Glenn Schwartzberg's Essbase Blog

The last quiz I did was very easy and was answered by a number of people very quickly. In addition, it wasnot technical at all. This quiz is a little harder and makes you think a little.

The problem.

For any large OBIEE project the normal set-up would involve having a development machine, a test machine, Production machines and some form of disaster recovery. These normally need to be on separate physical machines, mainly for access rights reason and of course the DR machines need to be in a separate building (hopefully in [...]

Transshipments
In some Essbase models there is a need to capture two essentially identical elements in separate dimensions. One common example of this is a transshipment model, where it is necessary to identify both the origination and destination of a shipment.

Two Dimensions

No Clutter
Don’t clutter your dashboard with unnecessary visual elements and data. If it looks too busy, then it will fail to communicate the data effectively. Don’t include every bit of data in a dashboard. Seperate them into separate dashboard Tabs.
Single Page – No Horizontal scrolling
Do not put objects on the far right so that [...]

In little over a month I will be in Las Vegas speaking at Collaborate 10. There is a lot of BI / DW talks this year and for the first time with BIWA Training Days branding. Rittman Mead will be there at the conference giving talks on each of the conference days. If you are [...]

In part I showed you the base structure. In this part I want to show you the Columns Structure:

As the awareness of Oracle Data Miner increases so does the interest in trying out and playing with Oracle Data Miner (ODM). The following set of instructions steps you through what is required to download and install the database, configure a data mining user in the database, populate the data mining user with some data. [...]

The 4th puzzle in this series was a reasonably simple one which basically demonstrates a capability that allows end users to bypass the security applied in the BI Server layer. There are 3 possible solutions for this
Solution 1: Using Evaluate
EVALUATE was introduced in the 10.1.3.3.1 version of BI EE, that allows end users to call [...]

On the OTN forums (http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1039411&tstart=0) an example for this:

Interesting article summarizing the many areas where Oracle has significant engagement with open source. Many of the areas outlined are important for the application grid architecture and approach, including Java, GlassFish, and Oracle VM.

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