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• Uiwebview refreshes after zoom and pinch

  - by Dominik

  Hello, I have a uiwebview in my App. So far everything works fine, but when i zoom in or out for example the uiwebview refreshes the loaded page and then scrolls and zooms to the new page location and size. So the zooming works good, but I don't want the user to see the refresh and repositioning of the website. Is there a way to prevent this? Thanks for any tips!

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• How to overwirte i-frames of a video?

  - by Dominik

  hi, i want to destroy alle i-frames of a video. doing this i want to check if encrypting only the i-frames of a video would be sufficient for making it unwatchable. How can i do this? Only removing them and recompressing the video would not be the same as really overwriting the iframe in the stream without recalculating b-frames etc.

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• How to overwrite i-frames of a video?

  - by Dominik

  I want to destroy all i-frames of a video. Doing this I want to check if encrypting only the i-frames of a video would be sufficient for making it unwatchable. How can I do this? Only removing them and recompressing the video would not be the same as really overwriting the i-frame in the stream without recalculating b-frames etc.

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• Synchronization of Nested Data Structures between Threads in Java

  - by Dominik

  I have a cache implementation like this: class X { private final Map<String, ConcurrentMap<String, String>> structure = new HashMap...(); public String getValue(String context, String id) { // just assume for this example that there will be always an innner map final ConcurrentMap<String, String> innerStructure = structure.get(context); String value = innerStructure.get(id); if(value == null) { synchronized(structure) { // can I be sure, that this inner map will represent the last updated // state from any thread? value = innerStructure.get(id); if(value == null) { value = getValueFromSomeSlowSource(id); innerStructure.put(id, value); } } } return value; } } Is this implementation thread-safe? Can I be sure to get the last updated state from any thread inside the synchronized block? Would this behaviour change if I use a java.util.concurrent.ReentrantLock instead of a synchronized block, like this: ... if(lock.tryLock(3, SECONDS)) { try { value = innerStructure.get(id); if(value == null) { value = getValueFromSomeSlowSource(id); innerStructure.put(id, value); } } finally { lock.unlock(); } } ... I know that final instance members are synchronized between threads, but is this also true for the objects held by these members? Maybe this is a dumb question, but I don't know how to test it to be sure, that it works on every OS and every architecture.

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• How to represent different entities that have identical behavior?

  - by Dominik

  I have several different entities in my domain model (animal species, let's say), which have a few properties each. The entities are readonly (they do not change state during the application lifetime) and they have identical behavior (the differ only by the values of properties). How to implement such entities in code? Unsuccessful attempts: Enums I tried an enum like this: enum Animals { Frog, Duck, Otter, Fish } And other pieces of code would switch on the enum. However, this leads to ugly switching code, scattering the logic around and problems with comboboxes. There's no pretty way to list all possible Animals. Serialization works great though. Subclasses I also thought about where each animal type is a subclass of a common base abstract class. The implementation of Swim() is the same for all Animals, though, so it makes little sense and serializability is a big issue now. Since we represent an animal type (species, if you will), there should be one instance of the subclass per application, which is hard and weird to maintain when we use serialization. public abstract class AnimalBase { string Name { get; set; } // user-readable double Weight { get; set; } Habitat Habitat { get; set; } public void Swim(); { /* swim implementation; the same for all animals but depends uses the value of Weight */ } } public class Otter: AnimalBase{ public Otter() { Name = "Otter"; Weight = 10; Habitat = "North America"; } } // ... and so on Just plain awful. Static fields This blog post gave me and idea for a solution where each option is a statically defined field inside the type, like this: public class Animal { public static readonly Animal Otter = new Animal { Name="Otter", Weight = 10, Habitat = "North America"} // the rest of the animals... public string Name { get; set; } // user-readable public double Weight { get; set; } public Habitat Habitat { get; set; } public void Swim(); } That would be great: you can use it like enums (AnimalType = Animal.Otter), you can easily add a static list of all defined animals, you have a sensible place where to implement Swim(). Immutability can be achieved by making property setters protected. There is a major problem, though: it breaks serializability. A serialized Animal would have to save all its properties and upon deserialization it would create a new instance of Animal, which is something I'd like to avoid. Is there an easy way to make the third attempt work? Any more suggestions for implementing such a model?

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• Non Working Relationship

  - by Dominik K.

  Hello everyone, I got a problem with cake's model architecture. I got a Users-Model and a Metas-Model. Here are the model codes: Users: <?php class User extends AppModel { var $name = 'User'; var $validate = array( 'username' => array('notempty'), 'email' => array('email'), 'password' => array('notempty') ); var $displayField = 'username'; var $hasMany = array( 'Meta' => array( 'className' => 'Meta', 'foreignKey' => 'user_id' ) ); } ?> and the Metas Model: <?php class Meta extends AppModel { var $name = 'Meta'; //The Associations below have been created with all possible keys, those that are not needed can be removed var $belongsTo = array( 'User' => array( 'className' => 'User', 'foreignKey' => 'user_id', 'required' => true ) ); } ?> So now the question is why do I not get the Meta data into the User array? Should I get it in the Auth object? Or where can I work with the meta data? hope you can help me! Have a nice Day! Dom

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• rails foobar_path(3) returnes strange path: "/foobar.3/" instead of "/foobar/3/

  - by Dominik

  Hi i have this starnge behavoir... <%= link_to image_tag("image.png"), foobar_path(1), :method => "put" %> produces: <a href="/brain.1" onclick="var f = document.createElement('form'); f.style.display = 'none'; this.parentNode.appendChild(f); f.met ...[many rails code]... ;return false;"><img alt="Research_4" src="/images/image.png" /></a> a href="/foobar.1" this is the strange part :( any ideas whqt is causing this?

