Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 […]

I’m going in to one of our higher education clients next week to do a healthcheck of their Oracle Application Server 9.0.4. installation, prior to them going live with a new student records system next September. One of my colleagues took a look at their Discoverer deployment earlier in the summer, and this time they’re […]

If you read my postings on XML Publisher 5.5 towards
the end of last year (here,
here),
or sat through the “XML Publisher : What’s It All About” (paper, slides
)
I’ve given recently, you’ll probably be interested to know that I’ve been given
early access […]

Abhinav Argawal reports in his

latest blog posting that Oracle Business Intelligence 10g Phase 2 should be
available for download within a few days. The big new thing with Phase 2 is the
inclusion of Oracle Reports Services in the BI tier, plus if your a Forms user
this will now be present in the Forms & Reports installation […]

Jon Garmany has written a nice article on

integrating HTML DB with Oracle Application Server 10g. According to John,

"Lately I have been playing around with Oracle’s HTML DB. This is a
rapid development environment for small applicaiton that is entirely web
based. Unlike J2EE, the web application actually runs as PL/SQL in the
database, although you can load the […]

Building Open-Standard Portlets for Location Information : "In business,
information is king. With the advent of enterprise portals, getting pertinent
information has become as easy as logging onto a single Web site and using a
single password. The enterprise portal has moved beyond the custom-built
executive dashboard to become an indispensable backdrop through which all end
users (employees, citizens, and […]

I finally finished downloading the three Portal and Wireless AS10g Disks
earlier today, together with the two Business Intelligence AS10g disks and the
Business Intelligence Tools disk. Here’s how the installation went.
As with AS10g Release 1, I made sure I had around 20GB of free hard disk
space on my laptop, and with 2GB of RAM this is […]

John
Garmany : Application Server Backup & Recovery Tool : "When Oracle
released Application Server 10g, it provided a backup tool that has gotten
little press. In the Oracle Press book, Oracle Application Server 10g
Administration Handbook I only mentioned the tool but did not discuss how to use
it. That was because I was working on the AS10g Beta […]

A
Database-centric Approach to J2EE Application Development : "This
Technical Article was the SELECT Journal Editor’s Choice Awardee at the 2004
ODTUG Conference. Its author proposes how Oracle client/server shops can enter
the J2EE world using database-centric mapping."

Creating a map portlet for Oracle
Portal : "I was asked the other day to provide and example of how one
might integrate Oracle Location technologies and mapping with Oracle Portal.
Although there are many ways to do this, my immediate thought was, well, what
kind of information does this portal already provide? […]