Recruitment

USA MAP and Abbreviations

Time Zone
 State/Possession Abbreviation
ALABAMA AL
ALASKA AK
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ARIZONA AZ
ARKANSAS AR
CALIFORNIA CA
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DC
FLORIDA FL
GEORGIA GA
HAWAII HI
IDAHO ID
ILLINOIS IL
INDIANA IN
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KANSAS KS
KENTUCKY KY
LOUISIANA LA
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MICHIGAN MI
MINNESOTA MN
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MISSOURI MO
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NEVADA NV
NEW HAMPSHIRE NH
NEW JERSEY NJ
NEW MEXICO NM
NEW YORK NY
NORTH CAROLINA NC
NORTH DAKOTA ND
OHIO OH
OKLAHOMA OK
OREGON OR
PENNSYLVANIA PA
RHODE ISLAND RI
SOUTH CAROLINA SC
SOUTH DAKOTA SD
TENNESSEE TN
TEXAS TX
UTAH UT
WEST VIRGINIA WV
WISCONSIN WI
WYOMING WY
VERMONT VT
VIRGINIA VA
WASHINGTON WA
 INS—IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
• The immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was a part of the United States Department
of Justice, which used to handle legal and illegal immigration and naturalization.

• Most of its functions have now been divided into two Bureaus:-

• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) - handling immigration processing and
citizenship services. USCIS is responsible for processing different kind of Visas (H1B, L1, H4,
F1, F2, B1, B2 with extension etc.) They are responsible for issuing Employment Authorization
Documents, granting Lawful Permanent Resident Status (getting your “Green Card”), and
granting Citizenship.

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – Assists USCIS in processing different Visas. Check
the person’s authenticity with own database. Without Approval from DHS, USCIS is not able
to issue any kind of visas. Handling border and enforcement activities of the INS.

• To Enter in US three things required. (For H1b)

 Passport with Visa
 H1B Approval
 I-94 Form
 After arrival, Social Security No. Should be obtained from Social Security Department.
•
 DIFFERENT KIND OF VISAS

• H1B- Work Visa (Work Authorization). Valid for 3 years extendable to another 3 yrs, total 6
yrs.
• H4- DEPENDENT VISA (No work Authorization). For H1B Dependent. Valid for 3 yrs
extendable to another 3 yrs.
• B1- Business Visa (No work Authorization). Valid for 6 months extendable to another six
months, total 1 yr.
• B2- Visitors Visa (No work Authorization). Valid for 6 months and extendable to another 6
months.
• L1- Intra-company transferee Managerial Visa. (Work Authorization). Valid for 5 yrs. L1 visa
allows companies operating both in the US and abroad to transfer certain classes of classes of
employee from its foreign operations to the USA operations for up to 7 years. The employee
must have worked for a subsidiary, parent, affiliate or branch offices of your US Company
outside of the US for at least one year out of the last three years.
• L2- L1 dependent visa. Valid for 5 yrs. After 3 months they can apply for Employment
Authorization Document (EAD).
• F1- Study Visa/Student Visa. Valid for 2 yrs. can be extended yearly till the completion of
studies. Work Authorization (EAD/OPT- Optional Permit to Work).
• J1- Student Visa. Depend on level of study. Valid for 2 yrs can be extended yearly till the
completion of studies. Work Authorization
• TN Visa- For CANADIAN Citizens. Depend on work time. Max 5 yrs.
• Green Cards: Valid for 10 yrs. Work authorization. Employment based GC.
 Processes to get Employment based GC

• Through RIR- Reduction in Recruitment

• PERM: PERM is the new labor certification system that will allow employers to file labor
certifications (the pre-requite for most employment based Green Cards) online. The
employers will not need to submit supporting documentation with the cases and will instead
retain the documents for inspection in case of an audit.

• PERM Process:
 An application for an employment based Green Card is made to the Bureau of
Citizenship and immigration Services (CIS, formerly the INS) on a Form I-140.

Three stages involved in this Process:-

 Approval from department of Labor- LCA Approval
 I-140 – Immigrant petition
 I-485 – Adjustment of Status from H1B, B1 to permanent residency
 IRS- INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICES
(Income tax department of US)
 If a person has annual salary - $90,000, following taxes he has to pay to government
 Federal Tax - – 12-22%
 State tax – 8%
 Social Security – 10-15%
 Medicine Tax – 5%
 CA- SDI/SUI- 0.05% (only in California)

PS: If salaries of two persons are same and if one person has more no. of dependents as
compare to second than first will pay less tax than second one.

• # Social Security Tax- Paid by all including H1B but H1b can only avail the benefits after
becoming a Green Card Holder. GC Holder can ask for remuneration from Social Security
Department in case of being temporarily handicapped or permanent handicapped, in case of
pregnancy or in case of jobless.
 RECRUITING PROCESS FLOW

CLIENT

Finalized Resumes and Account/ Sales Manager

then submitted to Client (AM/SM/BDM)
with a brief summary of
Experience/ skills with
expected hourly rate or
annual salary

A.M Screens the

requirement and sends to
respective recruiters with a
A.M. then call up C.C. to Recruiting Head
consultants & screen
them on their
parameters and finalize
resume Resume Search
•DICE/Monster
•Sub Vendors
Finalized Resumes then (Broadcasting)
forwarded to Account •Own Database
Manager CC to •Hot List
Reporting Manager

Screening Based on
•Resume
•Telephone Interview (1) (1). Technical Skills,
•Availability Communications
•Rate Caps (2) skills, experience
(2). Rate confirmation
from the Employer in
case of H1B from
consultant in case of
GC/citizen
 US TAX TERMS

• 1099
• W2
• Corp-to Corp
 End
Client

CAP/HCL/Wipro/TC Implementer

ACCOUNT MANAGER/RECRUITER Our Company

Employees 1099 Contractors Corp. To Corp. W-2 Contractors

H1B/ GC/ Citizen/ EAD/ GC/ Citizen/ EAD/ OPT/ Own H1B/ GC/ EAD/ GC/ Citizen/ EAD/ OPT/
TN TN OPT/ TN of another TN
Corp.

