Advert: Enhanced OBIEE Developer Training Course

A quick advert for a new training course that we've put together. You may be aware that Rittman Mead offers training courses, typically run in-house for organizations looking to train up their development teams. Our courses are popular with clients looking to embark on, for example, an OBIEE project, or for partners new to OBIEE who want to train up their team prior to starting on a client project. We have courses covering technologies from OBIEE through to OWB, BI Publisher and Oracle Data Warehousing, and we run them all around the world for clients.

Up until recently our OBIEE course has run over three days, but we've had a lot of demand from clients to extend this to five days, and cover some of the more real-world issues that you face on OBIEE projects. We've now finished development on this extended five day OBIEE developer course (we call it our OBIEE "Bootcamp"), and details of the course are here:

Some highlights of this course include

  • Covers installation and configuration of the various OBIEE elements
  • RPD modeling including star schemas, normalized source schemas, single-table modeling, combining star schemas of differing granularity
  • Caching, aggregates, variables, usage tracking
  • New sections on project migration, upgrades, multi-user development, usage of source control systems
  • Modeling of Essbase sources

The other main addition to the course is on the last day: a one-day, real-world practical workshop. We give you some source data, a "client specification", a set of report requirements and challenge you to build an end-to-end system. The idea of this session is to simulate what you'll need to do after you finish the course, when you go back to your office and are faced with a set of data, a set of requirements and you need to produce something. By tackling this first in the course environment, you'll get a chance to practice what you have learnt, pull together some new data and prove to yourself that you can build something using OBIEE away from step-by-step instructions.

The course itself is run by myself and our team of consultants, so you'll be taught by someone who delivers projects using this technology when they're not teaching the course. If you're interested (we only run the course in-house for development teams, it's not offered "publically" yet), drop me a line and I can tell you more.