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OOW19 Review: Oracle Analytics Deep Dive

In my previous blog [http://ritt.md/oow19-general] I outlined the global news regarding Oracle like the Always Free Tier [https://www.oracle.com/uk/cloud/free/], the new datacenter plan [https://www.oracle.com/cloud/architecture-and-regions.html] and the set of new tools for Data Science. Today's

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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

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle Openworld 2013 : Reflections on Product Announcements and Strategy

I'm sitting writing this at my desk back home, with a steaming mug of tea next to me and the kids pleased to see me after having been away for eight days (or at least my wifepleased to hand them over to me after looking after them for

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Oracle Openworld 2013 Day 1 : User Group Forum, News on Oracle Database In-Memory Option

The Sunday before Oracle Openworld proper is "User Group Forum Sunday", with each of the major user groups and councils having dedicated tracks for topics such as BI&DW, Fusion Development, Database and so on. Stewart, myself and Venkat were honoured to be presenting on behalf of

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Oracle Openworld 2013 Day 0: Previewing the Week Ahead

It's the Saturday afternoon before the start of Oracle Openworld 2013 [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], and whilst I've been here since last Wednesday, my colleagues from Rittman Mead in the Europe, the USA and India are arriving today and tomorrow ready for their sessions later

Oracle BI Suite EE

Exalytics X3-4 Now Available, 2TB RAM + SSD and Supports OBIEE 11.1.1.7

It's been on the Oracle Tech Price list for a while now, but Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4 was officially launched this week, with headline new features of 2TB of RAM (up from 1TB in the earlier, X2-4 version), and 2.4TB of SSD flash disk. This new

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Introducing Oracle Enterprise Data Quality

Visually, BI dashboards and analyses can be impressive and appear to meet the user’s needs, but if the data displayed on the dashboards isn't reliable or correct then those same users can quickly lose faith in what they contain. Therefore, it’s important that assessing and managing

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle releases BI extension for Open Office

Oracle released a new BI extension for Open Office with the latest Open Office release (v. 3.3) . This extension gives us the ability to embed information from BI EE 10g into Open Office Calc, Writer and Impress documents (equivalents of Excel, Word and Powerpoint). OO Calc supports the ability

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Oracle Buys (Bits Of) Hyperroll

The news hit the wires last night [http://twitter.com/eddieawad/status/4479863911] that Oracle were buying (certain assets of) Hyperroll [http://www.hyperroll.com], a technology company out of Israel with a head office in the USA. Hyperroll have been around for as long as I've been

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Oracle to Announce New "OLTP"-Focused Database Machine

Oracle released details over the weekend of a news conference they are running on September 15th 2009, to announce a new OLTP-focused database machine this time based on Sun hardware [http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=101483]. I'm surprised that this wasn't

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Fake Larry Ellison Starts Blogging

If like me you're a Mac owner who's been following with interest the Fake Steve Jobs [http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/] blog (try here [http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2006/12/so-ibmers-came-to-visit.html], here [http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2006/08/dude-you-make-it-too-easy.html]and here [http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/