We are in the process of selecting BI stack for our data warehouse. The top contenders are OBIEE = Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (formerly Siebel Analytics) and Microstrategy. Has anyone worked with OBIEE? Lessons learned? General impressions? Flaws, strengths? ...
I have used a 'Union' to combine two reports showing different dates. When I open the report on it's own it works fine with the two dates shown. However when I drill to the (union) report from another on the dashboard it only shows one date. Is there a dashboard filter that I may need to un apply or is there some other explanation!? I ca...
I have used a 'Union' to combine two reports showing different dates. When I open the report on it's own it works fine with the two dates shown. However when I drill to the (union) report from another on the dashboard it only shows one date. Is there a dashboard filter that I may need to un apply or is there some other explanation!? I ca...
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I have successfully used the HtmlViewService in the OBIEE Web Services SOAP API to pull back HTML for an Answers report (using C#/ASP.NET). For some reason, they are using an iframe to call the SOAP API and return the bulk content of the report (I was hoping to just get the raw HTML, but I'll save the grief for another day). Anyways, whe...
Hi All, I am trying to access the Siebel Analytics reports in iPhone through Oracle Business Indicator, According to the Oracle Business Indicator configuration they have asked to update the settings with the application URL and update the user name and password, however after the updating the settings when we try to access the Oracle b...
I have been using the Dashboard URL for some time now at a client with no problems. All of the sudden, something started happening that I am having trouble reproducing. I am essentially relying on SSO to authenticate the user, so I do not have the need to pass the username/password through the query string. All I am passing is this: htt...
Hi We have application build in asp.net in which on button we need to go to OBIEE dashboard. Similarly need to come back from OBIEE to ASP.NET application. Currently I am using redirecting from ASP.net page to OBIEE with username and password in the URL. But as per my requirement i need to implement SSO or username and password should ...
Hi When we download a report to excel, remove the top two lines of the report in the excel. how can we do that? Its urgent.waiting for ur answer..... Thanks in Advance Rogks ...
Hello, I am trying to use a '>' symbol inside a GOURL to retrieve a report in PDF format automatically to users desktop. I'm actually using a perl script to programmatically request the login page, login using my credentials, and then I use a go url to download pdf report, sending it parameters,(doing URL encoding which includes convert...