Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

This is the fourth entry in my series on Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. To see all the previous posts, check the introductory posting which I have updated with all the entries in the series. In the last post, I describe what I call the Model-Driven iteration, where we take thin requirements from the [...]

In the previous post, I laid the groundwork for describing Extreme BI: a combination of Exadata and OBIEE delivered with an Agile spirit. I discussed that the usual approach to Agile data warehousing is not Agile at all due to the violation of it’s main principle: working software delivered iteratively. If you haven’t already deduced [...]

Over the last year, I’ve been speaking at conferences on one subject more than any others: Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. Although I’ve been busy with client work and growing the US business, I realize I need to dedicate more time to blogging again, and this seemed like the logical subject to take [...]

Here at Rittman Mead we have been working on some new methodology and design patterns for ETL. We have long realised that the bottleneck in  Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects is ETL, so we have been prototyping new techniques to approaching this and trialling them at client’s sites. Taking a step back and looking [...]

In this, my final post on the BICC subject (well, for now at least…), I take a look at the softer side of BI management… The Balancing Act Put simply, if BI is delivered well it should generate two things…..firstly, answers [no pun intended] to the questions that the business know need to be answered….but [...]