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 line coming out over […]

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 email? IBM will no […]

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 technology. Nigel has kept true to
the core […]

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"
as Joel refers to it, but […]

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 few
events for us to […]

CNET
News.com : "The next version of Windows finally has
an official name: Windows Vista. The advertising tagline for
Vista is "Clear, Confident, Connected: Bringing clarity to
your world," according to a video of the announcement posted
by Microsoft. The company also said Friday that the first
beta, or test release, of Vista is slated for release by
Aug. 3. That release […]

It’s
been a while since I ordered a job lot of books through Amazon, but I finally
got around to putting an order through last week and a couple of Amazon boxes
were waiting for me when I got home yesterday. It’s often interesting to see
what other people read, so I thought I’d make a note of them […]

I expect many of you think that the lifestyle of the travelling Oracle
consultant is a constant whirl of five star hotels, glamorous locations and
business class travel back and forth across the Atlantic. In fact it’s mostly
budget hotels, travel on the train in the evenings and staying overnight at such
wonderful destinations as Reading, Liverpool, Portsmouth and […]

I expect many of you think that the lifestyle of the travelling Oracle
consultant is a constant whirl of five star hotels, glamorous locations and
business class travel back and forth across the Atlantic. In fact it’s mostly
budget hotels, travel on the train in the evenings and staying overnight at such
wonderful destinations as Reading, Liverpool, Portsmouth and […]

Just a short note to anyone who’s tried to post a comment recently. Unfortunately the engine behind this site (Moveable Type 3.17) is falling apart somewhat, due to some ongoing problems with mySQL drivers and a recent upgrade from 2.64 that I think went wrong somewhere.
What this means is that you may well get an […]