Rittman Mead Blog - Technology

Rittman Mead at Kscope 2019

June is time for one of my favourite conferences: Kscope! This year the location is Seattle and the Agenda [https://kscope19.odtug.com/page/speakers-presentations] is impressive. The event starts on Sunday with the Symposiums driven by Oracle Product Managers and divided by stream of interest. The main conference is

Unify

Unify: Could it be any easier?

Rittman Mead’s Unify is the easiest and most efficient method to pull your OBIEE reporting data directly into your local Tableau environment. No longer will you have to worry about database connection credentials, Excel exports, or any other roundabout way to get your data where you need it to

Technical

ChitChat - Commentary Made Simple

Rittman Mead is excited to announce ChitChat, an innovative new communication tool for OBIEE. [http://www.rittmanmead.com/chitchat] Rittman Mead’s clients already receive the best Oracle Business Analytics and Data Integration consulting and training. Now, in a major expansion of our business capabilities, our clients can enjoy the

Big Data

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

Big Data

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

Technical

Why and How to use Oracle Metadata Management 12c. Part 2: Importing and Relating Metadata

In the first post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/01/why-and-how-to-use-oracle-metadata-management-12c-part-1-getting-started/] of this series we have seen how to install and configure OEEM to start working with it. In this new post we are going to see how we import the metadata into OEMM from different sources like Oracle

Technical

Why and How to use Oracle Metadata Management 12c. Part 1: Getting Started

At OOW 2014, Oracle announced the new Oracle Metadata Management solution and later in the middle of October released its first version - OMM 12.1.3.0.0 [http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2340462?rssid=rss_ocom_pr] At the end of November of 2014, the second

Oracle BI Suite EE

Using Groovy instead of WLST for OBIEE Systems Management

I remember some years back when Rittman Mead first received the OBIEE 11g beta and I tried installing it for the first time. It was a nightmare. If you think the 11.1.1.3 release was challenging, you should have tried working with any one of the betas. It

Oracle BI Suite EE

Automated RPD Builds with OBIEE

Introduction Some time ago, I wrapped up a four-part series on using MDS XML as a basis for RPD development [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/05/mds-xml1/]. Of course... you can (re-) read the blog posts to get up to speed on the concept... but I'll offer

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

Oracle BI Suite EE

Embedding a D3 Visualisation in OBIEE

In this blog entry, my first since joining the company as a consultant a little over a month ago, I will be taking you through the process of embedding a D3 visualisation into OBIEE. In my first few weeks in this new role I've had the pleasure or

Technical

Introducing Oracle Enterprise Data Quality

Visually, BI dashboards and analyses can be impressive and appear to meet the user’s needs, but if the data displayed on the dashboards isn't reliable or correct then those same users can quickly lose faith in what they contain. Therefore, it’s important that assessing and managing

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

Technical

Indexing the unusual

For many years I had an interest in non-standard indexing and exotic data types, that is things that weren't NUMBER or VARCHAR2. In fact before I came in to data warehousing I was involved in indexing free text such as conversation transcripts and and narrative reports; some of

Technical

Oracle Data Integration Suite

Keeping my head down building Oracle 11g OLAP cubes for research and self-education meant the I missed yesterday's product announcement from Oracle, but with the wonders of Blog aggregators (and in particular Beth's [http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfoQualityAggregator]) I spotted a mention on Vincent McBurney'

Technical

Virtually there

I have a couple of days between assignments so I am spending a little time doing research. Ultimately, there is a piece to write on Oracle 11g OLAP, and some course notes on aspects of data warehousing. But do this sort of thing I need to get myself set up

Technical

Looking at the unstructured

Curt Monash has been talking about text mining [http://www.dbms2.com/2007/10/05/the-four-horsemen-of-data-warehousing/] a lot this week, he also notes [http://www.dbms2.com/2007/10/05/the-four-horsemen-of-data-warehousing/] that, from a text point of view, that the four preeminent database vendors (data store not query tool) are

Technical

Thoughts on extremely large databases and searching the unstructured

Nuno Souto posts an interesting set of thoughts on Extremely Large Databases [http://dbasrus.blogspot.com/2007/01/no-moore-part-2.html]. As usual, it is a well thought through post from someone who is probably scarred for life from actually working with large databases. In a data warehouse (or even a

Technical

Is "Data Warehouse" a future-proof term?

A while back it was quite feasible to draw circles around discrete databases in an organisation's IT structure and say 'this is the data warehouse, here is the billing system and that is the blinkity-boo system. But now those circles are pretty defuse. It is harder to

Data Warehousing

We know where you live

No, not a threat from a bunch of gangsters, but a reminder about a, perhaps, under used Oracle feature in data warehousing A little while back Mark Rittman reminded me of a piece he wrote on GIS enabling a data warehouse. [http://www.dbazine.com/datawarehouse/dw-articles/rittman6] People may