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Oracle BI Rebranding

Oracle rebranding of Business intelligence solution continues, this time Data Visualization Desktop (DVD) has been renamed to Oracle Analytics Desktop (OAD).

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Oracle Analytics for Applications (OAX)

Oracle Analytics for Applications (OAX) is a Cloud-based data and analytics platform developed by Oracle, leveraging Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) and Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) that is built to work with Oracle’s Cloud SaaS applications like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud, Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud, Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud and Customer Experience (CX) Cloud. In simple terms, OAX is cloud version Oracle BI Applications (OBIA), however, OAX is not replacing OBIA because OBIA will continue to focus on on-prem Oracle and non-Oracle systems. Oracle has promised to support OBIA at least until 2030. OAX may be an obvious choice for customers implementing Oracle Fusion ERP, SCM, HCM, etc. OAX is fully extensible and customizable; allowing customers to import external data into ADW, expand the base semantic model, and add additional content to OAC. Customer-managed components are mutable Oracle managed part of the architecture are immutable Factory Schema (OOTB) is available as read-only to Custom Schema for any data integration The 3 pillars for Oracle Analytics are: • Augmented • Integrated • Collaborative The price has been simplified with just user-based or CPU based licensing. Removing all previous complex combinations.

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Scoring Sheet

More option means more confusion… and that’s true for crowded BI/Reporting options in the market. There are so many options with everyone claiming to be best, it’s quite easy to be distracted on our own goal. The best way to keep track of your key requirements is to create a scoring sheet, and give each features a score depending on your organisations need. The list here contains list of the features that we have seen available in different BI/Reporting tools in market listed, but do add as many as you can to make sure you take a very informed decision.

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OBIEE 12.2.1.4 upgrade issues

OBIEE 12.2.1.4 upgrade issues (Enable HTML, Bundle Patch 27443959,OBIEE Admin Client Issue) OBIEE 12.2.1.4 upgrade key issues Enable HTML: By default HTML columns are disabled in 12.2.1.3+. This needs to be enabled by editing the instanceconfig.xml file. Include the following code in the tag: true" Bundle Patch 27443959: Related bugs: Bug 23338476 - LINE GRAPHS IN IE 11 DON'T DISPLAY LINES WHERE THE VALUE IS CONSTANT Bug 21797195 - LINE IN GRAPH LINE IS NOT DISPLAYED IN IE11 Bug 27274568 - GRAPH W/SLIDER DOESN'T DISPLAY AT ALL ON IE - ANIMATE ON DISPLAY DOESN'T WORK Bug 27443959 - LINE IN GRAPH LINE IS NOT DISPLAYED IN IE11 IN HTML5 MODE Bug 26612853 BIP RESTARTABILITY: JOBS REMAIN IN RUNNING STATE WHEN DB IS BOUNCED OBIEE Admin Client Issue: Doc ID 2473944.1 Archiving and Unarchiving Dashboards Loses Links for Analyses: When you archive a dashboard and unarchive it on another server, you might notice that some or all links below analyses on that dashboard are missing. To work around this issue, ensure that the catalog folders and objects on the destination server match the structure on the original server. No patch for this, but something to validate when we use archive-unarchive during release processes.

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