Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Edward Roske over at the Look Smarter blog recently picked up on the release of the new Oracle EPM System 11.1 over at edelivery.oracle.com. Edward notes that this release is initially Windows only and includes improvements to Essbase an a new integrated Essbase development IDE called Essbase Studio.
For me this is potentially a very interesting […]

Chris Claterbos from Vlamis has picked up on the story that one of the first official iPhone apps is a front-end for Oracle BI Enterprise Edition. The App Store hasn’t gone live over here yet, but apparently one of the first applications you can download (and for free) is a viewer application for Oracle BI […]

On Tuesday I presented a paper entitled Competing on Analytics using OBIEE at the UKOUG BIRT SIG in London. The idea behind the paper was to explore how companies use Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics, how they can extend their use in an organisation and hence gain competitive advantage from this, and how to […]

A few weeks ago I ran a two-part interview (here and here) on the blog with Phil Bates, Architect for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Phil kindly invited questions at the end and sent me his replies the other day. Here they are…
[David Aldridge] “To what extent do you see Essbase and Oracle’s OLAP technologies […]

If you’re in the UK Higher Education Sector and are users of Oracle’s business intelligence software, one of the technologies you’re probably spending a lot of time looking at is the new Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite of products. We’re particularly pleased therefore to be putting together a one-day seminar towards the end of […]

My new article on Essbase and Oracle BI EE has just gone up on OTN. It covers the steps you’d need to go through to build a simple Essbase database based on the SH Sample Schema that comes with Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g, and how you’d then plug that database into Oracle Business Intelligence […]

We are often told that one of the benefit of OBI EE is the speed and ease of development. Data sources can easily be added into the system, users can then quickly build queries and the results are easy to distribute. While I completely support this, to me this leaves a few questions when you […]

I’ve just updated our training page with details of our Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition developer course. This course is aimed at organizations who have recently bought OBIEE and are looking to train their development team up on creating the metadata layer, adding security, using features like caching and aggregate persistence, creating reports and publishing […]

One of the clients I’m working with this week wants to go through how OBIEE environments are migrated from one environment to another. They are working on a solution for their organization where a team of developers put together an initial first cut of the repository and web catalog, and then at various points from […]

I’ve been doing a lot of traveling recently, which as usual means that I’ve been doing a lot of reading. I normally take a novel with me when I’m on the road but based on some recommendations, I’ve been working through a batch of books on business analytics. First off was “Competing on Analytics”, the […]