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Oracle BI Suite EE

Introduction to the BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 - Release Overview

The long-awaited and anticipated 11.1.1.7.1 (PS1) release of the Oracle BI Applications became available early last week, with thesoftware [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bus-intelligence-11g-165436.html] anddocumentation [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/documentation/bi-apps-098545.html] available for download on OTN. Over

OBIEE, OEM12cR2 and the BI Management Pack Part 1: Introduction to OEM12cR2

A few years ago I wrote a series of blog posts, and an OTN article, on managing OBIEE 10g using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR4 and the BI Management Pack [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/rittman-oem-bipack-087508.html], an extra-licensable option for OEM that provided additional management capabilities for OBIEE and

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 Call for Papers now Open!

I'm pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 5th annual Rittman Mead BI Forum is now open, with abstracts being accepted through to January 31st, 2013. Last year's BI Forum was the biggest and best ever, running in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA

BI, Data Warehousing and Data Integration News from Oracle Openworld 2012

This week is Oracle Openworld week in San Francisco, USA [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], with around 50,000 attendees attending Openworld itself, Java One and fringe events such as Oaktable world. Rittman Mead have had ten sessions during the week, covering topics such as OBIEE, Endeca, data warehousing, Essbase

Public training schedule for 2012-H2 announced

Rittman Mead offer training courses at centres in Brighton UK, Atlanta GA, Bengaluru India, and Melbourne Australia. These courses are our standard, "bootcamp" courses, five days in length, and is typically taught by consultants such as Mark Rittman, Robin Moffatt, Stewart Bryson, Ashley Beauman and Venkatakrishnan J. If

Business Insights

Looking Back at 2011, Looking forward to 2012

Well it's the last working day now before the end of 2011, and so I thought it'd be interesting to take a look back at the events of 2011, and a bit of think-forward as to what's on the horizon for 2012. As usual,

Rittman Mead Life

Rittman Mead Scheduled OBIEE11g, ODI11g and OBIA7.9.6.3 Courses

When Jon Mead and I started Rittman Mead back in 2007, one of the first services we offered was training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training], back in those days on OWB and OBIEE 10g and typically delivered by myself, Jon, Borkur at Peter Scott. Since then, we've grown

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle BI EE 11g - Hyperion Financial Management Analytics (HFM Analytics)

If you had watched the announcements in Open World this year, one of the products that got silently released was HFM Analytics [http://blogs.oracle.com/emeapartnerbiepm/entry/financial_management_analytics_for_hyperion] . Basically this is an Analytics Suite under the umbrella of BI Applications but without any ETL. This

Business Insights

OOW2011 : Oracle BI Applications Futures

One of the sessions running at yesterday's Openworld was on the future of the Oracle BI Applications. You probably don't realize it, but the 11g release of the BI Apps has been "sort-of" available for the past few months, but as a controlled-availability release

Business Insights

A BI Developers' Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2011

A couple of people have asked me how they should plan for the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2011 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html], running in San Francisco on October 2-6th. If you've never been to OpenWorld before, and perhaps you're looking to make a case

Oracle BI Suite EE

What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2011?

Back in 2009, I wrote a blog post entitled "What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2009" [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/03/what-skills-does-an-oracle-bi-developer-need-in-2009/] . At the time, OBIEE 11g was in the planning stage, Oracle had recently acquired Hyperion and so Essbase and Planning were

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.5 - Repository Command Line Switches - Importing New Projects into RPD

One of the hidden features of BI Admin Tool is the ability to run certain commands from command line. I have written about some of the use cases of this here [http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/oracle-bi-ee-101332-automating-password-updates-of-connection-pools-and-users-command-line-options/] . In addition to the ones that i have written there are

Oracle BI Suite EE

BI Applications 7.9.6.3 - What's New?

Along with BI EE 11.1.1.5, there was also a major release of BI Apps 7.9.6.3. This is a major release not because of the new features but instead this is the first release that uses BI EE 11g natively. In fact this release does

Oracle BI Suite EE

Thoughts on BI at Oracle OpenWorld 2010

Well, I'm finally back from San Francisco and Oracle Open World [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], having spent two days at Oracle's HQ in Redwood Shores and then just over a week downtown in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. If you came to any of

Inside Oracle's Analytic Applications for Financial Services

If you've been to any of the Oracle BI Applications roadmap presentations, you may well have seen a slide that sets out "Oracle's Integrated Analytic Solution", which looks like this: (from Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Roadmap, Oracle Open World 2009) Now we all know

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

YouTube Video of my "Oracle BI Apps 7.9.5.2 and ODI" Open World Presentation

If you didn't make it to Open World but you were interested in my presentation on ODI and the Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5.2, I just noticed that "aortabisolutions" on Youtube recorded some of the highlights and uploaded the video [http://www.youtube.com/

A First Look at the BI Apps 7.9.5.2 Part 4: Customization

In the first three parts of this series, I gave an overview of the new 7.9.5.2 release of the Oracle BI Applications [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/07/31/a-first-look-at-the-bi-apps-7-9-5-2-part-1-general-new-features/] , went through how the technology differs [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/08/01/a-first-look-at-the-bi-apps-7-9-5-2-part-2-technology-changes-between-odi-and-informatica/] now

A First Look at the BI Apps 7.9.5.2 Part 3: Performing a Data Load

In the past couple of postings (here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/07/31/a-first-look-at-the-bi-apps-7-9-5-2-part-1-general-new-features/] , here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/08/01/a-first-look-at-the-bi-apps-7-9-5-2-part-2-technology-changes-between-odi-and-informatica/] ), I've gone through an introduction to the new BI Apps 7.9.5.2 release and talked about how the introduction of

A First Look at the BI Apps 7.9.5.2 Part 2: Technology Changes Between ODI and Informatica

So at the end of last week I posted an overview of the new 7.9.5.2 release of the Oracle BI Applications [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/07/31/a-first-look-at-the-bi-apps-7-9-5-2-part-1-general-new-features/] , which replaces Informatica and the DAC with Oracle Data Integrator and Configuration Manager. I said at the

A First Look at the BI Apps 7.9.5.2 Part 1: General New Features

If you've been wondering why I've not been posting to the blog recently, it's because I've been grappling with the new release of the Oracle BI Applications that uses Oracle Data Integrator as the ETL engine. This is an interesting release as

Announcing Rittman Mead Training Days 2009, London

I'm very pleased to announce details of our second-ever Training Days [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009] event, to be held at the Bloomsbury Hotel [http://www.doylecollection.com/locations/london_city_hotels/the_bloomsbury_hotel.aspx] in London on October 27th - 29th 2009. This year I'

What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2009?

One of the publications that I write for is the ODTUG Technical Journal, where I contribute a regular "business intelligence" column. ODTUG is aimed at technical developers and consultants, and so I was having a think about how the product skills required by such people have changed over

BI Management Pack Article now on OTN

My article on the BI Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager and OBIEE [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/rittman-oem-bipack-087508.html] is now up on OTN. If you read my earlier blog posts on this product (here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/11/18/investigating-the-oracle-bi-management-pack-for-obiee-and-dac/] , here [https://www.rittmanmead.

Analyzing BI Apps ETL Runs using OBIEE and the DAC Repository

The other week I posted an article on optimizing the Oracle B Applications ETL process [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/01/18/thoughts-on-optimizing-the-oracle-bi-apps-etl-process/] , and one useful set of diagnostic data I highlighted at the time was the ETL step timings that are available in the DAC Console. For every