Mark Rittman

I've been working with Informatica 8.1.1, the Oracle BI Applications and the DAC (Data Warehouse Administration) for a while now, and over this time I've tried to post a few techniques [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/07/11/amending-existing-category-1-sde-and-sil-mappings-in-oracle-bi-apps-795/] I've picked

I'm running a (currently) one-off Oracle 11g data warehousing seminar [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/show_desc.redirect?dc=D48573_1046448&p_org_id=36&lang=DK&source_call=] for Oracle University on the 17th and 18th September in Copenhagen, in a similar

In today's posting on the Oracle BI Applications, we're going to add a new attribute to an existing dimension table in the Oracle Business Analytics data warehouse. If you're new to this, this is part of a series of postings on the Oracle BI

In today's posting on the Oracle BI Applications, we're going to take a look at adding custom data into the BI Apps data warehouse. In my experience there are a number of common scenarios where new data needs to be added to the BI Apps data

So before we start thinking about how we're going to extend and customize the Oracle BI Applications data warehouse (technically called the "Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse") it's probably worth having a think about what's in the warehouse in the first place. Now

It's that time of year again when the next BI Survey [http://www.bi-survey.com/] starts collecting responses from BI users around the world. Now at the eight edition, the BI Survey is an independent survey and analysis of hundreds of BI tools users around the world. This

In the previous postings in my Oracle BI Apps series, I've looked at the BI Apps architecture [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/06/22/an-introduction-to-the-oracle-bi-applications/], installation and configuration [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/07/03/installing-and-configuring-oracle-bi-applications-fusion-edition-795/] , and performing the initial data load [https://www.rittmanmead.com/

I just noticed today that it's more or less five years to the day since I started writing this blog. It's been an interesting five years both personally and professionally for me; I gave my first conference presentation more or less five years ago, soon after

In a couple of recent articles, (here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/06/22/an-introduction-to-the-oracle-bi-applications/], here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/07/03/installing-and-configuring-oracle-bi-applications-fusion-edition-795/] ) I've given an overview of the Oracle BI Applications and stepped through the installation and configuration of Oracle BI Applications Fusion Edition

The past year has been a very exciting and busy one for Rittman Mead with new projects starting in the UK, Europe, Canada and the United States. We're now in a position where we're looking to add another consultant to our team, someone who shares our

Up until recently, our office installation of the Oracle BI Applications [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/06/22/an-introduction-to-the-oracle-bi-applications/] has been based around the 7.9.4 release, and as 7.9.5 is now out and comes with support for Peoplesoft HR 8.9 and 9.0, Siebel

Whilst OBIEE is in itself a pretty well featured business intelligence platform, it's still only a platform and you have to design and build the data warehouse, metadata repository yourself before you can do any reporting. An alternative to this "do it yourself" approach that Oracle

It's just around 10pm on the Wednesday night now, and I'm back from the main conference party at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 conference in New Orleans. My hotel room faces on to the Mississippi and looking out of the window, you can see some of the

I'm now back in my hotel room after having taken part in the Oracle BI, DW & Essbase experts panel, I've got three quarters of an hour spare until the ACE Directors Fusion Middleware Product Briefing that's going on for the rest of the

I'm just getting my things together at the moment before I leave for the airport, as it's Saturday morning and the ODTUG Conference starts tomorrow in New Orleans. I've actually been in Halifax, Canada for the past week so this will be my second

The other week I posted an interview on the blog with Phil Bates , the man behind the architecture of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. As the interview with Phil worked out so well, I thought I'd follow this up with an interview with Jean-Pierre Dijcks, one of the

If you've tried to access our site over the past 18 hours or so, you've probably noticed it's been down with a hosting issue. Basically we've been a victim of our own success so to speak, and the activity on our site

A few weeks ago I ran a two-part interview (here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/04/22/interview-with-phil-bates-oracle-business-intelligence-architect-part-1/] and here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/04/23/interview-with-phil-bates-oracle-business-intelligence-architect-part-2/] ) on the blog with Phil Bates, Architect for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Phil kindly invited questions at the end

It's the UK Oracle User Group [http://www.ukoug.org/]'s 25th Anniversary this year, and throughout this year they are running a series of competitions that any member can enter. Rittman Mead Consulting are proud to be sponsoring this months' competition and have put up

[http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com] I'm writing this posting mid-way across the North Sea returning from the Swedish and Finnish User Group Conference, and looking in my diary I've noticed it's only a few weeks until it's time for the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008

If you've read my recent OTN article on Essbase [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-essbase.html] and you're an old Essbase hand, one of the things you might have picked up on what that I defined my dimension members using the descriptive columns in