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Looking at the ODI12c Hadoop Demos in the New Oracle BigDataLite VM

In a post earlier today on the blog I took a look at the new Oracle BigDataLite virtual machine [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/oracle-bigdatalite-vm-now-available-for-download-on-otn/] that’s now downloadable from OTN, and walked-through some of the Cloudera Hadoop tools that come with the VM. At the end of

Oracle "BigDataLite" VM Now Available for Download on OTN

Oracle released a new developer VM for download on OTN yesterday called “bigdatalite” [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/bigdata-appliance/oracle-bigdatalite-2104726.html] - if you’re interested in big data, Hadoop and some of the SQL-on-Hadoop technologies I’ve been looking at recently on the blog, this is something you’

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OBIEE 11.1.1.7, Cloudera Hadoop & Hive/Impala Part 2 : Load Data into Hive Tables, Analyze using Hive & Impala

In yesterday’s post on analyzing Hadoop data using Cloudera CDH4, Amazon EC2 and OBIEE 11.1.1.7 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/obiee-11-1-1-7-cloudera-hadoop-hiveimpala-part-1-install-and-set-up-an-ec2-hadoop-cluster/] , I went through the setup process for Cloudera Manager Standard and then used it to set up a four-node Hadoop cluster in Amazon

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OBIEE 11.1.1.7, Cloudera Hadoop & Hive/Impala Part 1 : Install and Set-up an EC2 Hadoop Cluster

I’ve been over in San Francisco this last week for BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/rittman-mead-at-biwa-summit-2014-san-francisco/] , and one of the things I demo’d during the week was OBIEE 11.1.1.7 connecting to a Hadoop cluster running on Amazon EC2, and analysing

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Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2014, San Francisco

It’s the Sunday before the week of the BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.biwasummit.com/], San Francisco, and Rittman Mead will be presenting a number of sessions and hands-on labs during the event. We’re also running a social event on the Wednesday night (I may even get the

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Now Open!

It's January 2014, and it’s that time of year when we start planning out this year’s BI Forum, which like last year’s event will be running in May 2014 in Brighton and Atlanta. This will be our sixth annual event, and as with previous year’

Rittman Mead and Oracle Data Integrator 12c - Thoughts and Experiences So Far

I’m just finishing off my Christmas and New Year leave but tomorrow I’m taking part in a webcast recording with Oracle’s Data Integration product management team, on Rittman Mead’s experiences with ODI12c over the beta program and since general availability. You should be able to see

New Oracle Magazine Article on BI Mobile App Designer

[http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-jan/o14ba-2080260.html] My new article at Oracle Magazine [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-jan/o14ba-2080260.html] is on Oracle BI Mobile App Designer, the new HTML5-based mobile BI tool for OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1 built on Oracle BI

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Thoughts on ETL in the Cloud

In a few week’s time I’m presenting at the BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.biwasummit.com] on running OBIEE in the Cloud, with the idea being that I’ll go through the various options for deploying OBIEE in public clouds, including Amazon EC2 and Oracle’s own cloud

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Now Open!

It’s that time of year again when we start planning out next year’s BI Forum, which like this year’s event will be running in May 2014 in Brighton and Atlanta. This will be our sixth annual event, and as with previous year’s the most important part

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Rittman Mead Video Interview on ODI12c New Features

If you’re a user of Oracle’s data integration products, you’re probably aware that ODI12c came out last month, with some of the new features covered in posts on the blog here [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/10/oracle-data-integrator-12c-release-part-1/] , here [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/

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Thoughts on Running OBIEE in the Cloud : Part 2 - Data Sources and ETL

In yesterday’s post on running OBIEE in the cloud [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/thoughts-on-running-obiee-in-the-cloud-part-1-the-bi-platform/] , I looked at a number of options for hosting the actual OBIEE element; hosting it in a public cloud service such as Amazon EC2, using Oracle’s upcoming BI-as-a-Service offering, or partner

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Thoughts on Running OBIEE in the Cloud : Part 1 - The BI Platform

One of the major announcements at this year’s Oracle Openworld in San Francisco was around "OBIEE in the cloud” [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/09/oracle-openworld-2013-reflections-on-product-announcements-and-strategy/] . Part of a wide-ranging set of announcements around services and infrastructure in the cloud from Oracle, the idea with this service

