Subject Areas in Oracle OBI are great for business users. They hide the complexity involved in warehousing projects and present an easy to use mechanism to create adhoc analysis based on the business user's need. From an IT perspective ...
The role of BI Validator in “In-Place” Upgrades
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 n ...
BIWA SIG 2014
We just came back last night from BIWA SIG (http://www.biwasummit.com), a BI related event that was held in Redwood City, CA. The organizers did a great job of putting together wonderful sessions spanning all areas of Analytics. Balaji Yelamanchili sha ...
OBI Dashboard Regression Testing
Below is a simple and real example that illustrates how you can leverage BI Validator for regression testing of dashboards. Assume that you have 250 dashboards which are widely used by your marketing, sales, finance and other divisions within your e ...
OBIEE 11g upgrade : Fixing consistency check errors during RPD Upgrade
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.Warning – Missing functional dependency association of a column.Any Logical Table Source that has be ...