Tuesday, September 14, 2010

OOW 2010: BI/DW Sessions

I'm sure it will come as no surprise that many of the sessions I plan on attending are BI/DW related. I've been working with OBIEE for 2 years now and data warehouses for going on 4. I do miss the OLTP/PL/SQL development...but I try to make up for it on my own.

Anyway, I asked the members of the OBIEE Enterprise Methodology Group to post the sessions they were presenting. I received 4 responses:

Session ID: S317359
Title: Implementation Experiences with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
Abstract: Oracle Business Intelligence Applications provide prebuilt dashboards, schemas, metrics, and metadata for Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel Customer Relationship Management (Siebel CRM), and JD Edwards applications while remaining open and flexible enough to integrate with non-Oracle applications and custom-built datasources. Attendees at this session will learn implementation best practices from a panel of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications implementers and participate in Q+A with the panel.
Speaker(s):
Michael Siebert, Ingersoll Rand, Director - Integration, Reporting, and Analytics
Wayne Crichlow, Welch Foods Inc, Director of IT
Mark McNeely, Energy Solutions,
Bharath Natarajan, Agilent,
Robert Davis, Oracle
Schedule: Thursday, September 23, 13:30 | Moscone West L3, Rm 3016


Session ID: S315813
Title: Demystifying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition/BI Applications
Abstract: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition-based solutions are the strategic direction for Oracle-centric shops, but end users need clarity and guidance to find the right solution. This session offers an overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications based on successful customer implementations with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle's JD Edwards products, and legacy datasources. It offers tips and tricks, a technology deep dive based on industry-leading practices to ensure successful BI implementation and user adoption, and a hands-on demo of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Release 7.9.6 and up and a custom Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition-based solution.
Speaker(s):
Abhinav Banerjee, IBM,
Shyam Varan Nath, IBM - GBS, BIWA SIG, BI Architect
Schedule: Sunday, September 19, 15:00 | Moscone West L2, Rm 2002


Session ID: S318485
Title: Planning for High Performance
Abstract: Customers often struggle in tuning the Oracle BI environment to get optimal performance. This presentation demonstrates database and Oracle BI tuning techniques, along with dashboard design best practices, for achieving the highest-performance Oracle BI performance tuning, Oracle BI-related database tuning, and dashboard design for performance.
Speaker(s):
Jeff McQuigg, KPI Partners, Sr. Architect
Schedule: Sunday, September 19, 13:00 | Moscone West L2, Rm 2012


Session ID: S315300
Title: Sales Growth with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition at Qualcomm
Abstract: Learn how Qualcomm Inc. is using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition for competitive advantage and to win more deals. Analytics Manager delivers actionable insight to corporate shipping customers via an integrated Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition customer portal, enabling all customer levels to perform analysis and take appropriate action. This session covers how Qualcomm and Oracle BI Pillar Partner KPI Partners jointly implemented real-time data feeds with Informatica CDC, built a data warehouse foundation for growth, and designed a tightly integrated BI application for customers. The session highlights innovative solutions and best practices for BI systems across prototyping, development, QA, and deployment.
Speaker(s):
Jon Kula, Qualcomm,
Jeff McQuigg, KPI Partners, Sr. Architect
Schedule: Tuesday, September 21, 15:30 | Moscone West L3, Rm 3016


Session ID: S318483
Title: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition: Introduction, Overview, Agenda
Abstract: This presentation is an introduction to the Sunday forum session.
Speaker(s):
Stewart Bryson, Rittman Mead, Technical Director
Schedule: Sunday, September 19, 12:30 | Moscone West L2, Rm 2012


Session ID: S316691
Title: Real-Time Data Warehousing with Oracle BI and Oracle Database
Abstract: A successful real-time data warehouse implementation involves integrating the logical and physical model; source and target databases; extract, transform, load (ETL) subsystems; and front-end dashboards and reports. This session explores how these different pieces fit together, using Oracle Database and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition for demonstration. It investigates alternative modeling approaches for delivering up-to-the-second reporting, including use of a real-time logical fact partition and integrating the online transaction processing (OLTP) source system as a datasource. It also covers ETL approaches for delivering the data model, including combinations of batch loads, microbatch loads, and trickle-feed processing.
Speaker(s):
Stewart Bryson, Rittman Mead, Technical Director
Schedule: Thursday, September 23, 11:00 | Hotel Nikko, Bay


Session ID: S316698
Title: Resuming, Restarting, Restoring: Three Rs of Data Warehouse Fault Tolerance
Abstract: This presentation examines the three key aspects of recovering from errors and failures in a business intelligence/data warehouse environment running Oracle Database 11g, including failures in extract, transform, load (ETL) processing. It investigates how to design ETL processes to be both resumable and restartable, using best practices in ETL design combined with Oracle Database 11g features. Learn best practices for backing up a data warehouse by using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), including the evaluation of specific RMAN configuration parameters and techniques, and discover the answer to the age-old question of whether to ARCHIVELOG or not.
Speaker(s):
Stewart Bryson, Rittman Mead, Technical Director
Schedule: Thursday, September 23, 09:00 | Moscone South, Rm 300

Updated 2:00 AM EST
Session ID: S318489
Title: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Dashboard Best Practices
Abstract: This session explores technical best practices for dashboard and report development in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and functional best practices for building an insightful and useful BI system. You will walk away with tangible techniques and high-level strategies you can apply to your Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition environment.
Speaker(s):
Kevin McGinley, Accenture, Senior Manager
Schedule: Sunday, September 19, 15:30 | Moscone West L2, Rm 2012

I had Kevin's in my "My Interest" section but forgot to add him here. Another one I would like to attend, hopefully I'll find the time.

Mr. Bryson came down to my user group (SOUG) and spoke earlier this year and was quite the hit.

Jeff McQuigg, I work with someone he once worked with and apparently he's quite ornery, which makes him very interesting. I'm looking forward to meeting him.

I haven't met Shyam Varan Nath yet, well, sort of did, at the Exadata SIG during COLLABORATE.

I'm looking forward to seeing the presentations and hopefully meeting the presenters...or hassling them, whatever.

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