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 architecture to OWB:

"PowerCenter 7.0 (I’ll call it [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

"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, [...]