Redesigning Dashboards for slicker visuals and better performance

So you may or may not have encountered a dashboard with way too many charts and reports. This is fairly common in a lot of projects. If people aren't sure about what they want, they might as well put them all on the page. The look and feel might attract certain audience because there are different charts, different shapes and colors on one page. However, there can be problems as well. One of the thing to remember is that if 1 dashboard page has...

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OBIEE 10g to 11g upgrade challenge ---dealing with unexpected floor function

Hello all It's been a little while since I posted. I was busy re-platforming and upgrading all of our BI system to 11g. They was a lot of work but it was fun and challenging. Moreover, there was a lot of lessons learned from that, which I will post in detail later on. Today, I just want to share something real quick. One of the thing I immediately noticed after upgrading to 11g was that all of my reports stopped working on the dashboard when passing...

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