http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/09/25/saps-new-bi-accelerator/ Delivered Intelligence Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:01:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/09/25/saps-new-bi-accelerator/comment-page-1/#comment-1418 Mark Rittman » Personal Objectives for 2007 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:14:52 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/09/25/saps-new-bi-accelerator/#comment-1418 [...] To get more exposure to BI tools and technologies outside of the world of Oracle; I’m thinking about the rich set of OLAP client tools that work off of MS AS, get a feel for what SAP are doing with their BI Accelerator, perhaps dip a toe in the world of Master Data Management and also, see what vendors such as Cognos and Business Objects are up to. This isn’t part of some shift away from Oracle, it’s more that getting exposure to tools and techniques that Oracle doesn’t offer makes you I think a more effective business intelligence consultant. If you keep track of sites such as Intelligent Enterprise, DMReview and B-Eye Network you’ll hear mention of lots of trends and new product directions that don’t really get touched on by Oracle; in the past I’ve tended to ignore them and focus on what’s possible with the toolset as currently provided, in the future I’ll try and pay more attention to this, to try and get a more holistic view of the market and see what others are doing as well as what the Oracle BI community are doing. Historically, I’ve described myself as an Oracle consultant who works with BI tools; in the future, I think there’s value in focusing a bit more on the BI side as well, as I think that’s where I can add a lot value for clients, and from a marketing perspective, create some differentiation from the great mass of other Oracle consultants out there. [...] [...] To get more exposure to BI tools and technologies outside of the world of Oracle; I’m thinking about the rich set of OLAP client tools that work off of MS AS, get a feel for what SAP are doing with their BI Accelerator, perhaps dip a toe in the world of Master Data Management and also, see what vendors such as Cognos and Business Objects are up to. This isn’t part of some shift away from Oracle, it’s more that getting exposure to tools and techniques that Oracle doesn’t offer makes you I think a more effective business intelligence consultant. If you keep track of sites such as Intelligent Enterprise, DMReview and B-Eye Network you’ll hear mention of lots of trends and new product directions that don’t really get touched on by Oracle; in the past I’ve tended to ignore them and focus on what’s possible with the toolset as currently provided, in the future I’ll try and pay more attention to this, to try and get a more holistic view of the market and see what others are doing as well as what the Oracle BI community are doing. Historically, I’ve described myself as an Oracle consultant who works with BI tools; in the future, I think there’s value in focusing a bit more on the BI side as well, as I think that’s where I can add a lot value for clients, and from a marketing perspective, create some differentiation from the great mass of other Oracle consultants out there. [...]

]]> http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/09/25/saps-new-bi-accelerator/comment-page-1/#comment-1417 Niall Litchfield Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:13:00 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/09/25/saps-new-bi-accelerator/#comment-1417 Well I’ll be impressed when people start developing and maintaing Transactional database applications in this sort of technology, until then it’s purely a query acceleration technology - which is worthwhile, but not a replacement for the data store Well I’ll be impressed when people start developing and maintaing Transactional database applications in this sort of technology, until then it’s purely a query acceleration technology – which is worthwhile, but not a replacement for the data store

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