Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I have been thinking about address a lot recently, in part it was moving house and all of the 1001 people that need to be notified. In the main, though, it was thoughts inspired by a data warehouse project I am working on. For this DWH people are geo-located by their street address, but for [...]

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 [...]

I’m honored to be delivering a webcast for the Oracle Data Warehouse Global Leaders Program on Tuesday, March 22 at Noon EST. This is an elite program for key global data warehousing customers and is managed by the Oracle data warehousing product management team. It also provides a rich opportunity to network with peers, and these webcasts are one of [...]

I’m dogmatic about certain aspects of data warehousing. For instance, fact tables should be range partitioned by DATE. I tell my clients all the time: you will have a very difficult time persuading me otherwise. But they always try: they argue about all the attributes that are more pervasive than DATE: customer classes, transaction types, [...]

One of the common requirements when implementing BI EE is the ability to handle multiple input currencies. This is a pretty common requirement especially in business scenarios where multiple countries/currencies are involved. In such cases, many of the finance related measures like Sales etc will come in local currencies. So, as part of the BI [...]