Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]