Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is generally available (GA) today, and I’m excited to be included in this OAC blog hop welcome wagon. So I’m slumming it with a bunch of Essbase professionals, as you can see from the list of contributing authors below. It’s fascinating to see just how stoked the Essbase community is for […]

April 4, 2015

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: ORACLE BICS

If you’ve been following this series, you’ll know that in Part 01 of my day-in-the-life (DITL) I worked on getting my first data set loaded and in Part 02 I learned the ins-and-outs of loading additional data into the same table. In both articles, my data comes from Square, which is my wife’s POS system for her store. In […]

March 13, 2015

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: ORACLE BICS, Tips

Welcome to Part 02 in a series of day-in-the-life (DITL) posts about using Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) in a real-world setting, with no filters and lots of mistakes! In Part 01, I wrote about loading my wife’s point-of-sale data from Square as the basis for an application I wanted to build. After a few challenges around […]

March 11, 2015

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by: KevinMcGinley

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Categories: General, ORACLE BICS, Tips

Red Pill Analytics recently purchased a license for the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS), and with our account being activated, I thought I’d take it for a spin. But rather than write a garden-variety series of how-to articles, I thought I’d give you a first-hand look, or a day-in-the-life (DITL) experience of what it was […]