Mark Rittman

Just sitting in Larry Ellison's keynote in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It's question time now, a few questions on the Fusion upgrade plans, one now about whether Larry enjoys himself at Oracle more now, or back in the days when it was a five-man

Yesterday was my busiest day at Open World, with an interview in the morning with SearchOracle.com, on Oracle's BI strategy and data warehousing best practices, followed by the main conference session given by Jon and I, on integrating Oracle BI EE and SOA. Funnily enough I was

The second major session that I went to yesterday at OOW was the BI Roadmap & Strategy talk given by Paul Rodwick and Rich Clayton. Paul we all know from the Siebel Analytics side of the business, whilst Rich has come over following the Hyperion acquisition. These roadmap talks are

After going along to the "Oracle's BI Vision and What It Means to Hyperion Customers" session over at the Marriott hotel, the session I was particularly looking forward to this morning was Ed Suen's session on what's coming up in the semantic

I'm currently sitting in the Club Oracle Gold Lounge in Moscone West, catching up on emails and listening to Charles Phillip's keynote on the TV in the corner. It's been a pretty busy couple of days since I arrived on Saturday, luckily the weather

I finally got around to installing Oracle 11g earlier this afternoon, and I was pleasantly surprised to notice that Oracle Warehouse Builder gets installed by default: For someone like myself who makes most of his living from either consulting in, or training in, Warehouse Builder, this is of course good

OK, I promise this is the last advert for a while, however I wanted to take a few moments just to talk about the Oracle BI&DW consulting services [http://www.rittmanmead.com/services/consulting/] that Rittman Mead offers. Normal service will be resumed shortly... Apart from Oracle BI

I'm organizing the ODTUG BI&DW SIG Meeting at Oracle Open World [http://www.oracle.com/openworld] in San Francisco, on Sunday 11th November at 11am at Moscone West 3010 and 3012. For those of you building your schedule up, it's session S293003. The theme

I'm running my Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclass [http://www.rittmanmead.com/services/bi-masterclasses-20078/] in Bratislava, Slovakia [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/show_desc.redirect?dc=D48573_946979&p_org_id=11&lang=SK&source_call=] , later this month on the 22nd and 23rd

Apart from running seminars and posting technical articles on the blog, Jon and I (and now Peter Scott [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/10/24/peter-scott-joining-rittman-mead-consulting/]) actually do a lot of training and consulting for clients in the UK, Europe and North America. Just for today and for one

So I was reading through Dylan's blog [http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/] the other day and noticed an article he'd written about Oracle BI Administrator scripting [http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/udml-in-oracle-bi-server/]. The article looked particularly interesting as a couple of people had recently asked

One of the interesting new features that came with OBIEE 10.1.3.2 was the Aggregate Persistence Wizard. This utility automates the creation and initial population of aggregates, persists them in a back-end database and configures the BI Server metadata layer so that they're used when appropriate.

I'm delighted to announce that, in a few weeks time, Peter Scott [http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/] will be working with Jon Mead and myself as part of the consulting team at Rittman Mead Consulting. Peter is well known within the Oracle data warehousing industry as an expert level

It's only a few weeks now to Oracle Open World 2007 in San Francisco, and in what is now a tradition I'm organizing another blogger meetup, at the Thirsty Bear Bar and Restaurant [http://www.thirstybear.com], Howard Street, for the Tuesday night (13th November). This

Fay Dondi [[email protected]] from Oracle EMEA Recruitment contacted me last week, to let me know about some Product Development vacancies within the Business Intelligence area that might be of interest to some readers. Fay is currently working with the Business Intelligence team on a recruitment drive, and

I'm currently sitting in a hotel room in Budapest, with a day off between running seminars for Oracle University in Stockholm and Budapest. It was a fairly early flight so I've got a few hours free in the afternoon, which has given me the chance to

Just a quick note to say I'm running one of my BI Masterclasses [http://www.rittmanmead.com/services/bi-masterclasses-20078/] in Dublin next week, October 16th-17th. We'll be covering OBIEE data modeling and dashboard development, ETL using Oracle Data Integrator, Identity Management, OBIEE and Service-Orientated Architecture, Real-Time

"SAP announced Sunday afternoon it plans to acquire Business Objects in a cash deal valued at slightly more than $6.8 billion. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008, is SAP's largest acquisition ever. The deal is especially noteworthy for SAP,

Yesterday, I enhanced my Oracle Real-Time Decisions project to start providing cross-sell offers to customers who had ordered through the SOA Suite Order Bookings business process. Today, I'm going to take the acceptances, or rejections, from customers and feed then back into the model, so that future offers

Yesterday we got going with a slightly revised Oracle Real-Time Decisions project that we are using to come up with customer cross-sell offers after recieving orders via the Oracle SOA Suite Order Bookings demo. Today, we'll look at generating cross-sell offers based on performance goals we define, such

OK, back to the drawing board a bit. After having worked through the first four sessions putting together an RTD Inline Service to select the most appropriate manufacturer for the Order Bookings BPEL process, it became increasingly clear that trying to put this particular scenario together for my first RTD