Ralph Kimball On The 38 Subsystems Of ETL

Monday, January 31st, 2005 by Mark Rittman

Ralph Kimball, "The 38 Subsystems Of ETL" : "The extract-transform-load (ETL)
system, or more informally, the "back room," is often estimated to consume 70
percent of the time and effort of building a data warehouse. But there hasn’t
been enough careful thinking about just why the ETL system is so complex and
resource intensive. Everyone understands the three letters: […]

News Update, and A First Look At OWB “Paris”

Monday, January 31st, 2005 by Mark Rittman

I’m conscious that I haven’t updated the weblog much over the last few weeks
so I thought it worth posting a note of explanation. Funnily enough I have
actually still been working away on articles and presentations over the last
couple of weeks, but they’re all for other sites or publications and
consequently won’t be available for a couple […]

Can Discoverer “Drake” Replace Discoverer Desktop?

Monday, January 24th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

I was working with one of our customers last week who was looking at implementing the new OracleBI Discoverer 10g, otherwise known as “Drake”. The customer already used Oracle Discoverer Desktop 3i and had previously looked at upgrading to Oracle Application Server 9i Discoverer Plus, but had chosen not to upgrade […]

Can Discoverer “Drake” Replace Discoverer Desktop?

Monday, January 24th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

I was working with one of our customers last week who was looking at
implementing the new OracleBI Discoverer 10g, otherwise known as "Drake". The
customer already used Oracle Discoverer Desktop 3i and had previously looked at
upgrading to Oracle Application Server 9i Discoverer Plus, but had chosen not to
upgrade to this version due to a number of […]

SolStonePlus Is Hiring

Friday, January 21st, 2005 by Mark Rittman

If you’ve got experience with Oracle’s BI&W tools and you’re looking to work
on some of the best and most interesting projects in the UK and Ireland, you
might be interested to know that
SolStonePlus is now hiring.
Right now there are openings for people with Oracle Warehouse Builder,
Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Application Server skills. Applicants must be
prepared […]

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