Announcing the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2010, May 19th – 21st 2010, Hotel Seattle Brighton UK

Monday, February 15th, 2010 by Mark Rittman

I’m very pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2010, to be held at the Hotel Seattle, Brighton on May 19th – 21st 2010.
Like last year’s event, the 2010 BI Forum is focused on Oracle BI Enterprise Edition and the technologies that support it, such as Essbase, ODI [...]

The BI Survey 9 – Fieldwork Closes on Sunday

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 [...]

BI Forum 2010 Abstract Voting Now Open

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 [...]

Data Rules and Error Handling in Warehouse Builder 10gR2/11gR2

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 [...]

Hybrid Columnar Compression in Oracle Exadata v2

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 [...]

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