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Rittman Mead at ODTUG KScope’15, Hollywood Florida
ODTUG KScope’15 is running in Hollywood, Florida next week and Rittman Mead are running a number of sessions during the week on OBIEE, Essbase, ODI and Big Data. I’ve personally been attending ODTUG KScope (or “Kaleidoscope”, as it used to be known) for many years now and it’s the best developer-centric conference we go to, coupled with amazing venues and a great community atmosphere.
Sessions we’re running over the week include:
- Gianni Ceresa : 2-in-1: RPD Magic and Hyperion Planning “Adapter”
- Jerome : Manage Your Oracle Data Integrator Development Lifecycle
- Michael Rainey : Practical Tips for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11g Implementations
- Michael Rainey : GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator: A Perfect Match
- Mark Rittman : Bringing Oracle Big Data SQL to OBIEE and ODI
- Mark Rittman : End-to-End Hadoop Development Using OBIEE, ODI, and Oracle Big Data
- Mark Rittman : Thursday Deep Dive – Business Intelligence: Bringing Oracle Tools to Big Data
- Andy Rocha & Pete Tamisin : OBIEE Can Help You Achieve Your GOOOOOOOOOALS!
We’ll also be taking part in various “Lunch and Learn” sessions, community and ACE/ACE Director events, and you can also talk to us about our new OBIEE “User Engagement” initiative and how you can get involved as an early adopter. Details and agenda for KScope’15 can be found on the event website, and if you’re coming we’ll look forward to seeing you in sunny Hollywood, Florida!
Take Part in the BI Survey 15, and 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 data on which tools work best and when, and it’s been a useful set of data for companies such as Oracle when they prioritise their investment in tools such as OBIEE, Essbase and the BI Applications.
Here’s the invite text and link to the survey:
“We would like to invite you to participate in The BI Survey 15, the world’s largest annual survey of business intelligence (BI) users.
BARC’s annual survey gathers input from thousands of organizations to analyze their buying decisions, implementation cycles and the benefits they achieve from using BI software.
As a participant, you will:
- Receive a summary of the results from the survey when it is published
- Be entered into a draw to win one of ten $50 Amazon vouchers
- Ensure that your experiences are included in the final analyses
Click here to take part
Business and technical users, as well as vendors and consultants, are all welcome to participate.
You will be able to answer questions on your usage of a BI product from any vendor and your experience with your service provider.
The BI Survey 15 is strictly vendor-independent: It is not sponsored by any vendor and the results are analyzed and published independently.
Your answers will be used anonymously and your personal details will not be passed on to software vendors or other third parties.
The BI Survey 15 should take about 20 minutes to complete. For further information, please contact Adrian Wyszogrodzki at BARC (awyszogrodzki@barc.de).Thank you in advance for taking part.”
Announcing the BI Forum 2015 Data Visualisation Challenge
The Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 is running in Brighton from May 6th-8th 2015, and Atlanta from May 13th – 15th 2015. At this year’s events we’re introducing our first “data visualization challenge”, open to all attendees and with the dataset and scenario open from now until the start of each event. Using Oracle Business Intelligence 11g and any plugins or graphics libraries that embed and interact with OBIEE (full details and rules below), we challenge you to create the most effective dashboard or visualisation and bring it along to demo on the Friday of each event.
Help DonorsChoose.org Donors Use their Funds Most Effectively
This year’s inaugural data visualisation challenge is based around the DonorsChoose.org project and dataset, an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help public school classroom projects that need funding (Rittman Mead will be making donations on behalf of the Brighton and Atlanta BI Forums to show our support for this great initiative). The Donorschoose.org project and dataset have been used in several hackathons and data crunching contests around the world, with analysis and visualisations helping to answer questions such as:
- Why do some projects get funded, while others don’t?
- Who donates to projects from different subjects?
- Does proximity to schools change donation behavior?
- What types of materials are teachers lacking the most? (eg chalk, paper, markers, etc)
- Do poorer schools ask for more or less money from their donors?
- If I need product x, what is the difference between projects asking for x that were successful vs those that aren’t.
More details on uses of the Donorschoose.org dataset can be found on the Donorschoose data blog, and example visualisations you could use to get some ideas and inspiration are on the Donorschoose.org Data Gallery showcase page.
Your challenge is to import this dataset into your analytical database of choice, and then create the best visualisation or dashboard in OBIEE to answer the following question: “Which project can I donate to, where my donation will have most impact?”
How Do I Take Part?
