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MDS XML versus MUDE Part1: Introduction

The links below represent all the entries in this series: MDS XML versus MUDE Part 2: What is MUDE? [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/mds-xml2/] MDS XML versus MUDE Part 3: Configuring MDS XML with Git [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/07/mds-xml3/] MDS XML versus MUDE

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Rittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta Special Guest: Alex Gorbachev

A few days back, I introduced our special guests [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/rittman-mead-bi-forum-atlanta-special-guest-cary-millsap/] for the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta, focusing first on Cary Millsap. Today I'd like to talk about our other special guest: Oracle ACE Director Alex Gorbachev [https://twitter.com/

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Rittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta Special Guest: Cary Millsap

I feel like I'm introducing the Beatles... though I think Kellyn Pot'Vin [https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar] calls them the "DBA Gods" [http://dbakevlar.com/author/kpedersen/]. Today I'll be talking about Cary Millsap, and tomorrow I'll introduce our other special

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Some Upcoming Events

It’s going to be a busy few weeks leading up to the BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/]. First, Rittman Mead will be exhibiting at the UKOUG Engineered Systems Summit [http://www.ukoug.org/what-we-offer/news/ukoug-engineered-systems-summit/] on Tuesday 16th April, this is a one day event in

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Tuning Philosophy - Tuning the Right Thing

My second presentation at this year's RMOUG Training Days was on tuning "realtime data warehouses"; as usual, this paper is now on the Rittman Mead Articles page [http://rittmanmead.com/files/RMOUG2013%20Realtime%20tuning.pdf]. Perhaps more accurately my talk was more about my tuning philosophy

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Big Data and the Oracle Reference Architecture.

Last week I travelled from Europe to present at the RMOUG Training Days event In Denver, Colorado. As I blogged a couple of weeks back, this is one of my favourite user group conferences and it never fails to impress me. I expect to be wowed even more next year

Business Insights

BIWA 2013 Welcome Reception

You may have seen information on our website about the BIWA Summit [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biwa2013/] and how excited we are to be attending. It's great to have a separate BIWA event again, and to help ensure it's success, Rittman Mead has decided to be

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OOW2012 so far...

It's now half way through Oracle Open World 2012 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html] and I thought I would write up a brief update of what has happened so far. Last year saw the announcements of both Exalytics [http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/business-intelligence/

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ODTUG Kscope 2012 BI Track's Interactive Mad-Dash-Boards

Sorry to break in on Mark's Endeca series this week, but I wanted to give a quick update on some ODTUG Kscope 2012 news. It's tradition at Kscope to follow the Monday Night Keynote presentation with a series of track-specific, fun-and-learning events [http://kscope12.com/events/

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Interview with Kevin McGinley, BI Content Lead for Kscope 12

Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Kevin McGinley of Accenture to discuss the upcoming ODTUG Kscope 12. I was on the content selection committee, and immediately recognized how lucky ODTUG was to have Kevin coordinating this process. We had tough choices to make around content -- this is always the

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Rittman Mead at ODTUG Kscope 2011

I'm still not used to saying "Kscope"... it sounds like a medical screening that I know I should get when I turn 40. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the event for all the usual reasons: seeing good friends, seeing all the great speakers in

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Data Warehouse Global Leaders Forum, Athens

Mark and I have just spent the last couple of days at the DW Global Leaders Forum in Athens. The DW Global Leaders Forum is an Oracle-run customer program that connects a number of EMEA Data Warehouse clients with each other, Oracle and a small number of partners. The main

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Looking forward to RMOUG

I'm currently on a plane headed to Denver for the annual RMOUG Training Days conference. This is my second year speaking at RMOUG, which is the largest regional Oracle user group conference in the country (or so they tell me). RMOUG always has a strong database and DBA

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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Start of Open World Day 3

While Mark and Venkat are keeping us all informed on the BI sessions going on at Open World, I wanted to take a minute to provide a quick update concerning what's going on in the exhibition hall. We're located at Booth 124, Moscone South, which is

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Beginning Day 2 at Open World

As Mark pointed out this morning, the weather in San Francisco is terrible. Having endured the recent flooding conditions in the Atlanta area, I can't help but feel like I brought the rain with me. However, I'm inside a huge conference center, with tents between all

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Oracle BI Symposium, London

Whilst Borkur was over at the OUGN Conference in Oslo [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/03/11/ougn-spring-seminar-2009/], Jennifer and I were at the Oracle BI Symposium [http://www.oracle-bisymposium.com/Main/LandingPage.aspx] at a hotel in London. This was an Oracle-run event that featured a keynote from

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Rittman Mead Consulting At the UKOUG Conference 2008

I hope the readers of this blog have already noticed that the UKOUG conference is running this week up in Birmingham. The Rittman Mead Consulting team has a stand in the exhibition hall as well as running several sessions on the conference. Please try to drop by Stand 90 and

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Exa-ctly

Sitting about half-a-flying-day from San Francisco and OOW and for that matter my colleagues, gives me opportunity to mull over Larry's keynote address that has been so widely reported on-line. I would love to say my prediction for what was going to be announced was completely right; although

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Finally I managed to write a post

A time for a post Well, it has now been close to 5 months since I joined Rittman Mead Consulting. Right after I joined up, all my previous blog posts were migrated to the RMC blog. The ensuing blog silence on my behalf did cause some people to wonder and