The 2019 end-of-year holiday period is approaching, before closing the laptop for few days it’s good to look back how the year went. It has been very busy working wise: client work, conference preparation and talks, blog posts and videos kept my time well occupied. I also had an amazing news in June, when, during Kscope 19, I was invited on the stage and announced as Oracle ACE Director Congratulations to new Oracle ACE Directors @ftisiot @thtechnology @fdmeeguru!

If you read this now and you wanted to submit for ITOUG Tech Days 2020…. well, bad luck, you’re too late! ITOUG Tech Days 2020 was closed last week with an astonishing record of submissions! This post will analyse a bit the numbers of the submissions using the magic Oracle Analytics Cloud. First of all, uploading the data and fixing the column settings. For example, we want to properly convert to Date our Submission Date (Data di invio in Italian).

Hello! After a long time I’m back to my personal blog! You can find all my Rittman Mead related blog posts here! Recently I’ve been doing some personal study around various areas including streaming, machine learning and data visualization and one of the tools that got my attention is Looker. I’ve initially heard about Looker from a Drill to Detail podcast from Mark Rittman and increasingly been hearing about it in conferences and use cases together with other cloud solutions like BigQuery, Snowflake and Fivetran.

I’m pleased to announce that, for the first time, a BI/Analytics track will be present at ITOUG! ITOUG, the recently created Italian Oracle User Group, has been so far almost 100% DBA orientated. At the next event, which will be held on 8th June 2017 at UNA Century Hotel in Milan, we are opening a new BI/Analytics streams and looking for speakers. Call for papers is already open, visit http://www.itoug.it for more informations.

For anybody on OBIEE 12c wanting to enable full SSL, Oracle provided within the OBIEE Documentation an explanation on how to set it up using demo certificates. However the usage of demo certificates gives the end user the annoying problem of needing to accept an exception to enter the website since the demo certificate wasn’t created for the server/domain where OBIEE is located (the same problem arises also with Smartview).

For anybody interested in how to remove or add Data Visualisation (also known as Visual Analyser) option to a specific role in OBIEE 12c, Oracle released Doc ID 2102444.1 which gives the detail about the procedure using WLST and the RevokeDVPermission.py (or GrantDVPermission.py) that should be present in the OBIEE12c Installation Middleware home by default.

I’ve been working on OBIEE and Oracle products in general since 2008, it has been so far a great experience with an enormous amount of information being available freely in internet. When trying to solve problems this amount of information can be a treasure but also a risk since the information contained in any website can be partial, not relevant or in some cases completely wrong for the subject searched. As an unexperienced person (but also for experienced) it’s difficult to distinguish whether the content of a website can be followed and trusted and sometimes even replies to public forums can’t be a valid source since different problems provide the similar wrong behaviour and can be confused.

Hi All, I thought that including a post on the OBI related blogs and the owner twitter accounts, may be useful. The list will be enriched over time * [rittmanmead.com](http://www.rittmanmead.com): My company's blog, always source of good OBI articles * [rmoff.net](http://rmoff.net): [Robin Moffat](https://twitter.com/rmoff)'s (Oracle ACE) personal blog * [gianniceresa.com](https://gianniceresa.com): [Gianni Ceresa](https://twitter.com/G_Ceresa)'s personal blog * [dimensionality.ch](http://dimensionality.ch): [Christian Berg](https://twitter.com/Nephentur)'s (Oracle ACE Associate) personal blog * [gerardnico.com](http://gerardnico.com/): Nicolas Gerard's personal blog * [bisoftdiary.com](https://bisoftdiary.com/): [Andrew Fomin](https://twitter.

Hi All, If you already migrated to OBI12c you could experience, when printing to PDF a dashboard or analysis including performance tiles that the layout is not what expected. [caption width=“300” id=“attachment_37” align=“aligncenter”] Original Dashboard Layout[/caption] [caption width=“300” id=“attachment_36” align=“aligncenter”] PDF Print[/caption]The good news is that this has been recognised as a bug and if you are on 12.2.1.0.0 there is a patch available “Patch 22759083: BIEE 12C DASHBOARD PRINT TO PDF MISSING PERFORMANCE TILES FROM THE REPORT”.

Hi All! Welcome to my blog! If time and perseverance will assist me I’ll try to post here about my findings and ideas at work and about life in general, so stay tuned! Francesco