by Gianni Ceresa | 3 October 2023 | Ranting
“Wait, what? Can you repeat?”, this has been my reaction the first time somebody, a customer using OBIEE for years, told me that Oracle Analytics is dead.The following time it almost started sounding like a normal comment: several people, both...
by Gianni Ceresa | 12 April 2023 | Infrastructure
I started this journey into the installation of the Oracle Analytics Server by giving a high-level view of the process in the first part, followed by more details on the OS preparation, installation, and patching in the second part.This third, and final, part will...
by Gianni Ceresa | 11 April 2023 | Infrastructure
As mentioned in the first part focusing on installing Oracle Analytics Server, the first step is about preparing the environment where you are going to install the product. Everything starts with an operating system. OAS doesn’t care much about the “kind...
by Gianni Ceresa | 10 April 2023 | Infrastructure
On March 28, 2023, Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) 2023 (aka 7.0) has been released. This is the 2023 yearly release of Oracle Analytics Server, a yearly release cycle for new features that started with the very first release of OAS 5.5 in the spring of 2020. Followed...
by Gianni Ceresa | 21 December 2021 | Cloud, Infrastructure
Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) 5.9 is available for many months now and it brought some features updates to OAS 5.5 (released in 2020) as expected by the “one new features release per year” plan for OAS (compared to cloud receiving new features updates...
by Gianni Ceresa | 6 December 2021 | Quick tips
Did you ever want to have a Linux environment easily accessible on your laptop? The most common way to achieve this, in the past, was to have a virtual machine running your preferred Linux distribution. Oracle VirtualBox being free, there wasn’t any extra...
by Gianni Ceresa | 1 June 2021 | Cloud, Infrastructure
Who doesn’t need a reverse proxy from time to time? This is a component that I often find very useful in various situations. A reverse proxy can allow you to expose services running on private networks, not having a public IP address. Or also to perform...
by Gianni Ceresa | 26 May 2021 | Cloud, Graphs, Infrastructure
Oracle publicly announced the availability of the A1 compute instance in their cloud offer with the introduction of the Ampere Altra ARM v8.2 cpu. ARM cpus aren’t new and we all (probably) have them without knowing (mobile devices are often powered by ARM cpus,...
by Gianni Ceresa | 17 March 2021 | Cloud, Graphs
Graph Studio is about to join the list of tools on top of Autonomous Database making graph analysis easier. Oracle provides support for property graphs for some years already. In the beginning, it was part of an extra database license pack with Spatial and RDF graphs....
by Gianni Ceresa | 19 January 2021 | Cloud
Historically there has always been a close connection between Oracle Analytics and the database used. By pushing down to the database most of the logic it is possible to make Oracle Analytics perform better by “outsourcing” a work (data manipulation) that...
