Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Well over in the UK it’s around 5pm on New Year’s Eve, and as we went out last night rather than tonight (babysitters) I’ve got an hour or so spare to look back at what happened in the world of Oracle BI this year, and speculate a bit on what’s in store for us in [...]

The final installment on the ingredients for successful BI is about data quality. For some strange reason, if users do not trust the quality of data in a BI system the system will fall into disrepute and be seen as a failure. Now I said “strange reason” and in truth there is a degree of [...]

Let’s be honest here, the BI world is changing; it is no longer the exclusive domain of an elite group of data analysts (the sort of people where being an extrovert is to look at someone else’s shoes whilst talking). BI is now (or should be) part of every worker’s daily life; from the CxO [...]

So what is timeliness? Again this a purposely vague term. I suppose that “knowing something when you need to know it” is timely; and the sooner you know something the more options you have to react to the information. But in reality this depends on the nature of the information – looking at last month’s [...]

Now that is a good interview question – the simplicity of the question hides a vast richness of answers; it can differentiate between the “been there, done it” and the “read a book”; it can tease out the roundedness of a candidate – are they reporting tool biased or database centric. It can also separate [...]