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.10 'Oracle's Big Data Reboot, and Data Storytelling' With Special Guest Stewart Bryson

Mark Rittman is joined once more by Stewart Bryson, talking about Oracle's recent reboot of it's cloud big data platform at Oracle Openworld 2016, thoughts on DataFlowML and comparisons with Google's Cloud DataFlow and Amazon Kinesis, and data storytelling with Oracle Data Visualisation Desktop 2.0

Show notes / links:

• Oracle’s Big Data Platform goes Cloud, Becomes Elastic and Suddenly Looks Very Interesting
• Google BigQuery, and Why Big Data is About to Have its GMail Moment
• Big Data - Compute Edition | Oracle Cloud
• Storytelling With Data

Drill to Detail Ep.9 'Streamsets, Data-in-Motion and Data Drift' with Special Guest Pat Patterson

Mark Rittman is joined by StreamSets' Pat Patterson, talking about data in motion and doing it at scale, the story behind StreamSets and the problem of data drift, and the challenges involved in managing dataflows at scale as a continuous operation.

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.7 'Apache Spark, and Hadoop Application Architectures' with Special Guest Mark Grover

Mark is joined by Cloudera's Mark Grover to talk about his work with Apache Spark and Apache Spot, and the book "Hadoop Application Architectures" co-authored with Gwen Shapira, Jonathan Seidman and Ted Malaska.