Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

If you’re interested in evaluating
Oracle Business
Intelligence 10g, one thing you might have missed around the time of the
launch was the release of a number of new "Oracle By Example" training courses
on these new products.
Available over
at OTN, they cover the following topics:

Using the Oracle BI Spreadsheet Add-in

Viewing Sales History Information Using OracleBI Discoverer Viewer

Analyzing Sales History [...]

Analytic
functions by Example : "This article provides a clear, thorough concept
of analytic functions and its various options by a series of simple yet concept
building examples. The article is intended for SQL coders, who for might be not
be using analytic functions due to unfamiliarity with its cryptic syntax or
uncertainty about its logic of operation. Often I [...]

A task I set myself over the Christmas break was to put together an Oracle
10g OLAP demo for one of our customers. Like many of the organisations we’ve
worked with over the years, the customer had a business intelligence solution
built on Oracle Express Server technology, and they were interested in what
their system might look like if [...]

Oracle
Magazine are running a special feature this month on business
intelligence and data warehousing. "Eye
On Information : Business intelligence: It’s not
just for big enterprises any more. Companies of all sizes and shapes are
implementing BI systems or BI-enabling their applications to learn more about
their business, cut costs, and improve efficiencies.". An interesting
article that looks at some of [...]

Things are pretty busy at the moment, with a number of projects about to kick
off that use OWB and the new Business Intelligence 10g products. At the current
time I’m spending most nights away from home and I’ve got a number of personal
projects on the go, including writing an article for OTN on dashboards using
Discoverer "Drake" [...]