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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

New Oracle Magazine Article on Integrating OBIEE 11g with Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

[http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2013/13-may/o33bi-1935580.html] Just a short note to say that my latest Oracle Magazine article is now online, and talks about integrating OBIEE 11g with Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces, the "spiritual successor" to Oracle Portal. "New Spaces for BI"

Oracle BI Suite EE

An Oracle BI "Blast from the Past": Ten Products from Oracle's BI History You May Not Have Heard Of...

With Oracle BI Enterprise Edition [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/index.html], the BI Apps andHyperion EPM Suite [http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/performance-management/038419.html] , Oracle have a set of reporting and analysis tools that can be considered "best of breed" and compete

Oracle BI Suite EE

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 4: Hive Data Transformation & Integration via ODI 11g

In the previous three articles in this series (and well done for everyone that's still with us), we looked at how OBIEE 11.1.1.7 and ODI 11.1.1.6+ can access Hadoop data sources [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-1-so-what-is-hadoop-mapreduce-and-hive/] via a related

Oracle BI Suite EE

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 3: A Closer Look at Hive, HFDS and Cloudera CDH3

In the first two parts in this series, I looked at the recently-added support for Apache Hadoop as a data source for OBIEE 11.1.1.7 and ODI 11.1.1.6 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-1-so-what-is-hadoop-mapreduce-and-hive/] , and explained how the Hadoop support was really enabled

Oracle BI Suite EE

SmartView as the Replacement for BI Office with OBIEE 11.1.1.7

Apart from system-wide improvements to Essbase integration across OBIEE 11.1.1.7 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/essbase-and-epm-integration-improvements-in-obiee-11-1-1-7/] , the other Essbase-related improvement that came with this latest release was the (re-)introduction of SmartView as the replacement for Oracle BI Add-in for Microsoft Office ("BI Office&

Oracle BI Suite EE

Essbase and EPM Integration Improvements in OBIEE 11.1.1.7

One of the major new feature areas in OBIEE 11.1.1.7, but which has so far got very little attention, is the significant improvement in integration between Essbase, the Hyperion EPM Suite, and OBIEE 11g. The integration between EPM Workspace and OBIEE's Presentation Services which disappeared

Oracle BI Suite EE

Previewing the New OBIEE 11.1.1.7 SampleApp

OBIEE 11.1.1.7 came out a few weeks ago [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-11-1-1-7-now-available-for-download/] , and recently we looked at Hadoop integration [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-2-connecting-obiee-11-1-1-7-to-hadoop-data-sources/] , one of the more interesting new features in this release. Over the next week I'

Oracle BI Suite EE

Using SampleApp Scripts to run a Simple OBIEE 11g Load Test

If you've not done so already, I'd advise anyone interested in OBIEE 11g to subscribe to the Oracle BI Tech Demos channel on Youtube [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXpjKAy010SDUXmAA67DILg], where Philippe Lions and his team showcase upcoming SampleApp releases, and highlight new features like SmartView

Technical

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/

Technical

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 2: Connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to Hadoop Data Sources

In yesterday's post I looked at the key enabling technologies behind OBIEE and ODI's connectivity to Hadoop [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-1-so-what-is-hadoop-mapreduce-and-hive/?preview=true] , and today I'll look at how OBIEE 11.1.1.7 can now access Hadoop data sources

Technical

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 1: So What Is Hadoop, MapReduce and Hive?

Recent releases of OBIEE and ODI have included support for Apache Hadoop [http://hadoop.apache.org] as a data source, probably the most well-recognised technology within the "big data" [http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/big-data/index.html] movement. Most OBIEE and ODI developers have probably heard of

OBIEE, OEM12cR2 and the BI Management Pack Part 3: But What Does It Do?

In the previous two posts in this series, I looked at the product architecture for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12cR2 (EM12cR2) Cloud Control and the BI Management Pack [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-oem12cr2-and-the-bi-management-pack-part-1-introduction-to-oem12cr2/] , and how you registered OBIEE, TimesTen, Essbase and the DAC as targets for monitoring and

Technical

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

OBIEE, OEM12cR2 and the BI Management Pack Part 2: Installation and Configuration

In the previous post in this series, we looked at what Oracle Enterprise Manager 12cR2 and the BI Management Pack could do for OBIEE 11g admins [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-oem12cr2-and-the-bi-management-pack-part-1-introduction-to-oem12cr2/] , and how it manages a number of Oracle products from the database through to Fusion Middleware

Technical

OBIEE, OEM12cR2 and the BI Management Pack Part 1: Introduction to OEM12cR2

A few years ago I wrote a series of blog posts, and an OTN article, on managing OBIEE 10g using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR4 and the BI Management Pack [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/rittman-oem-bipack-087508.html], an extra-licensable option for OEM that provided additional management capabilities for OBIEE and

Technical

What's Coming at the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013, Atlanta, May 15th - 17th 2013

At the end of last week I talked about what we had planned for the BI Forum in Brighton, and today I want to talk about what we've got planned for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 in Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/], running the week after

Technical

Some Upcoming Events

It’s going to be a busy few weeks leading up to the BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/]. First, Rittman Mead will be exhibiting at the UKOUG Engineered Systems Summit [http://www.ukoug.org/what-we-offer/news/ukoug-engineered-systems-summit/] on Tuesday 16th April, this is a one day event in

Technical

Interview with Toby Potter from DataSift - Social Data and Business Intelligence

With the BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/] fast approaching, Toby Potter from DataSift agreed to an interview for the blog, to discuss social data, it's value and how it can be combined with other business intelligence. Toby will be one of the guest speakers at the

Technical

Incremental refresh of Exalytics aggregates using native BI Server capabilities

One of the key design features of the Exalytics In-Memory Machine [http://www.oracle.com/uk/solutions/ent-performance-bi/business-intelligence/exalytics-bi-machine/overview/index.html] is the use of aggregates (pre-calculated summary data), held in the TimesTen In-Memory database. Out of the box (“OotB”) these aggregates are built through the OBIEE tool,

Technical

GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match... Part 2: Replicate to Staging and Foundation

It has been quite a hectic month since my last post, GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator – A Perfect Match Part 1: Introduction [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/02/goldengate-and-oracle-data-integrator-a-perfect-match-part-1/] . Plenty of client work and delivery of two ODI 11g Bootcamp training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training/trn-403-odi-11g-bootcamp/] courses have

Technical

Looking forward the BI Forum 2013, Brighton UK

It's around a month to go now until the Rittman Mead BI Forum runs in Brighton, UK, with the Atlanta event running the week after. Full details on both events are on the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 homepage [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/], but I thought it&

ODI 11.1.1.7 Also Available for Download

As well as the 11.1.1.7 release of OBIEE, this week saw the 11.1.1.7 release of Oracle Data Integrator 11g [https://blogs.oracle.com/dataintegration/entry/oracle_releases_oracle_data_integrator2] , Oracle's long-term strategic data integration tool. Unlike the OBIEE 11.1.1.

Technical

Upgrading OBIEE to 11.1.1.7

OBIEE 11.1.1.7 was released earlier this week, and brings with it the usual delights and challenges of the Fusion Middleware (FMW) platform. Because OBIEE is part of Fusion Middleware, and because it is made up of OBIEE-specific components (such as the BI Server) and FMW-generic components (such

OBIEE 11.1.1.7 Now Available for Download

OBIEE 11.1.1.7 became generally available ("G.A.") [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bi-downloads-1923016.html] over the long Easter weekend, for Microsoft Windows 32/64-bit and all the usual Unix and Linux platforms. We'll have more on this blog over the