Rittman Mead Blog - Conference Announcements

Rittman Mead sponsoring RMOUG

After enjoying a successful 2020 in the North American data and analytics market, we’re excited to announce that we’re sponsoring Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) this year! Running from 8th - 11th February, the agenda is jam packed with content including interactive workshops and technical sessions all

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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Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2017

I'm excited to be attending my first ever BIWA Summit next week (which will take me to Oracle HQ at Redwood Shores for the first time too!). This three day conference is one of the major dates in the conference calendar for all Oracle Analytics folk, and I'm proud to

UKOUG

Rittman Mead at UKOUG Tech 16

This year as always Rittman Mead is coming to UKOUG Tech 16 with a strong presence and a great line up of sessions covering OBIEE, ODI, Kafka, advanced visualisation and more. And yes, there will be Cloud! Here is the details of the Rittman Mead sessions : Kafka's Role in Implementing

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POUG

I've just attended my first user group in Poland, the very-excellent POUG. This was the first international version of the conference, having been run previously just within Poland. Based on these two days, I would say it was a resounding success! There was a great atmosphere there, really engaged and

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All You Ever Wanted to Know About OBIEE Performance…but were too afraid to ask

At the Polish Oracle Users Group (POUG) conference this week I'm presenting one of my favourite talks, [Still] No Silver Bullets - OBIEE Performance in the Real World. This presentation is based on the shared experiences of myself and my Rittman Mead colleagues helping our clients diagnose and - most

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Rittman Mead at Oracle OpenWorld 2016

The big show is upon us and once again Rittman Mead will be actively participating at [Oracle OpenWorld 2016](https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html" target="_blank). Oracle's premier conference runs September 18–22 at the Moscone Center in beautiful San Francisco, California. I'm looking forward to

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Rittman Mead at KScope16

June is the perfect month: summer begins, major football (and futbol) tournaments are in full swing, and of course, KScope16 is on! Rittman Mead have participated in many of the past KScope conferences and will continue that tradition this year with a wide range of presentation and training topics across

Big Data

Rittman Mead at Collaborate 16: Data Integration Focus

It’s that time of year again when Oracle technologists from around the world gather in Las Vegas, Nevada, to teach, learn, and, of course, network with their peers. The Collaborate 16 conference, running for 10 years now, has been a collaboration, if you will, between the Independent Oracle Users

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Rittman Mead Sponsors Georgia Oracle Users Group's Tech Day

As part of Rittman Mead’s continuing support and participation in the Oracle community, we are proudly sponsoring this year’s Georgia Oracle Users Group’s Tech Day on Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Downtown Atlanta at the Executive Conference Center. Rittman Mead’s own Consulting Manager, Andy Rocha, will

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Rittman Mead at UKOUG Tech'15 Conference, Birmingham

This week Rittman Mead are very pleased to be presenting at the UK Oracle User Group’s Tech’15 Conference in Birmingham, delivering a number of sessions around OBIEE, Data Integration, Cloud and Big Data. If you’re at the event and you see any of us in sessions, around

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BI Forum 2015 Preview -- OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack

I’m pleased to be presenting at both of the Rittman Mead BI Forums this year; in Brighton it’ll be my fourth time, whilst Atlanta will be my first, and my first trip to the city too. I’ve heard great things about the food, and I’m sure

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; in this post I’m going to look at four particularly interesting sessions at the Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 event running the week after Brighton, on May 13th-15th 2015

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Announcing the BI Forum 2015 Data Visualisation Challenge

The Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 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”, open to all attendees and with the dataset and scenario open from now until the

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. Back for its seventh successful year, the Rittman Mead BI Forum once again will be showcasing the best speakers and presentations on topics around

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

Last month Mark Rittman covered a series of posts detailing the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS), 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 late, here’s the link to the series. Before the

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News and Updates from Oracle Openworld 2014

It’s the Saturday after Oracle Openworld 2014, 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 use on current projects. Here’

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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 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 to get together and network over drinks

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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

User Groups & Conferences

Rittman Mead in the OTN TOUR Latin America 2014

Another OTN Tour Latin America has come and gone. This is the most important technical event in the region visiting 12 countries and with more than 2500 attendees in two weeks. This year Rittman Mead was part of the OTN Tour in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) presenting about

Technical

The Business Value In Training

One of the main things I get asked to do here at Rittman Mead, is deliver the OBIEE front-end training course (TRN 202). This a great course that has served both us, and our clients well over the years. It has always been in high demand and always delivered with

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BI Forum 2014 preview - No Silver Bullets : OBIEE Performance in the Real World

I'm honoured to have been accepted to speak at this year's Rittman Mead BI Forum, the sixth year of this expert-level conference that draws some of the best Oracle BI/DW minds together from around the world. It's running May 8th-9th in Brighton, and May 15-16th in Atlanta, with an

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

User Groups & Conferences

Rittman Mead BI Masterclass India Tour - Update

Just a quick blog post to give an update about our Masterclass tour in India in partnership with ODTUG. As you probably know, Mark Rittman (Oracle ACE Director & Rittman Mead Co-Founder), Stewart Bryson (Oracle ACE, Rittman Mead America Managing Director) & myself (Oracle ACE, Rittman Mead India Managing Director)

Oracle BI Suite EE

MDS XML versus MUDE Part1: Introduction

The links below represent all the entries in this series: MDS XML versus MUDE Part 2: What is MUDE? MDS XML versus MUDE Part 3: Configuring MDS XML with Git MDS XML versus MUDE Part 4: Using Branches with Git This is my first blog post in quite a while.