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Using HBase and Impala to Add Update and Delete Capability to Hive DW Tables, and Improve Query Response Times

One of our customers is looking to offload part of their data warehouse platform to Hadoop, extracting data out of a source system and loading it into Apache Hive tables for subsequent querying using OBIEE11g. One of the challenges that the project faces though is how to handle updates to

Big Data

OBIEE 11.1.1.9 Now Supports HiveServer2 and Cloudera Impala

As you all probably know I’m a big fan of Oracle’s BI and Big Data products [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/optional-masterclass-delivering-the-oracle-information-management-big-data-reference-architecture/] , but something I’ve been critical of [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/connecting-obiee11g-on-windows-to-a-kerberos-secured-cdh5-hadoop-cluster-using-cloudera-hiveserver2-odbc-drivers/] is OBIEE11g’s lack of support for HiveServer2 connections to Hadoop

Big Data

Presentation Slides and Photos from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, Brighton and Atlanta

It’s now the Saturday after the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] events, last week in Atlanta, GA and the week before in Brighton, UK. Both events were a great success and I’d like to say thanks to the speakers, attendees, our friends

Technical

Some Oracle Big Data Discovery Tips and Techniques

I’ve been using Oracle Big Data Discovery for a couple of months now, and one of the sessions I’m delivering at this week’s Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 in Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015] is on Big Data Discovery Examples from the Field, co-presented with Tim

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Final Agenda for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Atlanta - Running this Week!

It’s the Monday before the AtlantaRittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], and delegates will start to arrive in Atlanta tomorrow and during the rest of the week. The first event in Brighton was excellent, and we’re hoping for something even better in Atlanta this

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Just Under a Week to go Until the Atlanta BI Forum 2015 - Places Still Available!

The Rittman Mead Brighton BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] is now underway, with presentations from Oracle, Rittman Mead, partners and customers on a range of topics around Oracle BI, DW and Big Data. So far this week we’ve had a one-day masterclass from myself and Jordan

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One Day to the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 - Here's the Agenda!

It’s the night before the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], and some delegates are already here ready for the masterclass tomorrow. Everyone else will either be arriving later in the day for the drinks reception, Oracle Keynote and dinner, or getting here early

Big Data

So What's the Real Point of ODI12c for Big Data Generating Pig and Spark Mappings?

Oracle ODI12c for Big Data [https://www.oracle.com/middleware/data-integration/enterprise-edition-big-data/index.html] came out the other week, and my colleague Jérôme Françoisse put together an introductory post on the new features [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/04/odi12c-advanced-big-data-option-overview-install/] shortly after, covering ODI’s new ability to generate

Big Data

Setting up Security and Access Control on a Big Data Appliance

Like all Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle’s field servicing and Advanced Customer Services (ACS) teams go on-site once a BDA has been sold to a customer and do the racking, installation and initial setup. They will usually ask the customer a set of questions such as “do you want to

Technical

Last Chance to Register for the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015!

It’s just a week to go until the start of the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], with the optional one-day masterclass starting on Wednesday, May 6th at 10am and the event opening with a reception and Oracle keynote later in the evening. Spaces

Big Data

Previewing Four Sessions at the Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015

In a post earlier this week I previewed three sessions at the upcoming Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/04/previewing-three-sessions-at-the-brighton-rittman-mead-bi-forum-2015/] ; in this post I’m going to look at four particularly interesting sessions at the Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.

Technical

OBIEE and the Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Option - Article and New Services from Rittman Mead

My latest Business Intelligence column for Oracle Magazine is on the In-Memory Option for Oracle Database 12c [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-jan/o15ba-2398995.html] , and using it to speed-up dashboards and reports in OBIEE11g. In the article I go through the basics of the in-memory option explaining

Technical

Take Part in the BI Survey 15, and Have Your Voice Heard!

