Capture, Capture, Capture: How to make every visit to your website a marketing goldmine.
Pumping Your Visitors for Information: Improving your site means getting inside the heads of your users. Here's how you can do it without seeming like a telemarketer calling at dinnertime.
Come In. I've Been Expecting You: If you don't treat visitors like they are the only person in cyberspace, don't expect them to stick around. And personalization doesn't need to be expensive.

Building Your Brand in Cyberspace

Building Brands on the Web: An Old Game with New Rules: E-commerce may be changing the rules of business, but most of the traditional laws of marketing still apply. Here's how to plan for the long-term success of your site.

Source : http://www.inc.com/guides/biz_online/20664.html

Digg Architecture

2009-03-01T17:41:00.003-05:00

Check out this architecture of digg.com
Source: http://blog.digg.com/?p=168

Request from web browser --> Web Server through load Balancers --> App Servers -->
DB --> File Servers if there are any file references or images or videos.

Signed up with twitter

2009-02-28T17:16:00.001-05:00

Signed up with twitter.
Trying to explore the options on twitter.

Please follow in twitter :
http://twitter.com/SriniCenthala

What is the future of SaaS (Software as a Service)? Do you think it will succeed? If yes, why?

2009-02-24T00:22:00.001-05:00

What is the future of SaaS (Software as a Service)? Do you think it will succeed? If yes, why?

Future SaaS of DW / BI and also other software development & environment are extremely promising:
Yes. It will Succeed.
Because
1. Infrastructure costs are reduced instead of one time huge investment
2. Reduced in Software cost by usage instead of buying
3. Implementation cost on IT Consultants reduced
4. Latest - Security reliability
5. Current Internet Speed & their Cost
6. Reduced - Operations cost on System Administration
7. Cost Spent Efficiently for the Usage.
8. There would not be any new upgrades , new technology transfers , because currently N number of Softwares are coming into Market & their Support
9. Any time pick different Service Provider & advancement with new trends & Technologies.

-- There are lot to go on.

Thanks,
Srini
Innovative IT Business Solutions Provider : www.absolut-e.com
Services Market Place: www.eServicePalce.com -- Where SaaS for Services Industry - Selling Process.
My Blog: http://SriniCenthala.blogspot.com

Links:
http://SriniCenthala.blogspot.com
http://www.eServicePalce.com

My Profile Presentation

2009-02-12T13:19:00.001-05:00

Please look at my full Profile:
http://www.slideshare.net/srinicenthala

Needed Promotion Help for www.eServicePlace.com

2009-02-11T09:39:00.002-05:00

We are trying to promote http://www.eServicePlace.com , any help would be appreciated. We would try your ideas of promoting. But we need further more not only on promoting , use frequently on posting your any kind of Service Requests (Public Requests) it is totally free.

This is very good concept & we need help each one of you to be successful concept to reality.
Planning to set up an Advisory board and try to add each one of the helping persons into this board. Please suggest if you have any ideas how to get lot of Public requests.

How Can you Help us ?

1. Post you Service Needs & request as a Public request

2. Provide us input to how could we improve ?

3. Suggestions & email note to be involved in the www.eServicePlace.com Advisory board.

4. If you think you can help us on getting investors.

What is eServicePlace?
Services market place that connects to the service requester and service providers all over the world but currently it is released only USA. In United States of America alone there are 33 Million service providers and nearly a Billion requesters (General Public). Every day there are service requesters who need service providers to enable the ease of their service. Absolut-e has realized this need and has developed eServicePlace.com to maintain the service requesters and providers transactions by enabling tools to efficiently manage the community. The following are the key features of eServicePlace.com:
1. Finding the providers and requesters
2. Placing service request
3. Bidding on the service request
4. Scheduling appointment for on-site estimation
5. Scheduling appointment for performing the services
6. Provider selection
7. Contract management
8. Work order management
9. Managing the service status
10. Financial management
11. Payment management
12. Rating/Review of requesters and providers

Feel free to use and provide your valuable input to make http://www.eserviceplace.com a successful concept to reality.

