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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…

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…

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…

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…

Wrap up RM Forum 2012

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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 …

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, …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…