OBIEE 11.1.1.5 SampleApp Now Available for Download A few weeks ago I posted a preview of the new 11.1.1.5 version of the OBIEE 11g Sample App [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/06/previewing-the-obiee-11-1-1-5-sampleapp/], and I'm pleased to see now that it's now available for download on OTN [http://www.
Oracle OLAP 11gR2 and Single-line Indexed Attributes Just a quick post today to demonstrate an issue I ran into with an Oracle OLAP 11gR2 dimension today. I was maintaining the dimension when I encountered the following error: [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/05273single-level-dimensions.png] I found Oracle support document1258925.1 [https://support.oracle.
Business Insights A BI Developers' Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2011 A couple of people have asked me how they should plan for the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2011 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html], running in San Francisco on October 2-6th. If you've never been to OpenWorld before, and perhaps you're looking to make a case
Rittman Mead Australia is Hiring I must admit that I am riding on the back of one of Stewarts postings from back in May 2010, so the wording may sound familiar to those who are regulars to this site. Rittman Mead Oceania is now hiring and is looking to hear from talented professionals…. (Ok, this
Oracle BI Suite EE Real-time BI: EDW with a Real-time Component I apologize for the long delay in getting this last portion of the Real-time discussion in place. Since I wrote the first two installments, we've had the BI Forum (US and UK versions), plus a flurry of activity around Rittman Mead in the US, followed up by KScope11.
Business Insights OBIEE 11g Bootcamp Scheduled for August 1st - 5th in Atlanta This is just a quick note to announce that we have scheduled another OBIEE 11g Bootcamp course in Atlanta in early August. We've been working on the OBIEE 11g material since we received the first beta release, and we've run successive versions of this material through
InSync11 – Sydney Convention Centre – Aug 16th–17th August 16th and 17th marks the annual InSync11 conference in Sydney Australia. Hosted by AUSOUG, OAUG, Quest and Partnered by Oracle, the conference will provide a insight into Oracle products and additionally what Oracle users are producing from those. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/InSync11_EmailSig_SAVEDATE.
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle BI EE 11g - Reporting on Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) - Part 1 This has been my second longest sabbatical since i started blogging 4.5 years back. More than a month since my last post. Rather than going into the reasons of why(& sounding cliched) i thought i will kick start my postings again with one another new BI EE 11g
Oracle BI Suite EE OBIEE Calculations, MDX Functions, Flattened Measures, and Essbase Sources When you starting working with Essbase sources and OBIEE, how you create calculations quickly becomes one of the more interesting aspects of working with the two technologies. With Essbase, you've got a powerful multi-dimensional database that features many functions and calculation capabilities that you'd like to
Business Insights Rittman Mead at ODTUG Kscope 2011 I'm still not used to saying "Kscope"... it sounds like a medical screening that I know I should get when I turn 40. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the event for all the usual reasons: seeing good friends, seeing all the great speakers in
Oracle BI Suite EE Incremental Essbase Metadata Imports Now Possible with OBIEE 11g If you were an early adopter of Essbase integration with OBIEE, the 10g release had a number of restrictions that made it hard to use in production. Chief amongst these was the lack of any ability to refresh the physical model of the Essbase database within the Oracle BI Repository,
Oracle BI Suite EE What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2011? Back in 2009, I wrote a blog post entitled "What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2009" [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/03/what-skills-does-an-oracle-bi-developer-need-in-2009/] . At the time, OBIEE 11g was in the planning stage, Oracle had recently acquired Hyperion and so Essbase and Planning were
Technical Rittman Mead at the UKOUG EPM Conference, July 2011 Over the past few days the UKOUG has been running it's UKOUG Conference Series: EPM & Hyperion 2011 [http://hyperion.ukoug.org/] event in Weybridge, near London, and Jon Mead and I went along yesterday to take part. Thank you to everyone who came to my session on
Recruiting: Oracle Business Intelligence Consultant (Belgium) We are looking to hire a consultant for our Benelux practice. The role is based in Brussels where the majority of the work is, however there would be opportunity to work the broader Rittman Mead team over time. The job description is as follows: Rittman Mead are looking for a
Technical ODI 11g New Mapping and Interface Features - Part 3 - OBIEE Lineage In the first two parts of this min-series, I looked at the new mapping and interface features with ODI 11.1.1.3 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/06/odi-11g-new-mapping-and-interface-features-part-1/], and yesterday I took a look at Load Plans [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/06/odi-11g-new-mapping-and-interface-features-part-2-load-plans/] , a new
Last Call - OU BI Masterclasses in London and Dublin, July 2011 If you're based in the UK or Ireland, and you missed the mailouts from Oracle University, I'm running my Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclass in Dublin (July 4th-5th 2011) [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getCourseDesc?dc=D70365_1333127&p_org_id=27&
Technical ODI 11g New Mapping and Interface Features - Part 2 - Load Plans Yesterday I posted on the blog an overview of some of the new interface (mapping) features in the original, 11.1.1.3 release of Oracle Data Integrator 11g [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/06/odi-11g-new-mapping-and-interface-features-part-1/]. In today's posting, I'm going to look at the
Technical ODI 11g New Mapping and Interface Features - Part 1 About a year or so ago I posted an entry on this blog highlighting the new architectural features of Oracle Data Integrator 11g [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/09/odi-11g-now-available-for-download/]. At the time, I talked about the new user interface, integration with WebLogic Server and Enterprise Manager, and how
Business Insights Data Warehouse Global Leaders Forum, Athens Mark and I have just spent the last couple of days at the DW Global Leaders Forum in Athens. The DW Global Leaders Forum is an Oracle-run customer program that connects a number of EMEA Data Warehouse clients with each other, Oracle and a small number of partners. The main
Business Insights Last Two Days for the ODTUG Kscope11 $250 Discount! Just a quick note to remind any who's not yet registered, that the cu [http://odtug.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-time-is-now/]t-off date for registering for ODTUG KScope'11 with the $250 discount [http://odtug.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-time-is-now/] is June 9th, just two
Business Insights OBIEE 11g for Hyperion Users - Are We There Yet? In a couple of weeks time it's the OUG Conference Series EPM & Hyperion 2011 Conference [http://hyperion.ukoug.org/default.asp] in the UK (now there's a mouthful), and along with such Hyperion luminaries and Oracle ACE Directors as Edward Roske and Eric Helmer, I&
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BI Survey 10 Fieldwork Closing Soon! Just a quick reminder that the BI Survey 10's [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/04/oracle-bi-epm-customers-take-part-in-the-bi-survey-10/] fieldwork is closing soon (deadline is June 18th 2011). If you're a user of Oracle's BI EE or BI SE (Discoverer) tools, or a user of the
Improved Upgrade Guide with OBIEE 11.1.1.5 Anyone who's experienced the horrors of upgrading OBIEE 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.1.5 (I documented it here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/05/in-place-upgrading-of-obiee-11-1-1-3-to-11-1-1-5/], but even I got it wrong initially and had to update the posting), or has tried to upgrade OBIEE
Previewing the OBIEE 11.1.1.5 SampleApp Something interesting that came out of the US BI Forum last week in Atlanta, was a preview of the soon-to-be-arriving OBIEE 11.1.1.5 SampleApp. If you've used the full SampleApp that comes with OBIEE 11.1.1.3 (separately downloadable from OTN) you'll know
