Armstrong-Smith Consulting is
the expert when it comes to data warehouses and business
intelligence initiatives built around the Oracle Standard Edition
(Oracle Discoverer, Oracle Warehouse Builder, and Oracle Portal) suite of tools. We have extensive knowledge of E-Business Suite and
data warehousing in general, so if you are considering putting
together a business intelligence offering let us help you. We are
also experts in the SunGard Higher Education ODS and are partnered
with SungardHE to deliver Discoverer training to their clients.
Training Courses
Armstrong-Smith Consulting is
among the leading training organizations for Oracle Discoverer. We
offer standard and customized training for both End User and
Administration training.
Click here
for a full agenda
If you have never implemented Discoverer, are using
one of the older versions, or simply want to see what all the hype
is about, give us a call. You will not be disappointed, no one
ever is. Our training is always top rated and our instructors are
second to none.
If you have
us teach your end user class, your users will
learn how to build effective workbooks, the right way, the first
time. If you have
us teach your administrators, they will learn how to build the most-efficient
business areas.
Here at
Armstrong-Smith Consulting we have a simple maxim -
What starts
right stays right.
Customized Training
Are you interested in having
customized training based on
your own system. We offer this training on any version
of Discoverer. So whether you have the latest 10.1.2; are still
using 4i; or have anything in between, we can teach it. Call us on
931-284-4284 or
contact us
for more information.
Discoverer
Evaluation
Are you having trouble with your
Discoverer implementation? Are you struggling with knowing where to
begin? If so, contact us and arrange for an evaluation of your
current Discoverer implementation. One of our experts will visit you
and conduct an in-depth analysis and evaluation; then we will assist you in
developing a strategic plan for moving ahead.
Remote Discoverer
Support
Are you a small organization and
find that you cannot afford to hire a full-time Discoverer
administrator and / or report writer? Let us solve your
problem. We offer a full remote support service for
organizations just like you.
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We can maintain and
support your Discoverer setup for you
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We can write all of your
workbooks
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We can even set up
your Discoverer installation
If you are interested
please call us or send an email to:
remote-support@learndiscoverer.com
Discoverer Blog
We run a blog and regularly update
it with
important and sometimes not so important information from the world of
Discoverer and Business Intelligence. If you want to stay informed
about our latest blog postings, click this link
and subscribe to our feed.
Some of our recent blog postings
of significance to Discoverer are:
Oracle Discoverer 10g Handbook
We are the authors
of the official Oracle Discoverer 10g Handbook.
Discoverer News and Information
This area, intended to be a source of help to Discoverer administrators and end-users alike, is dedicated to furthering your knowledge of
Oracle Discoverer. We cover Desktop, Plus,
Viewer and the Administrator editions, and of course the use of
Discoverer Portlets within the Oracle Portal.
Latest
We have just posted a new white
paper on our download page to help you size your Discoverer server.
Michael has also had a paper on manipulating dates accepted for the
ODTUG 2008 conference. More information to follow soon.
Latest
We have launched a new service
for prospective authors of Discoverer, Oracle Warehouse Builder and
Business Intelligence white papers, presentations and documents.
Click here to
take a look
Important
Oracle announce revised roadmap for Discoverer (link)
Third party scheduling and emailing using
febooti
Past News
Our presentation (link)
A first View of Discoverer 10g was awarded
Best Presentation Content and Topic for ODTUG 2005 at the 2006
conference held in Washington DC.
Click here
to download the presentation.
Michael operates a dedicated
Discoverer Blog where you will find lots of
interesting topics and discussions, including additional commentary
on our 10g Handbook.
Michael presented at the SunGard
Higher Education Summit conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in March 2007
and at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference in Daytona Beach, Florida in June
2007.
Two papers were accepted for ODTUG, both of which can be
downloaded from our downloads page:
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Securing private
information - VPDs and more, and
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Automated scheduling and
E-mailing from within Discoverer
Click here to download
these and previous conference presentations and white papers
SunGard Higher Education
Armstrong-Smith Consulting is partnered (link) with
SunGard
Higher Education to provide Discoverer training and consultancy to
SunGard Higher Education's ODS and EDW user base. To help SunGard Higher Education's
clients we have developed a complete Oracle Discoverer
training package for the ODS (Operational Data Store) and delivered training
to over 25 institutions. Our feedback is that the training is excellent.
Are you a higher education
institution using the SunGard Higher Education ODS? Are you using Oracle
Discoverer? If the answer to both of these is Yes, let us teach you how to put it all together.
For further information please contact either your SunGard Higher Education
Account Manager or
send an email to us.
InfoCaptor
Armstrong-Smith Consulting is
also partnered (link)
with
InfoCaptor
to bring you access to a superb dashboard tool that can
revolutionize the way you see your Discoverer metadata. We have
been using it in-house and can endorse this tool's ability to
make available your Discoverer metadata to a wider audience in a
format that you'll love.
With
InfoCaptor
you have the ability to generate CSV, Excel, HTML and PDF output
of your data. You will love this tool - and it's affordable too.
For an HTML example of the output from our own database,
click here. To purchase or to find out more
information,
click here
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