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Well that’s the end of my brief trip to the Baltic States,
with my seminar in Estonia finished today and one in Lithuania
completed earlier this week. The seminar in Estonia was held at
Oracle’s offices in Tallinn, with ten people attending this time and
thirteen in Vilnius. As with Utrecht, most of the delegates were from
Oracle partners, looking […]

One of our customers has an internal IT department with a section that deals with their data warehouse and BI tool. The spend most of their day writing the reports that are beyond the casual user or creating data extracts to move information to other systems. These guys have been doing this for years, since […]

Well it’s stage two of my epic Seminar tour around the Baltic
States, and about an hour or so ago I arrived in Tallinn for tomorrow’s
session. Flying out of Vilnius was interesting, it’s quite an
old-fashioned airport that appears to still be run by the Russian
military - the only airport I know where you could starve to […]

Recently the Economist Intelligence Unit published a paper (jointly sponsored by Intel and SAP) entitled “Business Intelligence: Putting information to work” The key findings here echo those my company has found in it its own research and vendor views given in partner briefings.
Key points

4% of respondents are “very satisfied” with their companies’ data […]

Although I was up at 5.00am this morning to catch my flight,
it did mean I got in to Vilnius, Lithuania just after lunch giving me a
few hours this afternoon to do a bit of sightseeing around the Old Town.
Vilnius Old Town is one of the last surviving medieval old towns in
East Europe and was about […]

In my Log
Buffer posting at the end of last week I made a passing
reference to SAP’s
new BI Accelerator,
and made the flippant comment “Yeah, right..,” about the claim that it
did away with the need to tune or pre-summarize your data warehouse.
The article did however pique my interest, and having had a look at the
technology more, it […]

I’m up at 5.00am tomorrow morning for the next leg of my BI Seminar, this
time in Lithuania and Estonia. I’ve never been to the Baltic states before; In
terms of behind the former Iron Curtain, I’ve been to the Czech Republic for a
weekend break, but never so close to Russia and never on a professional basis.
To […]

Welcome to this week’s Log Buffer, where we’ll take a look at some of
the hot topics and blog postings over the last few days.

As it’s Friday and we’re all starting to wind down for the weekend, we’ll start
off with Tom Kyte on The Daily WTF who has come
up with an example of the ultimate
extensible […]

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I wanted to take a look at SCD2 and 3 handling using OWB10gR2. This was prompted by the fact that up until now I hadn’t really looked in detail at this feature, and I’d been reading a few articles and blog postings that suggested the way it […]

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I wanted to take a look at SCD2 and 3
handling using OWB10gR2. This was prompted by the fact that up until now I
hadn’t really looked in detail at this feature, and I’d been reading a few
articles and blog postings that suggested the way it works is a […]