From an IT perspective, testing subject areas is fairly complex. Every Subject Area is really a grouping of Dimension Folders (with attributes) and Measures also known as Facts. The dimension folders may have 100s of attributes and connected to fact tables via foreign keys. Typically...

As most of us in the BI community are aware, In-Place upgrades are fairly common when clients want to go through minor upgrades (e.g OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to 11.1.1.9 or Business Object 4.1 SP5 to 4.1 SP 7). However, there are a number of risks which need to carefully addressed in...

Balaji Yelamanchili shared the latest and greatest from Oracle. It was nice to know that Oracle is investing in improving the user experience of the BI Platform & Applications and enhancing support for mobile platform. I saw a demo of Endeca for the first time and I should say that...

Assume that you have 250 dashboards which are widely used by your marketing, sales, finance and other divisions within your enterprise. So far, things have been running well but the current version of your ETL Tool will not be supported from the July 1st 2013, which is 45 days away...

This article walks you through the consistency check warnings found in the BI Apps RPD after running the 11.1.1.7 upgrade assistant on an 10.1.3.4.1 RPD....