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BIWA Summit at Collaborate 2011 Two great ways to get Oracle education and training for more than 50% less than full week training programs. First: COLLABORATE 11 –IOUG forum gives you access to our hands on labs, our online conference proceedings, discounts to access post event audio/presentation capture, special IOUG only events. You’d pay over $2500 for just a portion of this type of education so leverage your budget wisely and attend. If you haven't registered yet, navigate to the COLLABORATE – THE IOUG Forum Registration page by Thursday, March 31st , and secure your place at the premiere Oracle education event of the year! Use code BIWA2011 for discounts and BI-nefits! How deep do you want to go? Sign up for FREE for one of over 12 IOUG Bootcamps across three days of in-depth training by industry leading experts and users: Business Intelligence DBA 101 Database Development Upgrades Virtualization High Availability Or attend Virtually! Hundreds of lic

This was my second year at RMOUG where I had two sessions, namely: 1) BI EPM Panel on March 16 and 2) A talk "Competing on Appliances" on Mar 17. While for a talk you have to write a white paper and submit your presentation deck, a Panel requires gathering a group of people with experience and eminence in the related space. For the BI (DW) and EPM Panel, I was able to get in touch with the below and get them excited about the event: Robyn Sands fro Cisco, Faun deHenry from FMT Systems, Stewart Bryson from Rittman Mead and Tim Gorman from Evergreen Database Tech While some of the Panelists knew each other, some were meeting for the first time. The biggest challenge is to make sure that we present a coherent story to the audience, specially if it is not a well-rehearsed session. Given, all the last minute conference related items (like travel for one!), it is rarely possible to be able to rehearse in advance. So this leads to a challenge to manage the Panel in real time an