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	<title>Dashboards - Scorecards, BI Executive dashboards &#124; KPI, Metrics, BSC &#124; Web based and Desktop Ad-hoc reporting</title>
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		<title>Free Dashboards - MySQL, Oracle, GL, AR, PA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MySQL Documentor : Get quick answers to routine questions (Google like search for MySQL)
* Which table contains a column that begins or has &#8220;xyz&#8221; as part of column name?
* What are different tables that start with name &#8220;xyz&#8221;?
* Find all the views or procedures or Functions that end with name &#8220;xyz&#8221;?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/mysql-documentor.php"><strong>MySQL Documentor</strong></a><strong> :</strong> Get quick answers to routine questions (Google like search for MySQL)</p>
<p>* Which table contains a column that begins or has &#8220;xyz&#8221; as part of column name?<br />
* What are different tables that start with name &#8220;xyz&#8221;?<br />
* Find all the views or procedures or Functions that end with name &#8220;xyz&#8221;?<br />
* Which view definition is using a particular where condition?<br />
* Which views are referencing a particular table?<br />
* Search for any string in any procedure or function body</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/discoverer-dashboard.php"><strong>Oracle Discoverer Dashboard - Documentor</strong></a> :</p>
<p>Documenting your Discoverer Business Area, Folders and workbooks is a good idea because it helps you keep track of your BI inventory. Your reports and dashboards are part of the BI inventory and as an IT administrator, it is always a good practice to keep track of any changes to your BI inventory.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/drill-gl-subledgers.php"><strong>GL Dashboard for Oracle Apps</strong></a></p>
<p>This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a plug-n-play dashboard and can detect your set of books and chart of accounts structure. It will detect all of your charts and you can do analysis of your GL data by any financial segment or dimension.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/oracle-gl-validation.php"><strong>GL Validations for Oracle Apps Month End Closing Activity</strong></a></p>
<p>Description: This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a plug-n-play dashboard and can detect your set of books and chart of accounts structure. It will detect all of your charts and you can validate some of the critical information, more importantly when your periods are closed. You may use this dashboard during anytime of the period.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/account-receivables-ar-dashboard"><strong>Oracle AR Dashboard - Account Receivables Dashboard</strong></a></p>
<p>This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a plug-n-play dashboard and can detect your<br />
set of books and other AR meta-data.</p>
<p>* Count of Open Transactions by transaction type<br />
* Outstanding balance by transaction types<br />
* Drill into outstanding (open) transactions by customer<br />
* list of outstanding balance by customers<br />
* Top 10 customers<br />
* AR balance by aging buckets, 7 days, 2 weeks, 1 month, 180 days, year etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/project-intelligence.php"><strong>Project Dashboard - Oracle Project Intelligence</strong></a></p>
<p>This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a plug-n-play dashboard and has pre-built reports and drills defined.</p>
<p>* Project Details<br />
* Drill into Project work breakdown structure with Task level details<br />
* Drill into Cost Transaction Journal details<br />
* Drill into Revenue Journal details<br />
* Drill into Released Invoices<br />
* Drill into Expenditure Item Adjustments<br />
* Drill into Project Billing Status<br />
* Drill into Project Event Details<br />
* Drill into Project Members<br />
* Project Actuals, Revenue, Cost, Quantity (Raw Cost, Billable Cost, Burdened Cost, Billable Burdened Cost)<br />
* Invoice Exceptions year etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/sysadmin-intelligence.php"><strong>System Administration Dashboard - Oracle Apps Developer and DBA Dashboard</strong></a></p>
<p>This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a very handy and useful dashboard for Oracle Database administrators and System Administrators. DBA&#8217;s can customize it to include their own monitoring queries.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/dba-intelligence.php"><strong>Oracle DBA Dashboard</strong></a></p>
<p>This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a plug-n-play dashboard and connects to any oracle database.</p>
<p>* Top SQL query<br />
* CPU usage by session<br />
* Common internet and intranet links<br />
* Cursor usage by session<br />
* Database general information<br />
* User hit Ratios<br />
* Session Metrics</p>
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		<title>When to Use?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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A dashboard is a view displaying metrics and key information in one screen.
