Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Last week I mentioned one of the reasons why DW performance drops, users start to use different queries. One of my customers had a design principle that ‘raw data’ should look like it’s source. So where we had a feed of invoice headers and invoice lines (the classic master / detail, two table approach: the [...]

Business Objects, which may seem a bit of odd choice from someone who writes mainly about data warehouse design and often Oracle. True I can, and do do the whole BI piece, but again, my preferences are heavily Oracle infused. Business Objects has hit the press a few times in recent days. First, the French [...]

I’ve been doing a bit of research on the history of Oracle’s BI tools, for the keynote I’m doing at the BIWA event next month, and in particular I’ve been taking a look back at the history of what is now Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, previously known as Siebel Analytics. Here’s what I’ve found [...]

Well that’s the first one done then, and I’m pleased to say I think it went fairly well. The event was held at a training centre just a couple of blocks away from my hotel, just over the river, and I bumped into one of the delegates down by the lifts who recognized me and [...]

Just a quick posting before I wander over to the training center for the first seminar. I arrived in Melbourne yesterday morning about 9.30am, about 30 hours since I left Heathrow on Friday. This is the second time I’ve been in Australia, and again I can’t help wondering why everyone in Britain doesn’t just move [...]