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• Sending UDP Packet in C#

  - by DOminik

  Hello everybody! I have a game server (WoW). I want my players to download my custom patches to the game. I've done a program that checks for update/downloading things. I want my program to send a packet to my game server if player have all my patches. I dont need any response from the server, it will handle it, but its another story. So I want to know, how to send a packet to a server. Thank you!

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• Flex List ItemRenderer with image looses BitmapData when scrolling

  - by Dominik

  Hi i have a mx:List with a DataProvider. This data Provider is a ArrayCollection if FotoItems public class FotoItem extends EventDispatcher { [Bindable] public var data:Bitmap; [Bindable] public var id:int; [Bindable] public var duration:Number; public function FotoItem(data:Bitmap, id:int, duration:Number, target:IEventDispatcher=null) { super(target); this.data = data; this.id = id; this.duration = duration; } } my itemRenderer looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:VBox xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" > <fx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.collections.ArrayCollection; ]]> </fx:Script> <s:Label text="index"/> <mx:Image source="{data.data}" maxHeight="100" maxWidth="100"/> <s:Label text="Duration: {data.duration}ms"/> <s:Label text="ID: {data.id}"/> </mx:VBox> Now when i am scrolling then all images that leave the screen disappear :( When i take a look at the arrayCollection every item's BitmapData is null. Why is this the case?

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• Exact match in regex character sets

  - by Dominik

  Hi all Consider the following string '35=_-235-b-35=35-35=2-135=a-35=123-235=2-35=a-53=1-53=a-553=b' I'd like to extract everything that matches 35= followed by 1 or 2 characters. What I came up with is the following regex \d[35]=[A-Za-z0-9]{1,2} The problem is the character set [35] matches both 35= and 53=. How can I achieve an exact match for a character set? Any suggestions, or different approaches are very much appreciated!

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• 2D distortion of a face from an image on iOS? (similar to Fat Booth etc.)

  - by Dominik Hadl

  I was just wondering if someone knows about some good library or tutorial on how to achieve a 2D distortion of a face taken from an image taken by the user. I would like to achieve a similar effect to the one in Fatify, Oldify, all those Fat Booths, etc., because I am creating an app where you will throw something at the face and I would the face to jiggle and move when the object hits it. How should I do this?

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• Resize image with blue dots like in copy/Paste Function?

  - by Dominik

  Hello, I want to add a resize function to my app which works like the integrated copy feature on the iPhone. When the user opens the view he should see the image with the four blue dots which enable him to resize it. Is there an available example for this? Or has anyone the keywords for this functionality, which i can use for my further Search? Thanks for all tips and hints

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• Best Practice of Field Collapsing in SOLR 1.4

  - by Dominik

  I need a way to collapse duplicate (defined in terms of a string field with an id) results in solr. I know that such a feature is comming in the next version (1.5), but I can't wait for that. What would be the best way to remove duplicates using the current stable version 1.4? Given that finding duplicates in my case is really easy (comparison of a string field), should it be a Filter, should I overwrite the existing SearchComponent or write a new Component, or use some external libraries like carrot2? The overall result count should reflect the shortened result.

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• Registry Problem

  - by Dominik

  I made a launcher for my game server. (World of Warcraft) I want to get the installpath of the game, browsed by the user. I'm using this code to browse, and get the installpath, then set some other strings from the installpath string, then just strore in my registry key. using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Reflection; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data; using Microsoft.Win32; using System.IO; using System.Net.NetworkInformation; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Runtime; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Security; using System.Security.Cryptography; using System.Text; using System.Net; using System.Linq; using System.Net.Sockets; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Threading; namespace WindowsFormsApplication1 { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } string InstallPath, WoWExe, PatchPath; private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { RegistryKey LocalMachineKey_Existence; MessageBox.Show("Browse your install location.", "Select Wow.exe"); OpenFileDialog BrowseInstallPath = new OpenFileDialog(); BrowseInstallPath.Filter = "wow.exe|*.exe"; if (BrowseInstallPath.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { InstallPath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(BrowseInstallPath.FileName); WoWExe = InstallPath + "\\wow.exe"; PatchPath = InstallPath + "\\Data\\"; LocalMachineKey_Existence = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\ExistenceWoW"); LocalMachineKey_Existence.SetValue("InstallPathLocation", InstallPath); LocalMachineKey_Existence.SetValue("PatchPathLocation", PatchPath); LocalMachineKey_Existence.SetValue("WoWExeLocation", WoWExe); } } } } The problem is: On some computer, it doesnt stores like it should be. For example, your wow.exe is in C:\ASD\wow.exe, your select it with the browse windows, then the program should store it in the Existence registry key as C:\ASD\Data\ but it stores like this: C:\ASDData , so it forgots a backslash :S Look at this picture: http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2829/regedita.jpg My program works cool on my PC, and on my friends pc, but on some pc this "bug" comes out :S I have windows 7, with .NEt 3.5 Please help me.

