Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Well, we’re all back home now after two very successful Rittman Mead BI Forum events in Brighton, and then Atlanta, earlier this month in May 2013. Around 70 OBIEE, ODI, Endeca and Essbase developers from around Europe got together in the first week in Brighton, followed by around 60 in Atlanta, and we were joined [...]

One of OBIEE’s many great strengths is aggregate navigation; the ability to choose from a list of possible tables the one which will probably give the optimal performance for a given user query. Users are blissfully unaware of which particular table their query is being satisfied from, since aggregate navigation happens on the BI Server [...]

In my previous posting in this series, I looked at the new 11.1.1..7.1 release of the Oracle BI Applications at a high-level, and talked about how this new release uses ODI as the embedded ETL tool instead of Informatica PowerCenter. Support for Informatica will come with patch set 2 (PS2) of BI Apps 11.1.1.7.x giving [...]

The long-awaited and anticipated 11.1.1.7.1 (PS1) release of the Oracle BI Applications became available early last week, with the software and documentation available for download on OTN. Over the next few blog posts, I’ll be taking an in-depth look at this new release, starting today with an overview of what’s new and any limitations in his initial version, and [...]

It’s Tuesday morning, and later today delegates will be starting to arrive in Brighton for the 5th Annual Rittman Mead BI Forum, running again at the Hotel Seattle down at Brighton Marina. Around seventy of Europe’s most experienced OBIEE, ODI and Essbase developers will be getting together to discuss techniques, share tips and take part [...]