Rittman Mead Blog

Announcing The Kafka Pilot with Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead is today pleased to announce the launch of it's Kafka Pilot service, focusing on engaging with companies to help fully assess the capabilities of Apache Kafka for event streaming use cases with both a technical and business focus. Our 30 day Kafka Pilot includes: A comprehensive assessment of

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Unify - bringing together the best of both worlds

Since I started teaching OBIEE in 2011, I had the pleasure of meeting many fascinating people who work with Business Intelligence. In talking to my students, I would generally notice three different situations: Folks were heavy users of OBIEE and just ready to take their skills to the next level.

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Rittman Mead at Kscope 2017

Rittman Mead will be well represented in San Antonio, Texas next week for Kscope 17 with some of our best from both sides of the Atlantic! Our very own Francesco Tisiot and Jordan Meyer will present various topics as well as participate in the conference events. Also, the newly named

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A focus on Higher Education, HEDW 2017

First, before I get into a great week of Higher Education Data Warehousing and analytics discussions, I want to thank the HEDW board and their membership. They embraced us with open arms in our first year of conference sponsorship. Our longtime friend and HEDW board member, Phyllis Wykoff, from Miami

Conferences

Join Rittman Mead at the 2017 BIWA Summit!

We invite you to come join us at the annual 2017 BIWA Summit. This year we are proud to announce that Robin Moffatt, Head of Research and Development, will be presenting on: Analysing the Panama Papers with Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph January 31, 2017 | 3:45 pm – 4:

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ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 1 - Introduction

We recently undertook a two-week Proof of Concept exercise for a client, evaluating whether their existing ETL processing could be done faster and more cheaply using Spark. They were also interested in whether something like Redshift would provide a suitable data warehouse platform for them. In this series of blog

Oracle GoldenGate

Using logdump to Troubleshoot the Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data Kafka Handler

Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data (OGG BD) supports sending transactions as messages to Kafka topics, both through the native Oracle handler as well as a connector into Confluent's Kafka Connect. In some research that I was doing with it I found an interesting problem that I am going to demonstrate

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An Introduction to Apache Drill

Apache Drill is an engine that can connect to many different data sources, and provide a SQL interface to them. It's not just a wanna-be SQL interface that trips over at anything complex - it's a hugely functional one including support for many built in functions as well as windowing

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Stream Analytics and Processing with Kafka and Oracle Stream Analytics

In my previous post I looked the latest release of Oracle Stream Analytics (OSA), and saw how it provided a graphical interface to "Fast Data". Users can analyse streaming data as it arrives based on conditions and rules. They can also transform the stream data, publishing it back

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An Introduction to Oracle Stream Analytics

Oracle Stream Analytics (OSA) is a graphical tool that provides “Business Insight into Fast Data”. In layman terms, that translates into an intuitive web-based interface for exploring, analysing, and manipulating streaming data sources in realtime. These sources can include REST, JMS queues, as well as Kafka. The inclusion of Kafka