Building Cubes and Analyzing Data Using Oracle OLAP 11g

Can I move my existing "multi-dimensional cubes" to 11g? Can I really improve my warehouse performance using OLAP? What is the benefit of upgrading to OLAP 11g? Do you need those "analytic workspace" things if you're going to use Oracle Business Intelligence? And can Oracle BI really generate more efficient SQL than you? This presentation will demonstrate the process of migrating 10g cubes and dimensions to 11g and using Oracle OLAP 11g to create cubes and analyze data.

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Integrating Oracle BIEE with Oracle Analytic Workspaces

Oracle's integration of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) into the Oracle product family provides exciting opportunities to extend the use of Oracle's multidimensional OLAP cubes to include Oracle's new customers who have previously adopted the Siebel environment. In this case study, we will briefly discuss the development of the multidimensional environment using Oracle Analytic Workspace Manager (AWM), then focus on the value that Genco Inc.

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Accelerate Your Oracle DW With OLAP 11g

Oracle Database 11g OLAP provide several new features that can used to enhance performance of Oracle-based data warehouses. In addition, while providing a complete summary management capability, they can add additional calculation capabilities. Views are automatically created that allow standard SQL to access the original data, as well as any additional measures.

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Oracle BI, Oracle OLAP, Essbase: The Benefits and Cost of Openness

Companies with heterogeneous environments need to analyze data from multiple sources, through multiple application servers, in multiple presentation environments. The "hot pluggable" products work well for this need: Oracle Data Integrator, Essbase, Real-time Decisions, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, and BI Applications.

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Faster and Smarter Data Warehouses with Oracle OLAP 11g Session 2 – For IT Professionals

As you may know, Vlamis Software is getting to know Oracle's Essbase offering, bringing our 20 years of experience with Oracle OLAP and Oracle BI in general to the Essbase community. In the presentation, I plan to share our "external fair impressions" of Oracle OLAP and Essbase, and starting to explore how they could be used together. See our blog at www.vlamis.com/blog for other information on our impressions.

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Using Oracle OLAP and Hyperion Essbase for BI – Webcast February 28, 2008

As you may know, Vlamis Software is getting to know Oracle's Essbase offering, bringing our 20 years of experience with Oracle OLAP and Oracle BI in general to the Essbase community. In the presentation, I plan to share our "external fair impressions" of Oracle OLAP and Essbase, and starting to explore how they could be used together. See our blog at www.vlamis.com/blog for other information on our impressions.

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Faster and Smarter Data Warehouses with Oracle OLAP 11g Session 1 – For Executives

As you may know, Vlamis Software is getting to know Oracle's Essbase offering, bringing our 20 years of experience with Oracle OLAP and Oracle BI in general to the Essbase community. In the presentation, I plan to share our "external fair impressions" of Oracle OLAP and Essbase, and starting to explore how they could be used together. See our blog at www.vlamis.com/blog for other information on our impressions.

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IOUG: Using Oracle Warehouse Builder for Business Intelligence

Using Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Warehouse Builder Release 2, we can now design, construct, load, and view data in a data warehouse that is fully OLAP-ready. This session introduces Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2 and Oracle OLAP, shows how to design and construct an Oracle 10g database that can be used for business intelligence, and explores tips and techniques to provide a fully functional business intelligence solution using one tool.

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Implementing Oracle BI EE on Top of Oracle OLAP Cubes

Oracle's integration of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) into the Oracle product family provides exciting opportunities to extend the use of Oracle's multidimensional OLAP cubes to include Oracle's new customers who have previously adopted the Siebel environment. We will briefly discuss the development of the multidimensional environment using Oracle Analytic Workspace Manager (AWM), then focus on the value of using these two technologies together.

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Implementing Oracle BI EE on Top of Oracle OLAP Cubes

Oracle's integration of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) into the Oracle product family provides exciting opportunities to extend the use of Oracle's multidimensional OLAP cubes to include Oracle's new customers who have previously adopted the Siebel environment. We will briefly discuss the development of the multidimensional environment using Oracle Analytic Workspace Manager (AWM), then focus on the value of using these two technologies together.

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