Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

One of OBIEE’s many great strengths is aggregate navigation; the ability to choose from a list of possible tables the one which will probably give the optimal performance for a given user query. Users are blissfully unaware of which particular table their query is being satisfied from, since aggregate navigation happens on the BI Server [...]

One of the key design features of the Exalytics In-Memory Machine is the use of aggregates (pre-calculated summary data), held in the TimesTen In-Memory database. Out of the box (“OotB”) these aggregates are built through the OBIEE tool, and when the underlying data changes they must be rebuilt from scratch. For OBIEE (Exalytics or not) [...]

Introduction In the previous articles in this series, I described an overview of monitoring OBIEE, and then a hands-on tutorial for setting up Nagios to monitor OBIEE. Nagios is an Enterprise Systems Management tool that can monitor multiple systems and servers, send out alerts for pre-defined criteria, and so on. In this article I’m going [...]

Introduction This is the second post in a mini-series on monitoring OBIEE. The previous post, Automated Monitoring of OBIEE in the Enterprise – an overview, looked at the overview and theory to why and what we should be monitoring. In this post I am going to walk through implementing a set of automated checks on [...]

A lot of time is given to the planning, development and testing of OBIEE solutions. Well, hopefully it is. Yet sometimes, the resulting deployment is marked Job Done and chucked over the wall to the Operations team, with little thought given to how it is looked after once it is running in Production. Of course, [...]