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Good News For IT Audit: IdM R2 PS1

If you have downloaded the latest Identity Management release, then you will find these notes helpful. If you have not downloaded the latest release, you can download it here. This article is the first in a series that will explore new features in the R2 PS1 release.

Previewing the BI Forum 2013 Data Integration Masterclass

I guess it’s a British thing to not blow our own trumpet (does that translate the same over in the US?), but something I’m particularly proud about with the upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 events is our Oracle Data Integration Masterclass, running on the Wednesday before each event properly starts, and put together by myself, Stewart Bryson and Michael

EPM 11.1.2.3 – Vertically Scaling Java Web Applications

One of interesting new features for EPM configuration in 11.1.2.3 is the ability to vertically scale based Java web applications through the configurator, yes it was possible to vertically scale in previous versions though I am not sure how supported the process was unless you were in the exalytics world and it certainly was not as slick as it is now.

At present the following EPM components do not support vertical scaling:

New Oracle Magazine Article on Integrating OBIEE 11g with Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

NewImageJust a short note to say that my latest Oracle Magazine article is now online, and talks about integrating OBIEE 11g with Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces, the “spiritual successor” to Oracle Portal.

Slide, Charlie Brown! Slide!

Following on from an earlier article(Using inputNumberSlider with Dates) where I showed you how you could use an to display formatted date strings rather than numbers, I've been expanding into other uses for the slider components. 

Specifically the most recent use case  was to represent text labels for the number "stops" on the slider so that it could be used as a way of filtering datasets. So this is what it looks like:

European Identity Conference

This year's European Identity Conference is devoted to cloud, mobile and social. This promises to be an exciting event this year. Here is a link to the conference.  You will not want to miss Peter Boyle and Mike Neuenschwander. Peter's keynote is on Thursday May 16th. Peter Boyle is Head of Identity Services for BT. Below is an abstract for his talk.

Benefits of using ODI as the ETL for BI Apps

Oracle Data Integrator is being used as the ETL tool for BI Apps.  Here are some benefits: 1. Productivity It tasks less efforts for developers to write a ETL map comparing  to other ETL tool. 2. Define ETL flow patterns in KM The reason why now we can take less effort is that the flow [...]

BIP Login from a URL

I had a question last week from a great customer that is looking to
build some custom .Net apps that enable users to jump from the app to
the BIP interface with a click. The fly in the ointment, no single sign
on (SSO) servers in sight! Day-um!

Planning 11.1.2.3 – Smart View metadata management

One of the new features in planning 11.1.2.3 is the ability to manage dimensional metadata through Smart View which I am sure many are keen to find out more about so here is my take on the new functionality.

The key highlights are:

Five Things to not Forget on Fast Data Thursday

Oracle Fast Data Product Marketing Team
This week we hit on some brave new developments in the world of high velocity big data solutions: enter Fast Data. Let’s review the essential top five:

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