Mark Rittman

If you've been following this blog and read the posting last year on QlikView [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/08/15/a-quik-look-at-qlikview/], you'd have seen some of the possibilities around the idea of in-memory execution of queries. As desktop PCs, laptops and servers now routinely

I was working with an Oracle Partner last week who asked me to QA their OBIEE project. One of the areas I took a look at was their web catalog setup, and I was asked to come up with some "best practices" around web catalog design and maintenance.

A quick advert for a new training course that we've put together. You may be aware that Rittman Mead offers training courses [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training], typically run in-house for organizations looking to train up their development teams. Our courses are popular with clients looking to embark

I'm pleased to announce that we will be running another BI Forum this year, at the Seattle Hotel in Brighton [http://www.hotelseattlebrighton.com/] from May 20th-21st 2010. Like last year, this event is aimed at intermediate to expert-level OBIEE, Essbase and ODI-EE (including OWB) developers looking to

Well I'm currently sitting by the pool in Sharm El-Sheikh, having a week's holiday over the New Year before things start again in earnest in January. It's almost the end of the year, and in fact the end of the decade, and so I

One of the events that I'm most looking forward to in 2010 is ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/], to be held in Washington D.C. in June, for which registration has now opened [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/registration.html]. Next year I'm the session

I bought an Amazon Kindle 2 International Version [http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Reading-Display-International-Generation/dp/B0015T963C/ref=sa_menu_kdp2i3?pf_rd_p=328655101&pf_rd_s=left-nav-1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1KTW2J2W5149SZCSZXVQ] back in

Well I'm back home now after three days at the UKOUG Technology & EBS Conference in Birmingham. Feedback from the delegates at the event was uniformly positive, with some great speakers and great social events organized by the User Group. Highlights for me were the ACE/ACE Director

In the previous two articles in this series, we looked at the initial [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/11/30/obiee-software-configuration-management-part-1-initial-deployment-from-dev-to-prod/] , and then subsequent [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/11/30/obiee-software-configuration-management-part-2-subsequent-deployments-from-dev-to-prod/] , releases of an OBIEE project. We used the BI Administration tool to perform a three-way merge

In the first instalment in this series [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/11/30/obiee-software-configuration-management-part-1-initial-deployment-from-dev-to-prod/] , we covered the steps that we carry out when promoting the initial version on an OBIEE project from development into production. The process is fairly straightforward and it's generally a case of

Today's the first full day of the UKOUG Technology & EBS Conference [http://techandebs.ukoug.org] in Birmingham, UK, and I'm currently getting my presentations ready for later on today. This year we've again got a stand in the main exhibition hall, where we&

I'm currently sitting in speaker ready room at the UKOUG Technology & EBS Conference up in Birmingham, and the team are on the stand now ready to meet people at the exhibition. I've got an hour or so free now this morning, and so I thought

Just a quick remind for anyone who'll be attending the UKOUG Technology and EBS Conference at the Birmingham ICC next week. We'll be exhibiting at Stand 50, and will also be delivering the following sessions: * "Oracle BI EE and Essbase Integration Step-by-Step" [http://techandebs.

We're organizing a drinks reception at the Pitcher and Piano Bar [http://www.pitcherandpiano.com/locations/bar.cfm?area=Birmingham] on the Tuesday evening of the UKOUG Tech and EBS Conference [http://techandebs.ukoug.org], which is open to all BI & DW delegates, speakers and partners who&

It's just a few weeks until the conference highlight of the year for Rittman Mead, the UKOUG Technology and EBS Conference and Exhibition [http://techandebs.ukoug.org] in Birmingham. In previous years the UKOUG has tried to bring everyone together for this main event at the Birmingham ICC,

If you've been keeping an eye on our progress this year, you'll probably be aware that 2009 has been a very exciting year for us. We've opened an office in the USA, and earlier in the year Adrian Ward and Daniel Bosman from Majendi,

ODTUG Kaleidoscope [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com], the Oracle Developer Tools User Group annual conference which next year is running in Washington DC, has a call for papers [http://www.technicalconferencesolutions.com/pls/caat/caat_abstracts_upd.main?conference_id=68] that closes on November 10th. This year, I'm

John Paredes recently sent over a review copy of a book he's just had published, entited "The Multidimensional Modeling Toolkit: Making Your Business Intelligence Applications Smart with Oracle OLAP" [http://www.amazon.com/Multidimensional-Data-Modeling-Toolkit-Intelligence/dp/0981775306] (ISBN: 978-0-9817753-0-2, OLAP World Press). Interestingly, it's a

I'm currently over in Finland, waiting to travel back after the OUGF Autumn Conference [http://www.ougf.fi/index.php?lang=en] in Helsinki. Together with Dan Morgan, Piet de Visser and Joze Senegacnik we were providing the English-Language track, and thanks again to Heli from the user

[Mark Handford from the BI Survey [http://www.bi-survey.com] dropped me an email the other day, to let me know that fieldwork for the BI Survey 9 is now underway. In my opinion I'd be great if as many Oracle and Hyperion customers could take part as

The vast majority of customers I come across that use OBIEE run the platform on Linux or Unix. For those that run it on Windows though, what tools do you have to monitor the performance of the platform? One of our customers is in just this situation as they are

Last week was our second Training Days event in London [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009], and this year we had twenty attendees over the three days with the sessions being led by myself, Borkur and Venkat. The venue this year was a grand old room in the Bloomsbury Hotel in