Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Well, we’re all back home now after two very successful Rittman Mead BI Forum events in Brighton, and then Atlanta, earlier this month in May 2013. Around 70 OBIEE, ODI, Endeca and Essbase developers from around Europe got together in the first week in Brighton, followed by around 60 in Atlanta, and we were joined [...]

With Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, the BI Apps and Hyperion EPM Suite, Oracle have a set of reporting and analysis tools that can be considered “best of breed” and compete with any other tool on the market. Coupled with the Oracle database, the engineered systems strategy and the Fusion Apps/Apps Unlimited ERP suites, as a BI [...]

Apart from system-wide improvements to Essbase integration across OBIEE 11.1.1.7, the other Essbase-related improvement that came with this latest release was the (re-)introduction of SmartView as the replacement for Oracle BI Add-in for Microsoft Office (“BI Office”), OBIEE’s previous MS Office solution. As a reminder, BI Office appeared with OBIEE 10.1.3.3 back in 2007/8 and [...]

I’m pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 5th annual Rittman Mead BI Forum is now open, with abstracts being accepted through to January 31st, 2013. Last year’s BI Forum was the biggest and best ever, running in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA in May 2012. This year we’re back again at [...]

In this five part series over the Christmas break, I’m taking a look at some of the lesser-known features in Oracle Data Integrator 11g, focusing on “enterprise” features such as build automation, scripting, data quality and middleware integration. If you’ve arrived at this post via a Google search, here’s the links to the other posts [...]