Time Series in OBIEE compared with Discoverer

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

I just finished reading through Mark Rittman’s post titled OBI EE, Time Dimensions and Time-Series Calculations Here, Mark goes on a wee journey to look at how time-series queries in OBIEE (as the title suggests :)) can be set up. As can only be expected this is an interesting read. His post comes at a [...]

Update on the Discoverer 10.1.2.2.0 / Missing 5146470 Patch Posting

Saturday, November 18th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

A quick update on the Discoverer 10.1.2.2.0 article I wrote earlier this week, where I mentioned that database patch 5146470 mentioned as a requirement in the documentation isn’t actually available for Windows. At the time I contacted metalink as by not installing the patch, I could have been risking corruption to my analytic workspaces, and [...]

Checking Out The New Discoverer 10.1.2.2.0 Features

Monday, November 13th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

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 [...]

Oracle BI & SOA – Hype or Here Now?

Monday, October 30th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

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 Release Statement of Direction for Discoverer

Sunday, April 16th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

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 [...]

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