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…

BI Alerts can be extremely helpful to end-users to alert them to a variety of issues that need to be addressed. BI alerts can also be used to notify developers when issues arise. This session will review how to setup BI alerts and ensure that they are useful. This session will review BI Alerts that…

Companies have always struggled to calculate the ROI of their BI investments. In most cases, BI adopters are realizing "soft" ROI (faster and more accurate reporting, improvements in the decision-making process, increased productivity, etc.), but concrete ROI (cost reductions, higher revenues) remains difficult to quantify. In many cases, return on investment is never calculated simply…

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…

This two-hour, hands-on tutorial shows how executives and BI users can solve business problems by visually create illuminating ad hoc BI queries, and build insightful dashboards in Microsoft Excel directly against Oracle Database OLAP Option. We introduce the business value of multi-dimensional OLAP cubes. Put yourself in the shoes of a BI Analyst when you…

Fix on sparse, if on dense; hourglass vs. hourglass on a stick. Just when you thought you had all of the Essbase design best practices down, here comes Tracy McMullen, Oracle Ace Director, with some exceptions to the general Essbase rules. Join us for this unique twist on an Essbase tips and tricks presentation where…

Some people want to optimize their Essbase cubes or Planning applications for calculation performance.  Others want to reduce the speed of data loading, improve the performance of retrievals, or make their Planning forms blazingly fast.  The best place to start no matter what you're optimizing is the common factor across all of these: the Essbase…

Fix on sparse, if on dense; hourglass vs. hourglass on a stick. Just when you thought you had all of the Essbase design best practices down, here comes Tracy McMullen, Oracle Ace Director, with some exceptions to the general Essbase rules. Join us for this unique twist on an Essbase tips and tricks presentation where…

Gallup Inc. reports data collected from surveys using OBIEE11g as one of the reporting platforms. This lecture talks about the customization aspects of OBIEE11g and also the performance characteristics of our implementation.

Some people want to optimize their Essbase cubes or Planning applications for calculation performance.  Others want to reduce the speed of data loading, improve the performance of retrievals, or make their Planning forms blazingly fast.  The best place to start no matter what you're optimizing is the common factor across all of these: the Essbase…