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 […]

It’s that time of year again when the various Oracle conferences start
calling for papers. The
UKOUG
Conference & Exhibition call for papers opened up a couple of weeks ago, and
over the next few months it’ll be possible to submit papers for Oracle Open
World in London and
San
Francisco. I’m hoping to get a couple accepted for the UKOUG event […]

It’s the Easter break over here at the moment, and I’m off work for the next
week with a bit of paternity leave. Things are a bit hectic as I’m sure you can
imagine, with a two and a half-year old and a two week old baby, but it’s all
good fun and a nice break from travelling […]

I’ve been back in the office for a few days this week, and so it’s a good
chance to catch up on what’s happened while I’ve been away.
The big news for all us Oracle OLAP users is that the 10.1.0.4 database patch
is now available for Windows (Patch No. 4163362 on
metalink) and AWM 10.1.0.4 should be
available on […]

Well,
in the end she was a week late, but this morning our second child, Isabella Ruby
Rittman, was born at the
Royal Sussex Hospital
in Brighton.
She’s arrived just after midday and weighed 6lbs 11.5ozs. Mum and baby are in
great health and getting a bit of a rest before coming home tomorrow. Scott’s
all excited about his new sister (or […]

If you’ve been following my work on putting an
OWB Performance Tuning
Framework together, and you read yesterday’s article on
running an event 10046
extended trace on a mapping, you might be interested in some more work I’ve
now done on running an extended SQL trace on an entire OWB process flow.

The approach I ended up using was to use […]