Pondělí únor 12, 2007

Business Intelligence and Metrics in the Process of Software Globalization Testing

The title is equal to the title of my master thesis that I have officially begun writing in the summer of 2006. Maybe the title does not tell you much. But it contains the keywords that describe all the story behind it:

• Business Intelligence.

  It is the modern approach to corporate data analysis. I have studied a BI course in the school a year ago.

• Metrics.

  Metrics are used to form Key Performance Indicators that managers look at every day to see how their teams perform. The Globalization department I work at is trying to improve the metrics and I volunteered to join the Engineering Metrics team to work on the metrics that cover the engineering work we do in Globalization.

• Software Globalization Testing.

  Testing of the quality of software globalization (or software internationalization and localization) is the core process of our team.

I am writing the thesis under the leadership of doc. Ing. Jan Pour, CSc. for the University of Economics, Prague. The goal is to create an OLAP application that can be used to create metrics of our team's performance. My manager, Tomas Vesely, is supposed to be the opponent.

Although I have learned how to use the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services to use it for BI, I am working with Oracle 10g Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (for obvious reasons). I have succesfully installed it and now I am doing the first steps to learn how to use it. It is not as easy as I expected. Even though Oracle provides extensive resources on-line, it is hard to make them out.

I will probably look for a book at Amazon that covers this topic. Your recommendations for both on-line and off-line resources is welcome.

— II 12 2007, 11:15:19 odp. CET Permalink Comments [3]