A First Look at the BI Apps 7.9.5.2 Part 2: Technology Changes Between ODI and Informatica

Saturday, August 1st, 2009 by Mark Rittman

So at the end of last week I posted an overview of the new 7.9.5.2 release of the Oracle BI Applications, which replaces Informatica and the DAC with Oracle Data Integrator and Configuration Manager. I said at the time that we still had SDE (Source-Dependent Extract) and SIL (Source-Independent Layer) mappings, together with PLP and [...]

A First Look at the BI Apps 7.9.5.2 Part 1: General New Features

Friday, July 31st, 2009 by Mark Rittman

If you’ve been wondering why I’ve not been posting to the blog recently, it’s because I’ve been grappling with the new release of the Oracle BI Applications that uses Oracle Data Integrator as the ETL engine. This is an interesting release as it does away with Informatica and even the DAC, but it uses the [...]

Announcing Rittman Mead Training Days 2009, London

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 by Mark Rittman

I’m very pleased to announce details of our second-ever Training Days event, to be held at the Bloomsbury Hotel in London on October 27th – 29th 2009. This year I’m especially pleased to be co-hosting the event with Venkat Janakiraman and Christian Berg, two experts in the Oracle BI EE world and star speakers at [...]

What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2009?

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 [...]

BI Management Pack Article now on OTN

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, [...]

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