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 [...]

If you’ve not done so already, I’d advise anyone interested in OBIEE 11g to subscribe to the Oracle BI Tech Demos channel on Youtube, where Philippe Lions and his team showcase upcoming SampleApp releases, and highlight new features like SmartView integration (to be covered later this week on this blog), integration with Oracle R Enterprise, [...]

A few years ago I wrote a series of blog posts, and an OTN article, on managing OBIEE 10g using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR4 and the BI Management Pack, an extra-licensable option for OEM that provided additional management capabilities for OBIEE  and the BI Apps Data Warehouse Administration Console. The BI Management Pack was reasonably [...]

Kevin McGinley wrote an interesting post the other week reflecting on Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID), and the role that it’s come to play within Oracle’s BI tools strategy. Kevin’s view was that whilst Oracle positioned OEID originally as an “unstructured data”, or even “big data” tool, where it’s got the most take-up in Kevin’s [...]

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 [...]