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• Two Applications using the same index file with Hibernate Search

  - by Dominik Obermaier

  Hi, I want to know if it is possible to use the same index file for an entity in two applications. Let me be more specific: We have an online Application with a frondend for the users and an application for the backend tasks (= administrator interface). Both are running on the same JBOSS AS. Both Applications are using the same database, so they are using the same entities. Of course the package names are not the same in both applications for the entities. So this is our usecase: A user should be able to search via the frondend. The user is only allowed to see results which are tagged with "visible". This tagging happens in our admin interface, so the index for the frontend should be updated every time an entity is tagged as "visible" in the backend. Of course both applications do have the same index root folder. In my index folder there are 2 index files: de.x.x.admin.model.Product de.x.x.frondend.model.Product How to "merge" this via Hibernate Search Configuration? I just did not get it via the documentation... Thanks for any help!

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• Ember-App-Kit: How to execute code only in release mode?

  - by Dominik Schmidt

  I have created an error handler as described here: http://emberjs.com/guides/understanding-ember/debugging/#toc_implement-a-code-ember-onerror-code-hook-to-log-all-errors-in-production But this code is not only executed in production mode but also in normal debug builds which floods my server logs. I know that Ember.debug() calls and alike are being filtered out for production builds, but I couldn't find out where/how that is implemented and if that same mechanism could be used to make my code only fire in production code.

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• EM12c Release 4: New EMCLI Verbs

