Mark Rittman is joined in this specially-extended episode of Drill to Detail by Olivier Dupuis, founder of Lantrn Analytics to share his experiences growing a product analytics business using today’s modern, modular SaaS analytics toolsLantrns AnalyticsRittman Analytics"How it Works" - Lantrns Analytics"How Rittman Analytics does Analytics: Modern BI Stack Operational Analytics using Looker, Stitch, dbt and Google BigQuery" - Rittman Analytics Blog

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 uncoveredOverview of Analytic Views

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new season with Mark Rittman joined in this episode by Colin Zima, VP of Product and Chief Analytics Officer at Looker to talk about luck, thinking differently and the deliberate design choices behind Looker Data Platform.JOIN 2018 - Colin Zima Product Keynote - Part 1GrowthHackers.com AMA with Colin Zima, Chief Analytics Officer & VP of Product at LookerHotelTonight - Story of a Modern Data-Driven BusinessDrill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb

In this final Drill to Detail Episode before we take a break for the summer, Mark Rittman is joined by Bhav Patel, founder of the London Conversion Rate, Optimization and Product Analytics Meetup to talk about Conversion Rate Optimization, Experimentation and A/B Testing, Customer vs. Product Analytics, Attribution and Personalization ... and the story behind the CRAP Meetups.CRAP Talks: CRO, Analytics and Product LondonCRAP Talks on SlackAnalytics, BigQuery, Looker and How I Became an Internet Meme for 48 Hours (CRAP Talks presentation)McDonald’s is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a more customized drive-thru (TechCrunch)

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by returning guest Kent Graziano, Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake, to talk about Snowflake Data Warehouse's cloud-first architecture and recent product announcements at Snowflake Summit 2019.Try Snowflake Data Warehouse for freeWatch Summit 2019 KeynotesSnowflake Materialized Views: A Fast, Zero-Maintenance, Accurate SolutionModern Data Sharing: The Opportunities Are EndlessDrill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano

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 SummitOracle Analytics Summit RecapOracle Analytics for Applications: Oracle Analytics Summit Product TourOracle Analytics: Honing 18+ products down to a single brand

Mark Rittman, Founder and CEO of Rittman Analytics is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by returning guests Tristan Handy, Founder and CEO of Fishtown Analytics and Stewart Bryson, Founder and CEO of Red Pill Analytics to talk about the recent acquisitions of Looker by Google Cloud Platform and Tableau by Salesforce, the wider story about consolidation in the BI industry and whether the trend in analytics tools is towards enterprise features … or open source?Five Thoughts on the Looker Acquisition by GCPCloud - Mark Rittman, Twitter ThreadA Wave of Acquisitions in Business Intelligence - Tristan Handy, Fishtown Analytics BlogGoogle to acquire Looker - Thomas Kurian Blog PostGoogle Cloud and Looker (PDF)Siebel Analytics - The Jewel in the Project Fusion Crown? - Mark Rittman’s Oracle Weblog via Internet ArchiveApplications in LookerSalesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire TableauSalesforce.com's Tableau Acquisition: Admitting Organic Innovation Failure?

In this special edition of the Drill to Detail Podcast hosted by Stewart Bryson, CEO and Co-Founder of Red Pill Analytics, he is joined by Robin Moffatt and Ricardo Ferreira, Developer Advocates at Confluent, to talk about Apache Kafka and Confluent, event-first thinking and streaming real-time analytics.Confluent Download: https://www.confluent.io/download/Demo: https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-demo/Slack group: http://cnfl.io/slackMailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/confluent-platformFrom Zero to Hero with Kafka Connect: http://rmoff.dev/ksldn19l-kafka-connect-slidesNo More Silos: Integrating Databases and Apache Kafka: http://rmoff.dev/ksny19-no-more-silosThe Changing Face of ETL: Event-Driven Architectures for Data Engineers: http://rmoff.dev/changing-face-of-etl

Mark Rittman is joined by Dylan Baker, freelance analytics consultant, to talk about thinking probabalistically, analytics within venture-funded startups, devops and its role in scaling-out the modern BI stack.dbanalytics.colookeraccess utilityAnnie Duke – Wanna Bet? – [Invest Like the Best, EP.125]London dbt Meetup #2

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 DemiseAccelerating Analytics with Direct Data MappingAccelerating 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 ConsiderationsThe Pain of Operational Reporting Solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)