Technical EPM and BI Meetup at Next Week's Openworld (and details of our Oracle DI Speakeasy) Just a short note to help publicise the Oracle Openworld 2014 EPM and BI Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Oracle-Open-World-Essbase-EPM-meetup/events/205491072/] that’s running next week, organised by Cameron Lackpour and Tim Tow from the ODTUG board. This is an excellent opportunity for EPM and BI developers and customers
Technical Introduction to Oracle BI Cloud Service : Service Administration Earlier in the week we’ve looked at the developer features within Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS), aimed at departmental users who want the power of OBIEE 11g without the need to stand-up their own infrastructure. We looked at the process of uploading spreadsheets and other data to the Oracle
Technical Introduction to Oracle BI Cloud Service : Building Dashboards & Reports This week we’ve been looking at the new Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS), the cloud version of OBIEE11g that went GA at the start of this week. Rittman Mead were part of the beta program for BICS and spend a couple of weeks building a sample BICS application to
Technical Introduction to Oracle BI Cloud Service : Creating the Repository Earlier in this series we’ve looked at the overall product proposition for Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/09/introduction-to-oracle-bi-cloud-service-product-overview/] , and how you upload data to the Database Schema Service [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/09/introduction-to-oracle-bi-cloud-service-provisioning-data/] that comes with it. Today, we’
Technical Introduction to Oracle BI Cloud Service : Provisioning Data In the first post in this series I looked at the new Oracle BI Cloud Service [https://cloud.oracle.com/business_intelligence], which went GA over the weekend and which Rittman Mead have been using these past few weeks as part of a beta release. In the first post I
Technical Introduction to Oracle BI Cloud Service : Product Overview Long-term readers of this blog will probably know that I’m enthusiastic about the possibilities around running OBIEE in the cloud [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/thoughts-on-running-obiee-in-the-cloud-part-1-the-bi-platform/] , and over the past few weeks Rittman Mead have been participating in the beta program for release one of Oracle’s
Data Governance Getting The Users' Trust - Part 2 Last time I wrote about the performance aspects of a BI system and how they could affect a user’s confidence. This time I am looking more at the quality of the data we load (or don’t load).
Data Governance Getting The Users' Trust - Part 1 Looking back over some of my truly ancient Rittman Mead blogs (so old in fact that they came with me when I joined the company soon after Rittman Mead was launched), I see recurrent themes on why people “do” BI and what makes for successful implementations. After all, why would
Rittman Mead Life Rittman Mead/Oracle Data Integration Speakeasy @ Oracle Open World If you are attending Oracle Open World [https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html] this year and fancy bit of a different experience, come and join Rittman Mead and Oracle’s Data Integration teams for drinks and networking at 7pm on Tuesday 30th September at the Local Edition [http://localeditionsf.
Technical Using Oracle GoldenGate for Trickle-Feeding RDBMS Transactions into Hive and HDFS A few months ago I wrote a post on the blog around using Apache Flume to trickle-feed log data into HDFS and Hive [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/05/trickle-feeding-webserver-log-files-to-hdfs-using-apache-flume/] , using the Rittman Mead website as the source for the log entries. Flume is a good technology to use
Technical OBIEE SampleApp in The Cloud: Importing VirtualBox Machines to AWS EC2 Virtualisation has revolutionised how we work as developers. A decade ago, using new software would mean trying to find room on a real tin server to install it, hoping it worked, and if it didn’t, picking apart the pieces probably leaving the server in a worse state than it
Sunday Times Tech Track 100 Over the weekend, Rittman Mead was listed in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 [http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/downloads/TechTrack100.pdf]. We are extremely proud to get recognition for the business as well as our technical capability and expertise. A lot of the public face of Rittman Mead
Technical Analyzing Twitter Data using Datasift, MongoDB, Hive and ODI12c Last week I posted an article on the blog around analysing Twitter data using Datasift, MongoDB and Pig [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/09/analyzing-twitter-data-using-datasift-mongodb-and-pig/], where I used the Datasift [http://datasift.com] service to stream tweets about Rittman Mead into a MongoDB NoSQL database, and then queried the
