For the past two years I have been wading through the waters of Business Intelligence or BI as it is commonly referred as. I have been developing universes (a meta layer that binds to tables and columns, this is the short definition) and reports as well as modeling data for analytical purposes. My tool set is pretty standard as my company has invested in Oracle as the database and Business Objects XI , also known as BOXI, as the BI analytics tool.

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