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Use OBIEE to Achieve Your GOOOALS!!! - A Presentation for GaOUG

Background A few months before the start of the 2014 World Cup, Jon Mead [https://twitter.com/jonmead], Rittman Mead's CEO, asked me to come up with a way to showcase our strengths and skills while leveraging the excitement generated by the World Cup. With this in mind,

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The Importance of BI Commentary

Why Is Commentary Important? We communicate every day. Communication through text is especially abundant with the proliferation of new on-demand technologies. Have you gone through your emails today? Have you read the news, weather, or blogs (like this one)? Communication is the backbone to every interpersonal interaction. Without it, we

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OBIEE 12c - Your Answers After Upgrading

Several blogs have already been written about new functionality in OBIEE 12c. Mark Rittman, for example, posted a good one here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/10/oracle-business-intelligence-12c-now-available-improving-agility-and-enabling-self-service-for-bi-users/] . Now, I've personally had the chance to play with it for a few weeks, mostly in Answers and some

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ChitChat - Commentary Made Simple

Rittman Mead is excited to announce ChitChat, an innovative new communication tool for OBIEE. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/chitchat] 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

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Rittman Mead Sponsors Georgia Oracle Users Group's Tech Day

As part of Rittman Mead’s continuing support and participation in the Oracle community, we are proudly sponsoring this year’s Georgia Oracle Users Group’s Tech Day [http://gaoug.strikingly.com/] on Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Downtown Atlanta at the Executive Conference Center. Rittman Mead’s own Consulting

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OBIEE Performance - Why Metrics Matter (and…Announcing obi-metrics-agent v2!)

One of the first steps to improve OBIEE performance is to determine why it is slow. That may sound obvious—can’t fix it if you don’t know what you’re fixing, right? Unfortunately, the “Drunk Man anti-method [http://www.brendangregg.com/methodology.html]”, in which we merrily stumble

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Introduction to Oracle R Training

Rittman Mead is thrilled to announce our new Introduction to Oracle R courses! With the launch of 12c comes an exciting extension to OBIEE’s analytical capabilities—embedded R execution. Oracle has made several investments in the R language and its related technologies (Oracle R, ROracle, ORAAH, and Oracle R

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OBIEE 12c - Repository Password Corruption Issue

Here at Rittman Mead we’ve been working with OBIEE 12c for some time now, as part of the beta programme and more recently with clients looking to get the most out an upgrade to OBIEE 12c [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/01/obiee12c-three-months-in-whats-the-verdict/]. We’ve also been hard

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Implementing OBIEE Commentary

My Application Development Experience with Rittman Mead Greetings, readers! My name is Nick Padgett, and this is my first blog post with Rittman Mead. I started with Rittman Mead as an intern over a year ago while I was attending Kennesaw State, a local university, but I’ve graduated from

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The Best OBIEE 12c Feature that You're Probably Not Using

With the release of OBIEE 12c we got a number of interesting new features on the front-end. We’re all talking about the cleaner look-and-feel, Visual Analyzer, and the ability to create data-mashups [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/new-in-oracle-bi-cloud-service-oracle-visual-analyzer-and-data-mashups-in-va/] , etc. While all this is incredibly useful, it’s

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Becky’s BI Apps Corner: Oracle BI Applications, where art thou?

Hello! I would like to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Becky Wagner and I’ve been working with Rittman Mead America since the beginning of the year. I have a background in data warehousing and ETL with a state government agency, where I was part of

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An Alternative Front-End for OBIEE using Web Services and D3

Working with OBIEE, it is common to get requests to add visualisations or otherwise improve the UI. Typically this has been done by using narrative views to embed HTML and Javascript to provide data driven, custom visualisations [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/embedding-a-d3-visualisation-in-obiee/]. To cope with the former,

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Driving OBIEE User Engagement with Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE

Measuring and monitoring user interactions and behaviour with OBIEE is a key part of Rittman Mead’s User Engagement Service [http://ritt.md/ue]. By understanding and proving how users are engaging the system we can improve the experience for the user, driving up usage and ensuring maximum value for

