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Use OBIEE to Achieve Your GOOOALS!!! - A Presentation for GaOUG

Background A few months before the start of the 2014 World Cup, Jon Mead [https://twitter.com/jonmead], Rittman Mead's CEO, asked me to come up with a way to showcase our strengths and skills while leveraging the excitement generated by the World Cup. With this in mind,

Technical

The Importance of BI Commentary

Why Is Commentary Important? We communicate every day. Communication through text is especially abundant with the proliferation of new on-demand technologies. Have you gone through your emails today? Have you read the news, weather, or blogs (like this one)? Communication is the backbone to every interpersonal interaction. Without it, we

Big Data

OBIEE 12c - Your Answers After Upgrading

Several blogs have already been written about new functionality in OBIEE 12c. Mark Rittman, for example, posted a good one here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/10/oracle-business-intelligence-12c-now-available-improving-agility-and-enabling-self-service-for-bi-users/] . Now, I've personally had the chance to play with it for a few weeks, mostly in Answers and some

Technical

ChitChat - Commentary Made Simple

Rittman Mead is excited to announce ChitChat, an innovative new communication tool for OBIEE. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/chitchat] Rittman Mead’s clients already receive the best Oracle Business Analytics and Data Integration consulting and training. Now, in a major expansion of our business capabilities, our clients can enjoy the

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Rittman Mead Sponsors Georgia Oracle Users Group's Tech Day

As part of Rittman Mead’s continuing support and participation in the Oracle community, we are proudly sponsoring this year’s Georgia Oracle Users Group’s Tech Day [http://gaoug.strikingly.com/] on Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Downtown Atlanta at the Executive Conference Center. Rittman Mead’s own Consulting

Technical

OBIEE Performance - Why Metrics Matter (and…Announcing obi-metrics-agent v2!)

One of the first steps to improve OBIEE performance is to determine why it is slow. That may sound obvious—can’t fix it if you don’t know what you’re fixing, right? Unfortunately, the “Drunk Man anti-method [http://www.brendangregg.com/methodology.html]”, in which we merrily stumble

Big Data

Introduction to Oracle R Training

Rittman Mead is thrilled to announce our new Introduction to Oracle R courses! With the launch of 12c comes an exciting extension to OBIEE’s analytical capabilities—embedded R execution. Oracle has made several investments in the R language and its related technologies (Oracle R, ROracle, ORAAH, and Oracle R

Technical

Implementing OBIEE Commentary

My Application Development Experience with Rittman Mead Greetings, readers! My name is Nick Padgett, and this is my first blog post with Rittman Mead. I started with Rittman Mead as an intern over a year ago while I was attending Kennesaw State, a local university, but I’ve graduated from

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Rittman Mead America’s New Office

Rittman Mead America has a new home, and it’s looking good. At the end of 2015, we moved into a new office space in Alpharetta, Georgia, in a new development named Avalon. We’ve just begun to settle into our new office space, but we are already feeling at

Big Data

Using Python to ‘Wrangle’ Your Messy Data

or How to Organize Your Comic Book Collection Based on Issue Popularity In addition to being a product manager at Rittman Mead, I consider myself to be a nerd of the highest order. My love of comic books, fantasy, sci-fi and general geekery began long before the word ‘Stark’ had

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Becky’s BI Apps Corner: OBIA install Perl Script Patching and troubleshooting when they fail

During a recent project installing Oracle BI Applications, I became much better acquainted with OPatch, Oracle’s standard tool for managing application patches. By acquainted, I mean how to troubleshoot when OPatch patching fails. Since, at last count, there are around 50 patches total for Oracle BI Applications 11.1.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (Where Can We Serve?)

At Rittman Mead, we believe that people are more important than profit. This manifests itself in two ways. First, we want to impact the world beyond data and analytics, and secondly, we want our employees to be able to contribute to organizations they believe are doing impactful work. This year,

Big Data

The Best OBIEE 12c Feature that You're Probably Not Using

With the release of OBIEE 12c we got a number of interesting new features on the front-end. We’re all talking about the cleaner look-and-feel, Visual Analyzer, and the ability to create data-mashups [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/new-in-oracle-bi-cloud-service-oracle-visual-analyzer-and-data-mashups-in-va/] , etc. While all this is incredibly useful, it’s

Big Data

OBIEE 12c - Three Months In, What's the Verdict?

I’m over in Redwood Shores, California this week for the BIWA Summit 2016 conference [http://www.ioug.org/p/cm/ld/&fid=992] where I’ll be speaking about BI development on Oracle’s database and big data platforms. As it’s around three months since OBIEE12c came

Big Data

Upgrade to ODI 12c: Repository and Standalone Agent

This is my first post, and I hope to have many more to come. My name is Brian Sauer, and I am fairly new here at Rittman Mead and proud to be here. I have close to 5 years of experience with Oracle Data Integrator, both 10g and 11c. I

Technical

Becky’s BI Apps Corner: Installing on Windows Server 2012

Recently I was installing Oracle BI Apps on a VM for a custom training, as mentioned in a previous post [http://wp.me/p6Tisj-6jR]. I setup the VM with Windows Server 2012 after verifying in the certification matrix [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi/biapps-11-1-1-9-2-2527682.xls] that the Oracle

Technical

Tracing Data Lineage and Impact Analysis in Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management 12c

At the beginning of the year, I wrote a couple of posts about Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management, one about how to install the tool and another one explaining the harvesting (importing) and stitching (relating) processes. A lot of things have happened since then, including a new version of OEMM released

Technical

Oracle 12.1.0.2 and Data Warehouses

If you follow Blogs and Tweets from the Oracle community you won’t have missed hearing about the recent release of the first patch-set for Oracle 12c. With this release there are some significant pieces of new functionality that will be of interest to Data Warehouse DBAs and architects. The

Technical

SampleApp v406 - Automatic startup of OBIEE

Last week Oracle released v406 of SampleApp [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html] . SampleApp is a one-stop-shop for a demonstration of pretty much any conceivable thing that OBIEE is capable of, and then some more on top of it. It is a VirtualBox [https://www.virtualbox.org/

Technical

Incremental refresh of Exalytics Aggregates using TimesTen

Introduction One of the key reasons that Exalytics can deliver sub-second response times is the use of TimesTen in-memory database to hold data pre-calculated to various levels of aggregation as required by the reports. Last year I wrote about Alternatives to the Summary Advisor [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/

Technical

OBIEE Administration Tool - Import Metadata shows no schemas

Importing Metadata with the Administration Tool The client-only install of the OBIEE 11g Administration Tool is installed with a set of OCI libraries. This means that it can support basic Oracle Database interaction, without the need for a full Oracle Client installation on the machine. For example, you can update

Business Insights

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