Technical Analyzing Twitter Data using Datasift, MongoDB and Pig If you followed our recent postings on the updated Oracle Information Management Reference Architecture [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/06/introducing-the-updated-oracle-rittman-mead-information-management-reference-architecture-pt1-information-architecture-and-the-data-factory/] , one of the key concepts we talk about is the “data reservoir”. This is a pool of additional data that you can add to your data warehouse, typically
Technical Oracle 12.1.0.2 and Data Warehouses If you follow Blogs and Tweets from the Oracle community you won’t have missed hearing about the recent release of the first patch-set for Oracle 12c. With this release there are some significant pieces of new functionality that will be of interest to Data Warehouse DBAs and architects. The
Technical Taking a Look at the Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Option The In-Memory Option for Oracle Database 12c became available a few weeks ago with the 12.1.0.2 database patchset, adding column-store and in-memory capabilities to the Oracle Database. Unlike pure in-memory databases such as Oracle TimesTen, the in-memory option adds an in-memory column-store feature [http://docs.oracle.com/
User Groups & Conferences Rittman Mead in the OTN TOUR Latin America 2014 Another OTN Tour Latin America has come and gone. This is the most important technical event in the region visiting 12 countries and with more than 2500 attendees in two weeks. This year Rittman Mead was part of the OTN Tour in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) presenting about
Technical Upcoming Big Data and Hadoop for Oracle BI, DW and DI Developers Presentations If you’ve been following our postings on the blog over the past year, you’ll probably have seen quite a lot of activity around big data and Hadoop [http://www.rittmanmead.com/category/big-data/] and in particular, what these technologies bring to the world of Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle
Technical The Business Value In Training One of the main things I get asked to do here at Rittman Mead, is deliver the OBIEE front-end training course (TRN 202). This a great course that has served both us, and our clients well over the years. It has always been in high demand and always delivered with
Technical Rittman Mead and Oracle Big Data Appliance Over the past couple of years Rittman Mead have been broadening our skills and competencies out from core OBIEE, ODI and Oracle data warehousing into the new “emerging” analytic platforms: R and database advanced analytics, Hadoop, cloud and clustered/distributed systems. As we talked about in the recent series of
Rittman Mead Vote for Rittman Mead at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards 2014! Rittman Mead are proud to announce that we’ve been nominated by UKOUG members and Oracle customers for five categories in the upcoming UKOUG Parter of the Year Awards 2014 [http://www.ukoug.org/membership-new/partner-area/partner-of-the-year-awards/]; Business Intelligence, Training, Managed Services, Operating Systems Storage and Hardware, and Emerging Partner,
Technical Why Oracle Big Data SQL Potentially Solves a Big Issue with Hadoop Security Oracle announced their Big Data SQL product a couple of weeks ago, which effectively extends Exadata’s query-offloading to Hadoop data sources. I covered the launch a few days afterwards [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/07/taking-a-look-at-the-new-oracle-big-data-sql/], focusing on how it implements Exadata’s SmartScan on Hive and NoSQL
Technical Taking a Look at the New Oracle Big Data SQL Oracle launched their Oracle Big Data SQL [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/big-data-sql/overview/index.html] product earlier this week, and it’ll be of interest to anyone who saw our series of posts a few weeks ago about the updated Oracle Information Management Reference Architecture [https://www.
Technical GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match in 12c... Part 4: Start Journalizing! In this post, the finale of the four-part series "GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match in 12c", I'll walk through the setup of the ODI Models and start journalizing in "online" mode. This will utilize our customized JKM to build the
Technical Simple Ways to Simplify: Quick Fixes to Enhance OBIEE Visuals Over the past couple of months I worked with a few clients in order to conduct an assessment on dashboard and analysis design. In most cases I was noticing that the dashboards were overflowing with content to the point that there was really no discernible “story” or “flow” to the
