Recently, Red Pill Analytics announced an innovative new training simulation for those who not only want to learn how to use OBIEE 12c, but also want to learn how to use it effectively in the real world. We call this new training “The Jump Program,” named after a simulation program in our favorite move The Matrix. […]
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Events, Red Pill News, TrainingAlmost always, joining fact tables is a big no-no in data modeling, and for good reason. From time to time however, we need to join fact tables because of architecture decisions that are outside of our control. Palpatine was right — sometimes you need to join the Dark Side. In this post I’ll tell you my method
A number of months ago I wrote a story on how Mike Riley reached out to myself and a few others to head-up ODTUG’s new Community initiative for the BI space. In that story, I talked about meet ups being one of the core areas of focus in 2015, but more specifically meetups that generate a sense of fun and
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Events, Red Pill NewsThe Problem Not long ago, Stewart approached me to help him prepare an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment that he could use for an ODTUG KScope hands-on lab. He sent me the original virtual machine and I got working on importing it into one of our S3 buckets. Usually, this is a pretty easy process (and well documented — thanks
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TipsToday, Kevin McGinley and myself are announcing Red Pill Analytics, a new analytics services company focused on Oracle business intelligence and data integration solutions. First, let me get this out of the way: as exciting as I am for our new company, overall, the tone is bittersweet. Founding Red Pill Analytics of course meant that I had
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Red Pill NewsIt’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything substantial, so I thought I’d blogify the presentation I gave at the BIWA Summit and also plan to give at both the 2014 BI Forum in Atlanta as well as the upcoming Kscope ‘14 in Seattle. Not your daddy’s OBIEE chart, is it? The presentation is entitled “Adding Third-Party Visualizations to OBIEE” and it
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