Some Oracle BI&W Product News

Monday, June 13th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

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 "Paris", which is due [...]

Some Oracle BI&W Product News

Monday, June 13th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

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 "Paris", which is due [...]

Controlling The Sort Order of a Dimension Using AWM 10.1.0.4

Sunday, June 12th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

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 AWM 10.1.0.4 that there [...]

Two New Open-Source BI Projects

Sunday, June 12th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

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.

In addition, Julian Ford, one of my [...]

Apple Move To Intel Processors From 2006

Saturday, June 11th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

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 the Intel
architecture, and it’s an [...]

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