Jon Mead - Rittman Mead

Unify 10.0.49

A new release of Unify is available, 10.0.49. This release includes support for Tableau 2021.4.

Getting Smart View to work with OAC

I wanted to demonstrate what I thought would be a simple task to a client today, however it turned out to be a little more complex than I first anticipated, so I thought I would publish here. All I needed to do was get Smart View connecting to OAC. Prerequisites

OAC

Oracle Analytics Summit 2019

Last week I attended the Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch. The event was live-streamed on Facebook and widely Tweeted, so a fair number of people may be up to speed with the announcements, I’ll summarise what I thought the key points were. The purpose of the event, I

Unify

Exciting News for Unify

Announcement: Unify for Free We are excited to announce we are going to make Unify available for free. To get started send an email to unify@rittmanmead.com, we will ask you to complete a short set of qualifying questions, then we can give you a demo, provide a product

devops

Why DevOps Matters for Enterprise BI

Why are people frustrated with their existing enterprise BI tools such as OBIEE? My view is because it costs too much to produce relevant content. I think some of this is down to the tools themselves, and some of it is down to process. Starting with the tools, they are

Confluent Partnership

Here at Rittman Mead, we are continually broadening the scope and expertise of our services to help our customers keep pace with today's ever-changing technology landscape. One significant change we have seen over the last few years is the increased adoption of data streaming. These solutions can help solve a

UKOUG

Rittman Mead at UKOUG 2017

For those of you attending the UKOUG this year, we are giving three presentations on OBIEE and Data Visualisation. Francesco Tisiot has two on Monday: 14.25 // Enabling Self-Service Analytics With Analytic Views & Data Visualization From Cloud to Desktop - Hall 7a 17:55 // OBIEE: Going Down the Rabbit

OBIEE upgrades and Windows vulnerabilities

These two topics may seem unrelated; however, the ransomware attacks over the last few days provide us with a reminder of what people can do with known vulnerabilities in an operating system. Organisations consider upgrades a necessary evil; they cost money, take up time and often have little tangible benefit

Technical

Corporate Social Responsibility (Where Can We Serve?)

At Rittman Mead, we believe that people are more important than profit. This manifests itself in two ways. First, we want to impact the world beyond data and analytics, and secondly, we want our employees to be able to contribute to organizations they believe are doing impactful work. This year,

Technical

Once A Week Is Never Enough

Over the last few months we have been looking at User Engagement and recently asked people take part in a global usage survey so we could create a series of benchmark metrics detailing how organisations used OBIEE. We had a great response and have started to process the data. One

UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards 2015

It’s that time of year again for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards. This year we have been nominated for 4 awards: Engineered Systems Partner of the Year Award Business Analytics Partner of the Year Award Training Partner of the Year Award Emerging Partner of the Year Award

Technical

The greatest OBIEE usage study ever...

Rittman Mead is excited to announce the first ever global OBIEE usage survey. Our goal is to provide deep analysis into how organisations use their OBIEE systems and to create a set of industry benchmarks. We will be releasing the results of this research for free to the OBIEE community.

Technical

User Engagement - Why Does it Matter?

The value of any system can be measured by how often you interact with it. The perfect example is Slack, which is now seen as the most successful collaboration app ever and is valued at $1.2bn. The key metric for this is DAU/MAU (the ratio of daily users

Private or Public Training? (and a Discount Code)

Rittman Mead offers world class training that covers various Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Integration tools. Rittman Mead currently offers two types of training, Public and Private - so what is the best option for your organization? Both Private and Public options are staffed by the same highly qualified,

User Groups & Conferences

UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards

A few days ago Rittman Mead won 5 awards at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards. Business Intelligence Partner of the Year (Silver) Training Partner of the Year (Silver) Managed Services (Outsourcing and Operations) Partner of the Year (Silver) Emerging (New Products) Partner of the Year (Silver) Operating Systems,

Rittman Mead Life

Rittman Mead/Oracle Data Integration Speakeasy @ Oracle Open World

If you are attending Oracle Open World this year and fancy bit of a different experience, come and join Rittman Mead and Oracle’s Data Integration teams for drinks and networking at 7pm on Tuesday 30th September at the Local Edition speakeasy on Market Street. We will be providing a

Sunday Times Tech Track 100

Over the weekend, Rittman Mead was listed in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100. We are extremely proud to get recognition for the business as well as our technical capability and expertise. A lot of the public face of Rittman Mead focuses on the tools and technologies we work with.

User Groups & Conferences

UKOUG Tech13 Conference

Next week Rittman Mead is the analytics sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 conference up in Manchester. We've got a great line up of talks, covering everything from BI Apps, Endeca, Hadoop, OBIEE and mobile - Stewart and Charles are both flying in from the US to present alongside Mark, Adam

Rittman Mead

Thank You for Voting for Rittman Mead

Earlier in the year I announced that we had been nominated in 5 categories for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards. The award ceremony was last night and I’m proud to say that we received an award in each of the categories we entered and won two of

UKOUG Partner of the Year 2013

We are honoured to announce that Rittman Mead have been nominated in 5 categories for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards. We have been nominated in: Business Intelligence Partner of the Year Training Partner of the Year Managed Services (Outsourcing & Operations) Partner of the year Emerging (New Products)

OEID Data Provisioning

One of the most exciting aspects of the current information management revolution is business users getting faster access to wider sets of data and therefore being able to understand business events and make decisions more effectively and quicker than before. This is happening through a number of different tools, some

Technical

Some Upcoming Events

It’s going to be a busy few weeks leading up to the BI Forum. First, Rittman Mead will be exhibiting at the UKOUG Engineered Systems Summit on Tuesday 16th April, this is a one day event in London for Exadata, Exalogic, SuperCluster and not least Exalytics. Mark will

Technical

The Changing World of Business Intelligence

Over the last 18 months we have seen a huge amount of changes in the world of Oracle Business Intelligence and Analytics. Everyone wants to talk about Big Data, however doesn’t know where to start in a corporate world, Oracle bought Endeca, which is a reporting/information discovery

Technical

OOW2012 so far...

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

UKOUG Oracle BI Partner of the Year - Vote for Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead has been nominated for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards for another year, in the Business Intelligence category. We take awards like these very seriously as we feel they reflect the effort and service we provide directly to our clients and indirectly to the wider Oracle BI