by Chris Frost | Sep 20, 2019 | Business Intelligence
In Fall 2018, I taught a Salesforce / Oracle internship class at Texas A&M-Commerce. For three years, we worked with the Computer Science and Business Analytics departments on this partnership but this was the first to use Salesforce. After a selective admission...
by Chris Frost | Oct 16, 2018 | Business Intelligence
Over the weekend, we held our second hack-a-thon at Texas A&M-Commerce. This semester, we have been working with the Computer Science and Business Analytics departments to expose graduate students to Salesforce administration and reporting. This session, the emphasis shifted from custom fields and data elements over to data imports and exports. It was great to see young people so enthusiastic about learning and experimenting with Salesforce.
by cfrost | Nov 21, 2013 | Business Intelligence
As promised, I am posting slides of my Business Intelligence on a Budget presentation from last week’s Texas Community College Technology Forum. I wanted to thank the people who stayed to hear me demonstrate some of our various tools and go over our lessons...
by Chris Frost | Aug 28, 2013 | Business Intelligence
I’m excited to announce that my presentation proposal called Business Intelligence on a Budget was approved for this year’s Texas Community College Technical Conference. The event is sponsored by the Center for Digital Education and more details are...
by Chris Frost | Feb 4, 2013 | Business Intelligence
Master Data Management (MDM) Serves as the authoritative source for applications and analytics Have to have a way to track all the different process Ideal – Application integration Single Version of all Entities Must be owned by each Business Unit Must have versioning...
by Chris Frost | Jan 28, 2013 | Business Intelligence
Dimensional Model – Contains facts and dimensions. The level of detail in the fact table is called the grain Types of Schemas Fact tables are joined to related dimensions, called a star schema Dimensions that relate to multiple fact tables, should be conformed...
