Business Insights Looking forward to 2011, and News on Events Well it's back-to-work time now in the UK, and for myself and for Rittman Mead it's looking like an exciting few months coming up. First off, we announced just before the holiday break an additional set of dates for our OBIEE 11g Training Days event [http:
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle releases BI extension for Open Office Oracle released a new BI extension for Open Office with the latest Open Office release (v. 3.3) . This extension gives us the ability to embed information from BI EE 10g into Open Office Calc, Writer and Impress documents (equivalents of Excel, Word and Powerpoint). OO Calc supports the ability
Business Insights Training Days Bangalore : It's a Wrap! Well, I'm back home now after completing the last leg of our OBIEE 11g Training Days event, this time in Bangalore, India. Held at the Trinity Fortune Hotel near to our new offices in Bangalore, thirty OBIEE enthusiasts joined us for three days of intensive 11g training covering
Oracle BI Suite EE Photos from Training Days 2010, London Last week was the first of our OBIEE 11g Training Days 2010 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2010] events, held at Holborn Bars in London. Thirty OBIEE developers from around Europe joined us for three days of discussions, demos and optional labs around the new 11g release of Oracle Business Intelligence
Oracle BI Suite EE Thoughts on BI at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 Well, I'm finally back from San Francisco and Oracle Open World [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], having spent two days at Oracle's HQ in Redwood Shores and then just over a week downtown in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. If you came to any of
Business Insights Training Days 2010 Bangalore - Now Hands-On! I'm pleased to announce that, in line with the London and Atlanta Oracle BI 11g Training Days events, our event in Bangalore will now be hands-on. As a reminder, the Rittman Mead Oracle BI 11g Training Days event is three-day of intense, hands-on technical training on the new
Oracle BI Suite EE Oracle BI EE 11g - Released & Available for Download Looks like BI EE 11g silently made it to OTN yesterday. The software is available for download now. It can be downloaded from here [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bus-intelligence-11g-165436.html] . Currently its available only for Windows (32 bit & 64 bit) & Linux (32 bit &
Business Insights Rittman Mead shortlisted for UKOUG BI Partner of the Year 2010/11 Rittman Mead is delighted to have been shortlisted for the UKOUG BI Partner of the Year 2010/11, to be awarded on the 7th October at a ceremony in London. These awards are designed to provide recognition to Oracle Partners for the contribution that they make by offering their services
Oracle BI Suite EE Announcing : Rittman Mead OBIEE 11g Training Days 2010 I'm very pleased to announce our third annual Rittman Mead Training Days [http://www.rittmanmead.com/trainingdays2010/] event, this time focusing on OBIEE 11g and running in London, Atlanta and Bangalore in October and November 2010. Our previous two Training Days events covered a range of Oracle BI
Oracle BI Suite EE At the OBIEE 11g Launch in London Today was the launch of OBIEE 11g [http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=113706&src=7036704&src=7036704&Act=9] at Old Billingsgate, in London. I guess most readers of this blog, along with us, having been looking forward to this release for
Oracle BI Suite EE Kaleidoscope is a Wrap Every year, ODTUG shows why Kaleidoscope is the premier conference for the technical hacks in all of us. I can't remember a time when I learned so much, had so many great conversations, and felt more at home than this year. The content was spectacular across the board,
Technical Suncoast Oracle Users Group, May 27, 2010 I'm honored and excited to be speaking at the Suncoast Oracle Users Group (SOUG) [http://soug.acomp.usf.edu/] monthly meeting on May 27th, 2010, at the PricewaterhouseCoopers [http://soug.acomp.usf.edu/meetings.php] facility at 3109 W. Martin Luther King Blvd., Tampa, FL 33607. Much appreciation
Technical Realtime BI Is Not Realtime DW This posting is slightly edited to clarify that the majority of the post is about using transactional or transactionally structured sources for reporting. One of the points I make early on in my talk "Getting Real Data Warehouse Loading as it Happens" is that realtime business intelligence is
Technical Wrapping up Collaborate 10 It's been a fun week in good old Las Vegas. Though in the end I broke even at the tables, I enjoyed holding a large amount of the Mandalay Bay's money for them for two or three days, just to give it all back to them
Technical Collaborate 10 - The Early Days One of the things I had expected to do this week was to write about some of my BI and DW highlights from Collaborate 10. However, that is not to be. I am currently sitting at home in the UK, a victim of a cloud of volcanic ash that has
Technical Realtime Data Warehouses In a little over two weeks I will be giving my Real Time Data Warehousing talk at Collaborate [http://collaborate10.ioug.org/Education/BIWATrainingDays/tabid/83/Default.aspx] 10 in Las Vegas. I will cover a variety of techniques and not just change data capture. However, in my opinion, CDC
Business Insights An Update on the BI Forum, OBIEE EMG and US Conferences It's been particularly hectic over the past few weeks, with several new projects kicking off, training being delivered around Europe and a couple of trips over to the States, but I'm back in the UK now gradually catching up with blog posts and articles. As it&
Technical Thoughts on Change Data Capture In little over a month I will be in Las Vegas speaking at Collaborate 10. There is a lot of BI / DW talks this year and for the first time with BIWA Training Days branding [http://collaborate10.ioug.org/Education/BIWATrainingDays/tabid/83/Default.aspx#view] . Rittman Mead will be
Technical Oracle 11g Pivot One of the things that I often come across is the "up-dateable fact", that is a fact that starts life "incomplete" and changes overtime. Examples include things such as support calls that start life as "open" then progress through "responded", "resolved&
Technical Atlanta BI Users Group Meeting Rittman Mead is proud to announce our sponsorship of the February meeting of the Atlanta BI Users Group [http://communities.ioug.org/Home/BIRUGs/AtlantaBIUsersGroup/tabid/104/Default.aspx] , a regional special interest group with involvement from IOUG, ODTUG the IOUG BIWA SIG, and the Georgia Oracle Users Group (GOUSER)
Technical Off to Denver I'm sitting in the Atlanta airport waiting for my flight to Denver to go to the RMOUG Training Days, which I described here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/01/27/rmoug-training-days/]. It's snowing (again) in Atlanta, but not very much this time, and I think
Technical News on The BI Verdict, and an Interview with Nigel Pendse Those of you who keep an eye on this blog, or have been in the BI and OLAP industry for many years, will of course know of Nigel Pendse [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Pendse]. Nigel was behind the original "OLAP Report" that offered a vendor-neutral view
Technical To BICC Or Not To BICC (Part 3) In this, my final post on the BICC subject (well, for now at least...), I take a look at the softer side of BI management... The Balancing Act Put simply, if BI is delivered well it should generate two things.....firstly, answers [no pun intended] to the questions that the
Technical To BICC Or Not To BICC (Part 2) In my last post, I opened up some of my thoughts about how much BICC activity is happening in the real world. Continuing on from there, I'm now going to turn my attention to some of the important things that I think need to be addressed in the
Technical To BICC Or Not To BICC (Part 1) If your organisation has been using Business Intelligence in a strategic way for some time, then you will have already seen your BI solution evolve, grow and change from its original incarnation. You will probably also have an appreciation of the importance of somehow taking ownership of this process of
