Thursday, July 29th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Things are going to be a bit quiet around here for the next few weeks, as I’m
going to have to take a break from blogging for a while.
Mainly, this is because I’m starting a new job within
Plus that means I’m going to be
particularly busy over the next month or so. My new role involves working […]
Thursday, July 29th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"The
history of Oracle performance analysis looks a lot like the history of
humanity
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Niall Litchfield: "I have also this morning uploaded a quick how to on
Setting Up Generic Connectivity. This document is a step by stem guide to
Oracle’s generic connectivity, which is a free - but little known, database
feature for connecting to non-Oracle services. The official documentation (this
is
the 9i version) details some of the restrictions. Generic Connectivity has […]
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Computerworld.co.nz:
"… Wohl also said that Oracle is enhancing its daily business
intelligence capabilities, an architectural feature embedded in the suite that
allows managers to get quick updates on business performance. To make the
feature more appealing, Oracle is adding six dashboards to the existing 31 and
increasing the number […]
Monday, July 26th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"Though critical to the success of information technology, nontechnical
factors often go unnoticed. Industry voices frequently alert us to the more
common nontechnical pitfalls: inadequate executive sponsorship, failed
management of user expectations, and unrealistic project scope. But there’s one
more thing and it has little to do with technology and nothing to do with
project management. […]
Sunday, July 25th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
A couple of projects that I’ve worked on recently had chosen Oracle Warehouse
Builder over
Informatica’s Powercenter. It was interesting therefore to see a new article
by Rajan Chandras that
looked at the latest version of Powercenter, and to compare how
Informatica’s offering compared to OWB10g.
According to
"(Re)Enter The Leader", Powercenter has a similar architecture to OWB:
"PowerCenter 7.0 (I’ll call it […]
Wednesday, July 21st, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Following on from Customer
Data Hub, Oracle have just announced that Product Data Hub will be available
in 2005. According
to James Niccolai for IDG News Service, "Meanwhile, Oracle also
plans to release a rival offering, called Product Data Hub, later this year or
early in 2005. The Product Data Hub will be based on the same idea as its
Customer […]
Tuesday, July 20th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
One of our customers recently asked me about the best way to manage multiple
environments when using OWB. The customer had a development environment,
together with test, QA and of course production, and wanted to know how to set
up their design and runtime repositories. Do we create separate design and
runtime repositories for dev, test, QA and prod, […]
Sunday, July 18th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
I
must admit I’ve only just come across this, but it looks interesting anyway.
"Oracle
XML Data Synthesis (XDS)" is "designed
to solve the problem of accessing disparate information sources like package
applications (Oracle 11i, SAP, PeopleSoft), databases (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server),
files (MS Excel, XML) and aggregating the information from these kind of
information sources in real-time. XDS provides an easy-to-use […]
Friday, July 16th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"In striving to achieve customer intimacy, the idea that someone else
can know your customers better than you do seems somewhat oxymoronic. Can
someone else know your customers better than you? For years, the answer to this
has always been "no." Your organization’s analytic needs have always
been thought of as proprietary and best handled internally within your
organization. Now, […]
