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Creating an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 2.3 Application Part 3 : Creating the User Interface

In the first part of this three part Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 2.3 development series, we first looked at why you would build an OEID application, and then went on to look at how you load data into the Endeca Server, the hybrid search/analytic database that powers all

Creating an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 2.3 Application Part 2 : Preparing and Loading Data

Yesterday I started a week of looking at the Oracle Endeca Information Discovery development process, by thinking about just what exactly an Endeca Information Discovery application was, and the types of business questions they are designed to answer. We talked about how Endeca was particularly suited to "data discovery&

Creating an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 2.3 Application Part 1 : Scoping and Design

A couple of months ago I put together a five-part series on our blog around an introduction to Oracle Endeca [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/oracle-endeca-week-so-just-what-is-endeca/] , a recent BI and e-commerce acquisition by Oracle aimed primarily at strengthening their unstructured data and search capabilities. Endeca is particularly interesting

Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2012 : BI & EPM Category

At Rittman Mead we're always interested in innovative Oracle BI and EPM solutions, ones that "push the envelope" in terms of how they use BI to provide competitive advantage for their organization. Exalytics has been out now and deployed for a while at some early adopter

Some Thoughts on Potential Exalytics Use-Cases

Another question I've been asked by a few of our customers is around use-cases for Exalytics; many of them have already got a preferred hardware supplier for their BI platform, and they may only have OBIEE+ licensed rather than BI Foundation. What therefore are the most obvious use-cases

Technical

So What Do I Get With Exalytics That I Couldn't Build Myself?

One of the hottest topics at the recent Brighton and Atlanta BI Forum events [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/05/biforum2012downloads/] was Oracle Exalytics, with attendees rightly sceptical about what Exalytics provided that you couldn't build yourself, or indeed whether there was an benefit beyond the highly-specced

Technical

Create Your Own Custom OBIEE 11g On-Site Course!

Rittman Mead offer on-site and public Oracle BI, DW and EPM training courses [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training], and historically our most popular on-site training course has been our TRN202 OBIEE 11g Bootcamp [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training/listing-of-courses/trn202-oracle-bi-ee-11g-bootcamp/] . We've delivered this course to dozens of customers

Previewing the OBIEE 11.1.1.6 SampleApp

Last year we previewed the upcoming OBIEE 11.1.1.5 version of the SampleApp [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/06/previewing-the-obiee-11-1-1-5-sampleapp/] , which introduced a bunch of new features including more Essbase examples, a working Essbase write-back using the Action Framework, new visualisations created using Google Charts, plus some

Take Part in the BI Survey 11, and Have your Voice Heard

Every year we're pleased to help publicise the BI Survey [http://www.bi-survey.com/], an annual independent survey of BI tools customers organized by BARC. What's good about the BI Survey is that it helps you understand what others using your favourite BI tool think of

Business Insights

Presentation Downloads, Links and Photos for the RM BI Forum 2012

Well the two BI Forum 2012 events in Brighton, and in Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012], are both now over, and as usual we're now making the presentations available for download. Thanks again to all of the speakers, and in particular Kevin McGinley who provided the masterclasses,

UKOUG Conference Call for Papers - Just Two Weeks Left!

Although it's great fun to travel the world speaking at events such as Oracle Openworld, Collaborate and ODTUG KScope, Rittman Mead in the UK still consider the UK Oracle User Group Conference [http://conference.ukoug.org], held in Birmingham in November or December each year, to be our

Business Insights

Week Two of the RM BI Forum 2012, in Atlanta

I'm just back now from Atlanta, having been over there for the past week helping run the second week of the RM BI Forum 2012. Around 55 BI professionals from around the USA (and with a few from Europe) got together over four days to network, share tips

Business Insights

The Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 : Brighton's Over, Now off to Atlanta!

It's currently Saturday evening and I'm at home in Brighton, tying up loose ends after last week's BI Forum event and getting ready for next week's in Atlanta, GA. I think it's probably safe to say that this week'

Rittman Mead Take Delivery of our Exalytics Server

Around three weeks ago Rittman Mead took delivery of our Oracle Exalytics server, the first Oracle Partner in the UK to do so. It's located in a secure datacentre in London, with a fast secure link through to our offices in Brighton, where we're carrying out

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, Brighton & Atlanta : Last Few Places Left

It's just a few weeks now until the 2012 BI Forum events in Brighton and Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012/], so for anyone who's still not booked but is thinking of attending, here's what you'll miss if you don't

Business Insights

RM BI Forum 2012, Brighton and Atlanta : Places Going Fast!

Just a quick note to say that places are going fast at the two BI Forum events [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012] in Brighton, May 8th-11th 2012 and Atlanta, May 15th-18th 2012. At the moment, 30 out of the 50 places for the UK event have gone with a similar

Rittman Mead Life

New Wednesday Seminar Series from Robin and Mark

Robin Moffatt mentioned the other day that we've launched a number of new training initiatives [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/new-training-courses-and-seminars-from-rittman-mead/], including a series of seminars, running on Wednesday afternoons [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training/webinar-series-2012/] and presented either by myself or Robin, aimed at OBIEE

OBIEE 11g Security Week : Connecting to Active Directory, and Obtaining Group Membership from Database Tables

In this final posting in the OBIEE 11g Security Week, we're going to look at two common tasks that an OBIEE 11g administrator might have to perform: * Connecting the system to Microsoft Active Directory, so users can log-into the dashboard using their Windows Active Directory username and password,

Deploying ODI 11g Agents for High-Availability and Load-Balancing

A couple of weeks ago I was with one of our clients, who were planning their migration from home-grown ETL to using Oracle Data Integrator 11g. One of their requirements was for the agents that ODI uses to be deployed in a high-availability environment, so that for example: * More than

OBIEE 11g Security Week : Managing Application Roles and Policies, and Managing Security Migrations and Deployments

In yesterdays blog post on OBIEE 11g security, we looked at OBIEE 11g's security architecture [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/obiee-11g-security-week-understanding-obiee-11g-security-application-roles-and-application-policies/] , and what's called the "Default Security Configuration". We looked at how new users were created and assigned to existing LDAP groups

OBIEE 11g Security Week : Understanding OBIEE 11g Security, Application Roles and Application Policies

This week, in preparation for the final, Security chapter of the book that I'm writing, I'm running through the key areas in OBIEE 11g and inviting feedback on what readers are encountering in the field. So far we've looked at row-level security [http://www.

OBIEE 11g Security Week : Subject Area, Catalog and Functional Area Security

In the previous posting in this series, we looked at an overview of OBIEE 11g security [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/an-obiee-11g-security-primer-introduction/] , and then looked at row-level security [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/obiee-11g-security-week-row-level-security/] , which allows us to deploy the same analysis or dashboard out to

OBIEE 11g Security Week : Row-Level Security

So we'll start this week's focus on OBIEE 11g security [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/an-obiee-11g-security-primer-introduction/] with the topic that most people associate with "security" around reports - row-level security. Row-level security is where groups of users have access to a set

Rittman Mead at the Hotsos Symposium 2012, Dallas

Last week I was very proud to present at the Hotsos Symposium 2012 [http://www.hotsos.com/sym12.html], in Dallas, Texas, on the new Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine. It'd always been a personal objective of mine to speak at the Hotsos event, as I'd seen

An OBIEE 11g Security Primer : Introduction

For anyone who's been waiting for the Oracle Press "OBIEE 11g Developers Guide" that I've seemingly been working on ever since Oracle acquired Siebel, you'll be pleased to know that I'm working on the final chapter now. The only issue