Technical Learn OBIEE 11.1.1.7 from the experts! Here at RittmanMead we write and deliver our own courses on Oracle's products including OBIEE, ODI, OWB and EPM. Our trainers also consult and deliver projects, meaning that our training is based on real-world usage of the products. We offer public courses in UK, US, India and Australia,
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 Using Oracle TimesTen With Oracle BI Applications (Part 3) In part 2 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/using-oracle-timesten-with-oracle-bi-applications-part-2/] I introduced TimesTen Columnar Compression and explained that it creates-column value look up tables so a longer data value can be replaced with a short token. If we take a traditional Fact table we have a set of (usually)
Oracle BI Suite EE Patch OBIEE the quicker way - with OPatch napply Since 2012, Oracle's patching strategy for OBIEE has been Bundle Patches released approximately once a month. These bundle patches are usually cumulative ones, applied on top of the .0 version of the product. Patching is done through Oracle’s standard OPatch tool, which manages the application of patches
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
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
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'
Technical Using Oracle TimesTen With Oracle BI Applications (Part 2) Last time I posted an introductory blog to this series of posts on using Oracle TimesTen with Oracle BI Applications (OBIA). Today, I am going to look at some of the OBIA structures and then start to explore the ways we can use TimesTen with OIBA. As TimesTen may be
Technical Using Oracle TimesTen With Oracle BI Applications (Part 1) Oracle BI Applications (OBIA) is a product for delivering industry best-practice dashboards and analysis over enterprise sources such as ERP, HR, SCM and CRM systems. OBIA includes the necessary functionality to extract data from the source systems, transform and load it to the target database's standardised data model
Oracle BI Suite EE Embedding a D3 Visualisation in OBIEE In this blog entry, my first since joining the company as a consultant a little over a month ago, I will be taking you through the process of embedding a D3 visualisation into OBIEE. In my first few weeks in this new role I've had the pleasure or
Oracle BI Suite EE Using OBIEE SampleApp 305 in VM Fusion Oracle distribute the new OBIEE SampleApp [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html] as a VirtualBox image, but it is dead easy to run it on VM Fusion instead. Here’s how: 1. Unzip the SampleApp archive files [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html] , and
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
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
Technical Configuring SSL on OEID v3.0 Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) version 3.0 now supports secure connection over HTTP, something useful for when implementing Endeca in a production environment where its expected that all security risks been controlled. Sending requests and data over unsecured HTTP is generally considered one of the more higher-risk vulnerabilities, with
Technical Oracle Endeca Information Discovery v3.0 Integration with the OBIEE 11g BI Server One of the first moves towards integrating Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) with other Oracle products is the ability to source data from an Oracle BI Server repository for loading into an Oracle Endeca Server “data domain” (the new name for an Endeca Server datastore). As mentioned in my previous
Endeca Event in Birmingham Just a quick note to highlight that we are running an Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) event at Oracle's Birmingham office on Wednesday 26th June. Providing a great opportunity to learn how OEID can complement your current BI tools, allowing you to answer previously unanswerable questions through insight
Oracle BI Suite EE 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
Oracle BI Suite EE Testing aggregate navigation on OBIEE and Exalytics One of OBIEE’s many great strengths is aggregate navigation; the ability to choose from a list of possible tables the one which will probably give the optimal performance for a given user query. Users are blissfully unaware of which particular table their query is being satisfied from, since aggregate
Technical 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
