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Pulse BI Wiki

This is the main page for the Pulse BI Wiki site.  Pulse BI is a Business Intelligence implementation that is aiming to provide cost effective and system independent way for colleges in the Consortium towards data driven culture.  This site contains following sections:

1. Technical Details.  This section describes the technical details of the implementation.
2. Installation.  This section describes the installation of the Pulse BI system.
3. Configuration.  This section describes the configuration of the data warehouse.
4. Data Marts.  This section describes the data marts provided in the implementation.

Technical Details

This section presents the technical details of the Pulse BI implementation.  Following areas are covered:

• Architecture.  This section describes the architecture of the Pulse BI implementation.
• File System.  This section describes the file system arrangement.
• Pulse​BI Program.  This section describes the Pulse BI program.
• Configuration.  This section describes the Pulse BI configuration.
• Data Warehouse.  This section describes the data warehouse structure for the Pulse BI implementation.
• Data Marts.  This section describes the data marts in the Pulse BI implementation.
• Dashboards.  This section describes the Pulse BI dashboards.

Installation

This section presents the installation of the Pulse BI system.  Following areas are covered:

• PulseBI Program.  Installation of the PulseBI program and it's components.
• Data Warehouse.  Setup of the Data Warehouse.
• Data Marts.  Setup of the Data Marts.
• Dashboards.  Setup of the Dashboards.

Configuration

This section describes the configuration of the data warehouse.  Following areas are covered:

• Settings.  This section describes to the generic settings.
• Marts.  This section describes the data mart configuration.
• Cubes.  This section describes the cube configuration.
• Cube Partitions.  This section describes cube partition configuration.
• Dimensions.  This section describes dimension configuration.
• Dimension Partitions.  This section describes dimension partition co​nfiguration.​
• Files.  This section describes staging file configuration.​​​
• Dictionary.  This section describes the data dictionary - attributes and measures.
• Lookups.  This section describes lookup value configuration.

Data Marts

This section presents the Data Marts in the Pulse BI implementation:

• Enrollment.  This section describes the Enrollment data mart.