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Performance and OBIEE - part III - Test - Design

Having defined our test, we can now design it. Wordplay? Not really. Regardless of how we run our tests, we’ve got to define up front what it is we are testing. Once we’ve got that, we can then work out how to actually create a test that simulates

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Performance and OBIEE - part II - Test - Define

Take the first tentative steps along the yellow brick road of investigating performance and OBIEE with this jump into the nitty gritty of how we should define a performance test. An overview of defining a performance test The first step in assessing the performance of OBIEE is defining the test

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Report Flexibility, or Split-Second Performance : Pick One or the Other

Kevin McGinley wrote an interesting post the other week [http://oranalytics.blogspot.ie/2013/02/my-perspective-on-oeid-part-1.html] reflecting on Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID), and the role that it's come to play within Oracle's BI tools strategy. Kevin's view was that whilst Oracle positioned

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Live Virtual OBIEE 11.1.1.7 Expert Seminar with Mark Rittman - April 22nd/23rd 2013, via Oracle University

Can't make it to one of our scheduled classroom-based OBIEE11g or ODI11g courses, but you're still keen on hearing the latest about OBIEE 11.1.1.7, Exalytics and Endeca development, and just how far Oracle now are with OBIEE and Essbase/Hyperion integration? If so,

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 Call for Papers now Open!

I'm pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 5th annual Rittman Mead BI Forum is now open, with abstracts being accepted through to January 31st, 2013. Last year's BI Forum was the biggest and best ever, running in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA

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Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 4: Complex Dimensions

You guessed it... more on transactional schemas. For a quick recap, here are the posts to date: Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 1: Introduction [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/06/using-obiee-against-transactional-schemas-part-1-introduction/] Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 2: Aliases [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/08/using-obiee-against-transactional-schemas-part-2-aliases/] Using

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Update on my OBIEE / Exalytics Books

Just a quick update on my two recently published books, "Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide" and "Oracle Exalytics Revealed", both of which are now published and available to purchase around the world in printed and electronic format. Here are some links to the two books on

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Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 3: Simple Dimensions and Facts

This could be the longest series of blog posts in Rittman Mead history... not in number of posts (this is only the third), but in length of time from start to finish. I don't think that's a record anyone is actively pursuing, nor am I proud

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Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour 2012 : Venues and BI Presentations

Next week I'm honoured to be taking part in the Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour, taking in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki over four days. Organized by Heli Helskyaho (Finnish Oracle Users Group) and Sten Vesterli (Danish Oracle Users Group) along with the leaders of the Norwegian and

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Oracle Exalytics, Oracle R Enterprise and Endeca Part 3 : Flight Delays Analysis using OBIEE, Endeca and Oracle R Enterprise on Exalytics

So far in this series we've looked at Oracle's BI, Big Data and Advanced Analytics strategy and seen how Exalytics can benefit both Endeca Information Discovery and Oracle R Enterprise through its 40 CPU cores and 1TB of RAM. For a recap on the two earlier

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Oracle Exalytics, Oracle R Enterprise and Endeca Part 2 : Oracle Endeca, the Advanced Analytics Option and Oracle Exalytics

In this week of postings we're going to look at Oracle Exalytics and how it enables "big data" and unstructured data analytics, using Oracle Endeca, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Big Data Appliance and the Oracle Database Advanced Analytics option. In case you've arrived via a

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Oracle Exalytics, Oracle R Enterprise and Endeca Part 1 : Oracle's Analytics, Engineered Systems, and Big Data Strategy

One of the presentations Rittman Mead gave at last week's Oracle Openworld [http://www.rittmanmead.com/openworld2012/] was entitled "High Speed, Big Data Analysis using Oracle Exalytics" [http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/oow2012_rittman_exalytics_big_data.pdf][PDF]. Although it was the last of my

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Oracle BI Developers Guide, and Oracle Exalytics Revealed, Now Available to Buy!

