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Agenda and Details for the Brighton RM BI Forum 2013

It's Tuesday morning, and later today delegates will be starting to arrive in Brighton for the 5th Annual Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013], running again at the Hotel Seattle [http://www.hotelseattlebrighton.com] down at Brighton Marina. Around seventy of Europe's most

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

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/

Rittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta Special Guest: Cary Millsap

I feel like I'm introducing the Beatles... though I think Kellyn Pot'Vin [https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar] calls them the "DBA Gods" [http://dbakevlar.com/author/kpedersen/]. Today I'll be talking about Cary Millsap, and tomorrow I'll introduce our other special

What's Coming at the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013, Atlanta, May 15th - 17th 2013

At the end of last week I talked about what we had planned for the BI Forum in Brighton, and today I want to talk about what we've got planned for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 in Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/], running the week after

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

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

Looking forward the BI Forum 2013, Brighton UK

It's around a month to go now until the Rittman Mead BI Forum runs in Brighton, UK, with the Atlanta event running the week after. Full details on both events are on the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 homepage [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/], but I thought it&

Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 5: Complex Facts

I've finally gotten around to finishing this series... I believe it's actually been a year in the making. I'm planning on being more proactive with getting content on the blog. Actually... the main reason I'm putting this one to bed is I

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

Business Insights

BI Forum 2013 Agenda and Registration Details - Now Live!

I'm pleased to announce that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 is now live, with all details on the BI Forum 2013 web page [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013]. This year's BI Forum takes place on the first two weeks of May, in Brighton

The Changing World of Business Intelligence

Over the last 18 months we have seen a huge amount of changes in the world of Oracle Business Intelligence and Analytics. Everyone wants to talk about Big Data, however doesn’t know where to start in a corporate world, Oracle bought Endeca, which is a reporting/information discovery tool,

Tuning Philosophy - Tuning the Right Thing

My second presentation at this year's RMOUG Training Days was on tuning "realtime data warehouses"; as usual, this paper is now on the Rittman Mead Articles page [http://rittmanmead.com/files/RMOUG2013%20Realtime%20tuning.pdf]. Perhaps more accurately my talk was more about my tuning philosophy

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

Live Virtual OBIEE 11.1.1.7 Expert Seminar with Mark Rittman - April 22nd/23rd 2013, via Oracle University

Can't make it to one of our scheduled classroom-based OBIEE11g or ODI11g courses, but you're still keen on hearing the latest about OBIEE 11.1.1.7, Exalytics and Endeca development, and just how far Oracle now are with OBIEE and Essbase/Hyperion integration? If so,

Incremental refresh of Exalytics Aggregates using TimesTen

Introduction One of the key reasons that Exalytics can deliver sub-second response times is the use of TimesTen in-memory database to hold data pre-calculated to various levels of aggregation as required by the reports. Last year I wrote about Alternatives to the Summary Advisor [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 Call for Papers now Open!

I'm pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 5th annual Rittman Mead BI Forum is now open, with abstracts being accepted through to January 31st, 2013. Last year's BI Forum was the biggest and best ever, running in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA

Business Insights

BIWA 2013 Welcome Reception

You may have seen information on our website about the BIWA Summit [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biwa2013/] and how excited we are to be attending. It's great to have a separate BIWA event again, and to help ensure it's success, Rittman Mead has decided to be

OEID and RTD Events

Just wanted to mention two events we're running in conjunction with Oracle on Thursday 6th December that may be of interest. These events will allow you to learn more about Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) and Oracle Real-Time Decisions (RTD). Providing a great opportunity to learn how OEID

Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour 2012 : Venues and BI Presentations

Next week I'm honoured to be taking part in the Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour, taking in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki over four days. Organized by Heli Helskyaho (Finnish Oracle Users Group) and Sten Vesterli (Danish Oracle Users Group) along with the leaders of the Norwegian and

BI, Data Warehousing and Data Integration News from Oracle Openworld 2012

This week is Oracle Openworld week in San Francisco, USA [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], with around 50,000 attendees attending Openworld itself, Java One and fringe events such as Oaktable world. Rittman Mead have had ten sessions during the week, covering topics such as OBIEE, Endeca, data warehousing, Essbase

Advanced monitoring of OBIEE with Nagios

Introduction In the previous articles in this series, I described an overview of monitoring OBIEE [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/09/automated-monitoring-of-obiee-in-the-enterprise-an-overview] , and then a hands-on tutorial for setting up Nagios to monitor OBIEE [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/09/an-introduction-to-monitoring-obiee-with-nagios]. Nagios is an Enterprise Systems Management tool

An introduction to monitoring OBIEE with Nagios

Introduction This is the second post in a mini-series on monitoring OBIEE. The previous post, Automated Monitoring of OBIEE in the Enterprise – an overview [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/09/automated-monitoring-of-obiee-in-the-enterprise-an-overview] , looked at the overview and theory to why and what we should be monitoring. In this post I

Automated Monitoring of OBIEE in the Enterprise - an overview

A lot of time is given to the planning, development and testing of OBIEE solutions. Well, hopefully it is. Yet sometimes, the resulting deployment is marked Job Done and chucked over the wall to the Operations team, with little thought given to how it is looked after once it is