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BI EE 11.1.1.5 - Calling BI EE 11g Agents through Oracle Data Integrator 11g

I was asked recently to come out with a way of calling BI EE 11g agents directly from Oracle Data Integrator 11g. There are many ways of accomplishing this. I thought i will write a quick blog post about the various possible solutions and more importantly get back to blogging

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Scripted OBI 11g Linux startup/shutdown

Update - this post is now obsolete A much neater way of automating the startup/shutdown of OBIEE on Linux is to use the script we have published on the Rittman Mead scripts repository on github [http://ritt.md/init.d]. You can see details of how to implement it

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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 Scheduled OBIEE11g, ODI11g and OBIA7.9.6.3 Courses

When Jon Mead and I started Rittman Mead back in 2007, one of the first services we offered was training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training], back in those days on OWB and OBIEE 10g and typically delivered by myself, Jon, Borkur at Peter Scott. Since then, we've grown

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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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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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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 - Hyperion Financial Management Analytics (HFM Analytics)

If you had watched the announcements in Open World this year, one of the products that got silently released was HFM Analytics [http://blogs.oracle.com/emeapartnerbiepm/entry/financial_management_analytics_for_hyperion] . Basically this is an Analytics Suite under the umbrella of BI Applications but without any ETL. This

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Changing your password in OBIEE 11G.

Since the release of OBIEE 11G, one of the questions asked relates to what most people consider a fairly basic bit of functionality: how can a user change his/her own password ? The simple answer is that, out of the box, this is not (yet) supported in the 11G release,

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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 : 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

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OOW2011 : More on Oracle Exalytics

I'm currently sitting in the Thomas Kurian keynote at Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco, and more details of the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine have now been announced. Here's the latest details: The Exalytics BI Machine is based on a Sun server with 4 Intel

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OOW2011 : Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine

So the big announcement for Oracle BI customers at Larry Ellison's keynote on Sunday evening at Oracle Openworld was the Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine, a new hardware and software combination from Oracle that aims to provide "speed-of-thought" analysis based around OBIEE 11g and the TimesTen parallel

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OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Deployment & Change Management

My second session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 was on a perennially hot topic; change management and deployment within OBIEE 11g. In a typical project, once you've got past the initial prototype, you're going to want to deploy updated versions of the repository,

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OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Architecture & Internals

I've just finished my first session of Oracle Openworld 2011, on OBIEE 11g Architecture and Internals for IOUG's BIWA SIG. Thanks to everyone who came along, and I hope it was a useful session. The slides for this session are available here : OBIEE 11g Architecture &

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OBIEE Online Training

We have been looking at different ways of providing some of our training materials online. Adam Seed [http://www.rittmanmead.com/author/adam-seed/] created a 1 minute introduction to the OBIEE 11g home page as an experiment. You can look at the clip on YouTube athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?

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A BI Developers' Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2011

A couple of people have asked me how they should plan for the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2011 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html], running in San Francisco on October 2-6th. If you've never been to OpenWorld before, and perhaps you're looking to make a case