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Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3

Oracle issued their quarterly Critical Patch Update [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html] yesterday, and with it notice of several security issues of note: * The most serious for OBIEE (CVE-2013-2186 [https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-2186]) rates 7.5 (out of 10) on

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Options for Enabling ODI11g+12c Standalone Agents for High-Availability (or ... Why JEE Agents are the Best Option)

A few years ago we posted some articles on the blog around Oracle Data Integrator ETL restartability and resilience [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/01/odi-11g-in-the-enterprise-part-5-etl-resilience-and-high-availability/] , and making ODI’s agents highly-availabile [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/11/clustering-odi11g-for-high-availability-part-1-introduction-and-architecture/] . The context around those posts was a large data

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Essbase Studio checkModelInSyncExternal Error

This week I am back at one of my favourite clients to assist with some issues since the latest upgrade to 11.1.1.9. These guys are seriously technical and know their stuff, so when issues pop up I'm always ready for an interesting and challenging day

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How Engaged Are Your OBIEE Users?

Following on from Jon's blog post “User Engagement: Why does it matter?” [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/user-engagement-why-does-it-matter/], I would like to take this one step further by talking about measurement. At Rittman Mead we believe that if you can't measure it, you can&

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Rittman Mead at ODTUG KScope'15, Hollywood Florida

ODTUG KScope’15 [http://kscope15.com] is running in Hollywood, Florida next week and Rittman Mead are running a number of sessions during the week on OBIEE, Essbase, ODI and Big Data. I’ve personally been attending ODTUG KScope (or “Kaleidoscope”, as it used to be known) for many years

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Replicating Hive Data Into Oracle BI Cloud Service for Visual Analyzer using BICS Data Sync

In yesterday’s post on using Oracle Big Data Discovery with Oracle Visual Analyzer in Oracle BI Cloud Service [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/combining-oracle-big-data-discovery-and-oracle-visual-analyzer-on-bics/] , I said mid-way through the article that I had to copy the Hadoop data into BI Cloud Service so that Visual Analyzer could

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Introducing Rittman Mead's New User Engagement Service

[http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/RMA-UE-Datasheet.pdf] Although you’ve been hearing a lot on the blog recently about extending Oracle BI&DW with Hadoop and big data technologies, another initiative Rittman Mead have been working on over the past couple of months is user engagement.

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Combining Oracle Big Data Discovery and Oracle Visual Analyzer on BICS

So now that Oracle Visual Analyzer is out as part of Oracle BI Cloud Service [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/new-in-oracle-bi-cloud-service-oracle-visual-analyzer-and-data-mashups-in-va/] , and Visual Analyzer (VA) is due to ship on-premise as part of OBIEE12c sometime in the next twelve months, several of our customers have asked us if

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Can Better Visual Design Impact User Engagement?

Background For every dashboard succinctly displaying key business metrics, there’s another that is a set of unconnected graphs which don’t provide any insight to its viewers. In order for your users to get value from your business intelligence and analytics systems they need to be engaging, they need

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Practical Tips for Oracle BI Applications 11g Implementations

As with any product or technology, the more you use it the more you learn about the "right" way to do things. Some of my experiences implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11g have led me to compile a few tips that will improve the overall process for installation

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New In Oracle BI Cloud Service - Oracle Visual Analyzer, and Data Mashups in VA

Oracle released an update to Oracle BI Cloud Service a few weeks ago that included Oracle Visual Analyzer, along with some other improvements including support for full Oracle Database-as-a-Service as the database backend, the ability to upload RPDs and run them in the cloud, and support for a new utility

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User Engagement - Why Does it Matter?

The value of any system can be measured by how often you interact with it. The perfect example is Slack [https://slack.com/], which is now seen as the most successful collaboration app ever [http://innov8tiv.com/slack-successful-online-collaboration-app-ever-valued-1-2-billion/] and is valued at $1.2bn. The key metric for this is

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OBIEE 11.1.1.9: New Features for Front-End Developers and Business Users

OBIEE 11.1.1.9 [https://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportEPM/entry/obiee_111190] was released this May and Robin and Mark wrote great posts about New Features from System Administrators [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/05/whats-new-in-obiee-11-1-1-9-for-systems-administrators-and-developers/] and the new support for HiveServer2 and Cloudera Impala [https://www.rittmanmead.