InfoCaptor dashboard definition is stored in an individual file with extension &#8220;.icv&#8221;
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<li>A dashboard is a view displaying metrics and key information in one screen.</li>
<li>InfoCaptor dashboard definition is stored in an individual file with extension &#8220;.icv&#8221;</li>
<li>Dashboard definition is nothing but a collection of SQL queries for each window and how each window should be displayed either as table, chart or parameter. It also contains how the query windows (portlets) are linked together namely as drills.</li>
<li>Each window in the dashboard is called as portlet. If the window displays tabular information it is called as &#8220;Qlet&#8221;, if it displays graph it is called as &#8220;Glet&#8221;. if it is a list of values or dashboard parameters then it is called as &#8220;Plet&#8221;. These are just short acronyms for easy reference, nothing much.</li>
<li>Each Portlet (Qlet and Glet) can have its own filters (defined using param. These filters are prompted to the user whenever you refresh the portlet. These filters are used when linking two portlets for passing values between them.</li>
<li>Each dashboard can have one or more list of values (Plet) and they are also known as Global parameters. These parameters or list of values can be referenced by all the portlets (Qlet and Glet).</li>
<li>You can launch InfoCaptor dashboard from your PC or web-server.</li>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-yellow03">Dashboard Prototyping</div>
<p>It is very easy to design, create and deploy dashboards using InfoCaptor. Hence it enables an end-user to visualize and create dashboards on their own with little SQL help. This becomes an effective way to communicate the exact dashboard layout and contents to the data-warehouse or the dashboard developers. You can create quick workable dashboard prototypes.</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-yellow03"><strong>Database Documentation</strong></div>
<p>With the new reporting engine, you can create accurate and in-depth documentation on your database objects in HTML and PDF. All you need is to create a dashboard against your database and create portlets that read the meta-data and link them using drills. Currently we have such dashboard for Oracle database and you will see other pre-built dashboards for MySQL, Sql Server, DB2 and others pretty soon.</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-yellow03"><strong>Discoverer Documentation</strong></div>
<p>If you are using Oracle Discoverer 10g, then we have the perfect dashboard pre-built for you. This dashboard shows you all of the EUL meta-data for e.g. Business Areas, Folders, Items, Joins, Workbooks, dependencies and much more. This dashboard is based on the same queries that Oracle provides in the form of eul5.eex. You need to point this dashboard against your EUL and generate the PDF or HTML doc in just one click. You no longer need to login to Discoverer Desktop and run the seeded EUL workbooks anymore - thats the old way of doing things!</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-blue03"><strong>Database Monitoring</strong></div>
<p>Are you a Database Administrator? If yes, then InfoCaptor is the well suited for your purpose. You no longer need to run the scripts from command line. Just collect all your important monitoring scrips and assemble them in the dashboard. Now, with just one dashboard you can easily monitor the important database metrics. You can use the same dashboard to check against multiple databases. For e.g You can open the Database monitoring dashboard against the development instance and re-open the dashboard against the QA or Production instance.</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-blue03"><strong>Nested Loop Reporting</strong></div>
<p>Lets say you have a master Query - &#8220;Get list of all employees&#8221; and there is a child query &#8220;Get Employee Expenses&#8221;. You can easily create master-child queries using drills and export the results to PDF or HTML. Internally, the reporting engine, first displays the list of Employees, then for each Employee it fires the child query and displays the child results in a nested loop fashion. You can keep defining child of a child queries without limits and during export the report engine takes care of all the child queries regardless of how deep they are. When it exports in PDF, it creates a hierarchical bookmark outline. Similarly when it exports to HTML it creates hyperlinks and outline menu structure.</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-blue03"><strong>ERP Setup Documentation</strong></div>
<p>You can assemble all queries that extract setup information from your database and put them in the dashboard. Once they are defined, you can create a snapshot of your setups with timestamp in HTML or PDF. You can use this as a reference document for any future changes in the setups and distribute to your users for better communication. We can help you generate any specific setup dashboards for Oracle Application modules like GL, AP, AR, FA, PO etc.</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-green03"><strong>Create e-books from blog database</strong></div>
<p>If you have a blog or online database where you post articles or tutorials then you can convert them into PDF briefing books or HTML static pages. For e.g you can create dashboard against your MySQL database which contains your articles. Once done, you can change the format and cosmetics of how your export should look and easily export to PDF e-books. If you need to create static version of your online articles then export them to html.</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-green03"><strong>BI meta-data and Lineage Documentation</strong></div>
<p>You can create specialized dashboards against your Business Intelligence metadata. You can create drills that represent the layer just below the presentation layer and create drills from the second layer to the database layer. With this kind of structure, you can create detailed reports that shows the End user object and determine what is the corresponding database object (table/view) and what is the column name at this level.</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-green03"><strong>Multi-database view</strong></div>
<p>Lets say, you have some information stored in MySql database and some personal information in MS-Access database. You can see information from both of these databases in one single page. This provides real-time access to all of your needed information. You can have information from Oracle, SQL-Server, DB2, MySQL and other JDBC compliant databases integrated in one dashboard. You can also drill from one database to another. There is no need for any kind of server or database configuration.</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-yellow03"><strong>SQL Query Repository</strong></div>
