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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 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 then moves over to Atlanta on the second, with the dates and venues as follows:
- Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 – Hotel Seattle, Brighton, May 7th – 9th 2014
- Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 – Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel, May 14th – 16th 2014
We’ve got a fantastic line-up of sessions and speakers, including:
- Oracle ACE and past BI Forum best speaker winner Kevin McGinley, on adding third-party visualisations to OBIEE
- Sessions from TimesTen PMs Chris Jenkins and Susan Cheung on what’s coming with TimesTen
- Wayne Van Sluys from InterRel, on Essbase optimisation
- Oracle’s Andrew Bond, and our own Stewart Bryson (Oracle ACE) with an update to Oracle’s reference BI, DW and Big Data Architecture
- Dan Vlamis on using Oracle Database analytics with the Oracle BI Applications
- Sessions from Oracle’s Jack Berkowitz, Adam Bloom and Matt Bedin on what’s coming with OBIEE and Oracle BI Applications
- Peak Indicators’ Alastair Burgess on tuning TimesTen with Aggregate Persistence
- Endeca sessions from Chris Lynskey (PM), Omri Traub (Development Manager) on Endeca, along with ones from Branchbird’s Patrick Rafferty and Truls Bergersen
- And sessions from Rittman Mead’s Robin Moffatt (OBIEE performance), Gianni Ceresa (Essbase) and Michael Rainey (ODI, with Nick Hurt from IFPI)
We’ve also got some excellent keynote sessions including one in the US from Maria Colgan on the new in-memory database option, and another in Brighton from Matt Bedin and Adam Bloom on BI in the Cloud – along with the opening-night Oracle product development keynote in both Brighton and Atlanta.
We’re also very exited to welcome Lars George from Cloudera to deliver this year’s optional one-day masterclass, this year on Hadoop, big data, and how Oracle BI&DW developers can get started with this technology. Lars is Cloudera’s Chief Architect in EMEA and an HBase committer, and he’ll be covering topics such as:
- What is Hadoop, what’s in the Hadoop ecosystem and how do you design a Hadoop cluster
- Using tools such as Flume and Sqoop to import data into Hadoop, and then analyse it using Hive, Pig, Impala and Cloudera Search
- Introduction to NoSQL and HBase
- Connecting Hadoop to tools such as OBIEE and ODI using JDBC, ODBC, Impala and Hive
If you’ve been meaning to take a look at Hadoop, or if you’ve made a start but would like a chance to discuss techniques with someone who’s out in the field every week designing and building Hadoop systems, this session is aimed at you – it’s on the Wednesday before each event and you can book at the same time as registering for the main BI Forum days.
Attendance is limited to around seventy at each event, and we’re running the Brighton BI Forum back at the Hotel Seattle, whilst the US one is running at the Renaissance Midtown Hotel, Atlanta. We encourage attendees to stay at the hotel as well so as to maximise networking opportunities, and this year you can book US accommodation directly with the hotel so you can collect any Marriott points, corporate discounts etc. As usual, we’ll take good care of you over the two or three days, with meals each night, drinks receptions and lots of opportunities to meet colleagues and friends in the industry.
Full details are on the BI Forum 2014 web page including links to the registration sites. Book now so you don’t miss-out – each year we sell-out in advance, so don’t leave it to the last minute if you’re thinking of coming. Hopefully see you all in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2014!
Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Now Open for Registration!
I’m very pleased to announce that the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 running in Brighton and Atlanta, May 2014, is now open for registration. Keeping the format as before – a single stream at each event, world-class speakers and expert-level presentations, and a strictly-limited number of attendees – this is the premier Oracle BI tech conference for developers looking for something beyond marketing and beginner-level content.
This year we have a fantastic line-up of speakers and sessions, including:
- Oracle ACE and past BI Forum best speaker winner Kevin McGinley, on adding third-party visualisations to OBIEE
- Tony Heljula, winner of multiple best speaker awards and this year presenting on Exalytics and TimesTen Columnar Storage
- Sessions from TimesTen PMs Chris Jenkins and Susan Cheung on what’s coming with TimesTen
- Edward Roske, author of multiple books on Essbase, on Essbase optimisation
- Oracle’s Andrew Bond, and our own Stewart Bryson (Oracle ACE) with an update to Oracle’s reference BI, DW and Big Data Architecture
- Sessions from Oracle’s Jack Berkowitz, Adam Bloom and Matt Bedin on what’s coming with OBIEE and Oracle BI Applications
- Endeca sessions from Chris Lynskey (PM), Omri Traub (Development Manager) on Endeca, along with ones from Branchbird’s Patrick Rafferty and Truls Bergersen
- And sessions from Rittman Mead’s Robin Moffatt (OBIEE performance), Gianni Ceresa (Essbase) and Michael Rainey (ODI, with Nick Hurt from IFPI)
We’ve also got some excellent keynote sessions including one in the US from Maria Colgan on the new in-memory database option, and another in Brighton from Matt Bedin and Adam Bloom on BI in the Cloud – along with the opening-night Oracle product development keynote in both Brighton and Atlanta.
