Today's the first full day of the UKOUG Technology & EBS Conference [http://techandebs.ukoug.org] in Birmingham, UK, and I'm currently getting my presentations ready for later on today. This year we've again got a stand in the main exhibition hall, where we&

I'm currently sitting in speaker ready room at the UKOUG Technology & EBS Conference up in Birmingham, and the team are on the stand now ready to meet people at the exhibition. I've got an hour or so free now this morning, and so I thought

Just a quick remind for anyone who'll be attending the UKOUG Technology and EBS Conference at the Birmingham ICC next week. We'll be exhibiting at Stand 50, and will also be delivering the following sessions: * "Oracle BI EE and Essbase Integration Step-by-Step" [http://techandebs.

We're organizing a drinks reception at the Pitcher and Piano Bar [http://www.pitcherandpiano.com/locations/bar.cfm?area=Birmingham] on the Tuesday evening of the UKOUG Tech and EBS Conference [http://techandebs.ukoug.org], which is open to all BI & DW delegates, speakers and partners who&

One intriguing or not-so obvious feature of BI EE is the way it does its Sub-Totals & Pivot Table calculations. As with any reporting tool, we expect almost every part of a report to be pushed back to the database in the form of native SQL. But there are certain

It's just a few weeks until the conference highlight of the year for Rittman Mead, the UKOUG Technology and EBS Conference and Exhibition [http://techandebs.ukoug.org] in Birmingham. In previous years the UKOUG has tried to bring everyone together for this main event at the Birmingham ICC,

If you've been keeping an eye on our progress this year, you'll probably be aware that 2009 has been a very exciting year for us. We've opened an office in the USA, and earlier in the year Adrian Ward and Daniel Bosman from Majendi,

ODTUG Kaleidoscope [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com], the Oracle Developer Tools User Group annual conference which next year is running in Washington DC, has a call for papers [http://www.technicalconferencesolutions.com/pls/caat/caat_abstracts_upd.main?conference_id=68] that closes on November 10th. This year, I'm

John Paredes recently sent over a review copy of a book he's just had published, entited "The Multidimensional Modeling Toolkit: Making Your Business Intelligence Applications Smart with Oracle OLAP" [http://www.amazon.com/Multidimensional-Data-Modeling-Toolkit-Intelligence/dp/0981775306] (ISBN: 978-0-9817753-0-2, OLAP World Press). Interestingly, it's a

I'm currently over in Finland, waiting to travel back after the OUGF Autumn Conference [http://www.ougf.fi/index.php?lang=en] in Helsinki. Together with Dan Morgan, Piet de Visser and Joze Senegacnik we were providing the English-Language track, and thanks again to Heli from the user

[Mark Handford from the BI Survey [http://www.bi-survey.com] dropped me an email the other day, to let me know that fieldwork for the BI Survey 9 is now underway. In my opinion I'd be great if as many Oracle and Hyperion customers could take part as

The vast majority of customers I come across that use OBIEE run the platform on Linux or Unix. For those that run it on Windows though, what tools do you have to monitor the performance of the platform? One of our customers is in just this situation as they are

Last week was our second Training Days event in London [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2009], and this year we had twenty attendees over the three days with the sessions being led by myself, Borkur and Venkat. The venue this year was a grand old room in the Bloomsbury Hotel in

Whilst most BI Publisher installations I've worked with use either Oracle BI Server security or Oracle Internet Directory, it might be the case that you want to use Microsoft Active Directory instead. The most common way I see this happening is either with Active Directory hooked into Oracle