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Rittman Mead Sponsors Georgia Oracle Users Group’s Tech Day
As part of Rittman Mead’s continuing support and participation in the Oracle community, we are proudly sponsoring this year’s Georgia Oracle Users Group’s Tech Day on Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Downtown Atlanta at the Executive Conference Center.
Rittman Mead’s own Consulting Manager, Andy Rocha, will be speaking at this year’s event. Andy will be presenting on how we created a game-tracking page in OBIEE for the 2014 World Cup. He will break down how we created the dashboard to track real-time scores, stats, match events, and player and team information.
We will also have a booth set up, so if you are in the area, come down to see us and get a demo of some of our exciting new products and services.
To learn more about GaOUG and their events, visit their website here.
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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 the conference or during our talks, we’d be pleased to speak with you about your projects and answer any questions you might have. Here’s the list our speaking slots over the four days of the event, and I’ll update the list with links to presentation downloads as they become available over the event.
- “Adding a Data Reservoir to Your Oracle Data Warehouse for Customer 360-Degree Analysis” – Mark Rittman, Sunday 6th December 2015
- “Smarter Regression Testing for OBIEE” – Robin Moffatt, Tuesday 8th December 2015
- “Deploying Full OBIEE Systems into Oracle Cloud” – Mark Rittman, Tuesday 8th December 2015
- “User Adoption and Retention in OBIEE for the IT Department” – Robin Moffatt, Wednesday 9th December 2015
- “Putting Oracle Big Data to Work – Three Real-World Case Studies From Rittman Mead’s Big Data Delivery Team” – Mark Rittman, Wednesday 9th December 2015
- “ODI Lifecycle and Data Governance” – Jerome Francoisse, Tuesday 8th December
- “Migration From Oracle Warehouse Builder to Oracle Data Integrator – Eurocontrol Case Study” – – Jerome Francoisse, Wednesday 9th December
In addition, if you’re interested in the OBIEE user adoption and retention area that Robin talks about in his Wednesday session, Rittman Mead have a User Engagement service using some of the tools and techniques that Robin talked about (datasheet here) and we’d be pleased to talk to you about how you can increase user engagement, adoption and retention for your OBIEE system. Other than that, come and speak to us if you see us at the Birmingham ICC, and look forward to more content on these areas in the New Year!
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BI Forum 2015 Preview — OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack
I’m pleased to be presenting at both of the Rittman Mead BI Forums this year; in Brighton it’ll be my fourth time, whilst Atlanta will be my first, and my first trip to the city too. I’ve heard great things about the food, and I’m sure the forum content is going to be awesome too (Ed: get your priorities right).
OBIEE Regression Testing
In Atlanta I’ll be talking about Smarter Regression testing for OBIEE. The topic of Regression Testing in OBIEE is one that is – at last – starting to gain some real momentum. One of the drivers of this is the recognition in the industry that a more Agile approach to delivering BI projects is important, and to do this you need to have a good way of rapidly testing changes made. The other driver that I see is OBIEE 12c and the Baseline Validation Tool that Oracle announced at Oracle OpenWorld last year. Understanding how OBIEE works, and therefore how changes made can be tested most effectively, is key to a successful and efficient testing process.
In this presentation I’ll be diving into the OBIEE stack and explaining where it can be tested and how. I’ll discuss the common approaches and the relative strengths of each.
If you’ve not registered for the Atlanta BI Forum then do so now as places are limited and selling out fast. It runs May 14–15 with an optional masterclass on Wednesday 13th May from Mark Rittman and Jordan Meyer.
Data Discovery with the ELK Stack
My second presentation is at the Brighton forum the week before Atlanta, and I’ll be talking about Data Discovery and Systems Diagnostics with the ELK stack. The ELK stack is a set of tools from a company called Elastic, comprising Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (E – L – K!). Data Discovery is a crucial part of the life cycle of acquiring, understanding, and exploiting data (one could even say, leverage the data). Before you can operationalise your reporting, you need to understand what data you have, how it relates, and what insights it can give you. This idea of a “Discovery Lab” is one of the key components of the Information Management and Big Data Reference Architecture that Oracle and Rittman Mead produced last year:
ELK gives you great flexibility to ingest data with loose data structures and rapidly visualise and analyse it. I wrote about it last year with an example of analysing data from our blog and associated tweets with data originating in Hadoop, and more recently have been analysing twitter activity using it. The great power of Kibana (the “K” of ELK) is the ability to rapidly filter and aggregate data, as well as see a summary of values within a data field:
The second aspect of my presentation is still on data discovery, but “discovering data” within the logfiles of an application stack such as OBIEE. ELK is perfectly suited to in-depth diagnostics against dense volumes of log data that you simply could not handle within simple log viewers or Enterprise Manager, such as the individual HTTP requests and types of value passed within the interactions of a single user session:
By its nature of log streaming and full text search, ELK also lends itself well to near real time system monitoring dashboards reporting the status of systems including OBIEE and ODI, and I’ll be discussing this in more detail during my talk.
