Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I was recently in a situation where I had to delete a package (transformation) in OWB and then re-import it from the database, because I had deleted it and re-imported it, every mapping and process flow that referenced the package lost its reference to it. I could have gone through each mapping and process flow [...]

One of the things I am doing at the moment is reviewing our delivery methodology, looking at how different techniques and can be used with the current stack of Oracle BI tools to effectively deliver projects. This involves looking the tools currently on offer, such as OBI EE or Warehouse Builder and a number of [...]

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 [...]