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Rittman Mead at UKOUG Tech'15 Conference, Birmingham

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 [http://tech15.ukoug.org] 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

Rittman Mead and Oracle Big Data Webcast Series - November 2015

Rittman Mead and Oracle Big Data Webcast Series - November 2015

We’re running a set of three webcasts together with Oracle on three popular use-cases for big data within an Oracle context - with the first one running tomorrow, November 3rd 2015 15:00 – 16:00 GMT / 16:00 – 17:00 CET on extending the data warehouse using Hadoop and

Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Roundup Part 2 : Data Integration, and Big Data (in the Cloud...)

Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Roundup Part 2 : Data Integration, and Big Data (in the Cloud...)

In yesterdays part one of our three-part Oracle Openworld 2015 round-up [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/11/oracle-openworld-2015-roundup-part-1-obiee12c-and-data-visualisation-cloud-service/] , we looked at the launch of OBIEE12c just before Openworld itself, and the new Data Visualisation Cloud Service that Thomas Kurian demo’d in his mid-week keynote. In part two we’

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

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

So What's the Real Point of ODI12c for Big Data Generating Pig and Spark Mappings?

So What's the Real Point of ODI12c for Big Data Generating Pig and Spark Mappings?

Oracle ODI12c for Big Data [https://www.oracle.com/middleware/data-integration/enterprise-edition-big-data/index.html] came out the other week, and my colleague Jérôme Françoisse put together an introductory post on the new features [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2015/04/odi12c-advanced-big-data-option-overview-install/] shortly after, covering ODI’s new ability to generate

Setting up Security and Access Control on a Big Data Appliance

Setting up Security and Access Control on a Big Data Appliance

Like all Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle’s field servicing and Advanced Customer Services (ACS) teams go on-site once a BDA has been sold to a customer and do the racking, installation and initial setup. They will usually ask the customer a set of questions such as “do you want to

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

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

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 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

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

Using Oracle GoldenGate for Trickle-Feeding RDBMS Transactions into Hive and HDFS

A few months ago I wrote a post on the blog around using Apache Flume to trickle-feed log data into HDFS and Hive [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/05/trickle-feeding-webserver-log-files-to-hdfs-using-apache-flume/] , using the Rittman Mead website as the source for the log entries. Flume is a good technology to use

Analyzing Twitter Data using Datasift, MongoDB, Hive and ODI12c

Last week I posted an article on the blog around analysing Twitter data using Datasift, MongoDB and Pig [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/09/analyzing-twitter-data-using-datasift-mongodb-and-pig/], where I used the Datasift [http://datasift.com] service to stream tweets about Rittman Mead into a MongoDB NoSQL database, and then queried the

Analyzing Twitter Data using Datasift, MongoDB and Pig

If you followed our recent postings on the updated Oracle Information Management Reference Architecture [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/06/introducing-the-updated-oracle-rittman-mead-information-management-reference-architecture-pt1-information-architecture-and-the-data-factory/] , one of the key concepts we talk about is the “data reservoir”. This is a pool of additional data that you can add to your data warehouse, typically

Upcoming Big Data and Hadoop for Oracle BI, DW and DI Developers Presentations

If you’ve been following our postings on the blog over the past year, you’ll probably have seen quite a lot of activity around big data and Hadoop [http://www.rittmanmead.com/category/big-data/] and in particular, what these technologies bring to the world of Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle

Rittman Mead and Oracle Big Data Appliance

Over the past couple of years Rittman Mead have been broadening our skills and competencies out from core OBIEE, ODI and Oracle data warehousing into the new “emerging” analytic platforms: R and database advanced analytics, Hadoop, cloud and clustered/distributed systems. As we talked about in the recent series of

Why Oracle Big Data SQL Potentially Solves a Big Issue with Hadoop Security

Oracle announced their Big Data SQL product a couple of weeks ago, which effectively extends Exadata’s query-offloading to Hadoop data sources. I covered the launch a few days afterwards [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/07/taking-a-look-at-the-new-oracle-big-data-sql/], focusing on how it implements Exadata’s SmartScan on Hive and NoSQL

Taking a Look at the New Oracle Big Data SQL

Oracle launched their Oracle Big Data SQL [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/big-data-sql/overview/index.html] product earlier this week, and it’ll be of interest to anyone who saw our series of posts a few weeks ago about the updated Oracle Information Management Reference Architecture [https://www.

Introducing the Updated Oracle / Rittman Mead Information Management Reference Architecture Pt1. - Information Architecture and the "Data Factory"

One of the things at Rittman Mead that we’re really interested in, is the architecture of “information management” systems and how these change over time as thinking, and product capabilities, evolve. In fact we often collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team within Oracle, giving input into the architecture designs

End-to-End ODI12c ETL on Oracle Big Data Appliance Pt.5 : Bulk Unload to Oracle

All week I’ve been looking at what’s involved in moving data around Hadoop on the Oracle Big Data Appliance, using ODI12c to orchestrate the end-to-end process. Using web log data from the Rittman Mead website, I first landed the log data on HDFS using Apache Flume, then transformed

End-to-End ODI12c ETL on Oracle Big Data Appliance Pt.4 : Transforming Data using Python & Hive Streaming

This week I’m taking an in-depth look at ETL on the Oracle Big Data Appliance, using Oracle Data Integrator 12c to call the various bits of Hadoop functionality and orchestrate the whole process. So far, I’ve landed web log data into the Hadoop cluster using Flume, created a

End-to-End ODI12c ETL on Oracle Big Data Appliance Pt.3 : Enhance with Oracle Reference Data via Sqoop, and CKMs

In the first two posts in this series, I used the software on the Oracle Big Data Appliance 3.0 to ingest web log data from the Rittman Mead blog server, parse and load that data into a Hive table, and then join that table to another to add details

End-to-End ODI12c ETL on Oracle Big Data Appliance Pt.2 : Hive Table Joins, Aggregation and Loading

In this series of posts, I’m going to be looking at an end-to-end ETL process on Oracle Big Data Appliance, using Hadoop technologies to do the data manipulation and Oracle Data Integrator 12c to orchestrate the process. Over the five posts, I’ll be landing web server log data

Rittman Mead at the Oracle Virtual Technology Summit 2014 - "The Architecture of Analytics: Big Time Big Data and Business Intelligence"

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting at the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Virtual Technology Summit [http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=796788&s=1&k=4A8AB16195363690B31C6F19FED113DF&partnerref=americasace] , an online event running over three days in early July. I’m speaking as

Preview of Maria Colgan, and Andrew Bond/Stewart Bryson Sessions at RM BI Forum 2014

We’ve got a great selection of presentations at the two upcoming Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] events in Brighton and Atlanta, including sessions on Endeca, TimesTen, OBIEE (of course), ODI, GoldenGate, Essbase and Big Data (full timetable for both events here [https://www.rittmanmead.