Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I just looked at the Rittman Mead Blog archive and saw the last post that was written by me was back in August 2010! Where has the time gone? Some of the time has been spent preparing and giving conference and user group talks, (as I write this I am just finishing off a new [...]

As mentioned in my blog post here, one of the new features of BI EE 11g is the ability to connect directly to the Physical Layer of the Repository using the SELECT_PHYSICAL property. This opens up quite a lot of integration possibilities. Let’s look at how this property works and how it has been put [...]

In the last post, I described the concept of a “Mapping” entity in Transcend as a bundling of pre- and post-mapping processes that can be executed with a single call. The “Dimension” entity is very similar. In fact, in strict programming terms (for those of you who are interested… the rest I’ll bore for just [...]

If you read the blog regularly, then you know that Rittman Mead offers a product called Transcend that is designed to interact with the Oracle Database to make some of the heavy-lifting in ETL mappings very simple. Because we recently released version 2.5 of Transcend, I thought I’d talk about some of the features I [...]

We interrupt our normal programming this week for another piece of new product news: the 11g release of Oracle Data Integrator is now available for download on OTN following the webcast earlier today. Venkat and I went over to Redwood Shores earlier in 2010 to take part in beta testing for this new release, and [...]