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ODI 11g in the Enterprise Part 5: ETL Resilience and High-Availability

In this final part of our five part series on ODI 11g in the Enterprise, we'll take a look at a topic that's become increasingly important as ODI and ETL becomes more mainstream; data integration and loading routines that were once considered "nice to have&

ODI 11g in the Enterprise Part 4: Build Automation and Devops using the ODI SDK, Groovy and ODI Tools

Happy New Year! In this five-part series over the Christmas break, we've been looking at some of the more enterprise-orientated features in Oracle Data Integrator 11g, starting off with its support for multi-dimensional, message-based and big data sources and targets, and yesterday looking at its integration with Oracle

ODI 11g in the Enterprise Part 3: Data Quality and Data Profiling using Oracle EDQ

In this special Christmas Break series of postings on Oracle Data Integrator 11g, we've been looking at how ODI has moved beyond being just a relational data movement tool to one that can connect to multi-dimensional databases such as Oracle Essbase, or perform a bulk-data movement role within

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ODI11g in the Enterprise Part 2 : Data Integration using Essbase, Messaging, and Big Data Sources and Targets

In this five part series over the Christmas break, I'm taking a look at some of the lesser-known features in Oracle Data Integrator 11g, focusing on "enterprise" features such as build automation, scripting, data quality and middleware integration. If you've arrived at this post

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ODI11g in the Enterprise Part 1: Beyond Data Warehouse Table Loading

Most developers who've used Oracle Data Integrator [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/data-integrator/overview/index.html] in the past have used it to load data warehouse tables, typically from an Oracle or other relational source into a set of dimensional Oracle target tables. Some source data might

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Update on my OBIEE / Exalytics Books

Just a quick update on my two recently published books, "Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide" and "Oracle Exalytics Revealed", both of which are now published and available to purchase around the world in printed and electronic format. Here are some links to the two books on

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Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour 2012 : Venues and BI Presentations

Next week I'm honoured to be taking part in the Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour, taking in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki over four days. Organized by Heli Helskyaho (Finnish Oracle Users Group) and Sten Vesterli (Danish Oracle Users Group) along with the leaders of the Norwegian and

ADF View Objects as a Repository Data Source using OBIEE 11.1.1.6 and JDeveloper 11.1.1.6

The Application Development Framework [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/overview/index.html] (ADF) within Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g provides a data abstraction technology called ADF Business Components [http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15051_01/web.1111/b31974/bcintro.htm], that provide a Java object later over database SQL

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Oracle Exalytics, Oracle R Enterprise and Endeca Part 3 : Flight Delays Analysis using OBIEE, Endeca and Oracle R Enterprise on Exalytics

So far in this series we've looked at Oracle's BI, Big Data and Advanced Analytics strategy and seen how Exalytics can benefit both Endeca Information Discovery and Oracle R Enterprise through its 40 CPU cores and 1TB of RAM. For a recap on the two earlier

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Oracle Exalytics, Oracle R Enterprise and Endeca Part 2 : Oracle Endeca, the Advanced Analytics Option and Oracle Exalytics

In this week of postings we're going to look at Oracle Exalytics and how it enables "big data" and unstructured data analytics, using Oracle Endeca, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Big Data Appliance and the Oracle Database Advanced Analytics option. In case you've arrived via a

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Oracle Exalytics, Oracle R Enterprise and Endeca Part 1 : Oracle's Analytics, Engineered Systems, and Big Data Strategy

One of the presentations Rittman Mead gave at last week's Oracle Openworld [http://www.rittmanmead.com/openworld2012/] was entitled "High Speed, Big Data Analysis using Oracle Exalytics" [http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/oow2012_rittman_exalytics_big_data.pdf][PDF]. Although it was the last of my

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Oracle BI Developers Guide, and Oracle Exalytics Revealed, Now Available to Buy!

After what has been around five years of development, including two years of waiting for OBIEE11g and then three of desperately keeping up with 11g point releases, the Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide [http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0071798749.html] has now been published by Oracle Press / McGraw Hill

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BI, Data Warehousing and Data Integration News from Oracle Openworld 2012

This week is Oracle Openworld week in San Francisco, USA [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], with around 50,000 attendees attending Openworld itself, Java One and fringe events such as Oaktable world. Rittman Mead have had ten sessions during the week, covering topics such as OBIEE, Endeca, data warehousing, Essbase

Oracle Trusted Partitions for Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle Exalytics and Updated BI Foundation Pricing

Some interesting news from Oracle around Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine [http://rittmanmead.com/exalytics], virtualisation and licensing. An updated version of Oracle's Partitioning Policy document has recently been released which includes a new section called "Oracle Trusted Partitions for Oracle Engineered Systems" [pdf [http://www.oracle.

