Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Well, we’re all back home now after two very successful Rittman Mead BI Forum events in Brighton, and then Atlanta, earlier this month in May 2013. Around 70 OBIEE, ODI, Endeca and Essbase developers from around Europe got together in the first week in Brighton, followed by around 60 in Atlanta, and we were joined [...]

My last post looked at some aspects of performance tuning that would make traditional DBAs blanche with horror, not once did I mention indexing, partitioning, PCTFREE or parallel. This was not because I don’t consider them important, but more that the simple test of “am I doing the right thing” is often overlooked. To appease [...]

In this week of postings we’re going to look at Oracle Exalytics and how it enables “big data” and unstructured data analytics, using Oracle Endeca, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Big Data Appliance and the Oracle Database Advanced Analytics option. In case you’ve arrived via a Google search and you’re interested in the rest of the postings [...]

This week is Oracle Openworld week in San Francisco, USA, with around 50,000 attendees attending Openworld itself, Java One and fringe events such as Oaktable world. Rittman Mead have had ten sessions during the week, covering topics such as OBIEE, Endeca, data warehousing, Essbase and EPM, Exalyics and Oracle Advanced Analytics, with links to our [...]

It’s now half way through Oracle Open World 2012 and I thought I would write up a brief update of what has happened so far. Last year saw the announcements of both Exalytics and the acquisition of Endeca, I didn’t expect the same sort of excitement this year for Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse, however [...]