Mark Rittman

A few people have been asking about progress on our Oracle Press OBIEE 11g book, so I thought I'd do an update. I finally started writing the content of the book (provisional name : Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Developers Guide [http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Business-Intelligence-Suite-Developers/dp/0071495754/ref=sr_

I'm currently sitting in the BA Lounge at London Heathrow Airport, waiting to get a flight down to Bangalore, India for the last leg of our OBIEE11g Training Days event. I'm joining Venkat, Ram, Diptesh and Jay from Rittman Mead India, and we'll have

[https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/05712odtug.png]As we as our own OBIEE expert-level BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011] in May, another event we've had a lot of involvement in is ODTUG Kscope'2011 [http://kscope11.com/] in Long Beach, California,

Just a short note about the our upcoming BI Forum 2011 event [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011] in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, UK, a focused, two-day Oracle BI&DW conference specifically at experienced Oracle BI&DW developers. Registrations are coming in fast for the two events, but we&

I'm very pleased to announce that, due to customer demand, Rittman Mead are opening an office in Melbourne, Australia. Over the past couple of years we've started to work with a number of customers and partners around Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, and so we thought

[https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/05719orama_apr_may.gif]The March/April 2011 edition of Oracle Magazine [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2011/11-mar/index-302445.html] is now out, and it includes my new article on the OBIEE11g Action Framework. In the article, I walk

I'm pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2011, running on consecutive weeks in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA, is now open for registration [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2011/], with the event running at the following times and locations: * Brighton, Hotel Seattle, May 19th & 20th

In a week's time we'll be opening registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2011, which this year we're running on consecutive weeks in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA in May 2011. We've now gathered all the abstracts in, and as with

Just a quick note to say that this is the last week for BI Forum 2011 paper submissions. If you've got a presentation idea around OBIEE (both 10g and 11g), or related technologies such as ODI/OWB, Essbase/OLAP or Oracle data warehousing, put a paper abstract in

Just a short note to say that the "call for papers" for our BI Forum 2011 is now "live". The focus this year, as with previous years, is intermediate-to-advanced level Oracle BI, mainly around OBIEE but also related technologies such as ODI/OWB, Exadata, Essbase and

Now in it's third year, we'll shortly be announcing the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2011, which this time around will be held in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA, on consecutive weeks in May 2011. The dates and venues will be as follows: * Hotel Seattle [http://www.

Well the presents are wrapped, the trees are decorated, snow has been falling and it's nearly time for Christmas. In a couple of days time we'll be taking a well-earned rest for a few days and celebrating with our families and friends around the world. Even

I'm pleased to announce that, due to popular demand, we're going back out on the road again and running another set of OBIEE 11g Training Days events in early 2011 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdayswinter2011]. We're going back to Atlanta and Bangalore, but this

Now the conferences are over, we've had a bit of time to sort out a few long-standing tasks. A couple of years ago, we had a number of problems with our web hosting company, and our friends at Pythian [http://www.pythian.com] (thanks, Paul and Alex!) stepped

Well it's been a couple of weeks now since the event, but the end of November saw much of the UK Oracle community head up to Birmingham for the annual UKOUG Conference & Exhibition [http://techandebs.ukoug.org/]. Due to the number of acquisitions Oracle have made over

A number of people asked me at the recent Training Days events whether Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/standard-edition-one-095406.html] (OBI SE1) was being updated for 11g. For anyone not familiar with Oracle Business Intelligence licensing, OBI SE1 10g was a special

Well, the Oracle BI 11g Training Days [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2010] event in Atlanta is now over, and I'm about to get on a flight back to the UK after spending the weekend in downtown Atlanta. The event was another great success, and thanks to Stewart and

it's been a couple of months now since the GA release of OBIEE 11g, and if you've only just got around to installing and evaluating the software, you may well have missed some of our early postings on the internals, architecture and key new features of

In the previous blog post, I explained some of the background behind OBIEE 11g's security changes, and how 11g leverages Oracle Fusion Middleware's Oracle Platform Security Services to provide direct access to LDAP servers, and new features such as application roles, application policies and policy stores.