We’re also very exited to welcome Lars George from Cloudera to deliver this year’s optional one-day masterclass, this year on Hadoop, big data, and how Oracle BI&DW developers can get started with this technology. Lars is Cloudera’s Chief Architect in EMEA and an HBase committer, and he’ll be covering topics such as:
- What is Hadoop, what’s in the Hadoop ecosystem and how do you design a Hadoop cluster
- Using tools such as Flume and Sqoop to import data into Hadoop, and then analyse it using Hive, Pig, Impala and Cloudera Search
- Introduction to NoSQL and HBase
- Connecting Hadoop to tools such as OBIEE and ODI using JDBC, ODBC, Impala and Hive
If you’ve been meaning to take a look at Hadoop, or if you’ve made a start but would like a chance to discuss techniques with someone who’s out in the field every week designing and building Hadoop systems, this session is aimed at you – it’s on the Wednesday before each event and you can book at the same time as registering for the main BI Forum days.
Attendance is limited to around seventy at each event, and we’re running the Brighton BI Forum back at the Hotel Seattle, whilst the US one is running at the Renaissance Midtown Hotel, Atlanta. We encourage attendees to stay at the hotel as well so as to maximise networking opportunities, and this year you can book US accommodation directly with the hotel so you can collect any Marriott points, corporate discounts etc. As usual, we’ll take good care of you over the two or three days, with meals each night, drinks receptions and lots of opportunities to meet colleagues and friends in the industry.
Full details are on the BI Forum 2014 web page including links to the registration sites. Book now so you don’t miss-out – each year we sell-out in advance, so don’t leave it to the last minute if you’re thinking of coming. Hopefully see you all in Brighton and Atlanta in May 2014!
Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Abstract Scoring Now Live – For 1 Week Only!
The call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closed at the end of January, and we’ve had some excellent submissions on topics ranging from OBIEE, Visualizations and data discovery through to in-memory analytics, big data and data integration. As always, we’re now opening up the abstract submission list for scoring, so that anyone considering coming to either the Brighton or Atlanta events can have a say in what abstracts are selected.
The voting forms, and event details, are below:
- Brighton, May 7th – 9th 2014, Hotel Seattle Brighton : Abstract Voting Form
- Atlanta, May 14th – 16th 2014, Renaissance Atlanta Midtown : Abstract Voting Form
In case you missed it, we also announced the speaker for the Wednesday masterclass the other day – Lars George from Cloudera, who’ll be talking about Hadoop, HBase, Cloudera and how it all applies to the worlds of analytics, BI and DW – something we’re all really excited about.
Voting is open for just one week, and will close at 5pm PST on Tuesday, 18th Feb. Shortly afterwards we’ll announce the speaker line-up, and open-up registrations for both events. Keep an eye on the blog for more details as they come.
Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 Abstract Scoring Now Live – For 1 Week Only!
The call for papers for the Rittman Mead BI Forum 2014 closed at the end of January, and we’ve had some excellent submissions on topics ranging from OBIEE, Visualizations and data discovery through to in-memory analytics, big data and data integration. As always, we’re now opening up the abstract submission list for scoring, so that anyone considering coming to either the Brighton or Atlanta events can have a say in what abstracts are selected.
The voting forms, and event details, are below:
- Brighton, May 7th – 9th 2014, Hotel Seattle Brighton : Abstract Voting Form
- Atlanta, May 14th – 16th 2014, Renaissance Atlanta Midtown : Abstract Voting Form
In case you missed it, we also announced the speaker for the Wednesday masterclass the other day – Lars George from Cloudera, who’ll be talking about Hadoop, HBase, Cloudera and how it all applies to the worlds of analytics, BI and DW – something we’re all really excited about.
Voting is open for just one week, and will close at 5pm PST on Tuesday, 18th Feb. Shortly afterwards we’ll announce the speaker line-up, and open-up registrations for both events. Keep an eye on the blog for more details as they come.
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.
