Jon Mead - Rittman Mead (Page 2)

Sunday Times Tech Track 100

Over the weekend, Rittman Mead was listed in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 [http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/downloads/TechTrack100.pdf]. We are extremely proud to get recognition for the business as well as our technical capability and expertise. A lot of the public face of Rittman Mead

User Groups & Conferences

UKOUG Tech13 Conference

Next week Rittman Mead is the analytics sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 [http://www.tech13.ukoug.org] conference up in Manchester. We've got a great line up of talks, covering everything from BI Apps, Endeca, Hadoop, OBIEE and mobile - Stewart and Charles are both flying in from

Rittman Mead

Thank You for Voting for Rittman Mead

Earlier in the year I announced that we had been nominated in 5 categories [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/09/ukoug-partner-of-the-year-2013/] for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards. The award ceremony was last night [http://www.ukoug.org/what-we-offer/news/press-release-uk-oracle-user-group-partner-of-the-year-2013-winners-announced/] and I’m proud to say that

UKOUG Partner of the Year 2013

We are honoured to announce that Rittman Mead have been nominated in 5 categories for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards [http://www.ukoug.org/opportunities/ukoug-partner-of-the-year-awards/2013-shortlist/] . We have been nominated in: * Business Intelligence Partner of the Year * Training Partner of the Year * Managed Services (Outsourcing & Operations)

OEID Data Provisioning

One of the most exciting aspects of the current information management revolution is business users getting faster access to wider sets of data and therefore being able to understand business events and make decisions more effectively and quicker than before. This is happening through a number of different tools, some

Technical

Some Upcoming Events

It’s going to be a busy few weeks leading up to the BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/]. First, Rittman Mead will be exhibiting at the UKOUG Engineered Systems Summit [http://www.ukoug.org/what-we-offer/news/ukoug-engineered-systems-summit/] on Tuesday 16th April, this is a one day event in

Technical

The Changing World of Business Intelligence

Over the last 18 months we have seen a huge amount of changes in the world of Oracle Business Intelligence and Analytics. Everyone wants to talk about Big Data, however doesn’t know where to start in a corporate world, Oracle bought Endeca, which is a reporting/information discovery tool,

Technical

OOW2012 so far...

It's now half way through Oracle Open World 2012 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html] and I thought I would write up a brief update of what has happened so far. Last year saw the announcements of both Exalytics [http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/business-intelligence/

UKOUG Oracle BI Partner of the Year - Vote for Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead has been nominated for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards for another year, in the Business Intelligence category. We take awards like these very seriously as we feel they reflect the effort and service we provide directly to our clients and indirectly to the wider Oracle BI

Business Insights

Business Deferred Development

Following on from previous posts about Rittman Mead’s development methodologies, I would like to talk about another approach we have been working on over the last few years: Business Deferred Development. Development methodologies are designed to augment the development process, empower developers and ultimately produce better results. What we

BIRT SIG - 21st February 2012

Tomorrow I will be chairing the February UKOUG BIRT SIG meeting [http://www.ukoug.org/events/ukoug-business-intelligence-and-reporting-tools-sig-meeting/] , which is being held at Oracle's City Office. There is a focus on the future of Oracle Business Intelligence with presentations on Exalytics, Endeca and Big Data, plus some case studies/

What happened to the what if analysis?

When I first started working in the Business Intelligence industry one of the key concepts was 'What If Analysis'. One of the drivers of using an OLAP/Decision Support or Business Intelligence system was to be able to do predictive analytics. What If Analysis is undoubtedly a big

Recruiting: UK-based Business Development Manager

We are currently looking for a Business Development Manager for the UK. Due to expansion in the US, Morgan [http://www.rittmanmead.com/author/morgan-mccarthy/] is taking a sabbatical to go and work with Stewart [http://www.rittmanmead.com/author/stewart-bryson/] and his team in Atlanta. This leaves us with

Rittman Mead Life

OBIEE Online Training

We have been looking at different ways of providing some of our training materials online. Adam Seed [http://www.rittmanmead.com/author/adam-seed/] created a 1 minute introduction to the OBIEE 11g home page as an experiment. You can look at the clip on YouTube athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?

Recruiting: Oracle Business Intelligence Consultant (Belgium)

We are looking to hire a consultant for our Benelux practice. The role is based in Brussels where the majority of the work is, however there would be opportunity to work the broader Rittman Mead team over time. The job description is as follows: Rittman Mead are looking for a

Business Insights

Data Warehouse Global Leaders Forum, Athens

Mark and I have just spent the last couple of days at the DW Global Leaders Forum in Athens. The DW Global Leaders Forum is an Oracle-run customer program that connects a number of EMEA Data Warehouse clients with each other, Oracle and a small number of partners. The main

Technical

UKOUG Exadata Special Event

As part of my role as BIRT SIG chair, I have been involved in organising a special Exadata event later in April. The idea is to test the water to see if there is any traction in the UK for an Exadata special interest group. We originally raised and discussed

Technical

The One Mapping Paradigm

Here at Rittman Mead we have been working on some new methodology and design patterns for ETL. We have long realised that the bottleneck in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects is ETL, so we have been prototyping new techniques to approaching this and trialling them at client's

Technical

Exadata in Retail Presentation

I recently gave a presentation at the Oracle Extreme Performance Data Warehousing Seminar [http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=103412&src=6802174&src=6802174&Act=115] about a project we have been working on with a client. The client is in the retail

UKOUG Conference Series Hyperion & BI 2009

Whilst Mark, Stewart are Joe are enjoying Monterery, I am on the train going up to London to meet Borkur to do a joint presentation entitledHigh Availability in Oracle BI EE [http://hyperion.ukoug.org/default.asp?p=3078&dlgact=shwprs&prs_prsid=3464&day_dayid=28]

Rittman Mead on Twitter

You can now follow Rittman Mead on Twitter [http://twitter.com/rittmanmead], we will tweet new blog postings and any other relevant news, follow us at rittmanmead.

Technical

Competing on Analytics using OBIEE

On Tuesday I presented a paper entitled Competing on Analytics using OBIEE at the UKOUG BIRT SIG in London. The idea behind the paper was to explore how companies use Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics, how they can extend their use in an organisation and hence gain competitive advantage

Resuming your ETL process in OWB

If your ETL process fails, for whatever reason, you have two options: to restart the process from the beginning, or to resume from the last successfully completed task. <h3>Restarting from beginning</h3> <p>It is reasonable easy to restart the process in <

OWB 11gR2 beta

We have been accepted onto the OWB 11gR2 beta program, so over the next few months we will be putting the new features (and some of the old ones) through their paces. There are some pretty strong new features with the product, we are unable to provide details of these

Synchronizing mappings and process flows using OMB Plus

I was recently in a situation where I had to delete a package (transformation) in OWB and then re-import it from the database, because I had deleted it and re-imported it, every mapping and process flow that referenced the package lost its reference to it. I could have gone through