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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

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2009 : Registration Now Open!

I'm pleased to announce that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-bi-forum-brighton-may-14th-15th-2009/], running in Brighton UK on May 14th and 15th 2009, is now open. Back in last December when we first floated the idea [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/12/10/

Free Half-Day Seminar in London with Mark Rittman

Rittman Mead and Oracle are organizing a free, half-day seminar in London on 1st April 2009 [http://www.opnlaunchpad.com/pages/campaigns/index.php/194/] on Oracle Business Intelligence, Hyperion and the BI Applications. During the session I'll be taking attendees through what's new in Oracle

Rittman Mead and Kimball University Event

[http://www.rittmanmead.com/data-warehouse-lifecycle-in-depth/] The data warehouse continues to be one of the most organizationally complex and technically interesting projects in Information Technology. Rittman Mead are proud to announce this unique data warehousing training opportunity, in collaboration with Kimball University and Quest For Knowledge.Learn from Margy Ross and

Breaking Silence

It is February and I have just realised that I have not added anything to the Rittman Mead Blog this year. Like all of my colleagues, I have been busy working with clients - so far this year I have worked on projects on OBIEE reporting over Oracle e Business

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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

Being Flexible

One of the things I really love about working with the team here at Rittman Mead is how we can offer our clients a flexible service, I guess this flexibility must be appreciated by our customers as we have just won the UKOUG Business Intelligence Partner of the Year [http:

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

So, What is "Oracle's New Database Accelerator"?

I was just taking a look through the Open World session catalog when I came across what I presume is recently added session, "Oracle’s New Database Accelerator: Query Processing Revolutionized" [http://www28.cplan.com/cc208/session_details.jsp?isid=298677&ilocation_id=208-1&ilanguage=english]

Live from Denmark

I'm currently sitting in my hotel room in Fredericia, Denmark, as tomorrow I'm running a customized version of our OBIEE course for a new customer over here. I flew in to Copenhagen Airport late this afternoon and then got the train from the airport to where

Looking for Oracle BI Applications Training For Your Team?

A new course we've recently developed is one around the Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/category/biapps/]. Covering the initial setup, data load and mapping customizations and using an Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 data set, we initially developed this course for

Advert - Short-term consultancy

As I mentioned before, Rittman Mead Consulting really does consulting, it's in the company name!! Although a lot of the posts on the company blog are based on our presentations, our work is not all speaking at conferences and delivering training. My colleagues and I are often working

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

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 Day 1

I'm over in New Orleans at the moment for ODTUG Kaleidoscope, this is the first day of the conference with a series of full-day symposiums on ApEx, Fusion Middleware and Essbase development. The main conference sessions then start tomorrow with myself and Borkur presenting later in the week.

Competing on Analytics using OBIEE

On Tuesday I presented a paper entitled Competing on Analytics using OBIEE at the UKOUG BIRT SIG in London. The idea behind the paper was to explore how companies use Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics, how they can extend their use in an organisation and hence gain competitive advantage

UK Higher Education Seminar : Wed 25th June, 2008, Reading

If you're in the UK Higher Education Sector and are users of Oracle's business intelligence software, one of the technologies you're probably spending a lot of time looking at is the new Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite of products. We're particularly

People vs Tools and Techniques

One of the things I am doing at the moment is reviewing our delivery methodology, looking at how different techniques and can be used with the current stack of Oracle BI tools to effectively deliver projects. This involves looking the tools currently on offer, such as OBI EE or Warehouse

Advert: OBIEE Developer Training

I've just updated our training page with details of our Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition developer course [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training/listing-of-courses/oracle-bi-suite-enterprise-edition-design-build-and-dashboards-5-days/] . This course is aimed at organizations who have recently bought OBIEE and are looking to train their development team up on creating the metadata

Web 2.0 Round Table with Charles Phillips, London

I mentioned the other week that I got an invite to a roundtable session with Oracle's President, Charles Phillips, at the Lanesborough Hotel in London. The session itself was last Friday and so I thought I'd go along, there were I think around eight bloggers, analysts

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OBI SE One Seminar, Birmingham 30th April 2008

Rittman Mead Consulting, in conjunction with Oracle, are running a half-day Oracle BI Suite Standard Edition One seminar at Oracle Birmingham on Wednesday, 30th April 2008. Free to attend, this event is aimed at organizations new to BI and will provide an overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite with a

News on the Book

A year or so ago I mentioned that I'd started work on a book [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2006/12/06/announcing-oracle-press-oracle-business-intelligence-suite-developers-guide/] for Oracle Press entitled "Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Developers Guide" with a projected release date of the first part of this year. Whilst

New White Paper on Cube Organized Materialized Views

I noticed on the Oracle OLAP blog [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/db/11g/pdf/comparision_aw_mv_11g_twp.pdf] the other day that a new white paper on Cube Organized Materialized Views [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/db/11g/pdf/comparision_aw_mv_11g_

RSS Feeds

As Mark mentioned in a comment to a posting [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/03/15/a-site-makeover/], we run the Rittman Mead blog on Wordpress. The recent blog revamp may have upset some feed readers that used feed URLs that we no longer maintain. Using Wordpress gives us many

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 Hyperion Track Now Available

If you're an Oracle Hyperion Essbase developer, or perhaps an Oracle BI developer looking to see what the new Hyperion products will bring to the Oracle BI stack, ODTUG have recently published details of the Hyperion track planned for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/hyperion.html]

My first Rittman Mead blog post

As I mentioned [http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/meetings-and-blogs/] on my personal blog I will be moving the more technical posts over to this site and keeping the old site as more of a personal weblog. Of course, there will be some posts that are both personal and