The Dawn Of The BI Director [http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1021508] : "In most organizations, business intelligence (BI) has always played second fiddle to transaction applications. Organizations have traditionally lavished millions of dollars on projects to implement packaged operational applications and rewarded the IT managers who

What's Holding XBRL Back? [http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159401688] : "Ventana Research believes metadata tagging holds great promise for the future of business intelligence and business process automation. So why is it taking so long for the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) to gain traction

Maximizing Your ETL Tool Investment [http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1021507] : "Is your organization struggling to justify an ETL (extract, transform and load) tool purchase? If the tool is an enterprise level solution, the entry price is likely well into the six digits. At this price,

Forbes.com : "Something's In The Water At Oracle" [http://www.forbes.com/work/management/2005/03/28/cx_ld_0328orcl.html] : "NEW YORK - As evidenced by our story on Keynote Systems and Umang Gupta, Oracle is fast becoming a breeding ground for ambitious executives

It's that time of year again when the various Oracle conferences start calling for papers. TheUKOUG Conference & Exhibition call for papers [http://conference.ukoug.org/conference.asp?sectionid=5] opened up a couple of weeks ago, and over the next few months it'll be possible

One of our customers I worked with recently asked about implementing the equivalent of row-level security within analytic workspaces. I subsequently came acrossthis posting [http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jsp?forum=16&thread=276546&tstart=105&trange=15] on the OTN OLAP Forum which details a

It's the Easter break over here at the moment, and I'm off work for the next week with a bit of paternity leave. Things are a bit hectic as I'm sure you can imagine, with a two and a half-year old and a two

I've been back in the office for a few days this week, and so it's a good chance to catch up on what's happened while I've been away. The big news for all us Oracle OLAP users is that the 10.1.

[https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/01124isabella_small.jpg]Well, in the end she was a week late, but this morning our second child, Isabella Ruby Rittman, was born at theRoyal Sussex Hospital [http://www.nursing-in-sussex.co.uk/brighton.html]in Brighton. She's arrived just

If you've been following my work on putting anOWB Performance Tuning Framework [http://www.rittman.net/archives/001209.html] together, and you read yesterday's article onrunning an event 10046 extended trace on a mapping [http://www.rittman.net/archives/001211.html], you might be interested in

If you've read my OTN article"Building BI Dashboards with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Portal" [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman_dash.html] and were looking to set a BI dashboard up, you might be wondering how to set up OracleBI

Jon Garmany has written a nice article onintegrating HTML DB with Oracle Application Server 10g [http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle9iAS_tips_Garmany_integrating_html_db_10gas.htm] . According to John, > "Lately I have been playing around with Oracle's HTML DB. This is a rapid development environment

Investigation of collecting Cost Base Optimizer statistics [http://www.oaktable.net/fullArticle.jsp;jsessionid=C931210E5DD6CBF1C14898D160C7BF82?id=12] : "This article looks at some of the questions and challenges you need to consider when you are planning statistics collection for Oracle's Cost Based Optimizer (CBO). Many businesses require 24

A paper that caught my eye at the recentOTDUG Desktop Conference [http://www.desktopconference2005.org/] was the one by Kent Graziano onAgile Methods and Data Warehousing [http://www.desktopconference2005.org/03-agenda/28.html]. You have to be a conference attendee to view the presentations, but I got hold of Kent&

Some more interesting interesting articles and papers. "EII - Dead On Arrival" [http://www.dmreview.com/editorial/newsletter_article.cfm?nl=dmdirect&articleId=1020768&issue=20136] by Andy Hayler for DMReview [http://www.dmreview.com] looks at the current buzz around Enterprise Information Integration - "

Building BI Dashboards with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Portal [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman_dash.html] : "If you've been following the release of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/] or keeping an eye on industry trends,

It's been another busy week at work this week, so here's a round up of some new articles I've come across that I've not had time to do a complete write-up on. The OLAP Report Market Share Analysis for 2004 [http://www.

Eric Sink,"The Tenets Of Transparency" [http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsoftware/html/software02052005.asp] : "Reminding my readers once again that I am not a Microsoft employee, I observe that over the last year or two, the world has seen a different

Oracle's Project Fusion: Just a Leap of Faith? [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1769363,00.asp] : "Project Fusion: It's supposed to glue together PeopleSoft Inc., J.D. Edwards & Co., and Oracle Corp. business applications. It's supposed to soothe the frazzled

If you're a user of Oracle 9i OLAP Web Agent or Express Web Agent and was wondering whether the 9i version worked with 10g OLAP, you'll be interested to note that Oracle's Aneel Shenker recently posted a note on the OTN OLAP forum on

A few articles and papers I came across recently, that you might find interesting. First up is a number of in-depth articles written byHoward Rogers [http://www.dizwell.com/index.html], on some Oracle 10g features that BI&W developers might find interesting. The first article is on materialized

I was with a client this week who had an issue with migrating Discoverer End User Layers from one environment to another. He would make some changes in the development EUL, then import the changed business areas into the test EUL, but often he'd get multiple copies of

Building Open-Standard Portlets for Location Information [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/lokitz_portlets.html] : "In business, information is king. With the advent of enterprise portals, getting pertinent information has become as easy as logging onto a single Web site and using a single password. The enterprise portal

A new Oracle product that I initially saw whilst over at Open World, that sounds like it might be interesting, is "Oracle XML Publisher". According to the product homepage [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/applications/publishing/index.html], "Oracle XML Publisher is a new java based

I'm conscious that I haven't updated the weblog much over the last few weeks so I thought it worth posting a note of explanation. Funnily enough I have actually still been working away on articles and presentations over the last couple of weeks, but they'