Announcing: Oracle Press “Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Developers Guide”
December 6th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Well, I’m official now. The contracts have been signed and I’ve been allocated an ISBN number. It won’t be out for at least a year from now, but I’m now officially the author for the forthcoming Oracle Press book, “Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Developers Guide”.
It’s a bit too early to get in to too much detail about the content and book structure, but the aim of the book will be to take developers through the process of building a business intelligence system based on the Oracle database, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Standard and Enterprise Edition, with database design and loading being done through Oracle Warehouse Builder and Sunopsis Data Conductor. In the best tradition, it’ll be full of examples and development techniques, it’ll touch on areas such as SOA and business process integration, and will be all-new material developed specially for the book.
Over the next twelve months I’ll be posting examples as I work them through for the book, plus a bit of insight into the process of writing a book and then getting it published. Coupled with this, and some other changes that I can’t go into now, it looks like 2007 is going to be a fairly busy year for me but hopefully by the end of the year it’ll all be worthwhile. For now though, it’s back to putting the examples together, then it’s on to the first of the Oracle Warehouse Builder chapters.
December 7th, 2006 at 4:30 am
Mark – great news – congratulations!
Scott
December 7th, 2006 at 5:05 am
Congratulations Mark, I am looking forward to your book. Count us in for let’s say for starters five copies.
Best of luck writing it! If anyone can,….
Lucas
December 7th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
congrats Mark! We’ll be watching for this one.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
congrats Mark! I will look out for the examples.
January 4th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I am really looking forward to your handson examples. I just bought the Oracle Press BI discoverer 10G Handbook and unfortunately it doesn’t have any good examples and i cant find any on otn either. But one question remains: how will your book differ from the bi discoverer handbook? Will it just be about WHB or will it cover other topics as well? fusion? soa? apps? bpel? bi server? olap? cause some of these features are already covered in the above handbook. Just curious.
January 8th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Hi Kasper
My book will focus on the entire BI Suite stack, not just Discoverer. It’ll take you through the whole process of building a data mart using OWB (2-3 chapters), doing operational reporting using Disco + XML Publisher, then go on to the new BI Suite Enterprise Edition. It’ll contain a chapter on SOA integration, identity management and so on, it’s a more “holistic” BI Suite book rather than a specialist manual on Discoverer, which is what Michael’s book is about. The two books will be complementary, I hope.
regards
Mark
January 10th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
[...] I suppose what I should really write about is the process of putting my book together. It’s actually quite interesting really; I signed the contract with Oracle Press just before Christmas, got my ISBN number (there’s actually a placeholder on Amazon.com now, which makes it all sort of official), and now I’m working on the initial set of chapters before the publishers appoint the technical editor and so on. This is sort of the “probationary period”, where they see if you can actually get yourself in gear and produce chapters in a reasonable time; at this point you’re looked after by an acquisitions editor who guides you through the first phases, works with you on style and formatting and just generally makes sure things are “on track” before hiring technical editors and copy editors. [...]
January 11th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
That’s great Mark. If it contains great info like your Blog does then I know I’ll enjoy it. Plus you don’t have to worry about losing years of work when it’s in print!
Russ
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Any news on the release date Mark?
John
January 6th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
John,
Unfortunately, the book is on hiatus at the moment – we’re waiting for the 11g release of OBIEE to come out now (or at least go into beta), as otherwise the book would have come out, based on 10g, at just around the time that the 11g version hit the streets, which wouldn’t have made sense commercially. We’re hoping to resume writing early in 2008, once Oracle make OBIEE 11g available on a beta program, perhaps with a publication date in late 2008 or early 2009.
Thanks for asking though,
regards, Mark
March 20th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Dear Mark,
so May 2008 as Amazon reports it now is unrealistic at this point, right?
Regards,
Leonid
March 25th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Leonid,
Yes, I’m afraid it is. I’ll be posting something on the blog to this effect later this evening, basically we’ve decided to wait for the 11g release of OBIEE, which means we’re now looking towards a release date for the book of around a year from now. I’ll post more on this shortly.
regards, Mark
March 25th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
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