Oracle University BI Masterclass Dates for UK and IE Just Announced As well as our own events we organise, I also run occasional Oracle Business Intelligence Masterclasses for Oracle University at venues around Europe. These events differ from our own in that they generally cover a wider range of technology than just OBIEE, covering, for example, the latest developments with Oracle
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle BI EE 11g - Decoding Essbase Connectivity - Part 4 - Logical SQL Generation In the last 3 posts we saw how BI EE generates the MDX and what major factors influence the MDX generated. As a recap, there are 4 main things that we noticed. 1. BI EE generates the most optimal MDX as long as we have all the attribute or Hierarchical
New Oracle Magazine Article on OBIEE11g Map Integration [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2011/11-may/index.html] The May/June 2011 issue of Oracle Magazine [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2011/11-may/index.html] is now out, and in this edition's Business Intelligence column I take a look at the new mapping and spatial
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle BI EE 11g - Decoding Essbase Connectivity - Part 3 Continuing along with our Essbase series, today lets look at how the various Pivoting operations that are done at the BI EE layer affect the MDX generated. We noticed that whenever we brought in an attribute column from the row-edge to the column edge, the MDX generated by BI EE
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle BI EE 11g - Decoding Essbase Connectivity - Part 2 In the last post we saw how BI EE generates Essbase specific MDX while using Attribute columns for a specific case. In today's post we shall look at how the new BI EE 11g specific features like Hierarchical columns and Value-Based hierarchies affect the MDX generated. For continuation
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle BI EE 11g - Decoding Essbase Connectivity - Part 1 If you had gone through my blog series for BI EE 10g and Essbase here [http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/workshop-series/], i would have covered the different ways of controlling the BI EE MDX generated for Essbase Sources. With 11g, that too with the introduction of Hierarchical Columns and Value Based
Oracle BI & EPM Customers - Take Part in the BI Survey 10! The BI Survey 10 is now starting fieldwork, and this is your opportunity to talk about your experiences with Oracle's BI and EPM software, and see how your experiences compare to other Oracle customers and customers of competitor tools. We've helped encourage respondents for this survey
Business Insights Rittman Mead at Collaborate'11, Orlando I'm currently sitting opposite Tom Kyte in the speaker lounge at the OUGN Conference [http://www.ougn.no/a/273], actually sailing down from Oslo to Kiel, Germany in the MS Color Magic, the cruise liner that's playing host to the event. Each year, OUGN (the
Oracle BI EE 11g - Migrating Security - Credential Store - Part 3 In the last 2 posts we saw the process involved in migrating the Identity as well as the Policy Stores. In today's post we shall see the process involved in migrating Credential Stores from one environment to the other. To recap, Credential Stores are nothing but a physical
Business Insights Ten Reasons to Attend the Rittman Mead BI Forum, May 2011 So this is the last message I'll be posting on our BI Forum in May this year [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011], as we're down to the last batch of available places and soon we'll be off to Collaborate'11 in Orlando. But
Oracle BI EE 11g - Migrating Security - Policy Store - Part 2 In the last post, we saw how to go about doing a security migration of the Identity Stores. Today we shall look at the migration process of the Policy Stores. Just to give a brief background, Policy Store is nothing but a physical file that contains the Application Role, Applications
Technical UKOUG Exadata Special Event As part of my role as BIRT SIG chair, I have been involved in organising a special Exadata event later in April. The idea is to test the water to see if there is any traction in the UK for an Exadata special interest group. We originally raised and discussed
Oracle BIEE 11g - Migrating Security - Identity Stores - Part 1 One of the most important tasks while moving environments, say from Dev to Test or to Prod is in migrating the security objects. In 10g, it was a lot easier to move security as everything was embedded within the repository. But in the case of 11g, with the introduction of
Technical The One Mapping Paradigm Here at Rittman Mead we have been working on some new methodology and design patterns for ETL. We have long realised that the bottleneck in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects is ETL, so we have been prototyping new techniques to approaching this and trialling them at client's
Oracle BI Suite EE Diagnostics, Logging and the OBIEE 11g EM Log Viewer Earlier this week I took a closer look at Enterprise Manager within OBIEE 11g [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/03/so-how-does-enterprise-manager-work-within-obiee-11g/] , and in particular the MBeans that Enterprise Manager uses to perform its administration functions. Today I wanted to take a look at the logging that's available
Oracle BI Suite EE So How Does Enterprise Manager work, Within OBIEE 11g? Or, "what actually happens when you press the Activate button in Enterprise Manager?" At the end of last week, I put a posting on the blog about WebLogic Server, and what it actually does within OBIEE 11g [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/03/so-just-what-does-weblogic-server-do-within-obiee-11g/]. In earlier releases
Oracle BI Suite EE So Just What Does WebLogic Server Do Within OBIEE 11g? So now I'm back from my travels, I'm working on the joint OBIEE11g masterclass that I'm running with Tony Heljula, at the RM BI Forum in May. One of the topics that I'm leading on is architecture and internals, and a section
Training Event Planning for Oceania Region With Rittman Mead training days and events occurring throughout the world this year, it’s a great time to start planning events for the Oceania area. Starting in Melbourne Australia on the 7th April 2011, and extending to other states in the coming weeks, we look forward to meeting with
Business Insights Mark Rittman and Tony Heljula OBIEE 11g Masterclass @ BI Forum 2011 Just a quick update on the joint OBIEE 11g Masterclass that Tony Heljula and I are running before the BI Forum 2011 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011], in Brighton and Atlanta May 2011. Tony and I have been out on the road the past six months providing OBIEE 11g training
Update on the Oracle Press Book A few people have been asking about progress on our Oracle Press OBIEE 11g book, so I thought I'd do an update. I finally started writing the content of the book (provisional name : Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Developers Guide [http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Business-Intelligence-Suite-Developers/dp/0071495754/ref=sr_
Training Days 2010/2011 - On the Final Leg! I'm currently sitting in the BA Lounge at London Heathrow Airport, waiting to get a flight down to Bangalore, India for the last leg of our OBIEE11g Training Days event. I'm joining Venkat, Ram, Diptesh and Jay from Rittman Mead India, and we'll have
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle Data Warehouse Global Leaders Webcast I'm honored to be delivering a webcast for the Oracle Data Warehouse Global Leaders Program on Tuesday, March 22 at Noon EST. This is an elite program for key global data warehousing customers and is managed by the Oracle data warehousing product management team. It also provides a
ODTUG K'Scope 2011 Early Bird Deadline is Closing [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/05712odtug.png]As we as our own OBIEE expert-level BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011] in May, another event we've had a lot of involvement in is ODTUG Kscope'2011 [http://kscope11.com/] in Long Beach, California,
Rittman Mead BI Forum 2011 : Limited Time Offer for Collaborate'11 and KScope'11 Attendees Just a short note about the our upcoming BI Forum 2011 event [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011] in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, UK, a focused, two-day Oracle BI&DW conference specifically at experienced Oracle BI&DW developers. Registrations are coming in fast for the two events, but we&
Greetings from Rittman Mead Oceania! If you’ve kept up on the progress of Rittman Mead over the past few years, you would aware that since 2009 Rittman Mead has opened an office in the USA and India. But what about those of us in the Southern Hemisphere? .Well I am very pleased to announced
