Big Data Previewing Four Sessions at the Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 In a post earlier this week I previewed three sessions at the upcoming Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/04/previewing-three-sessions-at-the-brighton-rittman-mead-bi-forum-2015/] ; in this post I’m going to look at four particularly interesting sessions at the Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.
Technical OBIEE and the Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Option - Article and New Services from Rittman Mead My latest Business Intelligence column for Oracle Magazine is on the In-Memory Option for Oracle Database 12c [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-jan/o15ba-2398995.html] , and using it to speed-up dashboards and reports in OBIEE11g. In the article I go through the basics of the in-memory option explaining
Technical Take Part in the BI Survey 15, and 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
Technical Previewing Three Sessions at the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 As well as a one-day masterclass by myself and Jordan Meyer [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/optional-masterclass-delivering-the-oracle-information-management-big-data-reference-architecture/] , a data visualisation challenge [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/bi-forum-2015-data-visualization-challenge/] , keynotes and product update sessions from Oracle and our guest speaker [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/03/announcing-the-special-guest-speakers-for-brighton-atlanta-bi-forum
Big Data Realtime BI Show with Kevin and Stewart - BI Forum 2015 Special! Jordan Meyer and I were very pleased to be invited onto the Realtime BI Show podcast last week, run by Kevin McGinley and Stewart Bryson, to talk about the upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015]. Stewart and Kevin
User Groups & Conferences RM BI Forum 2015 : Justification Letters for Employers (Thanks to Christian Berg@Nephentur [https://twitter.com/Nephentur]for the suggestion, and acknowledgements toODTUG KScope [http://kscope15.com/registration]for the original idea - our favourite conference after the BI Forum) TheRittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015]promises to be our best BI Forum yet,
Technical Announcing the BI Forum 2015 Data Visualisation Challenge The Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015]is running in Brighton from May 6th-8th 2015, and Atlanta from May 13th - 15th 2015. At this year’s events we’re introducing our first “data visualization challenge” [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/bi-forum-2015-data-visualization-challenge/] , open to all attendees
Big Data More on the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Masterclass : "Delivering the Oracle Big Data and Information Management Reference Architecture" Each year at the Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015] we host an optional one-day masterclass before the event opens properly on Wednesday evening, with guest speakers over the year including Kurt Wolff [https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/14286589858], Kevin McGinley [https://obibb.wordpress.com/2012/05/
Big Data Announcing the Special Guest Speakers for Brighton & Atlanta BI Forum 2015 As well as a great line-up of speakers and sessions at each of the Brighton & Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] events in May, I’m very pleased to announce our two guest speakers who’ll give the second keynotes, on the Thursday evening
Big Data Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Now Open for Registration! I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2015, is now open for registration [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/]. Back for its seventh successful year, the Rittman Mead BI Forum once again will be showcasing the best speakers
Rittman Mead Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2015 I’m writing this in my hotel room in downtown San Francisco, with my colleague Francesco Tisiot flying in tonight and US colleagues Jordan Meyer, Daniel Adams and Andy Rocha travelling down tomorrow and Monday for next week's BIWA Summit 2015 [http://www.ioug.org/biwasummit]. The Business
Technical Rittman Mead's Development Cluster, EM12c and the Blue Mendora VMware EM Plugin For development and testing purposes, Rittman Mead run a VMWare VSphere cluster made up of a number of bare-metal servers hosting Linux, Windows and other VMs. Our setup has grown over the years from a bunch of VMs running on Mac Mini servers [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/08/
Technical Top 10 Rittman Mead Blog Posts from 2014 It’s the afternoon of New Year’s Eve over in the UK, so to round the year off here’s the top 10 blog posts from 2014 from the Rittman Mead blog, based on Google Analytics stats (page views for 2014 in brackets, only includes articles posted in 2014)
