RM BI Forum Notes – Wrap-up

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 BI, agile, Fusion Apps, Endeca, etc., etc. But also various in style; Keynotes, one hour presentations and 10-minute (TED/Ignite) presentations. Next to that the possibility of a Masterclass by Kevin McGinley and a NDA session by Oracle.
I was one of the lucky few, who was able to join all four days. Four days, packed with information and a basis for a lot of inspiration. Where to start!?

The Rittman Mead BI Forum is a good place to network and to exchange ideas. It was good to see a lot of known faces again. On top of that I have met some ‘new’ people also.

A big thank you to Mark Rittman, Jon Mead and their crew. Also a big thanks to Oracle for joining and for being so open about the Oracle BI developments and their visions and roadmaps. Thanks all for joining and sharing. That’s what makes the Rittman Mead BI Forum such a great event to be at. Hope to see everyone next year.

For a foto-impresssion, check Flickr.

Tommorow the US version of the Rittman Mead BI Forum will start. If you would like to stay informed, you should check the Tweetchat.

Stay on the lookout for the pdf’s which will probably placed on the Rittman Mead website. There will definitely be some good stuff to have a look at!!

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• Rittman Mead BI Forum Notes – Day 3 (obibb.wordpress.com)
• RM BI Forum Notes – Keynote – Debra Lilley (obibb.wordpress.com)
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RM BI Forum Notes – Day 3

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 you a indication and possibly a starting point for further investigation.

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Adam Bloom – Oracle BI 11g Diagnostics and Logging
Three places for logging; BI, Enterprise Manager and Weblogic
There is a whole lot of logging. Check the documentation to find your way.
Check JRockit
Rotation and location can be managed
ExecutionId’s should make it ‘easy’ to link the various logfiles together and find the cause of the problem
A clean set of logs –> DocId 1434514.1 on Oracle Support

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Emiel van Bockel – Agile going all the BI way
People and Information engineerd to work together
Information cycle –> from data to information to knowledge back to data again
Adding sense to data
Agile is the abilty to react to change with focus and total control
Communication is the key – Post-IT
Begin with the end in mind – learning

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Mike Durran – Exalytics (Analytics without Limits)
Infiniband for Networking excellence
Check the Times-Ten documentation on OTN
Oracle SQL Developer to check on source databases, the RCU schemas & Summary Statistics and Times-Ten
1 TB becomes 400 GB effective mememory due to the perm and temp space for Times-Ten (800 GB total, equally devided)
Essbase for faster planning
Certified to run Oracle BI Applications
Summary Advisor to identify hotspots based on Usage Tracking information

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Michael Wilcke – From spreadsheets to dashboards
Understand the Business – Never believe a customer but try to understand him / her
Set Expectations and live up to them
The Information Network – Connecting Oracle BI Dashboards
Information Integration by Conforming Dimensions
Insist on Decisions – Commitment

More to come

RM BI Forum Notes – Keynote – Debra Lilley

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 presented, but should give you a indication and possibly a starting point for further investigation.

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Fusion Applications less new Functionality as opposed to a lot of new (aquired) Technology in the Fusion Middleware
(Role-Based) End User experience –> getting the right information in the right time
Integrating Apps and BI makes pre-aggregation and (balance) predictions possible at the time transactions are entered
Informatica & ODI side-by-side in the Fusion BI Architecture? There seems to be no single answer (yet)
BI View Objects on top of the Fusion Applications including Essbase
The importance of the Metadata Store

After this Keynote we had a little drink in the Rittman Mead office and a very nice dinner in the Havana restaurant.

More to come

RM BI Forum Notes – Day 2

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 you a indication and possibly a starting point for further investigation.

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Anthony Heljula – Oracle BI 11g Security
F******cking complicated because of the 10g security model support. Inheritance of security on different levels (groups and catalog groups) versus application roles within 11g
Policies versus priviliges (Front-End)
Oracle eBS – BISQLGroupProvider – 1428008.1 on Oracle Support
GUID’s help to secure (application roles and users) your Oracle BI environment
Troubleshooting Oracle BI Security
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Adam Ferrari – Oracle #Endeca Information Discovery – Simplicity of Search combined with Power of Analytics
OEID is all about finding correllation between all the data (structured as well as unstructured)
Oracle BI can lead to question which only can be answered by tools like Endeca. The outcome of these Endeca answers can lead to a new structured model (new KPI) in Oracle BI. Proven answers to known questions versus Fast answers to new questions
Front-end demo – quickly drag and drop your own application
Datamodelling versus linking data based on key-value pairs

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Ayse Oztop – Oracle Scorecarding & Strategy Management (OSSM)
A Scorecard is a Company’s Communication Vehicle
Smart KPI – Relevance is subjective and therefore hard to determine
The Oracle BI Foundation provides an integrated solution for Scorecarding & Strategy Management and therfor both Oracle BI EE and OSSM use the same metadata and can be linked to eachother

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Adam Seed – James Cole – John Holifield
How to re-use an existing Oracle BI environment using a Reporting Pack (Oracle Publisher, Briefing Books, Oracle BI Office, Downloadable Dashboards)
Use Firebug to explore the Oracle BI Environment, which makes cusotmizations easier.

More to come.

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RM BI Forum Notes – Kevin McGinley (Masterclass)

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.

Some notes about the subjects covered:

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There is a whole world next or behind Oracle BI 11g; Oracle BI Action Framework. Not all evenly well documented!! Even more interesting to explore.

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Consider OSSM – Oracle Scorecards and Strategy Management as a 3th (next to reports – BI Publisher and Analysis – Oracle BI Answers) way to deliver data to your end-user.
OSSM provides features Oracle BI Publisher / Answers cannot deliver.
Using OSSM for ‘traditional’ Oracle BI
It’s the new kid on the blog so it needs some more fine tuning and there is a lot (more) to learn.
Probably not so much a technical challenge as it is at the cultural / process side

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Mobile Applification
Trends to 33% Mobile BI in 2012
Is Oracle BI Mobile a real mobile app or is it just a web GUI presented via a mobile device (iPad / iPod)?
Compared to 3th party tools like RoamBI / SurfBI, they tend to have more mobile functionality. Whether the analytical capabilities are better remains to be seen. Both applications (including some demo content) are to be downloaded from Apple Appstore.

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Customization in Oracle BI 11g at the client-side or the server-side. There is more then one way to skin a cat. Start here.
Customization means backup and document each file and modifications to these file. These way you should be ‘safe’ in case of an upgrade.

Check here for an impression of the various customizations you could apply to an Oracle BI 11g application.

More to come