<p>Do You have lots of SQL queries stored at various locations in your Hard disk? If you are in the above situation and have tough time remembering where that critical query you had saved, then InfoCaptor dashboard can save you from that trouble.</p>
<p>With InfoCaptor you can create seperate dashboard files and store as many query definitions you may require in a single &#8220;.icv&#8221; file. So now the dashboard file acts as a Query repositry and since all your queries are stored in a single file you can easily transfer queries from one machine to another just by moving the single &#8220;.icv&#8221; file.</p>
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<p>Use it as a Common Front End for your Transaction and Datawarehouse system. This is another good use of this tool. Since InfoCaptor allows you to have multiple connections within the same dashboard, you can simply define one set of queries that point to the Transaction system and another set of queries that point to the Data Warehouse system, all within the same Dashboard file.</p>
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<p>Convert or extract your SQL queries into Formatted Excel output. When you export it maintains the colors and font settings. Similarly you can export to CSV, HTML and PDF. With PDF and HTML it maintains the cosmetics after exporting.</p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-blue03"><strong>Pre-Built Oracle Applications Dashboard</strong></div>
<p>To save you time and money, we have built sophisticated dashboards that are hot-pluggable. Simply download the dashboard files (*.icv) and launch them using InfoCaptor viewer, it connects to your own database and displays information from your own data. Some of the dashboards available are as below</p>
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<li>General Ledger Analytics Dashboard</li>
<li>Oracle Project Intelligence</li>
<li>Account Receivables Analytics</li>
<li>System Administration</li>
<li>Enterprise Planning and Budgeting</li>
<li>Discoverer Monitoring</li>
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<p><strong>The best part is these dashboards are free for all to use.</strong></p>
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<div class="sidebarbox-title-shading bg-red03">Complete Intelligence Connection and Continuity</div>
<p>This is something very unique about InfoCaptor. Since InfoCaptor can connect to a variety of database all at the same time it can provide continuous access to intelligence across different information hubs. For e.g lets say you are designing your Enterprise-Data-warehouse but as of now it is capturing only the critical financial information at a very aggregate level. Adding new fact tables or dimensions requires time and resources and it happens on its own data-warehousing speed.</p>
<p>So the interim solution is to run reports on data-warehouse and then seperately run reports on your operational system and then manually and visually connect them. This is simply not the right way. InfoCaptor has the ability to show information from your data-warehouse and at the same time and same location displays information from your operational transactions. This is the single most reason that uniquely distinguishes InfoCaptor from rest of the crowd.</p>
<p>You can drill from your Datawarehouse to the operational transaction details for e.g Drill from data in Oracle to information in your DB2 instance (Database and information hopping)</p>
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		<title>Oracle Apps Sysadmin Dashboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description: This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a very handy and useful dashboard for Oracle Database administrators and System Administrators. DBA&#8217;s can customize it to include their own monitoring queries.
    * Concurrent Manager Request Summary
    * Concurrent Manager Request Details
    * Users by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Description: This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a very handy and useful dashboard for Oracle Database administrators and System Administrators. DBA&#8217;s can customize it to include their own monitoring queries.</p>
<p>    * Concurrent Manager Request Summary<br />
    * Concurrent Manager Request Details<br />
    * Users by Responsibility. This is very important portlet and can be used for any SOX violations. You can query if any user has super user responsibility.<br />
    * List of users with more than acceptable number of responsibilities. For e.g Why should users have more than 20 responsibilities.<br />
    * Query Descriptive and Key Flexfields. This is another powerfull portlet. If you don&#8217;t know what are the flexfields defined on a particular table then this portlet will tell you all the descriptive and key flexfields on a table.<br />
    * Drill into Flexfield columns<br />
    * Drill into Flexfield columns segment values.</p>
<p><u><font color="blue"><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/download">Goto Download page and select &#8220;System Admin Dashboard&#8221;</a></font></u></p>
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		<title>Our Client is very happy - more business : Eric Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been using InfoCaptor for past 3 months. I cannot reveal my company information but I will talk few things about InfoCaptor. InfoCaptor as a Dashboarding application is very good but it lacks ad-hoc reporting. We are an outsourcing company and needed to win more business from our main client. We needed to impress [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have been using InfoCaptor for past 3 months. I cannot reveal my company information but I will talk few things about InfoCaptor. InfoCaptor as a Dashboarding application is very good but it lacks ad-hoc reporting. We are an outsourcing company and needed to win more business from our main client. We needed to impress our clients with some dashboard reports that would tell them how we are performing. Ofcourse our client does their own reporting but we wanted to differentiate from the rest of the vendors.</p>
<p>After intensive sessions with InfoCaptor team we managed to assemble and streamline all the measurable metrics data in a common database. InfoCaptor team offered generous help towards building the dashboards. I am happy to say that we finally had our demo done with our client and they were extremely pleased with the results.</p>
<p>We will be scheduling more demos of our dashboards with our other clients and once again thanks to the InfoCaptor team</p>
<p>Eric Jones<br />
CTO - (IT Outsourcing Firm)</p>
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		<title>Feedback</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please submit your feedback.
