It took me a long time to figure out what I could write about in my first blog post. Tataaa! I found a topic. Since I am eagerly learning WPF, I will present a list of some cool wpf demos that I found during learning and that helped me to understand how...

Beim Debuggen von eigenen BDC Modellen in Visual Studio 2010 ist mir aufgefallen, dass die Business Connectivity Services (BCS) von SharePoint 2010 nicht sehr effizient implementiert sind. Das Anzeigen eines einzelnen ListItems im Browser (DispForm.aspx...

I am pleased to announce that I will represent Trivadis at the Rittman Mead BI Forum being one of the speakers in Brighton on may 14th and 15th this year. Take a look at the agenda and decide yourself, I think it has quite interesting sessions: http:...

Hi folks, in last days I was confrontated with some ASM specific questions and so this should be the topic I start my blogging "career" with. I tested the following with VMWare Workstation. My "DB Server" was a Solaris box. uname ...

Face it: the built-in reports in Community Server are not good enough if you want detailed information about your traffic. Google Analytics is great, but you can't export the data in order to use it in your own queries. A better way is to analyze...

It’s been quite a while since I last blogged. A lot of things occurred in professional and private life as well, so there have been other “priorities” during this time. But I used my break and collected some topics to blog around. Today is a good day...

After quite a while of being a solution architect in a DWH project with obviously not much time to write blog posts I am back again and hopefully you like what I am writing. Just two questions: are you also “upset” about having to install all the OBIEE...

Just a couple of weeks ago I implemented support for multiple languages at customer-site and to be honest it is not the big easy to do so with OBIEE. Hence I decided to blog around some circumstances which occurred during the last weeks and not to go...

Technorati is an important service for all bloggers: it's not only a bookmarking and tagging community but also a blog search engine that provides information to other search engines like Google. In order to push your posts higher in the rankings...

Just a couple of weeks ago I ran into a situation at a customer-site. They have Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) already installed, but wanted to use both the softwares separately, but on the same server. Therefore I had to change some of the ports...

Despite I assume most of you know that there is a little special thing you have to take care for in order to achieve proper inter-dashboard-navigation I wanted to post this shortly. One of the most powerful features of OBIEE is the navigation between...

Something I searched for a longer time within OBIEE is kind of a Dashboard-menu for the case you have so many dashboards, that it confuses the user more than it helps. You know some people say there is a golden number for the normal brain: the 8. So 8...

Die lang erwartete Oracle 11g Express Edition ist jetzt verfügbar – momentan allerdings nur als Beta-Version. (Nicht nur) für unsere Teilnehmer am O-AI-Kurs ist die Express Edition (kurz XE) eine einfache, kostenfreie Datenbankversion mit der man viel...

I guess some of you might have used the neat function "Percent of" in the pivot-tables of OBIEE. Cool stuff ! And this easy to implement. Just click and say "Show Data as" "Percent of" and choose column, row, section, page...

IT- Projekte scheitern im Normalfall. Es existiert eine Software Krise, da wir nicht wissen, wie IT-Projekte zu realisieren sind. Dies wird eindrücklich durch die seit 1994 von der Standish Group veröffentlichten Chaos Reports belegt. Diese Zahlen werden...

Oracle BI Enterprise Edition: Dashboard & Report Design & Best Practices Amy Mayer and Kevin McGinley BI Consulting Group LLC 2008 In no more than 110 pages, Mayer and McGinley, the book’s authors, provide a concise overview of best practices...

Wer Rich Clients auf Basis der Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) entwickelt, wird früher oder später mit zwei Problemen bzw. Anforderungen konfrontiert werden: zum einen stehen im Rich Client wesentlich weniger Plug-ins zur Verfügung als in Eclipse ...

Hi there, advanced compression option (ACO) is a new option as of Oracle 11g. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/pdf/advanced-compression-whitepaper.pdf . It is only available with Enterprise Edition and includes - OLTP...

Here is a great tutorial on how to create a 3D Tag Cloud with Silverlight. I combined it with a little routine (some regEx, too) that scrapes Links from a web page . How do you like it ? The only thing that holds me back from putting it on the front page...

Windows Vista contains new Win32-Dialogs to save and open a file. There are also the old dialogs from XP available. Windows Presentation Foundation has two wrapper-classes for Win32-Dialogs. The Microsoft.Win32-Namespace contains a SaveFileDialog- and...

You want to get the real insight to your repository ? Some columns have been changed and therefore not translated anymore ? But which of the hundreds ? Then parsing your UDML could probably help you... Not the first time that networking brought really...

Actually one hot topic in the business is the use of 64 Bit Operating Systems and x64 programs. Since the release of IBM Cognos 8.4 BI Customers and partners of IBM may also choose between a 32 bit or 64 bit version of their product. But what are the...

Hi there! In my last Data Guard course this week I gave my participants the task to recover from a situation where they lost the online redo log files of the primary database. They had a Maximum Availability Setup with Synchronous Log Transfer. Of course...

This article outlines how to draw a pretty print pie chart in a PDF document with XSLT and Apache FOP . Background In some of our projects with TVDxORA (a lightweight web reporting framework) we produce PDF, some of them populated with pie charts. Our...

Oracle BI - suites provide a lot of flexibility to extend your BI-applications with variable content in order to face all challenges to customize a solution to your needs. Hence, today I will write something about adding your personal / company-pictures...