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About the Oracle BI Developer (NDA) Day at the BI Forum Events

We were pleased to finally launch the website and registration page for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012] yesterday, and something that's new this year is an extra day, at the end, run in conjunction with Oracle BI Product Development and ourselves. The

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, Brighton & Atlanta : Registration Now Open!

I'm very pleased to announce that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2012, is now open, with details of the event and how to register on this page [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012]. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012] This

How, and Why, Should I Upgrade to OBIEE 11.1.1.6?

Over the past few weeks we've run a series of articles on the blog about the new, 11.1.1.6 release of OBIEE, and talked about some of the new features that this release enables. So you may well be asking yourself, what's involved in

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OBIEE 11.1.1.6 : New Dashboard, Analysis and Reporting Features

So apart from support for a new type of repository storage [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-mds-xml-repositories-and-integration-with-source-control/] , and enablement of the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine [http://www.rittmanmead.com/category/oracle-exalytics/], OBIEE 11.1.1.6 brought in a number of new features that could be of benefit

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Oracle Exalytics : An Example Optimization Exercise

It's Saturday afternoon, and I'm writing this whilst on a plane going over to Dallas, Texas, traveling to what will be my first Hotsos Symposium [http://www.hotsos.com/sym12.html]. For anyone mainly working in the BI world who's not heard of the

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Oracle Exalytics Week : How Does it Perform, and How Can I Test It?

This week we've been looking in-depth at the new Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the new Exa-appliance from Oracle aimed at the BI tier in an Oracle BI/DW system. We've looked at what problem Exalytics looks to solve, how it's architected and how TimesTen

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Oracle Exalytics Week : The Summary Advisor

This week we've been taking an in-depth look at Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the new engineered system from Oracle that combines Sun hardware with customized versions of Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Essbase and Oracle TimesTen, all running on 64-bit Oracle Linux. Here's a quick recap of

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Oracle Exalytics Week : Exalytics & TimesTen - Under the Covers

So in the first two postings in our Exalytics week series, we looked at why Oracle created Exalytics, and what Exalytics actually comprises of. If you missed the first two postings in the series, here's the week's agenda including links that I'll complete once

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Oracle Exalytics Week : Introducing Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine

In the first post in this Oracle Exalytics week series, we looked BI in general and how users wanted fast, consistent response times from their dashboards and reports. The are several potential solutions for improving query performance including adding materialized views and indexes, using MOLAP technologies such as Oracle Essbase

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Oracle Exalytics Week : The Case for Exalytics

OBIEE 11.1.1.6 was released last week [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-now-available-for-download-release-highlights/] , and what with all the news on the new features, and support for version control in the BI Administration Tool [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-mds-xml-repositories-and-integration-with-source-control/] , the thing that most excited

Oracle Magazine Article on Oracle BI Mobile

[http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2012/12-mar/index.html]The March/April 2012 edition of Oracle Magazine is now out, and includes my latest BI article, this time on Oracle BI Mobile with OBIEE11g [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2012/12-mar/o22bi-1518268.html] . In the article, I talk

Rittman Mead at RMOUG Training Days 2012, Denver

A week or so ago several of Rittman Mead's consultants were pleased to be taking part in RMOUG Training Days 2012 [http://www.rmoug.org/training.htm], in Denver, Colorado. RMOUG (Rocky Mountains Oracle User Group [http://www.rmoug.org/index.html]) is probably the largest regional Oracle

Oracle Endeca Week : How Do You Develop Endeca Latitude Applications?

In this final posting in Endeca week, we're going to look at the process of creating applications using Endeca Latitude, or as it's now known, Oracle Endeca Information Discovery [http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/endeca-info-discovery-1494658.html] . Although the individual steps are different, the process

Oracle Endeca Week : Where Does Endeca Fit with Oracle BI and DW?

Well, after the minor news that OBIEE 11.1.1.6 was finally released yesterday [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-now-available-for-download-release-highlights/] (and a very late night last night), it's back to Endeca week, with us today look at how Endeca's product line will fit

OBIEE 11.1.1.6 : MDS XML Repositories, and Integration with Source Control

So if you're a repository developer working on Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, probably the most interesting new feature announced with the release of OBIEE 11.1.1.6 yesterday [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-now-available-for-download-release-highlights/] was support for version control within the BI Administrator tool, and

OBIEE 11.1.1.6 Now Available for Download - Release Highlights

Well, the news broke late this afternoon that OBIEE 11.1.1.6 was now available for download, so here's some of the key new features that you should look out for once you've installed this new release. We'll start first with the front-end,

Oracle Endeca Week : What is the Endeca MDEX Engine?

Yesterday, I kicked-off our Endeca week with an overview of Endeca's product line [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/oracle-endeca-week-so-just-what-is-endeca/] prior to the recent acquisition by Oracle, looking at Endeca's two main products: Endeca Infront, which powers the "faceted" search feature behind many

Oracle Endeca Week : So Just What Is Endeca?

So whilst we're waiting for Oracle to release the 11.1.1.6 version of OBIEE, I thought it might be interesting to take some time to look at Oracle's newest BI tool : Oracle Endeca. You may have noticed in the press and on the web

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 : Voting on Abstracts Now Open!

Thank you to everyone who submitted presentation abstracts for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 events [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/01/rittman-mead-bi-forum-2012-call-for-papers-now-open-closing-date-31st-january-2012/] , running in May 2012 in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA. We'll be announcing the dates and venues at the end of February 2012, as

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 Call for Papers Now Open - Closing Date 31st January 2012

[re-posted in case you missed it when originally posted before Christmas - MR] I'm pleased to announce the call for papers [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlaaExzQU56WTdua2JsV1RkeVZnN2c6MA#gid=0] for the fourth annual Rittman Mead BI Forum, which like last year is running

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Looking Back at 2011, Looking forward to 2012

Well it's the last working day now before the end of 2011, and so I thought it'd be interesting to take a look back at the events of 2011, and a bit of think-forward as to what's on the horizon for 2012. As usual,

Season's Greetings from Rittman Mead!

Well, it's almost Christmas Eve now, so we're finishing up on client projects, getting the new office fitted out, planning a few mini-R&D projects over the Christmas break (or at least, I am anyway...), and traveling back to our families to take some well-earned

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, Brighton & Atlanta May 2012 : Call for Papers Now Open!

I'm pleased to announce the call for papers [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlaaExzQU56WTdua2JsV1RkeVZnN2c6MA#gid=0] for the fourth annual Rittman Mead BI Forum, which like last year is running in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA in May 2012. Last year's

UKOUG Conference 2011 and AIOUG Sangam'11 Conference, Bangalore

Well I've just got home now after the eleven hour flight from Bangalore, India, after attending the AIOUG Sangam'11 [http://www.aioug.org/sangam11.php] conference on behalf of the Oracle ACE Director program. This is now the second time I've attended this event,

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Rittman Mead Scheduled OBIEE11g, ODI11g and OBIA7.9.6.3 Courses

When Jon Mead and I started Rittman Mead back in 2007, one of the first services we offered was training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training], back in those days on OWB and OBIEE 10g and typically delivered by myself, Jon, Borkur at Peter Scott. Since then, we've grown