Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Those of you who keep an eye on this blog, or have been in the BI and OLAP industry for many years, will of course know of Nigel Pendse. Nigel was behind the original “OLAP Report” that offered a vendor-neutral view of the OLAP market and had run for as long as I’ve been in [...]

Well I’m currently sitting by the pool in Sharm El-Sheikh, having a week’s holiday over the New Year before things start again in earnest in January. It’s almost the end of the year, and in fact the end of the decade, and so I thought I’d take this moment to wish everyone a Happy New [...]

I bought an Amazon Kindle 2 International Version back in October this year, and I’m pretty pleased with how it’s turned out. It’s been an interesting playing with the device and reading some books through it, so I thought I’d do a quick posting on how it’s worked out and how relevant it is to [...]

[Mark Handford from the BI Survey dropped me an email the other day, to let me know that fieldwork for the BI Survey 9 is now underway. In my opinion I'd be great if as many Oracle and Hyperion customers could take part as possible, so that we get a good idea of how adoption [...]

Outside the world of Oracle, one of the rising stars of the BI world has been Qliktech, the Swedish software company behind QlikView. QlikView is one of a new breed of desktop, in-memory BI tools (see also the forthcoming Gemini tool from Microsoft, an in-memory, column-store BI tool that’ll be delivered as part of Microsoft [...]