Jon Mead - Rittman Mead

Why Use ODI over PL/SQL?

If you had to write ETL or data pipelines to transform data in a structured data warehouse or lakehouse - would you choose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) or PL/SQL? Let me elaborate. I'm assuming you are working in OCI and the target is an Autonomous Data Warehouse

Workshop: Getting Started with GenAI

We have been hearing how Generative AI (GenAI) is going to be a game changer for organisations for over a year now. The question we want to help you answer is “how do I get started”. We have put together a workshop to offer a comprehensive view of how to

CloudWorld 2023

Oracle shows products and features that use GenAI to close the gap between users formulating questions and then getting answers from the data; and purely using the data to drive action.

Oracle Analytics

A Good Week For Oracle Analytics

The Forrester Wave BI Q2 2023 report ranked Oracle Analytics first in its current capabilities, surpassing competitors like Power BI and Tableau. I think it's time to give Oracle Analytics a bit more kudos.

Data Governance

Taking a Data Governance Programme to Maturity

In this mini-series, I’ve looked at the business benefits of employing a data governance framework; and how to get startedwith some quick wins in the first six months. I’m going to close the series by explaining how to embed a data governance programme in your business, so that

Conferences

RMOUG Training Days 2023

We are proud to be the platinum sponsor and soon-to-be attendee of the Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group (RMOUG) Training Days event. Expect to be Informed and Inspired to Initiate new Ideas to Improve your working lives at Training Days 2023 Live - Virtual - Hybrid Conference.

Data Governance

How to Get a Data Governance Programme Underway... Quickly

Data governance does not need to begin life fully fledged. There are some quick wins that most organisations should be able to implement in six months without the need for significant additional budget or board level agreement.

Data Governance

Why Data Governance Is More About Enabling Good Than Stopping Bad

It seems like every day businesses are bombarded with reminders of the value of data. Data, we are told, leads us to make smarter decisions that deliver better outcomes.

We've added Search!

Well, to be precise, our blog is hosted on Ghost, and we have just upgraded to version 5.0 which includes search, see here. 0:00/1× What does this mean? Well, now you don't have to use external search engines to find pages on the Rittman Mead

Unify 10.0.49

A new release of Unify is available, 10.0.49. This release includes support for Tableau 2021.4.

OAC

Getting Smart View to work with OAC

I wanted to demonstrate what I thought would be a simple task to a client today, however it turned out to be a little more complex than I first anticipated, so I thought I would publish here. All I needed to do was get Smart View connecting to OAC. Prerequisites

OAC

Oracle Analytics Summit 2019

Last week I attended the Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywalker_Ranch]. The event was live-streamed on Facebook and widely Tweeted [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OracleAnalyticsSummit?src=hash], so a fair number of people may be up to speed with the announcements, I’ll

Unify

Exciting News for Unify

Announcement: Unify for Free We are excited to announce we are going to make Unify available for free. To get started send an email to [email protected], we will ask you to complete a short set of qualifying questions, then we can give you a demo, provide a product

devops

Why DevOps Matters for Enterprise BI

Why are people frustrated with their existing enterprise BI tools such as OBIEE? My view is because it costs too much to produce relevant content. I think some of this is down to the tools themselves, and some of it is down to process. Starting with the tools, they are

Confluent Partnership

Here at Rittman Mead, we are continually broadening the scope and expertise of our services to help our customers keep pace with today's ever-changing technology landscape. One significant change we have seen over the last few years is the increased adoption of data streaming. These solutions can help

UKOUG

Rittman Mead at UKOUG 2017

For those of you attending the UKOUG [http://tech17.ukoug.org] this year, we are giving three presentations on OBIEE and Data Visualisation. Francesco Tisiot has two on Monday: * 14.25 // Enabling Self-Service Analytics With Analytic Views & Data Visualization From Cloud to Desktop - Hall 7a * 17:55 // OBIEE:

OBIEE upgrades and Windows vulnerabilities

These two topics may seem unrelated; however, the ransomware attacks [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39915440] over the last few days provide us with a reminder of what people can do with known vulnerabilities in an operating system. Organisations consider upgrades a necessary evil; they cost money, take up

Technical

Corporate Social Responsibility (Where Can We Serve?)

At Rittman Mead, we believe that people are more important than profit. This manifests itself in two ways. First, we want to impact the world beyond data and analytics, and secondly, we want our employees to be able to contribute to organizations they believe are doing impactful work. This year,

Technical

Once A Week Is Never Enough

Over the last few months we have been looking at User Engagement [http://www.rittmanmead.com/tag/userengagement/] and recently asked people take part in a global usage survey [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/09/the-greatest-obiee-usage-study-ever/] so we could create a series of benchmark metrics detailing how organisations used

UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards 2015

It’s that time of year again for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards [http://www.ukoug.org/2015-events/partner-of-the-year-awards/]. This year we have been nominated [http://www.ukoug.org/2015-events/partner-of-the-year-awards/shortlist-201516/] for 4 awards: * Engineered Systems Partner of the Year Award * Business Analytics Partner of the Year

Technical

The greatest OBIEE usage study ever...

Rittman Mead is excited to announce the first ever global OBIEE usage survey. Our goal is to provide deep analysis into how organisations use their OBIEE systems and to create a set of industry benchmarks. We will be releasing the results of this research for free to the OBIEE community.

Technical

User Engagement - Why Does it Matter?

The value of any system can be measured by how often you interact with it. The perfect example is Slack [https://slack.com/], which is now seen as the most successful collaboration app ever [http://innov8tiv.com/slack-successful-online-collaboration-app-ever-valued-1-2-billion/] and is valued at $1.2bn. The key metric for this is

Private or Public Training? (and a Discount Code)

Rittman Mead offers world class training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training] that covers various Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Integration tools. Rittman Mead currently offers two types of training, Public and Private - so what is the best option for your organization? Both Private and Public options are staffed

User Groups & Conferences

UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards

A few days ago Rittman Mead won 5 awards at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards [http://www.ukoug.org/membership-new/partner-area/partner-of-the-year-awards/2014winners/] . * Business Intelligence Partner of the Year (Silver) * Training Partner of the Year (Silver) * Managed Services (Outsourcing and Operations) Partner of the Year (Silver) * Emerging (New

Rittman Mead Life

Rittman Mead/Oracle Data Integration Speakeasy @ Oracle Open World

If you are attending Oracle Open World [https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html] this year and fancy bit of a different experience, come and join Rittman Mead and Oracle’s Data Integration teams for drinks and networking at 7pm on Tuesday 30th September at the Local Edition [http://localeditionsf.