August 28, 2014

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: Tips

I will be speaking at Oracle OpenWorld on Self-Service BI for Super Usersand the purpose of the talk is to outline various approaches and tips for leveraging different features across OBIEE, BI Publisher, and Endeca Information Discovery to enable better self-service capabilities for your users. Unfortunately, “self-service” is one of those terms like “big data” — ask 20 […]

August 7, 2014

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: General, Red Pill News

Stewart and I have both conducted training frequently in our past lives, so one of the things we wanted to include within Red Pill Analytics’ offerings is Oracle training. We’ve found over the years that boutiques tend to deliver a better training experience than Oracle because the trainers tend to be people with real world […]

July 1, 2014

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: General, Productivity, Red Pill News, Tips

Everywhere I go, the sentiment is the same: the development lifecycle is hard in OBIEE. This sentiment rarely surfaces in the first implementation, but rather creeps-in over time, eventually whacking you upside the head with a baseball bat. You groan, moan, whine, curse, and start throwing things, but it doesn’t change reality. Then you start […]

June 20, 2014

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: Events, Red Pill News

Kscope is my favorite conference all year. ODTUG is such a fantastic organization with great people, great followers, and always great content. Seriously, if you haven’t become a member yet, you should. The great thing about Kscope is that it’s more like going to a bootcamp training event than a conference. I find that many conferences are often littered with […]

June 10, 2014

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by: Stewart Bryson

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Categories: Events

With just the first round of Oracle OpenWorld acceptances hitting email inboxes on June 10, Red Pill Analytics is honored to already have four sessions selected for the big show. Kevin McGinley and myself each had two sessions selected. Kevin’s main conference selection is entitled Self-Service BI for Super Users, Session ID CON6414, discussing building a BI […]

June 8, 2014

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by: Renee Miller

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Categories: Red Pill News

Today, 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 […]

June 7, 2014

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: OBIEE, Tips

In Part 1 of this post, I wrote about why you might want to add third-party visualization capabilities for OBIEE and gave a brief explanation how to setup one approach: calling java visualization engines. In Part 2 I walked through a detailed example of how to actually do this using a visualization engine called Flot. In this post I […]

May 26, 2014

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: OBIEE, Tips

In Part 1 of this post, I wrote about why you might want to add third-party visualization capabilities for OBIEE and gave a brief explanation how to setup one approach: calling java visualization engines. In this post, I’ll give a simple and a more advanced example of how to do this specifically in one of the engines: […]

May 22, 2014

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: OBIEE, Tips

It’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 […]