Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

A few of bits of product news I’ve picked up recently. The next release of Oracle Business Intelligence is due around the end of the summer (2005) and is being referred to as Business Intelligence 10g Phase 2 (although this might be an internal name). The big news is the inclusion of Oracle Warehouse Builder [...]

I noticed a useful thread on the OTN OLAP Forum on controlling the sort order of a dimension in AWM 10.1.0.4. As it’s sometimes difficult to link to individual OTN Forum postings (the link seems to break after a while) I’ve reproduced it here as a reference point: "I have noticed in the "help" of [...]

A couple of open-source BI links. Nicholas Goodman sent me a link through to a recent summary he’d made of the various open-source BI projects, and in particular pointed out the Pentaho Nation project, a group of industry veterans who are aiming to build a cohesive technology stack out of the various open-source BI components. [...]

I guess the big news last week from a tech point of view was Apple’s announcement that they were moving to Intel processors from 2006, starting with the Mac Mini. It’s a decision that of course was particularly interesting given the previous pronouncements that the PowerPC architecture (with the Altivec enhancements) was architecturally superior to [...]

Like a few other people I was up in Edinburgh earlier this week for the OUG Scottish SIG. I was asked to present at a fairly late date on Business Intelligence 10g, and as the short BI presentation I did at the last Scottish conference went down well, I thought it was worth putting something [...]