Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I was with a client this week who had an issue with migrating Discoverer End User Layers from one environment to another. He would make some changes in the development EUL, then import the changed business areas into the test EUL, but often he’d get multiple copies of folders, items and hierarchies, and every once [...]