September 18, 2020
Oracle Analytics Server and Kerberos Authentication
Oracle Analytics Server is out since several months and a common ask is to provide SSO with Kerberos Authentication.
The “old” OBIEE12c style Kerberos configuration is not working with OAS.
Oracle provided a solution to implement it via Apache Server and Oracle Access Manager Identity Asserter. All the info are published in Doc ID 2707401.1
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August 10, 2020
Oracle Analytics Cloud 5.7: Use ML Models in the Database
I created a short video showing how you can register in Oracle Analytics Cloud 5.7 some Machine Learning models created in the Oracle Database and score data with a simple Data Flow, check it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZubKpWUA0U
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December 13, 2019
2019 a Year of Conferences and Much More!
The 2019 end-of-year holiday period is approaching, before closing the laptop for few days it’s good to look back how the year went. It has been very busy working wise: client work, conference preparation and talks, blog posts and videos kept my time well occupied. I also had an amazing news in June, when, during Kscope 19, I was invited on the stage and announced as Oracle ACE Director
Congratulations to new Oracle ACE Directors @ftisiot @thtechnology @fdmeeguru!
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July 30, 2019
ITOUG Call for Papers Submission Analysis
If you read this now and you wanted to submit for ITOUG Tech Days 2020…. well, bad luck, you’re too late! ITOUG Tech Days 2020 was closed last week with an astonishing record of submissions! This post will analyse a bit the numbers of the submissions using the magic Oracle Analytics Cloud.
First of all, uploading the data and fixing the column settings. For example, we want to properly convert to Date our Submission Date (Data di invio in Italian).
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August 23, 2018
Looker for OBIEE Experts: Introduction and Concepts
Hello! After a long time I’m back to my personal blog! You can find all my Rittman Mead related blog posts here!
Recently I’ve been doing some personal study around various areas including streaming, machine learning and data visualization and one of the tools that got my attention is Looker. I’ve initially heard about Looker from a Drill to Detail podcast from Mark Rittman and increasingly been hearing about it in conferences and use cases together with other cloud solutions like BigQuery, Snowflake and Fivetran.
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February 28, 2017
ITOUG Call for Papers is Open!
I’m pleased to announce that, for the first time, a BI/Analytics track will be present at ITOUG!
ITOUG, the recently created Italian Oracle User Group, has been so far almost 100% DBA orientated. At the next event, which will be held on 8th June 2017 at UNA Century Hotel in Milan, we are opening a new BI/Analytics streams and looking for speakers.
Call for papers is already open, visit http://www.itoug.it for more informations.
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October 16, 2016
OBI12c SSL with Custom Certificates
For anybody on OBIEE 12c wanting to enable full SSL, Oracle provided within the OBIEE Documentation an explanation on how to set it up using demo certificates.
However the usage of demo certificates gives the end user the annoying problem of needing to accept an exception to enter the website since the demo certificate wasn’t created for the server/domain where OBIEE is located (the same problem arises also with Smartview).
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October 13, 2016
Remove OBI12c Data Visualisation from OBIEE
For anybody interested in how to remove or add Data Visualisation (also known as Visual Analyser) option to a specific role in OBIEE 12c, Oracle released Doc ID 2102444.1 which gives the detail about the procedure using WLST and the RevokeDVPermission.py (or GrantDVPermission.py) that should be present in the OBIEE12c Installation Middleware home by default.
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October 12, 2016
How to search the Cause of Errors
I’ve been working on OBIEE and Oracle products in general since 2008, it has been so far a great experience with an enormous amount of information being available freely in internet.
When trying to solve problems this amount of information can be a treasure but also a risk since the information contained in any website can be partial, not relevant or in some cases completely wrong for the subject searched. As an unexperienced person (but also for experienced) it’s difficult to distinguish whether the content of a website can be followed and trusted and sometimes even replies to public forums can’t be a valid source since different problems provide the similar wrong behaviour and can be confused.
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September 29, 2016
OBI Blogs to follow
Hi All,
I thought that including a post on the OBI related blogs and the owner twitter accounts, may be useful. The list will be enriched over time
* [rittmanmead.com](http://www.rittmanmead.com): My company's blog, always source of good OBI articles * [rmoff.net](http://rmoff.net): [Robin Moffat](https://twitter.com/rmoff)'s (Oracle ACE) personal blog * [gianniceresa.com](https://gianniceresa.com): [Gianni Ceresa](https://twitter.com/G_Ceresa)'s personal blog * [dimensionality.ch](http://dimensionality.ch): [Christian Berg](https://twitter.com/Nephentur)'s (Oracle ACE Associate) personal blog * [gerardnico.com](http://gerardnico.com/): Nicolas Gerard's personal blog * [bisoftdiary.com](https://bisoftdiary.com/): [Andrew Fomin](https://twitter.
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