Technical Flying Back from Johannesburg, and Thoughts on BI and the SOA Suite Demo I’m currently sitting on the flight back from Johannesburg to London Heathrow, after running an Oracle BI Enterprise Edition workshop on behalf of Oracle South Africa. On the way back from the conference centre, I did smile to myself as I saw a road sign for Pretoria out of
OBIEE and Row-Level Security During the past week I've been working on getting row-level security working with Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition. Like most OBIEE topics, typing the subject into google brings up zero results and so my first port of call was the online documentation on OTN. I'm not
Technical Odds and Ends Just a quick catch up post, as I sit here watching Spurs draw 1-1 with Blackburn. Brian Duff posted a link earlier this week [http://blogs.oracle.com/duffblog/2007/05/07#a413] to the new Oracle Blogs Semantic Web [http://otnsemanticweb.oracle.com/blogs.jsp] site, that aggregates a
Oracle OLAP 11g News, and the Vlamis Blog Whilst I was over at Collaborate'07 last month, one of the biggest bits of product news that I heard about, but couldn't mention fully at the time, was details of the new 11g release of Oracle OLAP. Chris Claterbos from Vlamis Software Solutions was given permission
Technical Thoughts on OBI EE for Discoverer Users I mentioned the other days that one of the papers I’m delivering for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2007 is on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBI EE) for Discoverer users. The aim of this paper is to introduce OBI EE to those Oracle customers who currently use Discoverer, perhaps have requirements
OBI EE, Time Dimensions and Time-Series Calculations I’m currently working on a paper on Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition (OBI EE) for Discoverer users, for the upcoming ODTUG conference at Daytona Beach, and a tricky area that I’ve come up against recently is getting the metadata layer in a state suitable for performing time-series queries.
Technical OWB11g and other ODTUG Kaleidoscope Papers, plus News on Hyperion I was taking a look through the BI&DW presentation extracts [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/2007conference_papers.htm#BIDW] for the upcoming ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2007 [www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/] event next June, and I noticed quite a few that I'm keen to attend. The event is in Daytona
Miracle Scotland Database Forum Agenda Online Doug Burns has already mentioned it [http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1257-MSDBF-Agenda-Online.html] earlier this evening, but the draft agenda for the Miracle Scotland Database Forum [http://www.miracleltd.com/index.asp?page=167&page2=343&page3=368] is now available online, and it looks really
Back to the UK, Then off to Dusseldorf I'm back in the UK now after a rather eventful flight back from the States; our flight from Las Vegas to San Francisco was delayed by around an hour, which meant we arrived at SFO at 4.00pm for a 4.30 flight back to Heathrow. After a
Technical Final Day at Collaborate Just a quick posting as I'm about to get my flight back to the UK (via San Francisco, unfortunately, so it'll be a long journey). Yesterday I went to talks on SOA and RAC, and went along to Cary Millsap's talk on why you
Technical A First Look at Oracle Real-Time Decisions I've been telling everyone who I got talking to this week at Collaborate, that the future of BI is in it's integration with business processes. The problem with BI at the moment is that it's a minority interest; tools such as Discoverer, Business Objects,
Collaborate’07 Day 2 - BI Roadmap Update I've just got out of the Oracle's BI Roadmap session by Matt Elumba, here's some notes on what Matt had to say. I was sort of expecting more or less a rerun of the same talk we had at Open World and ODTUG Kaleidoscope,
Collaborate’07 Day 1 Today was the first day proper of Collaborate'07, and started off with the keynote from Ari Kaplan (IOUG President), Ken Jacobs and Andy Mendelsohn, on thirty years of the Oracle database and what's coming in the 11g release. There wasn't really anything new on
Arrived in Las Vegas I'm over in Las Vegas now for the Collaborate'07 [http://www.collaborate07.com/] event, a joint user-group conference by the IOUG, OAUG and Quest. The event's being held at the Mandalay Bay hotel, one of the "mega-casino hotels" on the Las Vegas
Bootstrapping an Oracle Consultancy I've not been blogging much recently because I've been working flat out on something that's turned out equally as interesting - bootstrapping a consulting business with an old colleague of mine, Jon Mead. When I used to bump in to people such as Mogens
Collaborate’07 Schedule It's only a week to go now until Collaborate'07 in Las Vegas, so I was thinking it's about time I sorted my agenda out. Here's what I'm planning to attend over the main four days: Monday * 8:15 AM-9:00
Business Insights Easter Catch-Up I've realized that I haven't posted to the blog much recently, so as I've got an evening in I thought I'd write a catch-up posting. First of all, like a few people I was disappointed to see the EOUC event over in
Technical Towards “Business Intelligence 2.0″, and Thoughts on the Next Seminar Last week I posted an article on the forthcoming round of BI Masterclasses [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/03/23/bi-masterclasses-200708-your-feedback-required/] that I'll be running through Oracle University, and I suggested an agenda mainly focused around the new BI Enterprise Edition family of products. I invited feedback
10% Discount on EOUC Event in Amsterdam, May I mentioned a while ago that I'll be doing three presentations [http://www.rittmanmead.com/events/] at the upcoming EOUC Oracle User Conference [http://www.eouc.eu/] in Amsterdam in May. This is the first such pan-European event for a while, and looking at the agenda [http://www.
Thoughts on Oracle Data Integrator I've been working fairly solidly with Oracle Data Integrator over the past few weeks, and I think I've used it enough now to form a few opinions on the product. I did some work with a client who wanted to evaluate it for it's
BI Masterclasses 2007/08 - Your Feedback Required Oracle University have asked me to do another round of BI Masterclasses later this year, and I'm looking for some input and feedback from readers of this blog to help me decide on what I'm going to cover. This year and last, I ran about fifteen
Technical Two New Papers on OWB, ODI Tomorrow is the OUG Scotland BI Tech SIG Meeting [http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_event.jsp?id=2835] up in Edinburgh, and I'm about to get on a train up to Gatwick to fly up this afternoon. I'm doing two presentations [http://www.ukoug.org/
Promoting from Dev to Prod using OMB*Plus The other day I posted an article on migrating OWB modules to production [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/03/09/using-owb10gr2-in-a-production-environment-revisited/] , and I said that I'd come back shortly with some OMB*Plus code to automate the migration process. As good as my word, I'm
Introducing “Rittman Mead Consulting” Back at the start of February I mentioned that I was leaving my consulting job and moving in to the world of independent consultancy [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/02/01/an-independent-consultant-from-march-1st-2007/]; now that the move is complete and I've started the new business up, I can
Blog Migration If you're reading this, it means the migration of my blog to the new company site has been successful. I'll post more news on what this means over the next few days, but for now, welcome to Rittman Mead Consulting, the name of our new consulting