Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

A reader asks: "I am new to OLAP and Oracle OLAP and I have a question. I have an Oracle 10g Database with relational tables in it. I want to create dimensions and cubes from that data. Do I need to create separate dimension and fact tables from that relational data, or do I just [...]

I was looking through Steve Adams’ Ixora site the other day and I came across this presentation that talks about another approach to Oracle tuning. Entitled "Tuning By Layers", it’s a couple of years old now but puts forward the idea that a system consists of a number of layers, with each layer putting a [...]

Dashboard Design: Why Design is Important : "Effective design is crucial for dashboards. A good information design will clearly communicate key information to users and makes supporting information easily accessible. Dashboards and visualization are cognitive tools that improve your "span of control" over a lot of business data. These tools help people visually identify trends, [...]

The Register : "Sharp to ship world’s first HDD-based PDA" Ooh, this looks really nice … "Sharp will next month ship its latest Zaurus PDA into the Japanese market, the consumer electronics company announced this week. The device will be the first PDA to sport a hard drive.The Linux-based SL-C3000 adopts the clamshell casing of [...]

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) – The Future of Business Intelligence : "The demand for solutions that provide more complete and timely visibility into business operations has increased year after year but has yet to be focused on the business manager. The next wave of information access, analysis and response solutions will enable what is now [...]