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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]