Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 by Adrian Ward
As a purist I would like every reporting database to have a perfect star, with the Fact tables containing all the relevant dimensions for reporting. I would also like to see stars that contain everything you need for your report.
However, as a realist I am seeing many implementations of OBIEE / Siebel Analytics that have […]
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
I’ve just arrived in Birmingham to be ready for a week of OBIEE data modeling for one of our clients up here. They have built an application that now needs some reports added, they’ve gone for OBIEE and my job is to create the logical model, map it on to their OLTP database, add security […]
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
A year or so ago I mentioned that I’d started work on a book for Oracle Press entitled “Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Developers Guide” with a projected release date of the first part of this year. Whilst the book is still in the pipeline, we’ve revised the plans a bit and I thought this would […]
Monday, March 17th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
In the final part of my series on migrating an OBIEE installation from direct application access to a data warehouse, I’m finally going to plug my new data warehouse into my OBIEE logical model. Previous to this, in the first posting I created a single logical model over three different application data sources, and in […]
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
In yesterdays posting, I took a look at some of the practicalities behind my recent article on OBIEE “next-generation” architectures. The idea behind this architecture is that you can use the connectivity features of OBIEE to initially report against your data in-place, and then behind the scenes take this data, load it into a data […]