For example, you could write a brief explanation on how you are using InfoCaptor for your business.
NOTE: If you have your own blog or website and would like to review InfoCaptor please contact us at &#8220;infocaptor+review@gmail.com&#8221; with the link to the review page. We will publish the link on our website and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please submit your feedback.</p>
<p>For example, you could write a brief explanation on how you are using InfoCaptor for your business.</p>
<p>NOTE: If you have your own blog or website and would like to review InfoCaptor please contact us at &#8220;infocaptor+review@gmail.com&#8221; with the link to the review page. We will publish the link on our website and provide a free license key for your review effort.</p>
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		<title>InfoCaptor made it simple - Bob Jacobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My monthly routine is to spend 2-3 days on creating Excel reports and submitting it to my boss. Out of frustration I stumbled across InfoCaptor and approached Nilesh for help in getting a sample dashboard created. Having submitted all the raw data, InfoCaptor team came up with a nice looking dashboard that was much more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My monthly routine is to spend 2-3 days on creating Excel reports and submitting it to my boss. Out of frustration I stumbled across InfoCaptor and approached Nilesh for help in getting a sample dashboard created. Having submitted all the raw data, InfoCaptor team came up with a nice looking dashboard that was much more efficient with the use of parameters. For e.g I used to have seperate metrics for Year, Quarter and for each months. The supplied dashboard had parameters that allowed to switch between year,quarter or month view instantly.<br />
This is saving me a lot of time. The only thing remaining is to feed the dashboard directly from the ODBC source. Right now I just extract the raw data into Excel and let InfoCaptor feed from it but having direct ODBC link will give me real time views.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for a wonderful job and the product.</p>
<p>Bob Jacobs</p>
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		<title>Account Receivables - AR Dashboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Description: This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a plug-n-play dashboard and can detect your
set of books and other AR meta-data.

 Count of Open Transactions by transaction type
 Outstanding balance by transaction types
 Drill into outstanding (open) transactions by customer
 list of outstanding balance by customers
 Top 10 customers
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<b>Description:</b> This pre-built dashboard has the following portlets. This is a plug-n-play dashboard and can detect your<br />
set of books and other AR meta-data.</p>
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<li> Count of Open Transactions by transaction type
<li> Outstanding balance by transaction types
<li> Drill into outstanding (open) transactions by customer
<li> list of outstanding balance by customers
<li> Top 10 customers
<li> AR balance by aging buckets, 7 days, 2 weeks, 1 month, 180 days, year etc.
</ul>
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<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/download">Goto Download page and select &#8220;Account Receivables Dashboard&#8221;</a>
</p>
<p>
<b> Screenshots</b>
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<img src="http://www.infocaptor.com/img/ar_outstanding_balance_by_type_bucket.png" alt="ar_outstanding_balance_by_type_bucket.png">
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<img src="http://www.infocaptor.com/img/ar_top_10_outstanding_customer.png" alt="ar_top_10_outstanding_customer.png">
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<img src="http://www.infocaptor.com/img/ar_count_of_open_transactions.png" alt="ar_count_of_open_transactions.png">
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<img src="http://www.infocaptor.com/img/ar_drill_into_detail_outstanding_transactions.png" alt="ar_drill_into_detail_outstanding_transactions.png">
</div>
<div class="img-shadow">
<img src="http://www.infocaptor.com/img/ar_list_of_outstanding_balances_by_customer.png" alt="ar_list_of_outstanding_balances_by_customer.png">
</div>
<div class="img-shadow">
<p><img src="http://www.infocaptor.com/img/ar_distribution_of_trx_outstanding_balance.png" alt="ar_distribution_of_trx_outstanding_balance.png">
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		<title>Sample Reports</title>
		<link>http://www.infocaptor.com/sample-reports</link>
		<comments>http://www.infocaptor.com/sample-reports#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(BIS Views) Oracle Apps Business Intelligence Views

Inventory Folders 
Asset Folders 
BOM Folders 
Cash Management Folders 
WIP Folders 
Items Folders 
Cost Management Folders 
iStore Folders 


GL Folders 
Global Accounting Folders 
Payables Folders 
Receivables Folders 
Purchasing Folders 
Projects Folders 


Project Manufacturing Folders 
Process Manufacturing Folders 
Public Sector Budgeting Folders 
Shipping Folders 
Trade Management Folders 
Pricing Folders 
