A number of people asked me at the recent Training Days events whether Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/standard-edition-one-095406.html] (OBI SE1) was being updated for 11g. For anyone not familiar with Oracle Business Intelligence licensing, OBI SE1 10g was a special

Rittman Mead is exhibiting at the upcoming UK Oracle User Group Technology and E-Business Suite conference in Birmingham, from 29th November to the 1st December. Come and meet the team at stand 33 to get all the latest insight and advice on Oracle Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing including: * Latest

As i had explained in my previous post here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/08/24/oracle-bi-ee-11g-parent-child-hierarchies-differing-aggregations/] , Parent Child Hierarchies introduced in BI EE 11g are much more flexible in terms of handling aggregation of measures when compared with a Level Based Hierarchy. In this blog post, we shall

In the last 2 training days event that we ran in Atlanta and Bangalore, we showed a demo of how the BI EE 11g security works. One common question that we got out of both the events was how do we use 10g model security in 11g. Though the BI

As i had mentioned here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/08/17/oracle-bi-ee-11g-lookup-tables-sparse-and-dense-lookups/] , one of the most important features of BI EE 11g is the ability to do ETL kind of Lookup functions directly from Repository. In the Training Days event that we ran in London & Atlanta recently,

Well, the Oracle BI 11g Training Days [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2010] event in Atlanta is now over, and I'm about to get on a flight back to the UK after spending the weekend in downtown Atlanta. The event was another great success, and thanks to Stewart and

it's been a couple of months now since the GA release of OBIEE 11g, and if you've only just got around to installing and evaluating the software, you may well have missed some of our early postings on the internals, architecture and key new features of

As Mark had mentioned here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/10/24/obiee-11gr1-security-explained-working-with-the-default-security-configuration/] , one big change in BI EE 11g is the adoption of OPSS or Oracle Platform Services Security Model as a framework for security in BI EE. In BI EE 10g, integration with external LDAP security had

BI EE 11g now provides true multi-dimensional navigation/analysis support. This multi-dimensional analysis is supported for almost all the data sources that are supported by BI Server for reporting. Today we shall how BI EE 11g works on Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008. There is no explicit MSAS 2008

In the previous blog post, I explained some of the background behind OBIEE 11g's security changes, and how 11g leverages Oracle Fusion Middleware's Oracle Platform Security Services to provide direct access to LDAP servers, and new features such as application roles, application policies and policy stores.

If you're evaluating OBIEE 11g and working through the long list of new features, one of the topics that's potentially most confusing is the new security setup. Whilst basic concepts such as object-level and data-level security are the same in 11g as in 10g, Oracle Fusion

BI EE 11g like 10g supports report to report navigation. BI EE 11g also passes down the parameters from one report to the other provided the column & presentation table names match (same as 10g). But in 11g now, we have the ability to use Hierarchical Columns. Lets see how

If you had looked at our presentation last year in Open World [http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/OOW2009_Essbase_and_OBIEE_Integration_Deep_Dive.pdf] (and also a couple of blog posts prior to that), we had shown how to go about implementing Vertical Fragmentation in BI EE 10g. There

As Mark had blogged about here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/12/obiee-11gr1-support-for-ragged-skip-level-value-based-hierarchies/] , a very important new feature of the BI EE 11g is the ability to support ragged & skipped hierarchies in a normal level based hierarchy. Though it does look straight-forward in terms of functionality and

And now for a short break from the technical articles, for some news on Rittman Mead. The UK Oracle User Group [http://www.ukoug.org] recently had their Partner of the Year Awards [http://pya10.ukoug.org/] at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in London, and I'm pleased

BI EE 11g introduces a new function called EVALUATE_ANALYTIC that can function ship analytic functions from Answers back to the database. In 10g we had EVALUATE which could function ship only normal functions. Analytic functions were not supported. But with 11g, Analytic Functions are supported as well. Though the

As mentioned in my blog posts here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/08/17/oracle-bi-ee-11g-lookup-tables-sparse-and-dense-lookups/] and here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/08/20/oracle-bi-ee-11g-reporting-on-clobs-lookups/] , ability to do lookups in the repository opens up a lot of possibilities to solve different reporting use cases that were otherwise not

One significant feature as mentioned here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/09/13/oracle-bi-ee-11g-action-framework-integration-with-external-applications/] in BI EE 11g, from the perspective of Action Framework, is the introduction of the BI Web Services for SOA. Till 10g, BI EE had good support for web services but the nature of the

Well I'm currently in the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood Shores, waiting to start the two-day ACE Director briefing at HQ, but in the meantime I wanted to post a reminder about a special half-day session ODTUG [http://www.odtug.com] are running at OpenWorld on Sunday. Sunday is

As mentioned in the blog entry yesterday, Action Framework of BI EE 11g opens up direct integration with Java. So, any process that can be called via Java can be directly called from BI EE as well. In 10g, the only way for calling Java Processes was by using Delivers.

Following the release of OBIEE 11g, Rittman Mead is running a series of free seminars and events designed to demonstrate to organisations how Rittman Mead and OBIEE 11g can really help businesses become more profitable and achieve their goals. Please see below for the details of the first seminars in