Join the ODTUG BI&DW SIG Oracle Mix Group One of the big community announcements at Oracle Open World this year was Oracle Mix [http://mix.oracle.com], a sort of cross between Facebook and LinkedIn for Oracle customers and developers. Kent Graziano and I have now set up the Oracle Mix ODTUG BI&DW SIG Group [https:
Technical Email Distribution of Reports using BI Publisher and Discoverer One of the presentations I'm giving on the Monday at the UKOUG Conference [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/11/22/looking-forward-to-the-ukoug-conference/] is a joint talk with Mike Durran, the Oracle Discoverer Product Manager. Mike is going to do an update on Discoverer migration and interoperability with Oracle
Technical Essbase Integration with OBIEE 10.1.3.3.1 A month or so ago I posted a series of articles [http://www.rittmanmead.com/category/hyperion/] on getting up and running with Hyperion Essbase, and mentioned at the time that it soon would be possible to plug Essbase directly in to Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition. In this article,
Another thing I forgot... When setting up my new PC was that I should down load the OWB reporting add in for SQL Developer. I used to use this tool in preference to using the web reporting from the repository [http://pjsrandom.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/owb-sqldev.png] I have long been a
Looking Forward to the UKOUG Conference It seems so soon after Open World, but in a week or so's time the UKOUG annual Conference & Exhibition [http://conference.ukoug.org] is running at the ICC, Birmingham. There's going to be quite a big Rittman Mead contingency at the event, with Jon and
Technical Virtually there 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
UKOUG 2007 Blogger Meetup : Pitcher & Piano, Brindley Place, 8pm on Monday 3rd Dec Hot on the heels of the OOW 2007 Blogger Meetup, we're organizing something similar for the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham. It's on Monday, 3rd December at 8pm in the Pitcher & Piano, The Water's Edge, Brindley Place [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&
A First Look at Oracle OLAP 11g Now I'm on the flight over to London back from Open World, I've got a few hours spare to take a proper look at the 11g release of Oracle OLAP. In particular I'm trying to find out whether it runs ok without any show-stopper
Technical My first week at Rittman Mead Consulting Well, it was not spent in San Francisco! I spent a couple of days working through some best practices for a group developing a new management information system on OBI SE-One and then spent the rest of the week trekking between home and hospital where my younger girl had her
OOW2007: Reflections on Oracle’s BI Strategy 'm currently sitting in a Starbucks just around the corner from the Hilton, waiting for my pick-up for the drive to SFO. One thing I like to try and do after a major conference like Open World is have a think about what the announcements and activity meant for
Technical BI information security These days there are a wealth of restrictions or regulations (SOX, UK Data Protection Act to name but two) on data access and coupled with the simple commercial need to hide sensitive information that means unfettered access to data warehouse data is a thing of the past. Fortunately products such
OOW2007: Larry Ellison Keynote 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
Day 2 at Oracle Open World 2007 Yesterday was my busiest day at Open World, with an interview in the morning with SearchOracle.com, on Oracle's BI strategy and data warehousing best practices, followed by the main conference session given by Jon and I, on integrating Oracle BI EE and SOA. Funnily enough I was
OOW2007: BI Roadmap & Strategy, Paul Rodwick & Rich Clayton The second major session that I went to yesterday at OOW was the BI Roadmap & Strategy talk given by Paul Rodwick and Rich Clayton. Paul we all know from the Siebel Analytics side of the business, whilst Rich has come over following the Hyperion acquisition. These roadmap talks are
OOW2007: Next-Generation Semantic Layer, Ed Suen After going along to the "Oracle's BI Vision and What It Means to Hyperion Customers" session over at the Marriott hotel, the session I was particularly looking forward to this morning was Ed Suen's session on what's coming up in the semantic
More BI consolidation As widely predicted the number of independent reporting tool vendors has diminished. Today's takeover target is Cognos [http://www.cognos.com/] (who fell into the arms of IBM for 5 billion USD). With the earlier assimilation of Proclarity (Microsoft); Hyperion, Siebel Analytics & Sigma Dynamics (Oracle); and Business
First Days at Oracle Open World 2007 I'm currently sitting in the Club Oracle Gold Lounge in Moscone West, catching up on emails and listening to Charles Phillip's keynote on the TV in the corner. It's been a pretty busy couple of days since I arrived on Saturday, luckily the weather
UKOUG December 07 The whole Oracle world seems to be congregating in San Francisco for a few days of talk, meetings and events. But I am reminded that another event is on the horizon; the UKOUG's annual conference in Birmingham from December 3 to the 6. Now, that is only 3
A new life Yesterday was my last day working for a multi-billion dollar, many thousand employee multinational telephone and IT services organisation. I am now working with Mark Rittman and Jon Mead as part of Rittman Mead Consulting. Mark has already [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/10/24/peter-scott-joining-rittman-mead-consulting/] outlined [https://www.
A First Look at OWB11gR1 I finally got around to installing Oracle 11g earlier this afternoon, and I was pleasantly surprised to notice that Oracle Warehouse Builder gets installed by default: For someone like myself who makes most of his living from either consulting in, or training in, Warehouse Builder, this is of course good
Advertisement : Rittman Mead Consulting Services OK, I promise this is the last advert for a while, however I wanted to take a few moments just to talk about the Oracle BI&DW consulting services [http://www.rittmanmead.com/services/consulting/] that Rittman Mead offers. Normal service will be resumed shortly... Apart from Oracle BI
Business Insights Rittman Mead at Oracle Open World 2007, San Francisco 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
ODTUG OOW BI&DW SIG Meeting, Sunday 11th Nov 11:00AM, Moscone West 3010 & 3012 I'm organizing the ODTUG BI&DW SIG Meeting at Oracle Open World [http://www.oracle.com/openworld] in San Francisco, on Sunday 11th November at 11am at Moscone West 3010 and 3012. For those of you building your schedule up, it's session S293003. The theme
New 11g OLAP / Essbase Content for Slovakia Masterclass I'm running my Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclass [http://www.rittmanmead.com/services/bi-masterclasses-20078/] in Bratislava, Slovakia [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/show_desc.redirect?dc=D48573_946979&p_org_id=11&lang=SK&source_call=] , later this month on the 22nd and 23rd
Advertisement : Rittman Mead Training Services Apart from running seminars and posting technical articles on the blog, Jon and I (and now Peter Scott [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/10/24/peter-scott-joining-rittman-mead-consulting/]) actually do a lot of training and consulting for clients in the UK, Europe and North America. Just for today and for one
