Oracle BI Suite EE Exploring OBIEE Web Services through Python My very first blog post for Rittman Mead [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/calling-bi-publisher-11g-web-services-from-bpel/] was on the subject of Web Services in BI Publisher 11g, and now I want to return to the subject here, looking at the Web Services of OBIEE itself. Web Services are basically a
Technical Looking at the ODI12c Hadoop Demos in the New Oracle BigDataLite VM In a post earlier today on the blog I took a look at the new Oracle BigDataLite virtual machine [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/oracle-bigdatalite-vm-now-available-for-download-on-otn/] that’s now downloadable from OTN, and walked-through some of the Cloudera Hadoop tools that come with the VM. At the end of
Oracle "BigDataLite" VM Now Available for Download on OTN Oracle released a new developer VM for download on OTN yesterday called “bigdatalite” [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/bigdata-appliance/oracle-bigdatalite-2104726.html] - if you’re interested in big data, Hadoop and some of the SQL-on-Hadoop technologies I’ve been looking at recently on the blog, this is something you’
Oracle BI Suite EE Automated Regression Testing for OBIEE In the first article of this series [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/obiee-regression-testing-an-introduction] I explored what regression testing is, why it matters, and by breaking down the OBIEE stack into its constituent parts where it is possible to do it for OBIEE. In this posting, I explore some
Technical Successful BI Apps Implementation Part 2: BI Apps 7.9.6 Welcome to Part 2. If you missed Part 1, where I give an introduction to BI Apps and discuss the project life cycle, the link is below. Successful BI Apps Implementation Part 1: Introduction and the Project Life Cycle [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/successful-bi-apps-implementation-part-1-introduction-and-the-project-life-cycle] Successful BI Apps
Technical Successful BI Apps Implementation Part 1: Introduction and the Project Life Cycle Since I am new to the Rittman Mead blog, let me first introduce myself. I am Mike and I have been working at Rittman Mead for the last year, mainly focusing on Oracle BI Applications. I have a background in Siebel CRM and many of my BI projects have involved
Oracle BI Suite EE OBIEE 11.1.1.7, Cloudera Hadoop & Hive/Impala Part 2 : Load Data into Hive Tables, Analyze using Hive & Impala In yesterday’s post on analyzing Hadoop data using Cloudera CDH4, Amazon EC2 and OBIEE 11.1.1.7 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/obiee-11-1-1-7-cloudera-hadoop-hiveimpala-part-1-install-and-set-up-an-ec2-hadoop-cluster/] , I went through the setup process for Cloudera Manager Standard and then used it to set up a four-node Hadoop cluster in Amazon
Oracle BI Suite EE OBIEE 11.1.1.7, Cloudera Hadoop & Hive/Impala Part 1 : Install and Set-up an EC2 Hadoop Cluster I’ve been over in San Francisco this last week for BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/rittman-mead-at-biwa-summit-2014-san-francisco/] , and one of the things I demo’d during the week was OBIEE 11.1.1.7 connecting to a Hadoop cluster running on Amazon EC2, and analysing
Oracle BI Suite EE OBIEE Regression Testing - An Introduction In this article I’m going to look at ways to test changes that you make to OBIEE to ensure that they don’t break existing functionality. In all but the simplest IT systems it’s common for one (planned) action to inadvertently cause another (unplanned). What IS Regression Testing?
