Monday, March 17th, 2008 by Peter Scott
As Mark mentioned in a comment to a posting, we run the Rittman Mead blog on Wordpress. The recent blog revamp may have upset some feed readers that used feed URLs that we no longer maintain.
Using Wordpress gives us many more potential feeds than we had before. In addition to the main feed http://www.rittmanmead.com/feed you […]
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 by Peter Scott
As I mentioned on my personal blog I will be moving the more technical posts over to this site and keeping the old site as more of a personal weblog. Of course, there will be some posts that are both personal and technical… I hope to start moving things over in the next week, […]
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
Well, I’m guessing that I’m the only person in the blogosphere with a posting title taking in the Carling Cup final and Nigel Pendse’s latest BI Survey, but as ironically I’ve ended up missing Spurs’ first cup final appearance in eight years through having to catch a flight over to Prague (and I missed the […]
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
One of the things I most enjoy about my job is the variety of assignments. Since the start of this year, I’ve been teaching OBIEE to partners, customers and Oracle consultants in Prague, running a five day OWB workshop for a software development house in the UK, doing some customer calls around the South-East and […]
Thursday, January 17th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
Well, this must just about be the longest stretch of time between a blog post in the last couple of years. After the Christmas break and a trip with the family to Egypt, I’m finally back in action and raring to go.
Christmas was a bit of a nightmare this year, as both I and my […]
Sunday, October 14th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
Fay Dondi from Oracle EMEA Recruitment contacted me last week, to let me know about some Product Development vacancies within the Business Intelligence area that might be of interest to some readers. Fay is currently working with the Business Intelligence team on a recruitment drive, and is looking for talented product developers, strategists and evangelists […]
Monday, October 8th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
“SAP announced Sunday afternoon it plans to acquire Business Objects in a cash deal valued at slightly more than $6.8 billion. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008, is SAP’s largest acquisition ever. The deal is especially noteworthy for SAP, which has tended to favor developing its own technology, […]
Friday, September 28th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
I’m just holed up in the lounge at Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands, waiting for a plane back to Heathrow. Today was a very pleasurable day doing some training for Centennium, an Oracle BI & data warehousing specialist consultancy based down in The Hague, the team were really welcoming and keen to hear about what’s new […]
Thursday, September 27th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
Canals - check. Cobbled streets - check. Trams and lots of bicycles - check. Erotic shops - check. Refreshingly liberal attitudes and some eye-watering channels on the hotel TV - check. It can only be the Netherlands, and I’m over here staying at a rather nice hotel in The Hague, getting ready for a one-day […]
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 by Mark Rittman
I’m just about to fly off to Greece with the family for a week’s holiday, but in the meantime here’s a few new articles that I’ve printed out to read by the pool:
Value-Driven Data Warehousing: The DW/BI Domain Functionally Broken Down
Performance Management is Not BI on Steroids
Open Source BI as Disruptive Technology
Getting Started Now on […]
