In Part 1 of my story on OBIEE’s Direct Database Request (DDR), I walked through the basic process of how to use DDR for directly querying a database mapped ino the RPD without using logical SQL, bypassing the metadata layer and going straight to the connection pool. In Part 2, I’ll be pointing out what works differently […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]