Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]