I am pleased to announce today that Majendi is Joining forces with Rittman Mead. All my technical bogging will now be on the Rittman Mead blog, but watch out for some personal stuff on here. We finalised the deal over lunch in Zurich, a very civilised part of the world….
Author: Adrian Ward
30 Years working on Oracle systems, specialising in Oracle analytics. Previously known as OBIEE, and before that Seibel Analytics
Oracle ACE
Me down to a tee
http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/pigeonholing-a-tragedy/ adrian.ward@addidici.com www.addidici.com
The day after April Fools
I hope you all got fooled yesterday. I fell for one, hook line and sinker! Anyway, to continue with happy thoughts for a day or two longer… A man flying in a hot air balloon suddenly realizes he’s lost. He reduces height and spots a woman down below. He lowers…
New iPhone
I finally took delivery of my iPhone today. Although it 16Gb, which is more than enough for my music collection, I know it will be out of date by tomorrow. So can someone tell me what the iPhone replacement will be please! Of course on it I will be able…
MICS
“KISS is out, MICS (make it complex stupid) is hot” Great Article by Toon Koppelaars. If you are more than 21 then this will be an interesting read. Everyone else, stick to the PS3 /PSP tonight! Many of you will have heard of Jonathan Lewis – http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/who has some great…
Brilliant
The brilliant, yet undiscovered talent that is Christian Berg finally launched into the blogging world http://hekatonkheires.blogspot.com/ Good luck with that Christian. News UPDATE. Final details are being put to the announcement which will be out very soon now. Can you guess what it is yet? Market Update Who do you…
What Occuring
As usual I have been keeping an eye on the Jobs Market, checking out the availabilty of consultants and roles.As you will see from previous posts I have been guaging the state of the Oracle BI / Siebel Analytics market by the number of jobs advertised, and number consultants I…
OBIEE Forum
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Brighton on May 14th and 15th this year. Take a look at the agenda and I think you’ll agree it has an excellentline up of OBIEE talent: http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-bi-forum-brighton-may-14th-15th-2009/. There are only limited numbers,…
More Big Tips Please
Reply from Phil as follows: Of course Adrian, I’ve got loads. How about this one: When you do a combined request you can’t change the column headings in the Edit Column Formula window as any changes you make there aren’t saved. However, you can change the column name in the…
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Big Phils Tip – Page Moving
Imagine the scenario. You have a dashboard with 35 pages on and you have to add a new page, at the TOP! Normally you add your page, and it goes to the bottom of the list, so you would click 35 times on the up arrow. On this button the…