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News and Updates from Oracle Openworld 2014

It’s the Saturday after Oracle Openworld 2014 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], and I’m now home from San Francisco and back in the UK. It’s been a great week as usual, with lots of product announcements and updates to the BI, DW and Big Data products we

Mark Rittman Oct 4, 2014 • 8 min read

Technical

Introduction to Oracle BI Cloud Service : Service Administration

Earlier in the week we’ve looked at the developer features within Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS), aimed at departmental users who want the power of OBIEE 11g without the need to stand-up their own infrastructure. We looked at the process of uploading spreadsheets and other data to the Oracle

Mark Rittman Sep 26, 2014 • 5 min read

Technical

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

Mark Rittman Sep 25, 2014 • 3 min read

Technical

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’

Mark Rittman Sep 24, 2014 • 5 min read

Technical

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

Mark Rittman Sep 23, 2014 • 3 min read

Technical

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

Mark Rittman Sep 22, 2014 • 7 min read

Technical

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

Robin Moffatt Sep 10, 2014 • 14 min read

Technical

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

Mark Rittman Jun 5, 2014 • 5 min read

Technical

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.

Peter Scott Feb 20, 2014 • 9 min read

Technical

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

Pete Carpenter Feb 19, 2014 • 6 min read

Technical

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

Pete Carpenter Feb 18, 2014 • 7 min read

Technical

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

Mark Rittman Dec 19, 2013 • 11 min read

Oracle BI Suite EE

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

Mark Rittman Dec 17, 2013 • 2 min read

Oracle BI Suite EE

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

Mark Rittman Nov 23, 2013 • 6 min read

Oracle BI Suite EE

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

Mark Rittman Nov 22, 2013 • 7 min read

Oracle BI Suite EE

Using Non-Oracle, and Cloud-Hosted Databases with OBIEE 11g

The vast majority of our customers use Oracle Database [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/overview/index.html] as the underlying data source for OBIEE 11g, sometimes on Exadata but almost always the Enterprise Edition [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/enterprise-edition/overview/index.html] of the database.

Mark Rittman Sep 2, 2013 • 11 min read

Technical

OOW2012 so far...

It's now half way through Oracle Open World 2012 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html] and I thought I would write up a brief update of what has happened so far. Last year saw the announcements of both Exalytics [http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/business-intelligence/

Jon Mead Oct 2, 2012 • 3 min read