Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Mark and I have just spent the last couple of days at the DW Global Leaders Forum in Athens. The DW Global Leaders Forum is an Oracle-run customer program that connects a number of EMEA Data Warehouse clients with each other, Oracle and a small number of partners. The main focus of the event was [...]

Just a short posting to mention that earlier this month Oracle released version 11.1.1.5.0 of Data Integrator Look out for more Rittman Mead postings on ODI over the coming months

The typical approach in Federated OLTP/EDW reporting environments is to use a BI tool such as OBIEE to do horizontal federation. This means combining data from multiple sources at the same grain in a single logical table. One note of clarification: my use of the word “federated” might be a misnomer, and I apologize in [...]

Discussing real-time data warehousing is difficult because the meaning of real-time is dependent on context. A CIO of an organization that has weekly batch refresh processes might view an up-to-the-day dashboard as real-time, while another organization that already has daily refresh cycles might be looking for something closer to up-to-the-hour. In truth, an interval will [...]

Here at Rittman Mead we have been working on some new methodology and design patterns for ETL. We have long realised that the bottleneck in  Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects is ETL, so we have been prototyping new techniques to approaching this and trialling them at client’s sites. Taking a step back and looking [...]