Tag Archives: User Groups & Conferences
Rittman Mead sponsoring RMOUG
After enjoying a successful 2020 in the North American data and analytics market, we’re excited to announce that we’re sponsoring Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) this year!
Running from 8th - 11th February, the agenda is jam packed with content including interactive workshops and technical sessions all presented by local and international Oracle product managers, partners and end users. There’ll be plenty of content covering everything from the newest developments in Oracle Analytics to database migrations. You can catch our CEO, Jon Mead at 11.30am (MST) on the 11th where he’ll be exploring how metadata can help you to understand and enhance user engagement. Don’t miss it!
We’ll be hosting a couple of break-out sessions (bring your own coffee) so if you want to chat Oracle Analytics, AI, ML, databases or anything in between then please feel free to virtually drop by and have a chat with one of the team.
Register here: https://events.bizzabo.com/TD2021/page/1611456/registration
Rittman Mead at UKOUG Tech 16
This year as always Rittman Mead is coming to UKOUG Tech 16 with a strong presence and a great line up of sessions covering OBIEE, ODI, Kafka, advanced visualisation and more. And yes, there will be Cloud!
Here is the details of the Rittman Mead sessions :
- Kafka's Role in Implementing Oracle's Big Data Reference Architecture on the Big Data Appliance – Monday 13.10, Exec Room 5 [Robin Moffatt]
- Source Control, Code Deployment & Concurrent Development for OBIEE 12c – Monday 17.55, Hall 6A [Robin Moffatt]
- Business Analytics Stream Roundtable, chaired by Mike Vickers – Tuesday 09.00, Hall 1 Foyer Level 5
- Still No Silver Bullets : OBIEE 12c Performance in the Real World – Tuesday 11.35, Exec Room 6 [Robin Moffatt]
- Bridging the Gap: Enhancing OBIEE with a Custom Visualisation Platform – Tuesday 14.25, Exec Room 6 [Minesh Patel]
- On-Premise to Cloud Using Oracle Data Integrator to Load BICS – Tuesday 15.25, Hall 6A [Jerome Francoisse]
- Reduce European Flight Delay – Real Time ODI, OBIEE & D3 – Wednesday 10.00, Hall 6B [Jerome Francoisse]
- OBIEE 12c Upgrade Experience at Liberty Global Case Study – Wednesday 14.10, Hall 6B [Francesco Tisiot]
There is no better way to finish a conference than with two success stories from our recent engagements! If the OBIEE 12c upgrade depicted in Francesco's session is something you are also looking to achieve, we would be pleased to tell you more about it and to see how we can help you.
And of course, we are also happy to answer any questions if you see us in sessions or around the conference. You can find some of us during the Oracle Big Data meetup (Monday evening) or the ODTUG Data and Analytics Switzerland meetup (Tuesday evening).
So see you in two weeks in Birmingham !
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 the Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Big Data, and Advanced Analytics subject areas. This year the event is held in Chicago at the Sheraton Grand Chicago, a great location right on the river and a short distance from sights such as the Navy Pier and Magnificent Mile. And, as always, there will be some great networking opportunities throughout the week.
This year, we’re pleased to congratulate our own Becky Wagner (of Becky’s BI Apps Corner) on her graduation from the ODTUG Leadership Program. This is the third class to complete the program, which aims to build leadership skills, confidence, and work/life balance skills, amongst many other things, throughout the 9 month class duration. Well done, Becky! You’ll be able to find her and the rest of the 2016 Leadership class at the Career Community/Leadership Program Information Breakfast – Monday, June 27th 7:30AM at the Sheraton hotel main dining area. They will be kicking off the application season for the 2017 Leadership Program and providing further information about the new ODTUG career program as well.
The rest of the Rittman Mead attendees will be presenting one or more sessions during the week.
