Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Mark Rittman
Those of you who keep an eye on this blog, or have been in the BI and OLAP industry for many years, will of course know of Nigel Pendse. Nigel was behind the original “OLAP Report” that offered a vendor-neutral view of the OLAP market and had run for as long as I’ve been in [...]
Friday, November 6th, 2009 by Mark Rittman
John Paredes recently sent over a review copy of a book he’s just had published, entited “The Multidimensional Modeling Toolkit: Making Your Business Intelligence Applications Smart with Oracle OLAP” (ISBN: 978-0-9817753-0-2, OLAP World Press). Interestingly, it’s a book written about Oracle OLAP (which is itself rare) but unlike the recent Oracle Press book on OLAP [...]
Friday, October 9th, 2009 by Stewart Bryson
I’d like to take a moment to express my appreciation to several of the folks at the OLAP product team for their assistance with the project mentioned below, including A.A. Hopeman, Jameson White, Marty Gubar, and especially David Greenfield. The sky’s the limit for Oracle OLAP in their capable hands, and I look forward to [...]
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 by Mark Rittman
I’ve been talking with Dan Vlamis about a new book that he, Chris Claterbos and some of the Essbase team from Oracle have been putting together on Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase. Oracle Press were kind enough to send over a review copy the other week, and so I’ve been taking a look at [...]
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 by Mark Rittman
Today is New Year’s Eve, and a kind of review of the year, here’s ten of my thoughts on what happened in Oracle B&DW in 2008.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. 2008 was the year that OBIEE went from early-adopter technology (at least for general Oracle customers) to a mainstream BI tool. A good proportion [...]
