Technical ASO Slice Clears - How Many Members? Essbase developers have had the ability to (comparatively) easily clear portions of our ASO cubes since version 11.1.1, getting away from fiddly methods involving manually contra-ing existing data via reports and rules files, making incremental loads substantially easier. Along with the official documentation in the TechRef and DBAG,
Technical Essbase Studio checkModelInSyncExternal Error This week I am back at one of my favourite clients to assist with some issues since the latest upgrade to 11.1.1.9. These guys are seriously technical and know their stuff, so when issues pop up I'm always ready for an interesting and challenging day in the
Big Data Presentation Slides and Photos from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, Brighton and Atlanta It’s now the Saturday after the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 events, last week in Atlanta, GA and the week before in Brighton, UK. Both events were a great success and I’d like to say thanks to the speakers, attendees, our friends at Oracle and my colleagues
Big Data Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Now Open for Registration! I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2015, is now open for registration. Back for its seventh successful year, the Rittman Mead BI Forum once again will be showcasing the best speakers and presentations on topics around
Technical EPM and BI Meetup at Next Week's Openworld (and details of our Oracle DI Speakeasy) Just a short note to help publicise the Oracle Openworld 2014 EPM and BI Meetup that’s running next week, organised by Cameron Lackpour and Tim Tow from the ODTUG board. This is an excellent opportunity for EPM and BI developers and customers to get together and network over drinks
Technical The BI Survey 14 - 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 detailed
Oracle BI Suite EE Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Closing Soon - And News on This Year's Masterclass Its a couple of days to go until the call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closes, with suggested topics this year including OBIEE (of course), Essbase, Endeca, Big Data, Visualizations, In-Memory analysis and data integration. So far we’ve had some excellent submissions but we’re
Oracle BI Suite EE 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 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 presented on topics ranging from
Oracle BI Suite EE Openworld is Over - Now We're Coming to India..! Oracle Openworld 2013 is now over, but no sooner have we unpacked from that trip, we're packing again for our next one - our BI Masterclass Tour for India, starting in a few week's time in Bangalore. Running in partnership with ODTUG and with myself, Venkat Janakiraman and Stewart Bryson
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle Openworld 2013 : Reflections on Product Announcements and Strategy I'm sitting writing this at my desk back home, with a steaming mug of tea next to me and the kids pleased to see me after having been away for eight days (or at least my wifepleased to hand them over to me after looking after them for eight days)
Hyperion Essbase Installing Essbase Analytics Link for HFM 11.1.2.3 If your requirement is to install EAL for HFM, then this post is for you. Oracle has not yet released a new version of EAL that is certified with HFM 11.1.2.3 and hence you will not be able to find one in the edelivery. The question is
Oracle BI Suite EE Rittman Mead BI Masterclass Tour: India, October 2013- Register Now! I'm very pleased to announce a one-off Rittman Mead BI Masterclass Tour that we're organising, in partnership with ODTUG, to take place in India in October 2013. Along with the US and UK, India has the largest amount of readers of our blog, and so we thought it'd be nice
Oracle BI Suite EE Exalytics X3-4 Now Available, 2TB RAM + SSD and Supports OBIEE 11.1.1.7 It's been on the Oracle Tech Price list for a while now, but Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4 was officially launched this week, with headline new features of 2TB of RAM (up from 1TB in the earlier, X2-4 version), and 2.4TB of SSD flash disk. This new version has
Oracle BI Suite EE Photos and Presentation Downloads from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013, Brighton & Atlanta Well, we're all back home now after two very successful Rittman Mead BI Forum events in Brighton, and then Atlanta, earlier this month in May 2013. Around 70 OBIEE, ODI, Endeca and Essbase developers from around Europe got together in the first week in Brighton, followed by around 60 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, the BI Apps and Hyperion EPM Suite, Oracle have a set of reporting and analysis tools that can be considered "best of breed" and compete with any other tool on the market. Coupled with the Oracle database, the engineered systems strategy and the Fusion Apps/
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, 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"), OBIEE's previous MS Office solution. As a reminder, BI
Technical 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 in May 2012. This
Technical ODI11g in the Enterprise Part 2 : Data Integration using Essbase, Messaging, and Big Data Sources and Targets In this five part series over the Christmas break, I'm taking a look at some of the lesser-known features in Oracle Data Integrator 11g, focusing on "enterprise" features such as build automation, scripting, data quality and middleware integration. If you've arrived at this post via a Google search, here's the
Technical BI, Data Warehousing and Data Integration News from Oracle Openworld 2012 This week is Oracle Openworld week in San Francisco, USA, 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 and EPM, Exalyics and Oracle
Technical Integrating OBIEE11g with Hyperion Shared Services Security - An Example Workaround using the HSS Security API and BISQLGroupProvider One of our customers in the UK recently asked us to help them upgrade an existing OBIEE 10g system to the 11g release, to take advantage of the enhanced visualisations, scorecards and KPIs, iPhone and iPad clients and so on. What made this upgrade interesting is that their OBIEE 10g
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, it's been a very interesting and
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle BI EE 11g - Reporting on Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) - Part 1 This has been my second longest sabbatical since i started blogging 4.5 years back. More than a month since my last post. Rather than going into the reasons of why(& sounding cliched) i thought i will kick start my postings again with one another new BI EE 11g
Business Insights Rittman Mead at ODTUG Kscope 2011 I'm still not used to saying "Kscope"... it sounds like a medical screening that I know I should get when I turn 40. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the event for all the usual reasons: seeing good friends, seeing all the great speakers in the Oracle community, and
Business Insights OBIEE 11g for Hyperion Users - Are We There Yet? In a couple of weeks time it's the OUG Conference Series EPM & Hyperion 2011 Conference in the UK (now there's a mouthful), and along with such Hyperion luminaries and Oracle ACE Directors as Edward Roske and Eric Helmer, I'm presenting a session entitled "OBIEE 11g for Hyperion Customers / Developers
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle BI EE 11g - Integration with EPM 11.1.2 - HFR & Action Framework As mentioned in the blog post here, one other significant improvement in 11g Action Framework is the ability to browse the Oracle EPM 11.1.2 catalog and then pass the parameters from BI EE to the target EPM reports. Unlike 10g, now there is no more a limitation of
