Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Today was Day Two of the Miracle DBF up at Edinburgh Castle, and for those of us that got a reasonably early night it was a Nine O’Clock start with Mogens Norgaard on “You Probably Need RAC”. Following on from Mogens was Dan Fink with “No Mogens…” and James Morle with “Brewing Benchmarks”. After lunch [...]

I’m currently sitting in a pub just down from Edinburgh Castle, in a break between the morning and afternoon sessions. Just across the table from me is Doug Burns, and behind is Thomas Presslie and Carel-Jan Engel, who are working on the Miracle musical for tonight’s gala dinner. We’ve slipped out for a cheeky one [...]

For once I don’t have a strong opinion of my own, so I am seeking your input. Over the past few years pervasive BI is the big must-have in corporate intelligence systems; that is, making the whole organisation intelligence consumers by giving users performance dashboards and embedding fixed queries into line of business applications. But [...]

My article on real-time data integration with Oracle Data Integrator has just been published on OTN. This was quite an interesting article to write; apart from establishing how ODI related to OWB, I also put an example together that takes data, via Asychronous Hotlog Change Data Capture, from an Oracle database, combines it with data [...]

Like buses in London you wait ages for one to arrive and then three come along at the same time. I started writing this piece a while back and since I started Beth wrote on data quality, Jon Mead touched on conformed dimensions in a follow up to his posting on dimensions, and Andy Whitehurst [...]