Three Easy Ways to Stream Twitter Data into ElasticSearch
For the past few months a friend has been driving me crazy with all his praise for Splunk. He was going on about how easy it »
Rittman Mead's Bar Optimizer
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 »
Six Months an ACE…”Boy, that escalated quickly"
Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, my path to becoming an Oracle ACE since joining Rittman Mead! When I began with Rittman Mead back in March »
First-timer tips for Oracle Open World
Last week I had the great pleasure to attend Oracle Open World (OOW) for the first time, presenting No Silver Bullets - OBIEE Performance in the »
Creating a Custom Analytics Dashboard from Scratch the "Blue Peter" way
This year, Rittman Mead were the Analytics Sponsor for the UKOUG Tech13 conference in Manchester, and for those that visited the UKOUG stand during their time »
Introduction to Hadoop HDFS (and writing to it with node.js)
The core Hadoop project solves two problems with big data - fast, reliable storage and batch processing. For this first post on Hadoop we are going »
Exalytics Test Drive - April 18th 2012 in London
Some people may have seen that Rittman Mead became the first partner in the UK to buy an Exalytics box in the Oracle newsletter, and as »
News on The BI Verdict, and an Interview with Nigel Pendse
Those of you who keep an eye on this blog, or have been in the BI and OLAP industry for many years, will of course know »
A Quik Look at QlikView
Outside the world of Oracle, one of the rising stars of the BI world has been Qliktech, the Swedish software company behind QlikView. QlikView is one »
Being Flexible
One of the things I really love about working with the team here at Rittman Mead is how we can offer our clients a flexible service, »