Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

A recent post on Howard Rogers’ blog around the hype and enthusiasm around the launch of Oracle 11g, together with some feedback I got during the review process for my OU seminar slides, got me thinking about how we sometimes rush in to adopt just-released versions of software, and how we can sometimes over-emphasise new [...]

No, not the size-zero (or below) fashion-sticks that pogo across the catwalks of the world enticing the somewhat-larger to buy, but the modeling of all of the information within an organisation in a single unified form. Said like that, it’s simple, but in reality there are lots of complexity buried away that need to be [...]

I guess I am going to come across as a BI heretic here, but is there a place for BI at the heart of all business life? In part this piece springs from a few points made by Jerry Brown of Bloor Research in a recent article. The whole Jerry’s piece really encapsulates the need [...]

Those that have met me know that beneath that benign, placid exterior lurks a data-geek of great passion. Show me the work of others where they reinvent the wheel by writing their own procedural methods (in PL/SQL or T-SQL or whatever) to replicate a native function of the database or store numbers as characters, or [...]

Doug Burns once said to me (and I am sure I am making up his words here, but the sentiment is probably right) that data warehouse folks are always using the latest features on the latest releases of databases. It is true that we do use less common, newer features, we are early adopters but to [...]