The Brighton BI Forum is on 7–8 May, with an optional masterclass on Wednesday 6th May from Mark Rittman and Jordan Meyer. If you’ve not registered for the Brighton BI Forum then do so now as places are very limited!
Don’t forget, we’re running a Data Visualisation Challenge at each of the forums, and if you need to convince your boss to let you go you can find a pre-written ‘justification’ letter here.
BI Forum 2015 Preview — OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack
I’m pleased to be presenting at both of the Rittman Mead BI Forums this year; in Brighton it’ll be my fourth time, whilst Atlanta will be my first, and my first trip to the city too. I’ve heard great things about the food, and I’m sure the forum content is going to be awesome too (Ed: get your priorities right).
OBIEE Regression Testing
In Atlanta I’ll be talking about Smarter Regression testing for OBIEE. The topic of Regression Testing in OBIEE is one that is – at last – starting to gain some real momentum. One of the drivers of this is the recognition in the industry that a more Agile approach to delivering BI projects is important, and to do this you need to have a good way of rapidly testing changes made. The other driver that I see is OBIEE 12c and the Baseline Validation Tool that Oracle announced at Oracle OpenWorld last year. Understanding how OBIEE works, and therefore how changes made can be tested most effectively, is key to a successful and efficient testing process.
In this presentation I’ll be diving into the OBIEE stack and explaining where it can be tested and how. I’ll discuss the common approaches and the relative strengths of each.
If you’ve not registered for the Atlanta BI Forum then do so now as places are limited and selling out fast. It runs May 14–15 with an optional masterclass on Wednesday 13th May from Mark Rittman and Jordan Meyer.
Data Discovery with the ELK Stack
My second presentation is at the Brighton forum the week before Atlanta, and I’ll be talking about Data Discovery and Systems Diagnostics with the ELK stack. The ELK stack is a set of tools from a company called Elastic, comprising Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (E – L – K!). Data Discovery is a crucial part of the life cycle of acquiring, understanding, and exploiting data (one could even say, leverage the data). Before you can operationalise your reporting, you need to understand what data you have, how it relates, and what insights it can give you. This idea of a “Discovery Lab” is one of the key components of the Information Management and Big Data Reference Architecture that Oracle and Rittman Mead produced last year:
ELK gives you great flexibility to ingest data with loose data structures and rapidly visualise and analyse it. I wrote about it last year with an example of analysing data from our blog and associated tweets with data originating in Hadoop, and more recently have been analysing twitter activity using it. The great power of Kibana (the “K” of ELK) is the ability to rapidly filter and aggregate data, as well as see a summary of values within a data field:
The second aspect of my presentation is still on data discovery, but “discovering data” within the logfiles of an application stack such as OBIEE. ELK is perfectly suited to in-depth diagnostics against dense volumes of log data that you simply could not handle within simple log viewers or Enterprise Manager, such as the individual HTTP requests and types of value passed within the interactions of a single user session:
By its nature of log streaming and full text search, ELK also lends itself well to near real time system monitoring dashboards reporting the status of systems including OBIEE and ODI, and I’ll be discussing this in more detail during my talk.
The Brighton BI Forum is on 7–8 May, with an optional masterclass on Wednesday 6th May from Mark Rittman and Jordan Meyer. If you’ve not registered for the Brighton BI Forum then do so now as places are very limited!
Don’t forget, we’re running a Data Visualisation Challenge at each of the forums, and if you need to convince your boss to let you go you can find a pre-written ‘justification’ letter here.
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 at the Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel, Atlanta GA. As well as an optional one-day masterclass on big data development by myself and Jordan Meyer on the 13th, the main event itself has keynotes and product update sessions from Oracle’s BI product management team, a data visualisation challenge and a guest talk by John Foreman, author of the book “Data Smart” and Chief Data Scientist at Mailchimp; in terms of the main sessions though there are four that I’m particularly interested in, starting with one by a speaker new to the BI Forum, Qualogy’s Hasso Schaap, who’ll be talking to us about their use of Oracle’s new BI Cloud Service in his session “Developing strategic analytics applications on OBICS PaaS”
“In this session I’ll tell how we use the Oracle BI Cloud Service in our development plans for a strategic analytics application. Focussing on Strategic HR Planning there’s so much you can do with your data that we decided to put it in a packaged app. I will discuss the important parts of the development process and show how we fixed the issues we came up with. Developing in the BI Cloud is different and expectations are also different.
