Oracle BIWA User Community

Here is my personal invitation to come and attend the next Oracle BIWA SIG Techcast called: OBIEE Analytics/Reporting Solutions for E-Business Suite I p l a n to discuss the following high level topics: 1) Oracle BI Applications for supported Oracle E-Business Suite Modules and other Oracle Applications. It will include real world experiences for implementing BI Apps Version 7.9.6 {yes I have brought a 7.9.6 implementation to production recently!} 2) Custom OBIEE Development against E-Business Suite (when no BI apps are available) 3) Migration of Discoverer EUL to OBIEE RPD using Migration Utility While OBIEE and BI Apps are clearly the strategic analytics reporting direction from Oracle, only certain Analytics applications are available. Sometimes all customer needs for BI reporting may not be met by these pre-built analytics. For instance, JD Edwards has pre-built ETL connectors only for Financial Analytics. While more BI Apps and ETL connectors are in the pipeline, how can users

Dear Shyam Varan These are exciting times for SPSS and for you, our customer. By now you have probably heard the news that SPSS Inc. has entered into an agreement to be acquired by IBM Corporation. First, I want to personally thank you for your patronage over the years and for enabling us to reach this pinnacle event. Second, I want to assure you that, as we go through the process of finalizing the acquisition, our level of support and dedication to academia will remain as strong as ever. During this time, account management and support infrastructure will be at the forefront of our focus and, of course, we will continue to honor our outstanding commitments and contracts. In short, our action plan for the immediate future is business as usual. This agreement is a momentous step, as becoming part of IBM will provide us with the scale and resources to better meet academia’s need for the most advanced data analysis and decision-making tools. We are firmly committed to: Providing acade

It has been a while since I blogged, BIWA hosted a webcast on Data Mining by Charlie Berger and is ready for another one tomorrow on Oracle database 11g optimizer by Maria Colgan . Her talks are generally "sold out." In my opinion her topic is not mainstream BI, yet something that all BIDW professionals need to know to drive performance out of the Oracle DB based data warehouses. We have a few more talks lined up such as Oracle OLAP at Gallup: A Scalable Unified Approach to BI Reporting by the Gallup folks and then mine on OBIEE Analytics/Reporting Solutions for E-Business Suite Now that my Blogger status for Oracle Openworld 2009, registration is approved, I am "licensed to blog." :) You might have observed that the title of this section is " The Business Case for Social Networks " yet I start talking about BIWA Techcasts. Well, I want to build the business case implicitly and not explicitly. You can note that today almost all the BI experts quote