Mark Rittman

If you were at the London launch of OBIEE 11g last week [http://www.oracle.com/oms/businessintelligence11g/index.html], or listened in on the webcast, you'll have heard Paul Rodwick talk about support for ragged and skip-level hierarchies whilst he demonstrated the 11g version of the BI

Although the most obvious new thing about the recently launched 11gR1 release of OBIEE [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/07/at-the-obiee-11g-launch-in-london/] is the user interface, under the covers there's been a lot of changes to the architecture, and how you perform systems management. There's

Now the launch of OBIEE 11g is behind us [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/07/at-the-obiee-11g-launch-in-london/], we can start to take a look at some of the key new features in this release. One of the most obvious changes in OBIEE 11gR1 compared to the 10g release, is

I'm off to Washington DC tomorrow, for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com]. I've got a bit of a dual role this year, as I'm both an ODTUG Director, and representing Rittman Mead as well. Probably for most of the time I'

[http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/10-jul/index.html]Oracle have just published my latest article, on the integration between Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, in the July/August 2010 [http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/10-jul/index.html] edition of

Well it's the Monday after the week of the BI Forum in Brighton [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2010], and as promised here are some photos, and a link to the presentations, for anyone that couldn't make it. The three days went very well, starting with the

Well it's the day before our second annual BI Forum in Brighton [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2010], and after a bit of last minute panic about the ash cloud coming back, people should be traveling over today and tomorrow to get to the Hotel Seattle in Brighton. In

[http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/10-may/index.html]Oracle Magazine [http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/10-may/index.html] has recently gone through a re-design, and the May/June 2010 edition comes with a new article by myself on "Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 and

Well I'm currently sitting the in the departures lounge at the Las Vegas Airport, about to catch a flight ... to Denver. Like Jon, Pete and Venkat, I was caught by the airspace restrictions in place earlier this week, except like Jon, I was trapped in the States rather

The 11gR2 release of Warehouse Builder [http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/warehouse/index.html] came out for Windows towards the end of last week, firstly as part of the wider Oracle Database 11gR2 download, and then in the standalone version. Now that there's a Windows client

Jorge Anicam's blog post the other day [http://oraclebiblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/bi-publisher-layout-builder-preview-in.html] reminded me about the online layout builder preview that's been available in the past couple of releases of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 10g. As a quick recap, BI Publisher up until

In the previous two postings in this series, I looked at the architecture of the Oracle BI Server, and how it processes incoming queries from Oracle BI Answers. In the latter article I touched on the concept of BI Server in-memory joins, and in this article I want to expand

As well as organizing our own BI Forum in the UK, another event I've had a hand in is ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/], which is due to run from June 27th - July 1st in Washington D.C. I've been the content lead

In the first article on this series about the Oracle BI Server [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/02/25/inside-the-oracle-bi-server-part-1-the-bi-server-architecture/] , I looked at the architecture and functions within this core part of the OBIEE product set. in this article, I want to look closer at what happens when a

The session that I'm giving at the BI Forum in Brighton in May [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2010] is entitled "Inside the Oracle BI Server", and I'm aiming to take a closer look at the architecture and functionality of this key OBIEE component. We&

I'm writing this on the evening following the Rocky Mountains Oracle User Group Training Days [http://www.rmoug.org/training.htm] Conference in Denver, Colorado, where Stewart Bryson and I delivered our session on OWB11gR2 New Features for DBAs and Developers. We were both pleased with the turnout,

I'm very pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2010 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2010], to be held at the Hotel Seattle, Brighton on May 19th - 21st 2010. Like last year's event, the 2010 BI Forum is focused

[Fieldwork for the BI Survey 9, an independent survey of BI customers and partners, closes its fieldwork on Sunday 31st January. It's important that we get a suitable number of Essbase, OBIEE, OLAP and Discoverer users completing the survey, so please visit the site and fill it in

If you're considering coming along to the BI Forum 2010 we'll be holding in Brighton in May 2010, we'd be interested in hearing your opinion on what sessions we'll be running. The call for papers is now closed and we have 27

One of the less well-known features in recent releases of Warehouse Builder is Data Rules, and how they can help you gracefully handle consistency issues in your data. Data Rules act as virtual constraints on your data and add error handling tables to your mappings to allow you to divert

Along with In-Memory Parallel Execution [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/01/19/in-memory-parallel-execution-in-oracle-database-11gr2/] , another new feature that came along with release 11gR2 of the Oracle Database (or more correctly, version 2 of Exadata Storage Server) is Hybrid Columnar Compression. You'll need Exadata to use this (though at