Recession, what recession? Ever since I started up Majendi (Now Rittman Mead), the market for Siebel Analytics (now Oracle BI) has been a roller coaster. Looking back, supply and demand for consultants / contractors / permies has either been heavily biased to supply or to demand. Getting the balance right…
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Dont Try This At Home Kids
Having just spent some time on a prjoect with Christian Berg and Venkat, and seeing some of the presentations at the BI Forum, I have come up with my all time top 10 of ‘Don’t do this without an Adult Supervisor’ 1. Implement Essbase in OBIEE2. Use xml editors to…
Love Hate Essbase in OBIEE
Just you just love the speed of reporting on Essbase Cubes. Building the cubes is super fast. Having a simple report with one Measure is a pleasure to to build and run. Now try doing anything that OBIEE is good at. How about having a flat hierarchy? No Ok, what…
A sneak preview of 11g?
I think I have found my favorite client. Not only are we analysing 4GB of data, 4 times every day, in a 10 minute ETL, but we’re adding some cool features to the dashboards. One feature is tree view. Those who use APEX will be familiar with how these work,…
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…
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…