Applied dimensionality

Since I’ve spent some time working with Oracle Business Intelligence last year, I think I’d write a simple comparison list of strengths\weaknesess of OraBI EE vs Cognos (see post on the same topic by Venkatakrishnan). All of this is imho, of course. Oracle BI EE Pro’s: 1) Aggregate navigation — ability to set up aggregate [...]

You know why i’ve started this blog in the first place? To get advice, of course. And today DesiCresnet shared a wonderfull piece of information concerning memory troubles in BI 8.3. Those who aren’t struck by occasional CAM-AAA-0071 “An internal error occurred” which stops the whole server can skip this post. This error was discussed [...]

Tip of the day: Having common metadata layer for BI and Enterprise Planning is really cool, especially with the ability to load data from BI packages to EP via links. Just that it sometimes doesn’t work. But there are always some workarounds. With mostly very cryptical error messages or without any. One of the problems [...]

Okay, it has been almost half-a-year (oh, dears) since the last decent post on this blog. Russian one has suffered as well, I must note. Reasons vary, but mostly it’s that I’ve been, you know, busy-busy. As I now start to reflect on it, it’s always a point of view thing and a question of [...]

There’s a story I’d like to tell, especially funny in context with recent merger. I’ve found all this stuff (see links) about a year ago and I imagined the undocumented parts, it’s not official. In deep 90s a great guy named George Kunzle lead the development of IBM internal budgeting system, called FREGI. It was [...]