Becky Wagner - Rittman Mead

The Case for ETL in the Cloud - CAPEX vs OPEX

Recently Oracle announced a new cloud service for Oracle Data Integrator. Because I was helping our sales team by doing some estimates and statements of work, I was already thinking of costs, ROI, use cases, and the questions behind making a decision to move to the cloud. I want to

OBIA

Becky's BI Apps Corner: OBIA 11.1.1.10.2 New Features Part 1 - Health Check & ETL Diagnostics

I have been working with BI Applications since OBIA switched to ODI in version 11.1.1.7.0. I have installed and worked with all of the 11.x versions using several different sources. This most recent version of OBIA may only be a Patch-Set release, but it has

Technical

Becky's BI Apps Corner: OBIA Back-to-Beginnings - Naming Conventions and Jargon

It's easy to talk about a technology using only jargon. It's much harder to talk about a technology without using jargon. I have seen many meetings between business and IT break down because of this communication barrier. I find it more discouraging when I see this communication breakdown happen between

Technical

Becky's BI Apps Corner: Incrementals and Future Dated Employee Records

During the last few posts, we have delved into a few of the many interesting aspects of a BI Apps installation. Today I wanted to change gears a bit and talk about what starts to happen when you are past installation and configuration and begin running load plans. On a

Technical

Becky’s BI Apps Corner: OBIA install Perl Script Patching and troubleshooting when they fail

During a recent project installing Oracle BI Applications, I became much better acquainted with OPatch, Oracle’s standard tool for managing application patches. By acquainted, I mean how to troubleshoot when OPatch patching fails. Since, at last count, there are around 50 patches total for Oracle BI Applications 11.1.

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Becky’s BI Apps Corner: Installing on Windows Server 2012

Recently I was installing Oracle BI Apps on a VM for a custom training, as mentioned in a previous post. I setup the VM with Windows Server 2012 after verifying in the certification matrix that the Oracle BI Apps version (11.1.1.9.2) was certified to run on

Technical

Becky’s BI Apps Corner: Oracle BI Applications, where art thou?

Hello! I would like to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Becky Wagner and I’ve been working with Rittman Mead America since the beginning of the year. I have a background in data warehousing and ETL with a state government agency, where I was part of