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Work-Life Balance at Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead has always had a long standing commitment to giving back, not only to the technology industry, but to local and global communities as well. Recently, Rittman Mead employees have been encouraged to take up to 40 paid hours to participate in community service opportunities. This year,

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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

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#IHateYourFace, a BizIntel Love Story

Sometimes love isn't fair A teenager, just emerging from an awkward growing phase drives a tendency to spew non sensical permutations of varying cringe worthy affections toward their love target. The data points behind the intent are solid. Let’s go Boolean now: Intent of good = 1 ; attracted to target

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Oracle's New Data Visualization Desktop

A recent addition to the Oracle lineup of visualization tools is the Oracle Data Visualization Desktop. Described by Oracle as a “single user desktop application that provides Oracle Data Visualization functionality to business users,” DVD is an easy-to-install data visualization tool for Windows 7, 8 or 10 that packs some

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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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The Importance of BI Commentary

Why Is Commentary Important? We communicate every day. Communication through text is especially abundant with the proliferation of new on-demand technologies. Have you gone through your emails today? Have you read the news, weather, or blogs (like this one)? Communication is the backbone to every interpersonal interaction. Without it, we

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ChitChat - Commentary Made Simple

Rittman Mead is excited to announce ChitChat, an innovative new communication tool for OBIEE. Rittman Mead’s clients already receive the best Oracle Business Analytics and Data Integration consulting and training. Now, in a major expansion of our business capabilities, our clients can enjoy the benefits of our engineering team’

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Implementing OBIEE Commentary

My Application Development Experience with Rittman Mead Greetings, readers! My name is Nick Padgett, and this is my first blog post with Rittman Mead. I started with Rittman Mead as an intern over a year ago while I was attending Kennesaw State, a local university, but I’ve graduated from

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Rittman Mead America’s New Office

Rittman Mead America has a new home, and it’s looking good. At the end of 2015, we moved into a new office space in Alpharetta, Georgia, in a new development named Avalon. We’ve just begun to settle into our new office space, but we are already feeling at

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Corporate Social Responsibility (Where Can We Serve?)

At Rittman Mead, we believe that people are more important than profit. This manifests itself in two ways. First, we want to impact the world beyond data and analytics, and secondly, we want our employees to be able to contribute to organizations they believe are doing impactful work. This year,

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Mike Hibbert - A Celebration

It’s been a long while since I graced the blog with my presence and I had always hoped that when I did return, it would be with something new, or exciting to say. Instead, I find myself writing something much more personal and subdued: a celebration of one of

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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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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

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Primeros Cursos de Rittman Mead en Español en América Latina

La semana pasada y en el contexto del OTN Tour LA 2015 dimos nuestros primeros cursos en Español en Quito, Ecuador y Cali, Colombia. Se trató de un workshop en este caso de un día (8 horas) sobre Desarrollo Front-End de OBIEE 11g. En esta oportunidad los cursos fueron presenciales,

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How Engaged Are Your OBIEE Users?

Following on from Jon's blog post “User Engagement: Why does it matter?”, I would like to take this one step further by talking about measurement. At Rittman Mead we believe that if you can't measure it, you can't improve it. So how do you measure user engagement? Metrics User engagement

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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 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 at Oracle and my colleagues

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Some Oracle Big Data Discovery Tips and Techniques

I’ve been using Oracle Big Data Discovery for a couple of months now, and one of the sessions I’m delivering at this week’s Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 in Atlanta is on Big Data Discovery Examples from the Field, co-presented with Tim Vlamis from Vlamis Software. Tim

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Final Agenda for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Atlanta - Running this Week!

It’s the Monday before the Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, and delegates will start to arrive in Atlanta tomorrow and during the rest of the week. The first event in Brighton was excellent, and we’re hoping for something even better in Atlanta this week! Safe travels for

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Just Under a Week to go Until the Atlanta BI Forum 2015 - Places Still Available!

The Rittman Mead Brighton BI Forum 2015 is now underway, with presentations from Oracle, Rittman Mead, partners and customers on a range of topics around Oracle BI, DW and Big Data. So far this week we’ve had a one-day masterclass from myself and Jordan Meyer on Delivering the Oracle

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One Day to the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 - Here's the Agenda!

It’s the night before the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, and some delegates are already here ready for the masterclass tomorrow. Everyone else will either be arriving later in the day for the drinks reception, Oracle Keynote and dinner, or getting here early Thursday morning ready for the

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

Oracle ODI12c for Big Data came out the other week, and my colleague Jérôme Françoisse put together an introductory post on the new features shortly after, covering ODI’s new ability to generate Pig and Spark transformations as well as the traditional Hive ones. How this works is that you

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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

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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, 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 are still available if you

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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