The week kicks off with my talk Monday on GoldenGate and Kafka integration using the new Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data release 12.2. The topic of this session, real-time data streaming, provides a great solution for the challenging task of ingesting data from multiple different sources, and different structures, and making that data readily available for others in the organization to use. By combining GoldenGate, Oracle’s premier data replication technology, and Apache Kafka, the latest open-source streaming and messaging system for big data, we can implement a fast, durable, and scalable solution.
Tuesday morning, Charles Elliott, Managing Director of Rittman Mead in the US, will begin the first of his two-part hands on lab sessions on Free Form Data Visualizations. This hands-on introduction to all things visual in OBIEE’s new Visual Analyzer (VA) will allow attendees to see the top reporting features within the current release while also understanding the core differences between OBIEE’s previous reporting platform and what’s available now. In addition to creating some of the most eye-catching visualizations the new tool has to offer, this session will highlight new OBIEE 12c features such as mapping, advanced analytics, and an overview of the brand-new web catalog. Whether you are just interested in what’s new in free-form Oracle BI visualizations or preparing for an upgrade, this session is for you!
During the lunch and learn sessions you can find me moderating the BI and Data Warehousing panel and Mark Rittman will be moderating the Big Data and Advanced Analytics crew. Grab a lunch and join us!
The remainder of Rittman Mead sessions fall on Wednesday, with some interesting topics around Big Data Discovery, OBIEE branding and Essbase integration, and the Kimball ETL Subsystems. Also, the second day of the Free Form Data Visualizations HOL will be held on Wednesday afternoon.
It all starts with Mark Rittman presenting “OBIEE 12c: What’s New for Integration and Reporting Against EPM Sources”. He’ll dig into interesting new features around OBIEE 12c and Essbase integration, including improvements around using Essbase as a query acceleration layer and general improvements around usability and RPD/Outline integration. Come to this session to see what they are, how they affect OBIEE/Essbase integration, and where this initiative may be going over time.
Following Mark and his dive into OBIEE and Essbase on Wednesday will be my session, “A Walk Through the Kimball ETL Subsystems with Oracle Data Integration”, with a focus on how to implement the ETL Subsystems using Oracle Data Integration solutions. As you may know, Ralph Kimball, dimensional modeling and data warehousing expert and founder of The Kimball Group, spent much of his career working to build an enterprise data warehouse methodology that can meet analytical reporting needs. His book, “The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit,” is a guide for many ETL developers. This session will walk you through his ETL Subsystem categories, describing how the Oracle Data Integration products (Oracle Data Integrator, GoldenGate, & Enterprise Data Quality) are perfectly suited for the Kimball approach.
After lunch, Andy Rocha and Pete Tamisin will dive into “How to Brand and Own Your OBIEE Interface: Past, Present, and Future”. In this presentation, they will explore the different techniques in branding and customizing your OBIEE environment in different versions: 11.1.1.7, 11.1.1.9, and 12c. What that really means is they will talk about how to brand the interface in a thoughtful way… not just throwing the company’s colors on the screen, but thinking about what will actually make the application more attractive and useful for the user community.
Closing out the Rittman Mead Wednesday sessions is Mark Rittman with his unique look at machine learning and advanced visualizations using Oracle Big Data Discovery (BDD). Mark will use the BDD Shell, pySpark, and Jupyter to ingest, process and run machine learning routines on IoT and smart home data, which he has been collecting over the past year. Oracle Big Data Discovery provides a graphical environment for cataloging, searching, and displaying data from Hadoop and other sources along with some basic data wrangling features and display options. In this session, he’ll look at how BDD can be extended using the aforementioned APIs to cover more advanced predictive modeling, machine learning, and data science tasks, and how the graphics API can be used to add custom D3 advanced visualizations for your datasets and analyses. I’m definitely looking forward to this one!
We’re all looking forward to attending the event in Chicago this year and can’t wait for next week! If you’d like to get together to discuss any of the above topics we’re presenting, or anything data integration or BI related, feel free to reach out via email (info@rittmanmead.com), twitter (@mRainey) or drop a note in the comments below. Hope to see you there!