For more on the BI Forum 2015 Data Visualization Challenge including how to download the dataset and the rules of the challenge, take a look at the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 Data Visualisation Challenge web page where we’ve provided full details. You can either enter as an individual or as part of a team, but you must be registered for either the Brighton or Atlanta BI Forum events and come along in-person to demonstrate your solution – numbers at each event are strictly limited though, so make sure you register soon at the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 home page.
Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Call for Papers Now Open!
It’s that time of year again when we start planning out next year’s BI Forum, which like this year’s event will be running in May 2014 in Brighton and Atlanta. This will be our sixth annual event, and as with previous year’s the most important part is the content – and as such I’m pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for BI Forum 2014 is now open, running through to January 31st 2014.
If you’ve not been to one of our BI Forum events in past years, the Rittman Mead BI Forum is all about Oracle Business Intelligence, and the technologies and techniques that surround it – data warehousing, data analysis, big data, unstructured data analysis, OLAP analysis and this year – in-memory analytics. Each year we select around ten speakers for Brighton, and ten for Atlanta, along with keynote speakers and a masterclass session, with speaker choices driven by attendee votes at the end of January, and editorial input from myself, Jon Mead and Stewart Bryson.
Last year we had sessions on OBIEE internals and new features, OBIEE visualisations and data analysis, OBIEE and “big data”, along with sessions on Endeca, Exalytics, Exadata, Essbase and anything else that starts with an “E”. This year we’re continuing the theme, but are particularly looking for sessions on what’s hot this year and next – integration with unstructured and big data sources, use of engineered systems and in-memory analysis, advanced and innovative data visualisations, cloud deployment and analytics, and anything that “pushes the envelope” around Oracle BI, data warehousing and analytics.
The Call for Papers entry form is here, and we’re looking for speakers for Brighton, Atlanta, or both venues. We’re also looking for presenters for ten-minute “TED”-style sessions, and any ideas you might have for keynote speakers, send them directly to me at mark.rittman@rittmanmead.com. Other than that – have a think about abstract ideas now, and make sure you get them in by January 31st 2014.
Rittman Mead / ODTUG India BI Masterclass Tour Roundup
Over the past week Venkat, myself and the Rittman Mead India team have been running a series of BI Masterclasses at locations in India, in conjunction with ODTUG, the Oracle Development Tools User Group. Starting off in Bangalore, then traveling to Hyderabad and Mumbai, we presented on topics ranging from OBIEE through Exalytics through to EPM Suite and BI Applications, and with networking events at the end of each day.
Around 50 attended at Bangalore, 30 in Hyderbad and 40 in Mumbai, at at the last event we were joined by Harsh Bhogle from the local Oracle office, who presented on Oracle’s high-level strategy around business analytics. Thanks to everyone who attended, thanks to ODTUG for sponsoring the networking events, and thanks especially to Vijay and Pavan from Rittman Mead India who organised everything behind the scenes. If you’re interested, here’s a Flickr set of photos from all three events (plus a few at the start where I visited our offices in Bangalore.)
For anyone who couldn’t attend the events, or if you were there and you’d like copies of the slides, the links below are for the PDF versions of the sessions we presented at various points over the week.
- Oracle BI, Analytics and EPM Product Update
- Extreme BI: Agile BI Development using OBIEE, ODI and Golden Gate
- OBIEE 11g Integration with the Oracle EPM Stack
- OBIEE and Essbase on Exalytics Development & Deployment Best Practices
- OBIEE 11g Security Auditing
- Intro and tech deep dive into BI Apps 11g + ODI
- Metadata & Data loads to EPM using Oracle Data Integrator
So I’m writing this in my hotel room in Mumbai on Sunday morning, waiting for the airport transfer and then flying back to the UK around lunchtime. It’s been a great week but my only regret was missing the UKOUG Apps’13 conference last week, where I was also supposed to be speaking but managed to double-book myself with the event in India.
In the end, Mike Vickers from Rittman Mead in the UK gamely took my place and presented my session, which was put together as a joint effort with Minesh Patel, another of the team in the UK and one of our BI Apps specialists. Entitled “Oracle BI Apps – Giving the Users the Reports they *Really* Want”, it’s a presentation around the common front-end customisations that we typically carry out for customers who want to move beyond the standard, generic dashboards and reports provided by the BI Apps, and again if you missed the session or you’d like to see the slides, they’re linked-to below:
That’s it for now – and I’ll definitely be at Tech’13 in a few weeks’ time, if only because I’ve just realised I’m delivering the BI Masterclass sessions on the Sunday, including a session on OBIEE/ODI and Hadoop integration - I’ve been saying to myself I’d like to get these two tools working with Impala as an alternative to Hive, so that gives me something to start looking at on the flight back later today.