Offer Letter Contract b/w & Contract between Offer letter with W-2
Independent Contractor Corporation & other Hourly rate mentioned
(1099 Contract) Corp. (Corp. to Corp.
contract)

Salary Twice a month Invoicing Monthly Invoicing Monthly Twice a month Hourly
Payment terms- Net 30 Payment Net 30 days basis
days (30 net 30)

1-15th-22nd of month 1-30th-30th of next 1-30th-30th of next 1-15th-22nd of month

st th
15-31 -7 of next month month month 15-31st-7th of next month

We deduct the taxes No Tax deduction. No Tax Deduction We deduct the taxes
Consultant himself pays
the taxes
 Standard Hierarchy and Responsibilities in any organization

Delivery Manager

Client Management ,Budgets study, ensure the deadline ,communicating with

the clients

Practice Head

Managing the technology , to do the resource management , to track the

resource pool, resource plan.

Program Manager/Project manager

Managing multiple projects & team managers

Project Manager (PM)

More of management role and designing the projects(Architect is also in the

same level)
Team Lead (TL)

Team Management, Assessing the responsibilities, Distribution of work.

Senior Software Engineer (SSE)

Development and Critical work in the projects

Software Engineer(SE) (or) Jr. Developer

Completely in coding/programming and development

 Methodology
Step by Step approach
PHASE MAJOR DELIVERABLES PHASE AVG

Project Project Planning, Procedures, 1 Month Avg

Prep Technical Requirements, Kickoff

Business Team Training, Develop System 1–3 Month Avg

Blueprint Environment, Business Process Design

Realization Configuration, Develop System 2-6 Month Avg

Management, Technical Builds,
Reports, Authorizations,
Documentation, Testing

Final Prep End-user training, System 1-2 Month Avg

management, cutover
planning/implementation

Go-Live Go-live, Productive system support 1 Month Avg

 Skill Set

JAVA FRONT END DEVELOPER: java Web Development with AJAX, JSP and JSF / Struts
Devsphere develops robust and secure Java Web Applications, using AJAX, XHTML, XML, DOM,
CSS, JavaScript, JSP, JSF, JSTL, Struts, Spring, Hibernate and EJB3.

1. VB Developer:
Skill Set: VB 6.0, MS/SQL Server 7.0 or Oracle 8.0, ODBC, ADO, RDO, DAO, Active- X Development,
OLE, COM/DCOM, Crystal Report Writer (this skill is more for client/server application
development), Windows NT.

2.ASP Developer:
Skill Set: ASP, VB6.0, VB Script, Visual Interdev, IIS 4.0 or any Web Server, HTML/DHTML, XML,
vPOS or Cybercash, MS/SQL Server 7.0 or Oracle 8.0, ODBC, ADO,RDO, DAO, Active-x
Development, OLE, COM/DCOM, Crystal Report Writer, Windows NT/95 (this skill is more for
web/ internet application development)

3.Java Developer:
Skill Set: Java, Javascript, RMI, CORBA, Oracle 8 or SQL Server 7.0, IIS 4>) or any Web Server,
HTML/DHTML, XML, vPOS or Cybercash, UML or Booch or Rambaugh Object oriented
methodology, Servlets (this skill is more for web/ internet application development. There
are many new tools like Cold Fusion, Javabeans, Java Swing, and Broadvision etc.)
 Skill Set ….
4. VC++ Developer
Skill Set: VC++6.0, MFC, ATL, ODBC< Active-X Development, DLL Development,
Rational Rose, UML or Booch Or Rambaugh object oriented methodology,
COM/DCOm or Corba (Visibroker/ Orbix), HTML/DHTML, Javascript, Windows
NT/95.

5.C++ Developer:
Skill Set: UNIX, C++, DB-LIB/ SYBASE or Oracle 8.x/ OCI or MS SQL Server 7.0, UML or
Booch Or Rambaugh object oriented methodology, X-motif, CORBA
(Visibroker/Orbix)

6. Oracle Front End Developer:

Skill Set: Oracle designer 2000, Forms5.0, Reports 3.0, PL/SQL, SQL*PLUS, Pro*C, SQL*
Loader, C, OCI, Windows NT or Unix.( Some consultant use ERWIN, another case
tool like Designer 2000)
 Skill Set….

7. Oracle Back End Developer:

Skill Set: Oracle 8.0, Stored Procedures, Database Triggers, Pro*C, PL/SQL,
C/C++, Unix or NT (for consultsnts stronger in back end development)

8. Progress Developer
Skill Set: Progress 8, MFG-PRO, Customization experience required.

9. VAX/VMS Developer:
Skill Set: VAX/VMS, DCL, FORTRAN or C, Lexical functions, FDL, RMS,
RDB or Oracle, DECFORMS, FMS, Indexed files.
 Skill Set…

10. MANMAN Developer

Skill Set: HP 3000, MPE/XL, Fortran or COBOL, IMAGE, MANMAN or
Powerhouse/ Cognos products like QTP, Query etc.

