Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Over the years there has been a collective set of received wisdom about Business Intelligence in general and about data warehouses in particular. Some of these ideas are lead by the technology involved: Use as many small disks as possible – a 1TB disk would be a bad idea for a system that inherently reads [...]

Today started off with the main ODTUG Keynote, this year by Marko Tilli on the new world of SOA-based development and what it means for traditional Forms and Reports developers. From what I can make out, ODTUG’s history is in Forms, Developer and Designer and so the move towards more standards-based J2EE development probably the [...]

Last week I ran my first customer facing demonstration of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition. The demonstration had several objectives It allowed me to get hands-on experience of setting up a BI suite system It allowed me to demonstrate how much web-based BI reporting tools had improved since our customer first moved into web [...]

Yesterday was the first day proper of ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006 for myself, with the BI CAB just after lunch and the BI summit straight afterwards. The day started off with a 4.30am start (ouch) as I’d been in bed since 7.00pm the previous night, it actually wasn’t too bad as my "internal clock" is just [...]

I’m over in Washington D.C. now, and staying in the Wardman Park Hotel in readiness for the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006 conference. Compared to flying over to San Francisco (11+ hours), Nashville (8 hours + another connecting flight) and flying over to Greece with the family (two kids to keep entertained) the flight was pretty relaxed [...]