Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

It’s Saturday afternoon, and I’m writing this whilst on a plane going over to Dallas, Texas, traveling to what will be my first Hotsos Symposium. For anyone mainly working in the BI world who’s not heard of the Hotsos conference, it (together with Miracle Openworld) was the inspiration for our own BI Forum event that [...]

This week we’ve been looking in-depth at the new Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the new Exa-appliance from Oracle aimed at the BI tier in an Oracle BI/DW system. We’ve looked at what problem Exalytics looks to solve, how it’s architected and how TimesTen provides the in-memory database cache that makes it all possible. Yesterday, we [...]

This week we’ve been taking an in-depth look at Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the new engineered system from Oracle that combines Sun hardware with customized versions of Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Essbase and Oracle TimesTen, all running on 64-bit Oracle Linux. Here’s a quick recap of the postings this week, and the ones to come: [...]

So in the first two postings in our Exalytics week series, we looked at why Oracle created Exalytics, and what Exalytics actually comprises of. If you missed the first two postings in the series, here’s the week’s agenda including links that I’ll complete once all of the series goes online: Oracle Exalytics Week : The [...]

In the first post in this Oracle Exalytics week series, we looked BI in general and how users wanted fast, consistent response times from their dashboards and reports. The are several potential solutions for improving query performance including adding materialized views and indexes, using MOLAP technologies such as Oracle Essbase and Oracle OLAP, or you [...]