  - by SubinDaniVarughese

  Here are the new EM CLI verbs in Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 (12.1.0.4). This helps you in writing new scripts or enhancing your existing scripts for further automation. Basic Administration Verbs invoke_ws - Invoke EM web service.ADM Verbs associate_target_to_adm - Associate a target to an application data model. export_adm - Export Application Data Model to a specified .xml file. import_adm - Import Application Data Model from a specified .xml file. list_adms - List the names, target names and application suites of existing Application Data Models verify_adm - Submit an application data model verify job for the target specified.Agent Update Verbs get_agent_update_status -  Show Agent Update Results get_not_updatable_agents - Shows Not Updatable Agents get_updatable_agents - Show Updatable Agents update_agents - Performs Agent Update Prereqs and submits Agent Update JobBI Publisher Reports Verbs grant_bipublisher_roles - Grants access to the BI Publisher catalog and features. revoke_bipublisher_roles - Revokes access to the BI Publisher catalog and features.Blackout Verbs create_rbk - Create a Retro-active blackout.CFW Verbs cancel_cloud_service_requests -  To cancel cloud service requests delete_cloud_service_instances -  To delete cloud service instances delete_cloud_user_objects - To delete cloud user objects. get_cloud_service_instances - To get information about cloud service instances get_cloud_service_requests - To get information about cloud requests get_cloud_user_objects - To get information about cloud user objects.Chargeback Verbs add_chargeback_entity - Adds the given entity to Chargeback. assign_charge_plan - Assign a plan to a chargeback entity. assign_cost_center - Assign a cost center to a chargeback entity. create_charge_entity_type - Create  charge entity type export_charge_plans - Exports charge plans metadata to file export_custom_charge_items -  Exports user defined charge items to a file import_charge_plans - Imports charge plans metadata from given file import_custom_charge_items -  Imports user defined charge items metadata from given file list_charge_plans - Gives a list of charge plans in Chargeback. list_chargeback_entities - Gives a list of all the entities in Chargeback list_chargeback_entity_types - Gives a list of all the entity types that are supported in Chargeback list_cost_centers - Lists the cost centers in Chargeback. remove_chargeback_entity - Removes the given entity from Chargeback. unassign_charge_plan - Un-assign the plan associated to a chargeback entity. unassign_cost_center - Un-assign the cost center associated to a chargeback entity.Configuration/Association History disable_config_history - Disable configuration history computation for a target type. enable_config_history - Enable configuration history computation for a target type. set_config_history_retention_period - Sets the amount of time for which Configuration History is retained.ConfigurationCompare config_compare - Submits the configuration comparison job get_config_templates - Gets all the comparison templates from the repositoryCompliance Verbs fix_compliance_state -  Fix compliance state by removing references in deleted targets.Credential Verbs update_credential_setData Subset Verbs export_subset_definition - Exports specified subset definition as XML file at specified directory path. generate_subset - Generate subset using specified subset definition and target database. import_subset_definition - Import a subset definition from specified XML file. import_subset_dump - Imports dump file into specified target database. list_subset_definitions - Get the list of subset definition, adm and target nameDelete pluggable Database Job Verbs delete_pluggable_database - Delete a pluggable databaseDeployment Procedure Verbs get_runtime_data - Get the runtime data of an executionDiscover and Push to Agents Verbs generate_discovery_input - Generate Discovery Input file for discovering Auto-Discovered Domains refresh_fa - Refresh Fusion Instance run_fa_diagnostics - Run Fusion Applications DiagnosticsFusion Middleware Provisioning Verbs create_fmw_domain_profile - Create a Fusion Middleware Provisioning Profile from a WebLogic Domain create_fmw_home_profile - Create a Fusion Middleware Provisioning Profile from an Oracle Home create_inst_media_profile - Create a Fusion Middleware Provisioning Profile from Installation MediaGold Agent Image Verbs create_gold_agent_image - Creates a gold agent image. decouple_gold_agent_image - Decouples the agent from gold agent image. delete_gold_agent_image - Deletes a gold agent image. get_gold_agent_image_activity_status -  Gets gold agent image activity status. get_gold_agent_image_details - Get the gold agent image details. list_agents_on_gold_image - Lists agents on a gold agent image. list_gold_agent_image_activities - Lists gold agent image activities. list_gold_agent_image_series - Lists gold agent image series. list_gold_agent_images - Lists the available gold agent images. promote_gold_agent_image - Promotes a gold agent image. stage_gold_agent_image - Stages a gold agent image.Incident Rules Verbs add_target_to_rule_set - Add a target to an enterprise rule set. delete_incident_record - Delete one or more open incidents remove_target_from_rule_set - Remove a target from an enterprise rule set. Job Verbs export_jobs - Export job details in to an xml file import_jobs - Import job definitions from an xml file job_input_file - Supply details for a job verb in a property file resume_job - Resume a job or set of jobs suspend_job - Suspend a job or set of jobs Oracle Database as Service Verbs config_db_service_target - Configure DB Service target for OPCPrivilege Delegation Settings Verbs clear_default_privilege_delegation_setting - Clears the default privilege delegation setting for a given list of platforms set_default_privilege_delegation_setting - Sets the default privilege delegation setting for a given list of platforms test_privilege_delegation_setting - Tests a Privilege Delegation Setting on a hostSSA Verbs cleanup_dbaas_requests - Submit cleanup request for failed request create_dbaas_quota - Create Database Quota for a SSA User Role create_service_template - Create a Service Template delete_dbaas_quota - Delete the Database Quota setup for a SSA User Role delete_service_template - Delete a given service template get_dbaas_quota - List the Database Quota setup for all SSA User Roles get_dbaas_request_settings - List the Database Request Settings get_service_template_detail - Get details of a given service template get_service_templates -  Get the list of available service templates rename_service_template -  Rename a given service template update_dbaas_quota - Update the Database Quota for a SSA User Role update_dbaas_request_settings - Update the Database Request Settings update_service_template -  Update a given service template. SavedConfigurations get_saved_configs  - Gets the saved configurations from the repository Server Generated Alert Metric Verbs validate_server_generated_alerts  - Server Generated Alert Metric VerbServices Verbs edit_sl_rule - Edit the service level rule for the specified serviceSiebel Verbs list_siebel_enterprises -  List Siebel enterprises currently monitored in EM list_siebel_servers -  List Siebel servers under a specified siebel enterprise update_siebel- Update a Siebel enterprise or its underlying serversSiteGuard Verbs add_siteguard_aux_hosts -  Associate new auxiliary hosts to the system configure_siteguard_lag -  Configure apply lag and transport lag limit for databases delete_siteguard_aux_host -  Delete auxiliary host associated with a site delete_siteguard_lag -  Erases apply lag or transport lag limit for databases get_siteguard_aux_hosts -  Get all auxiliary hosts associated with a site get_siteguard_health_checks -  Shows schedule of health checks get_siteguard_lag -  Shows apply lag or transport lag limit for databases schedule_siteguard_health_checks -  Schedule health checks for an operation plan stop_siteguard_health_checks -  Stops all future health check execution of an operation plan update_siteguard_lag -  Updates apply lag and transport lag limit for databasesSoftware Library Verbs stage_swlib_entity_files -  Stage files of an entity from Software Library to a host target.Target Data Verbs create_assoc - Creates target associations delete_assoc - Deletes target associations list_allowed_pairs - Lists allowed association types for specified source and destination list_assoc - Lists associations between source and destination targets manage_agent_partnership - Manages partnership between agents. Used for explicitly assigning agent partnershipsTrace Reports generate_ui_trace_report  -  Generate and download UI Page performance report (to identify slow rendering pages)VI EMCLI Verbs add_virtual_platform - Add Oracle Virtual PLatform(s). modify_virtual_platform - Modify Oracle Virtual Platform.To get more details about each verb, execute$ emcli help <verb_name>Example: $ emcli help list_assocNew resources in list verbThese are the new resources in EM CLI list verb :Certificates  WLSCertificateDetails Credential Resource Group  PreferredCredentialsDefaultSystemScope - Preferred credentials (System Scope)   PreferredCredentialsSystemScope - Target preferred credentialPrivilege Delegation Settings  TargetPrivilegeDelegationSettingDetails  - List privilege delegation setting details on a host  TargetPrivilegeDelegationSetting - List privilege delegation settings on a host   PrivilegeDelegationSettings  - Lists all Privilege Delegation Settings   PrivilegeDelegationSettingDetails - Lists details of  Privilege Delegation Settings To get more details about each resource, execute$ emcli list -resource="<resource_name>" -helpExample: $ emcli list -resource="PrivilegeDelegationSettings" -helpDeprecated Verbs:Agent Administration Verbs resecure_agent - Resecure an agentTo get the complete list of verbs, execute:$ emcli help Stay Connected: Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Linkedin | Newsletter Download the Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Mobile app