11. Oracle Apps. Technical Consultant

Skill Set: Oracle Applications 10.6/10.7/10.SC/11, Financials or manufacturing
modules, Order Entry, AOL, Customization, Forms 5/4.5/3/2.3, Reports
3/2.5/1/1, Pro*C, PL/SQL, Unix or NT/95
12. QA TESTER:
Skill Set: Test Scripts, Test Plans, Test Cases, (Winrunner, Stress test using
Loadrunner, Test Director, TSL) or SQA Suite (SQA Manager, SQA Robot, SQA
Basic) or QA Partner and Silk, Black box testing (where only functionality is
tested), white box testing (where coding is also tested and the tester must
know the development environment like language/operating system/database
in which application is developed), ISO 9001

13. ASIC Designer or ASIC Verification Engineer

Skill Set: ASICs Verilog XL for behavior modeling, synopsys tools for synthesis,
cadence and Verilog tools for layout tools for layout designs, SPICE.(we are not
looking for CAD/CAM designers)
14. Embedded Consultant:
Skill Set: RTOS (pSOS or VxWorks), C, Assembly, Embedded systems

15. Unix Internals Consultant

Skill Set: Unix internal or NT services, device drivers , C,C++, Assembly

16. Telecom Consultant

Skill Set: Telecom/Switching, Exchange data (Routing/Billing/Customer), C,
C++, VxWorks/Tornado, RTOs or Unix or NT. Hardware/Software
platform architecture for voice/data communications like Lucent
switching products, voice/data communications, TCP/IP.
17. Oracle DBA-
Skill Set: Oracle DBA, SQL*DBA, SQL Loader, Export/Import, Backup and
recovery, performance tuning, database sizing,database scripts,
Application Tuning, SQL, SQL*Plus, DetectI/O Problems, I/O tuning,
UNIX resource consumption detecting and tuning, using SGA buffers to
run SQL faster, Oracle 8 partitioning, Avoiding excessive rollback
generation.
18. HP-UX Admin-
Skill Set: HP-UX Admin., Shell Scripts, HP overview, SAM, Awk, Grep, Cron,
Any otherUnix utilities, web/e-mail servers.

19. SUN Solaris Admin:

Skill Set: Solaris Admin, Shell Scripts, Sun Net managaer tools, Awk, Grep,
Cron, Any other Unix utilities, web/e-mail servers.
20. Windows NT Admin
Skill Set: Windows NT Admin, NT 4.0 server, DNS, TCP/IP, PDC/BDC, Trusted domains,
Proxy domains, Proxy Server, Exchange Server, Exchange server, IIS web server, E-
mail server, RAS, DHCP,VPN, Routers

21. LAN WAN Engineer

Skill Set: LAN Engineers, LAN layout, Design, Cabling, Cisco/Bay Networks Routers
configuration, Hubs, Switches, Internet connectivity, VPN, some operating sytem
knowledge.

22. Linux Admin-

Skill Set: Linux, Code fusionor code warrior IDE, Linux internals, Linux kernal level
programming.
23.Lotus Notes Programmer
Skill Set: Lotus Notes R5, Domino, Lotus Notes Script, Web application,
Workflow, E-mail server, Admin (Must be certified)

24. Customer Relationship Management(CRM)

Skill Set: Siebel, clarify, and Vantive 25. SAP Programmer/ Technical
Consultant-
Skill Set: SAP R/3, ABAP/4, Any modules (FI/CO), S&D, PP, QM, PM) BDC,
SAP Script, Menu Painter, RFC, SAP Office, SAP Workflow, EDI, ASAP
methodology (we market only customization enhancement experts.
SAP BASIS Admin
Skill Set: SAP R/#, Basis, ABAP/4 plus all skills of NT Admin
26. AS/400 Programmer
Skill Set: AS/400, ILE RPG/400, ILE COBOL/400, RPG/400, COBOL/400,
DB2/400, OS/400, CL/400 (this is for a basic programmer either in RPG or
COBOL)
OR
AS/400, ILE RPG/400, Cool 2/E (earlier called Synon 2/E), CL/400, O/400
(cool 2/E is a CASE tool to generate cade for either RPG or COBOL)
OR
AS/400, CL/400, RPG/400, COBOL/400, DB2/400, JD Edwards.

27. Mainframe Programmer/ Legacy System

Skill Set: IBM Mainframe VS COBOL II, MVS, XPor, DB2, and CICS
OR
IMS DB/Dc, COBOL< VS COBOL II
28. BAAN Consultant
Skill Set: BAAN (any module), Advanced BAAN tools, Triton 4GL, Customization
experience

29. Peoplesoft Technical Consultant:

Skill Set: Peoplesoft (HRMS or any other module), peoplesoft tools, crystal Report
Writer, SQR

# # Following are the flavors of UNIX

SUN Solaris (by SUN MS); HP-UX (HP);AIX (IBM); LINUX (RED HAT); DIGITAL UNIX; SCO
UNIX
Application Servers (J2EE)
BEA Web Logic
Cold Fusion
IBM Web sphere
Oracle Application server
IPlanet enterprise Server
Database Applications Development/ Administration
Oracle
DB2
SQL Server
Sybase
Development/ Analysis Tools
Visual Age
Visual Studio.Net
Jbuilder
OO Modeling Development
C/C++
Rational UML, Earwig
Commerce Server
ATG Dynamo
Broad Vision
IBM Commerce server
Blue Martini

