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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I had never really paid much attention to Technorati before. Seems like a quick way to find blogs just about anything.
Now I have a profile there. Technorati Profile

A quick nod to a few new blogs that I’ve recently spotted.
Simon Ellis is someone I’ve worked with on a couple of projects before, and is a pretty capable technologist and project lead working in the Oracle middleware and architecture space. Simon’s posted a couple of good articles recently on Oracle’s move into the […]

Well, this is something I’ve thought about for a while now and now I can mention officially: from March 1st 2007, I’ll be setting up my own company and working as an Independent Consultant, specializing in Oracle Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing solutions. My objective going forward is to provide expert-level consultancy, training, mentoring and […]

For anyone in the UK and Ireland who wanted to come along to one of the recent BI Masterclasses, but for whatever reason couldn’t make it, you might be interested in a one day event being organized by SolStonePlus in London on January 17th, 2007, at Oracle’s offices in the City of London.
The event is […]

Well over in the UK it’s around 5pm on New Year’s Eve, and as we went out last night rather than tonight (babysitters) I’ve got an hour or so spare to look back at what happened in the world of Oracle BI this year, and speculate a bit on what’s in store for us in […]

Well, the turkey’s stuffed, the pies are minced and the presents are wrapped. Today was my last day in the office, and apart from a day over the Christmas break when I’ll be going in just to get a bit of peace and quiet, that’s it for me now until the New Year.
It’s been an […]

It’s that time of year again when I start to think about the appraisals for the team I look after. If any of you have completed appraisal forms in the past, you’ll know that one of the sections is usually along the lines of “What do you see as your objectives for the next twelve […]