Rittman Mead Blog - Oracle User Groups and Conferences

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Abstract Scoring Now Live - For 1 Week Only!

The call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closed at the end of January, and we’ve had some excellent submissions on topics ranging from OBIEE, Visualizations and data discovery through to in-memory analytics, big data and data integration. As always, we’re now opening up the

Oracle BI Suite EE

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Closing Soon - And News on This Year's Masterclass

Its a couple of days to go until the call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closes [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdBdDNJb0JUTVBrNTJhaS00MmFjRXc6MA] , with suggested topics this year including OBIEE (of course), Essbase, Endeca, Big Data, Visualizations, In-Memory analysis and data integration.

Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2014, San Francisco

It’s the Sunday before the week of the BIWA Summit 2014 [http://www.biwasummit.com/], San Francisco, and Rittman Mead will be presenting a number of sessions and hands-on labs during the event. We’re also running a social event on the Wednesday night (I may even get the

Oracle BI Suite EE

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Now Open!

It’s that time of year again when we start planning out next year’s BI Forum, which like this year’s event will be running in May 2014 in Brighton and Atlanta. This will be our sixth annual event, and as with previous year’s the most important part

Technical

Creating a Custom Analytics Dashboard from Scratch the "Blue Peter" way

This year, Rittman Mead were the Analytics Sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 conference in Manchester, and for those that visited the UKOUG stand during their time there will have noticed the Rittman Mead-sponsored Analytics Dashboard on display. In this blog post I will cover how it was put together, the

User Groups & Conferences

UKOUG Tech13 Conference

Next week Rittman Mead is the analytics sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 [http://www.tech13.ukoug.org] conference up in Manchester. We've got a great line up of talks, covering everything from BI Apps, Endeca, Hadoop, OBIEE and mobile - Stewart and Charles are both flying in from

Oracle BI Suite EE

Why ODI, DW and OBIEE Developers Should Be Interested in Hadoop

Over the past few months I’ve been posting a number of articles about Hadoop, and how you can connect to it from ODI and OBIEE. From an ODI perspective, I covered Hadoop as one of a number of new data sources ODI11g could connect to [https://www.rittmanmead.com/

Oracle BI Suite EE

Rittman Mead / ODTUG India BI Masterclass Tour Roundup

Over the past week Venkat, myself and the Rittman Mead India team have been running a series of BI Masterclasses [http://www.rittmanmead.com/indiabimasterclass2013/] at locations in India, in conjunction with ODTUG, the Oracle Development Tools User Group. Starting off in Bangalore, then traveling to Hyderabad and Mumbai, we

Rittman Mead

Thank You for Voting for Rittman Mead

Earlier in the year I announced that we had been nominated in 5 categories [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/09/ukoug-partner-of-the-year-2013/] for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards. The award ceremony was last night [http://www.ukoug.org/what-we-offer/news/press-release-uk-oracle-user-group-partner-of-the-year-2013-winners-announced/] and I’m proud to say that

Oracle BI Suite EE

Openworld is Over - Now We're Coming to India..!

Oracle Openworld 2013 is now over [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/09/oracle-openworld-2013-reflections-on-product-announcements-and-strategy/] , but no sooner have we unpacked from that trip, we're packing again for our next one - our BI Masterclass Tour for India [http://www.rittmanmead.com/indiabimasterclass2013/], starting in a few week'

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle Openworld 2013 : Reflections on Product Announcements and Strategy

I'm sitting writing this at my desk back home, with a steaming mug of tea next to me and the kids pleased to see me after having been away for eight days (or at least my wifepleased to hand them over to me after looking after them for

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle Openworld 2013 Days 3 & 4 : Oracle Cloud, OBIEE and ODI Futures

It's getting to the end of day 4 of Oracle Openworld, with Team Oracle USA coming back from 8-1 down and pulling-off the unlikeliest of comeback victories [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sailing/24274103], and Openworld sessions covering OBIEE, ODI and Oracle Cloud futures. Here'

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle Openworld 2013 Day 2: Exalytics, TimesTen and Essbase Futures

