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Oracle Data Integrator to load Oracle BICS and Oracle Storage Cloud Service

It is known that Oracle focuses its sales on cloud this year and in the BI world, we have seen the introduction of Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service [https://cloud.oracle.com/business_intelligence] – BICS – that we already covered on the blog [http://www.rittmanmead.com/tag/bics/]. Another great

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How Engaged Are Your OBIEE Users?

Following on from Jon's blog post “User Engagement: Why does it matter?” [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/user-engagement-why-does-it-matter/], I would like to take this one step further by talking about measurement. At Rittman Mead we believe that if you can't measure it, you can&

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Rittman Mead at ODTUG KScope'15, Hollywood Florida

ODTUG KScope’15 [http://kscope15.com] is running in Hollywood, Florida next week and Rittman Mead are running a number of sessions during the week on OBIEE, Essbase, ODI and Big Data. I’ve personally been attending ODTUG KScope (or “Kaleidoscope”, as it used to be known) for many years

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Replicating Hive Data Into Oracle BI Cloud Service for Visual Analyzer using BICS Data Sync

In yesterday’s post on using Oracle Big Data Discovery with Oracle Visual Analyzer in Oracle BI Cloud Service [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/combining-oracle-big-data-discovery-and-oracle-visual-analyzer-on-bics/] , I said mid-way through the article that I had to copy the Hadoop data into BI Cloud Service so that Visual Analyzer could

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Introducing Rittman Mead's New User Engagement Service

[http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/RMA-UE-Datasheet.pdf] Although you’ve been hearing a lot on the blog recently about extending Oracle BI&DW with Hadoop and big data technologies, another initiative Rittman Mead have been working on over the past couple of months is user engagement.

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Can Better Visual Design Impact User Engagement?

Background For every dashboard succinctly displaying key business metrics, there’s another that is a set of unconnected graphs which don’t provide any insight to its viewers. In order for your users to get value from your business intelligence and analytics systems they need to be engaging, they need

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New In Oracle BI Cloud Service - Oracle Visual Analyzer, and Data Mashups in VA

Oracle released an update to Oracle BI Cloud Service a few weeks ago that included Oracle Visual Analyzer, along with some other improvements including support for full Oracle Database-as-a-Service as the database backend, the ability to upload RPDs and run them in the cloud, and support for a new utility

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User Engagement - Why Does it Matter?

The value of any system can be measured by how often you interact with it. The perfect example is Slack [https://slack.com/], which is now seen as the most successful collaboration app ever [http://innov8tiv.com/slack-successful-online-collaboration-app-ever-valued-1-2-billion/] and is valued at $1.2bn. The key metric for this is

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OBIEE 11.1.1.9: New Features for Front-End Developers and Business Users

OBIEE 11.1.1.9 [https://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportEPM/entry/obiee_111190] was released this May and Robin and Mark wrote great posts about New Features from System Administrators [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/05/whats-new-in-obiee-11-1-1-9-for-systems-administrators-and-developers/] and the new support for HiveServer2 and Cloudera Impala [https://www.rittmanmead.

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Deploying Oracle BI Mobile HD within Good, Oracle OMSS and Other Secure MDM Containers

A few months ago ODTUG announced their ODTUG Mobile Day in Utrecht, Netherlands [http://www.odtug.com/mobile_day_utrecht] and asked if I’d like to put forward an abstract for a presentation. Something that’s been on my mind for a while is the issues some of our

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New Oracle Magazine article on Oracle BI Cloud Service

The May/June 2015 edition of Oracle Magazine is now out, and my Business Intelligence article in this edition is on Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). In “Upload, Model, Analyze and Report” [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-may/o35ba-2541604.html] I focus on the “departmental power-user” use-case where

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Presentation Slides and Photos from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, Brighton and Atlanta

It’s now the Saturday after the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] events, last week in Atlanta, GA and the week before in Brighton, UK. Both events were a great success and I’d like to say thanks to the speakers, attendees, our friends

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What's New in OBIEE 11.1.1.9 for Systems Administrators and Developers

After over two years since the last major release of OBIEE, Oracle released version 11.1.1.9 in May 2015. You can find the installers here [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bi-downloads-2537285.html] and documentation here [https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/11119/biee/docs.htm]. 11.

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Some Oracle Big Data Discovery Tips and Techniques

I’ve been using Oracle Big Data Discovery for a couple of months now, and one of the sessions I’m delivering at this week’s Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 in Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015] is on Big Data Discovery Examples from the Field, co-presented with Tim

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Final Agenda for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Atlanta - Running this Week!

It’s the Monday before the AtlantaRittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], and delegates will start to arrive in Atlanta tomorrow and during the rest of the week. The first event in Brighton was excellent, and we’re hoping for something even better in Atlanta this

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Just Under a Week to go Until the Atlanta BI Forum 2015 - Places Still Available!

The Rittman Mead Brighton BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] is now underway, with presentations from Oracle, Rittman Mead, partners and customers on a range of topics around Oracle BI, DW and Big Data. So far this week we’ve had a one-day masterclass from myself and Jordan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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