Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

"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 [...]

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 [...]