Thanks,
Srini
http://SriniCenthala.blogspot.com

Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management

2009-02-09T22:23:00.003-05:00

Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management:

Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management is a comprehensive, Web-based financial system software application that delivers global collection reporting and analysis in a single, highly scalable financial management software solution. Financial Management to consolidate data from diverse general ledger systems (GL) and locations around the globe.

Financial Management 11.1.1 :

What problems new online BI would Solve?

2009-02-09T19:50:00.006-05:00

What problem online BI which we are going to create would solve:

Problem Statement:
The main problem with Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse Projects:
1. BI and Data Warehouse projects are always problematic to complete it on time , insufficient technical designer , Wrong Requirement capture , In -sufficient of funds to complete the project.
2. Pre-Defined data warehouse & BI would not be enough to meet the Business user requirements. Since there are no common model for each of the performance measurement techniques.

What is cheat sheet ? Check out http://cheatsheet.absolut-e.com

2009-02-05T19:40:00.006-05:00

Cheat Sheet are quick reference guide as reference cards.

In more general usage, a "cheat sheet" is any short (one or two page) reference to terms, commands, or symbols where the user is expected to understand the use of such terms etc but not necessarily to have memorized all of them. Many computer applications, for example, have cheat sheets included in their documentation which list keystrokes or menu commands needed to achieve specific tasks to save the user the effort of digging through an entire manual to find the keystroke needed to, for example, move between two windows.

Usage of Cheat Sheet -->
1. To capture Maths formulas
2. To capture syntax of particular Software or package or Computer Language.
and much more..

Please check out : http://cheatsheet.absolut-e.com , You can create your own cheat sheet or reference card. Still on development. We will be releasing soon with OpenId and on that time you can create your own CheatSheet and create PDF.
Feel free to provide your suggestion on this application http://cheatsheet.absolut-e.com

BI On Demand SAP-BO

2009-02-04T19:26:00.004-05:00

http://www.crystalreports.com/

What is crystalreports.com?
crystalreports.com is a web-based report-sharing service that enables companies, regardless of size or IT resources, to instantly share business-critical information with the right people in a simple and secure manner. Often, Crystal Reports users distribute reports in either PDF or Excel via email or hard copy - a manual process which is time consuming and difficult to manage. With crystalreports.com, customers can further leverage their investment in Crystal Reports by instantly sharing and storing their reports on the web with no additional hardware, software or IT resource requirement. We host the service on your behalf.

What is Business Intelligence OnDemand (BIOD) for crystalreports.com?
BIOD for crystalreports.com is an option for enterprises or companies with large datasets that are looking for more in-depth BI tools that provide advanced reporting, real-time dashboards, and powerful ad-hoc analysis tools for maximizing the value of your corporate data. The key difference between standard crystalreports.com and BIOD is that crystalreports.com is based on hosting live report and dashboard files within the Business Objects OnDemand platform, and BIOD is based on hosting a copy of the actual data sources within our OnDemand platform.

Learn more about Business Intelligence OnDemand

What Is Business Intelligence OnDemand?

Business Intelligence OnDemand is a BI solution that is ideal for organizations that:

Have large data volumes (hundreds of thousands or millions of records).
Use multiple data sources with a high level of complexity.
Need deep analytics - such as ad-hoc and what-if analysis for planning.

Offload Your Infrastructure Costs

We build and maintain your data warehouse and business intelligence infrastructure.
You don't have to deal with IT department time and cost hurdles.

Access the World's Leading BI Platform

Use the full spectrum of industry-standard BI tools from Business Objects.
Get a high-volume reporting infrastructure - with more data volume and better performance than your core application.

BI OnDemand

Business Objects XI Release 2 Enterprise (BO) Features.

2009-02-04T18:15:00.011-05:00

Main tools in BO XI R2:
Reporting,Query Analysis,Performance management & Data Integration.
Mainly integrated product together a) Crystal Reports & Business Objects.

Tools for Migration from Previous Versions:

Import Wizard:

Desktop application to import user accounts,groups,reports and folders from crystal info into BO XI R2 Enterprise.

