Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

When reporting against an OLTP system, in many ways, OBIEE works like an ETL tool, transforming the source system data and presenting it as a star schema. After years of writing ETL code, if there’s one thing I hate to be without, it’s regular expressions. So, when working on a project to map an OLTP [...]

In my Blog post on End-to-end data quality I mentioned the desirability of fixing bad data at source. This certainly attracted comment both here and on other blogs for example
One point to keep in mind about fixing bad data on the source; it is just that, fixing DATA. We are not fixing bad applications [...]

One of our customers is about to embark on a significant BI project; but being in the “public sector” they have to (by EU law) publish tender documents so that qualified suppliers throughout the EU can bid to do the work. This means they have a gap of almost a year before the, yet to [...]

One of the things I really love about working with the team here at Rittman Mead is how we can offer our clients a flexible service, I guess this flexibility must be appreciated by our customers as we have just won the UKOUG Business Intelligence Partner of the Year award.
The past week I have been [...]

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 [...]