Rittman Mead Blog - Technical Insights

Data Integration Tips: ODI 12c Repository Query - Find the Mapping Target Table

Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted one of our Rittman Mead Data Integration Tips, so I thought a recent challenge might be the next great candidate. I was working through the Kimball ETL Subsystems [http://www.kimballgroup.com/data-warehouse-business-intelligence-resources/kimball-techniques/etl-architecture-34-subsystems/] and the Error Event Schema, Subsystem

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OBIEE 12c - Repository Password Corruption Issue

Here at Rittman Mead we’ve been working with OBIEE 12c for some time now, as part of the beta programme and more recently with clients looking to get the most out an upgrade to OBIEE 12c [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/01/obiee12c-three-months-in-whats-the-verdict/]. We’ve also been hard

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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

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Becky’s BI Apps Corner: OBIA install Perl Script Patching and troubleshooting when they fail

During a recent project installing Oracle BI Applications, I became much better acquainted with OPatch, Oracle’s standard tool for managing application patches. By acquainted, I mean how to troubleshoot when OPatch patching fails. Since, at last count, there are around 50 patches total for Oracle BI Applications 11.1.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (Where Can We Serve?)

At Rittman Mead, we believe that people are more important than profit. This manifests itself in two ways. First, we want to impact the world beyond data and analytics, and secondly, we want our employees to be able to contribute to organizations they believe are doing impactful work. This year,

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The Best OBIEE 12c Feature that You're Probably Not Using

With the release of OBIEE 12c we got a number of interesting new features on the front-end. We’re all talking about the cleaner look-and-feel, Visual Analyzer, and the ability to create data-mashups [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/new-in-oracle-bi-cloud-service-oracle-visual-analyzer-and-data-mashups-in-va/] , etc. While all this is incredibly useful, it’s

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OBIEE 12c - Three Months In, What's the Verdict?

I’m over in Redwood Shores, California this week for the BIWA Summit 2016 conference [http://www.ioug.org/p/cm/ld/&fid=992] where I’ll be speaking about BI development on Oracle’s database and big data platforms. As it’s around three months since OBIEE12c came

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Upgrade to ODI 12c: Repository and Standalone Agent

This is my first post, and I hope to have many more to come. My name is Brian Sauer, and I am fairly new here at Rittman Mead and proud to be here. I have close to 5 years of experience with Oracle Data Integrator, both 10g and 11c. I

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Mike Hibbert - A Celebration

[https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/07140mh_small.jpg] It’s been a long while since I graced the blog with my presence and I had always hoped that when I did return, it would be with something new, or exciting to say. Instead, I find myself

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Becky’s BI Apps Corner: Installing on Windows Server 2012

Recently I was installing Oracle BI Apps on a VM for a custom training, as mentioned in a previous post [http://wp.me/p6Tisj-6jR]. I setup the VM with Windows Server 2012 after verifying in the certification matrix [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi/biapps-11-1-1-9-2-2527682.xls] that the Oracle

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Kickstart Your 2016 with Rittman Mead's Data Integration Training

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to all! As you begin your 2016 this January, it’s time to start planning your team's data integration training. Look no further than Rittman Mead’s Oracle Data Integrator training course! We offer a 4 day Oracle Data Integrator 12c

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Using Linux Control Groups to Constrain Process Memory

Linux Control Groups [http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E37355/html/ol_about_cgroups.html] (cgroups) are a nifty way to limit the amount of resource, such as CPU, memory, or IO throughput, that a process or group of processes may use. Frits Hoogland [https://fritshoogland.wordpress.com/2012/

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Becky’s BI Apps Corner: Oracle BI Applications, where art thou?

Hello! I would like to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Becky Wagner and I’ve been working with Rittman Mead America since the beginning of the year. I have a background in data warehousing and ETL with a state government agency, where I was part of

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An Alternative Front-End for OBIEE using Web Services and D3

Working with OBIEE, it is common to get requests to add visualisations or otherwise improve the UI. Typically this has been done by using narrative views to embed HTML and Javascript to provide data driven, custom visualisations [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/embedding-a-d3-visualisation-in-obiee/]. To cope with the former,

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Driving OBIEE User Engagement with Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE

Measuring and monitoring user interactions and behaviour with OBIEE is a key part of Rittman Mead’s User Engagement Service [http://ritt.md/ue]. By understanding and proving how users are engaging the system we can improve the experience for the user, driving up usage and ensuring maximum value for

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Rittman Mead at UKOUG Tech'15 Conference, Birmingham

This week Rittman Mead are very pleased to be presenting at the UK Oracle User Group’s Tech’15 Conference [http://tech15.ukoug.org] in Birmingham, delivering a number of sessions around OBIEE, Data Integration, Cloud and Big Data. If you’re at the event and you see any of

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Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Roundup Part 3 : Oracle 12cR2 Database Sharding, Analytic Views and Essbase 12c

With the UKOUG conference starting tomorrow I thought it about time I finished off my three-part post-OOW 2015 blog series, with a final post on some interesting announcements around Oracle Database and Essbase. As a reminder the other two posts were on OBIEE12c and the new Data Visualisation Cloud Service

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Rittman Mead and Oracle Big Data Webcast Series - November 2015

We’re running a set of three webcasts together with Oracle on three popular use-cases for big data within an Oracle context - with the first one running tomorrow, November 3rd 2015 15:00 – 16:00 GMT / 16:00 – 17:00 CET on extending the data warehouse using Hadoop and

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Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Roundup Part 2 : Data Integration, and Big Data (in the Cloud...)

In yesterdays part one of our three-part Oracle Openworld 2015 round-up [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/11/oracle-openworld-2015-roundup-part-1-obiee12c-and-data-visualisation-cloud-service/] , we looked at the launch of OBIEE12c just before Openworld itself, and the new Data Visualisation Cloud Service that Thomas Kurian demo’d in his mid-week keynote. In part two we’

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Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Roundup Part 1 : OBIEE12c and Data Visualisation Cloud Service

Last week saw Oracle Openworld 2015 [https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html] running in San Francisco, USA, with Rittman Mead delivering a number of sessions around BI, data integration, Big Data and cloud [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/10/rittman-mead-at-oracle-openworld-2015-san-francisco/]. Several of us took part in Partner Advisory

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Forays into Kafka - Enabling Flexible Data Pipelines

One of the defining features of “Big Data” from a technologist’s point of view is the sheer number of tools and permutations at one’s disposal. Do you go Flume or Logstash? Avro or Thrift? Pig or Spark? Foo or Bar? (I made that last one up). This wealth

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Introducing the Rittman Mead OBIEE Performance Analytics Service

Fix Your OBIEE Performance Problems Today OBIEE is a powerful analytics tool that enables your users to make the most of the data in your organisation. Ensuring that expected response times are met is key to driving user uptake and successful user engagement with OBIEE. Rittman Mead can help diagnose

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Forays into Kafka - Logstash transport / centralisation

The holy trinity of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) are a powerful trio of tools for data discovery [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/04/using-the-elk-stack-to-analyse-donors-choose-data/] and systems diagnostics [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/10/monitoring-obiee-with-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana/] . In a nutshell, they enable you to easily search through your log files,