Rittman Mead Blog - Oracle Discoverer

Take Part in the BI Survey 15, and Have Your Voice Heard!

Long-term readers of this blog will know that we’ve supported for many years the BI Survey, an independent survey of BI tools customers and implementors. Rittman Mead have no (financial or other) interest in the BI Survey or its organisers, but we like the way it gathers in

Oracle BI Suite EE

An Oracle BI "Blast from the Past": Ten Products from Oracle's BI History You May Not Have Heard Of...

With Oracle BI Enterprise Edition [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/index.html], the BI Apps andHyperion EPM Suite [http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/performance-management/038419.html] , Oracle have a set of reporting and analysis tools that can be considered "best

Technical

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

Technical

Email Distribution of Reports using BI Publisher and Discoverer

One of the presentations I'm giving on the Monday at the UKOUG Conference [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/11/22/looking-forward-to-the-ukoug-conference/] is a joint talk with Mike Durran, the Oracle Discoverer Product Manager. Mike is going to do an update on Discoverer

Technical

Detailed Configuration Steps for BI Publisher and Discoverer Integration

I'd noticed a couple of comments on this blog, and some others [https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13714584&postID=6076384781691510287], around the setup steps required for Oracle BI Publisher and Discoverer integration [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/09/integrating-bi-publisher-and-discoverer/

Technical

Integrating BI Publisher and Discoverer

The other day I wrote about the first of the integration features between Oracle BI Suite Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition in my article "Integrating Oracle Answers and Oracle Portal" [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/07/integrating-oracle-bi-answers-and-oracle-portal/]. Today, I'

Technical

Oracle Data Integrator Article on OTN

My article on real-time data integration with Oracle Data Integrator [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-odi.html] has just been published on OTN. This was quite an interesting article to write; apart from establishing how ODI related to OWB, I also put an example together that

Technical

Odds and Ends

Just a quick catch up post, as I sit here watching Spurs draw 1-1 with Blackburn. Brian Duff posted a link earlier this week [http://blogs.oracle.com/duffblog/2007/05/07#a413] to the new Oracle Blogs Semantic Web [http://otnsemanticweb.oracle.com/blogs.jsp] site, that aggregates

Technical

Thoughts on OBI EE for Discoverer Users

I mentioned the other days that one of the papers I’m delivering for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2007 is on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBI EE) for Discoverer users. The aim of this paper is to introduce OBI EE to those Oracle customers who currently use Discoverer, perhaps have requirements

Technical

Time Series in OBIEE compared with Discoverer

I just finished reading through Mark Rittman's post titled OBI EE, Time Dimensions and Time-Series Calculations [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/04/30/obi-ee-time-dimensions-and-time-series-calculations/] Here, Mark goes on a wee journey to look at how time-series queries in

Technical

Oracle BI & SOA - Hype or Here Now?

I mentioned in my posting yesterday [http://www.rittman.net/2006/10/29/back-home-and-reflections-on-open-world/] that, whilst at Open World last week, I was struck by the many conversations I had with people around Oracle business intelligence and Service Orientated Architectures (generally shortened to SOA