kscope19 Rittman Mead at Kscope 2019 June is time for one of my favourite conferences: Kscope! This year the location is Seattle and the Agenda is impressive. The event starts on Sunday with the Symposiums driven by Oracle Product Managers and divided by stream of interest. The main conference is Monday-Wednesday with the Thursday dedicated to
Unify Unify: Could it be any easier? Rittman Mead’s Unify is the easiest and most efficient method to pull your OBIEE reporting data directly into your local Tableau environment. No longer will you have to worry about database connection credentials, Excel exports, or any other roundabout way to get your data where you need it to
Technical 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’
Big Data Using Python to ‘Wrangle’ Your Messy Data or How to Organize Your Comic Book Collection Based on Issue Popularity In addition to being a product manager at Rittman Mead, I consider myself to be a nerd of the highest order. My love of comic books, fantasy, sci-fi and general geekery began long before the word ‘Stark’ had
Big Data Forays into Kafka - Enabling Flexible Data Pipelines One of the defining features of “Big Data” from a technologist’s point of view is the sheer number of tools and permutations at one’s disposal. Do you go Flume or Logstash? Avro or Thrift? Pig or Spark? Foo or Bar? (I made that last one up). This wealth
Technical Why and How to use Oracle Metadata Management 12c. Part 2: Importing and Relating Metadata In the first post of this series we have seen how to install and configure OEEM to start working with it. In this new post we are going to see how we import the metadata into OEMM from different sources like Oracle Database, OBIEE, ODI and OWB and then relate
Technical Why and How to use Oracle Metadata Management 12c. Part 1: Getting Started At OOW 2014, Oracle announced the new Oracle Metadata Management solution and later in the middle of October released its first version - OMM 12.1.3.0.0 At the end of November of 2014, the second version was released -OMM 12.1.3.1.0- with new features
Technical Getting The Users' Trust - Part 1 Looking back over some of my truly ancient Rittman Mead blogs (so old in fact that they came with me when I joined the company soon after Rittman Mead was launched), I see recurrent themes on why people “do” BI and what makes for successful implementations. After all, why would
Oracle BI Suite EE Using Groovy instead of WLST for OBIEE Systems Management I remember some years back when Rittman Mead first received the OBIEE 11g beta and I tried installing it for the first time. It was a nightmare. If you think the 11.1.1.3 release was challenging, you should have tried working with any one of the betas. It
Oracle BI Suite EE Automated RPD Builds with OBIEE Introduction Some time ago, I wrapped up a four-part series on using MDS XML as a basis for RPD development. Of course... you can (re-) read the blog posts to get up to speed on the concept... but I'll offer a quick refresher here. Using an XML-based "data-store" for our
Technical 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 there will have noticed the Rittman Mead-sponsored Analytics Dashboard on display. In this blog post I will cover how it was put together, the
Oracle BI Suite EE Embedding a D3 Visualisation in OBIEE In this blog entry, my first since joining the company as a consultant a little over a month ago, I will be taking you through the process of embedding a D3 visualisation into OBIEE. In my first few weeks in this new role I've had the pleasure or working with
Technical 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 data quality
Business Insights 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 a result we can uniquely offer our customers and community the chance to get hands on with Exalytics to see how it really can
Technical Indexing the unusual For many years I had an interest in non-standard indexing and exotic data types, that is things that weren't NUMBER or VARCHAR2. In fact before I came in to data warehousing I was involved in indexing free text such as conversation transcripts and and narrative reports; some of this was
Technical Oracle Data Integration Suite Keeping my head down building Oracle 11g OLAP cubes for research and self-education meant the I missed yesterday's product announcement from Oracle, but with the wonders of Blog aggregators (and in particular Beth's) I spotted a mention on Vincent McBurney's blog of the newly announced (and available) Oracle Data Integration
Technical Virtually there I have a couple of days between assignments so I am spending a little time doing research. Ultimately, there is a piece to write on Oracle 11g OLAP, and some course notes on aspects of data warehousing. But do this sort of thing I need to get myself set up
Technical Looking at the unstructured Curt Monash has been talking about text mining a lot this week, he also notes that, from a text point of view, that the four preeminent database vendors (data store not query tool) are Oracle, Microsoft, Teradata and Netezza, this seems to reflect my experiences of what is going on
Technical Thoughts on extremely large databases and searching the unstructured Nuno Souto posts an interesting set of thoughts on Extremely Large Databases. As usual, it is a well thought through post from someone who is probably scarred for life from actually working with large databases. In a data warehouse (or even a very large transactional system) context the reader is
Technical Is "Data Warehouse" a future-proof term? A while back it was quite feasible to draw circles around discrete databases in an organisation's IT structure and say 'this is the data warehouse, here is the billing system and that is the blinkity-boo system. But now those circles are pretty defuse. It is harder to differentiate between where
Data Warehousing We know where you live No, not a threat from a bunch of gangsters, but a reminder about a, perhaps, under used Oracle feature in data warehousing A little while back Mark Rittman reminded me of a piece he wrote on GIS enabling a data warehouse. People may think "Spatial, extra feature, extra license,
