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 […]
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
Dan Vlamis broke the news yesterday that Simba Technologies will be showing off their “Native Microsoft Excel 2007 Connectivity for Oracle OLAP” solution at the upcoming BIWA SIG in December. From looking at Dan’s blog posting and the Simba Technologies press release, the product uses an MDX 2005 to Oracle OLAP bridge that the company […]
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 by Peter Scott
Yesterday, Mark mentioned a new Oracle white paper on Cube Organized Materialized Views - now that is a bit of a mouthful and shouts out to be made COMV or something equally short and saving of typing. I say that because I have recently submitted the final version (in time so as to be included […]
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 by Mark Rittman
I noticed on the Oracle OLAP blog the other day that a new white paper on Cube Organized Materialized Views has been uploaded to OTN. If you’ve followed Pete and my postings on this new feature in Oracle 11g the white paper goes into a bit more detail on how it works, and in our […]
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 by Peter Scott
So, why is someone who normally writes about data warehouses going to talk about Oracle OLAP, and in particular, cube organized materialized views?
I could run out the argument that I work in a BI consultancy and none of us here at Rittman Mead are 100% aligned to a specific expertise area; for example I do […]
