Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

We are often told that one of the benefit of OBI EE is the speed and ease of development. Data sources can easily be added into the system, users can then quickly build queries and the results are easy to distribute. While I completely support this, to me this leaves a few questions when you […]

I was at the BIWA conference earlier this week (Tuesday and Wednesday), BIWA is an Oracle user group, which as the name suggests, specialises in Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics, more info can be found here on their website. They are planning to run a yearly conference, plus other events and also a series of […]

I have been putting together some thoughts on Agile Development techniques for a paper for the BIWA event later in the year. I have seen a couple of articles on Agile development notably on the Amis blog, here, in the Oracle space, so thought I would add my tuppence worth.
One of the principles of Agile […]

Rather strangely as Mark jets off to Greece for a weeks holiday, I am also off there for a few days work (he’s here next week working as well).
Looking back over the first few months of the company a lot of the work we have been doing has been either Data Warehouse healthchecks or OWB […]

I am currently doing some OWB 10gR2 training in Iceland, some of the examples I am using are on a Virtual Machine running on my laptop, halfway through the day I tried to connect to the Control Center and I got the following error:
RTC-5260: Failed to connect to Control Center, Please check you have provided […]

If you’re wondering who the “Mead” in Rittman Mead Consulting is, now’s probably a good time to introduce myself. I’m Jon Mead, I’ve worked with Mark for a number of years on projects around the UK, and together we started up Rittman Mead Consulting earlier this year to try and help Oracle customers around […]