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• BI Applications overview

  - by sv744

  Welcome to Oracle BI applications blog! This blog will talk about various features, general roadmap, description of functionality and implementation steps related to Oracle BI applications. In the first post we start with an overview of the BI apps and will delve deeper into some of the topics below in the upcoming weeks and months. If there are other topics you would like us to talk about, pl feel free to provide feedback on that. The Oracle BI applications are a set of pre-built applications that enable pervasive BI by providing role-based insight for each functional area, including sales, service, marketing, contact center, finance, supplier/supply chain, HR/workforce, and executive management. For example, Sales Analytics includes role-based applications for sales executives, sales management, as well as front-line sales reps, each of whom have different needs. The applications integrate and transform data from a range of enterprise sources—including Siebel, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, and others—into actionable intelligence for each business function and user role. This blog  starts with the key benefits and characteristics of Oracle BI applications. In a series of subsequent blogs, each of these points will be explained in detail. Why BI apps? Demonstrate the value of BI to a business user, show reports / dashboards / model that can answer their business questions as part of the sales cycle. Demonstrate technical feasibility of BI project and significantly lower risk and improve success Build Vs Buy benefit Don’t have to start with a blank sheet of paper. Help consolidate disparate systems Data integration in M&A situations Insulate BI consumers from changes in the OLTP Present OLTP data and highlight issues of poor data / missing data – and improve data quality and accuracy Prebuilt Integrations BI apps support prebuilt integrations against leading ERP sources: Fusion Applications, E- Business Suite, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, SAP Co-developed with inputs from functional experts in BI and Applications teams. Out of the box dimensional model to source model mappings Multi source and Multi Instance support Rich Data Model    BI apps have a very rich dimensionsal data model built over 10 years that incorporates best practises from BI modeling perspective as well as reflect the source system complexities  Thanks for reading a long post, and be on the lookout for future posts.  We will look forward to your valuable feedback on these topics as well as suggestions on what other topics would you like us to cover. I Conformed dimensional model across all business subject areas allows cross functional reporting, e.g. customer / supplier 360 Over 360 fact tables across 7 product areas CRM – 145, SCM – 47, Financials – 28, Procurement – 20, HCM – 27, Projects – 18, Campus Solutions – 21, PLM - 56 Supported by 300 physical dimensions Support for extensive calendars; Gregorian, enterprise and ledger based Conformed data model and metrics for real time vs warehouse based reporting  Multi-tenant enabled Extensive BI related transformations BI apps ETL and data integration support various transformations required for dimensional models and reporting requirements. All these have been distilled into common patterns and abstracted logic which can be readily reused across different modules Slowly Changing Dimension support Hierarchy flattening support Row / Column Hybrid Hierarchy Flattening As Is vs. As Was hierarchy support Currency Conversion :-  Support for 3 corporate, CRM, ledger and transaction currencies UOM conversion Internationalization / Localization Dynamic Data translations Code standardization (Domains) Historical Snapshots Cycle and process lifecycle computations Balance Facts Equalization of GL accounting chartfields/segments Standardized values for categorizing GL accounts Reconciliation between GL and subledgers to track accounted/transferred/posted transactions to GL Materialization of data only available through costly and complex APIs e.g. Fusion Payroll, EBS / Fusion Accruals Complex event Interpretation of source data – E.g. o    What constitutes a transfer o    Deriving supervisors via position hierarchy o    Deriving primary assignment in PSFT o    Categorizing and transposition to measures of Payroll Balances to specific metrics to support side by side comparison of measures of for example Fixed Salary, Variable Salary, Tax, Bonus, Overtime Payments. o    Counting of Events – E.g. converting events to fact counters so that for example the number of hires can easily be added up and compared alongside the total transfers and terminations. Multi pass processing of multiple sources e.g. headcount, salary, promotion, performance to allow side to side comparison. Adding value to data to aid analysis through banding, additional domain classifications and groupings to allow higher level analytical reporting and data discovery Calculation of complex measures examples: o    COGs, DSO, DPO, Inventory turns  etc o    Transfers within a Hierarchy or out of / into a hierarchy relative to view point in hierarchy. Configurability and Extensibility support  BI apps offer support for extensibility for various entities as automated extensibility or part of extension methodology Key Flex fields and Descriptive Flex support  Extensible attribute support (JDE)  Conformed Domains ETL Architecture BI apps offer a modular adapter architecture which allows support of multiple product lines into a single conformed model Multi Source Multi Technology Orchestration – creates load plan taking into account task dependencies and customers deployment to generate a plan based on a customers of multiple complex etl tasks Plan optimization allowing parallel ETL tasks Oracle: Bit map indexes and partition management High availability support    Follow the sun support. TCO BI apps support several utilities / capabilities that help with overall total cost of ownership and ensure a rapid implementation Improved cost of ownership – lower cost to deploy On-going support for new versions of the source application Task based setups flows Data Lineage Functional setup performed in Web UI by Functional person Configuration Test to Production support Security BI apps support both data and object security enabling implementations to quickly configure the application as per the reporting security needs Fine grain object security at report / dashboard and presentation catalog level Data Security integration with source systems  Extensible to support external data security rules Extensive Set of KPIs Over 7000 base and derived metrics across all modules Time series calculations (YoY, % growth etc) Common Currency and UOM reporting Cross subject area KPIs (analyzing HR vs GL data, drill from GL to AP/AR, etc) Prebuilt reports and dashboards 3000+ prebuilt reports supporting a large number of industries Hundreds of role based dashboards Dynamic currency conversion at dashboard level Highly tuned Performance The BI apps have been tuned over the years for both a very performant ETL and dashboard performance. The applications use best practises and advanced database features to enable the best possible performance. Optimized data model for BI and analytic queries Prebuilt aggregates& the ability for customers to create their own aggregates easily on warehouse facts allows for scalable end user performance Incremental extracts and loads Incremental Aggregate build Automatic table index and statistics management Parallel ETL loads Source system deletes handling Low latency extract with Golden Gate Micro ETL support Bitmap Indexes Partitioning support Modularized deployment, start small and add other subject areas seamlessly Source Specfic Staging and Real Time Schema Support for source specific operational reporting schema for EBS, PSFT, Siebel and JDE Application Integrations The BI apps also allow for integration with source systems as well as other applications that provide value add through BI and enable BI consumption during operational decision making Embedded dashboards for Fusion, EBS and Siebel applications Action Link support Marketing Segmentation Sales Predictor Dashboard Territory Management External Integrations The BI apps data integration choices include support for loading extenral data External data enrichment choices : UNSPSC, Item class etc. Extensible Spend Classification Broad Deployment Choices Exalytics support Databases :  Oracle, Exadata, Teradata, DB2, MSSQL ETL tool of choice : ODI (coming), Informatica Extensible and Customizable Extensible architecture and Methodology to add custom and external content Upgradable across releases

