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Rittman Mead at Kscope 2017

Rittman Mead will be well represented in San Antonio, Texas next week for Kscope 17 with some of our best from both sides of the Atlantic! Our very own Francesco Tisiot and Jordan Meyer will present various topics as well as participate in the conference events. Also, the newly named

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The Visual Plugin Pack for OBIEE

Last week we announced the Rittman Mead Open Source project [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/12/the-rittman-mead-open-source-project/], and released into open source: * the excellent Insights [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/12/insights-an-open-source-visualisation-platform-for-obiee/] project, a javascript API/framework for building a new frontend for OBIEE, written by Minesh Patel

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The Rittman Mead Open Source Project

We have a strong innovation spirit at Rittman Mead, with all staff encouraged to use technology to its best advantage in order to do things with the software that haven't been done before. Some of these projects may may be 'scratching the itch' of a repeated

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Work-Life Balance at Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead has always had a long standing commitment to giving back, not only to the technology industry, but to local and global communities as well. Recently, Rittman Mead employees have been encouraged to take up to 40 paid hours to participate in community service opportunities [https://www.rittmanmead.com/

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Rittman Mead at UKOUG Tech 16

This year as always Rittman Mead is coming to UKOUG Tech 16 [http://tech16.ukoug.org/] with a strong presence and a great line up of sessions covering OBIEE, ODI, Kafka, advanced visualisation and more. And yes, there will be Cloud! Here is the details of the Rittman Mead sessions

Conferences

POUG

I've just attended my first user group in Poland, the very-excellent POUG [http://poug.org/en/]. This was the first international version of the conference, having been run previously just within Poland. Based on these two days, I would say it was a resounding success! There was a

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Rittman Mead at Oracle OpenWorld 2016

The big show is upon us and once again Rittman Mead will be actively participating at [Oracle OpenWorld 2016]( https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html" target="_blank). Oracle's premier conference runs September 18–22 at the Moscone Center in beautiful San Francisco, California. I'

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Analysing Social Media Data for the Lightyear Foundation - Part 1

Outside of my job at Rittman Mead, I'm fortunate enough to be involved with a project called the Lightyear Foundation [http://www.lightyearfoundation.org/]. We are a charitable organisation which aims [http://www.lightyearfoundation.org/what-we-do/] to promote the techniques and philosophies of science, working with children and

Technical

Stream Analytics and Processing with Kafka and Oracle Stream Analytics

In my previous post [http://www.rittmanmead.com/2016/07/introduction-oracle-stream-analytics/] I looked the latest release of Oracle Stream Analytics (OSA), and saw how it provided a graphical interface to "Fast Data". Users can analyse streaming data as it arrives based on conditions and rules. They can also

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An Introduction to Oracle Stream Analytics

Oracle Stream Analytics (OSA) is a graphical tool that provides “Business Insight into Fast Data”. In layman terms, that translates into an intuitive web-based interface for exploring, analysing, and manipulating streaming data sources in realtime. These sources can include REST, JMS queues, as well as Kafka. The inclusion of Kafka

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Announcing OBI Remote Training

Since the release of OBIEE 12c in 2015, we have received countless inquiries about how we would be offering our training. Our customers are familiar with our ability to provide on-site private training for a team and we are well known for hosting training classes in our offices in the

Big Data

Using SparkSQL and Pandas to Import Data into Hive and Big Data Discovery

Big Data Discovery [https://www.oracle.com/big-data/big-data-discovery/index.html] (BDD) is a great tool for exploring, transforming, and visualising data stored in your organisation’s Data Reservoir. I presented a workshop on it at a recent conference [https://speakerdeck.com/rmoff/unlock-the-value-in-your-big-data-reservoir-using-oracle-big-data-discovery-and-oracle-big-data-spatial-and-graph] , and got an interesting question from