CRM
Siebel
Salesforce
SAP
Oracle
Blue Martini
SalesLogix
Onyx
Pivotal
Clarify
Vantive/ PeopleSoft
CAI Platforms / CMS Servers
Webmethods
Tibco
Vitria
BEA Tuxedo
Embedded Systems
VxWorks
PSOS
J2ME
ERP
SAP; my SAP, SAP, BC, JCO, MiniApps, ITS
Peoplesoft
Baan
Oracle
JD Edwards
Java2
JSP, EJB,Servelts
CMS, JDBC, RMI, JFC, JNI
Java, JDK, Symantech Café
CLIENT SERVER
 CLIENT SERVER
Front End/Client Connection DataBase / Back end
VB
VC ++ ODBC Oracle
PB Sybase
D2k Sql Server
JDBC/ODBC
Java Informix

Boston – Marketing Training Material

 CLIENT SERVER CHART
Client Server Front End Special Tools Back End (DB resides on) Language Operating
Application (Client side – GUI) Developer (SP, db triggers) System/Platfor
DBA (Prod., Devel.) m

Oracle Developer 9i/ 6i SQL Loader, Designer Oracle 11g,10g,9i,8i,8.x,7.x PL/SQL UNIX or NT
(Forms 9i/6i Report 9i/6i) 2000, Oracle Application (Only Oracle)
Developer 6 Server(OAS)
(Forms 6 Report 6)
Developer 2000
Forms 5.0,4.5 Reports 3.0,2.5)
Visual Basic Visual Basic 6.0,5.0,4.0 ADO,RDO,OLE, SQL Server Transact -SQL NT
(Microsoft) ACTIVEX,COM, 2012,2008,2005,2000,7.0,6.x PL/SQL UNIX or NT
DCOM, Crystal Reports Oracle 11g,10g,9i,8i,8.x,7.x Transact –SQL UNIX or NT
Sybase 11.x,10.x,9.x UNIX or NT
Informix 11.x,10.x,9.x
PowerBuilder PowerBuilder 7.x,6.x,5.x,4.x PFC Sybase 11.x,10.x,9.x Transact -SQL UNIX or NT
(Sybase) SQL Server Transact –SQL NT
2012,2008,2005,2000,7.0,6.x PL/SQL UNIX or NT
Oracle 8i,8.x,7.x UNIX or NT
Informix 11.x,10.x,9.x
VC++ Visual C++ 6.0,5.0,4.0 MFC SQL Server 2000,7.0,6.x Transact -SQL NT
Oracle 11g,10g,9i,8i,8.x,7.x PL/SQL UNIX or NT
Sybase 11.x,10.x,9.x Transact –SQL UNIX or NT
Informix 11.x,10.x,9.x UNIX or NT
C++ C++ ATL,STL SQL Server Transact -SQL NT
2012,2008,2005,2000,7.0,6.x PL/SQL UNIX or NT
Oracle 11g,10g,9i,8i,8.x,7.x Transact –SQL UNIX or NT
Sybase 11.x,10.x,9.x UNIX or NT
Informix 11.x,10.x,9.x
Operating Systems Windows NT 4.0 / 2000, SCO Unix, Solaris 8 & 9, Windows 95/98, MS-DOS, Apple
Macintosh, Redhat Linux, SuSe Linux,HP-UX,AIX

Sun Java Technologies J2EE, JSP, Servlets, Java JDK 1.4, java-script 1.2, XML, Struts, WSAD, Tile, Hibernate,
Quartz,

Microsoft Technologies Visual Studio 6 & Visual Studio .NET, IIS 5.0, & 9,ASP

Oracle 11g,10g,9i,8i,8.x,7.x
Databases /SQL Server 2012,2008,2005,2000,7.0,6.x / MySQL, PostgreSQL
7.x,DB2,Ingres,Informix,MS Access, Sybase/IBM-DB2-UDB

Design Patterns ProtoType Pattern, Command Pattern, Factory Pattern, Builder Pattern, Immutable
Pattern and Singleton Patterns

EJB Design Patterns Session Façade, Domain Data Transfer Pattern, Custom Data Transfer Pattern, JDBC for
Reading, Business, Delegate Pattern and Service Locator Pattern

Development Tools IBM Visual Age for Java 3.02, Forte 4.0, Builder 8, and Together 6

Open Source Technology Red Hat Linux 7 & 8, Jakarta Tomcat 4, Apache web server, UNIX

Application Servers Jrun 3.1 Application Server, Jrun Cluster Server, Weblogic 8 Application Server, Oracle 9i
Application Server,websphere,weblogic,Sun One,

Security Systems Site Minder Policy Server 4.51, Site Minder Web Agent 4.51
 IIS Mail Server, Mail Enable Mail Server, Qmail & SendMail, TCP/IP networks
E-mail / Networking setup and
troubleshooting.

