My Oracle BI World

I came across Oracle Real-Time Decision (RTD) only recently although this product has been part of Oracle BI product family since Sigma Dynamics acquisition in 2006. I was on the bench and skilled up my Oracle BI products after a year working in a project with no time to do any training. RTD is called by several name: 'a closed-loop recommendation engine', 'predictive analytic tool','real-time decision engine' and many more. I personally like the 'decision engine' name as it's actually a decision learning engine with low latency processing so it can make a decision in real-time. There are plenty of blogs about RTD. You will find that Rittman Mead blog has the most entries on the subject (as per other Oracle BI products - I have been told that they have a special relationship with Oracle that they can get the first hand experience of the products before Oracle released them to the public), they can be found here  and search for 'Oracle Real-Ti...

Yesterday I’m fortunate enough to attend Oracle BI Architecture masterclass for partners. The class largely covers the new Oracle Reference Architecture version which you can read in great detail from thispdf file  (please note that this file is actually related to BI Architecture version 2, the version 3 is not released yet but they're enough to understand the architecture). If you are familiar with the previous Oracle reference architecture, you will find that it has the similarity of the component namely Staging, Foundation and Access and Performance layers. However it now adopts the most talk about BI buzzword ‘Big Data’ into its component and Data Discovery/Knowledge Discover that supports agile BI which has become a norm this day has a special place in the architecture. During the introduction, the instructors showing us an Interesting radar graph that shows how the big data is not a replacement of the old good RDBMS technology but a complement to each other. Here is...

Dalam jenjang waktu setahun masa kerja saya di Hitachi Consulting, saya telah dua kali mengajar OBIEE di kelas. Training pertama diselenggarakan sewaktu bekerja di proyek untuk Anchor Trust (http://www.anchor.org.uk). Perusahaan charity (mungkin bentuknya seperti yayasan) yg menyediakan Home Care (pondok jompo) buat para manula ini bermaksud mengganti Business Performance Monitoring mereka dengan OBIEE. Saya bertindak sebagai OBIEE consultant yg bertugas untuk membangun dashboards, reports dan KPI. Sebagai bagian dari knowledge transfer saya diharuskan melakukan pelatihan penggunaan OBIEE secara umum dan cara memelihara BPM yg kita bangun. Jumlah peserta ada 6 orang. Tidak ada diantara mereka yg punya pengalaman menggunakan OBIEE, tetapi 3 diantara mereka adalah staff IT yg sangat 'techie' dan berpengalaman menggunakan dan memelihara system lama perusahaan ini. Mereka dapat dgn mudah menyerap segi-segi technical dari pelatihan seperti misalnya OBIEE architecture, RPD dan Web ...