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Stephen Goldsmith

Stephen brings over 20 years of experience in helping organizations achieve a competitive advantage through improvements in business processes and information systems. With a history of building custom data warehouse solutions as far back as the early 90’s, Stephen has helped countless organizations uncover business knowledge from the vast amounts of data hidden in their operational manufacturing, financial, sales, marketing and project management systems. Stephen joined BizTech in 2010, as the Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics. His role builds upon the growing Business Intelligence market and positive results BizTech has experienced with Oracle’s packaged Business Intelligence applications.
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OBI 11g version 11.1.1.6 Release is Generally Available

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: Feb 26, 2012 11:38:53 AM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

The latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, 11.1.1.6 is now downloadable from OTN for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX @ http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/biee-111150-393613.html

And, the OBIEE 11.1.1.6 Documentation Library is online @ http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/bi.htm

This is the OBI Foundation version that is used to support the new Exalytics in-memory BI machine.

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Integrating Active Directory with OBIEE 11g

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: Sep 28, 2011 11:56:51 AM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

OBIEE 11g provides a number of different ways to integrate with authentication services. This post shows how to authenticate users with an existing AD solution.

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Migrating the OBI 11g Webcatalog and RPD from a Test to Production Environment

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: Sep 6, 2011 1:14:10 PM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

The migration process for 11g is a little bit different from 10g in that the deployment of a new web catalog and repository is taken care of through the weblogic enterprise manager. The repository is uploaded through the application, while the web catalog still needs to be manually copied onto the server. To make it easy on yourself, just copy the contents of the catalog folder from test into the existing catalog folder in production. One thing to be aware of is that underlying security is taken care of in the weblogic layer now, so you will need to take that into consideration if your test and prod environments are different (or just have different application roles set up).

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LDAP Administration and Writeback Table Authorization

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: Jul 22, 2011 2:42:49 PM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

This entry will discuss how to utilize OBIEE 10g capabilities to authorize and authenticate your users. Authentication will be administered by an external LDAP solution, while authorization will be controlled in the datawarehouse and administered using writeback capability.

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how to get your ex back when he has moved on

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: Jun 20, 2011 12:27:17 PM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

get boyfriend back and
an ex lover or
how to get my ex boyfrind back with a text.

making your ex girlfriend want you again

text that will bring her back, got back with my ex but we fought again, etc.

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how to know your ex gf want you back

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: Jun 9, 2011 11:42:20 AM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

make your ex girlfriend want you back - Oracle BI 11g includes a new mapping feature. This feature is a powerful tool that allows for map-based representation of data. This blog entry includes an overview of the steps required to install

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Implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) in 45 Days

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: May 26, 2011 12:55:14 PM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

Do your decision makers have the right information at the right time? Can you compare actual operating results to budgets in real-time? Are you fully leveraging your investment in back-end systems? If you answered no to any of these questions, your business will benefit by implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA).

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i didnt text you to get you back to your ex boyfriend

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: May 18, 2011 4:04:02 PM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

My ex has moved on wants to marry him Can I get her back and
hanging out with ex boyfriend to get him back or
is it to soon to contact my ex after 5 days.

how can you get your ex girlfriend back when you were suffering from depression

get your ex lover back, texts to ex boyfriend, etc.

i didnt text you to get you back to your ex boyfriend
Oracle has just announced that the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) will be available on the 11g platform. Oracle Business Intelligence Applications include pre-built dashboards, reports, metadata, data warehouse schemas and ETL solutions, dramatically reducing the time to implement and deploy a Business Intelligence solution.

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Going Mobile with Oracle BI

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: May 16, 2011 11:26:47 AM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

Circa 2005, two managers show up to a meeting, each with a report in hand. The meeting intended to focus on why sales have declined in the Western Region turns into a debate about whose numbers are correct. After an hour, nothing is resolved.

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Informatica vs. ODI for ETL

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: May 2, 2011 12:12:26 PM

Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

A key component to a Business Intelligence (BI) architecture is the Extract, Translate and Load (ETL) process. The ETL process is typically scheduled on a nightly basis and is responsible for moving data from one or more source systems into a data warehouse. In early data warehouses, ETL was typically performed by custom-developed programs and scripts. Over the past twenty years, ETL development has matured into configurable tools. Two common tools used with Oracle Business Intelligence include Informatica Power Center and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). While these tools have similar features, there are considerations that can be used to identify the correct tool for a particular Business Intelligence environment.

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