Breaking News - Venkat Joining Rittman Mead

Well this year has certainly seen some interesting and exciting developments for Rittman Mead. Earlier in the year we launched Rittman Mead in America, along with our colleagues Joe Leva and Stewart Bryson; shortly after that Adrian Ward and the team from Majendi joined us to further expand our OBIEE coverage in the UK. Now I have great pleasure in announcing that Venkatakrishnan J, who I'm sure you'll all know through his excellent OBIEE and Essbase blog, has kindly agreed to join us at Rittman Mead.

We've known Venkat now for a couple of years, firstly through our mutual interest in Oracle's BI, DW and Performance Management technologies, and recently through his attendance at our BI Forum in Brighton. We'd spoken informally about Venkat joining us before the event and when we all met up, it was clear we all shared a similar passion for Oracle technology. Venkat joins us from Oracle India where he provided consulting support and assistance on some high-profile projects, and brings his unsurpassed knowledge of OBIEE, Hyperion and DW integration and development to our team. At Rittman Mead, our approach since Jon and I started the company was to try and work with the best people in the Oracle BI&DW industry, bringing out join skills and project approach to customer engagements to ensure the success of their projects. Venkat joining us really adds significant weight to our project abilities and we're all super-excited about his joining us, and in future contributing to the Rittman Mead blog.

I'm sure you'll all join us in welcoming Venkat to the team, and keep an eye out on this site for news of the second of our Training Days events in London for later in the year, where Venkat, myself and Christian Berg will be running three days of advanced-level training on OBIEE and the Hyperion EPM stack.