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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 the Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Big Data, and Advanced Analytics subject areas. This year the event is held in Chicago at the Sheraton Grand Chicago, a great location right on the river and a short distance from sights such as the Navy Pier and Magnificent Mile. And, as always, there will be some great networking opportunities throughout the week.
This year, we're pleased to congratulate our own Becky Wagner (of Becky's BI Apps Corner) on her graduation from the ODTUG Leadership Program. This is the third class to complete the program, which aims to build leadership skills, confidence, and work/life balance skills, amongst many other things, throughout the 9 month class duration. Well done, Becky! You'll be able to find her and the rest of the 2016 Leadership class at the Career Community/Leadership Program Information Breakfast - Monday, June 27th 7:30AM at the Sheraton hotel main dining area. They will be kicking off the application season for the 2017 Leadership Program and providing further information about the new ODTUG career program as well.
The rest of the Rittman Mead attendees will be presenting one or more sessions during the week.
The week kicks off with my talk Monday on GoldenGate and Kafka integration using the new Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data release 12.2. The topic of this session, real-time data streaming, provides a great solution for the challenging task of ingesting data from multiple different sources, and different structures, and making that data readily available for others in the organization to use. By combining GoldenGate, Oracle’s premier data replication technology, and Apache Kafka, the latest open-source streaming and messaging system for big data, we can implement a fast, durable, and scalable solution.
Tuesday morning, Charles Elliott, Managing Director of Rittman Mead in the US, will begin the first of his two-part hands on lab sessions on Free Form Data Visualizations. This hands-on introduction to all things visual in OBIEE’s new Visual Analyzer (VA) will allow attendees to see the top reporting features within the current release while also understanding the core differences between OBIEE’s previous reporting platform and what’s available now. In addition to creating some of the most eye-catching visualizations the new tool has to offer, this session will highlight new OBIEE 12c features such as mapping, advanced analytics, and an overview of the brand-new web catalog. Whether you are just interested in what’s new in free-form Oracle BI visualizations or preparing for an upgrade, this session is for you!
During the lunch and learn sessions you can find me moderating the BI and Data Warehousing panel and Mark Rittman will be moderating the Big Data and Advanced Analytics crew. Grab a lunch and join us!
The remainder of Rittman Mead sessions fall on Wednesday, with some interesting topics around Big Data Discovery, OBIEE branding and Essbase integration, and the Kimball ETL Subsystems. Also, the second day of the Free Form Data Visualizations HOL will be held on Wednesday afternoon.
It all starts with Mark Rittman presenting "OBIEE 12c: What's New for Integration and Reporting Against EPM Sources". He'll dig into interesting new features around OBIEE 12c and Essbase integration, including improvements around using Essbase as a query acceleration layer and general improvements around usability and RPD/Outline integration. Come to this session to see what they are, how they affect OBIEE/Essbase integration, and where this initiative may be going over time.
Following Mark and his dive into OBIEE and Essbase on Wednesday will be my session, “A Walk Through the Kimball ETL Subsystems with Oracle Data Integration", with a focus on how to implement the ETL Subsystems using Oracle Data Integration solutions. As you may know, Ralph Kimball, dimensional modeling and data warehousing expert and founder of The Kimball Group, spent much of his career working to build an enterprise data warehouse methodology that can meet analytical reporting needs. His book, “The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit,” is a guide for many ETL developers. This session will walk you through his ETL Subsystem categories, describing how the Oracle Data Integration products (Oracle Data Integrator, GoldenGate, & Enterprise Data Quality) are perfectly suited for the Kimball approach.
After lunch, Andy Rocha and Pete Tamisin will dive into "How to Brand and Own Your OBIEE Interface: Past, Present, and Future". In this presentation, they will explore the different techniques in branding and customizing your OBIEE environment in different versions: 11.1.1.7, 11.1.1.9, and 12c. What that really means is they will talk about how to brand the interface in a thoughtful way… not just throwing the company’s colors on the screen, but thinking about what will actually make the application more attractive and useful for the user community.
