Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I’m running a BI Publisher course this week, and one of the areas the client was really interested in was integration of BI Publisher with Oracle ApEx. As the notes on OTN and various blogs are sometimes a bit confusing, I thought I’d do a quick walkthrough of how the integration works. Setting up BI […]

As Mark mentioned and illustrated last week, I really did have an audience to my talk on Cube-Organized Materialized Views. He also managed to choose a camera angle for one of the photos that made the conference room look completely empty, but thankfully that was not the photo he published. In fact the presentation went […]

I finally arrived around 7pm last night, the plan then was to try and meet up with various people but as I’d been traveling for getting on 18 hours, I thought it best to get some sleep and I crashed around 9pm. As usual on the first day over the in USA I was up […]

Just sitting in Larry Ellison’s keynote in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It’s question time now, a few questions on the Fusion upgrade plans, one now about whether Larry enjoys himself at Oracle more now, or back in the days when it was a five-man startup (answer: now actually, as it’s not as stressful […]

It’s just a couple of days now before we fly over to San Francisco for Oracle Open World, and as usual we’re taking part in quite a few of the events over the five days.
On Sunday, I’m chairing the ODTUG BI&DW SIG Meeting at 11am in Moscone West 3010 & 3012 (session S293003), Jon will […]

Stock holders hopes that Oracle might counter-bid against SAP for Business Objects fades as Oracle offer to spend many billions on BEA systems… (or so say Reuters) I need to think about how the new product lines would impact my BI-centric world

In yesterday’s posting, I set the scene for an Oracle Real-Time Decisions project that I’m going to integrate into the Oracle SOA Suite Order Bookings BPEL process. At present, the Order Bookings process allocates manufacturing jobs based on who provided the lowest quote; in the demo I’m going to build, jobs will be allocated based […]

The BI Survey is now open for submissions: here’s the invite, pop along and answer the questions if you’ve got a spare five or ten minutes:
“We would very much welcome your participation in The BI Survey. This is the largest independent survey of business intelligence, OLAP and CPM users worldwide. The Survey will obtain input […]

If there is a geek gene I have almost certainly inherited it from both of my parents. On balance this probably a good thing to have (at my age, if not necessarily when a teenager) and I have adapted my lifestyle to cope with it. But one thing that I struggle with is the ability […]

I’ve more or less finishing the opening chapter of the book I’m working on, and I’ve reached the part now where I need a set of sample data for the examples that are going to follow. Without giving too much away (the contracts are being signed now), I need a set of data that I […]