Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

With Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, the BI Apps and Hyperion EPM Suite, Oracle have a set of reporting and analysis tools that can be considered “best of breed” and compete with any other tool on the market. Coupled with the Oracle database, the engineered systems strategy and the Fusion Apps/Apps Unlimited ERP suites, as a BI [...]

Apart from system-wide improvements to Essbase integration across OBIEE 11.1.1.7, the other Essbase-related improvement that came with this latest release was the (re-)introduction of SmartView as the replacement for Oracle BI Add-in for Microsoft Office (“BI Office”), OBIEE’s previous MS Office solution. As a reminder, BI Office appeared with OBIEE 10.1.3.3 back in 2007/8 and [...]

One of the major new feature areas in OBIEE 11.1.1.7, but which has so far got very little attention, is the significant improvement in integration between Essbase, the Hyperion EPM Suite, and OBIEE 11g. The integration between EPM Workspace and OBIEE’s Presentation Services which disappeared when 11g came along is now back, along with installation [...]

Towards the end of last week I was pulling together an article for Oracle Magazine on Oracle Endeca Information Discovery, and how it can now use OBIEE’s BI Server and repository as an additional data source. I won’t go into the details of that connectivity now as it’ll be covered in the article itself, but [...]

The recent 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 patchset for OBIEE 11g provided a bunch of new features including trellis charts, Oracle BI Mobile and the repository Model Checker, but it also sneaked in another set of new features that will be of particular interest to Essbase users: closer integration between Essbase Server and OBIEE, and the ability to [...]