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                    [post_content] => Get hands-on with Power BI sample Purchase Order dashboard for JD Edwards.   Filter, drill-down, and analyze JD Edwards PO data by company, supplier, business unit, and key metrics.
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Regardless of whether or not our customers report off Live data or our Operational Data Store (ODS), the reports and report development experience are the same. Therefore, the primary reasons, to pursue a data warehouse are if you have more than one production instance of JD Edwards or your need to integrate data from various systems within one report, which can be done against live data, but depending upon the integration, may become easier with a data warehouse. If you are looking for an automated warehouse design and construction then you may be interested in certain companies such as Primus Builders. In addition with a data warehouse, you can isolate the database to be used for Query and Reporting to a separate server in order to minimize the impact on transactional users. In a data warehouse you can create custom tables and views and aggregated tables. In theory, you might anticipate better performance with a data warehouse, however, you may be surprised on how quickly reports process against your transactional data with very little if any impact to your transactional users.

The drawbacks to a data warehouse are that you are now adding another layer into the mix which must be maintained by IT. Customers who want to alleviate IT resources as a bottleneck to report development for end users should not implement a data warehouse as it will only require more reliance on IT resources than reporting off of live data. The data in a data warehouse must be refreshed on a periodic basis, this may or may not be acceptable to end users. For instance, when the finance department is closing their books at month-end, and they post a journal entry and immediately want to see the impact to the Income Statement or Balance Sheet, the new data will not be in the data warehouse yet, so reports directed to the data warehouse will only return the desired results after it has been refreshed with the most recent data from the transactional systems.

We recommend to all customers who pursue a data warehouse that they should consider a blended approach of live data and a data warehouse as that will provide them more flexibility and create a stronger customer data platform to analyze and predict future transactions when compared to a data warehouse only approach. To make a recommendation whether or not a data warehouse makes sense, we need to further investigate your IT resource expertise as well as your objectives to see if this makes sense. If you are new to Business Intelligence, it is much easier to start your experience against your live data. You can migrate to a data warehouse in the future and if you are using the Preferred Strategies BI Quick Launch for JD Edwards it is a seamless process to migrate your reports to the Preferred Strategies Operational Data Store for JD Edwards in the future.




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When you go to a JD Edwards tradeshow primarily what you see on the exhibit floor is specialized or niche business intelligence reporting software solutions tailored for JD Edwards. We consider niche solutions to be restricted to JD Edwards, a module of JD Edwards or specific reporting or business intelligence function. Niche software applications are developed by firms to address specific challenges related to JD Edwards reporting such as adhoc querying of data, automation of a spreadsheet, or a forms program used specifically for AP checks, purchase orders, etc.

Due to their sound integration into JD Edwards and their quick ability to resolve your current challenges, niche solutions have instant appeal to customers. What niche solutions lack is the ability to become long-term investments that can accommodate future corporate requests for additional capabilities, such as the likes of this Web Application Company and others can develop and continue to update and install additional features when required by the business in question. True long-term strategies for Business Intelligence currently can only be accomplished by implementing an end-to-end reporting and business intelligence solution.

According to Gartner, Business Intelligence Platforms must include eight of the twelve capabilities listed below. We consider these solutions to be end-to-end business intelligence software solutions. If you would like to find out more about business intelligence you may want to visit resources that could assist you, for example, a site similar to https://www.klipfolio.com/resources/articles/what-is-business-intelligence.
Twelve Business Intelligence Capability Requirements

 	
Integration

 	
BI Infrastructure
 	
Metadata Management
 	
Development
 	
Workflow and Collaboration


 	
Information and Delivery Analysis

 	
Reporting
 	
Dashboards
 	
Ad hoc Query
 	
Microsoft Office Integration


 	
Analysis

 	
OLAP
 	
Advanced Visualization
 	
Predictive Modeling and data mining
 	
Scorecards



The strength of end-to-end business intelligence solutions is the depth and breadth of capabilities and their agnostic approach to data sources that allow you to standardize on one business intelligence platform and address all information requests across all corporate systems. Many big companies like to use outsourced software development when they run into problems with their software solutiions. One advantage of niche solutions over end-to-end solutions is their ability to provide easy integration and jumpstart for JD Edwards specific requests while customers who implement end-to-end business intelligence software applications often have to build their JD Edwards content from scratch unless they can find it from another partner who specializes in that specific software application.

The ideal scenario would be to leverage all the advantages of the niche solution with the depth, breadth and flexibility that the end-to-end solutions provide. This would allow you to invest in a long-term strategy and provide you the ability to immediately address JD Edwards requirements but at the same time, lower your total cost of ownership by standardizing on a business intelligence solution for years to come.

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What are the Benefits of a Data Warehouse Over Live Reporting?

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Regardless of whether or not our customers report off Live data or our Operational Data Store (ODS), the reports and report development experience are the same.

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Specialized or Niche vs. End-to-End Reporting and Business Intelligence Software Solutions

May 06, 2014

When you go to a JD Edwards tradeshow primarily what you see on the exhibit floor is specialized or niche business intelligence reporting software solutions tailored for JD Edwards.

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