Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I’m currently on a plane headed to Denver for the annual RMOUG Training Days conference. This is my second year speaking at RMOUG, which is the largest regional Oracle user group conference in the country (or so they tell me). RMOUG always has a strong database and DBA slant to it, so I try to [...]

In the last post, I described the concept of a “Mapping” entity in Transcend as a bundling of pre- and post-mapping processes that can be executed with a single call. The “Dimension” entity is very similar. In fact, in strict programming terms (for those of you who are interested… the rest I’ll bore for just [...]

If you read the blog regularly, then you know that Rittman Mead offers a product called Transcend that is designed to interact with the Oracle Database to make some of the heavy-lifting in ETL mappings very simple. Because we recently released version 2.5 of Transcend, I thought I’d talk about some of the features I [...]

Every year, ODTUG shows why Kaleidoscope is the premier conference for the technical hacks in all of us. I can’t remember a time when I learned so much, had so many great conversations, and felt more at home than this year. The content was spectacular across the board, and even though Open World is looming [...]

Oracle have just published my latest article, on the integration between Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, in the July/August 2010 edition of Oracle Magazine. “Deriving and Sharing Business Intelligence Metadata” looks at how OBIEE repositories can be automatically derived from an OWB11gR2 dimension model, taking the dimensions, facts, [...]