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Place your bets on Red Pill Analytics in Las Vegas for Collaborate16

Red Pill Analytics is looking forward to hitting the strip and linking up with other Oracle users and community members at Collaborate16 in Las Vegas on April 10–14, 2016. Red Pill will join the amazing list of presentations and panels filled with the latest tips and information about various Oracle topics. Add these great sessions […]

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You Have To Let It All Go

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, Training

ODTUG BI Meet Up 2015

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 News

Concurrent RPD Development with OBIEE: The Checkmate Approach

Recently, my former colleague Robin Moffatt authored a blog post about approaches to Concurrent RPD Development, where he discussed some of the technical challenges around trying to use MDS XML as a core OBIEE repository development strategy. As usual, Robin’s attention to detail was spot-on, and he does a really nice job detailing some of the

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Red Pill News, Tips

I’m the Best Choice for the ODTUG Board

I’m the Best Choice for the ODTUG Board If you know me well, then the title of this story shouldn’t surprise you. I’m not short on confidence (okay… pun intended). But let’s face it, everyone running for the board believes they are the best choice for ODTUG, or they wouldn’t waste the time and effort.

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General, Red Pill News

Partnering with Peak Indicators

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

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General, Red Pill News

Introducing Checkmate

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

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General, Productivity, Red Pill News, Tips

Introducing Red Pill Analytics

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

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