Mark Rittman

Dan Vlamis [http://www.vlamis.com/blog.php] sent me a link through to a recent article by Mark Whitehorn on "Data Bashups" [http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/news/column/0,294698,sid91_gci1311928,00.html?track=NL-520&ad=638872&asrc=EM_USC_3585266&uid=7935708]

I got a call late today inviting me to a discussion with Charles Phillips [http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/html/pressportal/exec/cphillips.html] , Oracle's President, on Web 2.0 that's being held in London next week. The invite has gone out to "bloggers

One of the clients I'm working with this week wants to go through how OBIEE environments are migrated from one environment to another. They are working on a solution for their organization where a team of developers put together an initial first cut of the repository and web

I've been doing a lot of traveling recently, which as usual means that I've been doing a lot of reading. I normally take a novel with me when I'm on the road but based on some recommendations, I've been working through a

Earlier on this week I've been delivering some BI Publisher classroom training, with a day at the end for one-to-one sessions with the delegates and some consulting. One of the requirements that came up from the customer was for a report to split the various pages within it

Another new feature within BI Publisher that I noticed when looking through Borkur's new BI Publisher course is support for more than one data source in a report. This was sort of possible with earlier (XML Publisher) releases of the product, but recent versions of BI Publisher have

In yesterday's article [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/04/22/interview-with-phil-bates-oracle-business-intelligence-architect-part-1/] I posted the first half of an email interview with Phil Bates, architect for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition based down in Bristol, UK. Phil's focus is on the vision, direction, architecture and development

One of the things you might not know about product development for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is that a lot of it happens down the road from us, in Bristol in the UK. Oracle's team in Bristol and the UK were originally responsible for Oracle Discoverer, and

I'm running a BI Publisher course this week, and one of the areas the client was really interested in was integration of BI Publisher with Oracle ApEx. As the notes on OTN and various blogs are sometimes a bit confusing, I thought I'd do a quick

A Quick re-post as this event is running in a week or so's time. Rittman Mead Consulting, in conjunction with Oracle, are running a half-day Oracle BI Suite Standard Edition One seminar at Oracle Birmingham on Wednesday, 30th April 2008. Free to attend, this event is aimed at

After the various sessions in the afternoon, I finished off yesterday with a meal with ODTUG [http://www.odtug.com], the Oracle Developer Tools User Group (I'm one of their SIG leaders). Apart from Mike Riley, John Jeunette, Jerry Ireland, Jeff Jacobs and John King, Kathleen and Karen

I'm currently sitting in the wireless hotspot area of the Denver Convention Center (next to Alex Gorbachev, funnily enough) waiting for the Hyperion Tools "What's New and What's Coming" session at 11am. As I've got a few minutes spare I

Well, that's Day 1 of Collaborate'08 over and I think I've just about got over the jet lag. I'm up early again - today it's 6am - but at least I'm not suffering from altitude sickness like a

I finally arrived around 7pm last night, the plan then was to try and meet up with various people but as I'd been traveling for getting on 18 hours, I thought it best to get some sleep and I crashed around 9pm. As usual on the first day

Today I should have been jetting off with British Airways to Denver for Collaborate'08 [http://www.collaborate08.com], however last night I noticed that I couldn't check in online, and when I checked the flight status the flight had been cancelled. By the time I found

The other day I posted some notes on the first day of an OBIEE project [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/04/07/day-one-of-an-obiee-project-data-modeling/], I'm just on the train back now after finishing the next couple of days, I thought I'd post some notes on how

Yesterday I mentioned that I was working this week on an OBIEE proof of concept, I said at the time that I'd make some notes on how the project went and the methodology I used to pull the system together. As I obviously can't write about

I'm writing this sitting in one of the observation lounges at the OUG Norway conference [http://www.ecrm-lidman.se/oracle/ougn/Detailed_OUGN_Agenda_2.html], which this year is taking place on a cruise liner/ferry sailing from Oslo to Kiel and back. We're just

Whilst Oracle BI Answers is a pretty good ad-hoc query tool, it's not really an OLAP tool and Oracle's current recommendation if you want that sort of thing is to use Hyperion Web Analysis, which comes bundled with the latest version of OBIEE, OBIEE "Plus&