Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Last week I posted an article on the forthcoming round of BI Masterclasses that I’ll be running through Oracle University, and I suggested an agenda mainly focused around the new BI Enterprise Edition family of products. I invited feedback on the agenda and got some useful comments, which reinforced in my mind the fact that […]

Oracle University have asked me to do another round of BI Masterclasses later this year, and I’m looking for some input and feedback from readers of this blog to help me decide on what I’m going to cover. This year and last, I ran about fifteen or so masterclasses around Europe and averaged about 30 […]

It’s currently Sunday lunchtime over in the UK, and I’m here on a flying visit in between visits to Austria and Slovenia last week, and Sweden next. I ran the BI Masterclass last week in Vienna and Ljubljana (photos here, here, here, here and here) and spent the evenings working on the OWB ETL and […]

I’ve been a bit remiss recently in keeping the blog up to date; what with planning for the forthcoming company seminar later in January, and writing a new article on XML Publisher in my spare time, I’ve not really had much time to keep the blog up to date; also, compared to things such as […]

I’m sitting in the front row of my Austrian Airlines flight back from Vienna, lording it in business class following my seminar over in Zagreb. I don’t normally get to fly business class, but I must say it is nice to have a bit of legroom and a decent meal an a non-plastic knife and […]

I flew in this afternoon to Zagreb airport, and it appears I missed the good weather of a week or so ago to instead arrive during the middle of a particularly foggy patch. I’m staying in the Hotel Antunovic just outside the main part of the city, and this is also where the seminar is […]

A quick round-up of some odds and ends. First of all, a BIG thank you to Anders Holbøll who put together a script to gather all my previous blog articles from the Google cache, format them into an RSS feed compatible with Wordpress’ import facility, then worked with me to use them to restore all […]

Today was the first day of the Norway seminar, with thirteen attendees mainly from Oracle itself and from partners. After the seminar, Aaron Merry from Bicon kindly took me for a drive up to the hills outside Oslo, where we saw Holmenkollen, the site of the Winter Olympics, and looked out down from the hill […]

On Niall Litchfield’s recommendation, I had a quick look around the centre of Oslo this afternoon after arriving at the hotel around 3pm. Oslo’s at the top of a large fjord and like Tallinn, it’s got a busy port and docks and a bit of an old town, mainly centred around the Akershus […]

Well I’m currently sitting in the departure lounge of Heathrow Terminal 3, waiting for my flight out to Oslo, the latest leg in my seminar tour around Europe. I’ve got the ‘flights-through-Heathrow’ bit down to a fine art now; taxi to Brighton Station, coffee and The Independent, train up to Victoria and then a half-hour […]