Mark Rittman

Principle The "Act As" or Proxy functionality gives the opportunity to some users to run the dashboards, the reports, ... as someone else. Once you are logged into OBIEE dashboards, you can “act as” a list of predefined users, this feature is useful to check credentials, move/configure “my

I'm currently sitting in the departures lounge at Washington Dulles, waiting for my flight back to London. Yesterday was the first day of the BIWA Summit [http://ioug.itconvergence.com/pls/apex/f?p=219:34:6543059710389042::NO:::], and whilst it's also going on today I&

In this next posting on building an Oracle Real-Time Decisions project (part 1 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/27/creating-a-real-time-decisions-project-day-1/], part2 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/27/creating-a-real-time-decisions-project-day-2/] and part 3 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/29/creating-a-real-time-decisions-project-day-3/] are here if you've

Over the past two [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/27/creating-a-real-time-decisions-project-day-1/] days [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/27/creating-a-real-time-decisions-project-day-2/], we've taken an initial look at Oracle Real-Time Decisions (RTD), come up with a scenario with which we can build an RTD demo, and yesterday

Canals - check. Cobbled streets - check. Trams and lots of bicycles - check. Erotic shops - check. Refreshingly liberal attitudes and some eye-watering channels on the hotel TV - check. It can only be the Netherlands, and I'm over here staying at a rather nice hotel in

And for my next trick, I shall be .... building an Oracle Real-Time Decisions project. For anyone who didn't catch the posting on this blog [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/04/19/a-first-look-at-oracle-real-time-decisions/] earlier this year, Real-Time Decisions [http://www.oracle.com/applications/crm/siebel/business-analytics/real-time-decisions.html]

Now that Essbase is more or less up and running [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/22/getting-up-and-running-with-essbase-part-2/#comment-20980] , what else is there to do on a twelve-hour flight except put a couple of Essbase cubes together, to see how the process works and compare it to Analytic Workspace

Now that I’ve got Hyperion Essbase installed and seemingly working OK [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/22/getting-up-and-running-with-essbase-part-2/], I thought it worth taking a look through the Essbase manuals to try and get a feel for how Essbase works. In particular, I’m looking to see what

Yesterday [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/22/getting-up-and-running-with-essbase-part-1/] I looked at installing Hyperion Shared Services, as a prerequisite step for installing Hyperion Essbase. Today, I'm going to install the Essbase tools proper, so that tomorrow I can start pulling some data into an Essbase cube. The

Well, that's it for now, I'm waiting in the airport to catch my flight back to the UK, after running the last of the BI seminars in Auckland yesterday. Another good turnout, a very nice audience made up of customers and partners, and the seminar itself

Now that I've got a bit of spare time (and a 24 hour flight ahead of me), I thought it was about time I got to grips with Essbase and the various Hyperion tools now available for download on http://edelivery.oracle.com. Essbase, like Oracle OLAP, is

I'm just packing up my stuff now, about to leave the Sydney Harbour Marriott and fly over to Auckland later on today. Like Melbourne, Sydney went really well, a really nice audience, good turnout (25) and a good venue. It's been really nice doing the seminars

I've been doing a bit of research on the history of Oracle's BI tools, for the keynote I'm doing at the BIWA event next month, and in particular I've been taking a look back at the history of what is now Oracle

Well that's the first one done then, and I'm pleased to say I think it went fairly well. The event was held at a training centre just a couple of blocks away from my hotel, just over the river, and I bumped into one of the

Just a quick posting before I wander over to the training center for the first seminar. I arrived in Melbourne yesterday morning about 9.30am, about 30 hours since I left Heathrow on Friday. This is the second time I've been in Australia, and again I can'

It's just before 6am on Sunday morning, and I'm sitting in the departures lounge at Auckland Airport waiting for my final flight through to Melbourne. My journey started off on Friday morning with a train trip up to London, then across to Heathrow for my initial

A quick advert for some forthcoming Enterprise BI Seminars in Sweden [http://www.oracle.com/global/se/education/eblast/se_mark_rittman_bi_seminar_october_240807_ol.html] , Hungary [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/show_desc.redirect?dc=D48573_946979&p_org_id=8&lang=HU&

"Are Relational Databases Obsolete?" [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/06/1527258] asks Slashdot, pointing to this article [http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9034619] by Michael Stonebraker in Computerworld. Oh no I think, here we go again, another article

One bit of feedback I received after running my last BI seminar, was that people were interested in interoperability between the new BIEE tools and the Standard Edition tools they were currently using. Whilst most people were keen to hear about what’s new, the reality is that they need

I've been "heads-down" working up in Canary Wharf over the last month (with Adrian Billington [http://www.oracle-developer.net/] actually, which has been a pleasure) and in my spare time putting seminar and course material together, but one thing that's kept me going is