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
Australian March Training Offer Autumn is almost upon us here in Australia so why not hold off going into hibernation and head into the classroom instead. For March and April only, Rittmanmead courses in Australia* are being offered at significantly discounted prices. Heading up this promotion is the popular TRN202 OBIEE 11g Bootcamp course
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/
Technical Why and How to use Oracle Metadata Management 12c. Part 2: Importing and Relating Metadata In the first post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/01/why-and-how-to-use-oracle-metadata-management-12c-part-1-getting-started/] of this series we have seen how to install and configure OEEM to start working with it. In this new post we are going to see how we import the metadata into OEMM from different sources like Oracle
Technical 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
Technical Introducing Oracle Big Data Discovery Part 1: "The Visual Face of Hadoop" Oracle Big Data Discovery [https://www.oracle.com/bigdata/big-data-discovery/index.html] was released last week, the latest addition to Oracle's big data tools suite that includes Oracle Big Data SQL [http://www.rittmanmead.com/tag/big-data-sql/], ODI and it’s Hadoop capabilities [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/
Technical Data Integration Tips: ODI - Use Scenarios in packages Here is another question I often hear during ODI Bootcamp [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training/training-trn405-oracle-data-integrator-12c-bootcamp/] or I often read in the ODI Space on OTN [https://community.oracle.com/community/business_intelligence/system_management_and_integration/data_integrator/] : In a package, should I directly use mappings (or interfaces prior
Technical OBIEE Monitoring and Diagnostics with InfluxDB and Grafana In this article I’m going to look at collecting time-series metrics into the InfluxDB database and visualising them in snazzy Grafana dashboards. The datasets I’m going to use are OS metrics (CPU, Disk, etc) and the DMS metrics from OBIEE, both of which are collected using the support
Rittman Mead BI Forum Abstract Voting Now Open - For One Week Only! The call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 closed a couple of weeks ago and we’ve had some excellent submissions on topics ranging from OBIEE, Visualizations and data discovery through to in-memory analytics, cloud, big data and data integration. As always, we’re now opening up
Data Lineage and Impact Analysis in Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.8.1 In yesterday’s post I took a look at one of the new features in the 11.1.1.8.1 release of the BI Applications; integration between BI Apps 11g and Oracle Endeca Information Discovery [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/01/endeca-information-discovery-integration-with-oracle-bi-apps-11-1-1-8-1/] . Whilst we’re on the topic
Technical Endeca Information Discovery Integration with Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.8.1 One of the new features that made its way into Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.8.1 [https://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportEPM/entry/biapps_111181_whatsnew], and that completely passed me by at the time, was integration with Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.1 [http://www.oracle.com/us/
Rittman Mead Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2015 I’m writing this in my hotel room in downtown San Francisco, with my colleague Francesco Tisiot flying in tonight and US colleagues Jordan Meyer, Daniel Adams and Andy Rocha travelling down tomorrow and Monday for next week's BIWA Summit 2015 [http://www.ioug.org/biwasummit]. The Business
Technical Rittman Mead's Development Cluster, EM12c and the Blue Mendora VMware EM Plugin For development and testing purposes, Rittman Mead run a VMWare VSphere cluster made up of a number of bare-metal servers hosting Linux, Windows and other VMs. Our setup has grown over the years from a bunch of VMs running on Mac Mini servers [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/08/
Technical Enable Your Dashboard Designers to Concentrate on User Experience Rather Than Syntax (or How to Add a Treemap in Two Lines) JavaScript is a powerful tool that can be used to add functionality to OBIEE dashboards. However, for many whose wheelhouses are more naturally aligned with Stephen Few [http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Few/e/B001H6IQ5M] rather than John Resig [http://ejohn.org/about/], adding JavaScript to a dashboard can be intimidating.