Planning [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>(BIS Views) Oracle Apps Business Intelligence Views</strong></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/inventory/business_areas1.html">Inventory Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/assets/business_areas1.html">Asset Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/bom/business_areas1.html">BOM Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/cash/business_areas1.html">Cash Management Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/wip/business_areas1.html">WIP Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/items/business_areas1.html">Items Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/cost_managment/business_areas1.html">Cost Management Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/istore/business_areas1.html">iStore Folders </a>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/gl/business_areas1.html">GL Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/global_accounting_engine/business_areas1.html">Global Accounting Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/payables/business_areas1.html">Payables Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/receivables/business_areas1.html">Receivables Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/purchasing/business_areas1.html">Purchasing Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/projects/business_areas1.html">Projects Folders </a>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/project_manufacturing/business_areas1.html">Project Manufacturing Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/process_manufacturing/business_areas1.html">Process Manufacturing Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/public_sector_budgeting/business_areas1.html">Public Sector Budgeting Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/shipping/business_areas1.html">Shipping Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/trade_management/business_areas1.html">Trade Management Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/pricing/business_areas1.html">Pricing Folders </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/planning/business_areas1.html">Planning Folders </a>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/inventory/business_areas_index.html">Inventory Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/assets/business_areas_index.html">Asset Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/bom/business_areas_index.html">BOM Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/cash/business_areas_index.html">Cash Management Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/wip/business_areas_index.html">WIP Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/items/business_areas_index.html">Items Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/cost_managment/business_areas_index.html">Cost Management Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/istore/business_areas_index.html">iStore Index </a>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/gl/business_areas_index.html">GL Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/global_accounting_engine/business_areas_index.html">Global Accounting Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/payables/business_areas_index.html">Payables Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/receivables/business_areas_index.html">Receivables Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/purchasing/business_areas_index.html">Purchasing Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/projects/business_areas_index.html">Projects Index </a>
</ul>
<ul class="indent">
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/project_manufacturing/business_areas_index.html">Project Manufacturing Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/process_manufacturing/business_areas_index.html">Process Manufacturing Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/public_sector_budgeting/business_areas_index.html">Public Sector Budgeting Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/shipping/business_areas_index.html">Shipping Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/trade_management/business_areas_index.html">Trade Management Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/pricing/business_areas_index.html">Pricing Index </a>
<li><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/bis_bas/planning/business_areas_index.html">Planning Index </a>
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		<title>Support - FAQ</title>
		<link>http://www.infocaptor.com/support-faq</link>
		<comments>http://www.infocaptor.com/support-faq#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do I connect to database?

You need the following information, you can get these parameter values from your Database Administrator or Sysadmin person.

Host - This is the server or the host name on which the database resides. If you are connecting to a database on your PC, then usually it
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="faq_question">How do I connect to database?</div>
<div id="faq_answer">
You need the following information, you can get these parameter values from your Database Administrator or Sysadmin person.</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Host -</b> This is the server or the host name on which the database resides. If you are connecting to a database on your PC, then usually it<br />
      is &#8220;localhost&#8221;. The typical values could be just an IP address such as 134.39.29.197 or a sub-domain e.g mydb.yourdomain.com etc</p>
<li><b>Port -</b> This is a numeric value of the port where the database listens. The default values for Oracle =1521, SQL Server=1433, MySQL=3306 etc.<br />
      Please use the actual value as it could be different from the default values</p>
<li><b>DB Name -</b> This is the actual database name
<li><b>User Name -</b>This is the user id through which you will access the database
<li><b>Password -</b>Corresponding password
<li><b>Driver -</b>Pick appropriate Driver value from the dropdown. The driver files for Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server and few other databases are already<br />
 placed in the  (\InfoCaptor\jre1.5.0_06\lib\ext) folder. Please make sure that for other databases, you get the appropriate JDBC drivers and<br />
 copy them in the above directory.
