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Oracle BI Suite EE

Exploring OBIEE Web Services through Python

My very first blog post for Rittman Mead [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/calling-bi-publisher-11g-web-services-from-bpel/] was on the subject of Web Services in BI Publisher 11g, and now I want to return to the subject here, looking at the Web Services of OBIEE itself. Web Services are basically a

Looking at the ODI12c Hadoop Demos in the New Oracle BigDataLite VM

In a post earlier today on the blog I took a look at the new Oracle BigDataLite virtual machine [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/oracle-bigdatalite-vm-now-available-for-download-on-otn/] that’s now downloadable from OTN, and walked-through some of the Cloudera Hadoop tools that come with the VM. At the end of

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Automated Regression Testing for OBIEE

In the first article of this series [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/obiee-regression-testing-an-introduction] I explored what regression testing is, why it matters, and by breaking down the OBIEE stack into its constituent parts where it is possible to do it for OBIEE. In this posting, I explore some

Successful BI Apps Implementation Part 2: BI Apps 7.9.6

Welcome to Part 2. If you missed Part 1, where I give an introduction to BI Apps and discuss the project life cycle, the link is below. Successful BI Apps Implementation Part 1: Introduction and the Project Life Cycle [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/successful-bi-apps-implementation-part-1-introduction-and-the-project-life-cycle] Successful BI Apps

Successful BI Apps Implementation Part 1: Introduction and the Project Life Cycle

Since I am new to the Rittman Mead blog, let me first introduce myself. I am Mike and I have been working at Rittman Mead for the last year, mainly focusing on Oracle BI Applications. I have a background in Siebel CRM and many of my BI projects have involved

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OBIEE 11.1.1.7, Cloudera Hadoop & Hive/Impala Part 2 : Load Data into Hive Tables, Analyze using Hive & Impala

In yesterday’s post on analyzing Hadoop data using Cloudera CDH4, Amazon EC2 and OBIEE 11.1.1.7 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/obiee-11-1-1-7-cloudera-hadoop-hiveimpala-part-1-install-and-set-up-an-ec2-hadoop-cluster/] , I went through the setup process for Cloudera Manager Standard and then used it to set up a four-node Hadoop cluster in Amazon

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OBIEE 11.1.1.7, Cloudera Hadoop & Hive/Impala Part 1 : Install and Set-up an EC2 Hadoop Cluster

I’ve been over in San Francisco this last week for BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/rittman-mead-at-biwa-summit-2014-san-francisco/] , and one of the things I demo’d during the week was OBIEE 11.1.1.7 connecting to a Hadoop cluster running on Amazon EC2, and analysing

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OBIEE Regression Testing - An Introduction

In this article I’m going to look at ways to test changes that you make to OBIEE to ensure that they don’t break existing functionality. In all but the simplest IT systems it’s common for one (planned) action to inadvertently cause another (unplanned). What IS Regression Testing?

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Now Open!

It’s that time of year again when we start planning out next year’s BI Forum, which like this year’s event will be running in May 2014 in Brighton and Atlanta. This will be our sixth annual event, and as with previous year’s the most important part

Creating a Custom Analytics Dashboard from Scratch the "Blue Peter" way

This year, Rittman Mead were the Analytics Sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 conference in Manchester, and for those that visited the UKOUG stand during their time there will have noticed the Rittman Mead-sponsored Analytics Dashboard on display. In this blog post I will cover how it was put together, the

Rittman Mead Video Interview on ODI12c New Features

If you’re a user of Oracle’s data integration products, you’re probably aware that ODI12c came out last month, with some of the new features covered in posts on the blog here [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/10/oracle-data-integrator-12c-release-part-1/] , here [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/

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Make Use of OBIEE's Command Line Tools with Reduced Exposure of Plain Text Passwords

Introduction We all love a good commandline utility. It gives us that warm feeling of control and puts hairs on our chests. Either that, or it means we can script the heck out of a system, automate many processes, and concentrate on more important matters [http://phoboslab.org/ztype/]. However,

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Why ODI, DW and OBIEE Developers Should Be Interested in Hadoop

Over the past few months I’ve been posting a number of articles about Hadoop, and how you can connect to it from ODI and OBIEE. From an ODI perspective, I covered Hadoop as one of a number of new data sources ODI11g could connect to [https://www.rittmanmead.com/

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Creating a Multi-Node Hadoop/Impala Cluster as a Datasource for OBIEE 11.1.1.7

The other day I posted an article on the blog about connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to Cloudera Impala [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/connecting-obiee-11-1-1-7-to-cloudera-impala/] , a new “in-memory” SQL engine for Hadoop that’s much faster than Hive for interactive queries. In this example, I connected OBIEE

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Connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to Cloudera Impala

A few months ago I posted a series of articles about connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-1-so-what-is-hadoop-mapreduce-and-hive] , Exalytics [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/07/accelerating-hadoophive-obiee-queries-using-exalytics-and-the-summary-advisor/] and ODI [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-3-a-closer-look-at-hive-hfds-and-cloudera-chd3/] to Apache Hadoop through Hive [http:

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.1 and Self- Service Data Mashup capability

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) 3.1 has been released yesterday, 7th of November. The new version is a good step forward to satisfy business users with providing much better self-service discovery capabilities. OEID 3.1 now enables its non-technical users to securely run agile business intelligence analysis on variety

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OEM12cR3: Holistic BI Platform Monitoring using Systems and Services

Over the past few weeks myself and some of my colleagues have been posting articles on the blog about monitoring OBIEE using Enterprise Manager 12cR3’s BI Management Pack [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-oem12cr2-and-the-bi-management-pack-part-1-introduction-to-oem12cr2/] . In the various articles we’ve looked at managing individual OBIEE installations and

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Monitoring OBIEE Performance for the End User with JMeter from EM12c

This is the third article in my two-article set of posts (h/t [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_in_five_parts]) on extending the monitoring of OBIEE within EM12c. It comes after a brief interlude discussing Metric Extensions [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/collecting-usage-tracking-data-with-metric-extensions-in-em12c/] as an alternative

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Collecting Usage Tracking Data with Metric Extensions in EM12c

In my previous post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/building-alerts-in-em12c-with-obiee-usage-tracking-data/] I demonstrated how OBIEE’s Usage Tracking data could be monitored by EM12c through a Service Test. It was pointed out to me that an alternative for collecting the same data would be the use of EM12c’s

Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 – GoldenGate Integration - Part 4: Initial Load and Replication

This is the final post in my series on Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 and GoldenGate Integration. If you have been following along up to this point, we have the Source Dependent Data Store schema setup and ready to accept data from the OLTP source via replication,

Oracle Data Integrator 12c release : Part 2

In the first part of this article [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/10/oracle-data-integrator-12c-release-part-1], we discovered the new mappings and reusable mappings, the debugger and the support of OWB jobs in the freshly released ODI 12c. Let's continue to cover the new features in ODI 12c with

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Building alerts in EM12c with OBIEE Usage Tracking data

Introduction Enterprise Manager 12c is the latest and greatest incarnation of Oracle’s toolset for Enterprise Management (the clue’s in the name), of which Cloud Control (neé Grid Control) is one of the key tools. It can be used for a unified overview of disparate services including servers, databases,