Thursday, December 17, 2009

Oracle Business Intelligence Software Developer - Baltimore, Maryland (Job)

Oracle Business Intelligence Software Engineer: Baltimore, Maryland
Qualified Candidates Send Resumes to info<>msandtinc.com

Matrix Systems & Technologies, Inc. is seeking an Oracle Business Intelligence Software Engineer to perform:

  • - Complete BI lifecycle development from design of the Oracle BI architecture from data sourcing to the end target data structures and presentation of data through dashboards and reports
  • - Development of reporting framework within Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
  • - Define, Implement, and Setup of, Physical, Logical (business), and Presentation objects in OBI
  • - Create and modify Sales Analytics dashboards and reports
  • - Generate necessary templates for the required reports using MS tools as necessary
  • - Development of OBI Reports
  • - Development of ETL mappings
  • - Create custom reports and dashboards
  • - Perform unit testing of applications to ensure efficient execution and compliance with business and technical requirements
  • - Perform system tuning
  • - Review, release, and service pack notes issued by Oracle for OBI to identify changes to be applied
  • - Develop appropriate testing and implementation plans
  • - Work with business units to address reporting and analysis needs
  • - Participate in acceptance testing to ensure client/user needs are met
  • - Query management, query reformulation,query governing and prioritization
  • - Familiarity with Backroom presentation server infrastructure factors such as volatility, data size, number of users, number of business processes, nature of use, service level agreements
Qualifications:

* Four plus years of Oracle BI installation
* Five plus years experience developing Oracle BI Dashboards
* Six plus years using Oracle, Oracle Forms, and PLSQL.
* Six plus years experience developing applications with the following back-end databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Access, and DB2.
* Four plus years with at least two of the following connection tools: zConnect for IMS and DB2, Connect for DB2, ODBC and JDBC for Oracle and SQL Server, ADO for .NET using SQL
* Five plus years developing applications using Microsoft Active Directory

Familiarity with the Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit. - Kimball Lifecycle - Project Planning - Extract Transform Load (ETL) System Design & Development - Business Intelligence Application - Design & Development - Dimensional Modeling - Requirements Definition - Quality Assurance - MetaData - Presentation Server - Normalization - Slowly Changing Dimensions - OLAP - Usage Monitoring - Application Architecture Plan Outline and Model - Source Systems - RDBMS - Fact Tables - Keys - Granularity - Star Schema - Dimension Roles - Logical Models - Physical Data Models - Snowflake - Data Marts - Slowly Changing Dimensions - Data Cleansing - Data Security - BI Portal Interface - Analytic Applications - Dashboard Development - Direct Access Queries - Scorecards - Monitoring Activity - ANSI SQL 99 Support - Data Mining - Anomaly Detection - Testing and Verifying Applications - Deploying and Supporting Business Intelligence DW/BI Systems - Aggregates - Oracle Business Intelligence - Oracle Data Warehouse - Oracle Aggregation Navigation - Oracle Materialized Views - Oracle Materialized Views - Securing, Partitioning, and Indexing Oracle Tables.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Plans to Establish $235 Million Health IT “Beacon Communities” Grant

HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Plans to Establish Health IT “Beacon Communities”

HHS Health IT Grant

$235 million set aside to fund nationwide Beacon Community Program

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, HHS’ National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced today plans to make available $235 million to support an innovative Beacon Community Program. The program will work to accelerate and demonstrate the ability of health information technology to transform local health care systems, and improve the lives of Americans and the performance of the health care providers who serve them. The Beacon Community Program will include $220 million in grants to build and strengthen health IT infrastructure and health information exchange capabilities, including strong privacy and security measures for data exchange, within 15 communities. An additional $15 million will be provided for technical assistance to the communities and to evaluate the success of the program.

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