Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

As Mark mentioned in a comment to a posting, we run the Rittman Mead blog on Wordpress. The recent blog revamp may have upset some feed readers that used feed URLs that we no longer maintain.
Using Wordpress gives us many more potential feeds than we had before. In addition to the main feed http://www.rittmanmead.com/feed you […]

As I mentioned on my personal blog I will be moving the more technical posts over to this site and keeping the old site as more of a personal weblog. Of course, there will be some posts that are both personal and technical… I hope to start moving things over in the next week, […]

For many years I had an interest in non-standard indexing and exotic data types, that is things that weren’t NUMBER or VARCHAR2. In fact before I came in to data warehousing I was involved in indexing free text such as conversation transcripts and and narrative reports; some of this was pushing the technology of the […]

One of the reasons that I left my old job to work with Rittman Mead Consulting was to get back to technology. Don’t get this wrong, I really did enjoy managing people and having responsibility for a BI practice, but that was at the expense of involvement in a lot of the delivery of systems; […]

So, why is someone who normally writes about data warehouses going to talk about Oracle OLAP, and in particular, cube organized materialized views?
I could run out the argument that I work in a BI consultancy and none of us here at Rittman Mead are 100% aligned to a specific expertise area; for example I do […]

One of the reasons I am not writing too much on the blog at present is that I am busy working with a client just about to put a new (small) data warehouse into production. Coupled with the need to concentrate on submitting a white paper to Collaborate 08 by the weekend and I am […]

The proposal deadline for the upcoming Collaborate 08 was shortly before I was to leave my old employer - it was already known that I would be leaving them to join Mark and Jon (and possibly, it was known before Rittman Mead Consulting existed!) so it came as no real surprise for Mark to ask […]

I am still overseas working on a OWB project for a client. We are now into that final phase of checking everything before we promote the first release to the production system. Each OWB map for the first release is redeployed on the development system and then test data run through the map - we […]

Keeping my head down building Oracle 11g OLAP cubes for research and self-education meant the I missed yesterday’s product announcement from Oracle, but with the wonders of Blog aggregators (and in particular Beth’s) I spotted a mention on Vincent McBurney’s blog of the newly announced (and available) Oracle Data Integration Suite.
This is one of […]

Over at another Blog, Beth notes that she is editor of the month for the Carnival of Data Quality. When It comes out I urge you to take a look. With those strange quirks of global IT companies Beth and I once worked for the same employer, but we have never met - I did […]