In a week's time we'll be opening registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2011, which this year we're running on consecutive weeks in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA in May 2011. We've now gathered all the abstracts in, and as with

Mark and Venkat have covered OBIEE migration methodologies in the past (see here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/09/oracle-bi-ee-11g-incremental-web-catalog-migration-patching-web-catalogs/] , here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/09/oracle-bi-ee-11g-%E2%80%93-patching-repositories-and-migration-from-development-to-production/] and here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/obiee-11gr1-incremental-patches-to-the-rpd/]), but I decided to throw my hat

Just a quick note to say that this is the last week for BI Forum 2011 paper submissions. If you've got a presentation idea around OBIEE (both 10g and 11g), or related technologies such as ODI/OWB, Essbase/OLAP or Oracle data warehousing, put a paper abstract in

Over the past few months myself and Mark have written about some major BI EE 11g new features. In addition we had also covered how the security has changed from BI EE 10g to 11g. But what we have not yet covered in detail is how much Oracle ADF or

Following the success of Rittman Mead's previous scheduled online training, Rittman Mead is currently working on scheduling some dates for our market leading training courses. The next scheduled course is the OBIEE 10g Bootcamp, running from 28th February to 3rd March, click here for course content [http://www.

One of the few things that we have been working on recently is in creating some BI EE accelerators/utilities that Oracle BI customers/partners can use alike for facilitating faster & smoother BI EE implementations. We as a company have been implementing BI EE for a while now at

Just a short note to say that the "call for papers" for our BI Forum 2011 is now "live". The focus this year, as with previous years, is intermediate-to-advanced level Oracle BI, mainly around OBIEE but also related technologies such as ODI/OWB, Exadata, Essbase and

Now in it's third year, we'll shortly be announcing the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2011, which this time around will be held in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA, on consecutive weeks in May 2011. The dates and venues will be as follows: * Hotel Seattle [http://www.

Well the presents are wrapped, the trees are decorated, snow has been falling and it's nearly time for Christmas. In a couple of days time we'll be taking a well-earned rest for a few days and celebrating with our families and friends around the world. Even

You may have heard of a data visualization technique called "word clouds", that are used to graphically show word distributions in unstructured data sets through font sizes and orientations. For example, the word cloud shown below shows the distribution of tech comments in an online article on the

In this blog post, we shall see how to overcome two common issues that we would typically face after upgrading to 11g. The solutions for both the issues are straight-forward but i thought it made sense to have a separate posting for this due to the common nature of both

I'm pleased to announce that, due to popular demand, we're going back out on the road again and running another set of OBIEE 11g Training Days events in early 2011 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdayswinter2011]. We're going back to Atlanta and Bangalore, but this

Now the conferences are over, we've had a bit of time to sort out a few long-standing tasks. A couple of years ago, we had a number of problems with our web hosting company, and our friends at Pythian [http://www.pythian.com] (thanks, Paul and Alex!) stepped

Well it's been a couple of weeks now since the event, but the end of November saw much of the UK Oracle community head up to Birmingham for the annual UKOUG Conference & Exhibition [http://techandebs.ukoug.org/]. Due to the number of acquisitions Oracle have made over

BI EE 11g, like 10g provides ability to customize the End-User Interface through 3 methods. They are 1. Styles 2. Skins 3. XML Messages Like 10g, the procedure described in the 11g documentation to customize the UI using the above 3 methods is not correct. Fortunately, Oracle has come out

One common requirement when it comes to any software is in properly handling the network, ip and host name related changes. For example, moving servers from one domain to another, or cloning instances can all trigger these network related changes. BI EE 10g can quite easily handle the host-name related

BI EE 11g introduces a new API for Systems Management called BI Systems Management API. This API has multitude of uses especially at places where complete automation/control of resources/system deployment is required. This API uses the Java JMX MBeans to expose the functionality externally. BI EE 11g Enterprise