Rittman Mead Happy Christmas from Rittman Mead, and Where To Find Us in 2015 It’s the day before Christmas Eve over in the UK, and we’re finishing up for the Christmas break and looking forward to seeing friends and family over the next few days. To all of our readers, customers, friends and partners, have a great Holiday season and New Year,
Technical Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Call for Papers Now Open! I’m very pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/forms/d/18XWPmrzr3te55rloDJyB8vFP9j8AUNKKryvOToGHBlA/viewform] is now open, with abstract submissions open to January 18th 2015. As in previous years the BI Forum will run over
Technical Rittman Mead's Bar Optimizer [http://lab.ritt.md/bar-optimizer.png] At Rittman Mead R&D, we have the privilege of solving some of our clients’ most challenging data problems. We recently built a set of customized data products that leverage the power of Oracle and Cloudera platforms and wanted to share some of
Technical Six Months an ACE…”Boy, that escalated quickly" Boy, that escalated quickly [http://youtu.be/FONN-0uoTHI]. I mean, my path to becoming an Oracle ACE since joining Rittman Mead! When I began with Rittman Mead back in March 2012, I wasn't planning on joining the ACE program. In fact, I really wasn't sure what
Technical Rittman Mead Founder Member of the Red Expert Alliance At Rittman Mead we’re always keen to collaborate with our peers and partners in the Oracle industry, running events such as the BI Forum in Brighton and Atlanta each year and speaking at user groups in the UK, Europe, USA and around the world. We were pleased therefore to
Technical Rittman Mead anuncia su catálogo de cursos en Español y en Portugués. [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/07698Spanish_Portuguese_Training.png] [http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-announces-its-training-catalog-in-spanish-and-portuguese/] [http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-anuncia-o-seu-catalogo-de-cursos-em-espanhol-e-em-portugues/] Tenemos el agrado de anunciarles que desde ahora Rittman Mead ofrece su catálogo completo de cursos en Español y en Portugués. Esta es una gran noticia para
Technical Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop - part 3 - Visualising the data in Kibana In this post we will see how Kibana can be used to create visualisations over various sets of data that we have combined together. Kibana is a graphical front end for data held in ElasticSearch, which also provides the analytic capabilities. Previously we looked at where the data came from
Technical Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop - part 2 - Getting data into Elasticsearch Introduction In the first part of this series [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/11/analytics-with-kibana-and-elasticsearch-through-hadoop-part-1-introduction/] I described how I made several sets of data relating to the Rittman Mead blog from various sources available through Hive. This included blog hits from the Apache webserver log, tweets, and metadata from
Technical Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop - part 1 - Introduction Introduction I’ve recently started learning more about the tools and technologies that fall under the loose umbrella term of Big Data [http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/47510205.jpg], following a lot of the blogs that Mark Rittman has written, including getting Apache log data into Hadoop [https://www.
User Groups & Conferences UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards A few days ago Rittman Mead won 5 awards at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards [http://www.ukoug.org/membership-new/partner-area/partner-of-the-year-awards/2014winners/] . * Business Intelligence Partner of the Year (Silver) * Training Partner of the Year (Silver) * Managed Services (Outsourcing and Operations) Partner of the Year (Silver) * Emerging (New
Technical Oracle BI Cloud Service for SaaS Application Reporting Part 1: Integrating BICS to Salesforce.com using REST APIs Last monthMark Rittman [http://www.rittmanmead.com/author/mark-rittman/]covered a series of posts detailing theOracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) [https://cloud.oracle.com/business_intelligence], aimed at departmental users who want the power of OBIEE 11g without the need to stand-up their own infrastructure. If you’re coming in
Technical First-timer tips for Oracle Open World Last week I had the great pleasure to attend Oracle Open World (OOW) for the first time, presentingNo Silver Bullets - OBIEE Performance in the Real World [http://www.slideshare.net/themoff/oow14-robin-moffatt-no-silver-bullets-obiee-performance-in-the-real-world] at one of the ODTUG user group sessions on the Sunday. It was a blast, as the
