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Business Intelligence What Is Row-Level Security? Row-level security (RLS) is a BI access control that filters which data rows a user can see based on identity, role or… Technical Intelligent Automation What Is Screen Scraping? Screen scraping is the technique of extracting data from an application's rendered interface, such as web pages, desktop screens or terminal emulators,… Technical Consultancy What Is a Security Architecture Review? A security architecture review is a structured assessment of a system's security design before go-live, evaluating identity and access models, segregation of… Technical Intelligent Automation What Is a Selector Strategy? A selector strategy is the design approach for identifying user interface elements in a target application, choosing stable attributes, anchors and fallbacks… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Slowly Changing Dimension? A slowly changing dimension (SCD) is the design pattern for handling changes to dimension attributes over time, such as overwriting values (Type… Technical EPM & Hyperion What Is Smart View (Technical)? Smart View (technical) refers to how Oracle's Office add-in connects Excel, Word and PowerPoint to EPM, Essbase and Oracle Analytics through provider… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Snowflake Schema? A snowflake schema is a dimensional model in which dimension tables are normalised into related sub-tables, reducing redundancy but adding joins and… Technical Consultancy What Is a Solution Design Document? A solution design document (SDD) is the master technical specification of an ERP or EPM implementation that turns approved business requirements into… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Star Schema? A star schema is a dimensional data model in which a central fact table of numeric measures links directly to denormalised dimension… Technical EPM & Hyperion What Is a Substitution Variable? A substitution variable in Oracle EPM is a named, centrally maintained placeholder, such as current month, current year or forecast version, that… Technical Consultancy What Is a System Landscape Diagram? A system landscape diagram is a visual map of an enterprise's technology systems, showing each application, its role, the integrations and data… Technical Intelligent Automation What Is Task Mining? Task mining is the automated capture and analysis of user desktop activity, such as clicks, keystrokes, application switches and screen events, to… Technical Consultancy What Is Technical Debt (ERP/EPM)? Technical debt in ERP and EPM systems is the accumulated cost of expedient decisions such as undocumented customisations, hardcoded values, workarounds, orphaned… Technical Intelligent Automation What Is UiPath? UiPath is an enterprise automation platform with Studio for building automations, Orchestrator for deploying and managing robots, queues and credentials, attended and… Technical Intelligent Automation What Is a Webhook? A webhook is an event-driven HTTP callback in which a source system sends a request, usually an HTTP POST with event data,… Technical

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