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Once A Week Is Never Enough

Once A Week Is Never Enough

Over the last few months we have been looking at User Engagement [http://www.rittmanmead.com/tag/userengagement/] and recently asked people take part in a global usage survey [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/09/the-greatest-obiee-usage-study-ever/] so we could create a series of benchmark metrics detailing how organisations used

Using the BI Server Metadata Web Service for Automated RPD Modifications

Using the BI Server Metadata Web Service for Automated RPD Modifications

A little-known new feature of OBIEE 11g is a web service interface to the BI Server. Called the “BI Server Metadata Web Service [https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/bi.1111/e16364/bi_server_web_services.htm#BIEIT3235] ” it gives a route into making calls into the BI Server

Managing the OBIEE BI Server Cache from ODI 12c

Managing the OBIEE BI Server Cache from ODI 12c

I wrote recently about the OBIEE BI Server Cache and how useful it can be [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/09/obiee-bi-server-cache-management-strategies/], but how important it is to manage it properly, both in the purging of stale data and seeding of new. In this article I want to show

OBIEE BI Server Cache Management Strategies

OBIEE BI Server Cache Management Strategies

The OBIEE BI Server cache can be one of the most effective ways of improving response times of OBIEE dashboards. By using data already in the cache it reduces load on the database, the network, and the BI Server. Should you be using it? I always describe it as the

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

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

Oracle Big Data Discovery 1.1 now GA, and Available as part of BigDataLite 4.2.1

Oracle Big Data Discovery 1.1 now GA, and Available as part of BigDataLite 4.2.1

The new Oracle Big Data Discovery 1.1 release went GA [https://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportEPM/entry/bdd_v11] a couple of weeks ago, and came with a bunch of features that addressed show-stoppers in the original 1.0 release; the ability to refresh and reload datasets from Hive, compatibility

Primeros Cursos de Rittman Mead en Español en América Latina

Primeros Cursos de Rittman Mead en Español en América Latina

La semana pasada y en el contexto del OTN Tour LA 2015 dimos nuestros primeros cursos en Español en Quito, Ecuador y Cali, Colombia. Se trató de un workshop en este caso de un día (8 horas) sobre Desarrollo Front-End de OBIEE 11g. En esta oportunidad los cursos fueron presenciales,

The greatest OBIEE usage study ever...

The greatest OBIEE usage study ever...

Rittman Mead is excited to announce the first ever global OBIEE usage survey. Our goal is to provide deep analysis into how organisations use their OBIEE systems and to create a set of industry benchmarks. We will be releasing the results of this research for free to the OBIEE community.

Three Easy Ways to Stream Twitter Data into ElasticSearch

Three Easy Ways to Stream Twitter Data into ElasticSearch

For the past few months a friend has been driving me crazy with all his praise for Splunk. He was going on about how easy it is to install, integrate different sources and build reports. I eventually started playing around to see if it could be used for a personal

Combining Spark Streaming and Data Frames for Near-Real Time Log Analysis & Enrichment

Combining Spark Streaming and Data Frames for Near-Real Time Log Analysis & Enrichment

A few months ago I posted an article on the blog around using Apache Spark to analyse activity on our website [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/going-beyond-mapreduce-for-hadoop-etl-pt-3-introducing-apache-spark/] , using Spark to join the site activity to some reference tables for some one-off analysis. In this article I’ll be

Using Streams with ODI12c for Oracle-to-Oracle Change Data Capture

Using Streams with ODI12c for Oracle-to-Oracle Change Data Capture

Although Oracle GoldenGate replaced Oracle Streams a couple of years ago as the recommended data replication and change data capture technology for Oracle databases, many customers still on Oracle Database 11gR2 or earlier still use Streams for Oracle-to-Oracle change data capture as it works and compared to GoldenGate doesn’t

Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3

Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3

Oracle issued their quarterly Critical Patch Update [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html] yesterday, and with it notice of several security issues of note: * The most serious for OBIEE (CVE-2013-2186 [https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-2186]) rates 7.5 (out of 10) on

Options for Enabling ODI11g+12c Standalone Agents for High-Availability (or ... Why JEE Agents are the Best Option)

Options for Enabling ODI11g+12c Standalone Agents for High-Availability (or ... Why JEE Agents are the Best Option)

A few years ago we posted some articles on the blog around Oracle Data Integrator ETL restartability and resilience [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/01/odi-11g-in-the-enterprise-part-5-etl-resilience-and-high-availability/] , and making ODI’s agents highly-availabile [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/11/clustering-odi11g-for-high-availability-part-1-introduction-and-architecture/] . The context around those posts was a large data

Essbase Studio checkModelInSyncExternal Error

Essbase Studio checkModelInSyncExternal Error

This week I am back at one of my favourite clients to assist with some issues since the latest upgrade to 11.1.1.9. These guys are seriously technical and know their stuff, so when issues pop up I'm always ready for an interesting and challenging day

How Engaged Are Your OBIEE Users?

How Engaged Are Your OBIEE Users?

Following on from Jon's blog post “User Engagement: Why does it matter?” [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/user-engagement-why-does-it-matter/], I would like to take this one step further by talking about measurement. At Rittman Mead we believe that if you can't measure it, you can&

Rittman Mead at ODTUG KScope'15, Hollywood Florida

Rittman Mead at ODTUG KScope'15, Hollywood Florida

ODTUG KScope’15 [http://kscope15.com] is running in Hollywood, Florida next week and Rittman Mead are running a number of sessions during the week on OBIEE, Essbase, ODI and Big Data. I’ve personally been attending ODTUG KScope (or “Kaleidoscope”, as it used to be known) for many years

Introducing Rittman Mead's New User Engagement Service

Introducing Rittman Mead's New User Engagement Service

[http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/RMA-UE-Datasheet.pdf] Although you’ve been hearing a lot on the blog recently about extending Oracle BI&DW with Hadoop and big data technologies, another initiative Rittman Mead have been working on over the past couple of months is user engagement.

Combining Oracle Big Data Discovery and Oracle Visual Analyzer on BICS

Combining Oracle Big Data Discovery and Oracle Visual Analyzer on BICS

So now that Oracle Visual Analyzer is out as part of Oracle BI Cloud Service [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/new-in-oracle-bi-cloud-service-oracle-visual-analyzer-and-data-mashups-in-va/] , and Visual Analyzer (VA) is due to ship on-premise as part of OBIEE12c sometime in the next twelve months, several of our customers have asked us if

Can Better Visual Design Impact User Engagement?

Can Better Visual Design Impact User Engagement?

Background For every dashboard succinctly displaying key business metrics, there’s another that is a set of unconnected graphs which don’t provide any insight to its viewers. In order for your users to get value from your business intelligence and analytics systems they need to be engaging, they need

Practical Tips for Oracle BI Applications 11g Implementations

Practical Tips for Oracle BI Applications 11g Implementations

As with any product or technology, the more you use it the more you learn about the "right" way to do things. Some of my experiences implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11g have led me to compile a few tips that will improve the overall process for installation

User Engagement - Why Does it Matter?

User Engagement - Why Does it Matter?

The value of any system can be measured by how often you interact with it. The perfect example is Slack [https://slack.com/], which is now seen as the most successful collaboration app ever [http://innov8tiv.com/slack-successful-online-collaboration-app-ever-valued-1-2-billion/] and is valued at $1.2bn. The key metric for this is