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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 : Voting on Abstracts Now Open!

Thank you to everyone who submitted presentation abstracts for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 events [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/01/rittman-mead-bi-forum-2012-call-for-papers-now-open-closing-date-31st-january-2012/] , running in May 2012 in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA. We'll be announcing the dates and venues at the end of February 2012, as

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Interview with Kevin McGinley, BI Content Lead for Kscope 12

Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Kevin McGinley of Accenture to discuss the upcoming ODTUG Kscope 12. I was on the content selection committee, and immediately recognized how lucky ODTUG was to have Kevin coordinating this process. We had tough choices to make around content -- this is always the

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Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: ETL Iteration

This is the fourth entry in my series on Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. To see all the previous posts, check theintroductory posting [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-data-warehousing-with-exadata-and-obiee-introduction/] which I have updated with all the entries in the series. In the last post, I describe

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Configuring OBI 11g to use port 80

Introduction By default, OBI 11g will listen for connections on port 7001 or port 9704 depending on your installation type. There are several reasons you may want to change this, and one of them would be to make it use port 80, the default http port. If you use port

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Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: Model-Driven Iteration

After laying the groundwork with anintroduction [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-data-warehousing-with-exadata-and-obiee-introduction/] , and following up with a high-level description of the requiredpuzzle pieces [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-exadata-obiee-puzzle-pieces/], it's time to get down to business and describe how Extreme BI works. At Rittman

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 Call for Papers Now Open - Closing Date 31st January 2012

[re-posted in case you missed it when originally posted before Christmas - MR] I'm pleased to announce the call for papers [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlaaExzQU56WTdua2JsV1RkeVZnN2c6MA#gid=0] for the fourth annual Rittman Mead BI Forum, which like last year is running

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Looking Back at 2011, Looking forward to 2012

Well it's the last working day now before the end of 2011, and so I thought it'd be interesting to take a look back at the events of 2011, and a bit of think-forward as to what's on the horizon for 2012. As usual,

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Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: Puzzle Pieces

In the previous post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-data-warehousing-with-exadata-and-obiee-introduction/] , I laid the groundwork for describing Extreme BI: a combination of Exadata and OBIEE delivered with an Agile spirit. I discussed that the usual approach to Agile data warehousing is not Agile at all due to the violation

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Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: Introduction

Over the last year, I've been speaking at conferences on one subject more than any others: Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. Although I've been busy with client work and growing the US business, I realize I need to dedicate more time to blogging again,

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Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g

Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g give the facility to call a function in Oracle either before or after a data set is refreshed. The function must return a boolean (true/false), and if it returns false the data model will abort execution. In this article I will demonstrate how

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, Brighton & Atlanta May 2012 : Call for Papers Now Open!

I'm pleased to announce the call for papers [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlaaExzQU56WTdua2JsV1RkeVZnN2c6MA#gid=0] for the fourth annual Rittman Mead BI Forum, which like last year is running in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA in May 2012. Last year's

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Web Services in BI Publisher 11g

BI Publisher 11g comes with a shiny set of new Web Services, superseding those that were in 10g. This article will discuss some of the uses, and ways to implement them. Introduction First, a quick refresher : what is a web service? I'd hasten to Wikipedia for a formal

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Accessing BI Publisher 11g Web Services through a JDeveloper Web Service Proxy

In the second part of this series looking at Web Services in BI Publisher 11g, I will look at using JDeveloper to create a Web Service Proxy. This exposes the BI Publisher Web Services in Java, from where they can be embedded in numerous other applications. I demonstrated in part

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Calling BI Publisher 11g Web Services from BPEL

BI Publisher 11g exposes a lot of functionality through its four new Web Services. In part one [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/web-services-in-bi-publisher-11g] we looked at how we can examine the services and prototype calls into them. In part two [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/accessing-bi-publisher-11g-web-services-through-a-jdeveloper-web-service-proxy/

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Rittman Mead at the Conferences

Conference season is now upon us, and having just got back from events in the USA and Australia, and with Rittman Mead presenters at conferences in the UK, India and USA over the next few months, I thought I'd be worth posting links to some previous conference presentations

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UKOUG Partner of the Year Award 2011, and the Rittman Mead Customer Advisory Board 2011

If you follow this blog and the various events we speak at, you might end up thinking that we spend most of our time going to conferences and testing out new Oracle BI products. In fact, of course, most of our time is spent on customer projects and over the

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OBIEE11G Scripting – generate XUDML and change the password of the connection pools

Imagine that you want to migrate your RPD to different environments. By using scripting utilities you can generate a new RPD and make changes for the new RPD in the generated file. The original RPD will be exported to UDML or XUDML , in the generated file you can make changes

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OBIEE Developer Meetup - London November 10th 2011 (Evening)

Just a quick note to say that Paul McGarrick (of Total-BI.com [http://total-bi.com/] fame) is organizing an OBIEE developer meet-up in London on November 10th (next Thursday). It's at the Craft Beer Bar [http://thecraftbeerco.com/], near Chancery Lane and Faringdon Station, and its from 6pm

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More Notes on Right-Time BI

Over the past couple of years Stewart Bryson and I have been looking into things "right time" (or is that realtime?). It is great to have him around to trade ideas (and graphics for presentations!). Most of what we have been discussing has been about "traditional reporting&

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Updated Details for the ODTUG BI/EPM Seriously Practical Conference in Sydney, Next Week

Just a quick note to say there's now an updated agenda for the ODTUG BI and EPM Seriously Practical Conference [http://odtugspconference.com/] in Sydney, Australia, starting this time next week (November 3rd and 4th 2011). I'm now doing a lot more of the sessions, and

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Oracle BI EE 11g - Security Auditing - Web Catalog Security

BI EE Web Catalog security is an area that generally requires a lot of understanding especially while migrating Web Catalogs. There is not a lot available in the documentation that goes into detail on how .ATR files store security. Its a known fact that doing a file system copy of

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OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Systems Management Best Practices

My last session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco was on systems management of OBIEE 11g. Compared to the 10g release of OBIEE, the 11g release is much more complex, is deployed in much more distributed-type environments, and has a bunch of new tools that

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OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g and ADF Integration using the Action Framework

The third of my presentation at this year's Oracle Openworld in San Francisco was in fact a collaboration with Andrejus Baranovskis [http://redsamuraiconsulting.com/], fellow ACE Director and specialist in Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) [http://andrejusb.blogspot.com/]. The idea for this presentation came to us a

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OOW2011 : Oracle BI Applications Futures

One of the sessions running at yesterday's Openworld was on the future of the Oracle BI Applications. You probably don't realize it, but the 11g release of the BI Apps has been "sort-of" available for the past few months, but as a controlled-availability release

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OOW2011 : More on the Exalytics New User Interface

One of the key messages Oracle keep putting out about Exalytics, is that they had to provide a new user interface to make best use of the "speed of thought" analytics provided by the product. In particular, a few key new areas were highlighted that were made possible