</ul>
</div>
<div class="faq_question">
I am unable to connect to our database<br />
 I downloaded an evaluation copy of InfoCaptor and cannot seem to connect it to our Database for testing.  I downloaded the JDBC driver and copied it to the appropriate ext folder ( \InfoCaptor\jre1.5.0_06\lib\ext)
</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Try the following options <br />
Re-Start InfoCaptor after you place the JDBC driver in the above directory. Does it connect now?<br />
Also,Copy the JDBC driver in the \InfoCaptor base directory, Restart InfoCaptor and see if it connects now</p>
<p>Alternatively, create a Microsoft DNS entry for your database using the ODBC administrator and use the steps mentioned in this article<br />
<a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/msaccess-dashboard.php">Connect using ODBC</a></p>
<p>-In the connection window, for the Driver field, select &#8216; ODBC (DSN) - sun.jdbc.odbc.jdbcOdbc.driver&#8217; </p>
<p>-Just enter the DSN name in the Database name field at the right-bottom</p>
<p>-Click on connect</p>
<p>If nothing, works, please send us a screenshot of the connection window with the error message at (infocaptor&#8221;AT&#8221;gmail.com)
</p></div>
<div class="faq_question">How do I connect to Excel Spreadsheet?</div>
<div class="faq_answer">
<ul>
<li>Pick &#8216;Excel File - sun.jdbc.odbc.jdbcOdbcDriver&#8217; from the Driver listing
<li>Give the complete path to the Excel file in the host field. For e.g if your Excel file is at &#8216;c:\files\myfinance.xls&#8217; then you would need<br />
  to type a value &#8216;c:\\files\\myfinance.xls&#8217; in the Host field on the connection window.<br />
  <img src="img/connect_to_excel.png"></p>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="faq_question">How do I query my Excel Spread-sheets?</div>
<div class="faq_answer">
Once you connect to Excel file using the above mentioned approach, you can query individual worksheets within the Excel file as if they<br />
are SQL tables.</p>
<p>For e.g if you had two sheets namely, Sheet1 and Sheet2, then you can write SQL query such as <br />
&#8220;SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]&#8221; </p>
<p> or<br />
&#8220;SELECT sum(balance) FROM [Sheet2$]&#8221; { where balance is a column name within worksheet Sheet2, The first row of any worksheet is assumed to be the column name }</p>
</div>
<div class="faq_question">How do I connect to Microsoft Access Database?</div>
<div class="faq_answer">
Create a Datasource in Microsoft ODBC administration screen [Control Panel->Administrative Tools ->Data Sources (ODBC) ]<br />
Select &#8216;MS Access - sun.jdbc.odbc.jdbcOdbcDriver&#8217; from the Driver list, enter the DataSource name (created above) in the &#8220;DB Name&#8221; field. Leave all the remaining fields blank.<br />
<a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/msaccess-dashboard.php">Check this article</a>
</div>
<div class="faq_question">How do I connect to Microsoft SQL Server?</div>
<div class="faq_answer">
<ul>
<li><b>Using ODBC -</b> Create a Datasource as mentioned above (MS Access) for SQL Server. Just enter the SQL Server Datasource name in the &#8220;DB Name&#8221; field and click connect
<li><b>Using jTDS driver -</b>Pick &#8220;SQLSERVER5 -&#8230; &#8221; option in the driver list and enter all the fields as below
<ul>
<li>Windows Authentication - Just enter the Host, Port and DB name (do not enter user and password fields)
<li>SQL Server Authentication - Enter all the fields including user and password
  </ul>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="faq_question">
What is the preferred method for sharing dashboards with co-workers such as senior management?
</div>
<div class="faq_answer">
There are few options for sharing dashboards with senior management.</p>
<p>For e.g, lets say someone develops the dashboards, these dashboards can be saved as individual files with extension of &#8220;.icv&#8221;. Let say you create a dashboard named &#8221; finance.icv&#8221; which displays financial information. Similarly you create few other dashboards such as &#8220;sales.icv&#8221; and &#8220;human_resource.icv&#8221;</p>
<p>These &#8220;*.icv&#8221; files can be stored in a common location from where everybody can access it. The people who need to view these dashboards, they can download InfoCaptor on their PC and from within InfoCaptor, they can open these dashboard files ( finance.icv, sales.icv or human_resource.icv&#8221;). When they open these files, the dashboard will show the real-time information. If they want to refresh the content, they can do it within InfoCaptor. From there onwards they can either export to Excel, CSV, PDF or Html.<br />
The above method is one of the simplest deployment. </p>
<p><b>Second Option</b> : You can get the server version of InfoCaptor and install it on a web-server. Then you create a .PHP file for each dashboard.<br />
This PHP file contains the location of the dashboard to fetch from and connection details. </p>
<p>For e.g lets say you installed/copied all the dashboard files<br />
at the below location http://www.yourdomain.com/dashboards/. Then you can create a PHP file for finance.icv as finance.php and you can launch the<br />
dashboard by just typing a URL http://www.yourdomain.com/dashboards/finance.php
</p>
</div>
<div class="faq_question">What are different types of portlets</div>
<div class="faq_answer">A dashboard contains one or more portlets. A portlet is a small window frame containing either tabular data or chart. Within InfoCaptor, every window frame in the dashboard is called as a portlet for simplicity and then each portlet is classified into either a Query portlet, Graph portlet, Button Portlet or Parameter portlet. For easy reference a Query portlet is called as Qlet, Graph portlet as Glet, Button portlet as Blet and parameter portlet as Plet.</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to link a parameter to the Chart or Graph</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Assuming you have a parameter already defined, open the Chart editor, right click in the text area, a list of parameters will appear. Select the desired parameter</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to create Bar Chart</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Click new Chart icon, select the Bar chart type in the drop down list. Make sure your query returns atleast 2 columns, first is a column of characters and second and remaining columns is numeric</div>