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Why ODI, DW and OBIEE Developers Should Be Interested in Hadoop

Over the past few months I’ve been posting a number of articles about Hadoop, and how you can connect to it from ODI and OBIEE. From an ODI perspective, I covered Hadoop as one of a number of new data sources ODI11g could connect to [https://www.rittmanmead.com/

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Creating a Multi-Node Hadoop/Impala Cluster as a Datasource for OBIEE 11.1.1.7

The other day I posted an article on the blog about connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to Cloudera Impala [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/connecting-obiee-11-1-1-7-to-cloudera-impala/] , a new “in-memory” SQL engine for Hadoop that’s much faster than Hive for interactive queries. In this example, I connected OBIEE

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Connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to Cloudera Impala

A few months ago I posted a series of articles about connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-1-so-what-is-hadoop-mapreduce-and-hive] , Exalytics [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/07/accelerating-hadoophive-obiee-queries-using-exalytics-and-the-summary-advisor/] and ODI [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-3-a-closer-look-at-hive-hfds-and-cloudera-chd3/] to Apache Hadoop through Hive [http:

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OEM12cR3: Holistic BI Platform Monitoring using Systems and Services

Over the past few weeks myself and some of my colleagues have been posting articles on the blog about monitoring OBIEE using Enterprise Manager 12cR3’s BI Management Pack [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-oem12cr2-and-the-bi-management-pack-part-1-introduction-to-oem12cr2/] . In the various articles we’ve looked at managing individual OBIEE installations and

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Rittman Mead / ODTUG India BI Masterclass Tour Roundup

Over the past week Venkat, myself and the Rittman Mead India team have been running a series of BI Masterclasses [http://www.rittmanmead.com/indiabimasterclass2013/] at locations in India, in conjunction with ODTUG, the Oracle Development Tools User Group. Starting off in Bangalore, then traveling to Hyderabad and Mumbai, we

SampleApp v309R2 Now Available For Download on OTN

The new v309R2 version of the OBIEE 11g SampleApp is now available for download on OTN [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html] , based on the 11.1.1.7.1 version of OBIEE and with a number of new dashboards, analyses and integration examples. OBIEE 11.1.

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Openworld is Over - Now We're Coming to India..!

Oracle Openworld 2013 is now over [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/09/oracle-openworld-2013-reflections-on-product-announcements-and-strategy/] , but no sooner have we unpacked from that trip, we're packing again for our next one - our BI Masterclass Tour for India [http://www.rittmanmead.com/indiabimasterclass2013/], starting in a few week'

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Oracle Openworld 2013 : Reflections on Product Announcements and Strategy

I'm sitting writing this at my desk back home, with a steaming mug of tea next to me and the kids pleased to see me after having been away for eight days (or at least my wifepleased to hand them over to me after looking after them for

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Oracle Openworld 2013 Days 3 & 4 : Oracle Cloud, OBIEE and ODI Futures

It's getting to the end of day 4 of Oracle Openworld, with Team Oracle USA coming back from 8-1 down and pulling-off the unlikeliest of comeback victories [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sailing/24274103], and Openworld sessions covering OBIEE, ODI and Oracle Cloud futures. Here'

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Oracle Openworld 2013 Day 2: Exalytics, TimesTen and Essbase Futures

Monday's almost over at Oracle Openworld 2013 in San Francisco, and it started for me today with a presentation on Enterprise Manager 12c and the BI Management Pack, alongside Henrik Blixt (PM for the BI Management Pack) andDhananjay Papde [http://dhananjaypapde.blogspot.co.uk], author of a book

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Oracle Openworld 2013 Day 1 : User Group Forum, News on Oracle Database In-Memory Option

The Sunday before Oracle Openworld proper is "User Group Forum Sunday", with each of the major user groups and councils having dedicated tracks for topics such as BI&DW, Fusion Development, Database and so on. Stewart, myself and Venkat were honoured to be presenting on behalf of

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Oracle Openworld 2013 Day 0: Previewing the Week Ahead

It's the Saturday afternoon before the start of Oracle Openworld 2013 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], and whilst I've been here since last Wednesday, my colleagues from Rittman Mead in the Europe, the USA and India are arriving today and tomorrow ready for their sessions later