Modelling from JDeveloper

November 21st, 2005 by Peter Scott

In a few idle moments I downloaded the CWD4ALL extension to JDeveloper – I guess it is the developer in me that wants to give modelling tools a trial and as the vendor web page mentioned words and phrases such as OLAP, multi-dimensional modelling and Oracle Analytical Workspaces. I thought I would give it a try.

Well I managed to work out to use some bits it – but I am going to admit defeat for now… I’m going to have to ask the vendors for instructions. I’ll write more on this when I get it to work!

Posted in Data Warehousing, Oracle Database, Oracle OLAP |

Comments

  1. Mark Says:

    November 21st, 2005 at 10:06 pm

    Very interesting Pete, I’ll check back and see how you got on with it. From my experience, the only problem with any third-party tools that support Oracle’s BI / OLAP stack is that they quickly get out of date - due to Oracle changing how the products work - and the vendor never keeps their products updated. For example, the IAF Software tools (Vista/Coaster), VSS Business Analyzer, Qubeview etc became obsolete when Oracle introduced AW/XML and BI Beans 10g. Oracle keep moving the product spec and you usually need to completely rewrite your tool.

  2. rene Says:

    November 30th, 2005 at 10:59 am

    Hello Pete,

    This is Rene from Ikan.

    We will publish soon a getting started for CWD4ALL as a JDeveloper extension. I’ll keep you informed.

    Also to Mark: support for Oracle products is key for us and is a number one priority.
    I agree with you that we need our products up to date with Oracle and I assure you we will!

    Regards,

    Rene

  3. rene Says:

    November 30th, 2005 at 11:02 am

    Mark, Pete,

    I can send you a sample model.

    Let me know where I can send it to

    regards,

    René