Rittman Mead Blog - People, News and Events

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

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

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

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

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/

Technical

Running OWB10gR2 in a Production Environment

I've been giving some thought recently to how Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2 is configured and used when working in a production environment. Most people who "kick the tires" with OWB10gR2 do so on their own laptop, or on their own pc, with a local database on

Technical

Flying Visit, and Managing OWB10gR2 Configurations

It's currently Sunday lunchtime over in the UK, and I'm here on a flying visit in between visits to Austria and Slovenia last week, and Sweden next. I ran the BI Masterclass last week in Vienna and Ljubljana (photos here [http://www.flickr.com/photos/markrittman/

Technical

Book Writing and Parallels Coherence

I've been a bit remiss recently in keeping the blog up to date; what with planning for the forthcoming company seminar later in January, and writing a new article on XML Publisher in my spare time, I've not really had much time to keep the blog

Technical

New Seminar Dates, New Articles and Odds & Ends

A quick round-up of some odds and ends. First of all, a BIG thank you to Anders Holbøll who put together a script to gather all my previous blog articles from the Google cache, format them into an RSS feed compatible with Wordpress' import facility, then worked with me

Technical

Packing for the UKOUG Conference, Confirmation of Blogger Do

This afternoon I've been packing up my stuff in preparation for the UKOUG Conference & Exhibition [http://conference.ukoug.org], which is running from Tuesday to Friday next week in Birmingham. This year, because of the extra numbers due to the Peoplesoft, JDE and Siebel acquisitions, the main

Technical

Back Home, and Reflections on Open World

Well I'm back in the UK now, and I've had yesterday and this morning to myself before the family gets back from Ireland. We're all back at work tomorrow (well school and nursery for the kids, we haven't got them working as

Technical

Oracle Open World Days 1,2 - Database Roadmaps

I'm sitting now in the Speaker Ready-room down in the Moscone South mezzanine, in between sessions on Oracle Database 11g and the BI Suite Enteprise Edition & Standard Edition presentations later this afternoon. The morning started off with the Chuck Rozwat keynote on Oracle's database technology,

Technical

A Fresh New Look

You've probably noticed that I've given the site a bit of a spring clean, with a new look-and-feel and a move over to Wordpress [http://www.wordpress.org]. I've also taken the opportunity to remove much of the "cruft" from the site,

Technical

Working Through Some SCD 2 and 3 Examples Using OWB10gR2

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I wanted to take a look at SCD2 and 3 handling using OWB10gR2. This was prompted by the fact that up until now I hadn't really looked in detail at this feature, and I'd been reading a few

Data Warehousing

Debating

Earlier this year Mark Rittman and I briefly discussed the concept of a matching pair of conference papers on aggregation in Business Intelligence. Mark would look at the use of Oracle OLAP as an aggregation technique and I would do something similar on conventional (and maybe less conventional) relational techniques.

Data Warehousing

Design matters

One of our customers has asked us to review the performance of one of their legacy data warehouses. The daily data load takes far too long. There seems to be a lot we can suggest here to improve things - for a start, we need move to an incremental load

Data Warehousing

Warehouse design rant

An anonymous poster to Tom Kyte’s [http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2005/09/digging-stuff.html]Blog shared a tale of woe about data warehouse performance. Well, I felt for that poster – how can a developer put their hand on their heart (or wallet, if they are an external consultant) and