Theory - Rittman Mead

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

Simple Ways to Simplify: Quick Fixes to Enhance OBIEE Visuals

Over the past couple of months I worked with a few clients in order to conduct an assessment on dashboard and analysis design. In most cases I was noticing that the dashboards were overflowing with content to the point that there was really no discernible “story” or “flow” to the

Technical

Introducing the Updated Oracle / Rittman Mead Information Management Reference Architecture Pt1. - Information Architecture and the "Data Factory"

One of the things at Rittman Mead that we’re really interested in, is the architecture of “information management” systems and how these change over time as thinking, and product capabilities, evolve. In fact we often collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team within Oracle, giving input into the architecture designs

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

The Changing World of Business Intelligence

Over the last 18 months we have seen a huge amount of changes in the world of Oracle Business Intelligence and Analytics. Everyone wants to talk about Big Data, however doesn’t know where to start in a corporate world, Oracle bought Endeca, which is a reporting/information discovery tool,