Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I have been working with my previous company for more than a dozen years – over that time the name on the sign over the office entrance has changed many times, and is indeed about to change yet again but a lot of the people have remained constant. My role, too, has also changed a [...]

It’s only a few weeks now to Oracle Open World 2007 in San Francisco, and in what is now a tradition I’m organizing another blogger meetup, at the Thirsty Bear Bar and Restaurant, Howard Street, for the Tuesday night (13th November). This is now the third year we’ve had a blogger meet-up, the first year [...]

A few days I was talking to a customer who has a legacy data warehouse, designed back in Oracle 7.3 days which relies extensively on partition views as a way of handling the volume of data involved (basket level sales from a national high-street chain). Over the years the underlying platform has changed and the [...]

Fay Dondi from Oracle EMEA Recruitment contacted me last week, to let me know about some Product Development vacancies within the Business Intelligence area that might be of interest to some readers. Fay is currently working with the Business Intelligence team on a recruitment drive, and is looking for talented product developers, strategists and evangelists [...]

Doug Burns once said to me (and I hope he does not mind me misquoting him) that he values the UKOUG annual conference (December 2007, Birmingham) highly enough to give up his own time (and earnings) to attend. I think I know what he means. For various reasons I am not going to present at [...]