Installing BI Publisher into Weblogic Server 11g I was on-site yesterday helping an ISV integrate BI Publisher into their product, and hit a few issues getting the product installed and running on the Weblogic application server. BI Publisher comes integrated out-of-the-box with OC4J and Oracle Application Server, but you'll need to install and configure it
Technical Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1 and Essbase Connectivity – Fragmentation on Essbase Sources In our BI EE – Essbase session in OOW, we covered 2 important use cases in bringing BI EE and Essbase together. They are 1. Horizontal Federation 2. Vertical Federation There is one more use case that only BI EE as a reporting tool can do on an Essbase source(not
Technical YouTube Video of my "Oracle BI Apps 7.9.5.2 and ODI" Open World Presentation If you didn't make it to Open World but you were interested in my presentation on ODI and the Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5.2, I just noticed that "aortabisolutions" on Youtube recorded some of the highlights and uploaded the video [http://www.youtube.com/
Publishing Mappings as Web Services using OWB11gR2 Over the past few weeks I've covered some of the new features in OWB11gR2 including heterogeneous sources and targets [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/09/21/code-templates-in-owb11gr2-part-1-introduction-and-support-for-heterogeneous-databases/] , code template mappings [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/09/21/code-templates-in-owb11gr2-part-2-introduction-to-code-template-mappings/] , hybrid mappings [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/
Oracle Open World 2009 - It's a Wrap! Well it's 7am on Friday morning and it'll soon be time to leave Open World and travel back to the UK. I've given myself the morning off to look around SF and get some presents for the family, as since I arrived on Saturday
Technical Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1 & Essbase Connectivity – Time Based Aggregation and Multiple Queries A good question came up on our OOW session the other day on BI EE & Essbase connectivity for a means of doing Time Based aggregation on Essbase cubes. Time Based aggregation is a pretty common requirement while doing an Essbase implementation. For more details on what this means, refer
Rittman Mead The Start of Open World Day 3 While Mark and Venkat are keeping us all informed on the BI sessions going on at Open World, I wanted to take a minute to provide a quick update concerning what's going on in the exhibition hall. We're located at Booth 124, Moscone South, which is
Calling all OWB Developers @ OOW 2009 Just a quick reminder that Antonio Romero, David Allen and I will be presenting on OWB11gR2 new features at the OOW Unconference, tomorrow at 2pm on Overlook II (Moscone West). If you're curious about how some of the new features in OWB11gR2 work, including changed data capture [https:
Rittman Mead Beginning Day 2 at Open World As Mark pointed out this morning, the weather in San Francisco is terrible. Having endured the recent flooding conditions in the Atlanta area, I can't help but feel like I brought the rain with me. However, I'm inside a huge conference center, with tents between all
Open World 2009 – Monday & Tuesday – BI Applications 7.9.6.1 Released Monday started off well with a keynote from Safra Catz and Charles Phillips. I was actually surprised to see a demo of various products in the keynote but all the demos were very good. One key thing that i could notice was the fact that BI EE is being positioned
Day 1 at Open World Well it's early Tuesday morning over in San Francisco and we're in the middle of a storm. Apparently we've got the tail-end of a monsoon coming over from Japan, and coupled with some local bad weather it's looks like we're
Open World 2009 – Updates I just arrived after a 22 hour long journey to the biggest Oracle conference, Open World. This is my fourth trip to San Francisco but actually my first to Open World. Even before i started, I was pretty sure i would be overwhelmed by the size of this conference. Overwhelmed
Open World Presentations Now Online If you're interested in downloading them, our presentations from this years Oracle Open World in San Francisco are now online. You can download them in PDF format from here: * Oracle Data Integrator and BI Applications 7.9.5.2 Deep Dive [http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/OOW2009_Oracle_
Sunday's Session in the BIWA Stream I've just finished my first two sessions of the week. The first was on the new 7.9.5.2 release of the BI Apps, that uses Oracle Data Integrator as the ETL engine rather than Informatica. I was pleased with the turnout, the room looked about 2/
Arrived in San Francisco for Oracle Open World 2009 I'm currently sitting in the Intercontinental Hotel just across the road from the Moscone Center, here courtesy of the Oracle ACE Director program and getting ready for my first presentation at 2.00pm. I arrived in San Francisco early afternoon yesterday, stayed up for a few hours and
Changed Data Capture and OWB11gR2 I'm currently sitting on the plane going over to Open World, and as I've got a few hours free I thought I'd work through some of the new features in OWB11gR2. If you followed my postings a few weeks ago on heterogeneous connectivity in
Using EPMA for Managing Hyperion Planning Applications The Irish OUG BI Special Interest Group are running an Essbass-themed event [http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_event.jsp?id=4482] on November 11th in Dublin, and as well as delivering a session on Oracle BI EE and Essbase Integration I've also agreed to do a session
Technical OLAP 10gR2 and Dense Looping I'd like to take a moment to express my appreciation to several of the folks at the OLAP product team for their assistance with the project mentioned below, including A.A. Hopeman, Jameson White, Marty Gubar, and especially David Greenfield. The sky's the limit for Oracle
Technical Oracle Essbase 11.1.1.3 and BI EE 10.1.3.4.1 – Displaying Member Properties – UDAs, Attributes and Alias Tables Evaluate based MDX functions in BI EE currently do not support the display of quite a few member properties like Generation Number, Level Number, Alias Tables etc. These member properties can be very useful for reporting and sometimes these member properties drive the formatting of data, reporting layouts etc. Though
OOW BI Meetup: Change of Venue If you're going to Open World [http://www.oracle.com/openworld] next week and were thinking about coming along to the BI Meetup [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/08/02/bi-meetup-at-open-world-san-francisco/] we were planning for the Thirsty Bear on Monday night, we've got a change
Technical Oracle Essbase 11.1.1.3 – Integration with Relational Sources and Applications In the past i have covered a wide range of integration possibilities of Oracle Essbase with relational sources. This is probably one area that will always evoke interest as from a reporting perspective it is not always possible to maintain the data in only one source(either be it Essbase
Taking a Look at Panorama and Google Apps I'm off to Copenhagen this evening to deliver a keynote at the Danish IT Society's Business Intelligence conference [http://www.dansk-it.dk/arrangementer/1595.aspx], and as the event is not Oracle-specific I thought I'd take a look at the BI and data warehousing
Technical Oracle Buys (Bits Of) Hyperroll The news hit the wires last night [http://twitter.com/eddieawad/status/4479863911] that Oracle were buying (certain assets of) Hyperroll [http://www.hyperroll.com], a technology company out of Israel with a head office in the USA. Hyperroll have been around for as long as I've been
Two Days Left for 10% Early-Bird Discount for Training Days 2009, London Oct 27th-29th 2009 Just a short note to let you know that there are just two days left until the early-bird rate expires for our Training Days [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009] event later in October. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009] We've got three days of intermediate to advanced-level instruction on
Technical Book Review : "Oracle Essbase & Oracle OLAP: The Guide to Oracle's Multidimensional Solution (Osborne Oracle Press Series)" I've been talking with Dan Vlamis about a new book that he, Chris Claterbos and some of the Essbase team from Oracle have been putting together on Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase. Oracle Press were kind enough to send over a review copy the other week, and so
