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Create a Mobile BI App for iOS, Android or BlackBerry within 5 Days!

A few weeks ago I posted an article on the blog about the new Oracle BI Mobile App Designer [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/08/a-first-look-at-the-obiee11g-mobile-app-designer/] , an HTML5-based mobile app builder for OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1. BI Mobile App Designer differs from Oracle BI Mobile HD in

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Using DAC11g to Replicate BI Apps DW Tables into TimesTen

A couple of months ago Peter Scott and I wrote a series [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/using-oracle-timesten-with-oracle-bi-applications-part-1/] of [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/using-oracle-timesten-with-oracle-bi-applications-part-2/] posts [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/07/using-oracle-timesten-with-oracle-bi-applications-part-3/] on using Exalytics with the Oracle BI Apps, with the idea begin

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Diving Deeper into BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 use of ODI11g for Data Loading

A few months ago I posted a series of articles on the new BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 release [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biapps11g/], which used ODI11g in the background to perform data loads, rather than Informatica PowerCenter. Since then, I've collaborated with Accenture's

Oracle BI Suite EE

New Feature in OEM Cloud Control 12cR3 - Exalytics Server Management

A few months ago a wrote a series [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-oem12cr2-and-the-bi-management-pack-part-1-introduction-to-oem12cr2/] of [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-oem12cr2-and-the-bi-management-pack-part-2-installation-and-configuration/] posts [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-oem12cr2-and-the-bi-management-pack-part-3-but-what-does-it-do/] about the new 12cR2 release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, which re-instated the BI

Oracle BI Suite EE

Using Non-Oracle, and Cloud-Hosted Databases with OBIEE 11g

The vast majority of our customers use Oracle Database [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/overview/index.html] as the underlying data source for OBIEE 11g, sometimes on Exadata but almost always the Enterprise Edition [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/enterprise-edition/overview/index.html] of the database.

A First Look at the OBIEE11g Mobile App Designer

A few days ago you might have noticed the flurry of activity from Oracle around a new OBIEE 11g add-on called the "Oracle BI Mobile App Designer [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/bi-mobile-app-designer-1983915.html] ". Designed to complement Oracle BI Mobile HD [https://itunes.apple.com/gb/

Technical

New OTN Article: Installing and Configuring Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1

A few months ago I posted a series of articles [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/introduction-to-the-bi-apps-11-1-1-7-1-release-overview/] on our blog about the new 11.1.1.7.1 release of the BI Applications [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biapps11g/], focusing on the new ODI 11g-based architecture and its supporting utilities.

Inside My Home Office Development Lab (VMWare, OS X Server)

A little bit off-topic for once, but I thought one or two readers might be interested in the setup I've got back at my home office, for testing out and developing stuff around Oracle BI. Like most Oracle tech enthusiasts, I've been a long-time user of

Oracle BI Suite EE

Conclusions on Storing Detail-Level Data in Oracle Exalytics

Last week I wrote a blog post on the topic of storing lots of detail-level data in Oracle Exalytics [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/07/storing-detail-level-data-in-oracle-exalytics/] , not the primary use-case for the product but something we're increasingly asked about. Most implementations of Exalytics use OBIEE's

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Optimizing TimesTen for Exalytics Queries using TimesTen's Index Advisor

Late last week I posted an article on our blog on loading detail-level data into Exalytics [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/07/storing-detail-level-data-in-oracle-exalytics/] ; whilst the article was intended really as an introduction to Essbase Aggregate Storage Option, and how it could offer an alternative to TimesTen when storing large

Oracle BI Suite EE

Storing Detail-Level Data in Oracle Exalytics

Although the primary use-case for TimesTen within Oracle Exalytics is to store relatively-small aggregate tables created using the Summary Advisor [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2012/12-may/o32bi-1578015.html] , many customers have asked us whether it's possible to store their entire reporting dataset in TimesTen. With 1TB

Oracle BI Suite EE

Rittman Mead BI Masterclass Tour: India, October 2013- Register Now!

