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Mark Rittman once joked during a presentation on OBIEE and SCM that “MUDE” (multiuser development environment) was the closest thing to a dirty word in the OBIEE documentation. I know many people who feel that way… some justified, some perhaps not, as MUDE has certainly gotten better in the later releases of OBIEE. As I [...]

This is my first blog post in quite a while… mostly because of all the planning and preparation that went into the Rittman Mead BI Forum, which is now sadly behind us. There’s been a lot of other activity around Oracle BI as well. Of course, we had OBIA 11.1.1.7.1 PS1 release recently, and this has [...]

I’ve finally gotten around to finishing this series… I believe it’s actually been a year in the making. I’m planning on being more proactive with getting content on the blog. Actually… the main reason I’m putting this one to bed is I have some exciting posts planned in the coming months, and I feel guilty [...]

Visually, BI dashboards and analyses can be impressive and appear to meet the user’s needs, but if the data displayed on the dashboards isn’t reliable or correct then those same users can quickly lose faith in what they contain. Therefore, it’s important that assessing and managing data quality becomes an important part of any BI [...]

Following on from previous posts about Rittman Mead’s development methodologies, I would like to talk about another approach we have been working on over the last few years: Business Deferred Development. Development methodologies are designed to augment the development process, empower developers and ultimately produce better results. What we were finding was that continual interaction [...]