Firewall Check Point NG, Symantec,Mcafee

SCC( Supply Chain Collabration) i2 Commerce Suite( Negotiate, Projects,

SCM / ERP Catalog) ,i2
Trade Matrix 5.1.1, i2 Site Management, Oracle Application 10.7 /11i/R12 / Radical
2.0,BAAN,SAP,Peoplesoft,JD Edwards,Navision,Axapta,Great planes,Ramco
Marshal
Project Management Microsoft Project 2000, Rational Rose, Kintana(Mercury company)

Other Erwin 3.5.2, TOAD 7.3, IBM Distributed Debugger 3.02, JProbe, and JThreadLyser, and
tools CAML,Crystal Reports(Seagate)

EAI / Middleware Tibco,seebeyond,Vitria,Webmethods,Mercator,SAP XI,Tuxedo,

CRM Siebel,Clarify,SAP CRM,Oracle CRM,Peoplesoft CRM,Vantiv,

Data warehousing Informatica,Cognos,Business Objects,Hyperion,Datastage,Oracle DW,Abnitio,Erwin

Client Server Developer 2000 Forms 6i/4.5/5.0 & Reports 2.5 / 3.0 /PLSQL/Sql Loader/ Oracle WebDB
/ Jdeveloper/ Oracle Replication Server/Oracle Portal / Pro*C,

Storage Tool Veritas Volume Manager,EMC Storage, IBM Tivoli,SAN,NAS,Hitachi

Documentum,Interwoven Teamsite,IBM,sharepoint MOSS,OPENTEXT,SITECORE,ORACLE

Content Management Tool ECM

Mail Management Software IBM Lotus notes, Microsoft Outlook, MS Exchange server, Eudura,

Testing Tools Winrunner,Loadrunner,Test Director ,QTP, IBM Rational robot, Test Manager,Silk Test, Silk
Performer,

Markup Language HTML, DHTML, XML

DATABASE
 DATABASES INTRODUCTION

DATABASES VERSIONS OS
Oracle 11G,10G 9i,8i,8.x,7.x Unix or NT
Sybase 11.x,10.x,9.x Unix or NT
SQL Server 2012,2008,2005,2000 NT
,7.x,6.x
 Different types of Database
Administrator
DEVELOPMENT-DBA
PRODUCTION-DBA
Install Database
Performance Tuning
(Setup,Config)
Backup & Recovery
Design Database
Unix Admin/Scripting
Logical Design
On Call 24 X 7
(Erwin,Designer 2K)
Configuration
Physical Design
(Table,File structure)
Unix Admin/Scripting
Writing Stored Procedure
& Triggers

ERP - DBA
PeopleSoft DBA – Oracle/SQL Server/Informix
Oracle Apps DBA - Oracle
SAP Basis – Oracle/SQL Server/Informix
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
DATAWAREHOUSING
 BI

SAP – Business Intelligence Data Warehousing

SAP Business Warehouse(BW)
Basis
SEM – SAP Strategic Enterprise Management
BPS – Business Planning
BCS – Business Consolidation
CPM – Corporate Performance Monitor
BSC – Balanced Scorecard
BIC – Business Information Collection
SRM – Stakeholder Relationship
Informatica - ETL
Oracle Data Warehouse OWB - ETL,
Teradata, Brio,Abintio,IBM BDW,Datastage
REPORTING
Cognos – ETL/Reports
Microstrategies – ETL/Reports
Business Objects – Reports
Discoverer – Reports)

Peoplesoft - EPM
 Business Intelligence : Oracle Data Warehousing

• Oracle Embedded Data Warehouse (EDW) – 4.1

 Purchasing Intelligence
 Financial Intelligence

Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) – 9.X, 10g,11g

 EDW Standard Repository
 Custom Repository

Oracle Discoverer – 3.x, 4.x, 9iDS

 Admin Edition
 Desktop Edition
 Plus Edition
 Viewer Edition
 BI - Contd

Commonly used Terminology in DW

Datamart
ETL (Extract Transform Loading)
OLAP (Online Application Programming)
Data Mining
Cube
Dimension
Powerplay
Reportnet
Impromptu
Fact table
Decision Support System (DSS)
 ERP
 ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning and it is a concept
which has been around for more than two decades.
But what exactly is ERP? As Manufacturing Industries boomed
around the world, one major challenge was how to organize and
streamline the rapidly mounting volumes of data. Manufacturing
companies had various operations performed at various department
levels, with data at each process critical to the other. There needed
to be a seamless integration in the flow of data across organization.
This need was fulfilled by software applications that came to be
known as ERP. Thus ERP is an application which facilitates the
capture, control and flow of information at each process level across
the entire organization. The data is actually stored in an underlying
database controlled by the application.
 Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP)

MUST KNOW: SAP, Oracle Applications and Peoplesoft

VERSIONS
Modules names available in each

Distinguish between Functional and Technical consultants

Functional Terms – e.g.: Gap analysis, Blueprint, Setups, Configuration, Requirement gathering etc

Technical terms RICE (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions) – Different in each ERP

SAP – ABAP, Sap scripts,BDC, Smart forms, EDI/IDOC, ALE, Dialog Programming etc
Oracle – PL/SQL, Forms Reports etc
Peoplesoft – Peoplecode, Peopletools, Panels, Pages, SQR, App Engine etc
ERP TECHNICAL CHART
PeopleSoft Oracle SAP

