Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

OBI 11g ships with a one-click startup option for Windows installations, but not for Linux (*NIX). Windows users get a big shiny Click Here type button, whereas Linux users have to ferret around in the middleware folders trying to remember the paths for Node Manger, Web Logic, Managed Server and finally OPMN each time you [...]

Well it’s the last working day now before the end of 2011, and so I thought it’d be interesting to take a look back at the events of 2011, and a bit of think-forward as to what’s on the horizon for 2012. As usual, it’s been a very interesting and fast-moving 2011, with some new [...]

In the previous post, I laid the groundwork for describing Extreme BI: a combination of Exadata and OBIEE delivered with an Agile spirit. I discussed that the usual approach to Agile data warehousing is not Agile at all due to the violation of it’s main principle: working software delivered iteratively. If you haven’t already deduced [...]

Over the last year, I’ve been speaking at conferences on one subject more than any others: Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. Although I’ve been busy with client work and growing the US business, I realize I need to dedicate more time to blogging again, and this seemed like the logical subject to take [...]

Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g give the facility to call a function in Oracle either before or after a data set is refreshed. The function must return a boolean (true/false), and if it returns false the data model will abort execution. In this article I will demonstrate how to pass a parameter through to [...]