Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Building BI Dashboards with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and
Oracle Portal : "If you’ve been
following the release of

Oracle Business Intelligence 10g or keeping an eye on
industry trends, you’re probably aware that everyone is talking about business
intelligence (BI) dashboards. BI dashboards bring together reports and graphs
from several data sources and present information to users in […]

I was with a client this week who had an issue with migrating Discoverer End
User Layers from one environment to another. He would make some changes in the
development EUL, then import the changed business areas into the test EUL, but
often he’d get multiple copies of folders, items and hierarchies, and every once
in a while a […]

I was working with one of our customers last week who was looking at implementing the new OracleBI Discoverer 10g, otherwise known as “Drake”. The customer already used Oracle Discoverer Desktop 3i and had previously looked at upgrading to Oracle Application Server 9i Discoverer Plus, but had chosen not to upgrade […]

I was working with one of our customers last week who was looking at
implementing the new OracleBI Discoverer 10g, otherwise known as "Drake". The
customer already used Oracle Discoverer Desktop 3i and had previously looked at
upgrading to Oracle Application Server 9i Discoverer Plus, but had chosen not to
upgrade to this version due to a number of […]

If you’re interested in evaluating
Oracle Business
Intelligence 10g, one thing you might have missed around the time of the
launch was the release of a number of new "Oracle By Example" training courses
on these new products.
Available over
at OTN, they cover the following topics:

Using the Oracle BI Spreadsheet Add-in

Viewing Sales History Information Using OracleBI Discoverer Viewer

Analyzing Sales History […]

If you came along to the Open Word Discoverer "Drake" presentations, or had a
look at the presentations and papers available for download, you’ll probably
have noticed that a major theme for Drake is the provision of BI "Dashboards".
Built using Oracle Portal and the Discoverer "Drake" Portlet Provider, these
dashboards integrate OLAP and relational reporting, display the results […]

“Hi, Mark,
You paper ‘Oracle 9i OLAP Uncovered’ inspired me to explore more on this exciting subject. First let me confirm with you that Discoverer’s own OLAP feature is implemented based on (or using) 9i/10g ROLAP. Is it true? Regardless of your answer to my first […]

"Hi, Mark,

You paper ‘Oracle 9i OLAP Uncovered’ inspired me to explore more on this
exciting subject. First let me confirm with you that Discoverer’s own OLAP
feature is implemented based on (or using) 9i/10g ROLAP. Is it true?
Regardless of your answer to my first question, I think I have two […]

A couple of people recently asked the question on the OTN Discoverer Forum:

"I am new to
Discoverer tool as such. Therefore I have this question, pl pardon me if it very
basic.
When I use the desktop edition of Discoverer to make a connection to the Oracle
db. One the database side, it creates 2 dedicated connection for that […]

“When using Discoverer 9iAS (the one that comes with 9iASr2) and public connections, the row-level security i’d set up on the Oracle database doesn’t work any more. How can we integrate the SSO logins and discoverer logins such that our database row-level security now works?”
I had a similar situation happen with a recent client, and this […]