The new 11g version of Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) has added many new OLAP features. One of the most significant features includes dynamic mapping of multidimensional data sources. In the past administrators needed to manually map Oracle OLAP and Essbase sources to the BI Server catalog. Then alot of special adjustments had to be made…

Today’s business intelligence implementations are becoming more and more complex, as efforts move from departmental report generation to true enterprise-wide analytics. As complexity increases and the requests for information grows, a one-size-fits all approach for reporting tool selection is no longer adequate. OBIEE 11g offers a number of tools to aid clients in providing information.…

Southwestern Energy is a growing independent energy company primarily engaged in natural gas exploration, development and production. SWN is currently implementing the Hyperion System 11 suite to create a world class financial systems platform to support the needs of a rapidly growing organization. The purpose of this presentation is to facilitate information on best practices…

It’s 10:00 pm, and your finding yourself having to go through every department’s Excel budget submission (again) to make an adjustment (again) and find that someone’s made a change that you didn’t expect (again) and someone else has overwritten a formula in one cell (again) – you’re thinking to yourself that there must be a…

Learn how to create highly formatted reports using Oracle BI Publisher through hands on exercises. Create a report and layout directly through the browser using the Layout Editor. Build a data model that combines and structures data from an Oracle Database and an Excel Spreadsheet. Learn how to Schedule reports for recurring jobs.

With the 2011 BI Survey 10 indicating that 22% of organizations are planning to implement mobile BI by the end of 2012, mobile business intelligence has never been a hotter topic. Leveraging the new Simba MDX provider for Oracle OLAP along with arcplan Mobile enables secure and intuitive real-time access to business critical information and…

In earlier data warehouse and BI reporting systems data was often restricted to internally generated data. Today data from internal operational systems can be augmented by information from external sources such as Google and from providers of specialist data such as stock market information providers, credit reference agencies and even weather feeds.This presentation aims to look at the various options that are available to integrate external sources of information to provide a value added BI platform

How to do forecasting and allocations in Business Intelligence Systems will cover Essbase forecasting and allocations. The audience will learn about how to do forecasting with user-based and statistical methods with Essbase. This session will cover how to create forecasts and allocations using BSO calc scripts, and ASO MDX scripting. This session will cover different…

While forecasting models have great impact on business and industries success, related Oracle capabilities have enormously increased. There are many different strategies to forecasting analytics to track a serial behavior or pattern in business intelligence, such as finance, market data, and research and development. There are methods that smooth historic values; other use time series…

Today’s government and commercial organizations do not have the luxury of waiting one week or one day for their transactional data to be loaded into their data warehouse. In order for businesses to achieve competitive advantage over their competitors, relevant up-to-date information needs to be available to conduct robust and real-time analysis of the time…