Rittman Mead Blog - Oracle Exalytics

Exalytics X3-4 Now Available, 2TB RAM + SSD and Supports OBIEE 11.1.1.7

It's been on the Oracle Tech Price list for a while now, but Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4 was officially launched this week, with headline new features of 2TB of RAM (up from 1TB in the earlier, X2-4 version), and 2.4TB of SSD flash disk. This new

Technical

Using Oracle TimesTen With Oracle BI Applications (Part 1)

Oracle BI Applications (OBIA) is a product for delivering industry best-practice dashboards and analysis over enterprise sources such as ERP, HR, SCM and CRM systems. OBIA includes the necessary functionality to extract data from the source systems, transform and load it to the target database's standardised data model

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

Using SampleApp Scripts to run a Simple OBIEE 11g Load Test

If you've not done so already, I'd advise anyone interested in OBIEE 11g to subscribe to the Oracle BI Tech Demos channel on Youtube [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXpjKAy010SDUXmAA67DILg], where Philippe Lions and his team showcase upcoming SampleApp releases, and highlight new features like SmartView

Technical

OBIEE, OEM12cR2 and the BI Management Pack Part 1: Introduction to OEM12cR2

A few years ago I wrote a series of blog posts, and an OTN article, on managing OBIEE 10g using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR4 and the BI Management Pack [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/rittman-oem-bipack-087508.html], an extra-licensable option for OEM that provided additional management capabilities for OBIEE and

Technical

Report Flexibility, or Split-Second Performance : Pick One or the Other

Kevin McGinley wrote an interesting post the other week [http://oranalytics.blogspot.ie/2013/02/my-perspective-on-oeid-part-1.html] reflecting on Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID), and the role that it's come to play within Oracle's BI tools strategy. Kevin's view was that whilst Oracle positioned

Technical

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 Call for Papers now Open!

I'm pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 5th annual Rittman Mead BI Forum is now open, with abstracts being accepted through to January 31st, 2013. Last year's BI Forum was the biggest and best ever, running in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA

Technical

Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour 2012 : Venues and BI Presentations

Next week I'm honoured to be taking part in the Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour, taking in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki over four days. Organized by Heli Helskyaho (Finnish Oracle Users Group) and Sten Vesterli (Danish Oracle Users Group) along with the leaders of the Norwegian and

Technical

Oracle Exalytics, Oracle R Enterprise and Endeca Part 3 : Flight Delays Analysis using OBIEE, Endeca and Oracle R Enterprise on Exalytics

So far in this series we've looked at Oracle's BI, Big Data and Advanced Analytics strategy and seen how Exalytics can benefit both Endeca Information Discovery and Oracle R Enterprise through its 40 CPU cores and 1TB of RAM. For a recap on the two earlier

Technical

Oracle Exalytics, Oracle R Enterprise and Endeca Part 2 : Oracle Endeca, the Advanced Analytics Option and Oracle Exalytics

In this week of postings we're going to look at Oracle Exalytics and how it enables "big data" and unstructured data analytics, using Oracle Endeca, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Big Data Appliance and the Oracle Database Advanced Analytics option. In case you've arrived via a

Technical

Oracle Exalytics, Oracle R Enterprise and Endeca Part 1 : Oracle's Analytics, Engineered Systems, and Big Data Strategy

One of the presentations Rittman Mead gave at last week's Oracle Openworld [http://www.rittmanmead.com/openworld2012/] was entitled "High Speed, Big Data Analysis using Oracle Exalytics" [http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/oow2012_rittman_exalytics_big_data.pdf][PDF]. Although it was the last of my

Technical

BI, Data Warehousing and Data Integration News from Oracle Openworld 2012

This week is Oracle Openworld week in San Francisco, USA [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], with around 50,000 attendees attending Openworld itself, Java One and fringe events such as Oaktable world. Rittman Mead have had ten sessions during the week, covering topics such as OBIEE, Endeca, data warehousing, Essbase

Technical

OOW2012 so far...

It's now half way through Oracle Open World 2012 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html] and I thought I would write up a brief update of what has happened so far. Last year saw the announcements of both Exalytics [http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/business-intelligence/

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Exalytics - TimesTen and OBIEE connectivity

Two of the key components in Exalytics are OBIEE and the TimesTen in-memory database. Configuring them to work together, particularly in non-standard configurations, can be fiddly, so here is a guide on how to make sure you get it right. The aim To recap, the aim of this configuration is

Technical

So What Do I Get With Exalytics That I Couldn't Build Myself?

One of the hottest topics at the recent Brighton and Atlanta BI Forum events [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/05/biforum2012downloads/] was Oracle Exalytics, with attendees rightly sceptical about what Exalytics provided that you couldn't build yourself, or indeed whether there was an benefit beyond the highly-specced

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

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

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle Exalytics Week : How Does it Perform, and How Can I Test It?

This week we've been looking in-depth at the new Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the new Exa-appliance from Oracle aimed at the BI tier in an Oracle BI/DW system. We've looked at what problem Exalytics looks to solve, how it's architected and how TimesTen

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle Exalytics Week : The Summary Advisor

This week we've been taking an in-depth look at Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the new engineered system from Oracle that combines Sun hardware with customized versions of Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Essbase and Oracle TimesTen, all running on 64-bit Oracle Linux. Here's a quick recap of

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle Exalytics Week : Exalytics & TimesTen - Under the Covers

So in the first two postings in our Exalytics week series, we looked at why Oracle created Exalytics, and what Exalytics actually comprises of. If you missed the first two postings in the series, here's the week's agenda including links that I'll complete once

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle Exalytics Week : Introducing Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine

In the first post in this Oracle Exalytics week series, we looked BI in general and how users wanted fast, consistent response times from their dashboards and reports. The are several potential solutions for improving query performance including adding materialized views and indexes, using MOLAP technologies such as Oracle Essbase

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle Exalytics Week : The Case for Exalytics

OBIEE 11.1.1.6 was released last week [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-now-available-for-download-release-highlights/] , and what with all the news on the new features, and support for version control in the BI Administration Tool [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/02/obiee-11-1-1-6-mds-xml-repositories-and-integration-with-source-control/] , the thing that most excited