Closing out the Rittman Mead Wednesday sessions is Mark Rittman with his unique look at machine learning and advanced visualizations using Oracle Big Data Discovery (BDD). Mark will use the BDD Shell, pySpark, and Jupyter to ingest, process and run machine learning routines on IoT and smart home data, which he has been collecting over the past year. Oracle Big Data Discovery provides a graphical environment for cataloging, searching, and displaying data from Hadoop and other sources along with some basic data wrangling features and display options. In this session, he'll look at how BDD can be extended using the aforementioned APIs to cover more advanced predictive modeling, machine learning, and data science tasks, and how the graphics API can be used to add custom D3 advanced visualizations for your datasets and analyses. I'm definitely looking forward to this one!
We're all looking forward to attending the event in Chicago this year and can't wait for next week! If you'd like to get together to discuss any of the above topics we're presenting, or anything data integration or BI related, feel free to reach out via email (info@rittmanmead.com), twitter (@mRainey) or drop a note in the comments below. Hope to see you there!
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, NV to teach, learn, and, of course, network with their peers. The Collaborate conference, running for 10 years now, has been a collaboration, if you will, between the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest), making it one of the largest user group conferences in the world. Rittman Mead will once again be in attendance, with two data integration focused presentations by me over the course of the week.
My first session, “A Walk Through the Kimball ETL Subsystems with Oracle Data Integration”, scheduled for Monday, April 11 at 10:30am, will focus on how we can implement the ETL Subsystems using Oracle Data Integration solutions. As you know, Big Data integration has been the hot topic over the past few years, and it’s an excellent feature in the Oracle Data Integration product suite (Oracle Data Integrator, GoldenGate, & Enterprise Data Quality). But not all analytics require big data technologies, such as labor cost, revenue, or expense reporting. Ralph Kimball, dimensional modeling and data warehousing expert and founder of The Kimball Group, spent much of his career working to build an enterprise data warehouse methodology that can meet these reporting needs. His book, “The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit“, is a guide for many ETL developers. This session will walk you through his ETL Subsystem categories; Extracting, Cleaning & Conforming, Delivering, and Managing, describing how the Oracle Data Integration products are perfectly suited for the Kimball approach.
I go into further detail on one of the ETL Subsystems in an upcoming IOUG Select Journal article, titled “Implement an Error Event Schema with Oracle Data Integrator”. The Select Journal is a technical magazine published quarterly and available exclusively to IOUG members. My recent post Data Integration Tips: ODI 12c Repository Query – Find the Mapping Target Table shows a bit of the detail behind the research performed for the article.
If you’re not familiar with the Kimball approach to data warehousing, I definitely would recommend reading one (or more) of their published books on the subject. I would also recommend attending one of their training courses, but unfortunately for the data warehousing community the Kimball Group has closed shop as of December 2015. But hey, the good news is that two of the former Kimball team members have joined forces at Decision Works, and they offer the exact same training they used to deliver under The Kimball Group name.
On Thursday, April 14 at 11am, I will dive into the recently released Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data 12.2 in a session titled “Oracle GoldenGate and Apache Kafka: A Deep Dive into Real-Time Data Streaming”. The challenge for us as data integration professionals is to combine relational data with other non-structured, high volume and rapidly changing datasets, known in the industry as Big Data, and transform it into something useful. Not just that, but we must also do it in near real-time and using a big data target system such as Hadoop. The topic of this session, real-time data streaming, provides us a great solution for that challenging task. By combining GoldenGate, Oracle’s premier data replication technology, and Apache Kafka, the latest open-source streaming and messaging system for big data, we can implement a fast, durable, and scalable solution.
If you plan to be at Collaborate next week, feel free to drop me a line in the comments, via email at michael.rainey@rittmanmead.com, or on Twitter @mRainey, I’d love to meet up and have a discussion around my presentation topics, data integration, or really anything we’re doing at Rittman Mead. Hope to see you all there!
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