Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

The Dawn
Of The BI Director : “In most organizations, business intelligence (BI)
has always played second fiddle to transaction applications. Organizations have
traditionally lavished millions of dollars on projects to implement packaged
operational applications and rewarded the IT managers who supervised these
projects with hefty salaries. In contrast, until recently, BI projects have
always been an afterthought, viewed by executives […]

Forbes.com : "Something’s In The Water At Oracle" : "NEW YORK - As
evidenced by our story on Keynote Systems and Umang Gupta, Oracle is fast
becoming a breeding ground for ambitious executives to gain experience, then
jump ship for a corner office elsewhere … Whatever
the reason, you can be sure that more sailors will jump the Oracle […]

Maximizing Your ETL Tool Investment : "Is your organization struggling to
justify an ETL (extract, transform and load) tool purchase? If the tool is an
enterprise level solution, the entry price is likely well into the six digits.
At this price, the justification process may appear daunting. Because these
tools serve a purpose and are critical to serious data […]

What’s Holding XBRL Back? : "Ventana Research believes metadata tagging
holds great promise for the future of business intelligence and business process
automation. So why is it taking so long for the Extensible Business Reporting
Language (XBRL) to gain traction in the marketplace? We propose a number of
issues that are holding XBRL back from reaching its potential. Ventana […]

One of our customers I worked with recently asked about implementing the
equivalent of row-level security within analytic workspaces. I subsequently came
across

this posting on the OTN OLAP Forum which details a method of using the
Virtual Private
Database (VPD) feature within the Oracle RDBMS to achieve this, which in the
VPD world is termed "fine grained access control". I’ve […]