We have been busy, and so have all the OBIEE Bloggers. This year I thought it was about time we went to Collaborate, and boy was it worthwhile. Our room at the Delano was massive. The hotel was massive. The conference was huge. Grand Canyon unbelievable. And what can I…
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OBIEE In Decline?
Last month we heard that OBIEE was not on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, so I looked at the up coming conferences Collaborate16 and Kscope16, and found they are lighter on OBIEE sessions. Suggesting that OBIEE is on the decline, and is no longer the…
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APEX and the Cloud
APEX is finally getting the credit it deserves as a corporate tool, and the Cloud is the latest and greatest useful trend in the IT world. So it makes sense that they come together. (No i don’t count the Big Data Hype as useful yet) Its great to see more…
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My Oracle Week ft. Jeremy
This week was all about COLLABORATE 16 for me. I bought my flights to Vegas on Virgin Atlantic thanks to Lucy, a Virgin Pilot friend of mine. Booked the hotel room at the Delaney, asked my mates on Facebook where to party in Vegas, joined IOUG (finally). Now I really…
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APEX Bloggers
This last month has been all about Apex for me. After OBIEE 12c installed so easily and working well, I decided its time to learn something new. Apart from buying a few books (PL/SQL Programming, Expert Apex, and Pro JQuery in Apex) I headed into the Apex World, and found…
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New features of OBIEE 12c
So, you have the install done, and that went pretty well. Didn’t it? You can now start to play with the new toy. This week we look at the new things you play with. My favorite is the command line stuff – feels like we are back in the…
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OBIEE 12C Install blogs
This Week “Blogs of the Week” are about the installation of OBIEE 12c. My Favorite is the video one. Very well done everyone. I do have some advice though. Don’t assume the install steps and community comments are always applicable to your environment. I found that the proposed install location…
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I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I can’t put it down
This week in the OBIEE Enterprise group on google (Join Up!) someone asked the question, How can we document the Joins in the RPD? Garish replied… Goto Tools->Query Repository Set Type to “Physical Foreign Key” Click on “Columns” button to add interesting details like the Join Expression Click “Query” Click…
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Movember Time
Its Movember Again. https://uk.movember.com/ Check those Balls Guys! There are a few 12c Blogs coming out, but 11.x.9 is not dead yet. See below More on Usage Tracking in the next blog. Ad. Blogs of the week 1. Customizing Charts and Graphs in OBIEE 11.1.1.9 – Quickstart Video Christian…
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Building on top of the Users
The Usage Tracking (UT) project will build on top of the out of the box tables, and that includes using the “SA System” ‘Users’ table as a starting point for our Users table. Have a look at Gerard blog/Wiki ( is that WikLog?) http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/sa and also, the all important oracle…