February 19th, 2010.
Sabrina
One of the things OBIEE doesn’t have out of the box is a user comment option (although future versions may have integration with Oracle Webcenter, which provides social computing). So what are our options if we need to leave comments about specific reports/dashboards or give users the option to add documentation to the reports? One option is to embed Google wave in an OBI dashboard for feedback and wiki type documentation.
Google wave is a new kind of collaboration tool that combines elements of email, wiki and chat. Basically everything on a wave can be edited. A varying number of users can be part of the wave or it can be public like in the example below. A wave can be embedded on any Web page. An embedded wave can be edited either on the page itself or through Google wave accounts.
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February 1st, 2010.
Gianluca
One of the greatest advantages of buying an OBI Application – Project, Supply Chain or any other of the many Analytics flavours – is the set of predefined ETL mappings, sessions and workflows that come with it.
Although there is a good chance that the OLTP data source is highly customised, the online Oracle documentation is full of information that can make the ETL developer’s life easier. That said, there are some important ETL tasks whose logic isn’t very easy to find. They are like black boxes: you customise them a little bit – some fields behind the X_CUSTOM placeholder here, a small datatype change in the target table there – and they operate their magic.
So let’s reveal the truth behind the veil of a very important out of the box ETL logic in OBI Apps: the Slowly Changing Dimension management mappings.
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