Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

A while back David Aldridge and I both blogged about the joys of time series analysis on sparse data; that is, the sort of data where maintaining and storing moving totals within the data does not make sense in terms of space usage. One common technique to resolve this type of problem is to have [...]

Oracle University have recently published details of my new Enterprise BI Masterclass I’m going to run around Europe, Middle East and Africa. This time around, I’m going to look at the convergence of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, data integration, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Identity Management and Service-Orientated Architectures, on the basis that business intelligence can [...]

You’d almost think that Beth and I were the same person – we both seem to post about the same topics at around the same time. Today she posts on the joys of establishing standards in product descriptions, I had intended to write something similar, but instead I write this Often the biggest problems in [...]

I must admit that as the last few weeks passed by, I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to other things than the Oracle BI EE suite. My current customer is in the process of adopting the OBIEE suite and all effort has gone in to getting up to speed with it and learning [...]

I’m currently sitting outside in sunny Athens, putting the finishing touches to some exercises I’m going to be using in a training session tomorrow. Jon Mead mentioned in a blog posting the other week that a major part of what we’ve been up to since forming the company is providing data warehouse healthchecks; the other [...]