<div class="faq_question">Hor to create Pie Chart</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Click new Chart icon, select the pie chart type in the drop down list. Make sure your query returns only 2 columns, first is a column of characters and second column is numeric</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to align and organize the portlets</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Click on Edit menu, Select Show Grid, Now you can either use the alignment buttons on the toolbar or manually drag each portlet to align the portlets</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to link parameters to the portlets</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Create a Query Portlet and in the same way as you create dependent parameters or cascading parameters …..</div>
<div class="faq_question">What is a portlet, Qlet, Glet, Plet and Blet</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Each window in the dashboard is known as portlet. If the portlet displays only tabular data then it is called as Qlet, if it shows graphic data such as chart then it is known as Glet, if the window is meant to be containing parameters then it is called as Plet. If the window is a button that can call a database procedure then it is called as Blet</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to change the font of the parameter</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Edit the Parameter, click on the Font, change the settings and close the window</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to link parameters to each other</div>
<div class="faq_answer">First create a parent parameter as decribed in the creation of parameter portlet and then create a second parameter portlet. In the &#8220;WHERE Clause&#8221; of the second parameter embed the condition on the column with the parent parameter&#8217;s column value. <Give Detailed Example, and also a video tutorial></div>
<div class="faq_question">How to create dashboard</div>
<div class="faq_answer">From the menu -> goto Edit -> Create Dashboard<br />
From the toolbar -> click on the Dashboard Icon (if you hover your mouse on top of the icon it will tell you the description)<br />
A screen will popup with the title &#8220;&#8221;Enter Dashboard Name&#8221;". Provide a descriptive name for the dashboard and click &#8220;&#8221;OK&#8221;". Your dashboard is created now. You will need now need to add portlets like Query or Charts but before adding any portlets make sure you have already connected to the database</div>
<p>&#8221;</p>
<div class="faq_question">What is a Drill</div>
<div class="faq_answer">A drill is a child query which shows detail level information. </div>
<div class="faq_question">How to change the color of the parameters</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Invoke the Parameter editor. See the complete list of descriptions for each property</div>
<div class="faq_question">What is Executive Dashboard</div>
<div class="faq_answer">It’s a fancy term used by Executives. All Managers and above usually fall in the Executive category. Executive<br />
dashboards usually contains high level summary information such as Montly sales, Expenses etc</div>
<div class="faq_question">What is Non-Executive Dashboard</div>
<div class="faq_answer">It’s a non-fancy term not used by non-executives. Dashboards can be used by anybody. For e.g. your IT department could be using some dashboards to monitor different servers, Databases etc. You can design Executive and non-Executive dashboards using InfoCaptor</div>
<div class="faq_question">Do I need TnsNames in order to connect</div>
<div class="faq_answer">No. But if you have one, then InfoCaptor can use it to get all the database settings for your Oracle instance. This is applicable to only Oracle. Other databases do not use TnsNames</div>
<div class="faq_question">How do I call a database procedure within (through) the dashboard</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Once you create an object of type Blet, then simply add the database procedure call in the text area. This feature is not-documented anywhere but if your project really needs it then you could email it to us and we will send instructions.</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to change the color of columns in the portlet</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Right click on any column, select Column settings and change the different cosmetic options. You can always revert it to the Portlet level cosmetics by clicking on the Portlet editor and selecting the &#8216;All Columns&#8217; button.</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to drill into a Chart</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Right click on any column, select Column Settings, click on Drill settings, Click Add new drill, select the target Portlet which is a tabular or of chart type</div>
<div class="faq_question">How do you define a Drill</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Right click on any column, select column settings, click on Drill settings, Click Add new drill, select the target Portlet which is a tabular or of chart type. In the parameters select the mapping values, which is either a column or a constant value.</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to create Line Chart</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Same way as Bar chart</div>
<div class="faq_question">How to change the color of rows in the portlet</div>
<div class="faq_answer">This is also known as row banding. You can band a bunch of rows together. This is specified by the row frequency. There are two types of rows, row-1 and row-2 that dictates the format of alternating rows. Try the various combinations of row colors and intervals to get a hang of row formatting. </div>
