Oracle BIWA User Community

Analytics and Data Summit Mar 20-22, 2018 is Over today, 3 hectics, after year+ of preparations! The Conference Survey has been sent to the attendees, to capture the feedback. More to come... meanwhile Save the date for next year!

Let us go down the memory lane, it all started in 2006, soon after Oracle acquired Siebel . While Siebel was well known for CRM, the Siebel Analytics helped to get Oracle on the BI map. Mid-2006, was a good time to start a Special Interest Group (SIG) with focus on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Same year Oracle acquired Synopsis    (Oct 2006) and then Hyperion in 2007.  The Technology-centric User Group - IOUG  facilitated the start of the DWBI SIG. DBBI SIG's first public appearance was in NYOUG 's summer and fall events in New York. Then this SIG was invited to present a session at Oracle Openworld 2006, in the Sunday User Group Day. After Oracle Openworld, Charlie Berger joined hands with this SIG, and brought along his rich experiences from the Life Science Group called OLSUG . This was the time the SIG realized that its name needed to reflect Advanced Analytics (AA) so the new name BI + DW + AA condensed to BIWA SIGwas adopted and hence the url www.OracleB

The Analytics and Data Summit starts next week on Tuesday, Mar 20th, 2018.  This event was formally called BIWA Summit. BIWA SIG started as IOUG SIG in 2016, and first BIWA Summit was held in 2007 in Reston, VA. Starting 2007, it moved to West Coast, to Redwood City. BIWA SIG is now an independent User Group of Oracle and is now called BIWA User Community . Checkout the Summit schedule here     It runs from Mar 20 to Mar 22, 2018. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analytics and Data Summit Announces Oracle’s Andy Mendelsohn and Waqar Hasan as Keynote Speakers Redwood Shores, CA, March 16, 2018  – BIWA User Community announced today that Oracle senior executives Andy Mendelsohn, executive vice president, Database Server Technologies and Waqar Hasan, senior vice president, Big Data Analytics will deliver the opening keynote at the 2018 Analytics and Data Summit. The Analytics and Data Summit

Oracle Openworld (OOW) 2015 is almost here!  My day starts tomorrow where I am volunteering in JavaOne4Kids - Lego Mindstorms Programming 4 Kids and  Hands-on IoT workshop using Growbot sensors for kids 10-18 year old. My speaking sessions start from Sunday when I speak on Intelligent Cities and Communities powered by emerging field of IoT.  On Monday, I talk about Industrial Internet and Brilliant Factories at 11 am. Monday goes late for us to JavaOne Birds of Feature session at 8pm (130 + have pre-registered for it already.   Look forward to catching with my many old friends as I join my 11th OOW! Will be active on Twiiter at @ShyamVaran and #BIWASummit    Thanks

BIWA  2016 Early Bird Registration is open! Book NOW ! Cost is $299! Book today and save $50! Here are some of our early accepted presentations!! “Big Data and the Internet of Things in 2016: Beyond the Hype” —Robert Stackowiak, Oracle “Near Real Time Data Refresh Strategy for Enterprise Data Warehouses” —Richard Solari & Prithvi Krishnappa “Predictive Analytics using SQL & PL/SQL” —Brendan Tierney, Oralytics “On Metadata, Mashups & the Future of Enterprise BI” —Stewart Bryson, Red Pill Analytics Call for Speakers We want to hear your Oracle technology success story. We have some amazing presentations on the agenda. Add yours today! The Call for Speakers is on-going through November 2 nd , 2015.  Click HERE to submit your abstract(s) for BIWA Summit 2016. Sponsorship We would like to give your company great exposure through various sponsorship options such as: ·          Hosting a conference networking event ·          Sponsoring a meal

Seven  Habits of Highly Successful Oracle Big Data & Analytics Professionals: They all submit the abstract for  BIWA Summit  to secure an early speaking slot! They show their enthusiasm for the summit and technology by  blogging  about it such as  here They create social media buzz via the  Twitter   to share their analytics knowledge e.g.  @brendantierney   They talk about it and share it  publicly   Friends don't let Spatial friends forget about  registration They influence the Oracle.com webmasters to  post  it  They express their journalism skills via the  Oracle Magazine ! Become a part of such a clan here .