Recent Posts by Sandrine Riley

It is nomination time!!! This year's Oracle Fusion Middleware Excellence Awards will honor customers and partners who are creatively using various products across Oracle Fusion Middleware. Think you have something unique and innovative with Oracle Data Integration products? We'd love to hear from you! Please submit today in the Big Data and Analytics category. The deadline for the nomination is July 31, 2015. Win a free pass to Oracle OpenWorld 2015!! Let’s reminisce a little… For...

What are your plans around Big Data and Cloud? If your organization has already begun to explore these topics, you might be interested a new offering from Oracle that will dramatically simplify how you use your data in Hadoop and the Cloud: Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service (BDP) There is a perception that most of the time spent in Big Data projects is dedicated to harvesting value. The reality is that 90% of the time in Big Data projects is really spent on datapreparatio...

The A-Team not only provides great content, they are humorous too! Check out this week’s post, the title says it all: Getting Groovy with Oracle Data Integrator: Automating Changes after Upgrading ODI or Migrating from Oracle Warehouse Builder The article covers various scripts written in Groovy and leverage the ODI SDK that assist in automating massive changes to one’s repository. These initially came to beas a result of customer desire in enhancing their environment in their...

Oracle's big data team has announced the newest Oracle Big Data Lite Virtual Machine 4.1.0.  This newest Big Data Lite Virtual Machine contains great improvements from a data integration perspective with inclusion of the recently released Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data.  You will see this in an improved demonstration that highlights inserts, updates, and deletes into Hive using Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data with Oracle Data Integrator performing a merge of the new...

What are your plans around Big Data and Cloud? If your organization has already begun to explore these topics, you might be interested a new offering from Oracle that will dramatically simplify how you use your data in Hadoop and the Cloud: Oracle Data Enrichment Cloud Service (ODECS) There is a perception that most of the time spent in Big Data projects is dedicated to harvesting value. The reality is that 90% of thetime in Big Data projects is really spent on data preparation....

More great information from the ODI A-Team! Check out the A-Team’s most recent blog about the Oracle Partition Exchange – it does come in two parts: Using Oracle Partition Exchange with ODI Configuring ODI with Oracle Partition Exchange The knowledge module is on Java.Net, and it is called “IKM Oracle Partition Exchange Load”.  To search for it, enter “PEL” or “exchange” in the Search option of Java.Net. A sample ODI 12.1.3 Repository is available as well.  The ODI...

As a quick refresher, Metadata Management is essential to solve a wide variety of critical business and technical challenges which include how report figures are calculated, understanding the impact of changes to data upstream, providing reports in a business friendly way in the browser and providing reporting capabilities on the entire metadata of an enterprise for analysis and improvement. Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management is built to solve all thesepressing needs for...

Oracle's product strategy around the Oracle Business Intelligence Analytics (OBIA) has been published this October in the latest Statement of Direction. Interesting points relative to the BI Applications around data integration: Oracle’s strategic development for ELT for BI Applications will focus on the Oracle Data Integrator and related technologies. Since the fielding of the ODI compatible version of BIApplications in the 11g series, customers have realized...

Hot off the press!  Raymond James Financial shares how it uses Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle GoldenGate in establishing an enterprise information platform that integrates data from multiple heterogeneous sources such as HP NonStop, Microsoft SQL Server, etc and provides a consolidated company view.  This solution provides quicker access toactionable, timely data that helps operational efficiency for its 6,000 financial advisers by enabling repeatable processes in...