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New Training Courses and Seminars from Rittman Mead
I’ve recently joined Rittman Mead to head-up our Training area, and for the past few weeks have been working on a number of new topics, modules and delivery channels for our courses. We’re now going to...
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Exalytics – TimesTen and OBIEE connectivity
Two of the key components in Exalytics are OBIEE and the TimesTen in-memory database. Configuring them to work together, particularly in non-standard configurations, can be fiddly, so here is a guide...
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Alternatives to the Summary Advisor for Refreshing Exalytics Aggregates
One of the several elements of Exalytics’ power comes from it holding pre-calculated (aggregated) data in the TimesTen for Exalytics In-Memory Database. Exalytics comes with a tool called the Summary...
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Incremental refresh of Exalytics Aggregates using TimesTen
Introduction One of the key reasons that Exalytics can deliver sub-second response times is the use of TimesTen in-memory database to hold data pre-calculated to various levels of aggregation as...
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Incremental refresh of Exalytics aggregates using native BI Server capabilities
One of the key design features of the Exalytics In-Memory Machine is the use of aggregates (pre-calculated summary data), held in the TimesTen In-Memory database. Out of the box (“OotB”) these...
View ArticleTimesTen and OBIEE port conflicts on Exalytics
Introduction Whilst helping a customer set up their Exalytics server the other day I hit an interesting problem. Not interesting as in hey-this-will-cure-cancer, or oooh-big-data-buzzword interesting,...
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The State of the OBIEE11g World as of May 2014
I’m conscious I’ve posted a lot on this blog over the past few months about hot new topics like big data, Hadoop and Oracle Advanced Analytics, and not so much about OBIEE, which traditionally has been...
View ArticleRittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Abstract Scoring Now Live - For 1 Week Only!
The call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closed at the end of January, and we’ve had some excellent submissions on topics ranging from OBIEE, Visualizations and data discovery through to...
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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Now Open for Registration!
I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 running in Brighton and Atlanta, May 2014, is now open for registration. Keeping the format as before - a single stream at each event,...
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The State of the OBIEE11g World as of May 2014
I’m conscious I’ve posted a lot on this blog over the past few months about hot new topics like big data, Hadoop and Oracle Advanced Analytics, and not so much about OBIEE, which traditionally has been...
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News and Updates from Oracle Openworld 2014
It’s the Saturday after Oracle Openworld 2014, and I’m now home from San Francisco and back in the UK. It’s been a great week as usual, with lots of product announcements and updates to the BI, DW and...
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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Call for Papers Now Open!
I’m very pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 is now open, with abstract submissions open to January 18th 2015. As in previous years the BI Forum will run...
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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...
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Announcing the BI Forum 2015 Data Visualisation Challenge
The Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 is running in Brighton from May 6th-8th 2015, and Atlanta from May 13th - 15th 2015. At this year’s events we’re introducing our first “data visualization challenge”,...
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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)...
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OBIEE and the Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Option - Article and New Services...
My latest Business Intelligence column for Oracle Magazine is on the In-Memory Option for Oracle Database 12c, and using it to speed-up dashboards and reports in OBIEE11g. In the article I go through...
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Last Chance to Register for the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015!
It’s just a week to go until the start of the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, with the optional one-day masterclass starting on Wednesday, May 6th at 10am and the event opening with a reception...
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Presentation Slides and Photos from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, Brighton...
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...
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Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3
Oracle issued their quarterly Critical Patch Update yesterday, and with it notice of several security issues of note: The most serious for OBIEE (CVE-2013-2186) rates 7.5 (out of 10) on the CVSS scale,...
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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 are engaging the system we can...
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