Drill to Detail Ep.96 'Omni's Mission to Answer the First 100 Questions' with Special Guest Colin Zima

Mark Rittman is joined in this very special episode by Colin Zima, ex-Head of Analytics at Looker and now co-founder of Omni, a new analytics startup looking to become the fastest way to ask the first 100 questions.

• Introducing Omni: The fastest way to turn SQL into intelligence

• Omni Analytics Homepage

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Drill to Detail Ep.79 'Scaling the Modern Data Analytics Stack' with Special Guests Drew Banin and Stewart Bryson

Mark Rittman is joined by special guests Drew Banin, co-founder of Fishtown Analytics and maintainer of dbt (data build tool) and Stewart Bryson, long-time friend of the show and CEO/Co-founder of Red Pill Analytics to talk about scaling modern data stack projects from startups to the enterprise; how do you deal with data quality issues when there’s no central record of customers, how do we introduce data governance, enterprise requirements and meet the needs of enterprise architects and how do we scale concepts such as agile and analytics as engineering beyond our initial champion and data team?

• The dbt Viewpoint

• Fishtown Analytics and Drew Banin

• Multi-Channel Marketing Attribution using Segment, Google BigQuery, dbt and Looker

• Getting Started with dbt.

• Red Pill Analytics

Drill to Detail Ep.66 'ETL, Incorta and the Death of the Star Schema' with Special Guest Matthew Halliday

Mark Rittman is joined by Matthew Halliday to talk about the challenge of ETL and analytics on complex relational OLTP data models, previous attempts to solve these problems with products such as Oracle Essbase and Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca and how those experiences, and others, led to his current role as co-founder and VP of Products at Incorta.

• The Death of the Star Schema: 3 Key Innovations Driving the Rapid Demise

• Accelerating Analytics with Direct Data Mapping

• Accelerating Operational Reporting & Analytics for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Extract Transform Load (ETL)

• E-Business Suite Extensions for Endeca: Technical Considerations

• The Pain of Operational Reporting Solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)

Drill to Detail Ep.56 'Essbase Cloud, Analytics Cloud and Cloud Analytics Consulting' with Special Guest Matt Yorke

In this specially-extended episode just before ODTUG KScope'18, Mark Rittman is joined by Matt Yorke from Qubix to talk about Oracle Essbase Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and the business of Oracle Cloud analytics consulting

• Essbase Cloud is Here!
• Oracle Analytics Partner Forum 2018
• Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud
• ODTUG KScope’18
• Matt Yorke on LinkedIn

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"