Technical RittmanMead Webinar Series 2012 Mark and myself have been delivering webinars each week as part of the RittmanMead Webinar Series 2012. We're a third of the way through the series now, with some really interesting sessions covering Exaytics, RPD development, and OBI change management. Still to come are the following sessions: * April
Technical Basket Analysis in the Oracle Database Last time [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/statistical-analysis-in-the-database/] I gave a taster of my forthcoming Collaborate 12 talk on techniques beyond the traditional "slice and dice" that we know so well. I wrote mainly about the ways in which we can perform statistical analysis on our
Business Insights Business Deferred Development Following on from previous posts about Rittman Mead’s development methodologies, I would like to talk about another approach we have been working on over the last few years: Business Deferred Development. Development methodologies are designed to augment the development process, empower developers and ultimately produce better results. What we
Business Insights Exalytics Test Drive - April 18th 2012 in London Some people may have seen that Rittman Mead became the first partner in the UK to buy an Exalytics box in the Oracle newsletter [https://blogs.oracle.com/emeapartnerbiepm/entry/rittman_mead_first_uk_partner], and as a result we can uniquely offer our customers and community the chance to
Rittman Mead Life New Wednesday Seminar Series from Robin and Mark Robin Moffatt mentioned the other day that we've launched a number of new training initiatives [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/new-training-courses-and-seminars-from-rittman-mead/], including a series of seminars, running on Wednesday afternoons [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training/webinar-series-2012/] and presented either by myself or Robin, aimed at OBIEE
Business Insights Statistical Analysis in the Database My first ever presentation at the UKOUG conference (long before I started working with Mark Rittman and Jon Mead) was an introduction to analytic functions. Since then analytics have remained a key part of my work as a DW developer; many of the processes that I have implemented would be
Technical Oracle Data Integrator Designer for OWB Developers Last time [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/oracle-data-integrator-topologies-for-owb-developers/] I described some of the aspects of ODI Topology. I only touched the surface of this subject and mainly kept to database sources; if you attend one of the Rittman Mead ODI bootcamps [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training/] (we have
Business Insights New Training Courses and Seminars from Rittman Mead I've recently joined Rittman Mead to head-up our Training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training] area, and for the past few weeks have been working on a number of new topics, modules and delivery channels for our courses. We're now going to be offering public, focused half-day
Business Insights Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, Brighton & Atlanta : Registration Now Open! I'm very pleased to announce that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2012, is now open, with details of the event and how to register on this page [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012]. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012] This
Oracle BI Suite EE OBIEE 11.1.1.6 : New Dashboard, Analysis and Reporting Features So apart from support for a new type of repository storage [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-mds-xml-repositories-and-integration-with-source-control/] , and enablement of the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine [http://www.rittmanmead.com/category/oracle-exalytics/], OBIEE 11.1.1.6 brought in a number of new features that could be of benefit
Business Insights Oracle Exalytics : An Example Optimization Exercise It's Saturday afternoon, and I'm writing this whilst on a plane going over to Dallas, Texas, traveling to what will be my first Hotsos Symposium [http://www.hotsos.com/sym12.html]. For anyone mainly working in the BI world who's not heard of the
Technical Oracle Data Integrator Topologies for OWB Developers Back in October of 2011 I posted [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/10/oracle-warehouse-builder-and-data-integrator/] the first part of a series of blogs that aimed to describe some of the key features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) from the point of view of an ETL developer who already knows Oracle
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle Exalytics Week : How Does it Perform, and How Can I Test It? This week we've been looking in-depth at the new Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the new Exa-appliance from Oracle aimed at the BI tier in an Oracle BI/DW system. We've looked at what problem Exalytics looks to solve, how it's architected and how TimesTen
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle Exalytics Week : The Summary Advisor This week we've been taking an in-depth look at Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the new engineered system from Oracle that combines Sun hardware with customized versions of Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Essbase and Oracle TimesTen, all running on 64-bit Oracle Linux. Here's a quick recap of
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle Exalytics Week : Exalytics & TimesTen - Under the Covers So in the first two postings in our Exalytics week series, we looked at why Oracle created Exalytics, and what Exalytics actually comprises of. If you missed the first two postings in the series, here's the week's agenda including links that I'll complete once
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle Exalytics Week : Introducing Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine In the first post in this Oracle Exalytics week series, we looked BI in general and how users wanted fast, consistent response times from their dashboards and reports. The are several potential solutions for improving query performance including adding materialized views and indexes, using MOLAP technologies such as Oracle Essbase
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle Exalytics Week : The Case for Exalytics OBIEE 11.1.1.6 was released last week [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-now-available-for-download-release-highlights/] , and what with all the news on the new features, and support for version control in the BI Administration Tool [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-mds-xml-repositories-and-integration-with-source-control/] , the thing that most excited
Business Insights Interview with Kevin McGinley, BI Content Lead for Kscope 12 Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Kevin McGinley of Accenture to discuss the upcoming ODTUG Kscope 12. I was on the content selection committee, and immediately recognized how lucky ODTUG was to have Kevin coordinating this process. We had tough choices to make around content -- this is always the
Business Insights Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: ETL Iteration This is the fourth entry in my series on Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. To see all the previous posts, check theintroductory posting [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-data-warehousing-with-exadata-and-obiee-introduction/] which I have updated with all the entries in the series. In the last post, I describe
Oracle BI Suite EE Hyperion Profitability & Cost Management - Overview Recently i have been doing lot more work on the Oracle EPM stack than on the Oracle BI stack. So, i will be writing more on the various Oracle EPM products like HFM, Planning, FDQM etc in the forthcoming weeks. To sort of kick start the series of postings, i
Business Insights Configuring OBI 11g to use port 80 Introduction By default, OBI 11g will listen for connections on port 7001 or port 9704 depending on your installation type. There are several reasons you may want to change this, and one of them would be to make it use port 80, the default http port. If you use port
Business Insights Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: Model-Driven Iteration After laying the groundwork with anintroduction [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-data-warehousing-with-exadata-and-obiee-introduction/] , and following up with a high-level description of the requiredpuzzle pieces [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/12/agile-exadata-obiee-puzzle-pieces/], it's time to get down to business and describe how Extreme BI works. At Rittman
Oracle BI Suite EE 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
Oracle BI Suite EE 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
Business Insights 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,
