Business Insights Accessing BI Publisher 11g Web Services through a JDeveloper Web Service Proxy In the second part of this series looking at Web Services in BI Publisher 11g, I will look at using JDeveloper to create a Web Service Proxy. This exposes the BI Publisher Web Services in Java, from where they can be embedded in numerous other applications. I demonstrated in part
Business Insights Calling BI Publisher 11g Web Services from BPEL BI Publisher 11g exposes a lot of functionality through its four new Web Services. In part one [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/web-services-in-bi-publisher-11g] we looked at how we can examine the services and prototype calls into them. In part two [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/accessing-bi-publisher-11g-web-services-through-a-jdeveloper-web-service-proxy/
Business Insights Rittman Mead at the Conferences Conference season is now upon us, and having just got back from events in the USA and Australia, and with Rittman Mead presenters at conferences in the UK, India and USA over the next few months, I thought I'd be worth posting links to some previous conference presentations
Update on the OBIEE11g Book If you're one of the people that are looking forward to the OBIEE 11g book I'm writing for Oracle Press, I thought you might be interested in an update. After what seems to be an eternity, we're now entering the final stages of putting
Business Insights UKOUG Partner of the Year Award 2011, and the Rittman Mead Customer Advisory Board 2011 If you follow this blog and the various events we speak at, you might end up thinking that we spend most of our time going to conferences and testing out new Oracle BI products. In fact, of course, most of our time is spent on customer projects and over the
Business Insights OBIEE11G Scripting – generate XUDML and change the password of the connection pools Imagine that you want to migrate your RPD to different environments. By using scripting utilities you can generate a new RPD and make changes for the new RPD in the generated file. The original RPD will be exported to UDML or XUDML , in the generated file you can make changes
BI/EPM Conference a success At the time of writing this, Mark Rittman is enduring the arduous task of flyng back to the UK. It’s a big country Australia, but a long way away. That’s why on behalf of Rittman Mead Oceania, my business partner Richard Chan and I would like to thank
Business Insights OBIEE Developer Meetup - London November 10th 2011 (Evening) Just a quick note to say that Paul McGarrick (of Total-BI.com [http://total-bi.com/] fame) is organizing an OBIEE developer meet-up in London on November 10th (next Thursday). It's at the Craft Beer Bar [http://thecraftbeerco.com/], near Chancery Lane and Faringdon Station, and its from 6pm
Business Insights More Notes on Right-Time BI Over the past couple of years Stewart Bryson and I have been looking into things "right time" (or is that realtime?). It is great to have him around to trade ideas (and graphics for presentations!). Most of what we have been discussing has been about "traditional reporting&
Technical Oracle Warehouse Builder and Data Integrator Sometimes, when I am working with customers on data warehousing projects I am asked questions about Oracle Warehouse Builder and its future. I know no more on this than what I read in Oracle's reposted [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/data-integrator/overview/sod-1-134268.pdf] a statement of
Business Insights Updated Details for the ODTUG BI/EPM Seriously Practical Conference in Sydney, Next Week Just a quick note to say there's now an updated agenda for the ODTUG BI and EPM Seriously Practical Conference [http://odtugspconference.com/] in Sydney, Australia, starting this time next week (November 3rd and 4th 2011). I'm now doing a lot more of the sessions, and
OU Live Virtual Class : OBIEE11g Advanced Development with Mark Rittman Just a short note to let everyone know that I'm running a two-day, live virtual class for Oracle University on 23rd and 24th November 2011 around OBIEE 11g "advanced" development [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getCourseDesc?dc=D70365_1493039] . The class will
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle BI EE 11g - Hyperion Financial Management Analytics (HFM Analytics) If you had watched the announcements in Open World this year, one of the products that got silently released was HFM Analytics [http://blogs.oracle.com/emeapartnerbiepm/entry/financial_management_analytics_for_hyperion] . Basically this is an Analytics Suite under the umbrella of BI Applications but without any ETL. This
Oracle BI Suite EE Changing your password in OBIEE 11G. Since the release of OBIEE 11G, one of the questions asked relates to what most people consider a fairly basic bit of functionality: how can a user change his/her own password ? The simple answer is that, out of the box, this is not (yet) supported in the 11G release,
Business Insights Oracle BI EE 11g - Security Auditing - Web Catalog Security BI EE Web Catalog security is an area that generally requires a lot of understanding especially while migrating Web Catalogs. There is not a lot available in the documentation that goes into detail on how .ATR files store security. Its a known fact that doing a file system copy of
Business Insights OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Systems Management Best Practices My last session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco was on systems management of OBIEE 11g. Compared to the 10g release of OBIEE, the 11g release is much more complex, is deployed in much more distributed-type environments, and has a bunch of new tools that
Business Insights OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g and ADF Integration using the Action Framework The third of my presentation at this year's Oracle Openworld in San Francisco was in fact a collaboration with Andrejus Baranovskis [http://redsamuraiconsulting.com/], fellow ACE Director and specialist in Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) [http://andrejusb.blogspot.com/]. The idea for this presentation came to us a
Business Insights OOW2011 : Oracle BI Applications Futures One of the sessions running at yesterday's Openworld was on the future of the Oracle BI Applications. You probably don't realize it, but the 11g release of the BI Apps has been "sort-of" available for the past few months, but as a controlled-availability release
Business Insights OOW2011 : More on the Exalytics New User Interface One of the key messages Oracle keep putting out about Exalytics, is that they had to provide a new user interface to make best use of the "speed of thought" analytics provided by the product. In particular, a few key new areas were highlighted that were made possible
Business Insights OOW2011 : More on Oracle Exalytics I'm currently sitting in the Thomas Kurian keynote at Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco, and more details of the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine have now been announced. Here's the latest details: The Exalytics BI Machine is based on a Sun server with 4 Intel
Business Insights OOW2011 : Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine So the big announcement for Oracle BI customers at Larry Ellison's keynote on Sunday evening at Oracle Openworld was the Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine, a new hardware and software combination from Oracle that aims to provide "speed-of-thought" analysis based around OBIEE 11g and the TimesTen parallel
Business Insights OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Deployment & Change Management My second session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 was on a perennially hot topic; change management and deployment within OBIEE 11g. In a typical project, once you've got past the initial prototype, you're going to want to deploy updated versions of the repository,
Business Insights OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Architecture & Internals I've just finished my first session of Oracle Openworld 2011, on OBIEE 11g Architecture and Internals for IOUG's BIWA SIG. Thanks to everyone who came along, and I hope it was a useful session. The slides for this session are available here : OBIEE 11g Architecture &
The Saturday before Oracle Openworld 2011, San Francisco It's 8.30am on Saturday morning, and it's the day before Oracle Openworld 2011 starts in San Francisco. I've actually been over here since Wednesday so today's my day off, and then the fun starts tomorrow with User Group Sunday down at
What happened to the what if analysis? When I first started working in the Business Intelligence industry one of the key concepts was 'What If Analysis'. One of the drivers of using an OLAP/Decision Support or Business Intelligence system was to be able to do predictive analytics. What If Analysis is undoubtedly a big
