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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]