Friday, February 25th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
It’s been another busy week at work this week, so here’s a round up of some
new articles I’ve come across that I’ve not had time to do a complete write-up
on.
The OLAP Report Market Share
Analysis for 2004 has just been released, with Microsoft extending their
market leadership and Oracle slipping from 4% to 3.4% of the total [...]
Thursday, February 24th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Oracle’s Project
Fusion: Just a Leap of Faith? : "Project Fusion: It’s supposed to
glue together PeopleSoft Inc., J.D. Edwards & Co., and Oracle Corp. business
applications. It’s supposed to soothe the frazzled nerves of PeopleSoft and JDE
users who’ve been scared silly that they’ll be forced to emigrate onto Oracle
systems. It’s supposed to tie it all together with [...]
Thursday, February 24th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Eric Sink,
"The Tenets Of Transparency" : "Reminding my readers once again that I am
not a Microsoft employee, I observe that over the last year or two, the world
has seen a different posture from the developer tools groups at Microsoft.
They’ve opened up. The buzzword for this movement is
"transparency". Some folks have told me that the leadership [...]
Monday, February 21st, 2005 by Mark Rittman
If you’re a user of Oracle 9i OLAP Web Agent or Express Web Agent and was
wondering whether the 9i version worked with 10g OLAP, you’ll be interested to
note that Oracle’s Aneel Shenker recently
posted a note on the OTN OLAP forum on this subject.
According to Aneel, the latest version of Oracle 9i OLAP Web Agent [...]
Sunday, February 20th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
A few articles and papers I came across recently, that you might find
interesting.
First up is a number of in-depth articles written by
Howard Rogers, on some Oracle
10g features that BI&W developers might find interesting. The first article is
on materialized
views, which Howard describes as "amongst the cleverest, neatest, most
productive features Oracle has ever come up with, and [...]
