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Rittman Mead sponsoring RMOUG

After enjoying a successful 2020 in the North American data and analytics market, we’re excited to announce that we’re sponsoring Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) this year! Running from 8th - 11th February, the agenda is jam packed with content including interactive workshops and technical sessions all

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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

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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

Big Data

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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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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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

Big Data

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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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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Rittman Mead at ODTUG KScope'15, Hollywood Florida

ODTUG KScope’15 [http://kscope15.com] is running in Hollywood, Florida next week and Rittman Mead are running a number of sessions during the week on OBIEE, Essbase, ODI and Big Data. I’ve personally been attending ODTUG KScope (or “Kaleidoscope”, as it used to be known) for many years

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Deploying Oracle BI Mobile HD within Good, Oracle OMSS and Other Secure MDM Containers

A few months ago ODTUG announced their ODTUG Mobile Day in Utrecht, Netherlands [http://www.odtug.com/mobile_day_utrecht] and asked if I’d like to put forward an abstract for a presentation. Something that’s been on my mind for a while is the issues some of our

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Presentation Slides and Photos from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, Brighton and Atlanta

It’s now the Saturday after the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] events, last week in Atlanta, GA and the week before in Brighton, UK. Both events were a great success and I’d like to say thanks to the speakers, attendees, our friends

Technical

Some Oracle Big Data Discovery Tips and Techniques

I’ve been using Oracle Big Data Discovery for a couple of months now, and one of the sessions I’m delivering at this week’s Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 in Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015] is on Big Data Discovery Examples from the Field, co-presented with Tim

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Final Agenda for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Atlanta - Running this Week!

It’s the Monday before the AtlantaRittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], and delegates will start to arrive in Atlanta tomorrow and during the rest of the week. The first event in Brighton was excellent, and we’re hoping for something even better in Atlanta this

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Just Under a Week to go Until the Atlanta BI Forum 2015 - Places Still Available!

The Rittman Mead Brighton BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] is now underway, with presentations from Oracle, Rittman Mead, partners and customers on a range of topics around Oracle BI, DW and Big Data. So far this week we’ve had a one-day masterclass from myself and Jordan

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One Day to the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 - Here's the Agenda!

It’s the night before the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], and some delegates are already here ready for the masterclass tomorrow. Everyone else will either be arriving later in the day for the drinks reception, Oracle Keynote and dinner, or getting here early

Big Data

So What's the Real Point of ODI12c for Big Data Generating Pig and Spark Mappings?

Oracle ODI12c for Big Data [https://www.oracle.com/middleware/data-integration/enterprise-edition-big-data/index.html] came out the other week, and my colleague Jérôme Françoisse put together an introductory post on the new features [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/04/odi12c-advanced-big-data-option-overview-install/] shortly after, covering ODI’s new ability to generate

Big Data

Setting up Security and Access Control on a Big Data Appliance

Like all Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle’s field servicing and Advanced Customer Services (ACS) teams go on-site once a BDA has been sold to a customer and do the racking, installation and initial setup. They will usually ask the customer a set of questions such as “do you want to

Technical

Last Chance to Register for the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015!

It’s just a week to go until the start of the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], with the optional one-day masterclass starting on Wednesday, May 6th at 10am and the event opening with a reception and Oracle keynote later in the evening. Spaces

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BI Forum 2015 Preview -- OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack

I’m pleased to be presenting at both of the Rittman Mead BI Forums [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/biforum2015/] this year; in Brighton it’ll be my fourth time, whilst Atlanta will be my first, and my first trip to the city too. I’ve heard great things about

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

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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,

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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

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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/