Mark Rittman

It's just a few weeks now until Oracle Open World [http://www.oracle.com/openworld] in San Francisco, and Rittman Mead will be attending both as speakers and, for the first time, with a booth in the main exhibition hall. From the UK, we have myself, Jon Mead

UPDATE: The venue has changed [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/10/06/oow-bi-meetup-change-of-venue/] to Johnny Foleys, in O'Farrell Street. I'm organizing an Oracle BI meetup [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/08/02/bi-meetup-at-open-world-san-francisco/] for Oracle Open World, on Monday 12th October at 7pm at

As well as the 11gR2 release of the Oracle Database coming out last week [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/09/08/thoughts-on-the-new-dw-features-in-oracle-database-11gr2/] , accompanying it was the 11gR2 release of Oracle Warehouse Builder, something that the OWB community has been waiting for since the 10gR2 ("Paris") release back

I'm very pleased to announce details of our second-ever Training Days [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009] event, to be held at the Bloomsbury Hotel [http://www.doylecollection.com/locations/london_city_hotels/the_bloomsbury_hotel.aspx] in London on October 27th - 29th 2009. This year I'

[This is a guest blog from Steve Devine from Hitachi Consulting, who we've known for a while and who attended our BI Forum in Brighton last May. Steve, Adrian, Venkat and I were discussing the issue of reporting against non-star schema data models and in particular the issues

Apart from our Training Days [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009] event in October, I'll also be delivering keynotes at two events later in the year in Copenhagen and Leiden, The Netherlands. The Danish IT Society Business Intelligence Conference [http://www.dansk-it.dk/arrangementer/1595.aspx] in Copenhagen, Denmark,

Packt Publishing got in contact recently and kindly offered to send some Oracle BI and Data Warehousing books over for review. The first one that was sent over was a new one on Essbase System 9 that I'll be reviewing shortly, but shortly afterwards a new one on

As well as supporting client's development teams, we often come in and help support teams in client organizations who are taking on Oracle BI and EPM Suite. One such client I was working with this week wanted me to help them with an OBIEE diagnosis checklist, where their

UPDATE : The venue has now changed [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/10/06/oow-bi-meetup-change-of-venue/] to Johnny Foleys, in O'Farrell Street. One of the major benefits of going to Oracle Open World [http://www.oracle.com/openworld] is the chance to meet up with people you don'

Blink and you may have missed it, but the 11g release of Discoverer is now available for download as part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g [http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html]. Now back in the old days, a major new release of Discoverer such as this would have

Well we're back now from two weeks in the States, the first week of which was vacation in San Francisco and Yosemite, the last was at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com] in Monterey. Well done to the ODTUG team and to the Oracle ACE program for

Well this year has certainly seen some interesting and exciting developments for Rittman Mead. Earlier in the year we launched Rittman Mead in America [http://www.rittmanmead.com/america/], along with our colleagues Joe Leva and Stewart Bryson; shortly after that Adrian Ward and the team from Majendi joined us

I'm currently sitting in the Hyatt lobby at 6am, with the family fast asleep back in their hotel rooms and myself getting ready for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com]. This I brought the family over and we took a week out before the conference to visit