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Apart from running seminars and posting technical articles on the blog, Jon and I (and now Peter Scott) actually do a lot of training and consulting for clients in the UK, Europe and North America. Just for today and for one day later this week, I'm going to take the liberty of running a short advert for our consulting and training services, just in case any of you have projects coming up, or a project that's currently running, where you could do with a bit of help. To start off with, I'll talk about the training services we offer.

Over the past six months or so, Rittman Mead Consulting has built up a series of training courses on Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, Oracle Discoverer, Oracle OLAP and Oracle Data Warehousing. All of these courses are run in-house for customers, with the customer providing the training room, hardware and software, and either Jon, myself or Peter Scott running the course using material developed by ourselves based on our product knowledge and experiences working on projects. If you're interested in having us run one of these courses for your organization, contact us at training@rittmanmead.com.

Our Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2 course covers installation and configuration of OWB, relational and OLAP data modeling (including all the tricky, new OLAP concepts in the latest release), data mappings and process flows, the Enterprise ETL Option and the Data Quality Option (including error handling and data rules), and the all-important deployment to production including scripting using OMB*Plus. All of us have worked with OWB10gR2 on many projects, so you get the benefit of focused, expert level course material together with our experiences and knowledge gained from using the tool on real projects - something you don't get when the course is delivered by someone who only delivers training.

For Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, we run three courses: a one-day course aimed at end-users who just want to learn how to use the dashboard and run reports; another one-day course for report administrators and authors, and a third, "Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition: Design, Build and Dashboards" aimed at developers who want to learn the system end-to-end and need to know how to build and maintain the BI server repository. Again, the courses are delivered by instructors with real-world experience of using the tools on projects, and take attendees through the basics right through to expert-level material originally devised for the BI Masterclasses that Mark is currently delivering for Oracle University all around Europe.

A new course that we are now running is an Oracle Data Warehousing design course devised and delivered by Peter Scott, one of the most well-known and respected people in the Oracle data warehousing industry. Aimed at developers looking to place their project on a firm footing, it covers logical and physical design, data loading using the various Oracle tools, indexing and summary management, storage and data warehouse management, as well as querying the data warehouse using SQL and in particular, analytic functions. We're very excited about this course and I'm sure it'll go down well with our customers.

Finally, we offer courses in Discoverer, Oracle OLAP, our Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclasses through Oracle University, and soon we'll be offering courses in Essbase and Oracle Real-Time Decisions. Course fees are very reasonable, your team is taught by an expert with both training and consulting experience, and when you train up several members of your team at the same time it usually works out much cheaper than going through a public training provider. We're also happy to bespoke parts of the course for you, to include your particular data or business scenarios, usually at no extra cost, and we're happy to work through partners, either to provide training on your behalf for your clients, or to train up your consulting team on Oracle's BI & data warehousing tools.

If you'd like any more details on our training courses, please contact us at training@rittmanmead.com, or call on +44 7866 568246. We deliver courses pretty much anywhere and have dates and instructors free over the next few months. Contact us now to discuss your particular requirements.