obiee 11g is out!

Spreading the word, OBIEE 11g is available for download

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html

Not available on edelivery yet.

50,000 foot view

Somebody recently asked me, can you give me a 50,000(50k) view of the problem.

To me, a 50k view of almost anything is meaningless. From that height even a boulder will look like a small rock.

How do you respond to 50k ft question?

Gut Feeling

source:http://electricityweek.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/gut_feeling1.gif

Bubble Charts with stories

You have probably heard Hans Rosling, zen master of statistics on TED. If not, please STOP everything right now and check out his presentations on TED talk or here. You will not regret it.

It is fascinating to see how GapMinder can say such powerful stories with simple bubble charts. You can find some examples on Garr’s blog, Presentation Zen. By the way, this is another blog to bookmark. I have learnt a lot on presentations and design from his book and blog.

Now, the challenge is can we create a Gapminder type chart using OBIEE? Most of the features are straightforward (image prompts, filters etc.). The only complex part to me is Chart animation.  This isn’t possible with current OBIEE release but chart sliders in 11g hold the promise.

I will try to build a GapMinder look-a-like chart with OBIEE once 11g becomes generally available. For now, I will just go and look at more trends (err. stories) at Gapminder.

OBIEE 11g launched

OBIEE 11g launch webcast link:

http://www.oracle.com/oms/businessintelligence11g/webcast-075573.html

Tons of new features..and definitely more unified.

OBIEE 11g.. coming soon

Its official. OBIEE 11glaunching on July 7

On ideas..

Retrieving Administrator Password

I always thought that there was no way to retrieve or reset the Administrator password. Until I came across Kishore’s post on OTN. To my surprise, it WORKS!

From Kishore’s post (Good one Kishore!):

Open NQSConfig.INI file

Uncomment AUTHENTICATION_TYPE = BYPASS_NQS;

Stop the BI Server service

Close Administration Tool, if opened. (Then only the changes are affecting to the Administration Tool)

Open Administration Tool, then rpd which needs password reset, in offline mode

Give any password here, it accepts.

Now go to Manage > Security.

From here it’s the normal process how you change password for Administrator.

Save the changes to rpd

Revert back the changes in NQSConfig.INI

Start BI Server and open rpd with new password.

Somehow .. This feels so familiar

oracle hits half century with Sun

Today, Oracle announced that they will be acquiring Sun for $7.4 billion. Undoubtedly, the main reason behind the acquisition was Java (Larry describes it “the single most important software asset we have ever acquired”). Surprisingly, there was no mention of MySQL which came as part of Sun’s acquisition. Wonder what future holds for mysql.

Also, If this WSJ article is accurate, this was Oracle’s half century (50th). Oracle has roughly acquired one company a month since 2005. If history has any indicator of future, we will probably see 9-10 more acquisition before the year is over!

2005	11
2006	13
2007	12
2008	11
2009	2