Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Visually, BI dashboards and analyses can be impressive and appear to meet the user’s needs, but if the data displayed on the dashboards isn’t reliable or correct then those same users can quickly lose faith in what they contain. Therefore, it’s important that assessing and managing data quality becomes an important part of any BI [...]

Some people may have seen that Rittman Mead became the first partner in the UK to buy an Exalytics box in the Oracle newsletter, and as a result we can uniquely offer our customers and community the chance to get hands on with Exalytics to see how it really can help drive your BI capability [...]

For many years I had an interest in non-standard indexing and exotic data types, that is things that weren’t NUMBER or VARCHAR2. In fact before I came in to data warehousing I was involved in indexing free text such as conversation transcripts and and narrative reports; some of this was pushing the technology of the [...]

Keeping my head down building Oracle 11g OLAP cubes for research and self-education meant the I missed yesterday’s product announcement from Oracle, but with the wonders of Blog aggregators (and in particular Beth’s) I spotted a mention on Vincent McBurney’s blog of the newly announced (and available) Oracle Data Integration Suite. This is one of [...]

I have a couple of days between assignments so I am spending a little time doing research. Ultimately, there is a piece to write on Oracle 11g OLAP, and some course notes on aspects of data warehousing. But do this sort of thing I need to get myself set up with a database (Enterprise Edition [...]