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Why you should care about Oracle Endeca right now?

I tweeted a while back about a video with legendary Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki where he broke down new age Business Intelligence as “new answers to unknown questions” instead of “Proven answers to known questions”.

Web Catalog Statistics – New SampleApp – Quick Peek

Oracle BI 11g brought a very comprehensive new look and feel to the SampleApp endeavor along with a packaged development virtual image for those previously not so inclined to develop their own environments.

Reasons to Conduct an out-of-place upgrade for Oracle BI 11.1.1.x

I received a comment on one of the last posts regarding upgrading an Oracle BI 11.1.1.6 from 11.1.1.5 and why I recommended doing an out-of-place upgrade, i.e. deinstall and re-install of the updated version, versus using a patch of 11.1.1.6 over 11.1.1.5.

Oracle BI 11.1.1.6 SampleApp VM Image – Do it Yourself

The release of the 11.1.1.6 version of Oracle BI is bringing many BI enthusiasts to open-mouthed excitement over the last couple of weeks.

Proxy Act As Cannot Cross Identity Providers

I came across this error recently when configuring this functionality, “Actual user’s GUID is not empty but Acting as user’s GUID is empty.”

Setting MacOS into 64-bit Mode

I came a cross an issue where I had the 32-bit version of VMWare Fusion on my Mac but I needed to run a 64-bit OS guest virtual machine image. 

Firefox 10 Not Compatible with Oracle BI 11.1.1.5

As a warning, the very popular browser Firefox, has just released its latest update, Firefox 10. They are calling it a security update but it will break your compatibility with Oracle BI 11g (11.1.1.5).

Removing ^M From Linux Files

I was at a project recently where someone had updated several Linux config/text files using a Windows machine.

Creating a New Presentation (Web) Catalog in OBI 11g

Here is a crib-sheet on creating a new Presentation Catalog in OBI 11g.