Mark Rittman

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'd signed up to do a seminar series with Oracle Education [http://education.oracle.com] in EMEA, and I noticed earlier today that the first advertisement, for the seminar in Holland in August on the 29th and 30th, has just gone

I'm off to do a presales visit to Ireland tomorrow, and the bit of technology I'll be demonstrating is the new Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition [http://www.rittman.net/archives/2006/05/an_guide_to_oraclebi_suite_ent.html]. I had to put a demo

Tim Hall mentioned the other day [http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2006/06/19/oracle-open-world-and-famous-namesake/] that our complementary Oracle Open World full conference passes came through, courtesy of the Oracle ACE program, which was rather nice. [http://www.oracle.com/openworld] As both Tim and I are paying for ourselves

I'm back now from Washington, and the journey back wasn't nearly so bad as when I came back from Nashville, or at least the jet-lag isn't, anyway. The fact that my flight left Washington at 8.00am, and got in to Heathrow around 8.

Time to catch up on the second half of the week atODTUG Kaleidoscope [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com]. Tuesday was the one day that I wasn't due to present, but due to my rather over-enthusiastic volunteering I was still down to be an ODTUG Ambassador for three presentations. This

Today started off with the main ODTUG Keynote, this year by Marko Tilli on the new world of SOA-based development and what it means for traditional Forms and Reports developers. From what I can make out, ODTUG's history is in Forms, Developer and Designer and so the move

Yesterday was the first day proper of ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006 for myself, with the BI CAB just after lunch and the BI summit straight afterwards. The day started off with a 4.30am start (ouch) as I'd been in bed since 7.00pm the previous night, it actually

I'm over in Washington D.C. now, and staying in theWardman Park Hotel [http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/WASDT?ptnr=thayer_wasdt_banner] in readiness for theODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/] conference. Compared to flying over to San Francisco (11+ hours), Nashville (8 hours + another connecting

Just a short update today as I'm packing everything up forODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com] in Washington. I'm doing two regular presentations, one on XML Publisher on the Monday, and another on OWB10gR2 (a.k.a. "Paris") on the Wednesday. I'

I'm on holiday at the moment at the Mark Warner Paleros Village Beach Resort [http://www.markwarner.co.uk/summer_holidays/greece/paleros], which is pretty relaxing and is a bit of a cross between a watersports activity centre, a nursery and an all-inclusive holiday resort; in fact

I've had the Mac now for about a week and I'm starting to get the hang of it. Thanks to all those people who replied to my earlier posting; I've worked out how right-clicking works now (why don't they just include a

My latest article for OTN, onOracle XML Publisher 5.6.2 Enterprise [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-xmlpub.html], is now online. In the article I talk about the new features in the Enterprise version of XML Publisher, and walk through the process of defining a report, laying

One or two of you might be aware that I've been hosting anOracle Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Forum [http://www.rittman.net/forum/] on this site for the last six months (you can access it from the "Forum" tab at the top of each page)

The other week I went through awalkthrough of Siebel Answers and Siebel Intelligence Dashboards [http://www.rittman.net/archives/2006/05/an_oracle_answers_and_oracle_d.html], and I mentioned at the time that it was possible to use reports generated by these two tools as the basis for

According to Oracle's Mary Ann Davidson [http://news.com.com/Oracle+exec+hits+out+at+patch+mentality/2100-7355_3-6077349.html?tag=nl] , the British are particularly good at hacking (Oracle software, presumably) because we have > "the perfect temperament to be hackers--technically skilled, slightly disrespectful of authority,

Apart from atalent for producing criminal geniuses [http://www.rittman.net/archives/2006/05/mary_ann_davidson_the_british.html], the UK seems to be good at producing data warehousing experts, and Kalido's Andy Hayler is one of my favourites. His blog is always a good read, and

Ijoked the other day [http://www.rittman.net/archives/2006/05/the_only_thing_better_than_spu.html] that I was so pleased that Arsenal lost the Champions League final to Barcelona, I was going to order one of the thosenew Macbooks [http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html] -

Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, previously known by the codename "Paris", is now available for download [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/index.html] on OTN. This is the long-awaited release that adds support for things such as pluggable mappings, slowly changing dimensions, data modelling of

LikeLisa Dobson [http://newbiedba.blogspot.com/2006/05/ukoug-bi-and-analytics-event.html] and Peter Scott [http://pjs-random.blogspot.com/2006/05/uk-oug-bi-special-event-day.html], I went along to theUKOUG BI & Analytics Special Event [http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_events.jsp?year=2006&month=05&day=16] at the Grange

... Is watching Arsenallose it [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4773353.stm]. Still, at least Thierry Henrygot to meet some of his new team-mates [http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=366400&cc=5739]. I'm so happy I think I'll go

If you read my articles earlier this year on XML Publisher 5.6 RC2, you'll be interested to know that the full production version, now known as XML Publisher 5.6.2, is available for download from http://edelivery.oracle.com. It's a bit of a

If you read my article the other day on the architecture of OracleBI Suite Enterprise Edition, here's a walkthrough of creating a simple report and dashboard. It's using the Siebel version of the tools as the Oracle branded versions aren't available yet on OTN,

The OLAP Survey 2006 is now looking for participants, with this message from Gordon Laver: [http://www.survey.com/olap6sur8.html] "We would very much welcome your participation in The OLAP Survey 6. This is the largest independent survey of business intelligence users worldwide. The Survey will obtain input

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition is Oracle's "next generation" business intelligence platform. Centred around Oracle BI Analytic Server, a business intelligence "application server", Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition comes with a range of ad-hoc, presentation and delivery tools and supports connectivity to a

Well that's it for me now at Collaborate'06. We did our last presentation yesterday and afterwards, I went along to the IOUG closing debate, on commercial Unix vs. Linux. As you would have expected, the argument came down to commoditisation of hardware and software, and the