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Becky's BI Apps Corner: Incrementals and Future Dated Employee Records

Becky's BI Apps Corner: Incrementals and Future Dated Employee Records

During the last few posts, we have delved into a few of the many interesting aspects of a BI Apps installation. Today I wanted to change gears a bit and talk about what starts to happen when you are past installation and configuration and begin running load plans. On a

Introduction to Oracle R Training

Introduction to Oracle R Training

Rittman Mead is thrilled to announce our new Introduction to Oracle R courses! With the launch of 12c comes an exciting extension to OBIEE’s analytical capabilities—embedded R execution. Oracle has made several investments in the R language and its related technologies (Oracle R, ROracle, ORAAH, and Oracle R

Implementing OBIEE Commentary

Implementing OBIEE Commentary

My Application Development Experience with Rittman Mead Greetings, readers! My name is Nick Padgett, and this is my first blog post with Rittman Mead. I started with Rittman Mead as an intern over a year ago while I was attending Kennesaw State, a local university, but I’ve graduated from

Rittman Mead America’s New Office

Rittman Mead America has a new home, and it’s looking good. At the end of 2015, we moved into a new office space in Alpharetta, Georgia, in a new development named Avalon. We’ve just begun to settle into our new office space, but we are already feeling at

Using Python to ‘Wrangle’ Your Messy Data

Using Python to ‘Wrangle’ Your Messy Data

or How to Organize Your Comic Book Collection Based on Issue Popularity In addition to being a product manager at Rittman Mead, I consider myself to be a nerd of the highest order. My love of comic books, fantasy, sci-fi and general geekery began long before the word ‘Stark’ had

Becky’s BI Apps Corner: OBIA install Perl Script Patching and troubleshooting when they fail

Becky’s BI Apps Corner: OBIA install Perl Script Patching and troubleshooting when they fail

During a recent project installing Oracle BI Applications, I became much better acquainted with OPatch, Oracle’s standard tool for managing application patches. By acquainted, I mean how to troubleshoot when OPatch patching fails. Since, at last count, there are around 50 patches total for Oracle BI Applications 11.1.

The Best OBIEE 12c Feature that You're Probably Not Using

The Best OBIEE 12c Feature that You're Probably Not Using

With the release of OBIEE 12c we got a number of interesting new features on the front-end. We’re all talking about the cleaner look-and-feel, Visual Analyzer, and the ability to create data-mashups [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/new-in-oracle-bi-cloud-service-oracle-visual-analyzer-and-data-mashups-in-va/] , etc. While all this is incredibly useful, it’s

OBIEE 12c - Three Months In, What's the Verdict?

I’m over in Redwood Shores, California this week for the BIWA Summit 2016 conference [http://www.ioug.org/p/cm/ld/&fid=992] where I’ll be speaking about BI development on Oracle’s database and big data platforms. As it’s around three months since OBIEE12c came

Upgrade to ODI 12c: Repository and Standalone Agent

Upgrade to ODI 12c: Repository and Standalone Agent

This is my first post, and I hope to have many more to come. My name is Brian Sauer, and I am fairly new here at Rittman Mead and proud to be here. I have close to 5 years of experience with Oracle Data Integrator, both 10g and 11c. I

Mike Hibbert - A Celebration

[https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/07140mh_small.jpg] It’s been a long while since I graced the blog with my presence and I had always hoped that when I did return, it would be with something new, or exciting to say. Instead, I find myself

Becky’s BI Apps Corner: Installing on Windows Server 2012

Becky’s BI Apps Corner: Installing on Windows Server 2012

Recently I was installing Oracle BI Apps on a VM for a custom training, as mentioned in a previous post [http://wp.me/p6Tisj-6jR]. I setup the VM with Windows Server 2012 after verifying in the certification matrix [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi/biapps-11-1-1-9-2-2527682.xls] that the Oracle

Kickstart Your 2016 with Rittman Mead's Data Integration Training

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to all! As you begin your 2016 this January, it’s time to start planning your team's data integration training. Look no further than Rittman Mead’s Oracle Data Integrator training course! We offer a 4 day Oracle Data Integrator 12c