I'm very pleased to announce a one-off Rittman Mead BI Masterclass Tour [http://www.rittmanmead.com/indiabimasterclass2013/] that we're organising, in partnership with ODTUG, to take place in India in October 2013. Along with the US and UK, India has the largest amount of readers of

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Exalytics X3-4 Now Available, 2TB RAM + SSD and Supports OBIEE 11.1.1.7

It's been on the Oracle Tech Price list for a while now, but Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4 was officially launched this week, with headline new features of 2TB of RAM (up from 1TB in the earlier, X2-4 version), and 2.4TB of SSD flash disk. This new

Oracle BI Suite EE

Accelerating Hadoop/Hive OBIEE Queries Using Exalytics and the Summary Advisor

A few weeks ago I blogged about the new Hadoop/Hive support in OBIEE 11.1.1.7 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-2-connecting-obiee-11-1-1-7-to-hadoop-data-sources/] , and how it enables users to query "big data" sources with no need to know Hadoop or MapReduce. As this feature is

Technical

Oracle Database 12cR1 - New Features for BI & DW

Oracle Database 12c Release 1 [http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1967380] came out last week, initially available for 64-bit Linux and Solaris (SPARC and x86_64), with the Windows and other versions presumably due over the next few months. So what's in this new release for

Take Part in the BI Survey 13 - Have Your Voice Heard!

Long-term readers of this blog will know that we've supported for many years the BI Survey [http://www.bi-survey.com/index.php], an independent survey of BI tools customers and implementors. Rittman Mead have no (financial or other) interest in the BI Survey or its organisers, but we

Technical

Using the Exalytics Summary Advisor and Oracle BI Apps 7.9.6.4

Peter Scott is currently mid-way through a series of posts on our blog on replicating parts of the BI Apps data warehouse into TimesTen [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/using-oracle-timesten-with-oracle-bi-applications-part-1/] , as a potential way for running all or part of the BI Apps "in-memory". We'

Oracle BI Suite EE

New With OBIEE 11.1.1.7 and SampleApp v305 - Essbase Cube Spin-Off

Now that the new v305 OBIEE SampleApp that we previewed in May [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/previewing-the-new-obiee-11-1-1-7-sampleapp/] is out, I thought it'd be a good time to take a look at an experimental feature added into OBIEE 11.1.1.7's logical SQL

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Photos and Presentation Downloads from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013, Brighton & Atlanta

Well, we're all back home now after two very successful Rittman Mead BI Forum events [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013] in Brighton [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/previewing-the-brighton-bi-forum-2013/] , and then Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/agenda-and-details-for-the-atlanta-rm-bi-forum-2013/] , earlier this month in May 2013. Around

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Introduction to the BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 - Use of ODI11g for ETL

In the two previous postings in this series on the Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1, we looked at the release at a high-level [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/introduction-to-the-bi-apps-11-1-1-7-1-release-overview/] , and then at the product architecture including the new configuration and functional setup tools [http://www.

Agenda and Details for the Atlanta RM BI Forum 2013

Well, Brighton is now a wrap and we're all now over in Atlanta, getting ready for the second leg of the 2013 Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013], running from this Wednesday, 15th May 2013 through to Friday, 17th May. Photos from the Brighton event

Oracle BI Suite EE

Introduction to the BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 - Product Architecture & New Configuration Tools

In my previous posting in this series [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/introduction-to-the-bi-apps-11-1-1-7-1-release-overview/] , I looked at the new 11.1.1..7.1 release of the Oracle BI Applications at a high-level, and talked about how this new release uses ODI as the embedded ETL tool instead of

Oracle BI Suite EE

Introduction to the BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 - Release Overview

The long-awaited and anticipated 11.1.1.7.1 (PS1) release of the Oracle BI Applications became available early last week, with thesoftware [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bus-intelligence-11g-165436.html] anddocumentation [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/documentation/bi-apps-098545.html] available for download on OTN. Over

Oracle BI Suite EE

Agenda and Details for the Brighton RM BI Forum 2013

It's Tuesday morning, and later today delegates will be starting to arrive in Brighton for the 5th Annual Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013], running again at the Hotel Seattle [http://www.hotelseattlebrighton.com] down at Brighton Marina. Around seventy of Europe's most

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Previewing the BI Forum 2013 Data Integration Masterclass

I guess it's a British thing to not blow our own trumpet (does that translate the same over in the US?), but something I'm particularly proud about with the upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 events [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013] is our Oracle Data Integration