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Following on from Abhinav’s announcement last week, I downloaded the 10.1.2.2.0 patch for Application Server 10g over the weekend, and started having a look at the new Discoverer and Spreadsheet Add-in features that it makes available.
If you’ve just got BI Suite Standard Edition installed on it’s own (i.e. not part of a Portal and Infrastructure […]

I mentioned in my posting yesterday that, whilst at Open World last week, I was struck by the many conversations I had with people around Oracle business intelligence and Service Orientated Architectures (generally shortened to SOA and, within Oracle, pronounced “So-ah”.) BI was also positioned very much within the Fusion Middleware stack of products, alongside […]

Oracle have just made available a

Statement of Direction for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer, which
makes interesting reading if you’re wondering what’s going to happen now that Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition is
out.
The statement of direction starts off by saying that Discoverer will still be
continued and developed as Oracle’s user-friendly ad-hoc query tool, and will
continue to […]

I’ve got an interesting dilemma with a piece of consulting I’m doing this
week. We’re working with charity up in London who wants to add some Discoverer
reporting to their OLTP application. They’d got licences for Discoverer but
never got around to deploying it, and so our task was to do a few days of EUL
and report development, […]

Using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer with the OLAP Option : "Learn
the advantages of adding the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition OLAP Option to
your OracleBI Discoverer reporting and analysis, and the steps required to make
OLAP reporting available to users."
My second article for OTN has now been published
(here
the first one if you missed it), and
this time I look […]

Michael Armstrong-Smith, author of the
forthcoming Oracle
Discoverer 10g book and a regular
OTN Discoverer
Forum contributor, recently posted the
slides and

white paper from his IOUG Live! 2005 session on the
learndiscoverer.com
website. One interesting concept that Michael has come up with for these presentations is that of a
"Discoverer Library".

Michael explained how this worked in a

recent OTN Discoverer Forum posting :

"The […]

"I have a question about drilling from an OracleBI Discoverer for OLAP
10.1.2 worksheet to a Discoverer Plus Relational worksheet. When you pass
values from an OLAP worksheet you pass either the dimension name or the
dimension value to the associated parameter in the relational worksheet.
Obviously, in OLAP this dimension is treated as an object, and we have […]

A number of clients I’ve worked with recently have been looking to implement OracleBI Discoverer 10.1.2 for OLAP as their general ad-hoc query tool. Whether running against relational OLAP data or data in analytic workspace, Discoverer for OLAP comes with a slick new interface, an OLAP-aware query builder and works against a logical dimensional model […]

A number of clients I’ve worked with recently have been looking to implement
OracleBI Discoverer 10.1.2 for OLAP as their general ad-hoc query tool. Whether
running against relational OLAP data or data in analytic workspace, Discoverer
for OLAP comes with a slick new interface, an OLAP-aware query builder and works
against a logical dimensional model that mirrors the way […]

If you’ve read my OTN article

"Building BI Dashboards with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle
Portal" and were looking to set a BI dashboard up, you might be wondering
how to set up OracleBI Discoverer so that it integrates in with Oracle Portal.
Whilst it’s not particularly tricky to set up, there are a number of steps […]