Photos from Bucharest

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

I ran the first day of the Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclass in Bucharest today, we had around twenty delegates who were a mix of Oracle staff, partners and customers.

After the seminar finished, I took a walk down from the venue to the historic part of Bucharest. I can see why Bucharest is called the “Paris […]

Some Rittman Mead Company News

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 by Mark Rittman

Just a quick posting with some latest news from Rittman Mead Consulting.
We’re delighted to announce that, as from February 1st 2008, Borkur Steingrimsson is joining us as a partner and Principal Consultant. Borkur will probably be known to a lot of Oracle BI developers as an expert on OBIEE, Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle Discoverer, […]

Final Enterprise BI Seminar, Bucharest March 27-28th 2008

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 by Mark Rittman

Just a quick note to say that the last scheduled date for my Enterprise BI Seminar, organized through Oracle University, is on March 27th and 28th in Bucharest, Romania. If you’re interested in the low-down on OBIEE 10g, BI and Service-Orientated Architecture, BI and Identity Management, Oracle Real-Time Decisions and what’s new in Oracle OLAP […]

New 11g OLAP / Essbase Content for Slovakia Masterclass

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 by Mark Rittman

I’m running my Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclass in Bratislava, Slovakia, later this month on the 22nd and 23rd November. As with the other seminars, we’ll be going through OBIEE data modeling, then on to Oracle Data Integrator and then Identity Management using row-level security and Oracle Internet Directory. On the second day, we’ll do a […]

BI Seminar in Dublin, October 16th-17th

Monday, October 8th, 2007 by Mark Rittman

Just a quick note to say I’m running one of my BI Masterclasses in Dublin next week, October 16th-17th.
We’ll be covering OBIEE data modeling and dashboard development, ETL using Oracle Data Integrator, Identity Management, OBIEE and Service-Orientated Architecture, Real-Time Decisions and a new section on BIEE and BISE interoperability and migration. If you’re interested in […]

Update on the First of the New BI Masterclasses

Friday, August 3rd, 2007 by Mark Rittman

Oracle University in London ran the first of my new Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclasses last week, where we focused on the use of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition alongside enterprise software and identity management tools. We had a good turnout and as usual Oracle did a good job in terms of venue, administration and so […]

OBIEE & SOA, and a Parrot in the Fireplace

Saturday, June 30th, 2007 by Mark Rittman

This week Jon and I took a few days out from client work, and went down to Oracle’s offices in Bristol to work on some OBIEE and SOA prototypes. Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m particularly excited about the convergence of BI and Service Orientated Architectures, as it gives us the possibility […]

New Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclass

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 by Mark Rittman

Oracle University have recently published details of my new Enterprise BI Masterclass I’m going to run around Europe, Middle East and Africa. This time around, I’m going to look at the convergence of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, data integration, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Identity Management and Service-Orientated Architectures, on the basis that business intelligence can […]

Flying Back from Johannesburg, and Thoughts on BI and the SOA Suite Demo

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 by Mark Rittman

I’m currently sitting on the flight back from Johannesburg to London Heathrow, after running an Oracle BI Enterprise Edition workshop on behalf of Oracle South Africa. On the way back from the conference centre, I did smile to myself as I saw a road sign for Pretoria out of the car window – it’s not […]

Easter Catch-Up

Saturday, April 7th, 2007 by Mark Rittman

I’ve realized that I haven’t posted to the blog much recently, so as I’ve got an evening in I thought I’d write a catch-up posting.
First of all, like a few people I was disappointed to see the EOUC event over in Amsterdam cancelled late last week. I had three presentations to give and I was […]