BO version 5.1.4 ,6.0,6.1 and 6.5
Crystal Enterprise 8.5,9 & 10
Application foundation 6.1b,6.5.1

Move Test Deployment of BO XI R2 to Production environment

Repository migration wizard: Usage:- To Migrate from Report Design Repository to BO XI repository
Data Source migration wizard: Usage :- To migrate reports based on crystal queries , dictionaries and info views.
Report conversion Tool:

Legacy BusinessObjects reports previously migrated to Desktop Intelligence using import wizard.
Desktop Intelligence reports to web Intelligence reports to convert to web reports.

Design Universe: [Meta Data Tool which informs to BO about Measures , Dimensions & Hierarchies & their relationships]
Tool: BusinessObjects Designer or Universe Builder

Business Objects DeskTop Intelligence: To create new reports , ad-hoc queries ..
Business Objects web Intelligence : To create & publish new reports to web directly.

Publishing wizard : To create new documents to BO XI R2

InfoView : Create portal used for all of BI.

Central Management Console(CMC) : Web Interface to administrate such as create user roles, server admin.

Service-Oriented Architecture and BI Platform Management :-
BusinessObjects Enterprise is designed as a services-oriented architecture for flexible system configuration. Each system service—such as report caching, scheduling, or analytic
engines can be set up and controlled from within the CMC. This gives
administrators the ability to add, remove, stop, restart, and reconfigure
system services directly from the web environment. They can also configure
services while the system is still running, eliminating the need for a system restart. The webbased environment enables administrators to access and manage the system from any web
browser with system access rights.

How to Submit your site to Google ?

2009-02-03T17:36:00.004-05:00

Step1

Go To http://www.google.com/intl/en/submit_content.html , then Click on "Add Your URL"
Or Directly to http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Enter the URL / Domain Name / Web Site Address Starting with the "http" prefix. For example, Example: "http://www.eServicePlace.com"

Step2

Find the best keywords for your website to list in the comment section. The best way to do this is with a keyword selector tool like Keyword Discovery. Enter one to three words that best describe your web page, and look for the number of hits returned. At least 100 hits is a respectable number. List the best keywords for Google.

Step3

Type in the squiggly letters that you see. Even though Google states that this is optional, doing so lets them know that you're not a software robot.

Step4

Understand that submitting your URL is no guarantee that your website will be added to the Google index. Increase your chances by making your site more Google-friendly. You must sign up for a Google account to use the Google webmaster tools.

Step5

Check that all links and html information works and looks like you want it to. A good way to test this is by checking your web pages with different browsers, including Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla.

Step6

Include a sitemap with your website. This is not only helpful to users, but Google uses URL sitemaps to increase searchability.

Looking for any data Warehouse project/s

2009-02-02T21:01:00.001-05:00

Hi All,

Looking for any data warehouse project/s to work on. I am a Sr.Data warehouse Architect .
Here are the summary:

SUMMARY:

· Over 16 years of Information Technology (IT) industry experience in the area of full life cycle software development of commercial client-server and web applications as Technical Architect / Data Architect / Data Modeler in business data management system. Over 11 Years US On-site Client Experience.

· Over 9 years of Experience in Decision Support System Using OLAP, ROLAP,MOLAP & HOLAP as BI Architect / Data Architect / Data Modeler.

· All the projects were completed and implemented successfully on time with in allocated budget with High Quality standards.

· Extensively used Rational Unified Process (RUP) Methodologies & Delivered Quality Standards SEI CMM model Level 4 & 5.

· Re-Engineered the Business Process of Revenue Management, Marketing Management, Contract Management, and Pricing Engine for United Parcel Service (UPS).

· Business process re-engineering to convert from HR People Soft to JD Edwards and Designing data warehouse to enable decision support system (DSS) of Human Resources (HR), Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing, Finance (GL) & Inventory management Applications.

· Expert in Designing of Data warehouse, Business Intelligence tool, ETL Process, Data Mining, Data Mapping, Data conversion, Data Migration using Data Stage, Informatica, Microstrategy 8i, Cognos & Business Objects.

