Stewart Bryson - Rittman Mead

Preview of the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta

Mark has done a great job of previewing the upcoming content for both BI Forums, the one running locally for us in Atlanta, as well as the one in Brighton, UK. We have an exceptional Master Class this year with Lars George from Cloudera [https://twitter.com/larsgeorge], including an

Oracle BI Suite EE

Using Groovy instead of WLST for OBIEE Systems Management

I remember some years back when Rittman Mead first received the OBIEE 11g beta and I tried installing it for the first time. It was a nightmare. If you think the 11.1.1.3 release was challenging, you should have tried working with any one of the betas. It

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New OTN Article: Making the Move from Oracle Warehouse Builder to Oracle Data Integrator 12c

One of the reasons I've been silent on the blog lately regarding new Oracle Data Integrator 12c content (even though I promised it some months ago [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/10/odi-12c-journey/]) is because I've been writing an article focused on migration options from

Oracle BI Suite EE

Automated RPD Builds with OBIEE

Introduction Some time ago, I wrapped up a four-part series on using MDS XML as a basis for RPD development [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/mds-xml1/]. Of course... you can (re-) read the blog posts to get up to speed on the concept... but I'll offer

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My Journey to ODI 12c

Most readers of this blog probably know me for my time spent with OBIEE (especially my work in repository development), but I'm guessing some of you long-time readers know that I grew up working with the Oracle Database. Many and many a year ago, I was a fledging

Oracle BI Suite EE

MDS XML versus MUDE Part 4: Simple Multi-Branch Development

After getting our MDS XML repository ready for development in the last post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/07/mds-xml3/], I am ready to demonstrate what multi-user development without MUDE would look like using Git as our version control system (VCS). Let me apologize for the slightly different username

Oracle BI Suite EE

MDS XML versus MUDE Part 3: Configuring MDS XML with Git

In the previous installment of this series [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/mds-xml2/], I gave an overview of MUDE (multi-user development environment), and described it's strengths and weaknesses, hopefully presenting a fair assessment on both sides. For a recap, here are three properties that I think

Oracle BI Suite EE

MDS XML versus MUDE Part 2: What is MUDE?

Mark Rittman once joked during a presentation on OBIEE and SCM that "MUDE" (multiuser development environment) was the closest thing to a dirty word in the OBIEE documentation. I know many people who feel that way... some justified, some perhaps not, as MUDE has certainly gotten better in

Oracle BI Suite EE

MDS XML versus MUDE Part1: Introduction

The links below represent all the entries in this series: MDS XML versus MUDE Part 2: What is MUDE? [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/mds-xml2/] MDS XML versus MUDE Part 3: Configuring MDS XML with Git [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/07/mds-xml3/] MDS XML versus MUDE

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Rittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta Special Guest: Alex Gorbachev

A few days back, I introduced our special guests [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/rittman-mead-bi-forum-atlanta-special-guest-cary-millsap/] for the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta, focusing first on Cary Millsap. Today I'd like to talk about our other special guest: Oracle ACE Director Alex Gorbachev [https://twitter.com/

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Rittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta Special Guest: Cary Millsap

I feel like I'm introducing the Beatles... though I think Kellyn Pot'Vin [https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar] calls them the "DBA Gods" [http://dbakevlar.com/author/kpedersen/]. Today I'll be talking about Cary Millsap, and tomorrow I'll introduce our other special

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Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 5: Complex Facts

I've finally gotten around to finishing this series... I believe it's actually been a year in the making. I'm planning on being more proactive with getting content on the blog. Actually... the main reason I'm putting this one to bed is I

Business Insights

BIWA 2013 Welcome Reception

You may have seen information on our website about the BIWA Summit [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biwa2013/] and how excited we are to be attending. It's great to have a separate BIWA event again, and to help ensure it's success, Rittman Mead has decided to be

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Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 4: Complex Dimensions

You guessed it... more on transactional schemas. For a quick recap, here are the posts to date: Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 1: Introduction [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/06/using-obiee-against-transactional-schemas-part-1-introduction/] Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 2: Aliases [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/08/using-obiee-against-transactional-schemas-part-2-aliases/] Using

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Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 3: Simple Dimensions and Facts

This could be the longest series of blog posts in Rittman Mead history... not in number of posts (this is only the third), but in length of time from start to finish. I don't think that's a record anyone is actively pursuing, nor am I proud

Technical

The PIVOT Clause is Only for Aggregates

We briefly interrupt the transactional schemas [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/06/using-obiee-against-transactional-schemas-part-1-introduction/] series for this important message: the PIVOT clause of SELECT is only for aggregates! When Oracle added the PIVOT and UNPIVOT operators in Database 11g, at first, I was hopeful. It certainly scratched an itch that

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Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 2: Aliases

It seems like a different life when I posted the introduction to reporting against transactional schemas [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/06/using-obiee-against-transactional-schemas-part-1-introduction/] . Since that time, we've had some exciting new customers come aboard, which has required a lot of my time (and which I have been

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Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 1: Introduction

What’s the pervasive myth surrounding the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) product suite? OBIEE is only useful for reporting against star schemas. It’s true that the Business Model and Mapping (BMM) layer in OBIEE always presents a dimensional model, or star schema, to report developers, but our

Business Insights

ODTUG Kscope 2012 BI Track's Interactive Mad-Dash-Boards

Sorry to break in on Mark's Endeca series this week, but I wanted to give a quick update on some ODTUG Kscope 2012 news. It's tradition at Kscope to follow the Monday Night Keynote presentation with a series of track-specific, fun-and-learning events [http://kscope12.com/events/

Real-Time BI with Kevin & Stewart: New internet "talk show"

Kevin McGinley and myself have created a new internet talk show, airing on YouTube and Vimeo, called "Real-Time BI with Kevin & Stewart". Kevin, if you recall, is teaching the Master Class at the BI Forum this year, and I also interviewed [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/

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Interview with Kevin McGinley, BI Content Lead for Kscope 12

Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Kevin McGinley of Accenture to discuss the upcoming ODTUG Kscope 12. I was on the content selection committee, and immediately recognized how lucky ODTUG was to have Kevin coordinating this process. We had tough choices to make around content -- this is always the

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Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: ETL Iteration

This is the fourth entry in my series on Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. To see all the previous posts, check theintroductory posting [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-data-warehousing-with-exadata-and-obiee-introduction/] which I have updated with all the entries in the series. In the last post, I describe

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Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: Model-Driven Iteration

After laying the groundwork with anintroduction [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-data-warehousing-with-exadata-and-obiee-introduction/] , and following up with a high-level description of the requiredpuzzle pieces [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-exadata-obiee-puzzle-pieces/], it's time to get down to business and describe how Extreme BI works. At Rittman

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Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: Puzzle Pieces

In the previous post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-data-warehousing-with-exadata-and-obiee-introduction/] , I laid the groundwork for describing Extreme BI: a combination of Exadata and OBIEE delivered with an Agile spirit. I discussed that the usual approach to Agile data warehousing is not Agile at all due to the violation

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Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: Introduction

Over the last year, I've been speaking at conferences on one subject more than any others: Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. Although I've been busy with client work and growing the US business, I realize I need to dedicate more time to blogging again,