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I was reading The Guardian on the way up to London yesterday, and I got thinking about what I’d say if I was interviewed for the “My Media” column (well, got thinking about for a total of about two seconds, but it makes an interesting blog post). Anyway, as I’m a total media sponge, here’s […]

Now this looks interesting. Swivel is a new site that aims to be the “Youtube of data”, with a Flickr-like interface and a means for users to upload interesting sets of data and make them available for everyone to download. Once data is uploaded, you can match it up with other sets of data (global […]

OK, so you probably have to be British to get this, and over 30.
BT some time ago launched a service where you can send an SMS message to a regular BT landline, and the message then gets read out by none other than Tom Baker, famous of course as Dr. Who and more recently, as […]

You’ve probably noticed that I’ve given the site a bit of a spring clean, with a new look-and-feel and a move over to Wordpress. I’ve also taken the opportunity to remove much of the “cruft” from the site, and made a once-off move to remove all of the backwards compatibility between old page references and […]

In my Log
Buffer posting at the end of last week I made a passing
reference to SAP’s
new BI Accelerator,
and made the flippant comment “Yeah, right..,” about the claim that it
did away with the need to tune or pre-summarize your data warehouse.
The article did however pique my interest, and having had a look at the
technology more, it […]

I’m back now from Washington, and the journey back wasn’t nearly so bad as
when I came back from Nashville, or at least the jet-lag isn’t, anyway. The fact
that my flight left Washington at 8.00am, and got in to Heathrow around 8.30pm,
meant that by the time I got home I went straight to bed and woke […]

Just a short update today as I’m packing everything up for
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006 in
Washington. I’m doing two regular presentations, one on XML Publisher on the
Monday, and another on OWB10gR2 (a.k.a. "Paris") on the Wednesday. I’m also
taking part in the BI Customer Advisory Board on the Sunday afternoon,
presenting along with George Lumpkin for the OWB 10gR2 […]

I’m on holiday at the moment at the Mark Warner Paleros Village Beach Resort, which is pretty relaxing and is a bit of a cross between a watersports activity centre, a nursery and an all-inclusive holiday resort; in fact everything would be perfect except that the Greek Islands seem to be the only place that’s […]

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Peter Scott, I went along to the
UKOUG
BI & Analytics Special Event at the Grange City Hotel, London earlier this
week. As the UKOUG BIRT SIG Chair, I helped to organise the event and did one of
the presentations, on behalf of my company,
SolStonePlus. These special events are
sort of mini BI "summits", and take place every […]

The OLAP Survey 2006 is now looking for participants, with this message from
Gordon Laver:

"We would very much welcome your participation in The OLAP Survey 6. This
is the largest independent survey of business intelligence users worldwide. The
Survey will obtain input from a large number of users to better understand their
buying decisions, the implementation cycle and the […]