Mark Rittman

If you're evaluating OBIEE 11g and working through the long list of new features, one of the topics that's potentially most confusing is the new security setup. Whilst basic concepts such as object-level and data-level security are the same in 11g as in 10g, Oracle Fusion

And now for a short break from the technical articles, for some news on Rittman Mead. The UK Oracle User Group [http://www.ukoug.org] recently had their Partner of the Year Awards [http://pya10.ukoug.org/] at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in London, and I'm pleased

Well I'm currently in the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood Shores, waiting to start the two-day ACE Director briefing at HQ, but in the meantime I wanted to post a reminder about a special half-day session ODTUG [http://www.odtug.com] are running at OpenWorld on Sunday. Sunday is

BI Publisher has always had the ability to create reports using multiple data sets, either through appending queries together or by combining them using something called a "data template". Data Templates were tricky to set up though, so I was interested when looking through the new features in

I've been analyzing the results of a couple of OBIEE-related surveys over the weekend, looking to understand how we can encourage the further take-up of OBIEE by developers and organizations. The BI Survey 9 [http://www.bi-survey.com/product-overview.html] (which readers of the blog helped to provide

Just a short note to say that there are only a few places remaining on our OBIEE 11g Training Days event [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2010/] in London, Bangalore and Atlanta, in October and November 2010. There are about 10 places left for both the London and Bangalore events, and

We interrupt our normal programming this week for another piece of new product news: the 11g release of Oracle Data Integrator is now available for download on OTN [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/data-integrator/downloads/index.html] following the webcast earlier today. Venkat and I went over to Redwood

With all the noise and publicity around the OBIEE 11gR1 launch, it's easy to miss the fact that BI Publisher has also had a major revamp as part of the 11gR1 release. We saw a bit of a preview of this earlier in the year with the online

I'm writing this on the plane back from Hyderabad, sitting opposite Jonathan Lewis who like me has just finished presenting at Sangam'10 [http://www.aioug.org/sangam10.php], the annual conference held by the All-India Oracle Users Group [http://www.aioug.org/]. I was invited over

It's almost that time again, and Rittman Mead will once again be attending and presenting at Oracle's Open World conference and exhibition, running in San Francisco from September 19th-23rd 2010. Our team are running thirteen sessions over the week, covering such topics as OBIEE 11g, Fusion

As well as the three Rittman Mead OBIEE 11g Training Days events we're running in London, Atlanta and Bangalore later this year, I've also agreed to do a number of Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclasses for Oracle University, including a visit down to Australia and Singapore. These

In a previous posting in this series, I looked at OBIEE 11gR1's architecture [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/09/obiee-11gr1-architecture-and-use-of-weblogic-server/] at a high level, and yesterday following the official launch I took a look at the installation process [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/08/14/

Venkat broke the news earlier today [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/08/14/oracle-bi-ee-11g-released-available-for-download/] that the full, production release of OBIEE 11gR1 is now available for download on OTN [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bus-intelligence-11g-165436.html] , and in this posting, I'm going to look

Here's a quick one before the weekend comes along: one of the limitations in OBIEE 10g around software configuration management was that you couldn't apply incremental patches to an RPD, applying for example a set of changes made in development to the production repository. The only

It's the US launch of OBIEE 11g in New York today [http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=117150&src=7011193&src=7011193&Act=17] , and if you're interested in the infrastructure behind OBIEE one of the highlights of the

If you were at the launch of OBIEE 11g in London [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/07/at-the-obiee-11g-launch-in-london/] earlier in July, you may have heard Thomas Kurian refer to 11g as being the world's first "closed loop" business intelligence solution. The idea behind this

Another new part of OBIEE 11gR1 that you may have seen at the launch in London, is a new product called Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management. It's delivered as part of the overall OBIEE 11g technology stack, but like Siebel Marketing before it it's likely to

As well as giving us hierarchical columns [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/13/obiee-11gr1-hierarchical-columns-and-enhancements-to-pivot-table-views/] and a revamped user interface [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/08/obiee-11gr1-new-user-interface-home-page-and-unified-framework/] , OBIEE 11g comes with a number of improvements and enhancements to graphs and dashboards. In this posting, I'll

In our previous postings, we looked at the new user interface for OBIEE 11g [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/08/obiee-11gr1-new-user-interface-home-page-and-unified-framework/] , and how the metadata layer for the BI Server has been enhanced to better handle OLAP-style data [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/12/obiee-11gr1-support-for-ragged-skip-level-value-based-hierarchies/] . In