Today, hiSoft Training have already begun to learn the Testing course. It is the training teach by QAI ( Quality Assurance Institute). I feel it is very rich in content and get the big harvest after the course. Because that is the first standard organization and I can touch that is enough. I just hope I can find some time to listen to all the courses. I just hope.

In the evening, on my way home, I walk by a small CD shop, and look around in it, just buy a CD of Vivian-"Strong love" maybe, I just translate the name by myself. That is my life-full of the job,technology,music and study. C'est la vie.

　　

　　今天很累,用一天把General View to Oracle EBS培训课程全部讲完了,EBS所有的模块．昨天晚上开始准备，用了５个小时的样子，一直熬夜到了２点多，因为毕竟自己不是EBS出身的，不过最后效果还蛮好的，我比较欣慰，而且大家都收获很大．顺便考验了一下自己的学习能力．不过当讲完的时候，回到办公室，觉得真的很累，很累，很像休息．

　　回家了，天开始热了，吃饭的时候看到有演＂我们无法安置的青春＂，突然喜欢上了这样的一种苍凉，以及充实过后的孤独．

　　电视里最近在热潮中日关系,不过我还是觉得中国的"软实力"被高估了,就像FT专栏作家Guy de Jonquieres预言的那样：真正有效的软实力，其基础是内在诱人的国家理念、原则和价值。尽管布什政府已经肆意地浪费了那些资产，但我猜，如果有选择的机会，多数亚洲人仍将选择失去光泽的美国梦，而非当代中国严厉的约束、无情的唯物主义和精神贫乏。

　　今天晚上，应该没人陪我去喝咖啡．不过，我的心真的应该好好的休息一下了，找个地方先放放吧．

 

 

 

昨天,Mr Yang Training,给我们讲述Portal机制的时候，讲述到了SOA的思想，不过我觉得做IT做到这个层次上，已经开始有些哲学的思考了，比如，最早的面向程序，就好比单个细胞，一个一个的编写；后来的面向结构，就开始写组织了；再后来的面向对象，那就是开始写一个人的器官，比如手啊，脚啊什么的；再后来的面向组件，那就是写了一大堆标准化的器官，然后再开始拼构成人；现在就是面向服务，那不是就是先问问你需要什么样的效用，我就用什么样的组织给你实现么？看来这个是一个很大的飞跃，技术从关注程序本身，已经开始拥有自由，可以拥抱商业流程了，这是一个不错的改变，只是，我感觉Oracle在SOA上的动作稍微慢了些，呵呵，这个也跟Oracle一贯保持稳健增长的作风是分不开的．

 

现在SOA现在大多都是用的Web Service，不过现在国际技术标准组织有得忙了，因为当全球各大厂商都开始为一种标准怒吼的时候，那么离它走向成熟也不远了．但愿在我有生之年能够赶上它的Fashion.我现在先作个比较感性的预言：在20之后，应该说像ERP这样的系统也可以实现个人用户化了，或则家庭版，那么世界除了机器以外，软件将无处不在！

 

PS: 附上SOA与标准化组织

W3C:http://www.w3c.org

OASIS:http://www.oasis-open.org

WS-I:http://www.ws-i.org

 

有时间的时候我也去这里发发杂言，没准又封一个Expert之类的，呵呵．

I started to research the Oracle BI EE.There were a lot of areas where things were similar in the way you used them e.g. creating reports with drag-and-dropping objects into report or onto dashboards but as a whole I found that Oracle BI EE products have a better look and have a logical work-flow e.g. first create all required “reports” in the Answers area and then drag-drop them into the Dashboards. They spent very little time demonstrating the Cognos Dashboard and what was shown was nowhere near that of BI EE Dashboards. The BI EE Dashboards have a more professional look to them. BI EE gives the users the ability to create there own personal Dashboards by dragging pre-created reports onto their Dashboard area, allowing users to decide for themselves which reports they want displayed in their dashboard.

 
Cognos Dashboard (this was the best image I could find on internet)

 
Oracle dashboard

Cognos has two methods of create reports, Cognos Query Studio and Report Studio. Differences begin that Report Studio has the ability to create more complex reports and according to Cognos, should only be used by trained personal with SQL knowledge. The demonstration of the tool highlighted its complexity and the requirement of SQL knowledge. Oracle BI EE also has two report creating tools, Answers for the basic reports and BI Publisher (previously XML Publisher) for the more complex pixel perfect type reports. The nice thing about BI Publisher is that you don’t need SQL knowledge to use it, of coarse if you want to create extremely complex queries, it’s also possible with direct queries to the database(s) but if you need to write SQL to retrieve your required data you should be asking yourself if you shouldn’t change you metadata layer instead. BI EE has the possibility to query the database tables direct but for security reasons this is by default disabled.

I thinked that there would be a lot of SOA interaction demonstrated but the only SOA that was discussed was that a report could use WSDL to get info, such as a weather report for a particular city. I was hoping to see the ability of trigger business processes and also the ability to use the Cognos off-line, things that are possible in BI EE.  It was very evident that Cognos relies heavily on Microsoft products and is therefore not able to be used with open Office or other Linux based products.

Cognos 8 did have some things that I liked: they had a Google search page with which you could search for particular report. Another useful item was that you could place reports in Word, Excel and Power Point.

In the World, Cognos has had difficulty in getting the product into the market due to Hyperion’s strength but have started gaining market share in the past two years. Cognos sees the Hyperion takeover by Oracle as an opportunity to gain more clients, there reasoning being that Oracle will bundle Hyperion with other Oracle products and that current Hyperion customers don’t want to be forced to take other Oracle products when all they want is only the Hyperion product. We will have to wait to see how Oracle intends marketing the Hyperion product and see if it causes current Hyperion customers to change to other products.

Please realize that these are my opinions of the products and is based on my recent experimentation with Oracle BI EE products and the presentation given by Cognos Netherlands which I assume they would have demonstrated the best aspects of their product (even though their demo data did not always match up when drilling down).

今天,开始为期一个星期的OFSA的培训,整个培训的TRAINING AGENDA如下:

April	2(Monday)	3(Tuesday)	4(Wednesday)	5(Thursday)	6(Friday)
Topic	Architecture	FTP	PA	ALM	Practice Q & A
9:00-10:30	OFSA Architecture Introduction (Instructor: Changmao)	FTP Concept and Methods Introduction (Instructor: Changmao)	PA Concept and Methods Introduction (Instructor: Changmao)	ALM Concept and Methods Introduction (Instructor: Changmao)	Practice
10:45-12:00	OFSA Cash Flow Introduction (Instructor: Baozhu)	FTP Functions Introduction (Instructor: Changmao)	PA Functions Introduction (Instructor: Baozhu)	ALM Functions Introduction (Instructor: Baozhu)	Q & A
午饭
14:00-15:15	OFSA Data Admin and Tables      (Instructor: Changmao)	FTP Functions Introduction (Instructor: Changmao)	PA Functions Introduction (Instructor: Baozhu)	ALM Functions Introduction (Instructor: Baozhu)
15:30-17:00	OFSA Reports (Instructor: Changmao)	FTP Functions Introduction (Instructor: Changmao)	PA Functions Introduction (Instructor: Baozhu)	ALM Functions Introduction (Instructor: Baozhu)
17:00-17:30	Case study  (Instructor: Changmao)	Case study  (Instructor: Baozhu)	Case study  (Instructor: Changmao)	Case study  (Instructor: Changmao)