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OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g and ADF Integration using the Action Framework

The third of my presentation at this year's Oracle Openworld in San Francisco was in fact a collaboration with Andrejus Baranovskis [http://redsamuraiconsulting.com/], fellow ACE Director and specialist in Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) [http://andrejusb.blogspot.com/]. The idea for this presentation came to us a

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OOW2011 : Oracle BI Applications Futures

One of the sessions running at yesterday's Openworld was on the future of the Oracle BI Applications. You probably don't realize it, but the 11g release of the BI Apps has been "sort-of" available for the past few months, but as a controlled-availability release

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OOW2011 : More on the Exalytics New User Interface

One of the key messages Oracle keep putting out about Exalytics, is that they had to provide a new user interface to make best use of the "speed of thought" analytics provided by the product. In particular, a few key new areas were highlighted that were made possible

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OOW2011 : More on Oracle Exalytics

I'm currently sitting in the Thomas Kurian keynote at Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco, and more details of the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine have now been announced. Here's the latest details: The Exalytics BI Machine is based on a Sun server with 4 Intel

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OOW2011 : Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine

So the big announcement for Oracle BI customers at Larry Ellison's keynote on Sunday evening at Oracle Openworld was the Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine, a new hardware and software combination from Oracle that aims to provide "speed-of-thought" analysis based around OBIEE 11g and the TimesTen parallel

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OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Deployment & Change Management

My second session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 was on a perennially hot topic; change management and deployment within OBIEE 11g. In a typical project, once you've got past the initial prototype, you're going to want to deploy updated versions of the repository,

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OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Architecture & Internals

I've just finished my first session of Oracle Openworld 2011, on OBIEE 11g Architecture and Internals for IOUG's BIWA SIG. Thanks to everyone who came along, and I hope it was a useful session. The slides for this session are available here : OBIEE 11g Architecture &

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ODTUG and Rittman Mead in Sydney : ODTUG BI/EPM Seriously Practical Conference

As my colleague Ashley Beauman mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Rittman Mead are pleased to be co-sponsoring the ODTUG BI & EPM Seriously Practical Conference [http://www.odtugspconference.com/agenda.html], running in Sydney, Australia on November 3rd and 4th 2011. Along with James & Monroe, Oracle Technology Network

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A BI Developers' Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2011

A couple of people have asked me how they should plan for the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2011 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html], running in San Francisco on October 2-6th. If you've never been to OpenWorld before, and perhaps you're looking to make a case

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Rittman Mead at ODTUG Kscope 2011

I'm still not used to saying "Kscope"... it sounds like a medical screening that I know I should get when I turn 40. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the event for all the usual reasons: seeing good friends, seeing all the great speakers in

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Last Two Days for the ODTUG Kscope11 $250 Discount!

Just a quick note to remind any who's not yet registered, that the cu [http://odtug.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-time-is-now/]t-off date for registering for ODTUG KScope'11 with the $250 discount [http://odtug.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-time-is-now/] is June 9th, just two

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OBIEE 11g for Hyperion Users - Are We There Yet?

In a couple of weeks time it's the OUG Conference Series EPM & Hyperion 2011 Conference [http://hyperion.ukoug.org/default.asp] in the UK (now there's a mouthful), and along with such Hyperion luminaries and Oracle ACE Directors as Edward Roske and Eric Helmer, I&

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2011 Brighton & Atlanta : Wrap-up

Over the past two week we've been running our annual Rittman Mead BI Forum, which this year ran in two cities; Brighton, our home town in the UK, and for the first time, Atlanta, the base for Rittman Mead in the USA. Each event featured ten speakers from

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Countdown to the 2011 BI Forum

It's just a couple of days now until seventy of Europe's top OBIEE, DW and EPM developers converge on Brighton's Hotel Seattle for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2011 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011]. It's been a long time in the planning,

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Rittman Mead At Collaborate11 - Roundup and Presentations

Last week several of us from Rittman Mead were in Orlando, Florida for Collaborate'11 [http://collaborate11.ioug.org/], the annual joint-conference by IOUG, Quest and OAUG. My two sessions were on KPIs and Scorecards using OBIEE11g, and OBIEE11g Architecture and Internals, and I also co-chaired (with Ian Abramson)

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Rittman Mead at Collaborate'11, Orlando

I'm currently sitting opposite Tom Kyte in the speaker lounge at the OUGN Conference [http://www.ougn.no/a/273], actually sailing down from Oslo to Kiel, Germany in the MS Color Magic, the cruise liner that's playing host to the event. Each year, OUGN (the

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Ten Reasons to Attend the Rittman Mead BI Forum, May 2011

So this is the last message I'll be posting on our BI Forum in May this year [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011], as we're down to the last batch of available places and soon we'll be off to Collaborate'11 in Orlando. But

UKOUG Exadata Special Event

As part of my role as BIRT SIG chair, I have been involved in organising a special Exadata event later in April. The idea is to test the water to see if there is any traction in the UK for an Exadata special interest group. We originally raised and discussed

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Mark Rittman and Tony Heljula OBIEE 11g Masterclass @ BI Forum 2011

Just a quick update on the joint OBIEE 11g Masterclass that Tony Heljula and I are running before the BI Forum 2011 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011], in Brighton and Atlanta May 2011. Tony and I have been out on the road the past six months providing OBIEE 11g training

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ODTUG "OBIEE 11g RPD Modeling New Features" Slides

I had an early start this morning, giving a webcast for ODTUG [http://www.odtug.com] for the AsiaPac region on OBIEE 11g RPD Modeling Best Practices and New Features. In the session, we covered the basics of OBIEE repository modeling, some general good practices, how data federation works and

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Looking forward to 2011, and News on Events

Well it's back-to-work time now in the UK, and for myself and for Rittman Mead it's looking like an exciting few months coming up. First off, we announced just before the holiday break an additional set of dates for our OBIEE 11g Training Days event [http:

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Training Days Bangalore : It's a Wrap!

Well, I'm back home now after completing the last leg of our OBIEE 11g Training Days event, this time in Bangalore, India. Held at the Trinity Fortune Hotel near to our new offices in Bangalore, thirty OBIEE enthusiasts joined us for three days of intensive 11g training covering

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Photos from Training Days 2010, London

Last week was the first of our OBIEE 11g Training Days 2010 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2010] events, held at Holborn Bars in London. Thirty OBIEE developers from around Europe joined us for three days of discussions, demos and optional labs around the new 11g release of Oracle Business Intelligence

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Thoughts on BI at Oracle OpenWorld 2010

Well, I'm finally back from San Francisco and Oracle Open World [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], having spent two days at Oracle's HQ in Redwood Shores and then just over a week downtown in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. If you came to any of

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Training Days 2010 Bangalore - Now Hands-On!

I'm pleased to announce that, in line with the London and Atlanta Oracle BI 11g Training Days events, our event in Bangalore will now be hands-on. As a reminder, the Rittman Mead Oracle BI 11g Training Days event is three-day of intense, hands-on technical training on the new