Technical EPM Workspace 11.1 and OBIEE 10.1.3.4 (Updated) Something I've been trying to get working for several weeks now, is proper integration between EPM Workspace 11.1 and the various OBIEE tools. I posted an article a few weeks ago asking whether anyone else had got it working [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/12/15/
Rittman Mead BI Forum : Call for Papers For anyone interested in the "Experts-Level" Oracle BI Forum [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/12/10/calling-all-oracle-bi-experts-an-oracle-bi-forum-in-2009/] that we are planning to run later this year, we now have a venue and a date: The Rittman
Michael Armstrong-Smith Answers Your Discoverer Questions Our good friend Michael Armstrong-Smith has just started a new initiative on his website, with a new series of free "Ask Michael" Webinars [http://www.ascbi.com/question.htm] starting January 14th 2009. Michael is well known in the Discoverer world as the author of the Oracle
Stop Press! New Editor for Oracle Scene! It was the first day back at work today, and I got some early good news in the form of an email from the UKOUG telling me that I'd been elected Editor of Oracle Scene [http://www.ukoug.org/membership/index.jsp?parent=61&id=64], the
Scoble on Business Intelligence, Panorama and Google Docs Just before I went out on New Year's Eve I noticed that Robert Scoble posted an article and video on business intelligence (part 1 [http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/31/the-story-of-2009-enterprise-disruption/], part 2 [http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer/302179-part-ii-
Technical Ten Thoughts on Oracle BI&DW for 2008 Today is New Year's Eve, and a kind of review of the year, here's ten of my thoughts on what happened in Oracle B&DW in 2008. 1. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. 2008 was the year that OBIEE went from early-adopter technology (at
So How Do Star Transformations Actually Work? Although like most Oracle data warehousing developers, I'm aware of what a star transformation [http://www.dbazine.com/oracle/or-articles/jlewis6] is, and I can usually spot one in an execution plan. Earlier in December though I was on a customer engagement and one of the client&
OBIEE High Availability - The BI Server At the beginning of the month, the majority of the Rittman Mead Consulting team was at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/12/06/ukoug-conference-2008-roundup/]. Jon Mead and myself presented a paper called "OBIEE High Availability". What we discussed was
Technical Adding Essbase Measures to Relational OBIEE Models I'm running an especially extended version of our OBIEE developer course in early January, and the client in question wants us to include a bit more content on Essbase integration. Whilst bringing Essbase cubes into OBIEE and then reporting on them in their own subject area is good,
Technical OBIEE and Essbase Articles in OTN 2008 Top 10 Well there's a surprise. Justin Kestyln in his Best of 2008 : The Most Popular Tech Articles and How-To's Published This Year article [http://blogs.oracle.com/otn/2008/12/best_of_2008_the_most_popular.html] has two of my articles in the top 10.
Technical ODI 10.1.3.5 Now Available for Download Dain Hansen reports [http://blogs.oracle.com/dataintegration/2008/12/unwrapping_odis_newly_released.html] that the new 10.1.3.5 version of Oracle Data Integrator is now available for download, with an updated data sheet [http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/docs/odi-bi-datasheet.pdf] and new
OBIEE and Outer Joins One of the developers at a client's site came to ask me a simple question today: How do you set up an Outer Join in OBIEE? I was fairly certain that I had done so in the past, and when I looked at his physical model I saw,
Interview with Mike Stonebraker And now for something a bit different. Some of you in the Oracle data warehousing world might remember Lilian Hobbs [http://www.lilianhobbs.com/], who used to work in the Server Tech part of Oracle and worked on areas such as materialized views, partitioning and information lifecycle management, and who
Technical Has Anyone Got EPM 11.1.1 Workspace and OBIEE Working Completely? The other week I blogged about the integration between EPM Workspace 11.1.1.1 and OBIEE 10.1.3.4 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/12/09/epm-workspace-1111-integration-with-obiee-10134/], and I said at the time that firstly, I couldn't get single
New Oracle University Masterclasses in London, Tallinn, Oslo and Zagreb Oracle University are running a few of my "masterclasses" early next year, with the Data Warehousing one that I first ran in Denmark now running in London, and an updated version of the BI Masterclass running in Norway, Croatia and Estonia. Here's the dates and agenda
Calling All Oracle BI Experts : An Oracle BI Forum in 2009? So here's an idea. We're thinking about organizing a mini-conference next year, modeled on events like the Hotsos Symposium [http://www.hotsos.com/sym_speakers.html] or the Miracle Database Forum [http://www.miracleas.dk/events/DBF2004/invitation.html], but focusing on Oracle Business Intelligence,
Technical EPM Workspace 11.1.1 Integration with OBIEE 10.1.3.4 Something I've been working on in my spare time recently, is getting integration with EPM Workspace 11.1.x working with OBIEE. The basic idea here is that EPM Workspace can act as a "container" for both your Hyperion and OBIEE tools, so that users can
UKOUG Conference 2008 Roundup I'm writing this sitting on the train coming back from the UKOUG Conference & Exhibition 2008, and whilst in previous years I've tried to do a daily update, this year has been so busy for us I'm only just catching up now. This morning
BIWA Summit - Day 2 The second day has just ended, and now I am back in the hotel thinking of grabbing a bite to eat before the fun tasks of finishing a report for a customer and packing... just hope my stuff still fits my suitcase. Conferences seem to start early here - and coupled
Day 1 BIWA Today was the first of the BIWA Summit at Redwood Shores, California. It was also the day of my presentation on Cube Organized Materialized Views in summary management. The conference packs a lot in over two days; 66 sessions running across 6 streams, 4 keynotes, and two streams of hands-
Business Insights Rittman Mead Consulting At the UKOUG Conference 2008 I hope the readers of this blog have already noticed that the UKOUG conference is running this week up in Birmingham. The Rittman Mead Consulting team has a stand in the exhibition hall as well as running several sessions on the conference. Please try to drop by Stand 90 and
BIWA Next Week I am sitting in my room at a Heathrow Airport hotel on my way from Athens (Greece) to San Francisco. My body is still working on Eastern European time and I am beginning to dread the change to the Californian time zone. Still having two days of 'rest'
Thoughts on OBIEE Performance Optimization & Diagnostics One of the sessions that I'm giving at next week's UKOUG Conference [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/11/15/rittman-mead-at-the-ukoug-conference-2008/] is Optimizing Oracle BI EE Performance. Now I've given talks along these lines before but I'
Preprocessing Input Files and 11.1.0.7 External Tables Just a quick note to point to Greg Rahn's posting on External Table Preprocessors in Oracle 11g 11.1.07 [http://structureddata.org/2008/11/19/preprocessor-for-external-tables/]. Prior to 11.1.0.7, if a file that you were going to use via an external
Oracle OLAP Supports MDX (Sort Of...) Dan Vlamis broke the news yesterday [http://www.vlamis.com/blog.php/?p=76] that Simba Technologies will be showing off their "Native Microsoft Excel 2007 Connectivity for Oracle OLAP" solution at the upcoming BIWA SIG in December. From looking at Dan's blog posting and the