Language People Code PL/SQL ABAP/4

Report SQR/Crystal/nVision Reports / ABAP/4

Discoverer

Screens Panel Designer/Pages Forms Screen

Painter
ABAP/4
Interfaces SQR/App Engine PL/SQL BDC’s
 PeopleSoft
Financials, HRMS, Distribution, Manufacturing/Student
Version: 9.0,8.9, 8.8,8.5,8.4,8.0, 7.5,
7.0, 6.0, 5.0
HRMS Public or Financials Collaborative or Eapps Student Admin.(SA)
eBenefits *Student Admin
commercial *General Ledger
eCompensation Academic Advisement
*Human Resources(HR) *Accounts Payable eCompensation Manager Desktop Advancement
*Base Benefits(BENEFITS) *Accounts Receivable eDevelopment
Campus Community
*Payroll Asset Management eEquity
Financial Aid
*Benefits Administration Billing ePay
eProfile Grants
Time and Labor Project Costing
eProfile Manager Desktop *Student Admissions
Pension Administration Budgets
eRecruit *Student Financials
Stock Administration Expenses
Treasury eRecruit Manager Desktop *Student Records
Insurance
Employee Self-Service
Recruit Workforce Treasury Management
Manager Self-Service
FSA (Flex Spend Admin.) Risk Management

Distribution CRM Manufacturing

Purchasing Collaborative Selling Bills and Routings
Inventory Configuration Cost Management
Order Management Field Service DataBridge
Order Planning Help Desk Demand Planning
Product Config Marketing/Telemarketing Engineering
Order Capture
Remote Order Entry Enterprise Planning
Quality
Billing Sales Production
Management
Demand Planning Support Production Planning
Enterprise Planning
Quality
 PeopleSoft Tools
Interfaces & Conversion
Tool: SQR’s 1) Reporting
2) Conversion
3) Interface Tool

People Code: The proprietary scripting language used in the development of PeopleSoft
applications.
Development
People Tools: Administration
Reporting and Analysis

Panel Designer: Used for creating panels (screens) for user input

Tree Manager: Used for security and reporting.

Process Scheduler provides PeopleSoft applications with a user-configurable tool that

Process Scheduler: integrates with PeopleSoft panels, PeopleSoft security, and PeopleCode functions.
Through this integration, Process Scheduler enables users to request and monitor batch
processes related to their PeopleSoft application.
 PeopleSoft Tools

Application Designer: Using Application Designer to build, maintain, customize, and upgrade
PeopleSoft applications. We can use Panel, panel group and menu to
create application.

Data Mover: It allows you to import and export data across multiple
database platforms.
Data Management:
Import Manager: to import data into your PeopleSoft tables.

Mass Change: It use to create SQL processes which supplement your

application functionality.
 PeopleSoft Tools
Reports:
Used for complex reporting
SQR’s:

Crystal: Crystal Reports from Seagate software is a report formatter that helps you generate clear and easy-
to-read printed reports containing data from your PeopleSoft applications.

N vision PS/nVision enables you to retrieve information from your PeopleSoft database into a Microsoft Excel
(mainly spreadsheet—not merely as "raw" data, but as information in a form that helps you see the big
financials): picture, explore the details, and make decisions.

For defining database queries in an easy-to-use graphical environment. You create queries to extract the
Query: data you need from your PeopleSoft database.

Tree Manager to create and maintain trees. A tree is a PeopleSoft object that defines the
Tree Manager: groupings and hierarchical relationships between the values of a database field.

Cube Manager allows you to define and save templates for building and updating OLAP cubes. The
Cube Manager: Cube Manager provides all these benefits while achieving a nearly platform-independent solution -
the great majority of a cube's design attributes can be applied to either Arbor Essbase or Cognos
PowerPlay.
 Business Process:

Workflow: To automate the Business process without any human intervention.

Example Purchase Req, Purchase Order etc.,

Message To automate the process with 3rd party applications.

Agent:
 SAP Modules
SAP Business Objects Suite (BOBJ)
SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO)
SAP Analytics
SAP Apparel and Footwear Solution (AFS)
SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW)
SAP Business Intelligence (BI)
SAP Catalog Content Management (CCM)
SAP Enterprise Buyer Professional (EBP)
SAP Enterprise Learning
SAP Portal (EP)
SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) (From release 7.0 onwards, SAP XI has been
renamed as SAP Process Integration (SAP PI))
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Enterprise central Component (ECC)
SAP Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS)
SAP Internet Transaction Server (ITS)
SAP Incentive and Commission Management (ICM)
SAP Knowledge Warehouse (KW)
SAP Manufacturing
SAP Master Data Management (MDM)
SAP Service and Asset Management
SAP Solutions for mobile business
SAP Solution Composer
SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM)
SAP Test Data Migration Server (TDMS)
SAP Training and Event Management (TEM)
SAP NetWeaver Application Server (Web AS)
SAP xApps
SAP Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
 SAP Practice

Strategic Alliances with SAP

 MYSAP.COM Partner

 SAP National Implementation Partner

 ASAP Partner

 Provide consulting expertise and resources to SAP on several

projects

 Currently involved in joint project bids with SAP

 We have SAP in-house

SAP TECHNOLOGY PRACTICE

S AP T EC H N O LO G Y
P R A C T IC E

AB AP /4 B A S IS BW ALE/ED I W O R K FLO W R / 3 V E R S IO N S O L U T IO N
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 SAP Application modules
Sales and Distribution Financial Accounting
Materials Management Controlling
Production Planning Asset Management
SD FI
MM R/3 CO
PP AM
Client Server
ABAP/4
QM PS
PM WF
HR IS
Quality Management Project System
Plant Maintenance Work Flow
Human Resources Industry Solutions

