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Financial Reports - which tool to use? Part 2

Financials in BI Publisher## I find it interesting that BI Publisher is mostly known for the creation of pixel perfect repeating forms (invoices, labels, checks, etc) and its ability to bursting them. To me, BI Publisher is the best kept secret for the most challenging reports known to mankind. In

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Financial Reports - which tool to use? Part 1

One of the treats of working in the Business Intelligence world is that we are asked to analyze different aspects of a business. In fact, we are asked to analyze many different types of businesses, too. Most of us using BI tools have come from some previous background. Be it

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Working with OBIEE Data in Excel using ODBC

Look at this picture. I'm sure you've recognised the most favourite data analysis tool of all times - Excel. But what you can't see in this picture is the data source for the table and charts. And this source is OBIEE's BI

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Common OBIEE Implementation Mistakes That Impact Performance

I've recently performed several assessments to help our clients diagnose and fix their OBIEE performance problems. They often share similar design or implementation issues, and I thought it would be useful to present them here as a handy reference: * No software monitoring * Randomly changing configuration settings * Data transformation

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OTN Appreciation Day: OBIEE's Export to Excel Functionality

Only kidding…. Do you know that almost any transformation doable in excel can be achieved in OBIEE, probably faster and with zero impact on your local workstation? Image credit https://twitter.com/fomin_andrew/status/749305992198881281Why bothering downloading data to Excel when you have pivot tables, conditional formatting and a

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Driving OBIEE User Engagement with Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE

Measuring and monitoring user interactions and behaviour with OBIEE is a key part of Rittman Mead’s User Engagement Service [http://ritt.md/ue]. By understanding and proving how users are engaging the system we can improve the experience for the user, driving up usage and ensuring maximum value for