Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Kevin McGinley of Accenture to discuss the upcoming ODTUG Kscope 12. I was on the content selection committee, and immediately recognized how lucky ODTUG was to have Kevin coordinating this process. We had tough choices to make around content — this is always the case, as I’ve participated in [...]

This is the fourth entry in my series on Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. To see all the previous posts, check the introductory posting which I have updated with all the entries in the series. In the last post, I describe what I call the Model-Driven iteration, where we take thin requirements from the [...]

After laying the groundwork with an introduction, and following up with a high-level description of the required puzzle pieces, it’s time to get down to business and describe how Extreme BI works. At Rittman Mead, we have several projects delivering with this methodology right now, and more in the pipeline. I’ll gradually introduce the different types of [...]

Imagine that you want to migrate your RPD to different environments.  By using scripting utilities you can generate a new RPD and make changes for the new RPD in the generated file.  The  original RPD will be exported to  UDML or XUDML , in the generated file you can make changes for future RPD.  For [...]

Over the past couple of years Stewart Bryson and I have been looking into things “right time” (or is that realtime?). It is great to have him around to trade ideas (and graphics for presentations!). Most of what we have been discussing has been about “traditional reporting”, either with or without a data warehouse, and [...]