I have been to two Oracle partner events recently, where I am mainly trying to ge tot he bottom of what their ETL tool strategy is. The issue is on of platform AND application choice. The fight is between Informatica, OWB and Data Integrator. Informatica has a huge head start…
Author: Adrian Ward
30 Years working on Oracle systems, specialising in Oracle analytics. Previously known as OBIEE, and before that Seibel Analytics
Oracle ACE
Loyalty Anyone?
Has anyone seen an Analytics repository which connects to the Loyalty vertical? We may be able to come to a commercial agreement with anyone has already built one. adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
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My New Yahoo group
I’m going group crazy Just added a fourth Yahoo group. They’re great to share stuff with your mates. We have some club messages and information that needs sharing, so we put this is the group and hey presto everyone is up-to-date. No excuses! Click to join papercourt adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
The Future of CRM
I attended one of Oracle’s ‘Ask the Experts’ seminars on CRM strategy last week, not some thing we often have the time to do, but worth doing for an insight into what makes Oracle tick, and more importantly to meet some real people, many of whom at this particular event…
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Init Blocks, init.
That’s repository variable Initialization Blocks to you. Init blocks as they are more commomnly known retrieve the data that is held in memory by the Session and Repository variables associated with them. They are of course accessed through Manage>Variables in the Administration console, and this is another area where subtle…
Naughty 7.9
Apparently there is a little buggette “Customers installing Oracle BI Applications Version 7.9 must first install Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3 version 10.1.3.2.0 with Quick Fix 150. “ tut tut adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
7.9 Is here, Huh?
So you thought that OBI EE was the new Analytics. Think again. Siebel analytics has jsut gone into version 7.9, but so far I have only seen Applications 7.9, so it looks like platform is either 7.8 or OBI EE : There new names though: Siebel Analytics Application now becomes…
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Connecting People
Is there a clear winner in the war for Networking platforms? I started using LinkedIn a while back and have developed a great network of business contacts, but then I realised that wasn’t the first one I had signe dup to. Friends Reunited was the leader originally and everyone flocked…