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Over the past few months the team at Rittman Mead have been busy developing new course content and seeking out suitable venues for our first ever public course, the Oracle BI Training Days . This course is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about designing, developing and optimizing business intelligence systems using Oracle’s BI tools.
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I’m currently sitting in my hotel room in Fredericia, Denmark, as tomorrow I’m running a customized version of our OBIEE course for a new customer over here. I flew in to Copenhagen Airport late this afternoon and then got the train from the airport to where I am now; the journey on the train was […]

A new course we’ve recently developed is one around the Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5. Covering the initial setup, data load and mapping customizations and using an Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 data set, we initially developed this course for a couple of customers who wanted to get their development team up to speed with the key […]

I’ve been working with Informatica 8.1.1, the Oracle BI Applications and the DAC (Data Warehouse Administration) for a while now, and over this time I’ve tried to post a few techniques I’ve picked up whilst putting the tools through their paces. I’m going to round up the current set of postings now with one on […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Up until recently, our office installation of the Oracle BI Applications has been based around the 7.9.4 release, and as 7.9.5 is now out and comes with support for Peoplesoft HR 8.9 and 9.0, Siebel CRM 8.1 and Informatica 8.1.1, I thought I’d give this new release a try. Our existing setup was also running […]