· Extensive experience in Data Modeling, Database Design, System Architecture, System Design, Database Administration, Relational to object mapping, Object Oriented Analysis and Design.

· Very good experience in Oracle DBA activities, SQL, PL/SQL, Pro*C , Oracle Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers , SQL / Loader ,SQL / Plus ,Back UP & Recovery and SQL Tuning.

· Good Experience in Java, J2EE & JMS using application server, e-commerce, B2B and B2C portals and System Integration (B2Bi and EAI).

IT SKILL SUMMARY

Hardware	Pentium , Sun-Solaris Servers, HP 9000 Servers and IBM machines
Operating Systems	Windows-2003/XP, Linux , UNIX (HP-UX/Solaris/SCO)
Languages	SQL, PL/SQL, Java, XML, UNIX Shell, HTML/DHTML, UML, XSLT
Databases	Oracle, TeraData, SYBASE, SQL Server, MySQL, Netezza
BI Tools	MicroStrategy 8i, Cognos, Oracle Express, Business Objects
ETL Tools	Informatica, Data Stage, Oracle Warehouse Builder
Other Tools	Rational Rose, MS Project , ERWin, PowerDesigner
IT General Skills	Project Management, Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR), System Analysis & Design, System Architect, Data Modeling, Database Administration and Operations Management
Applications	Government, Finance, Banking, Operations (Manufacturing), Revenue Management system, Retail Industry, Transportation& Construction, e-commerce, Health & Medical Industry
Workflow Engine	Biz Flow 8.7 , MQ Series Work Flow engine
EAI Tools	MQSeries & Web Methods

Please contact me for any referrals.

Services Market Place www.eServicePlace.com

2009-02-02T19:51:00.001-05:00

Services market place that connects to the service requester and service providers all over the world but currently it is released only USA. In United States of America alone there are 33 Million service providers and nearly a Billion requesters (General Public). Every day there are service requesters who need service providers to enable the ease of their service. Absolut-e has realized this need and has developed eServicePlace.com to maintain the service requesters and providers transactions by enabling tools to efficiently manage the community.

The following are the key features of eServicePlace.com:

1. Finding the providers and requesters

2. Placing service request

3. Bidding on the service request

4. Scheduling appointment for on-site estimation

5. Scheduling appointment for performing the services

6. Provider selection

7. Contract management

8. Work order management

9. Managing the service status

10. Financial management

11. Payment management

12. Rating/Review of requesters and providers

Feel free to use and provide your valuable input to make www.eserviceplace.com a successful concept to reality.

Look at "How It works" --> http://www.eserviceplace.com/services/howitworks/home.do

Please provide valuable input & we are in the process of promoting eServicePlace.com
Any help would be appreciated.

Polls: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/21365/frxdf

BI Tools evaluation

2009-02-02T10:32:00.000-05:00

BI Tools evaluation: [ Thanks to Business Intelligence group]
Let me consolidate from all of the discussion from this answers & try to evaluate BI tools.

Available Tools in the Market

Big Guys:

1. Mirostrategy
2. Business Objects
3. Cognos
4. OBIEE
5. SAS
6. Hyperion
7. MS BI
8.

New & recent companies:

gooddata : http://www.gooddata.com/products/index.html
birst : http://www.birst.com/pricing.php
QlikView: http://www.qlikview.com/home.aspx
Space-Time Research (STR): http://www.str.com.au/products.html
PowerOLAP: www.paristech.com

evaluation cretira:
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http://www.bipminstitute.com/template/business_intelligence_tool_evaluation.php

ETL Tools :

1. Data Stage
2. Informatica
3. Oracle Warehouse Builder

Please add in any I have missed out or you wanted to include in the provided list. So I would try to compare , provide my recommendations.

Data Modeling - Normalization process (1NF,2NF,3NF)

2009-01-29T14:58:00.000-05:00

What is Normalization ?
Normalization is the process of putting things right.

