Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

The core Hadoop project solves two problems with big data – fast, reliable storage and batch processing. For this first post on Hadoop we are going to focus on the default storage engine and how to integrate with it using its REST API. Hadoop is actually quite easy to install so let’s see what we [...]

Some people may have seen that Rittman Mead became the first partner in the UK to buy an Exalytics box in the Oracle newsletter, and as a result we can uniquely offer our customers and community the chance to get hands on with Exalytics to see how it really can help drive your BI capability [...]

When I first started working in the Business Intelligence industry one of the key concepts was ‘What If Analysis’. One of the drivers of using an OLAP/Decision Support or Business Intelligence system was to be able to do predictive analytics. What If Analysis is undoubtedly a big value add for business, however, my recent experiences [...]

As Mark mentioned in his blog posting a couple of weeks back, we now have an office in India. We now have a total of 3 people working out of our India office currently with myself overseeing the operations. Personally this has been a very exciting last 6 months. Exciting because i got an opportunity [...]

Those of you who keep an eye on this blog, or have been in the BI and OLAP industry for many years, will of course know of Nigel Pendse. Nigel was behind the original “OLAP Report” that offered a vendor-neutral view of the OLAP market and had run for as long as I’ve been in [...]