Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

OTN have just published my article on Data Profiling and Automatic Correction using Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2. It takes a look at the data profiler, and how you can use the results to generate data rules and data corrections. If you’re looking to use OWB for a data migration or data cleansing project, or you’re [...]

On the basis that Tuesday and Wednesday seem the most popular days, and we don’t want to leave the blogger event until too late in the week, I’d like to propose the evening of Tuesday October 24th, from 7.00pm, for the 2nd Annual Open World Blogger Meetup. Having taken a look through Wikitravel for decent [...]

After being away all last week, next week’s going to be a bit nicer, with two days working for a client in the record industry in London, the UKOUG Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG on Wednesday and then two days working out of Brighton. The record industry client is a particular favourite of mine [...]

To my mind there are three types of BI query tool – those from database vendors, the traditional vendor agnostic suites such as Business Objects, Cognos and Microstrategy and the high-end specialist tools used by data analysts with PhDs in the subject. For a long while the database vendors achieved a low market share; customers [...]

Many years ago I worked for a company (in some ways, through the vagaries of mergers and divestments, I still work there) that had a commodity view of BI. The big plan was to implement a generic database on a Tandem Non-Stop machine and offer a ‘blackbox’ service to host data and provide reporting to [...]