Mark Rittman - Rittman Mead (Page 12)

Rittman Mead at the Conferences

Conference season is now upon us, and having just got back from events in the USA and Australia, and with Rittman Mead presenters at conferences in the UK, India and USA over the next few months, I thought I'd be worth posting links to some previous conference presentations

Update on the OBIEE11g Book

If you're one of the people that are looking forward to the OBIEE 11g book I'm writing for Oracle Press, I thought you might be interested in an update. After what seems to be an eternity, we're now entering the final stages of putting

Business Insights

UKOUG Partner of the Year Award 2011, and the Rittman Mead Customer Advisory Board 2011

If you follow this blog and the various events we speak at, you might end up thinking that we spend most of our time going to conferences and testing out new Oracle BI products. In fact, of course, most of our time is spent on customer projects and over the

Business Insights

OBIEE Developer Meetup - London November 10th 2011 (Evening)

Just a quick note to say that Paul McGarrick (of Total-BI.com [http://total-bi.com/] fame) is organizing an OBIEE developer meet-up in London on November 10th (next Thursday). It's at the Craft Beer Bar [http://thecraftbeerco.com/], near Chancery Lane and Faringdon Station, and its from 6pm

Business Insights

Updated Details for the ODTUG BI/EPM Seriously Practical Conference in Sydney, Next Week

Just a quick note to say there's now an updated agenda for the ODTUG BI and EPM Seriously Practical Conference [http://odtugspconference.com/] in Sydney, Australia, starting this time next week (November 3rd and 4th 2011). I'm now doing a lot more of the sessions, and

OU Live Virtual Class : OBIEE11g Advanced Development with Mark Rittman

Just a short note to let everyone know that I'm running a two-day, live virtual class for Oracle University on 23rd and 24th November 2011 around OBIEE 11g "advanced" development [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getCourseDesc?dc=D70365_1493039] . The class will

Business Insights

OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Systems Management Best Practices

My last session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco was on systems management of OBIEE 11g. Compared to the 10g release of OBIEE, the 11g release is much more complex, is deployed in much more distributed-type environments, and has a bunch of new tools that

Business Insights

OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g and ADF Integration using the Action Framework

The third of my presentation at this year's Oracle Openworld in San Francisco was in fact a collaboration with Andrejus Baranovskis [http://redsamuraiconsulting.com/], fellow ACE Director and specialist in Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) [http://andrejusb.blogspot.com/]. The idea for this presentation came to us a

Business Insights

OOW2011 : Oracle BI Applications Futures

One of the sessions running at yesterday's Openworld was on the future of the Oracle BI Applications. You probably don't realize it, but the 11g release of the BI Apps has been "sort-of" available for the past few months, but as a controlled-availability release

Business Insights

OOW2011 : More on the Exalytics New User Interface

One of the key messages Oracle keep putting out about Exalytics, is that they had to provide a new user interface to make best use of the "speed of thought" analytics provided by the product. In particular, a few key new areas were highlighted that were made possible

Business Insights

OOW2011 : More on Oracle Exalytics

I'm currently sitting in the Thomas Kurian keynote at Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco, and more details of the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine have now been announced. Here's the latest details: The Exalytics BI Machine is based on a Sun server with 4 Intel

Business Insights

OOW2011 : Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine

So the big announcement for Oracle BI customers at Larry Ellison's keynote on Sunday evening at Oracle Openworld was the Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine, a new hardware and software combination from Oracle that aims to provide "speed-of-thought" analysis based around OBIEE 11g and the TimesTen parallel

Business Insights

OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Deployment & Change Management

My second session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 was on a perennially hot topic; change management and deployment within OBIEE 11g. In a typical project, once you've got past the initial prototype, you're going to want to deploy updated versions of the repository,

Business Insights

OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Architecture & Internals

I've just finished my first session of Oracle Openworld 2011, on OBIEE 11g Architecture and Internals for IOUG's BIWA SIG. Thanks to everyone who came along, and I hope it was a useful session. The slides for this session are available here : OBIEE 11g Architecture &

The Saturday before Oracle Openworld 2011, San Francisco

It's 8.30am on Saturday morning, and it's the day before Oracle Openworld 2011 starts in San Francisco. I've actually been over here since Wednesday so today's my day off, and then the fun starts tomorrow with User Group Sunday down at

Business Insights

ODTUG and Rittman Mead in Sydney : ODTUG BI/EPM Seriously Practical Conference

As my colleague Ashley Beauman mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Rittman Mead are pleased to be co-sponsoring the ODTUG BI & EPM Seriously Practical Conference [http://www.odtugspconference.com/agenda.html], running in Sydney, Australia on November 3rd and 4th 2011. Along with James & Monroe, Oracle Technology Network

Opportunities in Training Development with Rittman Mead

I'm looking for someone to join me within the Training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training] function in Rittman Mead, to help develop, and sometimes deliver, our training materials around OBIEE and Oracle BI/DW. If you're a blogger, presenter or otherwise involved in training and communicating

OBIEE 11g Statement of Direction for IBM Websphere

If you're wondering when OBIEE 11g will support application servers other than Oracle WebLogic, you might be interested in the IBM Websphere Application Server Support OBIEE Statement of Direction [https://supporthtml.oracle.com/ep/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1340702.1] document that Oracle made available on

OBIEE 11.1.1.5 SampleApp Now Available for Download

A few weeks ago I posted a preview of the new 11.1.1.5 version of the OBIEE 11g Sample App [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/06/previewing-the-obiee-11-1-1-5-sampleapp/], and I'm pleased to see now that it's now available for download on OTN [http://www.

Business Insights

A BI Developers' Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2011

A couple of people have asked me how they should plan for the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2011 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html], running in San Francisco on October 2-6th. If you've never been to OpenWorld before, and perhaps you're looking to make a case

Oracle BI Suite EE

OBIEE Calculations, MDX Functions, Flattened Measures, and Essbase Sources

When you starting working with Essbase sources and OBIEE, how you create calculations quickly becomes one of the more interesting aspects of working with the two technologies. With Essbase, you've got a powerful multi-dimensional database that features many functions and calculation capabilities that you'd like to

Oracle BI Suite EE

Incremental Essbase Metadata Imports Now Possible with OBIEE 11g

If you were an early adopter of Essbase integration with OBIEE, the 10g release had a number of restrictions that made it hard to use in production. Chief amongst these was the lack of any ability to refresh the physical model of the Essbase database within the Oracle BI Repository,

Oracle BI Suite EE

What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2011?

Back in 2009, I wrote a blog post entitled "What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2009" [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2009/03/what-skills-does-an-oracle-bi-developer-need-in-2009/] . At the time, OBIEE 11g was in the planning stage, Oracle had recently acquired Hyperion and so Essbase and Planning were

Technical

Rittman Mead at the UKOUG EPM Conference, July 2011

Over the past few days the UKOUG has been running it's UKOUG Conference Series: EPM & Hyperion 2011 [http://hyperion.ukoug.org/] event in Weybridge, near London, and Jon Mead and I went along yesterday to take part. Thank you to everyone who came to my session on

Technical

ODI 11g New Mapping and Interface Features - Part 3 - OBIEE Lineage

In the first two parts of this min-series, I looked at the new mapping and interface features with ODI 11.1.1.3 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/06/odi-11g-new-mapping-and-interface-features-part-1/], and yesterday I took a look at Load Plans [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/06/odi-11g-new-mapping-and-interface-features-part-2-load-plans/] , a new