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• Some OBI EE Tricks and Tips in the Admin Tool By Gerry Langton

  - by hamsun

  How to set the log level from a Session variable Initialization block As we know it is normal to set the log level non-zero for a particular user when we wish to debug problems. However sometimes it is inconvenient to go into each user’s properties in the Admin tool and update the log level. So I am showing a method which allows the log level to be set for all users via a session initialization block. This is particularly useful for anyone wanting an alternative way to set the log level. The screen shots shown are using the OBIEE 11g SampleApp demo but are applicable to any environment. Open the appropriate rpd in on-line mode and navigate to Manage Variables. Select Session Initialization Blocks, right click in the white space and create a New Initialization Block. I called the Initialization block Set_Loglevel . Now click on ‘Edit Data Source’ to enter the SQL. Chose the ‘Use OBI EE Server’ option for the SQL. This means that the SQL provided must use tables which have been defined in the Physical layer of the RPD, and whilst there is no need to provide a connection pool you must work in On-Line mode. The SQL can access any of the RPD tables and is purely used to return a value of 2. The ‘Test’ button confirms that the SQL is valid. Next, click on the ‘Edit Data Target’ button to add the LOGLEVEL variable to the initialization block. Check the ‘Enable any user to set the value’ option so that this will work for any user. Click OK and the following message will display as LOGLEVEL is a system session variable: Click ‘Yes’. Click ‘OK’ to save the Initialization block. Then check in the On-LIne changes. To test that LOGLEVEL has been set, log in to OBIEE using an administrative login (e.g. weblogic) and reload server metadata, either from the Analysis editor or from Administration > Reload Files and Metadata link. Run a query then navigate to Administration > Manage Sessions and click ‘View Log’ for the query just issued (which should be approximately the last in the list). A log file should exist and with LOGLEVEL set to 2 should include both logical and physical sql. If more diagnostic information is required then set LOGLEVEL to a higher value. If logging is required only for a particular analysis then an alternative method can be used directly from the Analysis editor. Edit the analysis for which debugging is required and click on the Advanced tab. Scroll down to the Advanced SQL clauses section and enter the following in the Prefix box: SET VARIABLE LOGLEVEL = 2; Click the ‘Apply SQL’ button. The SET VARIABLE statement will now prefix the Analysis’s logical SQL. So that any time this analysis is run it will produce a log. You can find information about training for Oracle BI EE products here or in the OU Learning Paths. Please send me an email at [email protected] if you have any further questions. About the Author: Gerry Langton started at Siebel Systems in 1999 working as a technical instructor teaching both Siebel application development and also Siebel Analytics (which subsequently became Oracle BI EE). From 2006 Gerry has worked as Senior Principal Instructor within Oracle University specialising in Oracle BI EE, Oracle BI Publisher and Oracle Data Warehouse development for BI.