After what has been around five years of development, including two years of waiting for OBIEE11g and then three of desperately keeping up with 11g point releases, the Oracle Business Intelligence Developers Guide [http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0071798749.html] has now been published by Oracle Press / McGraw Hill

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BI, Data Warehousing and Data Integration News from Oracle Openworld 2012

This week is Oracle Openworld week in San Francisco, USA [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], with around 50,000 attendees attending Openworld itself, Java One and fringe events such as Oaktable world. Rittman Mead have had ten sessions during the week, covering topics such as OBIEE, Endeca, data warehousing, Essbase

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Alternatives to the Summary Advisor for Refreshing Exalytics Aggregates

One of the several elements of Exalytics' power comes from it holding pre-calculated (aggregated) data in the TimesTen for Exalytics In-Memory Database. Exalytics comes with a tool called the Summary Advisor (which Mark Rittman has written about previously here) [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/oracle-exalytics-week-the-summary-advisor/] which suggests

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Improvements to Essbase Integration in OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 : ASO Aggregate Persistence, Combined Install & Systems Management

The recent 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 patchset for OBIEE 11g provided a bunch of new features including trellis charts, Oracle BI Mobile and the repository Model Checker [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/07/obiee-11-1-1-6-2-bp1-new-features-oracle-bi-mobile-hd-and-patching-upgrade-considerations/] , but it also sneaked in another set of new features that will be

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Advanced monitoring of OBIEE with Nagios

Introduction In the previous articles in this series, I described an overview of monitoring OBIEE [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/09/automated-monitoring-of-obiee-in-the-enterprise-an-overview] , and then a hands-on tutorial for setting up Nagios to monitor OBIEE [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/09/an-introduction-to-monitoring-obiee-with-nagios]. Nagios is an Enterprise Systems Management tool

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An introduction to monitoring OBIEE with Nagios

Introduction This is the second post in a mini-series on monitoring OBIEE. The previous post, Automated Monitoring of OBIEE in the Enterprise – an overview [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/09/automated-monitoring-of-obiee-in-the-enterprise-an-overview] , looked at the overview and theory to why and what we should be monitoring. In this post I

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Automated Monitoring of OBIEE in the Enterprise - an overview

A lot of time is given to the planning, development and testing of OBIEE solutions. Well, hopefully it is. Yet sometimes, the resulting deployment is marked Job Done and chucked over the wall to the Operations team, with little thought given to how it is looked after once it is

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Integrating Oracle WebCenter and Oracle BI EE Part 3 : Adding BI Content to Custom Portal Applications

In the previous two postings in this series I looked at Oracle's WebCenter Portal application at a high-level [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/09/integrating-oracle-webcenter-and-oracle-bi-ee-part-1-introducing-oracle-webcenter-portal-11g/] , and then explained how analyses and other BI content from OBIEE 11g could be added to WebCenter Portal : Spaces applications [http://www.

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Integrating OBIEE11g with Hyperion Shared Services Security - An Example Workaround using the HSS Security API and BISQLGroupProvider

One of our customers in the UK recently asked us to help them upgrade an existing OBIEE 10g system to the 11g release, to take advantage of the enhanced visualisations, scorecards and KPIs, iPhone and iPad clients and so on. What made this upgrade interesting is that their OBIEE 10g

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OBIEE / AD integration - [OBI-SEC-00022] Identity found ... but could not be authenticated

A quick blog post to record for future Googlers a problem I encountered today. I was configuring OBIEE 11.1.1.6 to use Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD) as an Authentication Provider, following the instruction's in Mark's blog post [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/

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Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 2: Aliases

It seems like a different life when I posted the introduction to reporting against transactional schemas [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/06/using-obiee-against-transactional-schemas-part-1-introduction/] . Since that time, we've had some exciting new customers come aboard, which has required a lot of my time (and which I have been

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Advanced Presentation Services settings for OBIEE testing & development

As John Minkjan pointed out [http://obiee101.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/obiee-obipsconfigbasexsd.html] a while ago, the XSD (XML Schema) for the OBIEE configuration files can yield some interesting things. I've been looking at obips_config_base.xsd and found the following bits of information which I

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OBIEE / FMW and networking on DHCP hosts

FMW can be a bit of a sensitive soul when it comes to networking. Something that always seems to antagonise it is running within a VM (both VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox, since you ask). Being on-site at clients I'll often find my laptop's network details change,