The Case for ETL in the Cloud - CAPEX vs OPEX
Recently Oracle announced a new cloud service for Oracle Data Integrator. Because I was helping our sales team by doing some estimates and statements of work, »
ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 5 - Summary
This is the final article in a series documenting an exercise that we undertook for a client recently. Currently running an Oracle-based datawarehouse platform, the client »
How to Use Versioning in ODI 12c
How many times have you been working on a project and something goes wrong, or the power shuts off, or you go on vacation and someone »
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 »
Becky's BI Apps Corner: OBIA 11.1.1.10.2 New Features Part 1 - Health Check & ETL Diagnostics
I have been working with BI Applications since OBIA switched to ODI in version 11.1.1.7.0. I have installed and worked with all »
Oracle Data Integrator: Upgrade to ODI 12c - A Case Study
We don’t often get a chance to share our customer success stories due to various reasons, such as required anonymity of the client or certain »
Becky's BI Apps Corner: OBIA Back-to-Beginnings - Naming Conventions and Jargon
It's easy to talk about a technology using only jargon. It's much harder to talk about a technology without using jargon. I have seen many meetings »
Announcing OBI Remote Training
Since the release of OBIEE 12c in 2015, we have received countless inquiries about how we would be offering our training. Our customers are familiar with »
Becky's BI Apps Corner: Incrementals and Future Dated Employee Records
During the last few posts, we have delved into a few of the many interesting aspects of a BI Apps installation. Today I wanted to change »
Becky’s BI Apps Corner: OBIA install Perl Script Patching and troubleshooting when they fail
During a recent project installing Oracle BI Applications, I became much better acquainted with OPatch, Oracle’s standard tool for managing application patches. By acquainted, I »