Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

An in-depth article on the analysis of facts, when those facts are also used as attributes.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]