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I had a previous blog post on Data Exploration using Oracle Data Miner 11gR2. This blog post builds on the steps illustrated in that blog post. After we have explored the data we can identity some attributes/features that have just one value or mainl…

As a warning, the very popular browser Firefox, has just released its latest update, Firefox 10. They are calling it a security update but it will break your compatibility with Oracle BI 11g (11.1.1.5).

There was a question on the Network54 Essbase Board today about the member selection dialog in Smart View rendering off the screen.  It seems like I may have read something about this issue and a possible solution, so I decided to spend a few minute…

Lastly, I’d like to thank everyone who is passionate about technology. If you understand that technology is a means to an end and not the end itself then you understand that in the end it is people who count the most. At the end of the day, it is peop…

Oracle Ireland will be hosting an security event on Thursday 8th March, between 9:30-13:30, in their East Point offices. The seminar is titled Defending Against Hackers and Hacking. There will be a couple of demos what show some of the simple and not…

You may have noticed that I haven't been posting consistently over the past few months.  The main reason for that is that I have been involved in writing a book.   Actually, I wrote one chapter of a book, but it was intense work on the Essbase Ja…

Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Kevin McGinley of Accenture to discuss the upcoming ODTUG Kscope 12. I was on the content selection committee, and immediately recognized how lucky ODTUG was to have Kevin coordinating this process. We had tough c…

I noticed when connection a vmware to certain networks the network doesn’t like a loopback adapter running on the vmware. Although you will get a valid IP it can’t connect to anything…. Disabling the loopback did the trick. Till Next Time

Thanks everybody for the interest in my whereabouts. Yep, I’m still around. Just very very busy on a huge OWB migration. Hope to be back soon we some OBIEE stuff. Till Next Time

This is the fourth entry in my series on Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. To see all the previous posts, check the introductory posting which I have updated with all the entries in the series.
In the last post, I describe what I call the…

Stewart Bryson, Managing Director of RittmanMead North America is gracious enough to give us a sense of his passion toward Oracle Business Intelligence and doing the things that enjoys.

It is an absolute pleasure to share this one-on-one chat where St…

Recently i have been doing lot more work on the Oracle EPM stack than on the Oracle BI stack. So, i will be writing more on the various Oracle EPM products like HFM, Planning, FDQM etc in the forthcoming weeks. To sort of kick start the series of posti…

In my previous blog post (Exalytics : How much will it cost me ?) I gave an outline of the pricing you might expect for an Exalytics machine. The final pricing that I gave of approx $3+M was based on the per processor licencing. Yesterday (24th Jan) …

This past weekend, I participated in the ODTUG Board of Directors meeting which was held at the JW Marriott Hill Country in San Antonio, TX.  This will be the location of Kscope12 and I have to tell you, I was very impressed by the hotel and grounds. …

Ranking is a very usual requirement of BI reporting. People tends to sort things in order and focus on the top performers. Which sales region is generating the most of revenue? What are my most popular products? Who are my best performing employees? Al…

Introduction
By default, OBI 11g will listen for connections on port 7001 or port 9704 depending on your installation type. There are several reasons you may want to change this, and one of them would be to make it use port 80, the default http port. I…

Over the past couple of weeks the costing for the Oracle Exalytics machine has been made public by Oracle and there has been a number of articles. What I’ve done in this blog post is to collate this information. I give what I understand to be the cos…