Business Insights Exalytics Test Drive - April 18th 2012 in London Some people may have seen that Rittman Mead became the first partner in the UK to buy an Exalytics box in the Oracle newsletter [https://blogs.oracle.com/emeapartnerbiepm/entry/rittman_mead_first_uk_partner], and as a result we can uniquely offer our customers and community the chance to
Rittman Mead Life New Wednesday Seminar Series from Robin and Mark Robin Moffatt mentioned the other day that we've launched a number of new training initiatives [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/new-training-courses-and-seminars-from-rittman-mead/], including a series of seminars, running on Wednesday afternoons [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training/webinar-series-2012/] and presented either by myself or Robin, aimed at OBIEE
Business Insights About the Oracle BI Developer (NDA) Day at the BI Forum Events We were pleased to finally launch the website and registration page for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012] yesterday, and something that's new this year is an extra day, at the end, run in conjunction with Oracle BI Product Development and ourselves. The
Business Insights Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, Brighton & Atlanta : Registration Now Open! I'm very pleased to announce that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2012, is now open, with details of the event and how to register on this page [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012]. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012] This
Business Insights Oracle Exalytics : An Example Optimization Exercise It's Saturday afternoon, and I'm writing this whilst on a plane going over to Dallas, Texas, traveling to what will be my first Hotsos Symposium [http://www.hotsos.com/sym12.html]. For anyone mainly working in the BI world who's not heard of the
Business Insights Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 : Voting on Abstracts Now Open! Thank you to everyone who submitted presentation abstracts for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 events [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/01/rittman-mead-bi-forum-2012-call-for-papers-now-open-closing-date-31st-january-2012/] , running in May 2012 in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA. We'll be announcing the dates and venues at the end of February 2012, as
Business Insights Interview with Kevin McGinley, BI Content Lead for Kscope 12 Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Kevin McGinley of Accenture to discuss the upcoming ODTUG Kscope 12. I was on the content selection committee, and immediately recognized how lucky ODTUG was to have Kevin coordinating this process. We had tough choices to make around content -- this is always the
Business Insights Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012 Call for Papers Now Open - Closing Date 31st January 2012 [re-posted in case you missed it when originally posted before Christmas - MR] I'm pleased to announce the call for papers [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlaaExzQU56WTdua2JsV1RkeVZnN2c6MA#gid=0] for the fourth annual Rittman Mead BI Forum, which like last year is running
Business Insights Looking Back at 2011, Looking forward to 2012 Well it's the last working day now before the end of 2011, and so I thought it'd be interesting to take a look back at the events of 2011, and a bit of think-forward as to what's on the horizon for 2012. As usual,
Business Insights Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012, Brighton & Atlanta May 2012 : Call for Papers Now Open! I'm pleased to announce the call for papers [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlaaExzQU56WTdua2JsV1RkeVZnN2c6MA#gid=0] for the fourth annual Rittman Mead BI Forum, which like last year is running in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA in May 2012. Last year's
Rittman Mead Life Rittman Mead Scheduled OBIEE11g, ODI11g and OBIA7.9.6.3 Courses When Jon Mead and I started Rittman Mead back in 2007, one of the first services we offered was training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training], back in those days on OWB and OBIEE 10g and typically delivered by myself, Jon, Borkur at Peter Scott. Since then, we've grown
Business Insights Rittman Mead at the Conferences Conference season is now upon us, and having just got back from events in the USA and Australia, and with Rittman Mead presenters at conferences in the UK, India and USA over the next few months, I thought I'd be worth posting links to some previous conference presentations
Business Insights UKOUG Partner of the Year Award 2011, and the Rittman Mead Customer Advisory Board 2011 If you follow this blog and the various events we speak at, you might end up thinking that we spend most of our time going to conferences and testing out new Oracle BI products. In fact, of course, most of our time is spent on customer projects and over the
Business Insights OBIEE Developer Meetup - London November 10th 2011 (Evening) Just a quick note to say that Paul McGarrick (of Total-BI.com [http://total-bi.com/] fame) is organizing an OBIEE developer meet-up in London on November 10th (next Thursday). It's at the Craft Beer Bar [http://thecraftbeerco.com/], near Chancery Lane and Faringdon Station, and its from 6pm
Business Insights Updated Details for the ODTUG BI/EPM Seriously Practical Conference in Sydney, Next Week Just a quick note to say there's now an updated agenda for the ODTUG BI and EPM Seriously Practical Conference [http://odtugspconference.com/] in Sydney, Australia, starting this time next week (November 3rd and 4th 2011). I'm now doing a lot more of the sessions, and
Business Insights Oracle BI EE 11g - Security Auditing - Web Catalog Security BI EE Web Catalog security is an area that generally requires a lot of understanding especially while migrating Web Catalogs. There is not a lot available in the documentation that goes into detail on how .ATR files store security. Its a known fact that doing a file system copy of
Business Insights OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Systems Management Best Practices My last session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco was on systems management of OBIEE 11g. Compared to the 10g release of OBIEE, the 11g release is much more complex, is deployed in much more distributed-type environments, and has a bunch of new tools that
Business Insights OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g and ADF Integration using the Action Framework The third of my presentation at this year's Oracle Openworld in San Francisco was in fact a collaboration with Andrejus Baranovskis [http://redsamuraiconsulting.com/], fellow ACE Director and specialist in Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) [http://andrejusb.blogspot.com/]. The idea for this presentation came to us a
Business Insights OOW2011 : Oracle BI Applications Futures One of the sessions running at yesterday's Openworld was on the future of the Oracle BI Applications. You probably don't realize it, but the 11g release of the BI Apps has been "sort-of" available for the past few months, but as a controlled-availability release
Business Insights OOW2011 : More on the Exalytics New User Interface One of the key messages Oracle keep putting out about Exalytics, is that they had to provide a new user interface to make best use of the "speed of thought" analytics provided by the product. In particular, a few key new areas were highlighted that were made possible
Business Insights OOW2011 : More on Oracle Exalytics I'm currently sitting in the Thomas Kurian keynote at Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco, and more details of the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine have now been announced. Here's the latest details: The Exalytics BI Machine is based on a Sun server with 4 Intel
Business Insights OOW2011 : Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine So the big announcement for Oracle BI customers at Larry Ellison's keynote on Sunday evening at Oracle Openworld was the Oracle Exalytics Intelligence Machine, a new hardware and software combination from Oracle that aims to provide "speed-of-thought" analysis based around OBIEE 11g and the TimesTen parallel
Business Insights OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Deployment & Change Management My second session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 was on a perennially hot topic; change management and deployment within OBIEE 11g. In a typical project, once you've got past the initial prototype, you're going to want to deploy updated versions of the repository,
Business Insights OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Architecture & Internals I've just finished my first session of Oracle Openworld 2011, on OBIEE 11g Architecture and Internals for IOUG's BIWA SIG. Thanks to everyone who came along, and I hope it was a useful session. The slides for this session are available here : OBIEE 11g Architecture &
Business Insights ODTUG and Rittman Mead in Sydney : ODTUG BI/EPM Seriously Practical Conference As my colleague Ashley Beauman mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Rittman Mead are pleased to be co-sponsoring the ODTUG BI & EPM Seriously Practical Conference [http://www.odtugspconference.com/agenda.html], running in Sydney, Australia on November 3rd and 4th 2011. Along with James & Monroe, Oracle Technology Network
