Minesh Patel - Rittman Mead

Unify Update - v1.0.1

We have updated Unify following feedback from our customers and have released version 1.0.1. The following bugs have been fixed and features added: Change the default port to 3724 as 8080 is the default port of Oracle XE. Allow port configuration in the desktop app. Fixed problem with

Unify

Unify - An Insight Into the Product

Monday, 12 Jun saw the official release of Unify, Rittman Mead's very own connector between Tableau and OBIEE. It provides a simple but powerful integration between the two applications that allows you to execute queries through OBIEE and manipulate and render the datasets using Tableau. Why We Made It One

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Enabling Concurrent OBIEE RPD Development - for free

One of the most common and long standing problems with developing in OBIEE is the problem of multiple developers working on the RPD at the same time. This blog explains the problem and explores the solution that we’ve developed and have been successfully using at clients over the last

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Insights - An Open-Source Visualisation Platform for OBIEE

On and off over the last year, I have spent some time developing a customisable framework for building visualisations and dashboards, using OBIEE as the back-end. The result is Insights, a JavaScript web application that offers a modern alternative to OBIEE Answers. As of today, we have officially open sourced

Analysing Social Media Data for the Lightyear Foundation - Part 2

In my last post, I described the basics around connecting to social media data sources using Python. This is in aid of collating information for the Lightyear Foundation, a charity specialising in science education in the UK and Ghana. In this blog, I will demonstrate how to use those integrations

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Analysing Social Media Data for the Lightyear Foundation - Part 1

Outside of my job at Rittman Mead, I'm fortunate enough to be involved with a project called the Lightyear Foundation. We are a charitable organisation which aims to promote the techniques and philosophies of science, working with children and teachers in the UK and Ghana. Particularly, we try to exemplify

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An Alternative Front-End for OBIEE using Web Services and D3

Working with OBIEE, it is common to get requests to add visualisations or otherwise improve the UI. Typically this has been done by using narrative views to embed HTML and Javascript to provide data driven, custom visualisations. To cope with the former, Tom Underhill developed the Rittman Mead Visual Plugin

Customisations in BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 Part 2 : Category 2 Changes

In the last blog I went through a very basic customisation, adding a new column to an existing dimension table. That served as an overview for how the BI Apps mappings are packaged in ODI for use in a dynamic ETL. This blog will go through the creation of a

Customisations in BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 Part 1: Category 1 Changes

Over the last couple of days I’ve been taking a look into the new BI Apps package Oracle have released using ODI instead of Informatica. Mark has already published an article outlining how ODI is used to manage and run the ETL process. However, this blog will focus on