sampleapp - Rittman Mead

OBIEE SampleApp v406 Amazon EC2 AMI - available for public use

I wrote a while ago about converting Oracle's superb OBIEE SampleApp from a VirtualBox image into an EC2-hosted instance [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/09/obiee-sampleapp-in-the-cloud-importing-virtualbox-machines-to-aws-ec2/] . I'm pleased to announce that Oracle have agreed for us to make the image (AMI) on Amazon available publicly.

Technical

OBIEE SampleApp in The Cloud: Importing VirtualBox Machines to AWS EC2

Virtualisation has revolutionised how we work as developers. A decade ago, using new software would mean trying to find room on a real tin server to install it, hoping it worked, and if it didn’t, picking apart the pieces probably leaving the server in a worse state than it

Technical

SampleApp v406 - Automatic startup of OBIEE

Last week Oracle released v406 of SampleApp [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html] . SampleApp is a one-stop-shop for a demonstration of pretty much any conceivable thing that OBIEE is capable of, and then some more on top of it. It is a VirtualBox [https://www.virtualbox.org/

Technical

Extended Visualisation of OBIEE Performance Data with Grafana

Recently I wrote about the new obi-metrics-agent [http://ritt.md/oma-intro] tool and how it enables easy collection of DMS data from OBIEE into whisper, the time-series based database behind graphite. In this post I’m going to show two things that take this idea further: 1. How easy it

Oracle BI Suite EE

Using OBIEE SampleApp 305 in VM Fusion

Oracle distribute the new OBIEE SampleApp [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html] as a VirtualBox image, but it is dead easy to run it on VM Fusion instead. Here’s how: 1. Unzip the SampleApp archive files [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html] , and