OBIEE12c Financial Reports - which tool to use? Part 2 Financials in BI Publisher## I find it interesting that BI Publisher is mostly known for the creation of pixel perfect repeating forms (invoices, labels, checks, etc) and its ability to bursting them. To me, BI Publisher is the best kept secret for the most challenging reports known to mankind. In
OBIEE12c Financial Reports - which tool to use? Part 1 One of the treats of working in the Business Intelligence world is that we are asked to analyze different aspects of a business. In fact, we are asked to analyze many different types of businesses, too. Most of us using BI tools have come from some previous background. Be it
odi OBIEE, Big Data Discovery, and ODI security updates - October 2016 Oracle release their "Critical Patch Update" (CPU) notices every quarter, bundling together details of vulnerabilities and associated patches across their entire product line. October's was released yesterday [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html], with a few entries of note in the analytics & DI
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
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
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/