<div class="faq_question">How do I create Parameter Portlet</div>
<div class="faq_answer">This is similar to creating a Query Portlet (Qlet) except the fact that in the Qlet you can have as many columns as needed where as with the parameters you can just have one displayable column and 5 (five) internal columns. Displayable column is the column visible to the user whereas the internal columns are not visible but used to pass values to the Query Portlet (Qlet) or Chart Portlet (Glet). For e.g. If you are displaying Employee parameter, then the display column could be the actual employee name whereas the internal column could be the employee number. You have the ability to define 5 internal columns, so you can pass employee number, department number where the employee works, manager&#8217;s employee number etc. You need not use all of the internal columns.<br />
In the text area just drop the From and Where clause of the Query that defines the parameter. So during run time the parameter Query is constructed using the column names from the top section and the from and where clause from the text area.</div>
<p>&#8221;</p>
<div class="faq_question">How do I create Chart Portlet</div>
<div class="faq_answer">This is similar to how you create a Query Portlet. Click on the Chart Editor icon, drop your SQL in the text area, Select the appropriate chart type in the drop down list from the top section of the Chart Editor and hit &#8220;Apply&#8221; button.</div>
<div class="faq_question">Can I create and sell Dashboards as my own product</div>
<div class="faq_answer">Yes, absolutely</div>
<div class="faq_question">What are the different options to deploy dashboards</div>
<div class="faq_answer">You can deploy it individually on your PC, or your enterprise web-server or on your USB drive and carry it wherever you need</div>
<div class="faq_question">How do I create Query portlet</div>
<div class="faq_answer">You need a SQL query to create a Query Portlet (Qlet). You may use any tool to construct and test the SQL query (e.g. Toad, SQL developer or any other visual tool). You may even use the InfoCaptor Sql editor available within the Qlet Editor. Click on the Query Portlet (Qlet) editor button either on the toolbar or goto Edit -> Create Qlet. A Qlet Editor dialog will popup. The Qlet Editor is divided into two sections, the top and bottom sections. The top sections contains all the different properties of the Qlet like the name, background color etc and the bottom section is where you would place your SQL query. Just drop your SQL query in this text area. You need to make sure that you are already connected to the database, if not then you will be warned. Select the connection from the second property &#8220;Connection&#8221;. You may change any of the other Qlet properties (link) or leave them as it is. Click on the apply button in the bottom section. If everything goes fine, you will see your first Query portlet in action. Now you can experiment changing differrent cosmetic properties on the top section in the Query Editor and see how it changes the Qlet appearance.</div>
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		<title>Create Dashboards using Microsoft Excel</title>
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Create Dashboards using Microsoft&#174; Excel&#174; Spreadsheet Software as Database
InfoCaptor is a Dashboard Designer that works with any database. It also works with Microsoft&#174; Excel&#174; spreadsheet software.
Each Microsoft&#174; Excel&#174; file is treated as a single Database and each worksheet within the file is treated as an individual table.
InfoCaptor [...]]]></description>
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<h2>Create Dashboards using Microsoft&reg; Excel&reg; Spreadsheet Software as Database</h2>
<p>InfoCaptor is a Dashboard Designer that works with any database. It also works with Microsoft&reg; Excel&reg; spreadsheet software.<br />
Each Microsoft&reg; Excel&reg; file is treated as a single Database and each worksheet within the file is treated as an individual table.<br />
InfoCaptor connects to Microsoft&reg; Excel&reg; file using ODBC connection and you just need to provide the path to the Excel File.</p>
<p>
<strong>Example Benefits : </strong><br />
Let us assume you as a business owner use <b>Microsoft&reg; Office Access&reg;</b> as the database to store your sales leads, you are using a database such as <b>Microsoft&reg; SQL Server&reg;</b> for your ERP application and use <b>Microsoft&reg; Excel&reg;</b> spreadsheet software to store your quick codes,personal information, etc.</p>
<p>
Now, you have a requirement to create a one page snapshot view from all these different Data sources. InfoCaptor connects to each of the above datasources and lets you create a single dashboard from all different databases. You can easily pull information from Microsoft&reg; Excel&reg;,Microsoft&reg; Access&reg; and Microsoft&reg; SQL Server&reg; database. </p>
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<strong>Benefits</strong></p>
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<li> One screen information - You can assemble all the critical information in just one screen.
<li> Information at a Glance - Present a wide number of different metrics in a single consolidated view.
<li> Real Time Information Tracking.
<li> Save Time and money by creating dashboards using InfoCaptor as it requires only SQL queries to create them and it does not require specially trained resources.
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<p><a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/dashboard/excel-dashboard-charts-gauges-tables-and-drills-reports">Steps to Create Dashboard</a>
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<p><strong>Price $297</strong></p>
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<p>To contact us<br />
Phone: 720-235-6344<br />
email : contact@infocaptor.com
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Microsoft and the Office logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.</p>
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