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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

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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 [http://www.meetup.com/Oracle-Open-World-Essbase-EPM-meetup/events/205491072/] 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

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Rittman Mead/Oracle Data Integration Speakeasy @ Oracle Open World

If you are attending Oracle Open World [https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html] 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 [http://localeditionsf.

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

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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

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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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Vote for Rittman Mead at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards 2014!

Rittman Mead are proud to announce that we’ve been nominated by UKOUG members and Oracle customers for five categories in the upcoming UKOUG Parter of the Year Awards 2014 [http://www.ukoug.org/membership-new/partner-area/partner-of-the-year-awards/]; Business Intelligence, Training, Managed Services, Operating Systems Storage and Hardware, and Emerging Partner,

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Simple Ways to Simplify: Quick Fixes to Enhance OBIEE Visuals

Over the past couple of months I worked with a few clients in order to conduct an assessment on dashboard and analysis design. In most cases I was noticing that the dashboards were overflowing with content to the point that there was really no discernible “story” or “flow” to the

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Rittman Mead at ODTUG KScope'14, Seattle

Next week is ODTUG KScope’14 [http://kscope14.com] in Seattle, USA, and Rittman Mead will be delivering a number of presentations over the week. Coming over from Europe we have Jérôme Françoisse and myself, and we’ll be joined by Michael Rainey, Daniel Adams, Charles Elliott from Rittman Mead

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The BI Survey 14 - Have Your Voice Heard!

Long-term readers of this blog will know that we’ve supported for many years the BI Survey, an independent survey of BI tools customers and implementors. Rittman Mead have no (financial or other) interest in the BI Survey or its organisers, but we like the way it gathers in detailed

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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

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Rittman Mead Announce New Partnerships with Cloudera and Amazon Web Services

To complement our strategic partnership with Oracle Corporation, Rittman Mead are very pleased to announce two new technology partnerships to complement our Oracle-based services; with Cloudera [http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/home.html], the industry-leading Hadoop software vendor, and with Amazon Web Services [http://aws.amazon.com], the

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How We Deliver Agile OBIEE Projects - Introducing ExtremeBI

Most OBIEE projects that we see are delivered through some sort of “waterfall” method, where requirements are defined up-front, there’s several stages of development, one or more major releases at the end, and any revision to requirements takes the form of a change request. These work well where requirements

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Photos and Presentation Downloads from the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014

Well we’re back in Brighton, UK now after the second successful week of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014. In Week 1, we went to the Seattle Hotel in Brighton (read the recap here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/05/rm-bi-forum-2014-brighton-is-a-wrap-now-on-to-atlanta/]), and then straight-after we flew over to

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The State of the OBIEE11g World as of May 2014

I’m conscious I’ve posted a lot on this blog over the past few months about hot new topics like big data, Hadoop and Oracle Advanced Analytics, and not so much about OBIEE, which traditionally has been the core of Rittman Mead’s business and what we’ve written

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RM BI Forum 2014 Brighton is a Wrap - Now on to Atlanta!

I’m writing this sitting in my hotel room in Atlanta, having flown over from the UK on Saturday following the end of the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] in Brighton. I think it’s probably true to say that this year was our best

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New ODI12c Article, and Details of our Inaugural ODI12c Course in Brighton, May 12th-14th 2014

[http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-may/o34ba-2193422.html] Oracle have just published the May/June 2014 edition of Oracle Magazine [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-may/index.html], and my business analytics column this time round is on the new 12c release of Oracle Data Integrator.

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Previewing TimesTen, Endeca and Oracle DW Sessions at the Brighton BI Forum 2014

It’s under a week now to the first of the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] events, with Brighton running next week at the Hotel Seattle and then Atlanta the week after, at the Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel. Earlier in the week I went

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More Details on the Lars George Cloudera Hadoop Masterclass - RM BI Forum 2014, Brighton & Atlanta

It’s just over a week until the first of the two Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/] events take place in Brighton and Atlanta, and one of the highlights of the events for me will be Cloudera’s Lars George’s Hadoop Masterclass. Hadoop and

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Preview of the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta

Mark has done a great job of previewing the upcoming content for both BI Forums, the one running locally for us in Atlanta, as well as the one in Brighton, UK. We have an exceptional Master Class this year with Lars George from Cloudera [https://twitter.com/larsgeorge], including an

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Previewing Three Oracle Data Visualization Sessions at the Atlanta US BI Forum 2014

Many of the sessions at the UK and US Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/] events in May focus on the back-end of BI and data warehousing, with for example Chris Jenkins’ session on TimesTen giving us some tips and tricks from TimeTen product development, and

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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.

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Final Timetable and Agenda for the Brighton and Atlanta BI Forums, May 2014

It’s just a few weeks now until the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 events in Brighton and Atlanta, and there’s still a few spaces left at both events if you’d still like to come - check out the main BI Forum 2014 event page [http://www.rittmanmead.

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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 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014/], 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

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Registration Now Open - Don't Miss Out!

Just a quick reminder to say that registration for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2014] is now open, with the speaker and presentation list now up on the event website. As with previous years, the BI Forum runs in Brighton on the first week, and