Data Integration and Management

Connecting to Oracle Business Intelligence EE using Oracle Data Integrator

By julien.testut on October 8, 2009 4:26 PM

Looking for Data Integration at OpenWorld 2009? Click here! The posts in this series assume that you have some level of familiarity with ODI. The concepts of Topology, Data Server, Physical and Logical Architecture are used here assuming that...

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Connecting Visibility to Value: Data Integration and Business Intelligence

By dain.hansen on April 29, 2009 1:23 PM

Recently I just posted an article on BeyeNETWORK, entitled Connecting Visibility to Value: Data Integration and Business Intelligence. The article summarizes five important factors that are critical for Business Intelligence platforms: - Optimized data movement - Data quality - Real-time...

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SOAsaurus Shrugged

By dain.hansen on January 9, 2009 12:12 PM

It’s tempting. It’s all too easy to be the first to predict that SOA is dead. I’m the first to admit that I’m eager helping pick out the plot and the right size coffin. But let’s be thankful before we...

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Unwrapping ODI's newly released: 10.1.3.5

By dain.hansen on December 18, 2008 3:43 PM

All I wanted for the holidays: Oracle Data Integrator 10.1.3.5 What's in the box? Well what's notable is that ODI now gives its users an edge in Business Intelligence. Specifically, ODI can be used as the data integration platform of...

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Bull Market on BI in 2009

By dain.hansen on December 16, 2008 10:40 AM

Recently Timo Elliot, wrote four top reasons for "What Might Go Wrong in Business Intelligence in 2009". In his reason #2 he cites: Corporate cutbacks, "thou shalt not buy anything" policies, and new levels of sign-off will encourage some people...

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ODI and EPM soup to nuts

By dain.hansen on October 13, 2008 3:55 PM

Recently we've been following this comprehensive soup-to-nuts blogroll from John Goodwin on the subject of Oracle Data Integrator and EPM, specifically Essbase. The blog has some compelling use cases especially in regards to integrating data into and out of Essbase....

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Tough times require tough Data Management approaches

By dain.hansen on October 7, 2008 4:35 PM

These are tough financial times, no matter where you sit. All of us in IT are retreating back to what's basic, what's essential, and what's critical for the business. Alas, there's one ray of hope for all those Data Integration,...

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Have Oracle Towel Will Travel

By dain.hansen on September 19, 2008 7:05 AM

I am so ready for Oracle Open World - are you? My demos are done; my collateral is all shiny and virtualized; all the sessions are looking superb; I've got twitter hooked up to my facebook which is linked-in to...

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Data Integration Market Survey: Results are in!

By dain.hansen on August 26, 2008 10:06 AM

After several weeks of interviewing global users in the field of data integration, we've collected some pretty compelling responses surrounding the Data Integration landscape. - Data Warehousing still the crux of the data integration market, dominates over half of the...

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