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• Guest blog: A Closer Look at Oracle Price Analytics by Will Hutchinson

  - by Takin Babaei

  Overview:  Price Analytics helps companies understand how much of each sale goes into discounts, special terms, and allowances. This visibility lets sales management see the panoply of discounts and start seeing whether each discount drives desired behavior. In Price Analytics monitors parts of the quote-to-order process, tracking quotes, including the whole price waterfall and seeing which result in orders. The “price waterfall” shows all discounts between list price and “pocket price”. Pocket price is the final price the vendor puts in its pocket after all discounts are taken. The value proposition: Based on benchmarks from leading consultancies and companies I have talked to, where they have studied the effects of discounting and started enforcing what many of them call “discount discipline”, they find they can increase the pocket price by 0.8-3%. Yes, in today’s zero or negative inflation environment, one can, through better monitoring of discounts, collect what amounts to a price rise of a few percent. We are not talking about selling more product, merely about collecting a higher pocket price without decreasing quantities sold. Higher prices fall straight to the bottom line. The best reference I have ever found for understanding this phenomenon comes from an article from the September-October 1992 issue of Harvard Business Review called “Managing Price, Gaining Profit” by Michael Marn and Robert Rosiello of McKinsey & Co. They describe the outsized impact price management has on bottom line performance compared to selling more product or cutting variable or fixed costs. Price Analytics manages what Marn and Rosiello call “transaction pricing”, namely the prices of a given transaction, as opposed to what is on the price list or pricing according to the value received. They make the point that if the vendor does not manage the price waterfall, customers will, to the vendor’s detriment. It also discusses its findings that in companies it studied, there was no correlation between discount levels and any indication of customer value. I urge you to read this article. What Price Analytics does: Price analytics looks at quotes the company issues and tracks them until either the quote is accepted or rejected or it expires. There are prebuilt adapters for EBS and Siebel as well as a universal adapter. The target audience includes pricing analysts, product managers, sales managers, and VP’s of sales, marketing, finance, and sales operations. It tracks how effective discounts have been, the win rate on quotes, how well pricing policies have been followed, customer and product profitability, and customer performance against commitments. It has the concept of price waterfall, the deal lifecycle, and price segmentation built into the product. These help product and sales managers understand their pricing and its effectiveness on driving revenue and profit. They also help understand how terms are adhered to during negotiations. They also help people understand what segments exist and how well they are adhered to. To help your company increase its profits and revenues, I urge you to look at this product. If you have questions, please contact me. Will HutchinsonMaster Principal Sales Consultant – Analytics, Oracle Corp. Will Hutchinson has worked in the business intelligence and data warehousing for over 25 years. He started building data warehouses in 1986 at Metaphor, advancing to running Metaphor UK’s sales consulting area. He also worked in A.T. Kearney’s business intelligence practice for over four years, running projects and providing training to new consultants in the IT practice. He also worked at Informatica and then Siebel, before coming to Oracle with the Siebel acquisition. He became Master Principal Sales Consultant in 2009. He has worked on developing ROI and TCO models for business intelligence for over ten years. Mr. Hutchinson has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.

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• UPK 3.6.1 Enablement Service Pack 1

  - by marc.santosusso

  UPK 3.6.1 Enablement Service Pack 1 now available on My Oracle Support as Patch ID 9533920 (requires My Oracle Support account). Below is a list of the enhancements included in this Enablement Service Pack. Tabbed Gateway Users now have the option to deliver multiple help resources through the in-application support using UPK's new tabbed gateway. This feature is managed using the Configuration Utility for In-Application Support. This feature is documented in the In-Application Support Guide. Firefox 3.6 The latest release of Mozilla Firefox, version 3.6, is now supported by the UPK Player, SmartHelp browser add-on, and SmartMatch recording technology. Oracle E-Business Suite -- Added support for version 12.1.2 for enhanced object and context recognition. -- The UPK PLL is no longer need for Oracle versions 12.1.2 and higher. Agile PLM Agile PLM version 9.3 supported for enhanced object recognition. Customer Needs Management Customer Needs Management schema 1.0.014 is supported for context recognition. Siebel CRM Siebel CRM (On Premise) versions 8.2, 8.1.1.2, 8.0.0.9, and 8.1.1 build 21112 (in addition to the previously supported build 21111) supported for enhanced object and context recognition. SAP SAP GUI for HTML version 7.10 patch 16 supported for enhanced object and context recognition. CA -- CA Clarity PPM version R12.5 supported for context recognition. -- CA Service Desk version R12.5 supported for context recognition. Java Added support for Java 6 update 12

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• Spirent Communications Improves Customer Experience with Knowledge Management

  - by Tony Berk

  Spirent Communications plc is a global leader in test and measurement inspiring innovation within development labs, communication networks and IT organizations. The world’s leading communications companies rely on Spirent to help design, develop, validate, and deliver world-class network, devices, and services. Spirent’s customers require high levels of support for a diverse and complex product portfolio, and the company is committed to delivering on this requirement. Spirent needed a solution to help its customers get the information they need quickly and at their convenience through its Web site. After evaluating several solutions, Spirent selected and deployed Oracle Knowledge for Web Self Service Enterprise Edition. Oracle Knowledge Management uses natural language processing to understand the true intent of each inquiry logged via the support portal’s search function. The Spirent Knowledge Base on the company’s Customer Support Center (CSC) finds the best possible answer using search enhancement features?such as communications industry-specific libraries and federation to search external sources. Spirent has reduced contact center call volume while better serving its customers. Each time a customer uses the knowledge base, they find answers faster than by calling, and it saves Spirent an average of US$210 per call?which is significant when multiplied across the thousands of calls received monthly. Oracle Knowledge also helps support engineers find answers more quickly, enabling the company to scale without adding additional support engineers. Oracle Knowledge is integrated with Spirent's Siebel Contact Center implementation to provide an integrated desktop for CRM and agent intelligence, avoiding the need for contact center personnel to toggle between various screens to address customer inquiries, thereby accelerating customer service. Click here to learn more about Sprient's use of Siebel CRM and Oracle Knowledge Management.

