I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Brighton on May 14th and 15th this year. Take a look at the agenda and I think you’ll agree it has an excellentline up of OBIEE talent: http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-bi-forum-brighton-may-14th-15th-2009/. There are only limited numbers,…
Author: Adrian Ward
30 Years working on Oracle systems, specialising in Oracle analytics. Previously known as OBIEE, and before that Seibel Analytics
Oracle ACE
More Big Tips Please
Reply from Phil as follows: Of course Adrian, I’ve got loads. How about this one: When you do a combined request you can’t change the column headings in the Edit Column Formula window as any changes you make there aren’t saved. However, you can change the column name in the…
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Big Phils Tip – Page Moving
Imagine the scenario. You have a dashboard with 35 pages on and you have to add a new page, at the TOP! Normally you add your page, and it goes to the bottom of the list, so you would click 35 times on the up arrow. On this button the…
Siebel Analytics Tip of the Day
I know I don’t normally do these, but here is one for today: When you work in MUD mode, and merge your rpd, the 7.8. Admin tool will not update the variables you set offline. It will also have trouble dealing with presentation column name changes – you will find…
Tonsils Out
Not only has it been very busy on the client work front, busy on the sailing front, busy on the consultancy, and trying to dig out of the snow drifts, but I had my tonsils out. Will be back to shouting again soon I hope. It went pretty well apart…
Another New Blogger
Hi Grubble, Welcome to the OBIEE blogging world http://grubble.net/index.php?blog=1 adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
Localisation of OBIEE
I have no idea who these people are, but just found an interesting service which claims to double increase of user acceptance. Thats a pretty tall order, but if it works thats great. The more the merrier! http://www.bi-localizer.com/en/index.shtml They dont say which languages they cover but I assume German for…
How is your Croatian?
New blog on OBIEE. Good luck with it Goran. http://108obiee.blogspot.com/ Update: Thanks to Daan we can now view it in Englishhttp://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://108obiee.blogspot.com/ adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
Informatica vs ODI
As you would expect, the debate still goes on as to what is happening on the OBIEE ETL front. As all you ex-Siebel people will know Informatica is the system that every uses for their databases. It was licensed by Siebel to run their CRM ETL Packaged Applications. Then when…
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OBIEE Snowflakes and Stars – Part 3
A Quick recap: From Part 1 we saw that you can organise logical tables in a normalised fashion, and in a simple model the SQL will work without errors. The use of a normalised model in the Data warehouse is not something that you would normally see being advocated by…