Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 by Mark Rittman
[Fieldwork for the BI Survey 9, an independent survey of BI customers and partners, closes its fieldwork on Sunday 31st January. It's important that we get a suitable number of Essbase, OBIEE, OLAP and Discoverer users completing the survey, so please visit the site and fill it in if you've not done so already. Thanks [...]
Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Mark Rittman
If you’re considering coming along to the BI Forum 2010 we’ll be holding in Brighton in May 2010, we’d be interested in hearing your opinion on what sessions we’ll be running. The call for papers is now closed and we have 27 potential sessions, from speakers around the world. The content covers OBIEE, Essbase, ODI [...]
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Mark Rittman
One of the less well-known features in recent releases of Warehouse Builder is Data Rules, and how they can help you gracefully handle consistency issues in your data. Data Rules act as virtual constraints on your data and add error handling tables to your mappings to allow you to divert off, or reprocess data that [...]
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by Mark Rittman
Along with In-Memory Parallel Execution, another new feature that came along with release 11gR2 of the Oracle Database (or more correctly, version 2 of Exadata Storage Server) is Hybrid Columnar Compression. You’ll need Exadata to use this (though at one point is was part of the standard 11gR2 database beta, without an Exadata dependency), but [...]
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Mark Rittman
Those of you who keep an eye on this blog, or have been in the BI and OLAP industry for many years, will of course know of Nigel Pendse. Nigel was behind the original “OLAP Report” that offered a vendor-neutral view of the OLAP market and had run for as long as I’ve been in [...]
