Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Today was the day for the UKOUG Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG meeting, held up at the Institute of Physics, London. Most of you probably know that I chair the SIG which involves doing the welcome bit at the start, introducing (along with Andy and Jagdev) the various speakers and getting feedback from the [...]

I just got in an hour or so ago after a week spent over in Ireland. As I mentioned the other day, I was due to do a bit of presales work with a public sector client, and I took the opportunity to spend the weekend in Belfast with Janet and the kids and the [...]

As an organisation, my employers firmly believe in working to standards; we are ISO certified, all of the technical staff in our outsourcing group have a minimum of ITIL foundation level certification. Lots of our guys also have vendor certifications in the products they use in their day-to-day working lives (OK, we also make sure [...]

Recently we implemented some changes on a customer’s DW to improve query performance. As usual, all changes were fully tested before implementation on the production system, but because of the nature of the changes and the fact that it is difficult to adequately emulate user workload we also adopted a period of intensive review or [...]

As the proposed Oracle purchase of Siebel draws closer, and Oracle announce that they’re half way there to producing the first Fusion applications, it’s worth taking a look at what could perhaps be the jewel in the set of technology that Oracle has purchased, the business intelligence element of Siebel’s product line known as "Siebel [...]