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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

Using the ELK Stack to Analyse Donor's Choose Data

Donor’s Choose [http://www.donorschoose.org/about] is an online charity in America through which teachers can post details of projects that need funding and donors can give money towards them. The data from the charity [http://data.donorschoose.org/]since it began in 2000 is available to download

Technical

BI Forum 2015 Preview -- OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack

I’m pleased to be presenting at both of the Rittman Mead BI Forums [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/biforum2015/] this year; in Brighton it’ll be my fourth time, whilst Atlanta will be my first, and my first trip to the city too. I’ve heard great things about

Technical

Data Integration Tips: ODI 12.1.3 - Convert to Flow

The many who have already upgraded Oracle Data Integrator from the 11g version to 12c probably know about this great feature called “convert to flow". If not, well…here you go! First, a little background on why I think this is an excellent bit of functionality. The ODI Upgrade

Big Data

Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Advanced Big Data Option Part 1- Overview and 12.1.3.0.1 install

Oracle recently announced Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Advanced Big Data Options [https://www.oracle.com/middleware/data-integration/enterprise-edition-big-data/index.html] as part of the new 12.1.3.0.1 release of ODI. It includes various great new functionalities to work on an Hadoop ecosystem. Let's have

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

Technical

Analysing ODI performance with Flame Graphs

Flame Graphs [http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html] are a visualisation that I learnt about through the excellent Linux systems performance work of Brendan Gregg [http://www.brendangregg.com/], and saw Luca Canali [https://twitter.com/lucacanalidb] talk about recently at UKOUG Tech 14 [http://tech14.ukoug.org/default.asp?

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

Big Data

Oracle GoldenGate, MySQL and Flume

Back in September Mark blogged about Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) and HDFS [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/09/using-oracle-goldengate-for-trickle-feeding-rdbms-transactions-into-hive-and-hdfs] . In this short followup post I'm going to look at configuring the OGG Big Data Adapter for Flume, to trickle feed blog posts and comments from our site to

Technical

Lifting the Lid on OBIEE Internals with Linux Diagnostics Tools

There comes the point in any sufficiently complex or difficult problem diagnosis that the log files in OBIEE alone are not sufficient for building up a complete picture of what’s going on. Even with the debug/trace data that Presentation Services [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/11/auditing-obiee-presentation-catalog-activity-with-custom-log-filters/

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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

OBIEE nqcmd Tidbits

nqcmd is the ODBC command line tool that always has, and hopefully always will, shipped with OBIEE. It enables you to manually fire queries directly at the BI Server, rather than through the usual way of Presentation Services generating Logical SQL and sending it to BI Server. This can be

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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

Technical

Instrumenting OBIEE Database Connections For Improved Performance Diagnostics

Nearly four years ago I wrote a blog post entitled “Instrumenting OBIEE - The Final Chapter” [https://rnm1978.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/instrumenting-obiee-the-final-chapter/] . With hindsight, that title suffix (“The Final Chapter”) may have been a tad presumptuous and naïve of me (or perhaps I can just pretend to be

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/

Technical

An Introduction to Analysing ODI Runtime Data Through Elasticsearch and Kibana 4

An important part of working with ODI is analysing the performance when it runs, and identifying steps that might be inefficient as well as variations in runtime against a baseline trend. The Operator tool in ODI itself is great for digging down into individual sessions and load plan executions, but

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