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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

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_

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]

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Presenting at the Red Database Symposium, The Hague

I've just finished up delivering my session for the Red Database Symposium [http://www.reddatabase-symposium.com/RS0803/session_RS0803?event=RS0803&date=2008-03-11&session=RS08030201] today, my topic was Analytics and Data Warehousing using Oracle 11g and OBIEE. The first session at least was fairly hard

New Hyperion Track at ODTUG Kaleidoscope - Call for Papers

ODTUG [http://www.odtug.com], who are organizing the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/] conference in New Orleans next June, have recently added an additional, dedicated Hyperion stream to the event for Essbase and Hyperion Developers. From what I've seen of the Hyperion and Essbase world

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UKOUG Wrap-Up

Just to finish off the postings from last week's UKOUG Conference, I've uploaded the three presentations that I gave during the week, which can now be accessed using these links: * Integrating Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle Fusion Middleware [http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/Integrating%

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Rittman Mead at Oracle Open World 2007, San Francisco

It's just a couple of days now before we fly over to San Francisco for Oracle Open World, and as usual we're taking part in quite a few of the events over the five days. On Sunday, I'm chairing the ODTUG BI&DW

Five Oracle BI Trends for the Future

I gave a BI keynote (pdf copy of slides [http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/BIWA%20Keynote.pdf]) at a couple of events last week (the Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics Summit in Reston, VA and the OUG Scotland Conference & Exhibition, Glasgow), and as it's been picked up

More on BIWA

I was at the BIWA conference earlier this week (Tuesday and Wednesday), BIWA is an Oracle user group, which as the name suggests, specialises in Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics, more info can be found here [http://OracleBIWA.org] on their website. They are planning to run a yearly conference,

Stopover at Schiphol

I'm just holed up in the lounge at Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands, waiting for a plane back to Heathrow. Today was a very pleasurable day doing some training for Centennium [http://www.centennium.nl/], an Oracle BI & data warehousing specialist consultancy based down in The Hague [http:

OBIEE Dimensional Data Modeling Redux

Several months ago I wrote a blog post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/06/19/obiee-data-modeling-tips-1-integrating-1-1-and-1-many-source-tables/] on pulling together an Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition business model from a normalized data source. At the time I was working through in my own mind how best to join different data

Meetings and other stuff

First up in this hotch-potch (or is it hodge-podge?) is a reminder of a BI meeting in London in a few weeks time; Tuesday September 25 in fact. The UKOUG BIRT SIG meeting [http://ukoug.org/calendar/show_event.jsp?id=2895] (wasn't BIRT SIG a Punk Rocker?

Open World, BIWA, UKOUG and Oracle Mag

Things have been a bit quiet on the blog recently, as Jon and I have taken a bit of leave and I've been working on a couple of articles for Oracle. As well as the articles, Jon and I are also due to present at a number of

Thoughs on ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2007

I'm currently sitting in the deli cafe at the Hilton Daytona Beach hotel, about to leave and get my connecting flight through to Atlanta. I've been so busy during the past few days that I've not really had a chance to write about the

Second Day of the Miracle DB Forum, Edinburgh

Today was Day Two of the Miracle DBF up at Edinburgh Castle, and for those of us that got a reasonably early night it was a Nine O'Clock start with Mogens Norgaard on "You Probably Need RAC". Following on from Mogens was Dan Fink with "

Posting from the Miracle DBF, Edinburgh

I'm currently sitting in a pub just down from Edinburgh Castle, in a break between the morning and afternoon sessions. Just across the table from me is Doug Burns, and behind is Thomas Presslie and Carel-Jan Engel, who are working on the Miracle musical for tonight's

Oracle Data Integrator Article on OTN

My article on real-time data integration with Oracle Data Integrator [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-odi.html] has just been published on OTN. This was quite an interesting article to write; apart from establishing how ODI related to OWB, I also put an example together that takes data,

Thoughts on the Hyperion Conference, Lyon

It's just after 3.30 in the afternoon in Lyon, and I'm just about to finish up at the Hyperion conference [http://www.solutions2007.com/solutions2007/international/index.cfm]. I've deliberately held back from posting to the blog until today, as I wanted to

Off To The Hyperion Conference

It's Sunday lunchtime and I'm currently on the train going up to London, to catch a flight to the Hyperion conference in Lyon [http://www.solutions2007.com/solutions2007/international/index.cfm]. I'm going over as an official representative of the UKOUG [http://www.ukoug.

Odds and Ends

Just a quick catch up post, as I sit here watching Spurs draw 1-1 with Blackburn. Brian Duff posted a link earlier this week [http://blogs.oracle.com/duffblog/2007/05/07#a413] to the new Oracle Blogs Semantic Web [http://otnsemanticweb.oracle.com/blogs.jsp] site, that aggregates a

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

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

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

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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