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Configuring the Data Sync Tool for BI Cloud Service (BICS)
Introduction The Data Sync Tool provides the ability to synchronize data from on-premise sources to the BI Cloud Service (BICS). The tool can source from both relational data, and flat files, and it...
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“Lift and Shift” On-Premise RPD to BI Cloud Service (BICS)
Introduction “Lift and Shift” is the method by which an On-Premise RPD, created in the BI Admin tool, can be uploaded to a BI Cloud Service (BICS) instance and made available to report authors. This...
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Extracting Data from BICS / Apex via RESTful Webservice
Introduction BI Cloud Service (BICS) has an API to load data into the underlying database (more details here), but reports created in BICS can not be made available and called as web-services to...
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Creating Event Based E-Mail and Text Notifications for BICS using Apex
Introduction Event Based notification functionality for Oracle’s BI Cloud Service (BICS) will be available later this year, but until that time some of the same functionality can be created through...
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Copy Data from BICS Schema Service to BICS DBaaS or on On-Premise DB
Introduction This article will cover the steps to migrate the data from a BICS Schema Service Database, to a BICS DBaaS Database. Similar steps could be used to move a database from BICS to...
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Automating Data Loads from Taleo Cloud Service to BI Cloud Service (BICS)
Introduction This article will outline a method for extracting data from Taleo Cloud Service, and automatically loading that data into BI Cloud Service (BICS). Two tools will be used, the Taleo...
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Using Oracle BI Answers to Extract Data from HCM via Web Services
Introduction Oracle BI Answers, also known as ‘Analyses’ or ‘Analysis Editor’, is a reporting tool that is part of the Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI), and available within the Oracle...
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Using Oracle BI Publisher to Extract Data From Oracle Sales and ERP Clouds
Introduction Many Cloud products such as Oracle Sales Cloud, and Oracle ERP Cloud come packaged with Oracle Transaction Business Intelligence (OTBI). OTBI allows users to create and run reports against...
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Setting up Oracle’s Database as a Service (DBaaS) Pluggable Databases (PDBs)...
Introduction With the release of Oracle 12c Database the concept of Pluggable Databases (PDBs) was introduced. Within a Container Database (CDB) one or many of these PDBs can exist. Each PDB is a...
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Using BICS Data Sync to Extract Data from Oracle OTBI, either Cloud or...
Introduction Last year I wrote about configuring the BICS Data Sync Tool to extract data from ‘On-Premise’ data sources and to load those into BI Cloud Services (BICS). That article can be found here....
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Configuring the Remote Data Connector (RDC) for BI Cloud Service (BICS)
Introduction The BICS Remote Data Connector (RDC) was released in March 2016. It allows reports and analyses in BI Cloud Service (BICS) to directly connect to an On-Premise Oracle Database. When a...
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Using SSH for Data Sync Loads to BI Cloud Service (BICS)
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool can be used to load both on-premise, and cloud data sources, into BI Cloud Service (BICS). When the...
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Loading Oracle Service Cloud (RightNow) Data into BICS with Data Sync
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction Version 2.2 of the Data Sync tool was released September 2016 and added the ability to connect to a number of different data...
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Loading SalesForce Data into BICS with Data Sync
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction Version 2.2 of the Data Sync tool was released Septembert 2016 and added the ability to connect to a number of different data...
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Loading Data from Generic JDBC Sources into BICS
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction Version 2.2 of the Data Sync tool was released September 2016 and added the ability to connect to a number of different data...
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Installing Data Sync in Compute for Cloud to Cloud Loading into BICS
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into...
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BICS Data Sync – Running Post Load Procedures Against DBCS and Oracle RDBMS
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into...
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BICS Data Sync – Running Post Load Procedures against a Schema Service DB
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into...
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Using Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) to Load BI Cloud Service (BICS)
For other A-Team articles about BICS, click here Introduction Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is a comprehensive data integration platform that covers most data integration scenarios. It has long been...
View ArticleInstalling and Configuring BI Admin Tool for Fusion Applications
Introduction The Repository, or ‘RPD’, is the file that contains the metadata for the BI Server in Fusion Applications. This includes database connections, tables, joins, and structure by which these...
View ArticleHow to Examine the SQL in a BI Answers Report
Introduction In a standalone OBIEE environment, or within the Analytics Reporting home page of Fusion Applications, there may be occasions where it would be useful to find the SQL being generated...
View ArticleHow to Recover the RPD Repository Password in Fusion Applications or OBIEE
Introduction The RPD Repository file contains the metadata to create reports. This includes details of the physical data sources and connections, the business model mapping with joins, and the...
View ArticleIdentifying Underlying Middleware BI Software Versions within Fusion...
Introduction At times an administrator may need to identify which version of software one or more of the middleware components is within fusion applications. Before downloading and installing ODI...
View ArticleUnderstanding the BI Web Catalog Patching Process
Introduction Following on from a recent blog article for trouble-shooting RPD Patching issues, which you can find here, this article will cover the BI Web Catalog Patching process. In addition to an...
View ArticleUsing Native SSH Tunnel Functionality within the Data Sync Tool to Secure...
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into...
View ArticlePerforming ELT Data Transformations with Data Sync
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into...
View ArticlePerforming ELT Lookups with Data Sync
For other A-Team articles about BICS and Data Sync, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into...
View ArticleUsing Date Based Partitioning for OTBI Extracts with Data Sync to Improve...
For other A-Team articles about BICS, OAC, and Data Sync, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data...
View ArticleUTL_Match and Soundex for ‘Fuzzy’ Matching of Data in an Oracle Database
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction In today’s data-centric world, the BI professional is often faced with the problem of joining data sets from different sources. In a...
View ArticleData Sync and the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud (ADWC)
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into BI Cloud...
View ArticleUsing Data Sync to Extract and Load Data from Fusion SaaS using the BI Cloud...
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction The Oracle Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into Oracle...
View ArticleExtracting Data from Fusion SaaS via View Objects with Data Sync
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction The Oracle Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into Oracle...
View ArticleFusion SaaS – Finding The View Object You Need for Data Extracts
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction For good reason, the database of Fusion SaaS products is not available for ETL tools to work directly against. The recommended approach to...
View ArticleSaaS Data Replication in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC, and OAAC)
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction In the recent Oracle Analytics Cloud release, exciting new SaaS data replication functionality was added. This allows Oracle Analytics...
View ArticleSet up Fusion SaaS BI Cloud Connector (BICC) to use Cloud Storage
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction This article walks through the steps to set up a Cloud Storage Container, for use with the Fusion SaaS BI Cloud Connector. This may be of...
View ArticleRestricting Access to Oracle Analytics Cloud by IP Range
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction Customers may want to restrict access to their Oracle Cloud Services to a set of IP ranges, for instance to only allow connections coming...
View ArticleOAC Connection to On-Premise Essbase via Remote Data Connector
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction This article walks through the steps to set up the Remote Data Connector (RDC), for Oracle Analytics Cloud, to connect to an On-Premise...
View ArticleDirect On-Premise Database Connections for OAC DV via RDC
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction The Remote Data Connector (RDC) allows the Oracle Analytics Cloud service to connect to on-premise data sources. In the 5.2 release of...
View ArticleOAC Remote Data Connector with Jetty
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction The Remote Data Connector (RDC) allows the Oracle Analytics Cloud service to connect to on-premise data sources. There are now 2 versions....
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