Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]