Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

"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 [...]