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Creating Pivot Table-Specific Filters in Oracle BI Answers

If you've taken a look at the Sample Sales dashboards [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/10/14/exploring-the-new-obiee-10134-samples-sales-application-data/] that ship with OBIEE 10.1.3.4, you may have worked out that most of the dashboard pages use a single compound view containing multiple pivot tables, charts

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Using Essbase as an Aggregation Layer for Federated OBIEE Models

Now that the 11.1 release of Essbase is out [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/07/15/oracle-epm-aka-hyperion-system-95-now-available-for-download/] , together with Essbase Studio, an option that's now open to us is to use Essbase as an aggregation layer for OBIEE. You can build a single logical dimensional model

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2009 : Registration Now Open!

I'm pleased to announce that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-bi-forum-brighton-may-14th-15th-2009/], running in Brighton UK on May 14th and 15th 2009, is now open. Back in last December when we first floated the idea [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/12/10/

Update on Presentations, Writing and Seminars

Things have been a bit quiet on the blog recently, due to a lot of behind-the-scenes activity going on at Rittman Mead. Borkur and I have been finishing off our Collaborate'09 [http://oaug.collaborate09.com/agenda/] papers,with mine on optimizing the Oracle BI Applications ETL process and

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Free Half-Day Seminar in London with Mark Rittman

Rittman Mead and Oracle are organizing a free, half-day seminar in London on 1st April 2009 [http://www.opnlaunchpad.com/pages/campaigns/index.php/194/] on Oracle Business Intelligence, Hyperion and the BI Applications. During the session I'll be taking attendees through what's new in Oracle

Rittman Mead are Recruiting (Again)

Things are getting very busy now at Rittman Mead, and we're looking for someone to join us on our consulting team. If you're a regular reader of this blog, with several years of experience with the OBIEE, BI Apps, Hyperion and Oracle RDBMS/OWB toolset, an

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BI Management Pack Article now on OTN

My article on the BI Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager and OBIEE [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/rittman-oem-bipack-087508.html] is now up on OTN. If you read my earlier blog posts on this product (here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/11/18/investigating-the-oracle-bi-management-pack-for-obiee-and-dac/] , here [https://www.rittmanmead.

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 - Early Bird Rate Ends Soon

Just a short note to mention that the early bird conference rate for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/?utm_source=speaker] is ending on February 24th. If you're considering attending this event and would like to save a bit of money on the conference fee, make

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Rittman Mead and Kimball University Event

[http://www.rittmanmead.com/data-warehouse-lifecycle-in-depth/] The data warehouse continues to be one of the most organizationally complex and technically interesting projects in Information Technology. Rittman Mead are proud to announce this unique data warehousing training opportunity, in collaboration with Kimball University and Quest For Knowledge.Learn from Margy Ross and

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Comparing ODI and OWB's Data Profiling and Quality Options

Now that Oracle Data Integrator [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oracle-data-integrator/index.html] and Oracle Warehouse Builder are starting to converge [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/02/03/oracle-data-integrator-enterprise-edition/], I thought it worth taking a closer look at what's new with the 10.1.3.4

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Essbase Multi-Dimensional OLAP Analysis using OBIEE Plus and Oracle Financial Reporting

I've been working with a few customers recently who are implementing OBIEE along with Essbase. Typically they are long-standing users of Essbase, and bought OBIEE because it could integrate both their multi-dimensional Essbase data and the relational data in their data warehouse. What they were finding though was

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Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Now Available

Towards the end of last week, Oracle announced [http://blogs.oracle.com/dataintegration/2009/01/introducing_oracle_data_integrator_enterprise_edition.html] new packaging for Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Warehouse Builder. "Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition" brings together Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Oracle Warehouse Builder and the

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Analyzing BI Apps ETL Runs using OBIEE and the DAC Repository

The other week I posted an article on optimizing the Oracle B Applications ETL process [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/01/18/thoughts-on-optimizing-the-oracle-bi-apps-etl-process/] , and one useful set of diagnostic data I highlighted at the time was the ETL step timings that are available in the DAC Console. For every

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Simple Version Control for OBIEE using Subversion, VisualSVN Server and TortoiseSVN

A question I've been asked fairly regularly over the past few weeks is how you can version control the metadata used by an OBIEE project. As you're probably aware, there is no real version control built in to OBIEE (you can check-in, and check-out, repository objects

Thoughts on Optimizing the Oracle BI Apps ETL Process

This week I'm working with one of our customers who are in the first phase of implementing the Oracle BI Applications. We're still in the proof of concept phase, and something we'll need to get sorted out before embarking on the project proper is

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EPM Workspace 11.1 and OBIEE 10.1.3.4 (Updated)

Something I've been trying to get working for several weeks now, is proper integration between EPM Workspace 11.1 and the various OBIEE tools. I posted an article a few weeks ago asking whether anyone else had got it working [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/12/15/

Rittman Mead BI Forum : Call for Papers

For anyone interested in the "Experts-Level" Oracle BI Forum [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/12/10/calling-all-oracle-bi-experts-an-oracle-bi-forum-in-2009/] that we are planning to run later this year, we now have a venue and a date: The Rittman Mead Oracle BI Forum Hilton Metropole Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom 14th

Michael Armstrong-Smith Answers Your Discoverer Questions

Our good friend Michael Armstrong-Smith has just started a new initiative on his website, with a new series of free "Ask Michael" Webinars [http://www.ascbi.com/question.htm] starting January 14th 2009. Michael is well known in the Discoverer world as the author of the Oracle Press

Stop Press! New Editor for Oracle Scene!

It was the first day back at work today, and I got some early good news in the form of an email from the UKOUG telling me that I'd been elected Editor of Oracle Scene [http://www.ukoug.org/membership/index.jsp?parent=61&id=64], the

Scoble on Business Intelligence, Panorama and Google Docs

Just before I went out on New Year's Eve I noticed that Robert Scoble posted an article and video on business intelligence (part 1 [http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/31/the-story-of-2009-enterprise-disruption/], part 2 [http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer/302179-part-ii-of-changing-business-inte] ), specifically the new BI components [http://www.panorama.

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Ten Thoughts on Oracle BI&DW for 2008

Today is New Year's Eve, and a kind of review of the year, here's ten of my thoughts on what happened in Oracle B&DW in 2008. 1. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. 2008 was the year that OBIEE went from early-adopter technology (at least

So How Do Star Transformations Actually Work?

Although like most Oracle data warehousing developers, I'm aware of what a star transformation [http://www.dbazine.com/oracle/or-articles/jlewis6] is, and I can usually spot one in an execution plan. Earlier in December though I was on a customer engagement and one of the client'

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Adding Essbase Measures to Relational OBIEE Models

I'm running an especially extended version of our OBIEE developer course in early January, and the client in question wants us to include a bit more content on Essbase integration. Whilst bringing Essbase cubes into OBIEE and then reporting on them in their own subject area is good,

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OBIEE and Essbase Articles in OTN 2008 Top 10

Well there's a surprise. Justin Kestyln in his Best of 2008 : The Most Popular Tech Articles and How-To's Published This Year article [http://blogs.oracle.com/otn/2008/12/best_of_2008_the_most_popular.html] has two of my articles in the top 10. Apart

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ODI 10.1.3.5 Now Available for Download

Dain Hansen reports [http://blogs.oracle.com/dataintegration/2008/12/unwrapping_odis_newly_released.html] that the new 10.1.3.5 version of Oracle Data Integrator is now available for download, with an updated data sheet [http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/docs/odi-bi-datasheet.pdf] and new features document