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Real Time Operational Business Intelligence with GoldenGate

Posted by on September 1, 2013 at 5:00 pm
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Oracle Corporation’ (ORCL) acquisition of Golden Gate Software on July of 2009 was a big step for Oracle in its quest to build a open and heterogeneous product line that will be more appealing to enterprise customers with complex OLTP and data warehouse environments. You can find a detailed presentation of the considerations that were […]

Informatica being replaced by ODI in Oracle BI Apps 7.9.5.2

Posted by on August 1, 2013 at 6:00 pm
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In a long anticipated move among both Fusion Intelligence and Oracle BI Apps customers, Oracle has released the first versions of its packaged business intelligence solution that replaces the third party tools of previous versions (IBM DataStage or Informatica Power Center) with Oracle Data Integrator as the back end ETL tool. You can find detailed […]

Sunopsis seven years after it’s acquisition

Posted by on January 15, 2013 at 10:00 pm
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On October of 2006 Oracle acquired Sunopsisa sofware company whose flagship product was one of the up-and-coming players in the datata warehousing arena. Sunopsis for easy integration in environments with multiple database systems and differentiated itself by adopting an Extract-Load-Transform architecture that decreased the learning curve for database developers that were immediately able to create […]

Oracle Partner Exchange Keynote

Posted by on October 5, 2012 at 2:10 pm
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It is very interesting to seat in a room filled with a large cloud, very representative of the Oracle Partner Ecosystem in its diversity and passion for the portfolio. This unique partner ecosystem is definitively a key differentiator in Oracle’s go to market strategy.   Key Topics: * Fusion Applications * Engineered Systems * Big […]

Key Announcements by Larry Ellison @ the Open World Keynote

Posted by on September 30, 2012 at 6:54 pm
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  OK, the key announcement from day one are out now and I am pretty sure there’s a bunch of unhappy people at SAP headquarters in Germany with the announcement of Exadata X3 which is 42 times larger the largest Hanna configuration.   Key Announcements:   *) Oracle Cloud to offer Infrastructure as a Service […]

Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.6.0 is Generally Available!

Posted by on February 23, 2012 at 5:29 pm
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Features include prompt autocomplete, optional apply button, favorites, full text search, and enhancements to: Mapview, Selections, Views, Scorecard and Strategy Managemnet….

Troubleshoting Error: unable to get file lock, will retry …

Posted by on July 21, 2011 at 4:00 am
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Troubleshooting error BEA-141281 unable to get file lock, will retry …

Fixing device references after importing a Linux guest in Oracle Virtual Box

Posted by on June 9, 2011 at 2:00 pm
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After reading this post you should be better prepared to smoothly export and import Linux virtual machines from your Oracle Virtual Box servers by being ready to correct any disk device reference issues in fstab and grub.conf

Configuring WebLogic Automated Startup Credentials

Posted by on May 26, 2011 at 2:00 pm
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After reading this post you should be able to configure the boot.properties file to provide the WebLogic server with startup credentials, a necessary step when configuring the server for automated startup …The WebLogic server does not start automatically, it is prompting for a user name and password    WebLogic not reading boot.properties file

Commentary: Oracle releases OBIEE 11.1.1.5

Posted by on May 10, 2011 at 7:10 pm
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Oracle releases native SAP BW BAPI adapter and iPad/iPhone support in release 11.1.1.5 of OBIEE

Linux Environment variables to simplify your life – OBIEE 11g System Administrator Edition

Posted by on April 19, 2011 at 7:18 pm
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As I spend a lot of time switching between a very well defined set of directories in the Oracle Middleware home for OBIEE 11g I have been developing a list of variables that I like to use in my scripts and configure in the servers that I most commonly work with. They have proven to […]

OBIEE 10g Administration – useful linux environment variables

Posted by on November 14, 2010 at 6:00 pm
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Create some basic variables in your OBIEEE Linux server

PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management Warehouse Schema Naming Standards

Posted by on June 2, 2010 at 6:00 pm
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The nicest thing about PeopleSoft after the whole PIA Metadata-driven interface and its impact on data quality is how meticulous PeopleSoft engineers are about documentation and sticking to naming standards, here’s a simplified diagram of the wharehouse architecture and the naming standard for objects in each section of the schema:

Leverage PeopleSoft EPM Data Lineage Spreadsheets

Posted by on February 28, 2010 at 6:00 pm
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Not having to do all the leg work necessary to arrive at table-level data lineage in the PeopleSoft EPM Warehouse is a great testimony to good documentation and a great culture back there at big PS….