Driving OBIEE User Engagement with Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE

Driving OBIEE User Engagement with Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE

Measuring and monitoring user interactions and behaviour with OBIEE is a key part of Rittman Mead’s User Engagement Service [http://ritt.md/ue]. By understanding and proving how users are engaging the system we can improve the experience for the user, driving up usage and ensuring maximum value for

Rittman Mead at UKOUG Tech'15 Conference, Birmingham

Rittman Mead at UKOUG Tech'15 Conference, Birmingham

This week Rittman Mead are very pleased to be presenting at the UK Oracle User Group’s Tech’15 Conference [http://tech15.ukoug.org] in Birmingham, delivering a number of sessions around OBIEE, Data Integration, Cloud and Big Data. If you’re at the event and you see any of

Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Roundup Part 1 : OBIEE12c and Data Visualisation Cloud Service

Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Roundup Part 1 : OBIEE12c and Data Visualisation Cloud Service

Last week saw Oracle Openworld 2015 [https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html] running in San Francisco, USA, with Rittman Mead delivering a number of sessions around BI, data integration, Big Data and cloud [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/10/rittman-mead-at-oracle-openworld-2015-san-francisco/]. Several of us took part in Partner Advisory

Forays into Kafka - Enabling Flexible Data Pipelines

Forays into Kafka - Enabling Flexible Data Pipelines

One of the defining features of “Big Data” from a technologist’s point of view is the sheer number of tools and permutations at one’s disposal. Do you go Flume or Logstash? Avro or Thrift? Pig or Spark? Foo or Bar? (I made that last one up). This wealth

Forays into Kafka - Logstash transport / centralisation

Forays into Kafka - Logstash transport / centralisation

The holy trinity of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) are a powerful trio of tools for data discovery [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/04/using-the-elk-stack-to-analyse-donors-choose-data/] and systems diagnostics [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/10/monitoring-obiee-with-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana/] . In a nutshell, they enable you to easily search through your log files,

Once A Week Is Never Enough

Once A Week Is Never Enough

Over the last few months we have been looking at User Engagement [http://www.rittmanmead.com/tag/userengagement/] and recently asked people take part in a global usage survey [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/09/the-greatest-obiee-usage-study-ever/] so we could create a series of benchmark metrics detailing how organisations used

OBIEE BI Server Cache Management Strategies

OBIEE BI Server Cache Management Strategies

The OBIEE BI Server cache can be one of the most effective ways of improving response times of OBIEE dashboards. By using data already in the cache it reduces load on the database, the network, and the BI Server. Should you be using it? I always describe it as the

Tracing Data Lineage and Impact Analysis in Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management 12c

Tracing Data Lineage and Impact Analysis in Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management 12c

At the beginning of the year, I wrote a couple of posts about Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management, one about how to install the tool and another one explaining the harvesting (importing) and stitching (relating) processes. A lot of things have happened since then, including a new version of OEMM released

Primeros Cursos de Rittman Mead en Español en América Latina

Primeros Cursos de Rittman Mead en Español en América Latina

La semana pasada y en el contexto del OTN Tour LA 2015 dimos nuestros primeros cursos en Español en Quito, Ecuador y Cali, Colombia. Se trató de un workshop en este caso de un día (8 horas) sobre Desarrollo Front-End de OBIEE 11g. En esta oportunidad los cursos fueron presenciales,

The greatest OBIEE usage study ever...

The greatest OBIEE usage study ever...

Rittman Mead is excited to announce the first ever global OBIEE usage survey. Our goal is to provide deep analysis into how organisations use their OBIEE systems and to create a set of industry benchmarks. We will be releasing the results of this research for free to the OBIEE community.

Three Easy Ways to Stream Twitter Data into ElasticSearch

Three Easy Ways to Stream Twitter Data into ElasticSearch

For the past few months a friend has been driving me crazy with all his praise for Splunk. He was going on about how easy it is to install, integrate different sources and build reports. I eventually started playing around to see if it could be used for a personal