Join me as I will be representing KPI University at KScope 2013, the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG) Conference, June 23 – 27 in the exciting city of New Orleans. Register to attend one of our two hands-on BI labs featuring OBIEE 11g Analysis and Dashboards. See you in New Orleans!
Tags: OBIEE, KPI University, Training, Nancy Hamilton, Oracle BI, KScope
It may be strange to be writing this with the intention of posting to a blog, but I thought someone should step back a minute and issue a few words of warning about information that can be found on the web about Oracle BI EE.
Tags: OBIEE, Mobile BI, Oracle, Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Jeff McQuigg, Blog
Oracle Exalytics was recently launched at Oracle's Open World Event, which was held during October in San Francisco. Despite the numerous of claims of product excellence and testimonies from former clients, guests at the event were largely left wondering about the $100,000+ product. Since the product was largely unseen, it leaves many clients asking is Oracle's newest BI innovation, the self-described "BI Machine" an absolute necessity?
Several of Oracle's customers who've used the product seem to think so. A key feature of the project that has been touted by Oracle enthusiasts is the product's ease of deployment. A current client of Oracle and Exalytics enthusiast, Nilson Group, which is based in Sweden, praised the software's ability to update on the back end, without causing any project delays. Allowing the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) to run on the Exalytics software eliminates operations problems that would otherwise be present on other systems.
Another client, Thomas Reuters, praised the new in-memory feature of the program that allowed it to analyze a 10 billion row data set, due to the capacity for in-memory storage. For a customer without Exalytics that attempted this same feat on traditional hardware, it would be impossible.
The main features that have been praised include the 1TB of ram (Oracle claims it can use even more data to its memory management capabilities) and exceptional processing speed, which has been known to remarkably serve up to 10,000 individual program users at once. Despite it's success, Oracle's newest program is not the end-all be-all solution. No piece of hardware can take the place of the strategical and visonary components that only expert human resources can supply.
For business owners that are looking to this newest development to solve glitches and memory problems, it looks like there is a solution. However, one must also consider the expertise and strategic vision needed to develop complete solutions customized to an enterprise or industry.
Time will tell if the newest addition to Oracle's high-profile business tools is indeed a must for the BI community.
Tags: OBIEE, Oracle OpenWorld, Jeremiah Johnson, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Exalytics, Blog
BOSTON, MA – September 4, 2012 – There is a saying that if it cannot be measured, it cannot be managed. Traditionally, projects have used schedules and budgets to monitor progress. This only provides part of the answer. It does not address other variables.
Tags: Sid Goel, Case Study, Project Analytics, News, Oracle BI, Book
Suppose you have a series of datetime pairs in Oracle BI... The problem is to display the differences between DATE1 and DATE2 in days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog
Row level security (constraining a user’s view of the data to rows which meet pre-defined criteria) is a common requirement in OBIEE. This post will explore this topic, using a simple schema with a single fact table and three dimension tables, built around the theme of retail sales.
Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog
Suppose you have a dashboard with three pages (tabs). Suppose further that not every user should see all three tabs. Most users will see a limited set of the tabs – some will see two, some will see only one. You want to define web groups to cover all the possible combinations. How many web groups would you have to create?
Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog
If you have tried to develop dashboards or coherent sets of reports as an analytic application, you have had to think about how best to structure a web catalog.
Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog
On March 6th, KPI Partners broadcast a webinar which demonstrated how organizations can dramatically improve the effectiveness of their sales people by analyzing Salesforce.com data with Oracle BI.
Tags: Webinar, Salesforce.com Analytics, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications
Stephen Few designed the Bullet Graph as a way to display measurements vs. goals or other benchmarks. The screen shot below shows bullet charts in the column “MTD & Proj Comp MAgo” (Month to Date and Projected Expense Compared to Month Ago).
Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog
