Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Oracle Preps Major BI Revamp This Summer : "Charles Phillips, president of Oracle Corp, said the company is planning to roll out significant upgrades to its business intelligence (BI) and online analytic processing (OLAP) tools later this summer. In an SG Securities Webcast recently, Phillips told analysts to expect "a major revamp of our product [...]

IBM and Hyperion Part Ways Maybe : "On July 21, I got a surprising email from Stephanie Clark – IBM’s Analyst Relations person. In it, she states that IBM and Hyperion are ending their OEM agreement and each company will go its merry way. Read on — it gets even stranger. Bottom line from the [...]

Top 20 Tips for OLAP Success : "Here are 20 quick tips, some obvious, but others counterintuitive, which are all based on real-world experience and research data." I’ve got a lot of time for Nigel Pendse, the industry analyst behind this article for DMReview and The OLAP Report, the "vendor neutral" resource site for OLAP [...]

Joel On Software : "Does it even make sense to talk about having the "best programmers?" Is there so much variation between programmers that this even matters? Maybe it’s obvious to us, but to many, the assertion still needs to be proven." Unfortunately the work I do is actually mostly "doing IT for some bank" [...]

If you read my posting the other week about getting over to Open World, you’ll be interested to know that I managed to get hold of a complementary pass courtesy of the OTN team. All of the Oracle ACEs have been given passes for the event (Thanks, Vikki) and it looks like there’ll be a [...]