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Preview of the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta

Mark has done a great job of previewing the upcoming content for both BI Forums, the one running locally for us in Atlanta, as well as the one in Brighton, UK. We have an exceptional Master Class this year with Lars George from Cloudera [https://twitter.com/larsgeorge], including an

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Previewing Three Oracle Data Visualization Sessions at the Atlanta US BI Forum 2014

Many of the sessions at the UK and US Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/] events in May focus on the back-end of BI and data warehousing, with for example Chris Jenkins’ session on TimesTen giving us some tips and tricks from TimeTen product development, and

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Preview of Maria Colgan, and Andrew Bond/Stewart Bryson Sessions at RM BI Forum 2014

We’ve got a great selection of presentations at the two upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] events in Brighton and Atlanta, including sessions on Endeca, TimesTen, OBIEE (of course), ODI, GoldenGate, Essbase and Big Data (full timetable for both events here [https://www.rittmanmead.

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BI Forum 2014 preview - No Silver Bullets : OBIEE Performance in the Real World

I'm honoured to have been accepted to speak at this year's Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/], the sixth year of this expert-level conference that draws some of the best Oracle BI/DW minds together from around the world. It's running

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Registration Now Open - Don't Miss Out!

Just a quick reminder to say that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] is now open, with the speaker and presentation list now up on the event website. As with previous years, the BI Forum runs in Brighton on the first week, and

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Congratulations to Stewart Bryson, and Welcome to Edel Kammermann

Stewart’s too modest to mention it on the blog himself, but I just wanted to congratulate Stewart Bryson on being awarded Oracle ACE Director [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oracle-ace/index.html] status by the Oracle OTN ACE program. Stewart was given the Oracle ACE award a few

Oracle BI Suite EE

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Now Open for Registration!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 running in Brighton and Atlanta, May 2014, is now open for registration [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/]. Keeping the format as before - a single stream at each event, world-class speakers and expert-level presentations, and a strictly-limited

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Thoughts on Using Amazon Redshift as a Replacement for an Oracle Data Warehouse

Recently, my colleague, Pete Carpenter, described [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/02/building-an-amazon-redshift-data-warehouse-using-odi-and-attunity-part-1-configuring-redshift-and-cdc-using-attunity/] a proof of concept we carried out using Amazon Redshift [http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/] as the data warehouse storage layer in a system capturing data from Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) using Attunity CloudBeam [http://www.

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Building an Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse using ODI and Attunity Part 2 : Using ODI and OBIEE with Redshift as a Target/Source

In my post yesterday we stepped through the initial set up and staging load for a data warehouse using Amazon Redshift and Attunity, for eventual use with OBIEE and ODI [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/02/building-an-amazon-redshift-data-warehouse-using-odi-and-attunity-part-1-configuring-redshift-and-cdc-using-attunity/] . Now that we have our source data in Redshift, let's

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Building an Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse using ODI and Attunity Part 1 : Configuring Redshift, and CDC Using Attunity

One of our longstanding Oracle customers recently asked us to put together a proof-of-concept DW system using Amazon Redshift [http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/] as the data warehouse database, rather than Oracle Database. The main driver for this was the economics of running Redshift in the cloud vs. Oracle on-premise

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Using Groovy instead of WLST for OBIEE Systems Management

I remember some years back when Rittman Mead first received the OBIEE 11g beta and I tried installing it for the first time. It was a nightmare. If you think the 11.1.1.3 release was challenging, you should have tried working with any one of the betas. It

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Abstract Scoring Now Live - For 1 Week Only!

The call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closed at the end of January, and we’ve had some excellent submissions on topics ranging from OBIEE, Visualizations and data discovery through to in-memory analytics, big data and data integration. As always, we’re now opening up the

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Automated RPD Builds with OBIEE

Introduction Some time ago, I wrapped up a four-part series on using MDS XML as a basis for RPD development [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/mds-xml1/]. Of course... you can (re-) read the blog posts to get up to speed on the concept... but I'll offer

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Closing Soon - And News on This Year's Masterclass

Its a couple of days to go until the call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closes [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdBdDNJb0JUTVBrNTJhaS00MmFjRXc6MA] , with suggested topics this year including OBIEE (of course), Essbase, Endeca, Big Data, Visualizations, In-Memory analysis and data integration.

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Exploring OBIEE Web Services through Python

My very first blog post for Rittman Mead [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/calling-bi-publisher-11g-web-services-from-bpel/] was on the subject of Web Services in BI Publisher 11g, and now I want to return to the subject here, looking at the Web Services of OBIEE itself. Web Services are basically a

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Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2014, San Francisco

It’s the Sunday before the week of the BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.biwasummit.com/], San Francisco, and Rittman Mead will be presenting a number of sessions and hands-on labs during the event. We’re also running a social event on the Wednesday night (I may even get the

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Thoughts on ETL in the Cloud

In a few week’s time I’m presenting at the BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.biwasummit.com] on running OBIEE in the Cloud, with the idea being that I’ll go through the various options for deploying OBIEE in public clouds, including Amazon EC2 and Oracle’s own cloud

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Now Open!

It’s that time of year again when we start planning out next year’s BI Forum, which like this year’s event will be running in May 2014 in Brighton and Atlanta. This will be our sixth annual event, and as with previous year’s the most important part

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Creating a Custom Analytics Dashboard from Scratch the "Blue Peter" way

This year, Rittman Mead were the Analytics Sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 conference in Manchester, and for those that visited the UKOUG stand during their time there will have noticed the Rittman Mead-sponsored Analytics Dashboard on display. In this blog post I will cover how it was put together, the

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UKOUG Tech13 Conference

Next week Rittman Mead is the analytics sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 [http://www.tech13.ukoug.org] conference up in Manchester. We've got a great line up of talks, covering everything from BI Apps, Endeca, Hadoop, OBIEE and mobile - Stewart and Charles are both flying in from

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Thoughts on Running OBIEE in the Cloud : Part 2 - Data Sources and ETL

In yesterday’s post on running OBIEE in the cloud [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/thoughts-on-running-obiee-in-the-cloud-part-1-the-bi-platform/] , I looked at a number of options for hosting the actual OBIEE element; hosting it in a public cloud service such as Amazon EC2, using Oracle’s upcoming BI-as-a-Service offering, or partner

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Thoughts on Running OBIEE in the Cloud : Part 1 - The BI Platform

One of the major announcements at this year’s Oracle Openworld in San Francisco was around "OBIEE in the cloud” [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/09/oracle-openworld-2013-reflections-on-product-announcements-and-strategy/] . Part of a wide-ranging set of announcements around services and infrastructure in the cloud from Oracle, the idea with this service

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Why ODI, DW and OBIEE Developers Should Be Interested in Hadoop

Over the past few months I’ve been posting a number of articles about Hadoop, and how you can connect to it from ODI and OBIEE. From an ODI perspective, I covered Hadoop as one of a number of new data sources ODI11g could connect to [https://www.rittmanmead.com/

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Monitoring OBIEE Performance for the End User with JMeter from EM12c

This is the third article in my two-article set of posts (h/t [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_in_five_parts]) on extending the monitoring of OBIEE within EM12c. It comes after a brief interlude discussing Metric Extensions [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/collecting-usage-tracking-data-with-metric-extensions-in-em12c/] as an alternative

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Collecting Usage Tracking Data with Metric Extensions in EM12c

In my previous post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/11/building-alerts-in-em12c-with-obiee-usage-tracking-data/] I demonstrated how OBIEE’s Usage Tracking data could be monitored by EM12c through a Service Test. It was pointed out to me that an alternative for collecting the same data would be the use of EM12c’s