Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I’ve just been having a play around with the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which holds "copies of the internet" going all the way back to 1996. Using the site, it’s possible to have a look at how sites looked several years ago, and so I thought I’d take a trip down memory lane and see [...]

It’s been a week or so since my last blog posting, so I thought I’d better do an update. I’ve been busy working away on the presentations and papers I’m doing for Collaborate’06 in Nashville, and when I finally get down to some writing I tend to enter "the zone", where I just ignore any [...]

I was just doing a bit of random web surfing when I came across two interesting articles on the state of the tech publishing market. "The Eventual Death of Developer Magazines" by Eric Sink looks at how developer magazines are becoming increasingly redundant now that we get all our technical information from the internet. According [...]

Despite working with DW systems for some while, the use of Oracle Analytic functions on a production system seems to have passed me by. Not because they don’t work or are slow – far from it, but because the business questions I usually get asked to look at typically can be solved with ‘more traditional’ [...]

Well, Oracle have finally announced what their future BI strategy is going to be, and it looks pretty exciting. It’s been a fairly open secret that Siebel Analytics was going to be the centrepiece of Oracle’s Fusion BI Strategy going forward, but there’s been various rumours going around about exactly how that might happen, going [...]