Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 a lot
closer with our customers, talking about, demonstrating and prototyping some of
the interesting new Oracle BI&W technologies due for release over the next few
months, which will mean being out of the office more with consequently less time
for site updates. I’m also heading up our involvement with the

Discoverer ‘Drake’ / Oracle 10g Business Intelligence beta program, which
should give me lots of new material for when the product is finally launched,
but in the meantime means I’m limited in what I can actually say.

In the meantime, look out for the following over the next few weeks and
months:

• Discoverer ‘Drake’,
  and the 10g Business Intelligence suite should be out within the next few
  months. It’ll be part of AS10g (although not necessarily launched at the same
  time as AS10g Release 2), will include Discoverer OLAP Plus (a.k.a. ‘Drake’),
  a new version of Discoverer Viewer, and new Discoverer portlets, including a
  ‘gauge’ portlet
• Alongside the AS10g elements of 10g Business Intelligence will be the DS
  elements, including the long-awaited Excel-addin and the
  next version of BI Beans,
  including lots of enhancements to the thin-client JSP beans.
• Enterprise Planning & Budgeting will probably get a release of sorts
  towards the end of 2004. It’s currently being used by a number of
  ‘early-adopter’ customers and there’ll probably be more news, and demos to
  look at, at the Openworld events in London in October. Look out for material
  on Appsnet, and for presentations at user groups later in 2004.
• Look out also for the 10.1.0.3 version of Oracle 10g, which comes with a
  number of enhancements to Oracle OLAP including the new
  AWXML feature.
• The next
  UKOUG
  Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG meeting is on the
  
  12th October. The agenda is being finalised at the moment, but it looks
  like we’ve got presentations on EPB, Discoverer ‘Drake’ and the Excel Add-In,
  Balanced Scorecard, Change Data Capture, and reporting using Discoverer. If
  you’re a UKOUG member book a place soon, as it’s one of the most popular SIGs
  and there’s usually a waiting list for spaces.
• The UKOUG Conference & Exhibition
  is on the 1st-3rd November, at the Birmingham ICC. Plus Consultancy have a
  stand there, and I’m presenting on "OLAP Analysis Using 10g And Discoverer
  ‘Drake’". I was involved in the BI&W paper selection, and can let you know
  that we’ve got an excellent selection of BI, warehousing and reporting
  presentations lined up for conference attendees.
• Oracle Openworld is on in
  London and
  San
  Francisco later this year. I’m lucky enough to be going to the San
  Francisco one this year (courtesy of a free conference pass from Oracle for
  winning one of their OTN
  community awards) so this should be a good chance to get up to speed on
  what’s coming for Oracle BI&W next year.
• Keep a look out for new BI&W material on the
  Plus Consultancy website, and
  on DBAZine, and if
  you’ve not already subscribed, sign up for the
  Oracle OLAP mailing list.

No doubt I’ll post the odd article over the next few weeks if something
particularly relevant crops up, but until then, bye for now…

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