Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Over the past few days the UKOUG has been running it’s UKOUG Conference Series: EPM & Hyperion 2011 event in Weybridge, near London, and Jon Mead and I went along yesterday to take part. Thank you to everyone who came to my session on “OBIEE 11g for Hyperion Users – Are We There Yet?”, and [...]

Just a quick note to remind any who’s not yet registered, that the cut-off date for registering for ODTUG KScope’11 with the $250 discount is June 9th, just two days away. If you’re planning on coming and want to save as much money as possible, register now whilst the discount still stands. If your interest [...]

As mentioned in the blog post here, one other significant improvement in 11g Action Framework is the ability to browse the Oracle EPM 11.1.2 catalog and then pass the parameters from BI EE to the target EPM reports. Unlike 10g, now there is no more a limitation of only one instance of BI EE being [...]

My latest article for Oracle Magazine is now available online, and this month it’s a joint effort between myself and Venkat. “Using Oracle Essbase Release 11.1.2 Aggregate Storage Option Databases” takes a look at the new calculation capabilities in Essbase 11.1.2, in particular looking at how data can be aggregated, derived and allocated within 11.1.2 [...]

In the last 2 blog entries, i showed how the calculations in ASO work. Today lets look at another new feature in ASO cubes i.e the ability to run allocations directly. In a BSO cube, Allocations and Calculations are all driven through a set of calculation commands. Some Allocation features in BSO can actually be [...]