Monday's almost over at Oracle Openworld 2013 in San Francisco, and it started for me today with a presentation on Enterprise Manager 12c and the BI Management Pack, alongside Henrik Blixt (PM for the BI Management Pack) andDhananjay Papde [http://dhananjaypapde.blogspot.co.uk], author of a book

Technical

Oracle Openworld 2013 Day 1 : User Group Forum, News on Oracle Database In-Memory Option

The Sunday before Oracle Openworld proper is "User Group Forum Sunday", with each of the major user groups and councils having dedicated tracks for topics such as BI&DW, Fusion Development, Database and so on. Stewart, myself and Venkat were honoured to be presenting on behalf of

Technical

Oracle Openworld 2013 Day 0: Previewing the Week Ahead

It's the Saturday afternoon before the start of Oracle Openworld 2013 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], and whilst I've been here since last Wednesday, my colleagues from Rittman Mead in the Europe, the USA and India are arriving today and tomorrow ready for their sessions later

Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead at Oracle Openworld 2013 - Session Details

Most readers of this blog will be aware ofOracle Openworld [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], Oracle's annual conference and exhibition held in San Francisco, California. Openworld is a particularly import event for us as it's when most of the key new product announcements are made, and

User Groups & Conferences

Rittman Mead BI Masterclass India Tour - Update

Just a quick blog post to give an update about our Masterclass tour in India in partnership with ODTUG [http://www.odtug.com/]. As you probably know, Mark Rittman (Oracle ACE Director & Rittman Mead Co-Founder), Stewart Bryson (Oracle ACE, Rittman Mead America Managing Director) & myself (Oracle ACE, Rittman

Oracle BI Suite EE

Rittman Mead BI Masterclass Tour: India, October 2013- Register Now!

I'm very pleased to announce a one-off Rittman Mead BI Masterclass Tour [http://www.rittmanmead.com/indiabimasterclass2013/] that we're organising, in partnership with ODTUG, to take place in India in October 2013. Along with the US and UK, India has the largest amount of readers of

Oracle BI Suite EE

Photos and Presentation Downloads from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013, Brighton & Atlanta

Well, we're all back home now after two very successful Rittman Mead BI Forum events [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013] in Brighton [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/previewing-the-brighton-bi-forum-2013/] , and then Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/agenda-and-details-for-the-atlanta-rm-bi-forum-2013/] , earlier this month in May 2013. Around

Oracle BI Suite EE

Agenda and Details for the Brighton RM BI Forum 2013

It's Tuesday morning, and later today delegates will be starting to arrive in Brighton for the 5th Annual Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013], running again at the Hotel Seattle [http://www.hotelseattlebrighton.com] down at Brighton Marina. Around seventy of Europe's most

Technical

Previewing the BI Forum 2013 Data Integration Masterclass

I guess it's a British thing to not blow our own trumpet (does that translate the same over in the US?), but something I'm particularly proud about with the upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 events [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013] is our Oracle Data Integration

Technical

Rittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta Special Guest: Alex Gorbachev

A few days back, I introduced our special guests [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/04/rittman-mead-bi-forum-atlanta-special-guest-cary-millsap/] for the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta, focusing first on Cary Millsap. Today I'd like to talk about our other special guest: Oracle ACE Director Alex Gorbachev [https://twitter.com/

Technical

What's Coming at the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013, Atlanta, May 15th - 17th 2013

At the end of last week I talked about what we had planned for the BI Forum in Brighton, and today I want to talk about what we've got planned for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 in Atlanta [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/], running the week after

Technical

Some Upcoming Events

It’s going to be a busy few weeks leading up to the BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/]. First, Rittman Mead will be exhibiting at the UKOUG Engineered Systems Summit [http://www.ukoug.org/what-we-offer/news/ukoug-engineered-systems-summit/] on Tuesday 16th April, this is a one day event in

Technical

Looking forward the BI Forum 2013, Brighton UK

It's around a month to go now until the Rittman Mead BI Forum runs in Brighton, UK, with the Atlanta event running the week after. Full details on both events are on the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 homepage [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2013/], but I thought it&