Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I’ve finally gotten around to finishing this series… I believe it’s actually been a year in the making. I’m planning on being more proactive with getting content on the blog. Actually… the main reason I’m putting this one to bed is I have some exciting posts planned in the coming months, and I feel guilty [...]

You guessed it… more on transactional schemas. For a quick recap, here are the posts to date: Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 1: Introduction Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 2: Aliases Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 3: Simple Dimensions and Facts Combining Entities In the last post on Simple Dimensions and Facts, [...]

This could be the longest series of blog posts in Rittman Mead history… not in number of posts (this is only the third), but in length of time from start to finish. I don’t think that’s a record anyone is actively pursuing, nor am I proud to (possibly) be the record holder, so my apologies [...]

It seems like a different life when I posted the introduction to reporting against transactional schemas. Since that time, we’ve had some exciting new customers come aboard, which has required a lot of my time (and which I have been glad to provide). We’ve also had Kscope 12, where I was a member of the [...]

What’s the pervasive myth surrounding the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) product suite? OBIEE is only useful for reporting against star schemas. It’s true that the Business Model and Mapping (BMM) layer in OBIEE always presents a dimensional model, or star schema, to report developers, but our imagination, plus some real chops in metadata [...]