Cloud - Rittman Mead

A Few Words About OAC Embedding

How to embed OAC DV projects into third-party sites

Timestamp Functions and Presentation Variables in Oracle Cloud Analytics

One of the most popular Rittman Mead blog posts over the last 10 years is Timestamps and Presentation Variables [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/12/timestamps-and-presentation-variables/]. As we are seeing more and more migrations to OAC, we decided to review and revise this post for the latest version of

OAC

Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) training with Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead have today launched it's new Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) [https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/oac] Bootcamp. Run on OAC, the course lasts four days and covers everything you need to know in order to manage your Cloud BI platform and assumes no prior knowledge up-front.

OAC

OAC 18.3.3: New Features

I believe there is a hidden strategy behind Oracle's product release schedule: every time I'm either on holidays or in a business trip full of appointments a new version of Oracle Analytics Cloud is published with a huge set of new features! OAC 18.3.3

Cloud

OAC: Essbase – Incremental Loads / Automation

I recently detailed data load possibilities with the tools provided with Essbase under OAC here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/06/oac-essbase-loading-data/]. Whilst all very usable, my thoughts turned to systems that I have worked on and how the loads currently work, which led to how you might perform

Cloud

OAC: Essbase – Loading Data

After my initial quick pass through Essbase under OAC here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/06/oac-essbase-and-dvcs/], this post looks at the data loading options available in more detail. I used the provided sample database ASOSamp.Basic, which first had to be created, as a working example. Creating ASOSamp

Cloud

OAC: Essbase and DVCS

Finally managed to get around to having a proper look at Essbase within Oracle Analytics Cloud Service (OAC) after a busy couple of months. This post focusses mainly on initial impressions on the ‘out of the box’ the Essbase side of this - which we will explore in more detail

Oracle

First Steps with Oracle Analytics Cloud

Preface Not long ago Oracle added a new offer to their Cloud - an OBIEE in a Cloud with full access. Francesco Tisiot made an overview [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/04/oracle-analytics-cloud-product-overview/] of it and now it's time to go a bit deeper and see how

Oracle Data Integrator

The Case for ETL in the Cloud - CAPEX vs OPEX

Recently Oracle announced [https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/launches-integration-cloud-service-021317.html] a new cloud service for Oracle Data Integrator. Because I was helping our sales team by doing some estimates and statements of work, I was already thinking of costs, ROI, use cases, and the questions behind making a decision

obiee

Oracle Analytics Cloud: Product Overview

We at Rittman Mead are always helping our customer solving their problems, many times we heard them * being unsure about the sizing of their server * being worried about the upfront cost of the licensing * having recurring nightmares about patching * willing to try the cloud but couldn't find the

OOW16

Oracle OpenWorld 2016 - Data Integration Recap

I know it's been about a month since Oracle OpenWorld 2016 concluded, but I wanted to give a brief recap on a few things that I thought were interesting in the data integration space. During the week prior to OpenWorld, I had the privilege to attend the Oracle

Big Data

Using Python to ‘Wrangle’ Your Messy Data

or How to Organize Your Comic Book Collection Based on Issue Popularity In addition to being a product manager at Rittman Mead, I consider myself to be a nerd of the highest order. My love of comic books, fantasy, sci-fi and general geekery began long before the word ‘Stark’ had

Big Data

Taking a Look at Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service - Spark-Based Data Transformation in the Cloud

One of the sessions I’m delivering at the upcoming Oracle Openworld 2015 in San Francisco is entitled "Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service—Moving Your Complete BI Platform to the Cloud [UGF4906]”, and looks at how you can now migrate your entire OBIEE11g platform into Oracle Public Cloud including

Technical

Oracle Data Integrator to load Oracle BICS and Oracle Storage Cloud Service

It is known that Oracle focuses its sales on cloud this year and in the BI world, we have seen the introduction of Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service [https://cloud.oracle.com/business_intelligence] – BICS – that we already covered on the blog [http://www.rittmanmead.com/tag/bics/]. Another great

Big Data

Replicating Hive Data Into Oracle BI Cloud Service for Visual Analyzer using BICS Data Sync

In yesterday’s post on using Oracle Big Data Discovery with Oracle Visual Analyzer in Oracle BI Cloud Service [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/06/combining-oracle-big-data-discovery-and-oracle-visual-analyzer-on-bics/] , I said mid-way through the article that I had to copy the Hadoop data into BI Cloud Service so that Visual Analyzer could

Technical

New In Oracle BI Cloud Service - Oracle Visual Analyzer, and Data Mashups in VA

Oracle released an update to Oracle BI Cloud Service a few weeks ago that included Oracle Visual Analyzer, along with some other improvements including support for full Oracle Database-as-a-Service as the database backend, the ability to upload RPDs and run them in the cloud, and support for a new utility

Technical

New Oracle Magazine article on Oracle BI Cloud Service

The May/June 2015 edition of Oracle Magazine is now out, and my Business Intelligence article in this edition is on Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). In “Upload, Model, Analyze and Report” [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2015/15-may/o35ba-2541604.html] I focus on the “departmental power-user” use-case where

Big Data

Presentation Slides and Photos from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, Brighton and Atlanta

It’s now the Saturday after the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/] events, last week in Atlanta, GA and the week before in Brighton, UK. Both events were a great success and I’d like to say thanks to the speakers, attendees, our friends

Technical

Last Chance to Register for the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015!

It’s just a week to go until the start of the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2015/], with the optional one-day masterclass starting on Wednesday, May 6th at 10am and the event opening with a reception and Oracle keynote later in the evening. Spaces

Big Data

Previewing Four Sessions at the Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015

In a post earlier this week I previewed three sessions at the upcoming Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/04/previewing-three-sessions-at-the-brighton-rittman-mead-bi-forum-2015/] ; in this post I’m going to look at four particularly interesting sessions at the Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 [http://www.

Big Data

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

Technical

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

Technical

OBIEE SampleApp v406 Amazon EC2 AMI - available for public use

I wrote a while ago about converting Oracle's superb OBIEE SampleApp from a VirtualBox image into an EC2-hosted instance [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/09/obiee-sampleapp-in-the-cloud-importing-virtualbox-machines-to-aws-ec2/] . I'm pleased to announce that Oracle have agreed for us to make the image (AMI) on Amazon available publicly.

Technical

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