Technical Cognos 8 & Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1 - Reporting using Cognos on BI EE Metadata - BI Server ODBC In the last blog entry i had given a high level overview of the various components comprising the Cognos 8 BI Suite. One of the most common questions that we tend to get in conferences is how do we go about using Cognos to report out of the model designed
Technical UKOUG Tech and EBS Conference, Day 1 I'm now back in my hotel room, having escaped from the Focus Pubs at the end of Day 1 of the UKOUG Technology and E-Business Suite Conference in Birmingham. It's been a long day, with an 8am meeting on the stand in the exhibition, a stint
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/
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
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
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
Technical Oracle to Announce New "OLTP"-Focused Database Machine Oracle released details over the weekend of a news conference they are running on September 15th 2009, to announce a new OLTP-focused database machine this time based on Sun hardware [http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=101483]. I'm surprised that this wasn't
Technical A Quik Look at QlikView Outside the world of Oracle, one of the rising stars of the BI world has been Qliktech, the Swedish software company behind QlikView [http://www.qlikview.com/]. QlikView is one of a new breed of desktop, in-memory BI tools [http://www.olapreport.com/Comment_InMemBI.htm] (see also the forthcoming
Technical Announcing Rittman Mead Training Days 2009, London I'm very pleased to announce details of our second-ever Training Days [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009] event, to be held at the Bloomsbury Hotel [http://www.doylecollection.com/locations/london_city_hotels/the_bloomsbury_hotel.aspx] in London on October 27th - 29th 2009. This year I'
Technical Visualizing relational data as Essbase/OLAP cubes – Partition Outer Joins and MODEL Clauses – Part 3 In a prior blog entry here [http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/oracle-bi-ee-10-1-3-4-1-%e2%80%93-report-sum-and-pivot-calculations-%e2%80%93-an-alternative-sql-on-oracle-10g-and-above-%e2%80%93-equivalence-to-mdx-%e2%80%93-model-clause-%e2%80%93-part-2/] , i had shown the advantages of using the MODEL clause. I also showed how the MODEL clause can be used to
Technical OBI-ForumLive, and Gerard Braat on the BI Server and BI Apps I'm currently waiting in the departures lounge at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, coming back from Utrecht after speaking at OBI-ForumLive [http://www.obi-forumlive.nl/], an OBIEE experts event organized by Ciber and Scamander in the Netherlands. Thanks to Rene and John from Ciber for inviting me over, and this
Technical Using a PARTITION BY JOIN to Fill In The Gaps As a quick introduction, I'm Stewart Bryson, Technical Director for North America. It seems strange to be posting an entry on this blog after so many years of reading it, and learning from it. The momentum it has in the community is something I do not take lightly,
Rittman Mead BI Forum Registrations Closing April 17th Just a quick note to say that registrations will close on April 17th for the expert-level BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-bi-forum-brighton-may-14th-15th-2009/] in Brighton. If you're still looking to come along or know someone who's thinking of it, you'll need to register [http:
Rittman Mead Update on Forthcoming Events Just a quick post to provide an update on forthcoming events involving Rittman Mead. Collaborate'09 [http://www.collaborate09.com] is just around the corner, and Rittman Mead will be attending and presenting as part of the IOUG and OAUG streams. Here's the sessions and the dates
Rittman Mead Rittman Mead Open for Business in the USA Over the past three years, Rittman Mead have worked with clients in the UK and around Europe on business intelligence and data warehousing projects. We've grown our team to eight people and built up what I believe is the best Oracle BI consulting and training delivery practice in
Business Insights Oracle BI Symposium, London Whilst Borkur was over at the OUGN Conference in Oslo [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/03/11/ougn-spring-seminar-2009/], Jennifer and I were at the Oracle BI Symposium [http://www.oracle-bisymposium.com/Main/LandingPage.aspx] at a hotel in London. This was an Oracle-run event that featured a keynote from
Rittman Mead Rittman Mead BI Forum 2009 : Registration Now Open! I'm pleased to announce that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-bi-forum-brighton-may-14th-15th-2009/], running in Brighton UK on May 14th and 15th 2009, is now open. Back in last December when we first floated the idea [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/12/10/
Rittman Mead Free Half-Day Seminar in London with Mark Rittman Rittman Mead and Oracle are organizing a free, half-day seminar in London on 1st April 2009 [http://www.opnlaunchpad.com/pages/campaigns/index.php/194/] on Oracle Business Intelligence, Hyperion and the BI Applications. During the session I'll be taking attendees through what's new in Oracle
Technical Rittman Mead and Kimball University Event [http://www.rittmanmead.com/data-warehouse-lifecycle-in-depth/] The data warehouse continues to be one of the most organizationally complex and technically interesting projects in Information Technology. Rittman Mead are proud to announce this unique data warehousing training opportunity, in collaboration with Kimball University and Quest For Knowledge.Learn from Margy Ross and
Technical Breaking Silence It is February and I have just realised that I have not added anything to the Rittman Mead Blog this year. Like all of my colleagues, I have been busy working with clients - so far this year I have worked on projects on OBIEE reporting over Oracle e Business
Business Insights Rittman Mead Consulting At the UKOUG Conference 2008 I hope the readers of this blog have already noticed that the UKOUG conference is running this week up in Birmingham. The Rittman Mead Consulting team has a stand in the exhibition hall as well as running several sessions on the conference. Please try to drop by Stand 90 and
Technical End-to-end data quality One of our customers is about to embark on a significant BI project; but being in the "public sector" they have to (by EU law) publish tender documents so that qualified suppliers throughout the EU can bid to do the work. This means they have a gap of
Technical Being Flexible One of the things I really love about working with the team here at Rittman Mead is how we can offer our clients a flexible service, I guess this flexibility must be appreciated by our customers as we have just won the UKOUG Business Intelligence Partner of the Year [http:
Technical Exa-ctly Sitting about half-a-flying-day from San Francisco and OOW and for that matter my colleagues, gives me opportunity to mull over Larry's keynote address that has been so widely reported on-line. I would love to say my prediction for what was going to be announced was completely right; although
Technical Oracle BI Training Days Over the past few months the team at Rittman Mead have been busy developing new course content and seeking out suitable venues for our first ever public course, the Oracle BI Training Days [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/oracle-bi-training-days-october-22nd-24th-london-uk/] . This course is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about designing,
