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"Oracle considers venturing into Linux", Financial Times : "Oracle is
studying whether to launch its own version of the Linux operating system and has
looked at buying one of the two companies currently dominating the Linux world,
according to Larry Ellison, the software company’s chief executive officer. Such
a move would redraw the software landscape and open a new […]

Oracle have just made available a

Statement of Direction for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer, which
makes interesting reading if you’re wondering what’s going to happen now that Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition is
out.
The statement of direction starts off by saying that Discoverer will still be
continued and developed as Oracle’s user-friendly ad-hoc query tool, and will
continue to […]

For most data warehouses the time (date) dimension appears, or at least should appear, in every query. I can think of a few DWs where time is not always used; one example being an asset (infrastructure) maintenance reporting system for a utility company, each pipe, inspection chamber, valve, or whatever of a water company is […]

A couple of days ago I looked at using the
Transportable Modules feature in OWB "Paris"
so that I could quickly replicate source data into a data warehouse. Transportable
Modules use either transportable tablespaces, or data pump, to bulk move data
from a remote source database into the warehouse’s staging area. This is one way
of getting data into a […]

Earlier this week, I represented our global BI group in a review of a whitepaper on enterprise portals being written by another division in our company. The paper covered real-time reporting of operational performance, which of course is very similar to some of our BI work. My review was needed that to ensure that the […]

I had my monthly session with my business mentor today. Within my division mentors (or as some might say, coaches) are chosen to offer differing perspectives on the world. My first mentor was our former director of outsourcing; on his retirement I moved to guidance of the head of our financial services group. True, my […]

One of the new features in Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2 "Paris" is
"Transportable Modules". Transportable Modules are source modules that get their
data from remote databases, with the data being brought into your warehouse
environment using either

transportable tablespaces if your source and target databases are Oracle 9i
or higher, or

data pump, if both source and target databases are 10g […]

Oracle have released for public download the Microsoft Excel-based OLAP Calculation Builder, that I’d mentioned earlier in the year. Using this piece of shareware, you can use an Excel template to create, en-masse, calculations that go into your Oracle Database 10gR2 analytic workspace.

According to the readme file, “Oracle OLAP […]

Oracle have released for public download the

Microsoft Excel-based OLAP Calculation Builder, that I’d

mentioned earlier in the year. Using this piece of shareware, you can use an
Excel template to create, en-masse, calculations that go into your Oracle
Database 10gR2 analytic workspace.

According to the

readme file, "Oracle OLAP 10g Release 2 provides an open API for
accessing metadata and defining […]

Recently, Oracle announced their Business Intelligence Suite with the immediate availability of the Enterprise and Standard editions. The Standard edition contains much of the original Oracle toolset and the Enterprise edition owes much of its heritage to Siebel Analytic Server. A third edition is due to follow in the summer; this contains the same analytic […]