: 3

Financial Accounting(FI)
General Ledger
Accounts Receivable
Special Purpose Ledger
Accounting Information System
Accounts Payable
Treasury
Legal Consolidation
Project Systems (PS)
Funds and resource management
Time Management
Quality control
Project Management
Information System
SAP MODULES
Controlling(CO) Asset Management(AM)
Cost center accounting Depreciation
Project Accounting Sales of assets
Profitability analysis Maintenance value
Activity based accounting Inventory
Job order accounting Replacements
Product costing accounting Investment Management
Profit center accounting Repair value
Enterprise controlling Ownership

Plant Maintenance (PM)
Processing of unplanned tasks
Maintenance planning
Maintenance bills of materials
Service management
Maintenance notification
By date or counters
SAP MODULES
Quality Management(QM)
Quality inspection
Quality management information system
Quality planning
Production Planning(PP)
Sales and operations planning (SOP)
Master production scheduling (MPS)
Product costing
Kanban
Routings
Production orders
Repetitive manufacturing
Make to order
Shop floor control (SFC)
Activity based costing
Process manufacturing

Materials Management (MM)
Material procurement
Reorder point processing
Material valuation
External service management
Inventory management
Invoice verification
Vendor valuation
SAP MODULES
Sales and Distribution (SD)
Pre-sales support
Quotation processing
Sales order processing
Delivery processing
Inquiry processing
Contract management
Pricing conditions
Billing
 SAP HCM –
Human Capital Management

Human Resources (HR)

Payroll (US and International)
Travel expense accounting
Recruitment
Workforce planning
Organization management
Time Management
Benefits Management
Personal Administration
Training Administration
Personnel Planning
 Oracle Apps
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle Corporation markets its home-grown software applications,
including Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle CRM etc. as parts of the
"Oracle E-Business Suite". The following enterprise applications are
available as part of Oracle eBusiness Suite:
• Asset Lifecycle Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Enterprise Resource Planning
– Financial Management
– Human Capital Management
– Project Management
• Procurement
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Supply Chain Management
– Supply Chain Planning
– Logistics & Transportation Management
– Order Management
– Price Management
• Manufacturing
Oracle Financial Applications
The Oracle E-Business Suite provides an extensive set of financial applications
used extensively in businesses around the world. Oracle Corporation groups
these applications into "suites", which it defines as sets of common, integrated
applications designed to execute specific business processes.
The Oracle Financials application-set relies on the Oracle RDBMS infrastructure
and includes applications such as:
 Oracle Assets
 Oracle General Ledger
 Oracle Payables
 Oracle Receivables
 Oracle Cash Management
Oracle Projects Applications
The Oracle E-Business Suite family of Oracle Projects applications supports
the full lifecycle of project and portfolio management with a single,
accurate view of all project-related activities. Industry leading
functionality allows users to select the best portfolio of initiatives, execute
projects in adherence with methodologies, assign the right global
resources, proactively streamline project delivery, and track profitability
via accurate budgeting, forecasting, and billings/chargeback.
The Oracle Projects Suite includes applications such as:
 Oracle Project Billing
 Oracle Project Collaboration
 Oracle Project Contracts
 Oracle Project Costing
 Oracle Project Management
 Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis
 Oracle Project Resource Management
 Oracle Inventory
 Oracle Integrated Receiving (Brazil localization)
 Oracle MRP
 Oracle Order Entry
 Oracle Order Fulfillment (order to cash process)
 Oracle Payroll
 Oracle Purchasing
 Oracle Receivables
 Oracle TMS (Transportation/G-Log)
 Oracle Work in Process.
 Oracle Process manufacturing.
 Oracle Federal Administration
• Commercial, non-profit and public sector entities use these applications
to run many of the world’s mission-critical processes. Oracle Corporation
makes the software available on various hardware platforms.
 Microsoft

• Microsoft Dynamics ERP is an enterprise resource planning application

primarily geared toward midsize organizations as well as subsidiaries and
divisions of larger organizations. Microsoft Dynamics ERP includes four
primary products:
– Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Axapta)
– Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains Software)
– Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision)
– Microsoft Dynamics SL (formerly Solomon IV)
Also included are retail solutions:
• Microsoft Dynamics RMS
• Microsoft Dynamics POS 2009
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a multi-lingual customer relationship management
application from Microsoft that provides sales, service, and marketing
capabilities, and includes Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, the online version
of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
 Software Testing

Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with

information about the quality of the product or service under test.Software
Testing also provides an objective, independent view of the software to allow
the business to appreciate and understand the risks at implementation of the
software. Test techniques include, but are not limited to, the process of
executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs.
Static vs. dynamic testing
There are many approaches to software testing. Reviews, walkthroughs, or
inspections are considered as static testing, whereas actually executing
programmed code with a given set of test cases is referred to as dynamic
testing. Static testing can be (and unfortunately in practice often is) omitted.
Dynamic testing takes place when the program itself is used for the first time
(which is generally considered the beginning of the testing stage). Dynamic
testing may begin before the program is 100% complete in order to test
particular sections of code (modules or discrete functions). Typical techniques
for this are either using stubs/drivers or execution from a debugger
environment. For example, Spreadsheet programs are, by their very nature,
tested to a large extent interactively ("on the fly"), with results displayed
immediately after each calculation or text manipulation.
 Testing methods

The box approach

Software testing methods are traditionally divided into black box testing and white
box testing. These two approaches are used to describe the point of view that a
test engineer takes when designing test cases.
Black box testing
Black box testing treats the software as a "black box"—without any knowledge of
internal implementation. Black box testing methods include: equivalence
partitioning, boundary value analysis, all-pairs testing, fuzz testing, model-based
testing, traceability matrix, exploratory testing and specification-based testing.

