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Competing on Analytics using OBIEE

On Tuesday I presented a paper entitled Competing on Analytics using OBIEE at the UKOUG BIRT SIG in London. The idea behind the paper was to explore how companies use Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics, how they can extend their use in an organisation and hence gain competitive advantage from this, and how to [...]

Posted 13 June 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Competing on Analytics using OBIEE

On Tuesday I presented a paper entitled Competing on Analytics using OBIEE at the UKOUG BIRT SIG in London. The idea behind the paper was to explore how companies use Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics, how they can extend their use in an organisation and hence gain competitive advantage from this, and how to [...]

Posted 12 June 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Resuming your ETL process in OWB

If your ETL process fails, for whatever reason, you have two options: to restart the process from the beginning, or to resume from the last successfully completed task.
Restarting from beginning
It is reasonable easy to restart the process in OWB, you would have to wait until your top level process flow has completed and then if [...]

Posted 31 May 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OWB 11gR2 beta

We have been accepted onto the OWB 11gR2 beta program, so over the next few months we will be putting the new features (and some of the old ones) through their paces. There are some pretty strong new features with the product, we are unable to provide details of these at [...]

Posted 22 May 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Synchronizing mappings and process flows using OMB Plus

I was recently in a situation where I had to delete a package (transformation) in OWB and then re-import it from the database, because I had deleted it and re-imported it, every mapping and process flow that referenced the package lost its reference to it. I could have gone through each mapping and process flow [...]

Posted 20 May 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

People vs Tools and Techniques

One of the things I am doing at the moment is reviewing our delivery methodology, looking at how different techniques and can be used with the current stack of Oracle BI tools to effectively deliver projects. This involves looking the tools currently on offer, such as OBI EE or Warehouse Builder and a number of [...]

Posted 17 May 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rapid development using OBI EE (and what about the Data Warehouse?)

We are often told that one of the benefit of OBI EE is the speed and ease of development. Data sources can easily be added into the system, users can then quickly build queries and the results are easy to distribute. While I completely support this, to me this leaves a few questions when you [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °