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…
Author: Adrian Ward
30 Years working on Oracle systems, specialising in Oracle analytics. Previously known as OBIEE, and before that Seibel Analytics
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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…
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
I hope that at this time of year you are able to have some fun, see the family and get some rest from those projects! Lets keep our fingers crossed that 2009 will turn out to be a better year for the world, and in particular the hard working IT…
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Stars and Snowflakes
Part 2 Continuing on the discussion about OBIEE (Oracle BI EE) structure of the Logical Layer – please read Part 1 before this chapter. To set the context, The discussion is around your choices in table design in the warehouse and I am only referring to the reporting in OBIEE…
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Stars and Snowflakes
PART 1 We like to talk about the weather in England, and today it is fine – Sunny and Cold. Here in the West at night you can see all the stars and over in the East they are having light snow falls.Nature has not yet figured out how to…
X Marks the spot
So after all the hype it turns out that Oracle X is their first forray into the hardware market. Nothing to do with OBIEE? Well, maybe this is the best thing to happen for the product we all love. Having a faster platform to run the Oracle OLAP and OLTP…
Urgent Requirement
Filled the roles now. Thanks. Hi there, we have an urgent need for the following: – technical Consultant for Siebel Marketing 7.8 (OBI knowledge would be superb)– Oracle DB Admin Start date: yesterdayDuration: think at least 3 weeks – probably up to a yearSalary: up for negotiation, but I think…
Talking about users
A funy thing happened on a recent project (not saying which one but security was a TOP priority) The rpd used LDAP to authenticate the users. The developers (me!) had a user set up in the rpd to do the dev work.When then rpd was pubished to Production, my username…
Multi User
Having been put off by the multi user dev environment in previous tests I was reluctant to use it in a 7.8 environment. However, so far so good. provided everyone plays the game properly then it should be safe to dev across multiple sites. But there is a catch. The…
Actuate Anyone?
Another reuqest. Hi guys,There is an actuate requiement in central london for 3-4 weeks,immediate start, if you know anyone, please let me know. cheers,Ram adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com