Drill to Detail Ep.74 'Accelerating Oracle from Express to Analytic Views' with Special Guest Bud Endress

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Bud Endress, Director, Product Management at Oracle to talk about the evolution of Oracle's query acceleration and in-database OLAP features from the acquisition Express Server back in the 90's to today's Autonomous Data Warehouse and Analytic Views.

• Analytic Views, Oracle Database 12.2 … and Oracle’s Reboot of OLAP now Everything’s In-Memory (and SQL)

• Oracle9i OLAP uncovered

• Overview of Analytic Views

Drill to Detail Ep.70 'Oracle Analytics, Luke Skywalker and the Remarkable Return of Enterprise Analytics' featuring Special Guest Bruno Aziza

Mark Rittman is joined by Bruno Aziza, Group Vice President, AI, Data Analytics & Cloud at Oracle to talk about the recently-updated product roadmap for Oracle Analytics, Oracle BI in the marketplace, recent acquisitions in the analytics marketplace and the recent Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch, California.

• Oracle Analytics Summit

• Oracle Analytics Summit Recap

• Oracle Analytics for Applications: Oracle Analytics Summit Product Tour

• Oracle Analytics: Honing 18+ products down to a single brand

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.65 'Bootstrapping, Growth Hacking and Supermetrics Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers' with Special Guest Mikael Thuneberg

Mark Rittman is joined by CEO and Founder of Supermetrics, Mikael Thuneberg, to tell the story of how a  mention in the official Google Analytics Blog and a prize of a t-shirt led to him founding and bootstrapping what is now a €10M ARR marketing analytics business that’s probably the most important software vendor the Drill to Detail audience has never heard of, and who recently moved into the data pipelines-as-a-service market in collaboration with Google Cloud Platform and the Google BigQuery team.

• Announcing Supermetrics for BigQuery: Get a marketing data warehouse up and running in minutes (Supermetrics blog)

• Supermetrics, Google BigQuery and Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers (Rittman Analytics blog)

Drill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jordan Tigani, Director of Product Management at Google for Google BigQuery, to talk about the history of BigQuery and its technology origins in Dremel; how BigQuery has evolved since its original release to handle a wide range of data warehouse workloads; and new features announced for BigQuery at Google Next’19 including BI Engine, Storage API, Connected Sheets and a range of new data connectors from Supermetrics and Fivetran.

• Modern Data Warehousing with BigQuery (Cloud Next '19)

• Modern data warehousing with BigQuery: a Q&A with Engineering Director Jordan Tigani

• Introduction to BigQuery BI Engine

• BigQuery Storage API Overview

• Supermetrics and Fivetran BigQuery connectors

• Drill to Detail Ep.2. 'Future of SQL on Hadoop', With Special Guest Dan McClary

• Drill to Detail Ep.31 'Dremel, Druid and Data Modeling on Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Dan McClary