Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Last week I downloaded and installed the Enterprise Edition BI suite from Oracle’s e-delivery website.
Installation of the components that I wanted to try was a breeze and getting the admin tool up a running and pointing at a real database was straight forward. I had decided to go with one of our development databases (around […]

The other week I went through a walkthrough of Siebel Answers and Siebel Intelligence Dashboards, and I mentioned at the time that it was possible to use reports generated by these two tools as the basis for an alerting mechanism. Within Siebel Analytics (and Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition) alerting is provided via Siebel Delivers, […]

The other week I went through a
walkthrough of Siebel Answers and Siebel
Intelligence Dashboards, and I mentioned at the time that it was possible to use
reports generated by these two tools as the basis for an alerting mechanism.
Within Siebel Analytics (and Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition) alerting is
provided via Siebel Delivers, and in this posting I’ll […]

Mark Rittman has been hosting a BI & DW forum since the beginning of the year. But from a recent post from Mark there is a strong possibility that forum will fold; not because there is a lack of posts but because it is starting to look a bit like AskMark and Mr Rittman is […]

Apart from a

talent for producing criminal geniuses, the UK seems to be good at producing
data warehousing experts, and Kalido’s Andy Hayler is one of my favourites. His
blog is always a good read, and I particularly enjoyed a couple of his recent
posts, on

data warehouse architectures, and the

business payoff of a data warehouse project.
The data warehouse […]

According to Oracle’s Mary Ann Davidson, the British are particularly good
at hacking (Oracle software, presumably) because we have

"the perfect temperament to be hackers–technically skilled, slightly
disrespectful of authority, and just a touch of criminal behavior."

That’s nice then. You’ll all have to watch your wallets when I come over to
ODTUG next month.

I
joked the other day that I was so pleased that Arsenal lost the Champions
League final to Barcelona, I was going to order one of the those
new Macbooks - well I
actually did it in the end (there’s schadenfreude for you) and it arrived
yesterday, just in time for the bank holiday weekend. Hats off to Apple
actually; the […]

Today was a playday. I spent the day having a go with the new Enterprise Edition of Oracle’s BI suite. I found some of the tools very easy use and as a person with a database rather than a user-tool background I didn’t have that baggage of saying Discoverer is better for that, Business Objects […]

Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, previously known by the codename
"Paris", is now available for download on OTN. This is the long-awaited
release that adds support for things such as pluggable mappings, slowly changing
dimensions, data modelling of both relational and multi-dimensional objects,
data profiling, and many other new features.
An important change that’s come with this new release […]

In data warehouse there is often the need to summarise, aggregate, or roll-up (the three terms often being used interchangeably) fact data. This is either achieved at query time within the query or in advance by the use of pre-built summaries. As I blogged yesterday, pre-built summaries are often useful to provide answers to frequently […]