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July 15, 2015   Rittman Mead

Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3

Oracle issued their quarterly Critical Patch Update yesterday, and with it notice of several security issues of note:

  • The most serious for OBIEE (CVE-2013-2186) rates 7.5 (out of 10) on the CVSS scale, affecting the OBIEE Security Platform on both 11.1.1.7 and 11.1.1.9. The access vector is by the network, there’s no authentication required, and it can partially affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
    • The patch for users of OBIEE 11.1.1.7 is to install the latest patchset, 11.1.1.7.150714 (3GB, released - by no coincidence I’m sure - just yesterday too).
    • For OBIEE 11.1.1.9 there is a small patch (64Kb), number 21235195.
  • There’s also an issue affecting BI Mobile on the iPad prior to 11.1.1.7, the impact being partial impact on integrity.
  • For users of ODI DQ 11.1.1.3 there’s a whole slew of issues, fixed in CPU patch 21418574.
  • Exalytics users who are on ILOM versions earlier that 3.2.6 are also affected by two issues (one of which is 10/10 on the CVSS scale)

The CPU document also notes that it is the final patch date for 10.1.3.4.2. If you are still on 10g, now really is the time to upgrade!

Full details of the issues can be found in Critical Patch Update document, and information about patches on My Oracle Support, DocID 2005667.1.

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May 16, 2015   Rittman Mead

Presentation Slides and Photos from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, Brighton and Atlanta

It’s now the Saturday after the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 events, last week in Atlanta, GA and the week before in Brighton, UK. Both events were a great success and I’d like to say thanks to the speakers, attendees, our friends at Oracle and my colleagues within Rittman Mead for making the two events so much fun. If you’re interested in taking a look at some photos from the two events, I’ve put together two Flickr photosets that you can access using the links below:

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We’ve also uploaded the presentation slides from the two events (where we’ve been given permission to share them) to our website, and you can download them including the Delivering the Oracle Information Management and Big Data Reference Architecture masterclass using the links below:

Delivering the Oracle Information Management & Big Data Reference Architecture (Mark Rittman & Jordan Meyer, Rittman Mead)

Brighton, May 7th and 8th 2015

Atlanta, May 14th and 15th 2015

Congratulations also to Emiel van Bockel and Robin Moffatt who jointly-won Best Speaker award at the Brighton event, and to Andy Rocha and Pete Tamsin who won Best Speaker in Atlanta for their joint session. It’s time for a well-earned rest now and then back to work, and hopefully we’ll see some of you at KScope’15, Oracle Openworld 2015 or the UKOUG Tech and Apps 2015 conferences later in 2015.

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April 28, 2015   Rittman Mead

Last Chance to Register for the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015!

It’s just a week to go until the start of the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, with the optional one-day masterclass starting on Wednesday, May 6th at 10am and the event opening with a reception and Oracle keynote later in the evening. Spaces are still available if you want to book now, but we can’t guarantee places past this Friday so register now if you’re planning to attend.

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As a reminder, here’s some earlier blog posts and articles about events going on at the Brighton event, and at the Atlanta event the week after:

We’re also running our first “Data Visualisation Challenge” at both events, where we’re asking attendees to create their most impressive and innovative data visualisation within OBIEE using the Donors Choose dataset, with the rule being that you can use any OBIEE or related technology as long as the visualisation runs with OBIEE and can respond to dashboard prompt controls. We’re also opening it up to OBIEE running as part of Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS), so if you want to give Visual Analyser a spin within BICS we’d be interested in seeing the results.

Registration is still open for the Atlanta BI Forum event too, running the week after Brighton on the 13th-15th May 2015 at the Renaissance Atlanta Midtown hotel. Full details of both events are on the event homepage, with the registration links for Brighton and Atlanta given below.

  • Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, Brighton – May 6th – 8th 2015
We look forward to seeing you all in Brighton next week, or Atlanta the week after - but remember to book soon, before we close registration!
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April 8, 2015   Rittman Mead

OBIEE and the Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Option – Article and New Services from Rittman Mead

NewImageMy latest Business Intelligence column for Oracle Magazine is on the In-Memory Option for Oracle Database 12c, and using it to speed-up dashboards and reports in OBIEE11g. In the article I go through the basics of the in-memory option explaining how it adds in-memory columnar processing to the standard Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and then I take the Airline Flight Delays dashboard in the OBIEE11g SampleApp v406 and enable it for in-memory processing; for queries that go against the base detail-level tables in the Oracle Database queries run roughly twice-as-fast, whilst queries going against aggregate tables return data instantaneously, all without any need to alter the underlying database schema or migrate to a new database engine.

To my mind there are two main groups of customers who could benefit from moving to Oracle Database 12c and the In-Memory Option; customers who are currently using earlier version of Oracle Database with regular disk-stored row-based storage (or indeed customers using other databases, for example Teradata or Microsoft SQL Server), and customers who’ve implemented Oracle Exalytics with TimesTen as the in-memory database cache, and who would now like to take advantage of the additional features and lower cost-of-ownership with in-memory processing directly in the Oracle Database.

If you already have licenses for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition you’ll only need to add the additional In-Memory Option license to enable these new features, whereas if you’re using TimesTen on Exalytics there are special terms for customers who wish to trade-in those licenses for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and In-Memory Options licenses - and once you’ve moved over to Oracle Database 12c and the In-Memory Option, you’ll benefit from:

  • Access to full Oracle SQL including advanced analytics functions, aggregation and transformation capabilities
  • Moving to Oracle’s strategic database technology for in-memory analytics and Exalytics in-memory aggregate caching
  • Compatibility with existing Oracle Database functionality, making it easy to move reporting databases into Exalytics and enable for in-memory analytics
  • Columnar processing, an alternative to traditional row-based storage that’s better suited to BI-style filtering against attribute values
  • Full compatibility with all reporting and ETL tools that support access to Oracle Database data sources
  • Additional optimisations around aggregation, table joining and other BI-style queries
  • Faster dashboards, more interactive reporting and less maintenance compared to maintaining TimesTen
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To get you started with either of these options, Rittman Mead have created two packages for customers looking to adopt Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Option; one for customers on traditional data warehouse databases looking to use In-memory for the first time, and another for customers using Exalytics who want to migrate from Oracle TimesTen. Full details of these two packages are now up on our website at our Supercharge OBIEE with the Oracle 12c In-Memory Option web page, or you can contact us at [email protected] to talk through your particular requirements in more detail.

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April 8, 2015   Rittman Mead

Take Part in the BI Survey 15, and Have Your Voice Heard!

Long-term readers of this blog will know that we’ve supported for many years the BI Survey, an independent survey of BI tools customers and implementors. Rittman Mead have no (financial or other) interest in the BI Survey or its organisers, but we like the way it gathers in detailed data on which tools work best and when, and it’s been a useful set of data for companies such as Oracle when they prioritise their investment in tools such as OBIEE, Essbase and the BI Applications.

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Here’s the invite text and link to the survey:

“We would like to invite you to participate in The BI Survey 15, the world’s largest annual survey of business intelligence (BI) users.
BARC’s annual survey gathers input from thousands of organizations to analyze their buying decisions, implementation cycles and the benefits they achieve from using BI software.
As a participant, you will:

  • Receive a summary of the results from the survey when it is published
  • Be entered into a draw to win one of ten $50 Amazon vouchers
  • Ensure that your experiences are included in the final analyses

Click here to take part
Business and technical users, as well as vendors and consultants, are all welcome to participate.
You will be able to answer questions on your usage of a BI product from any vendor and your experience with your service provider.
The BI Survey 15 is strictly vendor-independent: It is not sponsored by any vendor and the results are analyzed and published independently.
Your answers will be used anonymously and your personal details will not be passed on to software vendors or other third parties.
The BI Survey 15 should take about 20 minutes to complete. For further information, please contact Adrian Wyszogrodzki at BARC ([email protected]).

Thank you in advance for taking part.”

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