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Deploying Oracle BI Mobile HD within Good, Oracle OMSS and Other Secure MDM Containers

A few months ago ODTUG announced their ODTUG Mobile Day in Utrecht, Netherlands [http://www.odtug.com/mobile_day_utrecht] and asked if I’d like to put forward an abstract for a presentation. Something that’s been on my mind for a while is the issues some of our

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New Oracle Magazine article on Oracle BI Cloud Service

The May/June 2015 edition of Oracle Magazine is now out, and my Business Intelligence article in this edition is on Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). In “Upload, Model, Analyze and Report” [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-may/o35ba-2541604.html] I focus on the “departmental power-user” use-case where

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Connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.9 to Hive, HBase and Impala Tables for a DW-Offloading Project

In two previous posts this week I talk about a client request to offload part of their data warehouse top Hadoop, taking data from a source application and loading it into Hive tables on Hadoop for subsequent reporting-on by OBIEE11g. In the first post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/

Loading, Updating and Deleting From HBase Tables using HiveQL and Python

Earlier in the week [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/05/using-hbase-impala-dw-offloading/] I blogged about a customer looking to offload part of the data warehouse platform to Hadoop, extracting data from a source system and then incrementally loading data into HBase and Hive before analysing it using OBIEE11g. One of

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Using HBase and Impala to Add Update and Delete Capability to Hive DW Tables, and Improve Query Response Times

One of our customers is looking to offload part of their data warehouse platform to Hadoop, extracting data out of a source system and loading it into Apache Hive tables for subsequent querying using OBIEE11g. One of the challenges that the project faces though is how to handle updates to

Big Data

OBIEE 11.1.1.9 Now Supports HiveServer2 and Cloudera Impala

As you all probably know I’m a big fan of Oracle’s BI and Big Data products [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/optional-masterclass-delivering-the-oracle-information-management-big-data-reference-architecture/] , but something I’ve been critical of [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/connecting-obiee11g-on-windows-to-a-kerberos-secured-cdh5-hadoop-cluster-using-cloudera-hiveserver2-odbc-drivers/] is OBIEE11g’s lack of support for HiveServer2 connections to Hadoop

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Presentation Slides and Photos from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, Brighton and Atlanta

It’s now the Saturday after the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] events, last week in Atlanta, GA and the week before in Brighton, UK. Both events were a great success and I’d like to say thanks to the speakers, attendees, our friends

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What's New in OBIEE 11.1.1.9 for Systems Administrators and Developers

After over two years since the last major release of OBIEE, Oracle released version 11.1.1.9 in May 2015. You can find the installers here [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bi-downloads-2537285.html] and documentation here [https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/11119/biee/docs.htm]. 11.

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Some Oracle Big Data Discovery Tips and Techniques

I’ve been using Oracle Big Data Discovery for a couple of months now, and one of the sessions I’m delivering at this week’s Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 in Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015] is on Big Data Discovery Examples from the Field, co-presented with Tim

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Final Agenda for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Atlanta - Running this Week!

It’s the Monday before the AtlantaRittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], and delegates will start to arrive in Atlanta tomorrow and during the rest of the week. The first event in Brighton was excellent, and we’re hoping for something even better in Atlanta this

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Just Under a Week to go Until the Atlanta BI Forum 2015 - Places Still Available!

The Rittman Mead Brighton BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] is now underway, with presentations from Oracle, Rittman Mead, partners and customers on a range of topics around Oracle BI, DW and Big Data. So far this week we’ve had a one-day masterclass from myself and Jordan

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One Day to the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 - Here's the Agenda!

It’s the night before the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], and some delegates are already here ready for the masterclass tomorrow. Everyone else will either be arriving later in the day for the drinks reception, Oracle Keynote and dinner, or getting here early