Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

The first on a occasional series of questions I might ask in an interview – or perhaps would like to be asked if someone were to interview me…

How do you design a data warehouse?

Now that is a vague question – am I looking for an insight to the analysis and design process (requirements gathering and other [...]

I mentioned a while ago that I’ll be doing three presentations at the upcoming EOUC Oracle User Conference in Amsterdam in May. This is the first such pan-European event for a while, and looking at the agenda there’s a pretty good range of speakers (myself excepted of course…)
Anyway, if you register now you can take [...]

I’ve been working fairly solidly with Oracle Data Integrator over the past few weeks, and I think I’ve used it enough now to form a few opinions on the product. I did some work with a client who wanted to evaluate it for it’s ability to handle Changed Data Capture, I’ve been writing an article [...]

Oracle University have asked me to do another round of BI Masterclasses later this year, and I’m looking for some input and feedback from readers of this blog to help me decide on what I’m going to cover. This year and last, I ran about fifteen or so masterclasses around Europe and averaged about 30 [...]

One snippet of news that I picked up on this week is that Netezza is going public with its IPO, this is the first of the appliance vendors to do so (someone will tell me I’m wrong on this)
Elsewhere I read some research that puts some 50% of data warehouses in the one terabyte or [...]