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 was […]

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 what […]

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 from […]

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 […]

It’s just after 3.30 in the afternoon in Lyon, and I’m just about to finish up at the Hyperion conference. I’ve deliberately held back from posting to the blog until today, as I wanted to take things in for a while as it’s all just so different from an Oracle conference. The format and so […]

Someone on OTN asked me to elaborate on a comment I made on a post that Mark Rittman wrote last week. What I need to achieve here is to use an existing LDAP server to validate the credentials of the use who is logging on to the OBIEE. To set this up we first […]

It’s Sunday lunchtime and I’m currently on the train going up to London, to catch a flight to the Hyperion conference in Lyon. I’m going over as an official representative of the UKOUG, and the conference will give me a good chance to see where Hyperion’s products are going to fit in with the Oracle […]

I see that the UK user group has extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the 1st of June.
I may have mentioned here before, but the conference is one of the better ones to attend (and many of my American friends are frankly envious of the breadth and quality of the meeting that UKOUG puts […]

I have a medium sized data warehouse, about 4 terabytes, and have noticed that performance is not always consistent. This surprises me as it running on decent hardware (12 CPU SUN SPARC, 24GB RAM, and industrial strength SAN storage) and the system stats from our monitoring guys show “$%@! all” resource usage most of the […]