Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Well, I’m back home in my own house tonight after my week of misery and despair in my hotel in Newbury. I guess I’ve been spoilt recently working up in Soho, London, but a week of nights on my own in a bleak single room, with only a sandwich to look forward to the next [...]

I was working today with the latest beta release of OWB “Paris” and looking in particular at the new data profiling and cleansing features. Data Profiling is one of the major new features in Paris, and what particularly caught my eye was the ability of the tool to automatically build correction mappings for data that [...]

Thanks to all the people who had kind words to say yesterday when I was feeling a bit down in the dumps; it was my son’s first day at school yesterday but instead I was working onsite with a client on a new data mart project. I’m usually a pretty positive person and it doesn’t [...]

The children our growing up fast. The elder wanted to go to a concert by a popular beat combo. Sorry, a “Rise Against” gig at the Academy in Birmingham. She had originally arranged to go with friends, however as she was the only one with foresight to get a parent to buy a ticket before [...]

Whilst I don’t usually have much of a problem working away for a few days, today was my four year-old son’s first day at school, and I wasn’t there to take him down to the school and see him off. He’s been at nursery two days a week up until now, so going to school [...]