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Early News on the Oracle BI Apps - Essbase Integrator

I was recently going through the recorded Open World sessions using Oracle Open World on Demand [http://openworld.vportal.net/], and came across an interesting session by Alaric Thomas and Mike Nader on the forthcoming Oracle BI Applications to Essbase Integrator. This is a technology project going on within Oracle

Integrating BI Publisher and Microsoft Active Directory

Whilst most BI Publisher installations I've worked with use either Oracle BI Server security or Oracle Internet Directory, it might be the case that you want to use Microsoft Active Directory instead. The most common way I see this happening is either with Active Directory hooked into Oracle

Installing BI Publisher into Weblogic Server 11g

I was on-site yesterday helping an ISV integrate BI Publisher into their product, and hit a few issues getting the product installed and running on the Weblogic application server. BI Publisher comes integrated out-of-the-box with OC4J and Oracle Application Server, but you'll need to install and configure it

Technical

YouTube Video of my "Oracle BI Apps 7.9.5.2 and ODI" Open World Presentation

If you didn't make it to Open World but you were interested in my presentation on ODI and the Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5.2, I just noticed that "aortabisolutions" on Youtube recorded some of the highlights and uploaded the video [http://www.youtube.com/

Publishing Mappings as Web Services using OWB11gR2

Over the past few weeks I've covered some of the new features in OWB11gR2 including heterogeneous sources and targets [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/09/21/code-templates-in-owb11gr2-part-1-introduction-and-support-for-heterogeneous-databases/] , code template mappings [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/09/21/code-templates-in-owb11gr2-part-2-introduction-to-code-template-mappings/] , hybrid mappings [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/

Oracle Open World 2009 - It's a Wrap!

Well it's 7am on Friday morning and it'll soon be time to leave Open World and travel back to the UK. I've given myself the morning off to look around SF and get some presents for the family, as since I arrived on Saturday

Calling all OWB Developers @ OOW 2009

Just a quick reminder that Antonio Romero, David Allen and I will be presenting on OWB11gR2 new features at the OOW Unconference, tomorrow at 2pm on Overlook II (Moscone West). If you're curious about how some of the new features in OWB11gR2 work, including changed data capture [https:

Day 1 at Open World

Well it's early Tuesday morning over in San Francisco and we're in the middle of a storm. Apparently we've got the tail-end of a monsoon coming over from Japan, and coupled with some local bad weather it's looks like we're

Open World Presentations Now Online

If you're interested in downloading them, our presentations from this years Oracle Open World in San Francisco are now online. You can download them in PDF format from here: * Oracle Data Integrator and BI Applications 7.9.5.2 Deep Dive [http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/OOW2009_Oracle_

Sunday's Session in the BIWA Stream

I've just finished my first two sessions of the week. The first was on the new 7.9.5.2 release of the BI Apps, that uses Oracle Data Integrator as the ETL engine rather than Informatica. I was pleased with the turnout, the room looked about 2/

Arrived in San Francisco for Oracle Open World 2009

I'm currently sitting in the Intercontinental Hotel just across the road from the Moscone Center, here courtesy of the Oracle ACE Director program and getting ready for my first presentation at 2.00pm. I arrived in San Francisco early afternoon yesterday, stayed up for a few hours and

Changed Data Capture and OWB11gR2

I'm currently sitting on the plane going over to Open World, and as I've got a few hours free I thought I'd work through some of the new features in OWB11gR2. If you followed my postings a few weeks ago on heterogeneous connectivity in

Using EPMA for Managing Hyperion Planning Applications

The Irish OUG BI Special Interest Group are running an Essbass-themed event [http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_event.jsp?id=4482] on November 11th in Dublin, and as well as delivering a session on Oracle BI EE and Essbase Integration I've also agreed to do a session

OOW BI Meetup: Change of Venue

If you're going to Open World [http://www.oracle.com/openworld] next week and were thinking about coming along to the BI Meetup [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/08/02/bi-meetup-at-open-world-san-francisco/] we were planning for the Thirsty Bear on Monday night, we've got a change

Taking a Look at Panorama and Google Apps

I'm off to Copenhagen this evening to deliver a keynote at the Danish IT Society's Business Intelligence conference [http://www.dansk-it.dk/arrangementer/1595.aspx], and as the event is not Oracle-specific I thought I'd take a look at the BI and data warehousing

Technical

Oracle Buys (Bits Of) Hyperroll

The news hit the wires last night [http://twitter.com/eddieawad/status/4479863911] that Oracle were buying (certain assets of) Hyperroll [http://www.hyperroll.com], a technology company out of Israel with a head office in the USA. Hyperroll have been around for as long as I've been

Two Days Left for 10% Early-Bird Discount for Training Days 2009, London Oct 27th-29th 2009

Just a short note to let you know that there are just two days left until the early-bird rate expires for our Training Days [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009] event later in October. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009] We've got three days of intermediate to advanced-level instruction on

Technical

Book Review : "Oracle Essbase & Oracle OLAP: The Guide to Oracle's Multidimensional Solution (Osborne Oracle Press Series)"

I've been talking with Dan Vlamis about a new book that he, Chris Claterbos and some of the Essbase team from Oracle have been putting together on Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase. Oracle Press were kind enough to send over a review copy the other week, and so

Less Than 10 Weeks To UKOUG Tech & EBS Conference, Birmingham, November 30th - Dec 2nd 2009

As the headline says, it's less than 10 weeks to the main UKOUG conference [http://techandebs.ukoug.org/], as ever held at the ICC in Birmingham, UK. This year the event is back to three days and focuses just on technology (including BI&DW) and Oracle E-Business

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 : Call for (BI & DW) Papers

ODTUG have just announced that next year's conference, ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com], will be held in Washington D.C. from June 27th - July 1st 2010, and the call for papers is now open. My first ever Kaleidoscope was in Washington back in 2006, and

Technical

Code Templates in OWB11gR2 Part 3 : Hybrid Code Template Mappings

If you've read my previous postings on how OWB11gR2 support access to non-Oracle databases [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/09/21/code-templates-in-owb11gr2-part-1-introduction-and-support-for-heterogeneous-databases/] , and allows you to create mappings that use non-Oracle sources and targets [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/09/21/code-templates-in-owb11gr2-part-2-introduction-to-code-template-mappings/] , you may we wondering

Technical

Code Templates in OWB11gR2 Part 2 : Introduction to Code Template Mappings

In the first posting in this series [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/09/21/code-templates-in-owb11gr2-part-1-introduction-and-support-for-heterogeneous-databases/] on code templates in OWB11gR2, I went through the background to the feature and showed how it provided access to both Oracle, and non-Oracle sources. In this posting I'm going to look

Technical

Code Templates in OWB11gR2 Part 1 : Introduction and Support for Heterogeneous Databases

One of the new features introduced with Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/09/09/a-look-at-the-new-features-in-owb11gr2/] is "Code Templates". This new feature allows you to develop mappings that use the "Knowledge Module" feature of Oracle Data Integrator (referred to in OWB11gR2 as

Vote For Me For the ODTUG Board 2010/2011!

Every year the ODTUG [http://www.odtug.com] board hold elections for a number of places on their board, and this year I've decided to stand for election. Over the past few years I've co-chaired the ODTUG BI&DW SIG [http://www.odtug.com/apex/

Updated and Expanded Training Curriculum

At Rittman Mead, apart from consulting our other main line of business is training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training]. We were one of the first organizations to offer Oracle BI EE training, and over the past few years we have helped train up a large number of internal development teams,