First normal form (1NF):
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Table faithfully represents a relation and has no "repeating groups"

Second normal form (2NF):
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No non-prime attribute in the table is functionally dependent
on a part (proper subset) of a candidate key

Third normal form (3NF):
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Every non-prime attribute is non-transitively dependent on every key of the table

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First Normal Form (1NF)
First normal form (1NF) sets the very basic rules for an organized database:

* Eliminate duplicative columns from the same table.
* Create separate tables for each group of related data and
identify each row with a unique column or set of columns (the primary key).

Second Normal Form (2NF)
Second normal form (2NF) further addresses the concept of removing duplicative data:

* Meet all the requirements of the first normal form.
* Remove subsets of data that apply to multiple rows of a table and place them in separate tables.
* Create relationships between these new tables and their predecessors through the use of foreign keys.

Third Normal Form (3NF)
Third normal form (3NF) goes one large step further:

* Meet all the requirements of the second normal form.
* Remove columns that are not dependent upon the primary key.

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Example:
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Bookshelf: Title, Author,Publisher,Category

Create a Entity called BOOKSHELF, it consits of following columns: Title,Author1,Author2,Auther3,Publisher,Category1,Category2,Category3

BOOKSHELF: TITLE,PUBLISHER,CATEGORY1,CATEGORY2,CATEGORY3,RATING,RATING_DESC
BOOKSHEL_AUTHOR: TITLE,AUTHOR_NAME
AUTHOR: AUTHOR_NAME , Comments

Above step refers to 1NF. regrouping of repeated groups into respective table.

Create a RATING Table with RATING,RATING_DESC , this step is called 2NF.

Remove category1,Category2,Category3 to seperate table called Category Table.

Create CATEGORY table with CATEGORY_NAME,PARENT_CATEGORY,SUBCATEGORY , this step is called 3NF.

Comparison of Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball paradigm:

2009-01-29T11:23:00.000-05:00

Comparison of Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball paradigm:

In the data warehousing field, we often hear about discussions on where a person / organization's philosophy falls into Bill Inmon's camp or into Ralph Kimball's camp. We describe below the difference between the two.

Bill Inmon's paradigm: Data warehouse is one part of the overall business intelligence system. An enterprise has one data warehouse, and data marts source their information from the data warehouse. In the data warehouse, information is stored in 3rd normal form.

Bill Inmon: Endorses a Top-Down design
Independent data marts cannot comprise an effective EDW. Organizations must focus on building EDW.

"You can catch all the minnows in the ocean and stack them together and they still do not make a whale,"
Bill Inmon, January 8, 1998.

Ralph Kimball's paradigm: Data warehouse is the conglomerate of all data marts within the enterprise . Information is always stored in the dimensional model.
Kimball model also proposes the data warehouse bus architecture. This architecture is comprised of:
- A staging area (which can have an E/R or relationally designed 3NF design or flat file format), which cannot be accessed by an end-user of the data warehouse bus (Presentation Layer) .
-The Data Warehouse Bus itself which includes several atomic data marts, several aggregated data marts and a personal data mart but no single or centralized data warehouse component.
The Data Warehouse Bus:
- Is dimensional;
- Contains transaction and summary data;
- Includes data marts, which have single subject or fact tables; and
- Can consist of multiple data marts in a single data base.

There is no right or wrong between these two ideas, as they represent different data warehousing philosophies. In reality, the data warehouse in most enterprises are closer to Ralph Kimball's idea. This is because most data warehouses started out as a departmental effort, and hence they originated as a data mart. Only when more data marts are built later do they evolve into a data warehouse.

Ralph Kimball: Endorses a Bottom-Up design
EDW effectively grows up around many of the several independent data marts – such as for sales, inventory, or marketing

"...The data warehouse is nothing more than the union of all the data marts...,"
Ralph Kimball, December 29, 1997.

