Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

On Tuesday I presented a paper entitled Competing on Analytics using OBIEE at the UKOUG BIRT SIG in London. The idea behind the paper was to explore how companies use Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics, how they can extend their use in an organisation and hence gain competitive advantage from this, and how to [...]

If your ETL process fails, for whatever reason, you have two options: to restart the process from the beginning, or to resume from the last successfully completed task. Restarting from beginning It is reasonable easy to restart the process in OWB, you would have to wait until your top level process flow has completed and [...]

We have been accepted onto the OWB 11gR2 beta program, so over the next few months we will be putting the new features (and some of the old ones) through their paces. There are some pretty strong new features with the product, we are unable to provide details of these at the moment, but at [...]

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 [...]