Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

As mentioned yesterday, the staging area of the data warehouse has three functional uses: It is the initial target for data loads from source systems It validates the incoming data for integrity It is the data source for information to be published the ‘user visible” layers of the data warehouse Optionally, it may also be [...]

I’m off to do a presales visit to Ireland tomorrow, and the bit of technology I’ll be demonstrating is the new Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition. I had to put a demo together to show the customer, and therefore I was able to spend a few hours this afternoon working with Oracle BI Answers and [...]

I’m off to do a presales visit to Ireland tomorrow, and the bit of technology I’ll be demonstrating is the new Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition. I had to put a demo together to show the customer, and therefore I was able to spend a few hours this afternoon working with Oracle BI Answers and [...]

“Which comes first, the physical or logical design for an Oracle data warehouse?” has always been a question that I have struggled to come up with a convincing answer. To my thinking they both develop simultaneously. True, when designing a data warehouse there will be a set of design criteria that define the bounds of [...]

The final part of this small series on data warehouse wisdom looks at the enterprise strands. Enterprise DW moves away from the tactical departmental “point solutions” and into something that fits with strategic aspirations of the enterprise. On the face of it having a single solution across the enterprise as distinct advantages: there is a [...]