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. By understanding and proving how users »
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. »
What's New in OBIEE 11.1.1.9 for Systems Administrators and Developers
After over two years since the last major release of OBIEE, Oracle released version 11.1.1.9 in May 2015. You can find the installers »
Analysing ODI performance with Flame Graphs
Flame Graphs are a visualisation that I learnt about through the excellent Linux systems performance work of Brendan Gregg, and saw Luca Canali talk about recently »
Instrumenting OBIEE Database Connections For Improved Performance Diagnostics
Nearly four years ago I wrote a blog post entitled “Instrumenting OBIEE - The Final Chapter”. With hindsight, that title suffix (“The Final Chapter”) may have »
An Introduction to Analysing ODI Runtime Data Through Elasticsearch and Kibana 4
An important part of working with ODI is analysing the performance when it runs, and identifying steps that might be inefficient as well as variations in »
OBIEE Monitoring and Diagnostics with InfluxDB and Grafana
In this article I’m going to look at collecting time-series metrics into the InfluxDB database and visualising them in snazzy Grafana dashboards. The datasets I’ »
Getting The Users' Trust - Part 1
Looking back over some of my truly ancient Rittman Mead blogs (so old in fact that they came with me when I joined the company soon »
BI Forum 2014 preview - No Silver Bullets : OBIEE Performance in the Real World
I'm honoured to have been accepted to speak at this year's Rittman Mead BI Forum, the sixth year of this expert-level conference that draws some of »
Built-In OBIEE Load Testing with nqcmd
nqcmd ships with all installations of OBIEE and includes some very useful hidden functionality - the ability to generate load tests against OBIEE. There are lots »