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Implementing REST Adapter in Service Bus This article covers the implementation of REST adapter in Oracle Service Bus (12C). REST adapter allows an easy way of calling/exposing REST services based on a Web Application Description Language (WADL). In this implementation, we are going to call Weather API which is a public REST API by creating […]

On Monday afternoon, comedian Don McMillian addressed the crowd of developers and other Oracle users at the 2015 Kscope conference. Focusing on technology’s extremes and absurdities (real or not) has become McMillian’s brand, as seen in this post from earlier this year. In personal communications, especially online, most people aren’t very concerned about sound grammar […]

That image makes budgeting even seem fun, right? I can think of myself perched up on a thick fluffy cloud crunching numbers. Well honestly … I’m not sure that budgeting is ever fun but we now have the combination of the industry leading budgeting solution, Oracle Hyperion Planning, available in the cloud. As I mentioned […]

The Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) offers various options through which data may be loaded into the BI cloud database. I am focusing here on BICS that comes with the Database Schema service as a reporting database. In addition, there are several ways through which you may extract data from BICS. It may be […]

As Oracle customers, partners, and developers head to Hollywood (Florida, that is) for ODTUG’s 2015 Kscope conference, the key topics include strategic approaches to analytics and equity management, with two sessions featuring Perficient experts. “When it comes to enterprise intelligence, there are numerous data sources to oversee. The challenge lies in sifting through what’s significant […]

The journey of discovery continues. I can report a successful install of Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.9 on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2, but I encountered one last bug and set of supplemental instructions worth sharing. During the Configuration Progress step of the Enterprise Install the “Setting Up BI Publisher” step never completed. From the screenshot below you […]

Installing any commercial software on a newly certified operating system often leads to a journey of discovery. In this case, Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.9 installed on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 raises an alarming error during the installation process. The crash warning above occurred during an Enterprise Install on a freshly built Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 […]

I would like to follow up on John Whitaker’s post, OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0: What You Need to Know, by adding a note about an important patch that was released on June 3, 2015. Using an external security provider with Oracle Business Intelligence is increasingly common. When configuring Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, or other 3rd party authentication provider it […]

In this new video from Oracle, hear from Tom Munley, General Manager for the Oracle Emerging Solutions group at Perficient, about how Oracle Sales Cloud with OBIEE helped the organization implement a new quota management program — and bring together a sales team dispersed throughout the US. See the Two-minute video: Perficient and Oracle

When an OSB 11g project using the JCA transport is imported to JDeveloper 12c, you might see the following error. oracle.tip.adapter.sa.impl.fw.ext.org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.wsif.WSIFException: Please specify a Service. Choices are: This is one of the known issues in the project migration. You need to manually edit certain files to resolve this error. Here are the steps to resolve […]

Getting it right the first time. When choosing and rolling out a new solution, a few key steps can help you avoid roadblocks, waste, and frustration. To leverage the strengths of the new tool and increase user adoption, the first step is making the SaaS vs. Enterprise Decision, and choosing the right cloud products. SaaS […]

Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.9) As you might know, Oracle has released OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0.   There are a host of new features that I know some of my clients have been looking for; including the ability to save calculated fields for reuse in other analyses, enhanced export functionality, and Hyperion Planning data source support.  We […]