Last week I mentioned that the Oracle Warehouse Builder 10.2.0.4 patchset was out for Linux and Windows; but what I did not mention what was in it! So to make amends here are a few of the highlights. Firstly, this is not just a bug-fix release, even

I noticed on Greg Partenach's blog [http://cali97.blogspot.com/2008/07/owb-patching.html] that the 10.2.0.4 patchset had been released. Taking a quick look on Metalink I see that patch 7005587 is out for Linux and Windows - no doubt the other platforms will

I'm running a (currently) one-off Oracle 11g data warehousing seminar [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/show_desc.redirect?dc=D48573_1046448&p_org_id=36&lang=DK&source_call=] for Oracle University on the 17th and 18th September in Copenhagen, in a similar

In today's posting on the Oracle BI Applications, we're going to add a new attribute to an existing dimension table in the Oracle Business Analytics data warehouse. If you're new to this, this is part of a series of postings on the Oracle BI

In today's posting on the Oracle BI Applications, we're going to take a look at adding custom data into the BI Apps data warehouse. In my experience there are a number of common scenarios where new data needs to be added to the BI Apps data

So before we start thinking about how we're going to extend and customize the Oracle BI Applications data warehouse (technically called the "Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse") it's probably worth having a think about what's in the warehouse in the first place. Now

It's that time of year again when the next BI Survey [http://www.bi-survey.com/] starts collecting responses from BI users around the world. Now at the eight edition, the BI Survey is an independent survey and analysis of hundreds of BI tools users around the world. This

In the previous postings in my Oracle BI Apps series, I've looked at the BI Apps architecture [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/06/22/an-introduction-to-the-oracle-bi-applications/], installation and configuration [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/07/03/installing-and-configuring-oracle-bi-applications-fusion-edition-795/] , and performing the initial data load [https://www.rittmanmead.com/

I just noticed today that it's more or less five years to the day since I started writing this blog. It's been an interesting five years both personally and professionally for me; I gave my first conference presentation more or less five years ago, soon after

In a couple of recent articles, (here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/06/22/an-introduction-to-the-oracle-bi-applications/], here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/07/03/installing-and-configuring-oracle-bi-applications-fusion-edition-795/] ) I've given an overview of the Oracle BI Applications and stepped through the installation and configuration of Oracle BI Applications Fusion Edition

The past year has been a very exciting and busy one for Rittman Mead with new projects starting in the UK, Europe, Canada and the United States. We're now in a position where we're looking to add another consultant to our team, someone who shares our

Up until recently, our office installation of the Oracle BI Applications [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/06/22/an-introduction-to-the-oracle-bi-applications/] has been based around the 7.9.4 release, and as 7.9.5 is now out and comes with support for Peoplesoft HR 8.9 and 9.0, Siebel

Whilst OBIEE is in itself a pretty well featured business intelligence platform, it's still only a platform and you have to design and build the data warehouse, metadata repository yourself before you can do any reporting. An alternative to this "do it yourself" approach that Oracle

It's just around 10pm on the Wednesday night now, and I'm back from the main conference party at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 conference in New Orleans. My hotel room faces on to the Mississippi and looking out of the window, you can see some of the

I'm now back in my hotel room after having taken part in the Oracle BI, DW & Essbase experts panel, I've got three quarters of an hour spare until the ACE Directors Fusion Middleware Product Briefing that's going on for the rest of the

I'm just getting my things together at the moment before I leave for the airport, as it's Saturday morning and the ODTUG Conference starts tomorrow in New Orleans. I've actually been in Halifax, Canada for the past week so this will be my second

The other week I posted an interview on the blog with Phil Bates , the man behind the architecture of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. As the interview with Phil worked out so well, I thought I'd follow this up with an interview with Jean-Pierre Dijcks, one of the

If you've tried to access our site over the past 18 hours or so, you've probably noticed it's been down with a hosting issue. Basically we've been a victim of our own success so to speak, and the activity on our site