Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Visually, BI dashboards and analyses can be impressive and appear to meet the user’s needs, but if the data displayed on the dashboards isn’t reliable or correct then those same users can quickly lose faith in what they contain. Therefore, it’s important that assessing and managing data quality becomes an important part of any BI [...]

Oracle released a new BI extension for Open Office with the latest Open Office release (v. 3.3) . This extension gives us the ability to embed information from BI EE 10g into Open Office Calc, Writer and Impress documents (equivalents of Excel, Word and Powerpoint).  OO Calc supports the ability to embed entire reports including [...]

The news hit the wires last night that Oracle were buying (certain assets of) Hyperroll, a technology company out of Israel with a head office in the USA. Hyperroll have been around for as long as I’ve been in Oracle BI consulting, and I knew them originally as offering an aggregation layer on top of [...]

Oracle released details over the weekend of a news conference they are running on September 15th 2009, to announce a new OLTP-focused database machine this time based on Sun hardware. I’m surprised that this wasn’t held over until Open World, but the twitter- and blogo-sphere has been alive over the past few weeks about a [...]

So you’ve probably heard the news now, that Oracle have agreed to buy Sun, the makers of Solaris, SPARC chips, lots of application servers, servers and storage units and of course Java. IBM were originally in the running but backed-off due to anti-trust concerns, now it looks like Oracle have won the prize. So what [...]