The main difference is Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Approach.
Let us see the advantages & disadvantages:

Advantages of Top-Down Approach: [Bill Inmon Approach]:

A truly corporate effort, an enterprise view of data
Inherently architect ed- not a union of disparate DataMarts
Central rules and control
May be developed fast using iterative approach

Disadvantages of Top-Down [Bill Inmon Approach]:

Takes longer to build even with iterative method
High exposure/risk to failure
Needs high level of cross functional skills
High outlay without proof of concept
Difficult to sell this approach to senior management and sponsors

Advantages of Bottom-Up Approach [Ralph Kimball Approach]:

Faster and easier implementation of manageable pieces
Favorable ROI and proof of concept
Less risk of failure
Inherently incremental; can schedule important DataMarts first
Allows project team to learn and grow

Disadvantages of Bottom-Up Approach [Ralph Kimball Approach]:

Each DataMart has its own narrow view of data
Permeates redundant data in every DataMart
Difficult to integrate if the overall requirements are not considered in the beginning

Kimball encourages to have perspective of both “vertically” and “horizontally”
while gathering business requirements while developing/designing data marts using Bus Architecture to integrate in to Enterprise Data warehouse.

Vertical

Don’t just rely on the business data analyst to determine requirements
Inputs from senior managers about their vision, objectives, and challenges are critical
Ignoring this vertical span might cause failure in understanding the organization’s direction and likely future trends

Horizontal

Look horizontally across the departments before designing the Data Warehouse
Critical in establishing the enterprise view i.e Bus Architecture
Challenging to do if one particular department if funding the project. [Even one departments funds this project , but all the departments together become the company]
Ignoring horizontal span will create isolated, department-centric databases that are inconsistent and can’t be integrated while considering for Enterprise Data Warehouse
Complete coverage in a large organization is difficult , but CEO or CTO represents all of the departments. They should have the proper understanding of the full business and recommend what is good for whole company not just one department.
One rep. from each dept. interacting with the core development team can be of immense help
Creating a Business Decision Making group when there is a difference in the perspective from each department would help in resolve these kind of conflicts.

New Practical approach by Kimball

Plan and define requirements at the overall corporate level
Create a surrounding architecture for a complete warehouse
Conform and standardize the data content
Implement the Data Warehouse as a series of Supermarts, one at a time

[Notes: Soon I will have detailed steps & process to be followed by Kimball , please check back or subscribe to my blog]

SUPERMARTS

Totally monolithic approach vs. totally stovepipe approach
A step-by-step approach for building an Enterprise Data Warehouse from granular data
A Supermart s a data mart that has been carefully built with a disciplined architectural framework
A Supermart is naturally a complete subset of the Data Warehouse.
A Supermart is based on the most granular data that can possible be collected and stored
Conformed dimensions and standardized fact definitions

Data Warehouse to Data marts

Operational Source System (OSS) To Directly transforms data to Enterprise Data Warehouse Let us call -- ETL Process (1) .

Enterprise Data warehouse to Data Marts
Let us call -- ETL Process (2).

Enterprise Data Warehouse

[Further comparison will be added often ]

Fact Table Comparisons and what is better for your business?

2009-01-28T22:14:00.000-05:00

Fact Table Comparisons and what is better for your business?

There are three type of Fact Tables:
1. Transaction Fact Tables ( Transaction Grain)
2. Periodic Snapshot Fact Tables ( Periodic Snapshot Grain)
3. Accumulating Snapshot Fact Tables ( Accumulating Snapshot Grain)

First question to ask yourself , what is your main business ? and what Industry you are in ?

Retail Business , Inventory , Procurement , Order Management , Customer Relationship management, Accounting , Human Resource Management , Financial Service , Telecommunication , Transportation , Education , Health Care , E Commerce , Insurance , Manufacturing , etc.

Second Question:
What do you want to achieve in the Data warehouse / DSS (Decision Support System) / Business Intelligence (BI) system ?
Determine the goal of your Data Warehouse.

Third Question:
Who are all the users of the data warehouse / BI System ? And their roles such as CFO , CTO , VP(Sales & Marketing) , Sales Manager , Production Manager , Area Manager , Business Analyst , Business user , IT Support , etc.

