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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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Rittman Mead at ODTUG KScope'14, Seattle

Next week is ODTUG KScope’14 [http://kscope14.com] in Seattle, USA, and Rittman Mead will be delivering a number of presentations over the week. Coming over from Europe we have Jérôme Françoisse and myself, and we’ll be joined by Michael Rainey, Daniel Adams, Charles Elliott from Rittman Mead

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SampleApp v406 - Automatic startup of OBIEE

Last week Oracle released v406 of SampleApp [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html] . SampleApp is a one-stop-shop for a demonstration of pretty much any conceivable thing that OBIEE is capable of, and then some more on top of it. It is a VirtualBox [https://www.virtualbox.org/

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Introducing the Updated Oracle / Rittman Mead Information Management Reference Architecture Pt2. - Delivering the Data Factory

In my previous post on our 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/] , jointly-developed with Oracle’s Enterprise Architecture team, we went through a conceptual and logical view of the information architecture, introducing new concepts like the Raw Data Reservoir, the Data Factory

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Introducing the Updated Oracle / Rittman Mead Information Management Reference Architecture Pt1. - Information Architecture and the "Data Factory"

One of the things at Rittman Mead that we’re really interested in, is the architecture of “information management” systems and how these change over time as thinking, and product capabilities, evolve. In fact we often collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team within Oracle, giving input into the architecture designs

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The BI Survey 14 - 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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Rittman Mead at the Oracle Virtual Technology Summit 2014 - "The Architecture of Analytics: Big Time Big Data and Business Intelligence"

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting at the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Virtual Technology Summit [http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=796788&s=1&k=4A8AB16195363690B31C6F19FED113DF&partnerref=americasace] , an online event running over three days in early July. I’m speaking as

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Rittman Mead Announce New Partnerships with Cloudera and Amazon Web Services

To complement our strategic partnership with Oracle Corporation, Rittman Mead are very pleased to announce two new technology partnerships to complement our Oracle-based services; with Cloudera [http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/home.html], the industry-leading Hadoop software vendor, and with Amazon Web Services [http://aws.amazon.com], the

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How We Deliver Agile OBIEE Projects - Introducing ExtremeBI

Most OBIEE projects that we see are delivered through some sort of “waterfall” method, where requirements are defined up-front, there’s several stages of development, one or more major releases at the end, and any revision to requirements takes the form of a change request. These work well where requirements

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Photos and Presentation Downloads from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014

Well we’re back in Brighton, UK now after the second successful week of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014. In Week 1, we went to the Seattle Hotel in Brighton (read the recap here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/05/rm-bi-forum-2014-brighton-is-a-wrap-now-on-to-atlanta/]), and then straight-after we flew over to

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The State of the OBIEE11g World as of May 2014

I’m conscious I’ve posted a lot on this blog over the past few months about hot new topics like big data, Hadoop and Oracle Advanced Analytics, and not so much about OBIEE, which traditionally has been the core of Rittman Mead’s business and what we’ve written

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RM BI Forum 2014 Brighton is a Wrap - Now on to Atlanta!

I’m writing this sitting in my hotel room in Atlanta, having flown over from the UK on Saturday following the end of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] in Brighton. I think it’s probably true to say that this year was our best

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Previewing TimesTen, Endeca and Oracle DW Sessions at the Brighton BI Forum 2014

It’s under a week now to the first of the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] events, with Brighton running next week at the Hotel Seattle and then Atlanta the week after, at the Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel. Earlier in the week I went

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More Details on the Lars George Cloudera Hadoop Masterclass - RM BI Forum 2014, Brighton & Atlanta

It’s just over a week until the first of the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/] events take place in Brighton and Atlanta, and one of the highlights of the events for me will be Cloudera’s Lars George’s Hadoop Masterclass. Hadoop and