Rittman Mead Blog - Hyperion Smart View

Rittman Mead / ODTUG India BI Masterclass Tour Roundup

Over the past week Venkat, myself and the Rittman Mead India team have been running a series of BI Masterclasses [http://www.rittmanmead.com/indiabimasterclass2013/] at locations in India, in conjunction with ODTUG, the Oracle Development Tools User Group. Starting off in Bangalore, then traveling to Hyderabad and Mumbai, we

Oracle BI Suite EE

SmartView as the Replacement for BI Office with OBIEE 11.1.1.7

Apart from system-wide improvements to Essbase integration across OBIEE 11.1.1.7 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/essbase-and-epm-integration-improvements-in-obiee-11-1-1-7/] , the other Essbase-related improvement that came with this latest release was the (re-)introduction of SmartView as the replacement for Oracle BI Add-in for Microsoft Office ("BI Office&

Oracle BI Suite EE

Essbase and EPM Integration Improvements in OBIEE 11.1.1.7

One of the major new feature areas in OBIEE 11.1.1.7, but which has so far got very little attention, is the significant improvement in integration between Essbase, the Hyperion EPM Suite, and OBIEE 11g. The integration between EPM Workspace and OBIEE's Presentation Services which disappeared

Technical

EPM 11.1.2.2 - Planning New Features

As mentioned in my previous post here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/04/hpcm-11-1-2-2-detailed-profitability/], EPM 11.1.2.2 has introduced a bevy of new features that customers have been asking for a while. Also, 11.1.2.2 theoretically is the actual Fusion release as all components now

Technical

Oracle EPM 11.1.1.3 & Oracle OLAP 11g – Reporting on Oracle OLAP using Essbase Excel Add-in/Smartview - XOLAP

This is the week of Colloborate 2010 [http://www.collaborate10.org/] conference. Mark, myself, Pete and Stewart were scheduled to present this year but due to the European Airspace closure, myself and Pete haven’t been able to actually travel this year. Its a real shame as we all really

Technical

Early News on the Oracle BI Apps - Essbase Integrator

I was recently going through the recorded Open World sessions using Oracle Open World on Demand [http://openworld.vportal.net/], and came across an interesting session by Alaric Thomas and Mike Nader on the forthcoming Oracle BI Applications to Essbase Integrator. This is a technology project going on within Oracle

Technical

Oracle Essbase 11.1.1.3 – Drill-through to BI EE from Smart View – Using Essbase Studio - HOLAP

One of the nice little advantages of using Oracle Essbase Studio is the fact that it manages the relational drill through much better than the Essbase Integration Services. With the advent of Essbase studio, all the metadata for relational drill through is pushed back to the Studio server. So, when

Technical

Hyperion Planning 11.1.1.2 – New Smart view OracleSV protocol – Integration into smart view and other desktop applications – Part 1

In the last few blog entries, i have been covering some of the new features of the EPM 11 release. Continuing on the same line, lets look at another new feature that was introduced for integrating smart view with Hyperion Planning. The most common way of integrating multiple web based