Long-term readers of this blog will know that we’ve supported for many years the BI Survey, an independent survey of BI tools customers and implementors. Rittman Mead have no (financial or other) interest in the BI Survey or its organisers, but we like the way it gathers in detailed

Technical

Previewing Three Sessions at the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015

As well as a one-day masterclass by myself and Jordan Meyer [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/optional-masterclass-delivering-the-oracle-information-management-big-data-reference-architecture/] , a data visualisation challenge [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/bi-forum-2015-data-visualization-challenge/] , keynotes and product update sessions from Oracle and our guest speaker [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/03/announcing-the-special-guest-speakers-for-brighton-atlanta-bi-forum

Big Data

Realtime BI Show with Kevin and Stewart - BI Forum 2015 Special!

Jordan Meyer and I were very pleased to be invited onto the Realtime BI Show podcast last week, run by Kevin McGinley and Stewart Bryson, to talk about the upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015]. Stewart and Kevin

Big Data

Announcing Oracle E-Business Suite for Hadoop and MongoDB

Rittman Mead are very pleased today to announce our special edition of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 running on Apache Hadoop [https://hadoop.apache.org]and MongoDB [https://www.mongodb.org], for customers looking for the ultimate in scalability, flexible data storage and lower cost-of-ownership. Powered by Hadoop technologies such as

Technical

New Oracle Big Data Quick-Start Packages from Rittman Mead

Many organisations using Oracle’s business intelligence and data warehousing tools are now looking to extend their capabilities using “big data” technologies. Customers running their data warehouses on Oracle Databases are now looking to use Hadoop to extend their storage capacity whilst offloading initial data loading and ETL to this

User Groups & Conferences

RM BI Forum 2015 : Justification Letters for Employers

(Thanks to Christian Berg@Nephentur [https://twitter.com/Nephentur]for the suggestion, and acknowledgements toODTUG KScope [http://kscope15.com/registration]for the original idea - our favourite conference after the BI Forum) TheRittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015]promises to be our best BI Forum yet,

Technical

Announcing the BI Forum 2015 Data Visualisation Challenge

The Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015]is running in Brighton from May 6th-8th 2015, and Atlanta from May 13th - 15th 2015. At this year’s events we’re introducing our first “data visualization challenge” [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/bi-forum-2015-data-visualization-challenge/] , open to all attendees

Big Data

More on the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Masterclass : "Delivering the Oracle Big Data and Information Management Reference Architecture"

Each year at the Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015] we host an optional one-day masterclass before the event opens properly on Wednesday evening, with guest speakers over the year including Kurt Wolff [https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/14286589858], Kevin McGinley [https://obibb.wordpress.com/2012/05/

Big Data

Announcing the Special Guest Speakers for Brighton & Atlanta BI Forum 2015

As well as a great line-up of speakers and sessions at each of the Brighton & Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] events in May, I’m very pleased to announce our two guest speakers who’ll give the second keynotes, on the Thursday evening

Big Data

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Now Open for Registration!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2015, is now open for registration [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/]. Back for its seventh successful year, the Rittman Mead BI Forum once again will be showcasing the best speakers

Big Data

Creating Real-Time Search Dashboards using Apache Solr, Hue, Flume and Cloudera Morphlines

Late last week Cloudera published a blog post on their developer site on building a real-time log analytics dashboard using Apache Kafka, Cloudera Search and Hue [http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/02/how-to-do-real-time-log-analytics-with-apache-kafka-cloudera-search-and-hue/] . As I’d recently been playing around with Oracle Big Data Discovery with our website log

Technical

Introducing Oracle Big Data Discovery Part 3: Data Exploration and Visualization

In the first two posts in this series, we looked at what Oracle Big Data Discovery is [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/02/introducing-oracle-big-data-discovery-part-1-the-visual-face-of-hadoop/] and how you can use it to sample, cleanse and then catalog data in your Hadoop-based data reservoir [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/02/

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Introducing Oracle Big Data Discovery Part 2: Data Transformation, Wrangling and Exploration

In yesterday’s post I looked at Oracle Big Data Discovery and how it brought the search and analytic capabilities of Endeca to Hadoop [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/02/introducing-oracle-big-data-discovery-part-1-the-visual-face-of-hadoop/] . We looked at how the Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Studio application works with a version of the Endeca