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It just seems like yesterday, but its again time of the year where we need to recap what took place last year. 2012 was a year of “World coming to an End“, Thank to God, IT directors didn’t think the same and didnot spent all the dollars. 2012 Year started on high note with 11G picking up its momentum.  But at point client took their own time to decide on upgrades. With bitten badly of older releases of OBIEE , the foul taste still didn’t leave customers too happy. 11.1.1.5 was a solid answer to many (more...)

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My views on “Next Generation Business Intelligence” printed on ITNext Magazine.

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Hope you all had great Thanks Giving break, I was away from action as I was in the man made wonders of Dubai attending a client proposal. In short Dubai is a wonderland and would take some time off to write about the same. At one of the recent client visit, ran into a very basic peculiar issue, thought would share with you all.

It was 10G to 11G upgrade and after running 11G server for sometime, huge temp files (nQS*.TMP) were getting created. Due to this client file system was getting filled up and at times they had (more...)

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On behalf of BIWA board and volunteers, I would like to extend a personal invitation for – Oracle BIWA Virtual Summit 2012 — between Aug 15th and Aug 16th. This is the first ever Virtual Summit dedicated on Oracle’s BI technology. The summit runs over two days with dedicated topics on Warehousing and Advanced Analytics Focus on day 1 and Business Intelligence Focus on day 2. Usually these kind of Summit cost hunderds or couple of thousands of $. But BIWA presents this to you all for FREE $0. We have arranged 5 session on each day , with (more...)

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I am keep getting different questions on what is XMLA or what is BAPI?  What are the differences when we use this connectivity to OBIEE ? What does it mean for a customer ? Do I have to pay for this ?  I am hoping below blog post would help existing BW-SAP or new customers.

What is XMLA 

XML for Analysis (XMLA)  is a standard that allows client applications to talk to multi-dimensional or OLAP data sources.The communication of messages back and forth is done using web standards – HTTP, SOAP, and XML. The query language used is MDX, which (more...)

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As 11.1.1.6 has released, people are interested in what is stored in BI antique. Below is the link which lists all the possible list of bug fixes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ckfLg1RUo6SE_xm7F7JYKIasIOB9-aDmNJ7E176qQWo/edit

Hope This helps

Sunil S Ranka

“Superior BI is the antidote to Business Failure”

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Finally cat is out of the bag, the much awaited and anticipated OBIEE 11.1.1.6 is out and available for GA.

The new release adds more enhancements, additional certifications, and bug fixes among other features. This release delivers a BI platform specially designed to leverage:

• Oracle Exalytics hardware’s large memory, processors, concurrency, and other hardware features and system configurations
• Enhancements to Times-Ten for Exalytics for analytical processing at in-memory speeds
• Dynamic user interface enhancements that complement large amounts of data to present business information in meaningful and compelling ways
• A new BI Server Summary Advisor for (more...)

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While looking through Oracle Support came across an informative “Overview of Business Intelligence and Reporting components”

Fusion Applications includes a variety of Business Intelligence and Report functionality. Some of these are exposed to the end-user, and some exist as middleware layers.

This document briefly lists the components, their common acronyms and the functionality that they bring to Fusion Applications.

Please note that the column titled “Function” contrass whether the component is a tool (infrastructure), or content (an analysis or report definition which is delivered with Fusion Apps).

Dear All,

I was sitting around and thinking about few people , whom I met during the course of 2011, some of them left a mark and impression, hence thought of mentioning them in words.

Personally it was satisfactory year,

• The project I implemented,won “Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards”
• Implemented 11G with BW-SAP as datasource (odd, on which oracle also wouldn’t bet)

Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Award

• Met some of the people whom I had always admired likes of murali subramanian and Balaji Yelamanchili from Oracle, Ming Tsai of infosys to mention few.

Murali Subramanian Larry Ellison Of Oracle, India

During my (more...)

Dear All,

Keeping on with the tradition of a yearly round-up this is the time of the year, where I take a moment and revisit, what happen in whole year.

Started 2011, on a low note with doing something different, preferably in the newer technology, 11G was the preferred choice, but buggy 11.1.1.3  release had put many customer on hold. But it was April, where I got an opportunity to work on 11G, that to also an unique project where OBIEE needed to be integrated with BW SAP. During the course met few smart and dedicated people.

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