Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 […]

Whilst the most dangerous thing I’ll be contemplating tonight will be whether to have the lamb shank or the pan-fried trout in the Reading Moathouse restaurant (or perhaps the healthy option - heh), my old work colleague Jon Mead is daft enough to have signed up to do a cross-Atlantic sailing trip in aid of […]

I’m just sitting in the departure lounge at Dublin Airport, waiting for my flight back to London Gatwick; I’ve been doing the BI Masterclass over at Oracle’s offices at Eastpoint over the last couple of days, and I’m running it again tomorrow and Friday at Oracle’s offices in Thames Valley Park. Even though it’s my […]

In this first article since the “Amazing November 2006 Blog Catastrophe”, I’m going to go back to Sunopsis Data Conductor and look at what’s involved in putting your own project together, running against Oracle datasources and targets. For anyone who’s not kept up with the Oracle news, Sunopsis are the ETL vendor Oracle are in […]

Well… a couple of people mentioned to me today that my website was down. Fine, I thought, there’s sometimes a glitch with the hosted server, and if I just raise a support ticket they’ll restart the mySQL server or at worst, restore from a backup.
Except… it turns out their monthly, weekly and daily backups didn’t […]

Following on from Abhinav’s announcement last week, I downloaded the 10.1.2.2.0 patch for Application Server 10g over the weekend, and started having a look at the new Discoverer and Spreadsheet Add-in features that it makes available.
If you’ve just got BI Suite Standard Edition installed on it’s own (i.e. not part of a Portal and Infrastructure […]

This afternoon I’ve been packing up my stuff in preparation for the UKOUG Conference & Exhibition, which is running from Tuesday to Friday next week in Birmingham. This year, because of the extra numbers due to the Peoplesoft, JDE and Siebel acquisitions, the main event is running for an extra day, starting on the Tuesday […]

Just a short reminder that I’m running my BI Masterclass seminars, organized by Oracle University, at Dublin and Reading later this month. Here’s the links to the local Oracle Education websites where you can book a place:

November 21st - 22nd 2006 : “Oracle Business Intelligence Masterclass”, Dublin,
November 23rd - 24th 2006 : “Oracle Business Intelligence […]