Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Recently i have been doing lot more work on the Oracle EPM stack than on the Oracle BI stack. So, i will be writing more on the various Oracle EPM products like HFM, Planning, FDQM etc in the forthcoming weeks. To sort of kick start the series of postings, i thought i will begin an [...]

If you had watched the announcements in Open World this year, one of the products that got silently released was HFM Analytics. Basically this is an Analytics Suite under the umbrella of BI Applications but without any ETL. This suite provides comprehensive set of pre-built reports/dashboards for customers who have Hyperion Financial Management (and Close [...]

When you starting working with Essbase sources and OBIEE, how you create calculations quickly becomes one of the more interesting aspects of working with the two technologies. With Essbase, you’ve got a powerful multi-dimensional database that features many functions and calculation capabilities that you’d like to use with your analyses and dashboards, and the BI [...]

If you were an early adopter of Essbase integration with OBIEE, the 10g release had a number of restrictions that made it hard to use in production. Chief amongst these was the lack of any ability to refresh the physical model of the Essbase database within the Oracle BI Repository, such that if you added [...]

Back in 2009, I wrote a blog post entitled “What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2009″. At the time, OBIEE 11g was in the planning stage, Oracle had recently acquired Hyperion and so Essbase and Planning were coming into the picture, and the Oracle BI Applications were becoming mainstream. At the time [...]