Oracle BI EE Management Pack Now Available for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12cR2

Ever since I wrote the an article on Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g's BI Management Pack [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/rittman-oem-bipack-087508.html], people have asked me when equivalent functionality would be available for OBIEE 11g. With the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 2 [http://www.

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Improvements to Essbase Integration in OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 : ASO Aggregate Persistence, Combined Install & Systems Management

The recent 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 patchset for OBIEE 11g provided a bunch of new features including trellis charts, Oracle BI Mobile and the repository Model Checker [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/07/obiee-11-1-1-6-2-bp1-new-features-oracle-bi-mobile-hd-and-patching-upgrade-considerations/] , but it also sneaked in another set of new features that will be

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Integrating Oracle WebCenter and Oracle BI EE Part 3 : Adding BI Content to Custom Portal Applications

In the previous two postings in this series I looked at Oracle's WebCenter Portal application at a high-level [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/09/integrating-oracle-webcenter-and-oracle-bi-ee-part-1-introducing-oracle-webcenter-portal-11g/] , and then explained how analyses and other BI content from OBIEE 11g could be added to WebCenter Portal : Spaces applications [http://www.

Integrating Oracle WebCenter and Oracle BI EE Part 2 : Adding OBIEE Content to Oracle Portal : Spaces

Earlier in the week I looked at Oracle WebCenter Portal : Spaces [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/09/integrating-oracle-webcenter-and-oracle-bi-ee-part-1-introducing-oracle-webcenter-portal-11g/] and how it was the spiritual successor to Oracle's older Oracle Portal product. I mentioned at the time that it was possible to add OBIEE content into Oracle Portal

Integrating Oracle WebCenter and Oracle BI EE Part 1 : Introducing Oracle WebCenter Portal 11g

Many years ago I wrote an article for OTN on integrating Oracle Discoverer content into Oracle Portal [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/rittman-dash-089241.html], where Discoverer (for those of you new to Oracle BI) was the predecessor to OBIEE and Oracle Portal was Oracle's enterprise portal product.

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Integrating OBIEE11g with Hyperion Shared Services Security - An Example Workaround using the HSS Security API and BISQLGroupProvider

One of our customers in the UK recently asked us to help them upgrade an existing OBIEE 10g system to the 11g release, to take advantage of the enhanced visualisations, scorecards and KPIs, iPhone and iPad clients and so on. What made this upgrade interesting is that their OBIEE 10g

Looking Towards the BI Apps 11g Part 3 : Preparing for BI Apps 11g

In the previous two postings in this three-part series, we've looked at the Oracle BI Applications product roadmap, and what new features and components the 11g release is likely to use. In this final posting, we'll try and answer a question that we often get asked

Looking Towards the BI Apps 11g Part 2 : Oracle BI Apps 11g Technology Innovations

In our previous posting in this series on the Oracle BI Applications 11g, we looked at the overall product roadmap for Oracle BI Applications 11g, and how in the next twelve months the 7.9.6.x branch that currently covers Applications Unlimited customers will eventually merge with the 11.

Looking Towards the BI Apps 11g Part 1 : BI Apps 11g Product Roadmap

Whilst this blog is most well known for articles on OBIEE, ODI, Essbase and data warehousing, many of the projects we work on are actually Oracle BI Applications implementations, out of our offices in the UK, India, USA and Australia. Recently we're getting asked more and more about

Last Week to Complete the BI Survey 11!

[Re-posted as there's just one week left to get your responses in...!] Every year we're pleased to help publicise the BI Survey [http://www.bi-survey.com/], an annual independent survey of BI tools customers organized by BARC. What's good about the BI Survey is

OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 : New Features, Oracle BI Mobile HD, and Patching & Upgrade Considerations

The long-awaited OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 [https://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportEPM/entry/obiee_11_1_1_64] (Bundle Patch 1) patchset came out late on Friday afternoon [https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/218787393694736384] and contains a number of must-see improvements and new features for Oracle Business Intelligence