Rittman Mead Blog

Previewing the BI Forum 2013 Data Integration Masterclass

I guess it's a British thing to not blow our own trumpet (does that translate the same over in the US?), but something I'm particularly proud about with the upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 events [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013] is our Oracle Data Integration

Oracle BI Suite EE

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 4: Hive Data Transformation & Integration via ODI 11g

In the previous three articles in this series (and well done for everyone that's still with us), we looked at how OBIEE 11.1.1.7 and ODI 11.1.1.6+ can access Hadoop data sources [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-1-so-what-is-hadoop-mapreduce-and-hive/] via a related

Oracle BI Suite EE

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 3: A Closer Look at Hive, HFDS and Cloudera CDH3

In the first two parts in this series, I looked at the recently-added support for Apache Hadoop as a data source for OBIEE 11.1.1.7 and ODI 11.1.1.6 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-1-so-what-is-hadoop-mapreduce-and-hive/] , and explained how the Hadoop support was really enabled

Technical

Rittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta Special Guest: Alex Gorbachev

A few days back, I introduced our special guests [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/rittman-mead-bi-forum-atlanta-special-guest-cary-millsap/] for the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta, focusing first on Cary Millsap. Today I'd like to talk about our other special guest: Oracle ACE Director Alex Gorbachev [https://twitter.com/

Technical

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 2: Connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to Hadoop Data Sources

In yesterday's post I looked at the key enabling technologies behind OBIEE and ODI's connectivity to Hadoop [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/obiee-odi-and-hadoop-part-1-so-what-is-hadoop-mapreduce-and-hive/?preview=true] , and today I'll look at how OBIEE 11.1.1.7 can now access Hadoop data sources

Technical

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 1: So What Is Hadoop, MapReduce and Hive?

Recent releases of OBIEE and ODI have included support for Apache Hadoop [http://hadoop.apache.org] as a data source, probably the most well-recognised technology within the "big data" [http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/big-data/index.html] movement. Most OBIEE and ODI developers have probably heard of

Technical

Some Upcoming Events

It’s going to be a busy few weeks leading up to the BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/]. First, Rittman Mead will be exhibiting at the UKOUG Engineered Systems Summit [http://www.ukoug.org/what-we-offer/news/ukoug-engineered-systems-summit/] on Tuesday 16th April, this is a one day event in

Technical

Interview with Toby Potter from DataSift - Social Data and Business Intelligence

With the BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/] fast approaching, Toby Potter from DataSift agreed to an interview for the blog, to discuss social data, it's value and how it can be combined with other business intelligence. Toby will be one of the guest speakers at the

Technical

Introduction to Hadoop HDFS (and writing to it with node.js)

The core Hadoop project solves two problems with big data - fast, reliable storage and batch processing. For this first post on Hadoop we are going to focus on the default storage engine and how to integrate with it using its REST API. Hadoop is actually quite easy to install

Technical

Big Data and the Oracle Reference Architecture.

Last week I travelled from Europe to present at the RMOUG Training Days event In Denver, Colorado. As I blogged a couple of weeks back, this is one of my favourite user group conferences and it never fails to impress me. I expect to be wowed even more next year

Technical

ODI11g in the Enterprise Part 2 : Data Integration using Essbase, Messaging, and Big Data Sources and Targets

In this five part series over the Christmas break, I'm taking a look at some of the lesser-known features in Oracle Data Integrator 11g, focusing on "enterprise" features such as build automation, scripting, data quality and middleware integration. If you've arrived at this post

Technical

ODI11g in the Enterprise Part 1: Beyond Data Warehouse Table Loading

Most developers who've used Oracle Data Integrator [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/data-integrator/overview/index.html] in the past have used it to load data warehouse tables, typically from an Oracle or other relational source into a set of dimensional Oracle target tables. Some source data might