Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3
Oracle issued their quarterly Critical Patch Update yesterday, and with it notice of several security issues of note: The most serious for OBIEE (CVE-2013-2186) rates 7. »
Getting The Users' Trust - Part 2
Last time I wrote about the performance aspects of a BI system and how they could affect a user’s confidence. I concluded by mentioning that »
Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Revisited
Recently I have be working with Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) combined with Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), we will tell you more about exactly what we »
Introducing Oracle Enterprise Data Quality
Visually, BI dashboards and analyses can be impressive and appear to meet the user’s needs, but if the data displayed on the dashboards isn't reliable »
Geography Hierarchies
I have been thinking about address a lot recently, in part it was moving house and all of the 1001 people that need to be notified. »
Regular Expressions in OBIEE
When reporting against an OLTP system, in many ways, OBIEE works like an ETL tool, transforming the source system data and presenting it as a star »
End-to-end data quality
One of our customers is about to embark on a significant BI project; but being in the "public sector" they have to (by EU »
Being Flexible
One of the things I really love about working with the team here at Rittman Mead is how we can offer our clients a flexible service, »
Quality thoughts as I continue to chill out
Over at another Blog, Beth notes that she is editor of the month for the Carnival of Data Quality. When It comes out I urge you »
A flat world
A lot of data warehouses get some (if not all) of their data feeds through data files; in fact I can't recall a recent project where »