Advantages and disadvantages: The black box tester has no "bonds" with the
code, and a tester's perception is very simple: a code must have bugs. Using
the principle, "Ask and you shall receive," black box testers find bugs where
programmers do not. But, on the other hand, black box testing has been said
to be "like a walk in a dark labyrinth without a flashlight," because the tester
doesn't know how the software being tested was actually constructed. As a
result, there are situations when (1) a tester writes many test cases to check
something that could have been tested by only one test case, and/or (2) some
parts of the back-end are not tested at all.
White box testing
White box testing is when the tester has access to the internal data structures
and algorithms including the code that implement these.
Types of white box testing
The following types of white box testing exist:
API testing (application programming interface) - Testing of the application using
Public and Private APIs
Code coverage - creating tests to satisfy some criteria of code coverage (e.g., the
test designer can create tests to cause all statements in the program to be
executed at least once)
Fault injection methods - improving the coverage of a test by introducing faults
to test code paths
Mutation testing methods
Static testing - White box testing includes all static testing
Grey box testing (American spelling: Gray box testing) involves having access to
internal data structures and algorithms for purposes of designing the test cases, but
testing at the user, or black-box level. Manipulating input data and formatting
output do not qualify as grey box, because the input and output are clearly outside
of the "black-box" that we are calling the system under test. This distinction is
particularly important when conducting integration testing between two modules
of code written by two different developers, where only the interfaces are exposed
for test. However, modifying a data repository does qualify as grey box, as the user
would not normally be able to change the data outside of the system under test.
Grey box testing may also include reverse engineering to determine, for instance,
boundary values or error message
Automated testing
Many programming groups are relying more and more on automated testing,
especially groups that use Test-driven development. There are many
frameworks to write tests in, and Continuous Integration software will run
tests automatically every time code is checked into a version control
system.
While automation cannot reproduce everything that a human can do (and all
the strange ways they think of doing it), it can be very useful for regression
testing. However, it does require a well-developed test suite of testing
scripts in order to be truly useful.
Testing Tools
Program testing and fault detection can be aided significantly by testing tools
and debuggers. Testing/debug tools include features such as:
Program monitors, permitting full or partial monitoring of program code
including:
Formatted dump or Symbolic debugging, tools allowing inspection of
program variables on error or at chosen points
Automated functional GUI testing tools are used to repeat system-level tests
through the GUI
Tool Name Company Name
HP QuickTest Professional HP
IBM Rational Functional Tester IBM
Rational robot IBM
Selenium OpenSource Tool
SilkTest Microfocus
TestComplete Automated QA
TestPartner Micro Focus
WATIR Open Source Tool
 Testing Levels

• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• System Testing
• System Integration Testing
• Regression Testing
• Acceptance testing
• Alpha testing
• Beta testing
 E-Business
Microsoft Sun Others
Web Application/Web Services: JAVA Java Script
NET Framework Servlet HTML
C# (C Sharp) JSP DHTML
ASP/ASP.NE J2EE CGI Perl
Visual Basic (VB/VB.NET) Java Beans Cold Fusion
Visual C++ (VC/VC.NET) EJB XML
J# (J Sharp) Swing WML
.Net Compact Framework RMI
ADO/ADO.NET JMS
Internet Information Server (IIS) Swing Web Server
Struts/Struts CX Internet Information Server (IIS)
Java Web Server
Apache Web Server
iPlanet
Application Server IIS
Silver Stream SunOne
Weblogic Tomcat
Netscape Application Server Pramati
IBM – Websphere - Visual Age for Java JBoss
WebSphere Application Server Oracle AS/ OC4J
WSAD Interstage Application Server (Fujitsu)
Websphere Business Integrator JRun
Oracle Application Server
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BI tools
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Data Analytics
who uses it?

• Companies moving large amounts of

transactional data: Google, Amazon,
Facebook, Twitter, large ecommerce
corporations, and advertising
platforms/exchanges like AppNexus,
Doubleclick and Facebook Exchange Ads
to name a few.

• Also application service providers, cloud

computing providers, video content
providers, etc.

• The volume and volatility of the data are so great, that companies have entire
engineering teams dedicated to storing, transforming, and analyzing this data.
• ‘Big Data’ is similar to ‘small data’, but
bigger

• …but having data bigger it requires different

approaches:
– Techniques, tools and architecture

• …with an aim to solve new problems

– …or old problems in a better way
 Why Big Data
• Key enablers of appearance and growth of
Big Data are

– Increase of storage capacities

– Increase of processing power

– Availability of data

– Every day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data; 90% of

the data in the world today has been created in the last
two years alone
 Big Data Analytics

• Examining large amount of data

• Appropriate information

• Identification of hidden patterns, unknown correlations

• Competitive advantage

• Better business decisions: strategic and operational

• Effective marketing, customer satisfaction, increased

revenue
 Big Data Analytics Technologies
NoSQL : non-relational or at least non-SQL database solutions such as HBase (also a
part of the Hadoop ecosystem), Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, and many
others.

Hadoop: It is an ecosystem of software packages, including MapReduce, HDFS, and

a whole host of other software packages
 Value of Big Data Analytics

• Big data is more real-time in nature

than traditional DW applications
• Traditional DW architectures (e.g.
Exadata, Teradata) are not well-
suited for big data apps
• Shared nothing, massively parallel
processing, scale out architectures
are well-suited for big data apps

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