DW Wisdom

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 by Peter Scott

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 [...]

ODTUG Day 2 : Keynotes, BI Presentations and the BI SIG

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

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 [...]

BI Suite demonstration

Monday, June 19th, 2006 by Peter Scott

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 [...]

ODTUG Day 1 : BI CAB, BI Summit and a Brass Kaleidoscope

Monday, June 19th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

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 [...]

Arrived in Washington D.C. for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006

Sunday, June 18th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

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 [...]

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