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Photos and Presentation Downloads from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014

Well we’re back in Brighton, UK now after the second successful week of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014. In Week 1, we went to the Seattle Hotel in Brighton (read the recap here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/05/rm-bi-forum-2014-brighton-is-a-wrap-now-on-to-atlanta/]), and then straight-after we flew over to

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List of our Recent "Getting Started" Hadoop Articles

We’ve published a number of “getting started with Hadoop” articles over the past few months, but these aren’t always easy to find on the blog. I’ve therefore compiled a list of the more recent ones, which you’ll find below: * OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 1: So

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Trickle-Feeding Log Files to HDFS using Apache Flume

In some previous articles on the blog I’ve analysed Apache webserver log files sitting on a Hadoop cluster using Hive [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/04/simple-data-manipulation-and-reporting-using-hive-impala-and-cdh5/] , Pig [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/05/simple-hadoop-dataflows-using-apache-pig-and-cdh4-6/] and most recently, Apache Spark [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/05/

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Exploring Apache Spark on the New BigDataLite 3.0 VM

The latest version of Oracle’s BigDataLite VirtualBox VM [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/bigdata-appliance/oracle-bigdatalite-2104726.html] went up on OTN last week, and amongst other things it includes the latest CDH5.0 version of Cloudera Distribution including Hadoop [http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CDH5/latest/CDH5-Release-Notes/

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The State of the OBIEE11g World as of May 2014

I’m conscious I’ve posted a lot on this blog over the past few months about hot new topics like big data, Hadoop and Oracle Advanced Analytics, and not so much about OBIEE, which traditionally has been the core of Rittman Mead’s business and what we’ve written

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RM BI Forum 2014 Brighton is a Wrap - Now on to Atlanta!

I’m writing this sitting in my hotel room in Atlanta, having flown over from the UK on Saturday following the end of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] in Brighton. I think it’s probably true to say that this year was our best

Adding Geocoding Capabilities to Pig through Custom UDFs

In the previous two posts in this series, I’ve used Hive and Pig to process and analyse data from log files generated by the Rittman Mead Blog webserver. In the article on Hive [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/04/simple-data-manipulation-and-reporting-using-hive-impala-and-cdh5/] , I created a relational table structure over a

Simple Hadoop Dataflows using Apache Pig and CDH4.6

The other day I took some logs from the Apache webserver that runs the Rittman Mead website, and analysed them using Hadoop CDH5, Apache Hive and Impala [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/04/simple-data-manipulation-and-reporting-using-hive-impala-and-cdh5/] to get some basic metrics on number of hits per month, where the hits came

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New ODI12c Article, and Details of our Inaugural ODI12c Course in Brighton, May 12th-14th 2014

[http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-may/o34ba-2193422.html] Oracle have just published the May/June 2014 edition of Oracle Magazine [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-may/index.html], and my business analytics column this time round is on the new 12c release of Oracle Data Integrator.

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Previewing TimesTen, Endeca and Oracle DW Sessions at the Brighton BI Forum 2014

It’s under a week now to the first of the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] events, with Brighton running next week at the Hotel Seattle and then Atlanta the week after, at the Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel. Earlier in the week I went

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More Details on the Lars George Cloudera Hadoop Masterclass - RM BI Forum 2014, Brighton & Atlanta

It’s just over a week until the first of the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/] events take place in Brighton and Atlanta, and one of the highlights of the events for me will be Cloudera’s Lars George’s Hadoop Masterclass. Hadoop and

Simple Data Manipulation and Reporting using Hive, Impala and CDH5

Althought I’m pretty clued-up on OBIEE, ODI, Oracle Database and so on, I’m relatively new to the worlds of Hadoop and Big Data, so most evenings and weekends I play around with Hadoop clusters on my home VMWare ESXi rig [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/08/inside-my-home-office-development-lab-vmware-os-x-server/

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Previewing Three Oracle Data Visualization Sessions at the Atlanta US BI Forum 2014

Many of the sessions at the UK and US Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/] events in May focus on the back-end of BI and data warehousing, with for example Chris Jenkins’ session on TimesTen giving us some tips and tricks from TimeTen product development, and

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Preview of Maria Colgan, and Andrew Bond/Stewart Bryson Sessions at RM BI Forum 2014

We’ve got a great selection of presentations at the two upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] events in Brighton and Atlanta, including sessions on Endeca, TimesTen, OBIEE (of course), ODI, GoldenGate, Essbase and Big Data (full timetable for both events here [https://www.rittmanmead.

