Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Just a short update today as I’m packing everything up for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006 in Washington. I’m doing two regular presentations, one on XML Publisher on the Monday, and another on OWB10gR2 (a.k.a. "Paris") on the Wednesday. I’m also taking part in the BI Customer Advisory Board on the Sunday afternoon, presenting along with George [...]

Yesterday I wrote about the challenge of calculating YTD on a sparse dataset. Even in these days of low cost storage I can not justify the vast amount of additional storage required to persist a YDT figure for each sale of a product + customer pair for all available days; true we would only need [...]

One of the perverse things about BI is that what sounds difficult is often easy and what sounds simple is hard. If someone asked me how many bunches of flowers were sold on Mother’s day 2006 or how many people bought both ‘item A’ and ‘item B’ in Seattle on 13 June 2006 there is [...]

I’m on holiday at the moment at the Mark Warner Paleros Village Beach Resort, which is pretty relaxing and is a bit of a cross between a watersports activity centre, a nursery and an all-inclusive holiday resort; in fact everything would be perfect except that the Greek Islands seem to be the only place that’s [...]

I was really pleased with the Oracle BI suite demo I put together this week. Although my demo was restricted to the Answers and Dashboard components there is enough going on to impress people, myself included: Drilldown, it was a simple to mark any dimension attribute as drillable. For one of my hierarchies I have [...]