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Announcing the Special Guest Speakers for Brighton & Atlanta BI Forum 2015

As well as a great line-up of speakers and sessions at each of the Brighton & Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] events in May, I’m very pleased to announce our two guest speakers who’ll give the second keynotes, on the Thursday evening

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Now Open for Registration!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2015, is now open for registration [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/]. Back for its seventh successful year, the Rittman Mead BI Forum once again will be showcasing the best speakers

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Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2015

I’m writing this in my hotel room in downtown San Francisco, with my colleague Francesco Tisiot flying in tonight and US colleagues Jordan Meyer, Daniel Adams and Andy Rocha travelling down tomorrow and Monday for next week's BIWA Summit 2015 [http://www.ioug.org/biwasummit]. The Business

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Happy Christmas from Rittman Mead, and Where To Find Us in 2015

It’s the day before Christmas Eve over in the UK, and we’re finishing up for the Christmas break and looking forward to seeing friends and family over the next few days. To all of our readers, customers, friends and partners, have a great Holiday season and New Year,

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Call for Papers Now Open!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/forms/d/18XWPmrzr3te55rloDJyB8vFP9j8AUNKKryvOToGHBlA/viewform] is now open, with abstract submissions open to January 18th 2015. As in previous years the BI Forum will run over

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UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards

A few days ago Rittman Mead won 5 awards at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards [http://www.ukoug.org/membership-new/partner-area/partner-of-the-year-awards/2014winners/] . * Business Intelligence Partner of the Year (Silver) * Training Partner of the Year (Silver) * Managed Services (Outsourcing and Operations) Partner of the Year (Silver) * Emerging (New

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News and Updates from Oracle Openworld 2014

It’s the Saturday after Oracle Openworld 2014 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], and I’m now home from San Francisco and back in the UK. It’s been a great week as usual, with lots of product announcements and updates to the BI, DW and Big Data products we

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EPM and BI Meetup at Next Week's Openworld (and details of our Oracle DI Speakeasy)

Just a short note to help publicise the Oracle Openworld 2014 EPM and BI Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Oracle-Open-World-Essbase-EPM-meetup/events/205491072/] that’s running next week, organised by Cameron Lackpour and Tim Tow from the ODTUG board. This is an excellent opportunity for EPM and BI developers and customers

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Rittman Mead in the OTN TOUR Latin America 2014

Another OTN Tour Latin America has come and gone. This is the most important technical event in the region visiting 12 countries and with more than 2500 attendees in two weeks. This year Rittman Mead was part of the OTN Tour in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) presenting about

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Upcoming Big Data and Hadoop for Oracle BI, DW and DI Developers Presentations

If you’ve been following our postings on the blog over the past year, you’ll probably have seen quite a lot of activity around big data and Hadoop [http://www.rittmanmead.com/category/big-data/] and in particular, what these technologies bring to the world of Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle

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Vote for Rittman Mead at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards 2014!

Rittman Mead are proud to announce that we’ve been nominated by UKOUG members and Oracle customers for five categories in the upcoming UKOUG Parter of the Year Awards 2014 [http://www.ukoug.org/membership-new/partner-area/partner-of-the-year-awards/]; Business Intelligence, Training, Managed Services, Operating Systems Storage and Hardware, and Emerging Partner,

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Rittman Mead at ODTUG KScope'14, Seattle

Next week is ODTUG KScope’14 [http://kscope14.com] in Seattle, USA, and Rittman Mead will be delivering a number of presentations over the week. Coming over from Europe we have Jérôme Françoisse and myself, and we’ll be joined by Michael Rainey, Daniel Adams, Charles Elliott from Rittman Mead

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The BI Survey 14 - 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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Rittman Mead at the Oracle Virtual Technology Summit 2014 - "The Architecture of Analytics: Big Time Big Data and Business Intelligence"

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting at the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Virtual Technology Summit [http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=796788&s=1&k=4A8AB16195363690B31C6F19FED113DF&partnerref=americasace] , an online event running over three days in early July. I’m speaking as

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Photos and Presentation Downloads from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014

Well we’re back in Brighton, UK now after the second successful week of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014. In Week 1, we went to the Seattle Hotel in Brighton (read the recap here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/05/rm-bi-forum-2014-brighton-is-a-wrap-now-on-to-atlanta/]), and then straight-after we flew over to

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The State of the OBIEE11g World as of May 2014

I’m conscious I’ve posted a lot on this blog over the past few months about hot new topics like big data, Hadoop and Oracle Advanced Analytics, and not so much about OBIEE, which traditionally has been the core of Rittman Mead’s business and what we’ve written

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RM BI Forum 2014 Brighton is a Wrap - Now on to Atlanta!

I’m writing this sitting in my hotel room in Atlanta, having flown over from the UK on Saturday following the end of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] in Brighton. I think it’s probably true to say that this year was our best

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Previewing TimesTen, Endeca and Oracle DW Sessions at the Brighton BI Forum 2014

It’s under a week now to the first of the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] events, with Brighton running next week at the Hotel Seattle and then Atlanta the week after, at the Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel. Earlier in the week I went

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More Details on the Lars George Cloudera Hadoop Masterclass - RM BI Forum 2014, Brighton & Atlanta

It’s just over a week until the first of the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/] events take place in Brighton and Atlanta, and one of the highlights of the events for me will be Cloudera’s Lars George’s Hadoop Masterclass. Hadoop and

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Preview of the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta

Mark has done a great job of previewing the upcoming content for both BI Forums, the one running locally for us in Atlanta, as well as the one in Brighton, UK. We have an exceptional Master Class this year with Lars George from Cloudera [https://twitter.com/larsgeorge], including an

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Previewing Three Oracle Data Visualization Sessions at the Atlanta US BI Forum 2014

Many of the sessions at the UK and US Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/] events in May focus on the back-end of BI and data warehousing, with for example Chris Jenkins’ session on TimesTen giving us some tips and tricks from TimeTen product development, and

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Preview of Maria Colgan, and Andrew Bond/Stewart Bryson Sessions at RM BI Forum 2014

We’ve got a great selection of presentations at the two upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] events in Brighton and Atlanta, including sessions on Endeca, TimesTen, OBIEE (of course), ODI, GoldenGate, Essbase and Big Data (full timetable for both events here [https://www.rittmanmead.

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Registration Now Open - Don't Miss Out!

Just a quick reminder to say that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] is now open, with the speaker and presentation list now up on the event website. As with previous years, the BI Forum runs in Brighton on the first week, and

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Congratulations to Stewart Bryson, and Welcome to Edel Kammermann

Stewart’s too modest to mention it on the blog himself, but I just wanted to congratulate Stewart Bryson on being awarded Oracle ACE Director [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oracle-ace/index.html] status by the Oracle OTN ACE program. Stewart was given the Oracle ACE award a few

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Now Open for Registration!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 running in Brighton and Atlanta, May 2014, is now open for registration [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/]. Keeping the format as before - a single stream at each event, world-class speakers and expert-level presentations, and a strictly-limited