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Introducing the Rittman Mead OBIEE Performance Analytics Service

Fix Your OBIEE Performance Problems Today OBIEE is a powerful analytics tool that enables your users to make the most of the data in your organisation. Ensuring that expected response times are met is key to driving user uptake and successful user engagement with OBIEE. Rittman Mead can help diagnose

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Using the BI Server Metadata Web Service for Automated RPD Modifications

A little-known new feature of OBIEE 11g is a web service interface to the BI Server. Called the “BI Server Metadata Web Service [https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/bi.1111/e16364/bi_server_web_services.htm#BIEIT3235] ” it gives a route into making calls into the BI Server

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Managing the OBIEE BI Server Cache from ODI 12c

I wrote recently about the OBIEE BI Server Cache and how useful it can be [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/09/obiee-bi-server-cache-management-strategies/], but how important it is to manage it properly, both in the purging of stale data and seeding of new. In this article I want to show

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OBIEE BI Server Cache Management Strategies

The OBIEE BI Server cache can be one of the most effective ways of improving response times of OBIEE dashboards. By using data already in the cache it reduces load on the database, the network, and the BI Server. Should you be using it? I always describe it as the

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Primeros Cursos de Rittman Mead en Español en América Latina

La semana pasada y en el contexto del OTN Tour LA 2015 dimos nuestros primeros cursos en Español en Quito, Ecuador y Cali, Colombia. Se trató de un workshop en este caso de un día (8 horas) sobre Desarrollo Front-End de OBIEE 11g. En esta oportunidad los cursos fueron presenciales,

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Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3

Oracle issued their quarterly Critical Patch Update [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html] yesterday, and with it notice of several security issues of note: * The most serious for OBIEE (CVE-2013-2186 [https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-2186]) rates 7.5 (out of 10) on

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Introducing Rittman Mead's New User Engagement Service

[http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/RMA-UE-Datasheet.pdf] Although you’ve been hearing a lot on the blog recently about extending Oracle BI&DW with Hadoop and big data technologies, another initiative Rittman Mead have been working on over the past couple of months is user engagement.

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Combining Oracle Big Data Discovery and Oracle Visual Analyzer on BICS

So now that Oracle Visual Analyzer is out as part of Oracle BI Cloud Service [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/new-in-oracle-bi-cloud-service-oracle-visual-analyzer-and-data-mashups-in-va/] , and Visual Analyzer (VA) is due to ship on-premise as part of OBIEE12c sometime in the next twelve months, several of our customers have asked us if

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OBIEE 11.1.1.9: New Features for Front-End Developers and Business Users

OBIEE 11.1.1.9 [https://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportEPM/entry/obiee_111190] was released this May and Robin and Mark wrote great posts about New Features from System Administrators [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/05/whats-new-in-obiee-11-1-1-9-for-systems-administrators-and-developers/] and the new support for HiveServer2 and Cloudera Impala [https://www.rittmanmead.

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Deploying Oracle BI Mobile HD within Good, Oracle OMSS and Other Secure MDM Containers

A few months ago ODTUG announced their ODTUG Mobile Day in Utrecht, Netherlands [http://www.odtug.com/mobile_day_utrecht] and asked if I’d like to put forward an abstract for a presentation. Something that’s been on my mind for a while is the issues some of our

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New Oracle Magazine article on Oracle BI Cloud Service

The May/June 2015 edition of Oracle Magazine is now out, and my Business Intelligence article in this edition is on Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). In “Upload, Model, Analyze and Report” [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-may/o35ba-2541604.html] I focus on the “departmental power-user” use-case where

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Using HBase and Impala to Add Update and Delete Capability to Hive DW Tables, and Improve Query Response Times

One of our customers is looking to offload part of their data warehouse platform to Hadoop, extracting data out of a source system and loading it into Apache Hive tables for subsequent querying using OBIEE11g. One of the challenges that the project faces though is how to handle updates to