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Stephen Goldsmith
Stephen brings over 20 years of experience in helping organizations achieve a competitive advantage through improvements in business processes and information systems. With a history of building custom data warehouse solutions as far back as the early 90’s, Stephen has helped countless organizations uncover business knowledge from the vast amounts of data hidden in their operational manufacturing, financial, sales, marketing and project management systems. Stephen joined BizTech in 2010, as the Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics. His role builds upon the growing Business Intelligence market and positive results BizTech has experienced with Oracle’s packaged Business Intelligence applications.
Operational vs. Analytical Business Intelligence
Date: May 2nd, 2012
Categories: Business Intelligence
As business intelligence software technologies have matured, organizations have begun to expand the use of business intelligence software, like Oracle Business Intelligence, beyond reporting from data warehouses. Using tools like Oracle business intelligence to report off of operational systems such as Oracle EBS has become commonplace. So the question becomes, what is the difference between analytical and operational reporting and how should an organization architect a solution for each reporting type.
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Oracle’s Business Analytics Strategy
Date: April 11th, 2012
Categories: Business Intelligence
Recently Mark Hurd, Oracle President and Balaji Yelamanchili, Oracle Senior Vice President, Analytics and Performance Management, unveiled the latest advances in Oracle’s strategy for analytics. The webcast focused on the latest developments in business intelligence technology and applications, advanced analytics, performance management applications, and engineered systems
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Workaround for OBIEE 11g and Firefox 10
Date: February 26th, 2012
Categories: Business Intelligence
If you are reading this blog, you are probably like me in that you downloaded a 10.x update to Firefox and found that OBIEE no longer works. Here is a quick and dirty workaround until Oracle is ready with a patch:
1. type "about:config" into an address bar
2. right click anywhere and choose New / String
3. name it "general.useragent.override"
4. put the value "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0)Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0"
5. refresh OBIEE login screen
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OBI 11g version 11.1.1.6 Release is Generally Available
Date: February 26th, 2012
Categories: Business Intelligence
The latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, 11.1.1.6 is now downloadable from OTN for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX
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Integrating Active Directory with OBIEE 11g
Date: September 28th, 2011
Categories: Business Intelligence
OBIEE 11g provides a number of different ways to integrate with authentication services. This post shows how to authenticate users with an existing AD solution.
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Migrating the OBI 11g Webcatalog and RPD from a Test to Production Environment
Date: September 6th, 2011
Categories: Business Intelligence
The migration process for 11g is a little bit different from 10g in that the deployment of a new web catalog and repository is taken care of through the weblogic enterprise manager. The repository is uploaded through the application, while the web catalog still needs to be manually copied onto the server. To make it easy on yourself, just copy the contents of the catalog folder from test into the existing catalog folder in production. One thing to be aware of is that underlying security is taken care of in the weblogic layer now, so you will need to take that into consideration if your test and prod environments are different (or just have different application roles set up).
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LDAP Administration and Writeback Table Authorization
Date: July 22nd, 2011
Categories: Business Intelligence
This entry will discuss how to utilize OBIEE 10g capabilities to authorize and authenticate your users. Authentication will be administered by an external LDAP solution, while authorization will be controlled in the datawarehouse and administered using writeback capability.
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Real Time Business Intelligence Architecture Strategies
Date: June 20th, 2011
Categories: Business Intelligence
The traditional Business Intelligence architecture involves the use of a data warehouse which is populated on a scheduled basis (typically nightly) with data from one-to-many source systems. Either custom scripts or ETL tools such as Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle Data Integrator or Informatica are used to copy the data. As the speed of business has increased, hardware and databases costs have decreased and hardware and database performance have dramatically increased, organizations are now looking to use tools like Oracle Business Intelligence to provide real-time reports and dashboards.
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Integration of MapViewer with Oracle BI 11g
Date: June 9th, 2011
Categories: Business Intelligence
Oracle BI 11g includes a new mapping feature. This feature is a powerful tool that allows for map-based representation of data. This blog entry includes an overview of the steps required to install the MapViewer.
Oracle BI 11g includes a new mapping feature. This feature is a powerful tool that allows for map-based representation of data. This blog entry includes an overview of the steps required to install the MapViewer.
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Implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) in 45 Days
Date: May 26th, 2011
Categories: Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) dramatically reduce total cost of implementations through a pre-built data warehouse, ETL, meta data and reports/dashboards.
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