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I’m running a (currently) one-off Oracle 11g data warehousing seminar for Oracle University on the 17th and 18th September in Copenhagen, in a similar format to the Oracle BI seminars I ran over the last couple of years. It’s aimed at DBAs and data warehouse developers who want a better understanding of the core database […]

Edward Roske over at the Look Smarter blog recently picked up on the release of the new Oracle EPM System 11.1 over at edelivery.oracle.com. Edward notes that this release is initially Windows only and includes improvements to Essbase an a new integrated Essbase development IDE called Essbase Studio.
For me this is potentially a very interesting […]

In today’s posting on the Oracle BI Applications, we’re going to add a new attribute to an existing dimension table in the Oracle Business Analytics data warehouse. If you’re new to this, this is part of a series of postings on the Oracle BI Applications that includes:

An Introduction to the Oracle BI Applications
Installing and Configuring […]

Chris Claterbos from Vlamis has picked up on the story that one of the first official iPhone apps is a front-end for Oracle BI Enterprise Edition. The App Store hasn’t gone live over here yet, but apparently one of the first applications you can download (and for free) is a viewer application for Oracle BI […]

In today’s posting on the Oracle BI Applications, we’re going to take a look at adding custom data into the BI Apps data warehouse. In my experience there are a number of common scenarios where new data needs to be added to the BI Apps data warehouse, including:

Adding new columns, or new flexfields, to existing […]

So before we start thinking about how we’re going to extend and customize the Oracle BI Applications data warehouse (technically called the “Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse”) it’s probably worth having a think about what’s in the warehouse in the first place. Now this isn’t quite as easy as it seems as Oracle only grant access […]

I’m not sure how much significance we should attach to it (in terms of it being new news), but there’s an updated product roadmap document for OWB now available on OTN. Apart from the details we all know about such as OBIEE support in the next release, ODI knowledge module support and so on, there’s […]

It’s that time of year again when the next BI Survey starts collecting responses from BI users around the world. Now at the eight edition, the BI Survey is an independent survey and analysis of hundreds of BI tools users around the world. This year, the BI Survey team are particularly keen to get responses […]

In the previous postings in my Oracle BI Apps series, I’ve looked at the BI Apps architecture, installation and configuration, and performing the initial data load. As one of the key benefits of the BI Apps is its extensibility, one of the first things I’d want to know if I was a customer is exactly […]

I just noticed today that it’s more or less five years to the day since I started writing this blog. It’s been an interesting five years both personally and professionally for me; I gave my first conference presentation more or less five years ago, soon after I started chairing the UKOUG BI & Reporting Tools […]