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BIWA Summit - Day 2

The second day has just ended, and now I am back in the hotel thinking of grabbing a bite to eat before the fun tasks of finishing a report for a customer and packing… just hope my stuff still fits my suitcase.
Conferences seem to start early here - and coupled with a 15 minute walk [...]

Posted 04 December 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Day 1 BIWA

Today was the first of the BIWA Summit at Redwood Shores, California. It was also the day of my presentation on Cube Organized Materialized Views in summary management.
The conference packs a lot in over two days; 66 sessions running across 6 streams, 4 keynotes, and two streams of hands-on workshops.  Today was a busy day, [...]

Posted 03 December 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

BIWA Next Week

I am sitting in my room at a Heathrow Airport hotel on my way from Athens (Greece) to San Francisco.  My body is still working on Eastern European time and I am beginning to dread the change to the Californian time zone. Still having two days of ‘rest’ (writing time, really) to adjust will help.
I [...]

Posted 29 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Athens (Greece)

I am very conscious that I have not posted much on this blog recently. In part the technical stuff has been surfaced through the company blog - I get in to trouble if I say Mark’s blog because it is the company one now, an in part because of a load of domestic events have [...]

Posted 18 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Data quality is not a one-off

In my Blog post on End-to-end data quality I mentioned the desirability of fixing bad data at source. This certainly attracted comment both here and on other blogs for example
One point to keep in mind about fixing bad data on the source; it is just that, fixing DATA. We are not fixing bad applications [...]

Posted 12 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

End of summer time

Last Sunday was the end of the daylight saving scheme that goes in these parts by the name of British Summer Time, today 2 days past the end of summertime it snows!
I don’t recall snow so far south in October. Oh well it gives me something to write about!
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Posted 28 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

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 law) publish tender documents so that qualified suppliers throughout the EU can bid to do the work. This means they have a gap of almost a year before the, yet to [...]

Posted 25 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

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, I guess this flexibility must be appreciated by our customers as we have just won the UKOUG Business Intelligence Partner of the Year award.
The past week I have been [...]

Posted 18 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Reminder - UKOUG BIRT SIG meeting

… is on Wednesday October 8th. Mark will be speaking and I will be there with the Rittman Mead  stand, so if you are at the meeting just come up and say “hello”.
This is the last BIRT SIG meeting of the year, but BI is, of course, going to be big part a big [...]

Posted 05 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Exa-ctly

Sitting about half-a-flying-day from San Francisco and OOW, and for that mater my colleagues gives me opportunity to mull over the Larry’s keynote address that has been so widely reported on-line.
I would love to say my prediction for what was going to be announced was completely right; although in the main it was right some [...]

Posted 25 September 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °