Season's Greetings from Rittman Mead!

Well, it's almost Christmas Eve now, so we're finishing up on client projects, getting the new office fitted out, planning a few mini-R&D projects over the Christmas break (or at least, I am anyway...), and traveling back to our families to take some well-earned rest over the holiday break. It's been an exciting year, with a number of new projects starting up around the world, a new office opened in Melbourne, and growth to around fifty staff across our offices in Brighton, Brussels, Atlanta, Bangalore and Melbourne.

Next year looks pretty exciting already, with the 11.1.1.6 release of OBIEE due pretty soon, as well as the general availability of Exalytics, Oracle's new hardware/software combination for in-memory analytics. Expect to see lots of blog posts on 11.1.1.6 and Exalytics as soon as the products go live, plus lots of content on Oracle BI, OLAP, data warehousing, ETL and project methodology on our blog, on our Facebook page, on Twitter and of course, in-person at conferences around the world. And - finally - my book should be out next year ;-)

So, it's just for me to say thank you to all our customers and partners, and especially to our staff around the world, without whom of course none of this would be possible. Have a great holiday season, and we look forward to catching up with many of you in the New Year!

Seasons greetings,

Mark Rittman & Jon Mead