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Final Timetable and Agenda for the Brighton and Atlanta BI Forums, May 2014

It’s just a few weeks now until the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 events in Brighton and Atlanta, and there’s still a few spaces left at both events if you’d still like to come - check out the main BI Forum 2014 event page [http://www.rittmanmead.

Details on Two New Upcoming Courses in Brighton - Including ODI12c

Just a quick note to mention two courses that are being run from our Brighton office soon, that might interested readers of the blog. Our OBIEE 11g Bootcamp course, newly updated for OBIEE 11.1.1.7, is a start-to-finish introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g aimed at

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Registration Now Open - Don't Miss Out!

Just a quick reminder to say that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] is now open, with the speaker and presentation list now up on the event website. As with previous years, the BI Forum runs in Brighton on the first week, and

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Using Oracle R Enterprise to Analyze Large In-Database Datasets

The other week I posted an article on the blog about Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/03/running-r-on-hadoop-using-oracle-r-advanced-analytics-for-hadoop/] , part of Oracle’s Big Data Connectors [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/bdc/big-data-connectors/overview/index.html] and used for running certain types

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Using Sqoop for Loading Oracle Data into Hadoop on the BigDataLite VM

This is old-hat for most Hadoop veterans, but I’ve been meaning to note it on the blog for a while, for anyone who’s first encounter with Hadoop is Oracle’s BigDataLite VM [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/oracle-bigdatalite-vm-now-available-for-download-on-otn/] . Most people looking to bring external data into

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Running R on Hadoop using Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop

When most people think about analytics and Hadoop, they tend to think of technologies such as Hive, Pig and Impala as the main tools a data analyst uses. When you talk to data analysts and data scientists though, they’ll usually tell you that their primary tool when working on

Rittman Mead

Congratulations to Stewart Bryson, and Welcome to Edel Kammermann

Stewart’s too modest to mention it on the blog himself, but I just wanted to congratulate Stewart Bryson on being awarded Oracle ACE Director [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oracle-ace/index.html] status by the Oracle OTN ACE program. Stewart was given the Oracle ACE award a few

Oracle BI Suite EE

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Now Open for Registration!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 running in Brighton and Atlanta, May 2014, is now open for registration [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/]. Keeping the format as before - a single stream at each event, world-class speakers and expert-level presentations, and a strictly-limited

Oracle BI Suite EE

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Abstract Scoring Now Live - For 1 Week Only!

The call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closed at the end of January, and we’ve had some excellent submissions on topics ranging from OBIEE, Visualizations and data discovery through to in-memory analytics, big data and data integration. As always, we’re now opening up the

Oracle BI Suite EE

Testing Oracle Direct Connector for HDFS as an Alternative to Hive ODBC for OBIEE11g

In a post on the blog a couple of weeks ago, I looked at loading up a set of flight delays data into Apache Hadoop, then analysing it using Apache Hive, Cloudera Impala and OBIEE [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/obiee-11-1-1-7-cloudera-hadoop-hiveimpala-part-2-load-data-into-hivehcatalog-analyze-using-impala/] . In this scenario, OBIEE connects to the

Oracle BI Suite EE

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Closing Soon - And News on This Year's Masterclass

Its a couple of days to go until the call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closes [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdBdDNJb0JUTVBrNTJhaS00MmFjRXc6MA] , with suggested topics this year including OBIEE (of course), Essbase, Endeca, Big Data, Visualizations, In-Memory analysis and data integration.