Oracle Warehouse Builder for Windows

OWB 10g Now Available For Windows

Nicholas Goodman contacted me with the good news that Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g has now been released for Windows.

Although this first release of OWB 10g is mainly concerned with Oracle Database 10g compatibility as a target database, the accompanying FAQ mentions the following new features:

• Simplified installation - there are no longer Design-Time and Server-Side installation options.

• Warehouse Builder now provides a script that configures the Warehouse Builder Runtime Service for remote execution of Warehouse Builder's mappings on Oracle Enterprise Manager nodes.

• Warehouse Builder 10g supports the deployment of Process Flows into Computer Associates Unicenter AutoSys Job Management.

More details on these changes are in the Release Notes.

The good news therefore is that we can now use Oracle 10g as a deployment target for OWB. However, the OWB 10g release we're probably all waiting for is the 'Paris' release, due later in 2004, which looks likely to rework the way dimensional data models are put together, supporting more complex star schemas together with more seamless support for CWM metadata and multidimensional OLAP.