Business Intelligence

We have discussed how to use USER_DEFINED activity in OWB Process Flow in the past. In this topic, we will talk about another option for this property – “SCHEDULER”. With this setting, we can run the external job as a configured OS user. Enable execution of User Defined activity Presume we are using the UNIX [...]

Sometimes we talk about the details of Warehouse Builder functionality so much that it’s easy to forget to raise our heads from time to time, and look at the broader questions of data warehousing and business intelligence. But recently I was asked by a few different customers, who are already using Oracle and OWB, “Wait… [...]

I’m in the middle of my summer holiday at the moment, hence the relative silence here, but I just noticed this article by Mary Jo Foley suggesting that Microsoft might be turning Dryad into a commercial product next year and couldn’t resist posting it:http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-parallel-programming-project-set-to-go-commercial-in-2011/7161 There was a flurry of interest in it a few years [...]

One of the biggest new features in BI EE 11g is the ability to create native mapviewer maps and then overlay reporting components/visualizations on top of maps. For example if you are doing a country based sales analysis, its easy to color code each country across the world right within the maps. It is also [...]

I’m pleased to announce that, in line with the London and Atlanta Oracle BI 11g Training Days events, our event in Bangalore will now be hands-on. As a reminder, the Rittman Mead Oracle BI 11g Training Days event is three-day of intense, hands-on technical training on the new 11g release of Oracle Business Intelligence. Over [...]

We have a winner Michael K, only 2 days of the official GA day of august the 13th. Well done! Please send me your details, so I can send you a goody bag. see: http://obiee101.blogspot.com/p/obiee-11g-ga-bet.html Till Next Time

Goto the weblogic EM console: Expand ‘Business Intelligence’ node on the left and choose Coreapplication. Now click on the Deployment tab on the right. Next, go to the Repository tab. Click on ‘Lock and Edit Configuration’ to enable you to change the default settings. Select the RPD you want to use: Enter ther RPD passwords [...]

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/bi-11gr1certmatrix-166168.html (this is actually an XLS file despite the browser saving it as an HTML file) Thanks to Turribeach Till Next Time

For those of you who didn’t do a RTFM, it’s : Admin123 The User is your weblogic account. Till Next Time

The other big change in BI EE 11g as mentioned before here, is the ability to assign ID columns for descriptive columns more commonly known as Double Columns. This feature has 2 fold advantages 1. In BI EE 10g, there was no automated way of filtering on ID’s when end users chose the description values [...]