Sunday, March 15th, 2009 by Mark Rittman
One of the publications that I write for is the ODTUG Technical Journal, where I contribute a regular “business intelligence” column. ODTUG is aimed at technical developers and consultants, and so I was having a think about how the product skills required by such people have changed over the past five years. As someone who […]
Friday, February 20th, 2009 by Mark Rittman
My article on the BI Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager and OBIEE is now up on OTN.
If you read my earlier blog posts on this product (here, here), the OTN article goes into a bit more detail and covers the setup, configuration and use of this plug-in to Oracle Enterprise Manager. In a nutshell, […]
Friday, January 30th, 2009 by Mark Rittman
The other week I posted an article on optimizing the Oracle B Applications ETL process, and one useful set of diagnostic data I highlighted at the time was the ETL step timings that are available in the DAC Console. For every running or completed execution plan in the DAC Repository, you can list out the […]
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 by Mark Rittman
A question I’ve been asked fairly regularly over the past few weeks is how you can version control the metadata used by an OBIEE project. As you’re probably aware, there is no real version control built in to OBIEE (you can check-in, and check-out, repository objects in the BI Server repository when it’s running online, […]
Sunday, January 18th, 2009 by Mark Rittman
This week I’m working with one of our customers who are in the first phase of implementing the Oracle BI Applications. We’re still in the proof of concept phase, and something we’ll need to get sorted out before embarking on the project proper is the time that the ETL process takes to run. At the […]
