Drill to Detail Ep.18 'Oracle's Cloud Analytics and Data Visualization Strategy' With Special Guest Vasu Murthy

Mark Rittman is joined by Vasu Murthy, Oracle's Senior Director for Product Management of Oracle Business Analytics to talk about what's new with OBIEE and Oracle Data Visualization and the recently released Oracle Analytics Cloud, a dive into the technical architecture of these new additions to Oracle's BI platform, and Oracle's vision for hybrid on-prem/cloud analytics.

Drill to Detail Ep.17 ‘Mode 1 Analytics and the Future of Cloud DWs’ With Special Guest Rick Greenwald

Mark Rittman is joined by Gartner analyst and ex-Oracle Database Cloud Service PM Rick Greenwald to talk about IT’s continuing (and essential!) role in corporate BI&DW deployments and the debate around Mode1 vs. Mode2 Analytics, how we got here, and the future of data warehousing database platforms as we move into the cloud.

Drill to Detail Ep.15 ‘Modern BI and the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2016’ With Special Guest Cindi Howson

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Cindi Howson to talk about Modern BI and last year's Gartner BI & Analytics Magic Quadrant, the rise of self-service BI and IT's new role as enabler rather than owner, CIO priorities around BI & Analytics ... and, is the BICC dead?

• Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms
• Modern BI Platforms: The Role of the Data Warehouse and Semantic Models
• What CIOs Say About BI and Analytics
• Select the Right Business Intelligence and Analytics Tool for the Right User
• Create a Centralized and Decentralized Organizational Model for Business Intelligence
• My Big (Fat) Data Governance Rant
• Cindi Howson Gartner Network Blog

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.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"