As an example there’s the part of prediction. How do we predict based on data in the BI Cloud and what are other possibilities. With prediction we were able to tell our customers a different story. A story that was different than before using old-school tools and techniques. In this session I will uncover some of the most appreciated functionality and will happily elaborate on the story behind ‘The present, the future, development and scenario planning’.”
My second featured session is by someone very-well known to previous BI Forum attendees, and to the wider Oracle BI+DW community: Stewart Bryson. Stewart of course used to head-up Rittman Mead in the US and then went-on to become our first Chief Innovation Officer, before leaving to start his own company Red Pill Analytics with Kevin McGinley, another old friend of Rittman Mead and the BI Forum. We’re very pleased to have both Stewart and Kevin delivering sessions at the Atlanta BI Forum, and for Stewart’s session he’s talking about something very close to his heart – “Supercharging BI Delivery with Continuous Integration”:
“One of the things I’ve never understood about the lifecycle features in most BI tools is why the designers feel the need to roll their own source control and DevOps features. Instead of focusing on deeper integration with tools and processes that exist in the other 90% of development paradigms, BI vendors instead start with a clean palette and create something completely siloed and desperately alone.
In this presentation, we’ll take a look at how some of these other development paradigms approach DevOps — paying perhaps the closest attention to the world of Java development and other JVM languages. We’ll see how approaches such as continuous integration and continuous delivery play a part in rapid, iterative delivery, and how we can apply some of those approaches to the world of OBIEE development.”
My third session is by another speaker new to the BI Forum, but someone who’s well-known in the BI and data warehousing world and who I met in-person for the first time at last year’s Oracle Openworld: Sumit Sarkar. Sumit works for Progress Software, makers of the DataDirect ODBC drivers that powers OBIEE’s connection to Hadoop, for example, as well as connectors to MongoDB, Salesforce, Oracle RightNow and Eloqua, and as he’ll explain in his session “Make sense of NoSQL data using OBIEE”, NoSQL databases :
“NoSQL databases have stormed the top 10 db-engines rankings with MongoDB at #4 and Cassandra at #8. It’s inevitable that these NoSQL databases, storing unstructured data without a standard query language, will have BI requirements for unarmed OBIEE teams. Not even a complete Oracle stack can save you with the release of Oracle NoSQL.This will be the first session of its kind to tackle standards based NoSQL connectivity.
So join me at BI Forum ’15 to take control of NoSQL data with your RPD and expand big data skills and thought leadership within your organization. Learn how organizations are using SQL access to NoSQL databases for integration across existing business intelligence platforms. We’ll talk about common challenges and gotchas that shops are facing when exposing unstructured NoSQL data to OBIEE. It can get out of hand pretty quickly otherwise …”
My final selection is from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and home of course of the Large Hadron Collider (and who announced on April 1st the first unequivocal evidence for The Force, almost upstaging our announcement of Oracle E-Business Suite being ported to Hadoop and MongoDB). There’s several session at both the Brighton and Atlanta BI Forums on Oracle’s new Big Data Discovery tool, and in this session CERN’s Manuel Martin Marquez will be talking about their work in this area, in his session “Governed Information Discovery: Data-driven decisions for more efficient operations at CERN”
“The European Centre for Nuclear Research, CERN, is running the world’s largest and more powerful particle accelerator complex in order to shed light on how the Universe works and which are its main building blocks. CERN’s particle accelerators and detectors infrastructure is comprehensively heterogeneous and complex. A number of critical subsystems, which represent cutting-edge technology in several engineering fields, need to be considered: cryogenics, power converters, magnet protection, etc. The historical monitoring and control data derived from these systems has persisted mainly using Oracle database technologies, but also other sorts of data formats such as JSOM, XML and plain text files. All of these must be integrated and combined in order to provide a full picture and better understanding of the overall status of the accelerator complex.
Therefore, a key challenge is to facilitate easy access to, flexible interaction with, and dynamic visualization of heterogeneous data from different sources and domains. In our session, we will share our experience with a potential solution for finding insights within our data, Oracle Endeca Data Discovery. In addition, we will feature practical examples relating to future possibilities for improving the control and monitoring of CERN’s accelerator complex, optimization results for accelerator operations and a demo of the implemented solution”
Full agenda details on the Atlanta Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 can be found on the event homepage, along with details of the optional one-day masterclass on Delivering the Oracle Information Management and Big Data Reference Architecture, and our first-ever Data Visualisation Bake-Off, using the DonorsChoose.org dataset. Registration is now open and the event takes place between May 13th and 15th April 2015, at the Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel, Atlanta GA.
