Oracle BIWA User Community

The day started with a Cable car ride from my hotel to the Moscone Center, it is quite an experience as the streets are quite hilly and it is wonder to see how the tram runs on what seems like 30 degrees incline. With my jacket on the weather seems veery pleasant... The first event of the day was Exadata Board SIG Meeting, where we had good discussions about the current and near future state of the SIG. The main action items on the list were to get a proper website for the SIG and a Web conferencing facility. This took place over the breakfast at Mel's. Then we had the Exadata SIG Meeting with over 30 attendees, including Rich Niemiec, Rob Stackowiack, VP for BI, Arup Nanda, Vinod Haval and many others. Then I was in the IOUG BIWA sessions first one by Mark Rittman on OBIEE 11g new features, Rich Solari and Teresa Wong speaking on OBIEE implementation experiences followed by my presentation with Abhinav on De-Mystifying OBIEE and BI Applications. All this was followed by the BI

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 7.9.6.2 is out, major features: 1) Now JD Edwards Supply Chain Connectors are available 2) Peoplesoft 9.1 support is available 3) OBIEE 11g can be used with 7.9.6 by following the infrastructure upgrade guidelines in Doc 1196943.1 ( I can't seen to find it though on support.oracle.com)

Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne and Oracle Develop 2010 Keynote Lineup Sunday, September 19 | 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | Moscone North, Hall D Join Larry Ellison , Oracle Chief Executive Officer, and other Oracle Executives, as they discuss Oracle's latest innovations and kick start this year's conference. Ann Livermore, Executive Vice President, HP Enterprise Business will present a keynote titled "Transformation: From Applications to the Cloud." Monday, September 20 | 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | Moscone North, Hall D Oracle President Mark Hurd will kick off Monday's activities at Oracle OpenWorld; and Oracle Executive Vice President of Systems John Fowler and Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven will discuss their vision for the next-generation datacenter and the latest innovations in Oracle SPARC, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris and Oracle Server and Storage products. Noriyuki Toyoki, Corporate Senior Vice President, Fujitsu Limited, will give a keynote

As we get close to Oracle Openworld 2010, from Sep 19 to 23, at San Francisco, CA, I will be posting information of interest to the Oracle BIWA, Exadata SIG and related user community. Let us first begin with the events this week leading to the Openworld: Thursday, September 16, 12 noon Eastern, Webcast Series Exadata V2: Porting a Complex Application and Lessons Learne d by Aaron Werman What are the best ways to make an application work well in Exadata and what design choices should be considered? This TechCast will offer substantial advice on porting existing applications to Exadata. We will also review risk areas and aspects worth testing based on migration experience. The reviewed application domain is a large-scale trickle feed ETL for very high volume reporting, also including a variety of smaller transactional and ad-hoc query systems. We'll discuss porting and running a large mature ODS and reporting data warehouse from Oracle 10g to Exadata. We will cover migration strat