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Realtime BI Show with Kevin and Stewart - BI Forum 2015 Special!

Jordan Meyer and I were very pleased to be invited onto the Realtime BI Show podcast last week, run by Kevin McGinley and Stewart Bryson, to talk about the upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015]. Stewart and Kevin

Announcing Oracle E-Business Suite for Hadoop and MongoDB

Rittman Mead are very pleased today to announce our special edition of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 running on Apache Hadoop [https://hadoop.apache.org]and MongoDB [https://www.mongodb.org], for customers looking for the ultimate in scalability, flexible data storage and lower cost-of-ownership. Powered by Hadoop technologies such as

User Groups & Conferences

RM BI Forum 2015 : Justification Letters for Employers

(Thanks to Christian Berg@Nephentur [https://twitter.com/Nephentur]for the suggestion, and acknowledgements toODTUG KScope [http://kscope15.com/registration]for the original idea - our favourite conference after the BI Forum) TheRittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015]promises to be our best BI Forum yet,

Announcing the BI Forum 2015 Data Visualisation Challenge

The Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015]is running in Brighton from May 6th-8th 2015, and Atlanta from May 13th - 15th 2015. At this year’s events we’re introducing our first “data visualization challenge” [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/bi-forum-2015-data-visualization-challenge/] , open to all attendees

More on the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Masterclass : "Delivering the Oracle Big Data and Information Management Reference Architecture"

Each year at the Rittman Mead BI Forum [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015] we host an optional one-day masterclass before the event opens properly on Wednesday evening, with guest speakers over the year including Kurt Wolff [https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/14286589858], Kevin McGinley [https://obibb.wordpress.com/2012/05/

Announcing the Special Guest Speakers for Brighton & Atlanta BI Forum 2015

As well as a great line-up of speakers and sessions at each of the Brighton & Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] events in May, I’m very pleased to announce our two guest speakers who’ll give the second keynotes, on the Thursday evening

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Now Open for Registration!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, running in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2015, is now open for registration [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/]. Back for its seventh successful year, the Rittman Mead BI Forum once again will be showcasing the best speakers

Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2015

I’m writing this in my hotel room in downtown San Francisco, with my colleague Francesco Tisiot flying in tonight and US colleagues Jordan Meyer, Daniel Adams and Andy Rocha travelling down tomorrow and Monday for next week's BIWA Summit 2015 [http://www.ioug.org/biwasummit]. The Business

Enable Your Dashboard Designers to Concentrate on User Experience Rather Than Syntax (or How to Add a Treemap in Two Lines)

JavaScript is a powerful tool that can be used to add functionality to OBIEE dashboards. However, for many whose wheelhouses are more naturally aligned with Stephen Few [http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Few/e/B001H6IQ5M] rather than John Resig [http://ejohn.org/about/], adding JavaScript to a dashboard can be intimidating.

Happy Christmas from Rittman Mead, and Where To Find Us in 2015

It’s the day before Christmas Eve over in the UK, and we’re finishing up for the Christmas break and looking forward to seeing friends and family over the next few days. To all of our readers, customers, friends and partners, have a great Holiday season and New Year,

TIMESTAMPS and Presentation Variables

TIMESTAMPS and Presentation Variables can be some of the most useful tools a report creator can use to invent robust, repeatable reports while maximizing user flexibility. I intend to transform you into an expert with these functions and by the end of this page you will certainly be able to

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Call for Papers Now Open!

I’m very pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [https://docs.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/forms/d/18XWPmrzr3te55rloDJyB8vFP9j8AUNKKryvOToGHBlA/viewform] is now open, with abstract submissions open to January 18th 2015. As in previous years the BI Forum will run over

Rittman Mead's Bar Optimizer

[http://lab.ritt.md/bar-optimizer.png] At Rittman Mead R&D, we have the privilege of solving some of our clients’ most challenging data problems. We recently built a set of customized data products that leverage the power of Oracle and Cloudera platforms and wanted to share some of

Six Months an ACE…”Boy, that escalated quickly"

Boy, that escalated quickly [http://youtu.be/FONN-0uoTHI]. I mean, my path to becoming an Oracle ACE since joining Rittman Mead! When I began with Rittman Mead back in March 2012, I wasn't planning on joining the ACE program. In fact, I really wasn't sure what

Rittman Mead Founder Member of the Red Expert Alliance

At Rittman Mead we’re always keen to collaborate with our peers and partners in the Oracle industry, running events such as the BI Forum in Brighton and Atlanta each year and speaking at user groups in the UK, Europe, USA and around the world. We were pleased therefore to

Rittman Mead anuncia su catálogo de cursos en Español y en Portugués.

[https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/content/images/2016/05/07698Spanish_Portuguese_Training.png] [http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-announces-its-training-catalog-in-spanish-and-portuguese/] [http://www.rittmanmead.com/rittman-mead-anuncia-o-seu-catalogo-de-cursos-em-espanhol-e-em-portugues/] Tenemos el agrado de anunciarles que desde ahora Rittman Mead ofrece su catálogo completo de cursos en Español y en Portugués. Esta es una gran noticia para

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 [http://www.ukoug.org/membership-new/partner-area/partner-of-the-year-awards/2014winners/] . * 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

Oracle BI Cloud Service for SaaS Application Reporting Part 1: Integrating BICS to Salesforce.com using REST APIs

Last monthMark Rittman [http://www.rittmanmead.com/author/mark-rittman/]covered a series of posts detailing theOracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) [https://cloud.oracle.com/business_intelligence], aimed at departmental users who want the power of OBIEE 11g without the need to stand-up their own infrastructure. If you’re coming in

Monitoring OBIEE with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana

Monitoring the health of an OBIEE system and diagnosing problems that may occur is a vital task for the system’s administrator and support staff. It’s one that at Rittman Mead we help customers with implementing themselves, and also provide as a managed service [http://www.rittmanmead.com/support/

First-timer tips for Oracle Open World

Last week I had the great pleasure to attend Oracle Open World (OOW) for the first time, presentingNo Silver Bullets - OBIEE Performance in the Real World [http://www.slideshare.net/themoff/oow14-robin-moffatt-no-silver-bullets-obiee-performance-in-the-real-world] at one of the ODTUG user group sessions on the Sunday. It was a blast, as the

News and Updates from Oracle Openworld 2014

It’s the Saturday after Oracle Openworld 2014 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], and I’m now home from San Francisco and back in the UK. It’s been a great week as usual, with lots of product announcements and updates to the BI, DW and Big Data products we

EPM and BI Meetup at Next Week's Openworld (and details of our Oracle DI Speakeasy)

Just a short note to help publicise the Oracle Openworld 2014 EPM and BI Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Oracle-Open-World-Essbase-EPM-meetup/events/205491072/] that’s running next week, organised by Cameron Lackpour and Tim Tow from the ODTUG board. This is an excellent opportunity for EPM and BI developers and customers