Technical Why and How to use Oracle Metadata Management 12c. Part 1: Getting Started At OOW 2014, Oracle announced the new Oracle Metadata Management solution and later in the middle of October released its first version - OMM 12.1.3.0.0 [http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2340462?rssid=rss_ocom_pr] At the end of November of 2014, the second
Technical Concurrent RPD Development in OBIEE OBIEE is a well established product, having been around in various incarnations for well over a decade [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/a-potted-history-of-oracle-bi-suite-enterprise-edition/]. The latest version, OBIEE 11g, was released 3.5 years ago, and there are mutterings of OBIEE 12c already [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/
Technical Using Oracle Big Data SQL to Add Dimensions and Attributes to Hadoop Reporting In a previous post I looked at using Oracle’s new Big Data SQL product with ODI12c [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/10/using-oracle-big-data-sql-odi12c-hive/], where I used Big Data SQL [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/big-data-sql/overview/index.html] to expose two Hive tables as Oracle external
Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Call for Papers Now Open - Closes on Jan 18th 2015 The Call for Papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/forms/d/18XWPmrzr3te55rloDJyB8vFP9j8AUNKKryvOToGHBlA/viewform] is currently open, with abstract submissions open to January 18th 2015. As in previous years the BI Forum will run over consecutive weeks in Brighton, UK and Atlanta,
Technical Top 10 Rittman Mead Blog Posts from 2014 It’s the afternoon of New Year’s Eve over in the UK, so to round the year off here’s the top 10 blog posts from 2014 from the Rittman Mead blog, based on Google Analytics stats (page views for 2014 in brackets, only includes articles posted in 2014)
Technical Data Integration Tips: ODI - One Data Server with several Physical Schemas Yes, I'm hijacking the "Data Integration Tips" series [http://www.rittmanmead.com/tag/data-integration-tips/] of my colleague Michael Rainey [http://www.rittmanmead.com/author/michael-rainey/] (@mRainey [https://twitter.com/mRainey]) and I have no shame! DISCLAIMER This tip is intended for newcomers in the ODI world
Technical Connecting OBIEE11g on Windows to a Kerberos-Secured CDH5 Hadoop Cluster using Cloudera HiveServer2 ODBC Drivers In a few previous posts and magazine articles [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-sep/o54ba-2279189.html] I’ve covered connecting OBIEE11g to a Hadoop cluster [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/obiee-11-1-1-7-cloudera-hadoop-hiveimpala-part-2-load-data-into-hivehcatalog-analyze-using-impala/] , using OBIEE 11.1.1.7 and Cloudera CDH4 and CDH5 as the examples. Things
Rittman Mead Happy Christmas from Rittman Mead, and Where To Find Us in 2015 It’s the day before Christmas Eve over in the UK, and we’re finishing up for the Christmas break and looking forward to seeing friends and family over the next few days. To all of our readers, customers, friends and partners, have a great Holiday season and New Year,
Technical TIMESTAMPS and Presentation Variables TIMESTAMPS and Presentation Variables can be some of the most useful tools a report creator can use to invent robust, repeatable reports while maximizing user flexibility. I intend to transform you into an expert with these functions and by the end of this page you will certainly be able to
OBIEE Enterprise Security The Rittman Mead Global Services team have recently been involved in a number of security architecture implementations and produced a security model which meets a diverse set of requirements. Using our experience and standards we have been able to deliver a robust model that addresses the common questions we routinely
Technical OBIEE and ODI on Hadoop : Next-Generation Initiatives To Improve Hive Performance The other week I posted a three-part series (part 1 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/going-beyond-mapreduce-for-hadoop-etl-pt-1-why-mapreduce-is-only-for-batch-processing/] , part 2 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/going-beyond-mapreduce-for-hadoop-etl-pt-2-introducing-apache-yarn-and-apache-tez/] and part 3 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/going-beyond-mapreduce-for-hadoop-etl-pt-3-introducing-apache-spark/] ) on going beyond MapReduce for Hadoop-based ETL, where I l
