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Fixing* Baseline Validation Tool** Using Network Sniffer

Learn how to use Wireshark network sniffer to debug Oracle BI and BVT

ChitChat - Commentary Made Simple

Rittman Mead is excited to announce ChitChat, an innovative new communication tool for OBIEE. Rittman Mead’s clients already receive the best Oracle Business Analytics and Data Integration consulting and training. Now, in a major expansion of our business capabilities, our clients can enjoy the benefits of our engineering team’

Technical

The Business Value In Training

One of the main things I get asked to do here at Rittman Mead, is deliver the OBIEE front-end training course (TRN 202). This a great course that has served both us, and our clients well over the years. It has always been in high demand and always delivered with

Technical

Simple Ways to Simplify: Quick Fixes to Enhance OBIEE Visuals

Over the past couple of months I worked with a few clients in order to conduct an assessment on dashboard and analysis design. In most cases I was noticing that the dashboards were overflowing with content to the point that there was really no discernible “story” or “flow” to the

Oracle BI Suite EE

OBIEE 11g Presentation Server Catalog Replication Across Redundant Servers

The thing about OBIEE 11g, is that there is no single way to get things "up and running". Over the past year I have performed countless OBIEE installs and almost every one has been different to the last, due to infrastructure challenges, scale requirements or requirements for high-availability

Business Insights

Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g

Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g give the facility to call a function in Oracle either before or after a data set is refreshed. The function must return a boolean (true/false), and if it returns false the data model will abort execution. In this article I will demonstrate how

Business Insights

Web Services in BI Publisher 11g

BI Publisher 11g comes with a shiny set of new Web Services, superseding those that were in 10g. This article will discuss some of the uses, and ways to implement them. Introduction First, a quick refresher : what is a web service? I'd hasten to Wikipedia for a formal definition, but

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 we looked at how we can examine the services and prototype calls into them. In part two we saw how a Web Service can be accessed programmatically, through Java code generated by JDeveloper