Previewing the BI Forum 2013 Data Integration Masterclass

Sunday, May 5th, 2013 by

I guess it’s a British thing to not blow our own trumpet (does that translate the same over in the US?), but something I’m particularly proud about with the upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 events is our Oracle Data Integration Masterclass, running on the Wednesday before each event properly starts, and put together by [...]

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 2: Connecting OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to Hadoop Data Sources

Friday, April 19th, 2013 by

In yesterday’s post I looked at the key enabling technologies behind OBIEE and ODI’s connectivity to Hadoop, and today I’ll look at how OBIEE 11.1.1.7 can now access Hadoop data sources through two related technologies; Hive, and MapReduce. In my introduction to the topic I said that whilst writing MapReduce routines in Java, and then [...]

OBIEE, ODI and Hadoop Part 1: So What Is Hadoop, MapReduce and Hive?

Thursday, April 18th, 2013 by

Recent releases of OBIEE and ODI have included support for Apache Hadoop as a data source, probably the most well-recognised technology within the “big data” movement. Most OBIEE and ODI developers have probably heard of Hadoop and MapReduce, a data-processing programming model that goes hand-in-hand with Hadoop, but haven’t tried it themselves or really found [...]

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 Call for Papers now Open!

Monday, January 7th, 2013 by

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 in May 2012. This year we’re back again at [...]

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

Thursday, October 11th, 2012 by

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 postings in this series the links are provided below, [...]

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