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• Improved Customer Experience, but at what Cost?

  - by Tony Berk

  We can all probably agree that improving your customers' experience is a good thing. But a key question many people are asking is will it help your organization and, in particular, what are the financial benefits?That's a good question, especially when companies ARE experiencing phenomenal return on investment (ROI). Of course, there are many factors that impact ROI or other measures of success, but we'd like to share some success stories as examples of customer experience in action and delivering positive results. If you would like to learn more about the economics of customer experience, see Brian Curran's presentation at the Oracle Customer Experience Summit last month. In this series of blog posts, we'll share actual customer stories. Today's example is Dell, which uses Oracle Real-Time Decisions (RTD) and Siebel CRM as part of their customer experience portfolio to better understand their customers' needs and wants and provide consistent interactions. Regular readers of this blog are probably familiar with Siebel, but RTD may be new to many of you. RTD is a complete decision management solution that delivers real-time decisions and recommendations and automatically renders decisions within a business process to create tailored messaging for every customer interaction.What does that mean? In the video below, Dell describes how customer experience is important not just for one interaction channel, but across all "vehicles." RTD is helping Dell understand customer behavior and communicate with the customer in a more relevant manner, across all communication  or interaction channels including sales and service call centers, email marketing and online. Dell continues to expand use of RTD because the benefits are showing up in sales, service and marketing results including 19% increase in close rates, faster issue resolution and 40% improvement in revenue per click in email marketing. Click here, to learn more about Oracle Customer Experience and stay tuned for more customer spotlights.

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• Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 10g Bootcamp

  - by mseika

  Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 10g Bootcamp 12th - 15th February 2012, Reading (UK) The Oracle Business Intelligence Applications offer out-of-the-box integration with Siebel CRM and Oracle eBusiness Suite and provide pre-built Operational BI solutions for eBusiness Suite, Peoplesoft, Siebel, and SAP. This training will provide attendees with an in-depth working understanding of the architecture, the technical and the functional content of the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, whilst also providing an understanding of their installation, configuration and extension. The course will cover the following topics:• Overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications• Oracle BI Applications Fundamentals and Features• Configuring BI Applications for Oracle E-Business Suite• Understanding BI Applications Architecture• Fundamentals of BI Applications Security REGISTER NOW Partner Registration Guide Price: FREE Cookham RoomOracle Corporation UK LtdOracle ParkwayThames Valley ParkReading, Berkshire RG6 1RA12th - 15th February 20129:30 am – 5:00 pm BST AudienceThe seminar is aimed at BI Consultants and Implementation Consultants within Oracle's Gold and Platinum Partners. Prerequisites• Good understanding of basic data warehousing concepts• Hands on experience in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition• Hands on experience in Informatica• Some understanding of Oracle BI Applications is required (See Sales & Technical Tutorials for OBI, BI-Apps and Hyperion EPM) • Good understanding of any of the following Oracle EBS modules: General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables System Requirements Please note that attendees are required to have a laptop. Laptop• 4GB RAM-Recognized by Windows 64 bits• 80GB free space in Hard drive or External Device• CPU Core 2 Duo or HigherOperating System Requirements• Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2003• NOT ALLOWED with Windows Vista• An Administrator User For more information please contact [email protected].

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• links for 2011-02-07

  - by Bob Rhubart

  Creating JAXWS Service in WebLogic Workshop Middleware Magic Jay SenSharma shares "a simple demo which explains how we can create a Complex JAXWS WebService using WebLogic Workshop." (tags: WebLogic jaxws middleware) Wentari: Re-Learning PeopleSoft "If I truly want to be an enterprise architect, what better way than to have hands on knowledge about all the Oracle offerings outside of my specialization in Siebel and OBIEE." -- Peter Yeung (tags: oracle otn businessintelligence obiee siebel) Andrejus Baranovskis's Blog: CreateWithParams Operation for Oracle ADF BC 11g Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovski illustrates how you can apply a CreateWithParams operation in two easy steps. (tags: oracle otn oracleace soa) APEX plugins contributed to the APEX community by AMIS developers AMIS Technology blog The APEX 4.0 plugin framework "allows for more more organized, better structured development with lots more reuse potential," according to Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema. (tags: oracle otn oracleace apex) Oracle BI EE 11g and Oracle ADF - Part 2 - Real Time reporting using View Objects Venkatakrishnan J looks into "another reporting innovation (by use of the common ADF Framework) i.e. real time reporting using BI EE by directly reversing metadata from a transactional application. (tags: oracle otn oracleace businessintelligence obiee adf) On-demand Webcast: Java in the Smart Grid (The Java Source) Learn more about the Smart Grid and the role that Java is poised to play in this important initiative. (tags: oracle otn java smartgrid)

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