Solar Panels

| May 21, 2012 05:37 +0000

I’ve just had a quick look at the solar panels on the house. This is one of the first truly sunny days this weak and by 11am this morning we have the water tank in the hot press reading that we have maxed out with 300 litres of water at 60C. The pan…

UKOUG Conference Call for Papers – Just Two Weeks Left!

| May 20, 2012 08:23 +0000

Although it’s great fun to travel the world speaking at events such as Oracle Openworld, Collaborate and ODTUG KScope, Rittman Mead in the UK still consider the UK Oracle User Group Conference, held in Birmingham in November or December each year, to…

Week Two of the RM BI Forum 2012, in Atlanta

| May 19, 2012 10:34 +0000

I’m just back now from Atlanta, having been over there for the past week helping run the second week of the RM BI Forum 2012. Around 55 BI professionals from around the USA (and with a few from Europe) got together over four days to network, share ti…

Oracle Magazine Collection–New addition May/June 2005

| May 18, 2012 06:52 +0000

I received in the post today a copy of an Oracle Magazine that I’m missing from my collection. It was sent to me by Kim Berg Hansen from Denmark. Check out his blog. I owe him a beer at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham later this year in Decemb…

RM BI Forum – Day 2 – Wrapped Up

| May 17, 2012 12:29 +0000

Wrap up RM Forum 2012

RM BI Forum – Day 1 (Or Day 2 for some)

| May 16, 2012 13:58 +0000

The RittmanMead BI forum is happening again this year in the states in Atlanta, GA, and the caliber of Oracle BI experts is just as one would expect from this annual event for aficionados. I missed the MasterClass given by Kevin McGinley on Tuesday bu…

Oracle Magazine–The Avengers Collection

| May 15, 2012 04:04 +0000

I had a nice surprise when I arrived home from work last night. There was a parcel delivered during the day. When I opened it, I found 6 Oracle Magazines for the May/June 2012 edition.  There was one magazine for each Avengers character. So I have t…

HFM 11.1.2.2 – New Features: Part – 2

| May 15, 2012 03:46 +0000

Configurable Dimensionality:
‘Configurable dimensionality’ is the significant update to this version. We can probably say that this is the long awaited and biggest change that developers made to HFM.
So what is ‘Configurable dimensions’ is all …

HFM 11.1.2.2 – New Features: Part – 1

| May 15, 2012 03:46 +0000

UI Enhancements:
The new User Interface for HFM is definitely a notable update when compared to the earlier version.  It is easier to navigate and includes some special features as well. This is an outcome of migrating EPM components like HFM and Pl…

Creating Custom (Calculated) Members

| May 14, 2012 14:24 +0000

If you have ever wanted to report on the total of two or more dimension members you have probably done so using in SQL using SUM … GROUP BY.  Let's look at an example using the OLAPTRAIN schema.  Suppose you want the total of the states in the …

How Does RTD Make Decisions?

| May 14, 2012 05:55 +0000

In the last RTD posting, I used an example of product recommendations on a website to explain how an RTD solution could look, here’s the diagram again as a reminder:

Using the same example, I’m going to provide a simplistic explanation of what’s…

RM BI Forum Notes – Wrap-up

| May 14, 2012 04:53 +0000

Last week I have tried to give you an impression about the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012. They managed to provide us with a four day program packed with all things related to Oracle BI. Two core days with various presentations. Various in subject; Oracle …

The Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 : Brighton’s Over, Now off to Atlanta!

| May 12, 2012 16:49 +0000

It’s currently Saturday evening and I’m at home in Brighton, tying up loose ends after last week’s BI Forum event and getting ready for next week’s in Atlanta, GA. I think it’s probably safe to say that this week’s event was the best ever, …

screen and OBIEE

| May 11, 2012 14:10 +0000

With the recent delivery of the Rittman Mead Exalytics server, I have been fortunate enough to be spending time setting it up, most of it at a Linux terminal window. One of the tools I come back to, again and again, is screen. It allows one to be so mu…

RM BI Forum Notes – Day 3

| May 11, 2012 06:41 +0000

Day 3 of the Rittman Mead BI Forum is the second of the two core days filled with 1 hour and 10 minute presentations. A few notes related to the 1 hour presentations. These notes by far do not cover everything that has been presented, but should give y…

Domain Knowledge + Data Skills = Data Miner

| May 11, 2012 04:10 +0000

Over the past few weeks I have been talking to a lot of people who are looking at how data mining can be used in their organisation, for their projects and to people who have been doing data mining for a log time. What comes across from talking to the…

RM BI Forum Notes – Keynote – Debra Lilley

| May 11, 2012 01:25 +0000

The second day of the Rittman Mead BI Forum ended with an Keynote provided by Debra Lilley. She showed us the role Oracle BI (Applications) will play in Fusion Applications. A few notes. These notes by far do not cover everything that has been presen…

RM BI Forum Notes – Day 2

| May 10, 2012 11:14 +0000

Day 2 of the Rittman Mead BI Forum is the first of the two core days filled with 1 hour and 10 minute presentations. A few notes related to the 1 hour presentations. These notes by far do not cover everything that has been presented, but should give yo…

RM BI Forum Notes – Oracle Keynote

| May 9, 2012 02:10 +0000

Day I of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 ended (besides a delicious meal) with a Keynote provided by Oracle (Alan Lee and Mike Durran). First Alan thanked us for being Oracle BI evangelistic. I guess a thanks back is well in place for a great product …

RM BI Forum Notes – Kevin McGinley (Masterclass)

| May 9, 2012 00:34 +0000

Day I of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 started of with a Masterclass provided by Kevin McGinley. Het took us on a journey along the Oracle BI Action Framework, Oracle Scorecards and Strategy Management, Oracle Mobile, Oracle BI 11g Customizations. So…