Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Well that’s it for the rest of the week for me. I’m off up to Manchester for Jonathan Lewis’ "Optimising Oracle, Performance By Design" seminar for the next three days, and as no doubt I’ll be back in the hotel each evening trying out some of Jonathan’s ideas on the laptop I’m definitely leaving the [...]

Another one of our clients is looking to put some hardware in place for a new data warehousing project. The two hardware options are: Buy a single, large Unix server (probably a HP box running HP-UX) with 8 CPUs Buy two or more commodity "Lintel" boxes, with 2 or 4 processors, running Red Hat Advanced [...]

One of the most powerful features of the multidimensional engine behind analytic workspaces is the ability to create formulas. Formulas, or “calculated measures” as they’re referred to in AWM10g, are measures that are derived from other measures. Using AWM, you can create simple formulas that reference other measures in a cube, allowing you for example [...]

One of the most powerful features of the multidimensional engine behind analytic workspaces is the ability to create formulas. Formulas, or "calculated measures" as they’re referred to in AWM10g, are measures that are derived from other measures. Using AWM, you can create simple formulas that reference other measures in a cube, allowing you for example [...]

"Scott Berkun, Smart People, Bad Ideas" : "Scott Berkun, former Microsoftie, just got slashdotted with an essay about "Why smart people defend bad ideas". It’s a very interesting essay. I’m not crazy about his examples, but his portrayal of the bad-idea-defender is dead on: "Until they come face to face with someone who is tenacious [...]