Fourth question:

What kind of reports expected out of this new data warehouse ? And also if the users already using some excel type reports manually prepared by Business users to report to their higher officials. List out all of them & if you already have the samples keep it.

next , list out all of the business process , identify what are the measures /facts used in those reports. If there are any calculations involved list each one of them. And identify how often it changes , where is the source system it captures these measures and also changing criteria. This step is to identify the grain i.e Level of detail specified business process can't be divide further. (Lowest Level of detail)
Ex: Order processing may have Customer , Product , Order Date , Order Number .. etc , these become dimensions in the dimension model

Next , against each business process list out the measures / facts and identified Dimensions in the previous step.

Ex: Order Quantity , Product Unit Price [ Let us just consider this as measure but it is really Non-Additive measure]

[I will continue tomorrow]

What about Datawarehouse / Business Intelligence BI in the internet like other web application?

2009-01-28T18:26:00.000-05:00

I was thinking about creating datawarehouse / Business Intelligence (BI) System / Decision Support System on-line meaning in the internet like ebusiness web application, where users / small to medium sized companies could benefit from this.

What everyone think about this? I need real inputs to this.

Please feel free to add your comments, suggestions.

SriniCenthala

Wish You Happy New Year 2011 !

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Stay Agile & Succeed - Pairworks - Agile Project Management Tool On-Demand

Pairworks - Agile Project Management - On-Demand

PureApp.com - Monitor & Control Continues Integration On-Demand

"There are times brick hits your head!"..."Do not lose your faith on what you love to do!"

Agile Project Management Tool - www.PairWorks.com

Setup Your Project For Success,Deliver Results with PairWorks:

Planning for "eServicePlace LinkedIn Application"

New Launch of Datamartist

Datamartist is a desktop tool that provides users with a graphical, easy to use environment where they can manage and transform their data.

eServicePlace.com How it works

Buying And Selling Services Made Easy

New Services Market Place , so What for you?

Benefits

Couldn't find provider and tired of dialing and flipping through yellow pages?

Try us now, its free and amazed at how easy it is.

Selecting an Engineering college that matches your marks / cut off made easy! How?

Selecting an Engineering college that matches your marks / cut off made easy! How?

Attended Microstrategy 9i BI class today

Risk categories

Ground rules for the team to work in Harmony

What is Recession? Detailed explanations

Why PairWorks.com ?

Currently writing Project Management Book fourth Edition - eBook

Innovative IT Business Solutions (IIBS) Network

Anti Virus Removal - Easy way to restore to before it installed

Architectural patterns

Design Patterns

Design Patterns:

Cloud computing compared to grid computing

Top Social Media Sites - Market Share

IT Employment Continues to Decline in December

Business Intelligence Software Market boosts up

The economy downturn & recession is fostering interest in BI software & Implementations , which helps companies analyze the data they collect for new cost-cutting or sales opportunities.

Top 10 Problems in the Existing Social Media

Whats new in Microstrategy 8.1.2 Dashboard ?

How Technology is used in DC & now to Federal Government ?

check out in CNN ireport - eServiceplace

How Can eService Place Help the Economy?

Total Population

Video Evan Williams , CEO of twitter

Dr.Abdul Kalam's Vision

Social Media - What & Why & How could we use it for business

Building a Better Web Site

Content Is King

Know What Your Users Want, and Give It to Them

Building Your Brand in Cyberspace

Digg Architecture

Signed up with twitter

What is the future of SaaS (Software as a Service)? Do you think it will succeed? If yes, why?

My Profile Presentation

Needed Promotion Help for www.eServicePlace.com

Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management

What problems new online BI would Solve?

What is cheat sheet ? Check out http://cheatsheet.absolut-e.com

BI On Demand SAP-BO

What Is Business Intelligence OnDemand?

Business Objects XI Release 2 Enterprise (BO) Features.

How to Submit your site to Google ?

Looking for any data Warehouse project/s

Services Market Place www.eServicePlace.com

BI Tools evaluation

Data Modeling - Normalization process (1NF,2NF,3NF)

Comparison of Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball paradigm:

Fact Table Comparisons and what is better for your business?

What about Datawarehouse / Business Intelligence BI in the internet like other web application?