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Configure Firefox To Be Compatible With OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Aug 08, 2012 @ 12:59 PM

by Rajesh Sakamuri

Many users of Oracle BI are being confronted with a problem after upgrading to the most recent versions of the Firefox browser.  An error message is thrown that reads, "Your browser is not supported by Oracle BI Presentation Services."

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Tags: OBIEE, Rajesh Sakamuri, Oracle BI, Blog

Golfing To Support The Ronald McDonald House

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Jul 20, 2012 @ 12:01 PM

McDonalds and KPI began a partnership in 2011 on a large business intelligence project focused on turning their data in to insight. KPI is proud to also support Ronald McDonalds House Charities.

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Tags: Charity, News, Blog

[Recording] What Exactly Is Exalytics?

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Jun 29, 2012 @ 06:20 PM

On June 26th, KPI Partners hosted an educational webinar that helped us understand what Oracle's Exalytics product offering should mean to customer.  Get access to this recording from our live webcast featuring Abhinav Banerjee from KPI Partners who profiles Exadata and discusses how it fits into the Oracle 'EXA' stack of products.

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Tags: Webinar, OBIEE, Oracle, Abhinav Banerjee, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Exalytics, Hyperion, Blog

Video Profiles Deployment Of Cruise Ship Analytics Using Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE)

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Jun 21, 2012 @ 03:27 PM

Business Intelligence Is Being Utilized To Optimize Customer Experience At Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines

SAN JOSE, CA– June 21, 2012 – Technology consultancy KPI Partners partnered with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines on a customer spotlight webinar that featured a unique business intelligence solution at RCCL.  Through the use of state-of-the-art business intelligence technology, Royal Caribbean can bring together various disparate data sources to help optimize the vacation experience for travelers on all of their ships.

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Tags: Webinar, OBIEE, Case Study, News, Oracle BI

Datetime Pairs in Oracle BI (OBIEE) - Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Jun 14, 2012 @ 12:47 PM

by Kurt Wolff

Suppose you have a series of datetime pairs in Oracle BI... The problem is to display the differences between DATE1 and DATE2 in days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

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Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog

[Wrap-Up & Video] Collaborate 12: Essbase, OBIEE, and Blackjack...

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Jun 04, 2012 @ 06:17 PM

by Jeremiah Johnson

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Tags: Abhinav Banerjee, Events, Pavan Nanjundaiah, Fixed Asset Analytics, Blog

KPI Partners eBook Launch: Understanding Oracle BI Components

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Jun 01, 2012 @ 04:51 PM

Business Intelligence Guru Releases E-Book Covering Key Principles of Oracle BI (OBIEE)

MINNEAPOLIS – June 1, 2011 – The importance of business intelligence (BI) is rising by the day. BI systems, which help organizations make better and more informed decisions, are becoming crucial for success.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, OBIEE, Mobile BI, Business Intelligence, Abhinav Banerjee, News, Oracle BI, Book

Creating an Alias vs. Duplicating a Physical Table (SQL & OBIEE)

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, May 31, 2012 @ 09:17 PM

by Kurt Wolff

When you duplicate a table, you create a new physical table with a new name. If this table is involved in a query, the SQL FROM clause will list this table. If the table does not exist in the database, then an error will occur.

Creating an alias creates a copy of the metadata table object that will be referenced in SQL with a new alias name. The alias name in SQL, as it is for all tables, will be derived its metadata ID.

To see the table IDs in OBIEE metadata, use the Oracle BI Query Repository utility. Here are some physical tables (and aliases) in a repository that I’ve created. It’s the last five digits of the ID that will be used to create the table aliases in SQL.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Kurt Wolff, Blog

[Spotlight] Royal Caribbean's Onboard Analytics Using OBIEE 11g

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, May 31, 2012 @ 03:48 PM

On May 29th, KPI Partners partnered with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines on a customer spotlight webinar that featured a unique business intelligence solution at RCCL.  Get access to this recording from our live webcast featuring Ileana Gonzalez and Richard Paley from Royal Caribbean on the challenges they had building an onboard analytics solution for all the ships in their fleet.

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Tags: Webinar, OBIEE, Case Study, Business Intelligence, Events, Oracle BI, Blog

How To Increase The Slider Value Limit in OBIEE 11g

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, May 21, 2012 @ 12:35 PM

by Shiva Molabanti

By default OBIEE 11G has slider value limit of 50. But most of the cases we must to change this setting to 100 or more (at least in my case). To change the default set limit, update your instanceconfig.xml file as explained below.

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Tags: OBIEE, Shiva Molabanti, BI Publisher, Oracle BI, Blog