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Rittman Mead at KScope16

June is the perfect month: summer begins, major football [http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/] (andfutbol [http://www.ca2016.com/]) tournaments are in full swing, and of course, KScope16 [http://kscope16.com/] is on! Rittman Mead have participated in many of the past KScope conferences and will continue that tradition this

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#IHateYourFace, a BizIntel Love Story

Sometimes love isn't fair A teenager, just emerging from an awkward growing phase drives a tendency to spew non sensical permutations of varying cringe worthy affections toward their love target. The data points behind the intent are solid. Let’s go Boolean now: Intent of good = 1 ; attracted

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Oracle's New Data Visualization Desktop

A recent addition to the Oracle lineup of visualization tools is the Oracle Data Visualization Desktop. Described by Oracle as a “single user desktop application that provides Oracle Data Visualization functionality to business users,” DVD is an easy-to-install data visualization tool for Windows 7, 8 or 10 that packs some

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Experiments with Elastic’s Graph Tool

Elastic announced their Graph [https://www.elastic.co/products/graph] tool at ElastiCON 2016 (see presentation here [https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf/graph-capabilities-in-the-elastic-stack] ). It’s part of the forthcoming X-Pack [https://www.elastic.co/v5] which bundles Graph along with other helper tools such as Shield and

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Rittman Mead at Collaborate 16: Data Integration Focus

It’s that time of year again when Oracle technologists from around the world gather in Las Vegas, Nevada, to teach, learn, and, of course, network with their peers. TheCollaborate 16 [http://collaborate.ioug.org/]conference, running for 10 years now, has been a collaboration, if you will, between the

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ChitChat: The Importance of BI Integrations

A user's workflow shouldn't change to accommodate a new tool. A new tool should fill a gap in the current workflow and help streamline the user's process. An application without a clearly defined scope eventually overlaps with existing solutions, creating confusion and distress among

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Use OBIEE to Achieve Your GOOOALS!!! - A Presentation for GaOUG

Background A few months before the start of the 2014 World Cup, Jon Mead [https://twitter.com/jonmead], Rittman Mead's CEO, asked me to come up with a way to showcase our strengths and skills while leveraging the excitement generated by the World Cup. With this in mind,

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The Importance of BI Commentary

Why Is Commentary Important? We communicate every day. Communication through text is especially abundant with the proliferation of new on-demand technologies. Have you gone through your emails today? Have you read the news, weather, or blogs (like this one)? Communication is the backbone to every interpersonal interaction. Without it, we

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ChitChat - Commentary Made Simple

Rittman Mead is excited to announce ChitChat, an innovative new communication tool for OBIEE. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/chitchat] Rittman Mead’s clients already receive the best Oracle Business Analytics and Data Integration consulting and training. Now, in a major expansion of our business capabilities, our clients can enjoy the

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Rittman Mead Sponsors Georgia Oracle Users Group's Tech Day

As part of Rittman Mead’s continuing support and participation in the Oracle community, we are proudly sponsoring this year’s Georgia Oracle Users Group’s Tech Day [http://gaoug.strikingly.com/] on Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Downtown Atlanta at the Executive Conference Center. Rittman Mead’s own Consulting

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Implementing OBIEE Commentary

My Application Development Experience with Rittman Mead Greetings, readers! My name is Nick Padgett, and this is my first blog post with Rittman Mead. I started with Rittman Mead as an intern over a year ago while I was attending Kennesaw State, a local university, but I’ve graduated from

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Rittman Mead America’s New Office

Rittman Mead America has a new home, and it’s looking good. At the end of 2015, we moved into a new office space in Alpharetta, Georgia, in a new development named Avalon. We’ve just begun to settle into our new office space, but we are already feeling at

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Using Python to ‘Wrangle’ Your Messy Data

or How to Organize Your Comic Book Collection Based on Issue Popularity In addition to being a product manager at Rittman Mead, I consider myself to be a nerd of the highest order. My love of comic books, fantasy, sci-fi and general geekery began long before the word ‘Stark’ had