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Changes in BI Server Cache Behaviour in OBIEE 12c : OBIS_REFRESH_CACHE
The OBIEE BI Server cache can be a great way of providing a performance boost to response times for end users – so long as it’s implemented carefully. Done wrong, and you’re papering over the cracks...
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OBIEE 12c – Extended Subject Areas (XSA) and the Data Set Service
One of the big changes in OBIEE 12c for end users is the ability to upload their own data sets and start analysing them directly, without needing to go through the traditional data provisioning and...
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A Performance Analytics Application Case Study: Challenges and Successes
The Performance Analytics application is a collection of open source technologies that aids users in: identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying causes for slow report execution, discovering...
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Real World OBIEE: Demystification of Variables Pt. 3
In part two of this blog series, I went over using Repository, System and Presentation Variables to make reports dynamic for any series of time. In part three, I am going to talk about making reports...
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Metadata Modeling in the Database with Analytic Views
12.2, the latest Oracle database release provides a whole set of new features enhancing various aspects of the product including JSON support, Auto-List Partitioning and APEX news among others. One of...
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Oracle Analytics Cloud: Product Overview
We at Rittman Mead are always helping our customer solving their problems, many times we heard them being unsure about the sizing of their server being worried about the upfront cost of the licensing...
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OBIEE Component Status Notifications
At Rittman Mead, we often hear requests for features or solutions generally not provided by Oracle. These requests range from commentary functionality to custom javascript visualizations. There are...
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Unify: See Your Data From Every Perspective
Ad hoc access to accurate and secured data has always been the goal of business intelligence platforms. Yet, most fall short of balancing the needs of business users with the concerns of IT. Rittman...
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Unify - An Insight Into the Product
Monday, 12 Jun saw the official release of Unify, Rittman Mead's very own connector between Tableau and OBIEE. It provides a simple but powerful integration between the two applications that allows you...
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Unify: Could it be any easier?
Rittman Mead’s Unify is the easiest and most efficient method to pull your OBIEE reporting data directly into your local Tableau environment. No longer will you have to worry about database connection...
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Using Tableau to Show Variance and Uncertainty
Recently, I watched an amazing keynote presentation from Amanda Cox at OpenVis. Toward the beginning of the presentation, Amanda explained that people tend to feel and interpret things differently. She...
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Unify - bringing together the best of both worlds
Since I started teaching OBIEE in 2011, I had the pleasure of meeting many fascinating people who work with Business Intelligence. In talking to my students, I would generally notice three different...
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Unify Update - v1.0.1
We have updated Unify following feedback from our customers and have released version 1.0.1. The following bugs have been fixed and features added: Change the default port to 3724 as 8080 is the...
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Rittman Mead at OUG Norway 2018
This week I am very pleased to represent Rittman Mead by presenting at the Oracle User Group Norway Spring Seminar 2018 delivering two sessions about Oracle Analytics, Kafka, Apache Drill and Data...
View ArticleChitChat for OBIEE - Now Available as Open Source!
ChitChat is the Rittman Mead commentary tool for OBIEE. ChitChat enhances the BI experience by bridging conversational capabilities into the BI dashboard, increasing ease-of-use and seamlessly joining...
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Looker for OBIEE Experts: Introduction and Concepts
Recently I've been doing some personal study around various areas including streaming, machine learning and data visualization and one of the tools that got my attention is Looker. I've initially heard...
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Fixing* Baseline Validation Tool** Using Network Sniffer
* Sort of ** Not exactly In the past, Robin Moffatt wrote a number of blogs showing how to use various Linux tools for diagnosing OBIEE and getting insights into how it works (one, two, three, ...)....
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How Are My Users Connecting? Analyzing OAC and OBIEE entry points
Are you managing an OAC or OBIEE instance and your life is nice and easy since you feel like having everything in control: your users browse existing dashboards, create content via Analysis, Data...
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Merging OBIEE 12c .RPD binary files directly in Git
Let's talk about OBIEE concurrent development!Enabling concurrent development for OBIEE RPD is a recurring theme in OBIEE blogs. Full support for RPD development with Gitflow has long since been part...
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