Amending Existing Category 1 SDE and SIL Mappings In Oracle BI Apps 7.9.5

Friday, July 11th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

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 […]

OBIEE on the Apple iPhone

Thursday, July 10th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

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 […]

Simple Customization of the Oracle BI Applications Data Warehouse

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

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 What’s In the Oracle BI Apps Data Warehouse?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

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 […]

New OWB Product Roadmap on OTN

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

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 […]

OBIEE, Discoverer, Oracle OLAP and Essbase Users: Complete the BI Survey 8

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

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 […]

Getting Started With Informatica PowerCenter 8.1.1

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

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 […]

Five Years of the Blog

Monday, July 7th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

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 […]

Performing Initial Data Loads into the Oracle BI Apps 7.9.5 Data Warehouse

Sunday, July 6th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

In a couple of recent articles, (here, here) I’ve given an overview of the Oracle BI Applications and stepped through the installation and configuration of Oracle BI Applications Fusion Edition (7.9.5). In this posting I’ll be walking through the initial load of the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse, using Order Management data taken from Oracle E-Business […]

Rittman Mead are Recruiting for a Senior Consultant

Friday, July 4th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

The past year has been a very exciting and busy one for Rittman Mead with new projects starting in the UK, Europe, Canada and the United States. We’re now in a position where we’re looking to add another consultant to our team, someone who shares our passion for Oracle business intelligence and producing world-class solutions […]