Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Fun with MDX

Someone had the following issue with MDX using a formula applied to shared members in a dimension and I had the same issue--basically you need to use the contains () function. 
case when 
is(Contains([Dimension of shared members].Currentmember, {member set including shared members}  )

If you use ISANCESTORS it won't work!
Then it worked for me beautifully.

Friday, December 12, 2014

BIWA Summit--Please register and come to this great event, I will be speaking!

Registration is open, and we have a ton of great sessions for the 2015 summit, the event is taking place, Jan 27-29, 2015, we already have a great crowd coming out to the event!

See the Session list:
http://www.ioug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=844

I'm talking on  How to really go Agile--Continuous Integration with OBIEE, hope to see you at the session! 


BIWA Summits have been organized and managed by the Oracle BI, DW and Analytics SIG user community of IOUG (Independent Oracle User Group) and attract the top Oracle BI, DW and Advanced Analytics and Big Data experts. The 2.5-day BIWA Summit'15 event involves Keynotes by Industry experts, Educational sessions, Hands-on Labs and networking events. We have a great line up so far w/ Tom Kyte Senior Technical Architect in Oracles Server Technology, Doug Cutting (Chief Architect, Cloudera), Oracle BI Senior Management, Neil Mendelson, VP of Product Management Big Data and Advanced Analytics, Matt Bradley, SVP, Oracle Product Development, EPM Applications, other features speakers, and many customers/tech experts (see web site and HYPERLINK "http://www.ioug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=844"search % Sessions). Our BIWA Summit offers a broad, multi-track user driven conference that has built up a growing reputation over the years. We emphasize technical content and networking with like minded customers, users, developers, product managers (Database, Big Data Appliance, Oracle Advanced Analytics, Spatial, OBIEE, Endeca, Big Data Discovery, In-Memory, SQL Patterns, etc.), etc. who all share an interest in “novel and interesting use cases” of Oracle BI, DW, Advanced Analytics and Spatial technologies, applications and solutions. We’re off to a great start this year with a great agenda and hope to pack the HQ CC this Jan 27-29, 2015 with 300+ attendees.

Friday, May 30, 2014

Future Big Data Concept getting applied to Oracle Products

Everyone is talking about Big Data and how it's going to transform Data Warehousing.  What I'm wondering is when is Oracle going to make Oracle BI products work across multiple servers and use multiple CPUs and RAM?  I would expect within the next 5 years Oracle DB, Essbase, OBIEE, etc, to be re-written to take advantage of increased abilities and as a result, increased performance.  What do you think?

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Oracle BIWA Summit 2014--and more on Essbase/OBIEE Integration (Key Factors)

As I touched down in San Fransisco ready for my talk on Essbase and OBIEE integration, I considered all of the factors that go into making the integration work well.

One:  Having Essbase cubes built properly.  Having ETL work take place on the database side, and not in Essbase Studio or another tool.  Having Essbase cube that doesn't use ragged hierarchies.

Two:  Having Oracle or another Relational Source that matches the Essbase Cube. Also having a relational source that does not use ragged hierarchies.

Three:  Then, understanding the RPD, how to integrate and combine these sources.  Essbase needs to integrate with OBIEE here. Mixing the levels together of Essbase and OBIEE.  I recommend creating a standalone Essbase model, a standalone relational model, and then once those are working properly try to integrate the two models separately. 

The conference and the setting were great, hope to see everyone again next year!


Sunday, June 30, 2013

2013 ODTUG Kscope was a great EPM conference learned a ton of great things, and some things to test out.

Really enjoyed 2013 ODTUG Kscope in New Orleans, and learned some great things.

Some things to test out later:

SmartView Plug-in interaction with OBIEE for OBIEE 11.1.1.7, while it allows the retrieval of answers created Dashboards and Reports, it is not a fully functional ad-hoc tool.  Word is they are trying to figure the ad-hoc part out.

Parrallel Restructuring edit to essbase.cfg file in Essbase 11.1.2.2 and later does speed up restructure time.  This would of course be dependent upon having multiple processes to parallel process with :)

OBIEE runs smarter queries in latest versions of Essbase(11.1.2.3) and OBIEE(11.1.1.7). 

Oracle SQL you can use recursive queries in place of using connect by.

Liked Planning and it's offering,when I queried some developers/users, no one seemed to be using the workflow part of it.  They complained it was too much work/necessary process.


Let me know if you have already tested these things out and how they are working for you.




Monday, July 30, 2012

Oracle BIWA Virtual Summit 2012 - Aug 15-16


Oracle BIWA Virtual Summit 2012 - Aug 15-16

The First ever BIWA Virtual Summit will be held on Aug 15 - 16, 2012. This will be a virtual only event spread over two days. Each day the event will be between 11 AM ET and 5 PM ET, mostly in 1 hr sessions.

I am speaking at Noon ET on August 16th on Essbase Predictive Analytics and Budgeting. Will be some great content and other speakers as well.

For more info check out:

http://oraclebiwasig.blogspot.com/2012/07/oracle-biwa-virtual-summit-2012-aug-15.html

Friday, November 25, 2011

It's time to do more statistical analysis with less

Oracle R is an open source statistical analysis tool that is open source and runs off of Oracle DBs, You do need to have Oracle 11g.

Statistical analysis is something that all places need to do more of, and having something free to use can be a great boon. It's an easy sell, hey, we need to install this for free, and then see if it will help us manage our business better.

An example, a company that makes a great product but cannot ship product because it is so backlogged is not managing inventory correctly. They will lose customers because they haven't planned out their demand properly.

Great uses for Statistical analysis:
--Investigate and Minimize Fraud
--Inventory planning based on prior trends
--Sales and Cash flow planning

Learn about Oracle "R" Enterprise via a Techcast on Nov 30, 2011, noon EST by Mark Hornick.