Mark Rittman

I'm writing this post sitting on the express train going from Oslo Airport to the centre of Oslo, traveling over to Norway for the Norwegian User Group conference [http://www.ecrm-lidman.se/oracle/ougn/Detailed_OUGN_Agenda_2.html] this week. I've been invited over as

Whilst I remember it, Venkat [http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/] has written up another excellent OBIEE article, this time on performing multi-user development against an OBIEE repository [http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/oracle-bi-ee-101332-multi-user-development-of-repositories-mud/] . This uses the new "Projects" feature introduced in a recent release of OBIEE, and

I ran the first day of the Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclass in Bucharest today, we had around twenty delegates who were a mix of Oracle staff, partners and customers. After the seminar finished, I took a walk down from the venue to the historic part of Bucharest. I can see

I'm just sitting in the departure lounge at Heathrow Terminal 2, waiting for my flight to Bucharest. I'm running the last of the Enterprise BI Masterclass seminars (at least in Europe) over the next couple of days, and this is a particularly interesting one for me

What with Easter and some client visits, I've not had a chance to report on the UKOUG BI & Performance Management [http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_event.jsp?id=3347] day since it ran last week. I've got a day at home today before I

If you're reading this blog via our website rather than the RSS feed, you'd have probably noticed that we've had a bit of a makeover. All of the old content is still available, but now we've got a shiny new design that&

Some of you might be aware that apart from chairing the UKOUG Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG [http://www.ukoug.org/communities/show_community.jsp?id=1113&parent=811], I also co-chair (with Kent Graziano) the Oracle Developer Tools User Group (ODTUG) BI & Data Warehousing SIG [http:

As well as being useful for call center applications [http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe_bi/rtd/rtd.htm] where cross-selling offers have to be generated, Oracle Real-Time Decisions [http://www.oracle.com/applications/crm/siebel/business-analytics/real-time-decisions.html] can also be used in general business situations where a

Well, I'm guessing that I'm the only person in the blogosphere with a posting title taking in the Carling Cup final and Nigel Pendse's latest BI Survey, but as ironically I've ended up missing Spurs' first cup final appearance in eight

Just a quick note to say that the last scheduled date for my Enterprise BI Seminar [http://www.rittmanmead.com/services/bi-masterclasses-20078/], organized through Oracle University, is on March 27th and 28th in Bucharest, Romania [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/show_desc.redirect?dc=D48573_946979&p_

A question I've often been asked over the last year or so is "what's happening with Oracle BI Beans?" For anyone not aware of what BI Beans is/are, it's a J2EE component set that connects to Oracle OLAP via the Java

Following on from my postings last week about future OBIEE architecture [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/02/15/a-future-oracle-obiee-architecture/], I've spent a couple of evenings this week taking a closer look at the web services support in Oracle Data Integrator. Specifically, I was interested to see how

I was called in earlier this week by a client who's using Oracle Portal with Discoverer. They have a number of Portal pages that contain Discoverer Portlets, and they'd been having some problems with the refresh of their portlets. The way they'd set their