Rittman Mead Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2014, San Francisco It’s the Sunday before the week of the BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.biwasummit.com/], San Francisco, and Rittman Mead will be presenting a number of sessions and hands-on labs during the event. We’re also running a social event on the Wednesday night (I may even get the
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 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/introduction-to-the-bi-apps-11-1-1-7-1-use-of-odi11g-for-etl/] outlining how ODI is used to manage and run the
Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Now Open! It's January 2014, and it’s that time of year when we start planning out this year’s BI Forum, which like last year’s event will be running in May 2014 in Brighton and Atlanta. This will be our sixth annual event, and as with previous year’
Rittman Mead and Oracle Data Integrator 12c - Thoughts and Experiences So Far I’m just finishing off my Christmas and New Year leave but tomorrow I’m taking part in a webcast recording with Oracle’s Data Integration product management team, on Rittman Mead’s experiences with ODI12c over the beta program and since general availability. You should be able to see
New Oracle Magazine Article on BI Mobile App Designer [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-jan/o14ba-2080260.html] My new article at Oracle Magazine [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-jan/o14ba-2080260.html] is on Oracle BI Mobile App Designer, the new HTML5-based mobile BI tool for OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1 built on Oracle BI
Technical Thoughts on ETL in the Cloud In a few week’s time I’m presenting at the BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.biwasummit.com] on running OBIEE in the Cloud, with the idea being that I’ll go through the various options for deploying OBIEE in public clouds, including Amazon EC2 and Oracle’s own cloud
Oracle BI Suite EE Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Now Open! It’s that time of year again when we start planning out next year’s BI Forum, which like this year’s event will be running in May 2014 in Brighton and Atlanta. This will be our sixth annual event, and as with previous year’s the most important part
Technical Creating a Custom Analytics Dashboard from Scratch the "Blue Peter" way This year, Rittman Mead were the Analytics Sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 conference in Manchester, and for those that visited the UKOUG stand during their time there will have noticed the Rittman Mead-sponsored Analytics Dashboard on display. In this blog post I will cover how it was put together, the
User Groups & Conferences UKOUG Tech13 Conference Next week Rittman Mead is the analytics sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 [http://www.tech13.ukoug.org] conference up in Manchester. We've got a great line up of talks, covering everything from BI Apps, Endeca, Hadoop, OBIEE and mobile - Stewart and Charles are both flying in from
Technical Rittman Mead Video Interview on ODI12c New Features If you’re a user of Oracle’s data integration products, you’re probably aware that ODI12c came out last month, with some of the new features covered in posts on the blog here [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/10/oracle-data-integrator-12c-release-part-1/] , here [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/
Oracle BI Suite EE Thoughts on Running OBIEE in the Cloud : Part 2 - Data Sources and ETL In yesterday’s post on running OBIEE in the cloud [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/thoughts-on-running-obiee-in-the-cloud-part-1-the-bi-platform/] , I looked at a number of options for hosting the actual OBIEE element; hosting it in a public cloud service such as Amazon EC2, using Oracle’s upcoming BI-as-a-Service offering, or partner
Oracle BI Suite EE Thoughts on Running OBIEE in the Cloud : Part 1 - The BI Platform One of the major announcements at this year’s Oracle Openworld in San Francisco was around "OBIEE in the cloud” [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/09/oracle-openworld-2013-reflections-on-product-announcements-and-strategy/] . Part of a wide-ranging set of announcements around services and infrastructure in the cloud from Oracle, the idea with this service
Oracle BI Suite EE Make Use of OBIEE's Command Line Tools with Reduced Exposure of Plain Text Passwords Introduction We all love a good commandline utility. It gives us that warm feeling of control and puts hairs on our chests. Either that, or it means we can script the heck out of a system, automate many processes, and concentrate on more important matters [http://phoboslab.org/ztype/]. However,
Oracle BI Suite EE Why ODI, DW and OBIEE Developers Should Be Interested in Hadoop Over the past few months I’ve been posting a number of articles about Hadoop, and how you can connect to it from ODI and OBIEE. From an ODI perspective, I covered Hadoop as one of a number of new data sources ODI11g could connect to [https://www.rittmanmead.com/
Oracle BI Suite EE Creating a Multi-Node Hadoop/Impala Cluster as a Datasource for OBIEE 11.1.1.7 The other day I posted an article on the blog about connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to Cloudera Impala [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/connecting-obiee-11-1-1-7-to-cloudera-impala/] , a new “in-memory” SQL engine for Hadoop that’s much faster than Hive for interactive queries. In this example, I connected OBIEE
