Drill to Detail Ep.25 'SAP BusinessObjects Analytics, AI and Digital Transformation' With Special Guest Timo Elliott

Mark Rittman is joined by Timo Elliott, originally of Business Objects and now Innovation Evangelist for SAP, to talk about the origins of self-service BI with Business Objects' innovative "Universe" and the role analytics now plays within SAP; why analytics is the most important function within your organization and why the vast majority of analytics is still reporting (which isn't so bad); and the role AI and other innovations will play in analytics going in the future.

• Timo's Elliott Business Analytics and Digital Business Blog
• "Analytics Is The Most Important Business Process in Your Organization!"
• "The Vast Majority of Analytics is Still Reporting (And That’s Not So Bad)"
• "What is the Story of Business Objects" (Quora answer)

Drill to Detail Ep.21 'The Fall, and Rise, of Microsoft BI' With Special Guest Chris Webb

Mark Rittman is joined by Independent Consultant Chris Webb to talk about MDX & DAX, MSAS and SQL SQL Server and the fall ... and rise, of Microsoft BI

Drill to Detail Ep.14 ‘Cloudy Big Data Paradigm-Shifting Christmas & New Year Special’ With Special Guest Robin Moffatt

Mark Rittman is joined in this Christmas & New Year special episode by none-other than Robin Moffatt, head of R&D at Rittman Mead and an old colleague from my consulting days, to talk about his experiences with Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) for BI + Analytics and how "the devil's in the detail", and to hear his take on what happened in the BI and analytics world in 2016 and what to look out for in 2017.

ETL & Analytics Offload from Oracle to Amazon Web Services using Apache Spark, Redshift, and Presto

• Blog: https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/12/etl-offload-with-spark-and-amazon-emr-part-5/
• Other four articles in series : https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/12/etl-offload-with-spark-and-amazon-emr-part-1 / https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/12/etl-offload-with-spark-and-amazon-emr-part-2-code-development-with-notebooks-and-docker// https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/12/etl-offload-with-spark-and-amazon-emr-part-3-running-pyspark-on-emr / https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/12/etl-offload-with-spark-and-amazon-emr-part-4-analysing-the-data)

Source Control and Automated Code Deployment Options for OBIEE

• Blog: https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/12/source-control-and-automated-code-deployment-options-for-obiee/
• Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/rmoff/source-control-code-deployment-and-concurrent-development-for-obiee-12c

All You Ever Wanted to Know About OBIEE Performance…but were too afraid to ask

• Blog: https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/10/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-obiee-performance-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask/
• Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/rmoff/still-no-silver-bullets-obiee-12c-performance-in-the-real-world

Apache Kafka's Role in Implementing Oracle's Big Data Reference Architecture on the Big Data Appliance

• Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/rmoff/kafkas-role-in-implementing-oracles-big-data-reference-architecture-on-the-big-data-appliance

Analysing the Panama Papers with Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph

• Article : https://community.oracle.com/docs/DOC-1006400

Drill to Detail Ep.11 'OLAP, Consulting & BI Past Present + Future' with Special Guest Graham Spicer

Mark Rittman is joined by Graham Spicer in this UKOUG Tech'16 Special to talk about BI past, present and future including the history of Oracle OLAP, running and owning a consulting business over 30 years of changes in the industry, what's hot on the market today, and what skills and techniques are still relevant even as we adopt big data products and look to new methods of analysis.

• Oracle OLAP Homepage on Oracle.com

• History of Oracle Express and Oracle OLAP

• Analytic Views in Oracle 12.2 - from the team that brought you Oracle OLAP

• Article on Brytlyt

• Striim Homepage

• Splash BI - On-Demand Business Intelligence

• Graham Spicer on LinkedIn

Drill to Detail Ep.8 'Self-Service BI, Data Prep & Big Data Vendor Strategy' with Special Guest Jen Underwood

Mark Rittman is joined by Jen Underwood to discuss the aftermath of the Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016 and the rise of self-service, Mode-2 analytics; innovation in predictive analytics and data preparation tools, and how the big data cloud vendors are differentiating themselves (or not).

Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano

In this episode Mark Rittman is joined by Kent Graziano to answer the questions "Is data modeling now dead", and "is SnowflakeDB the future of analytic data engines in the cloud?"

• Better Data Modeling: An Introduction to Agile Data Engineering Using Data Vault 2.0
• Better Data Modeling: Tips for Enhancing Your Use of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
• Kent Graziano Blog
• Building a Scalable Data Warehouse with Data Vault 2.0
• Snowflake Computing
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2016
• Gartner press release on their "modern BI platform"

Drill To Detail Ep.1. 'After The Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016', With Special Guest Stewart Bryson

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2016
• Gartner press release on their "modern BI platform"
• "AgileAnalytics: Agile Real-Time BI with Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle GoldenGate"
• "Oracle BI Hybrid BI : Mode 1 + Mode 2, Cloud + On-Premise Business Analytics"
• "Introducing the Updated Oracle / Rittman Mead Information Management Reference Architecture Pt1. - Information Architecture and the "Data Factory"
• "Information Management and Big Data - A Reference Architecture"