Oracle BIWA User Community

 The Analytics and Data Summit took place at Oracle Conference Center at Redwood City, CA from March 14-16. This in-person event restarted after a gap of 3 years. This event is organized by Analytics and Data Oracle User Community (AnDOUC). This event used to be called BIWA Summit and started in 2007, the first one was in the Oracle office at Reston, VA. It outgrew the size of the facility and moved to then Oracle HQ, at Redwood Shores in 2008. This year's Analytics and Data Summit, was spread over 3 days, with mainly the Hands on Labs and Product Manager feedback sessions on the 3rd day. This year the top level sponsors were Rittman Mead and Informatica. The event started on Tue with a Keynote titled "Gut Check - The True Value of Becoming a Data  Driven Organization" by Derek Hayden of OUTFRONT Media. Over the course of the event there were several sessions by presenters from companies like Siemens, Oracle and others. I was part of the opening Panel on Day 2. This Pane...

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...

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 A...

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...

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 .

Here is why you'll want to attend the BIWA Summit Jan 26-28, 2016: 1.   More than 50 presenters and 10+ exhibits—all related to Big Data, Analytics, BI, Spatial and IoT! 2.   Explore hot, new trends— in the Oracle ecosystem. 3.   Accelerate your Big Data / Analytics transformation—learn how to innovate and differentiate from fellow customers. 4.   Experience the software for yourself— well planned Hands on Labs. 5.   Meet one-to-one with industry experts—ask questions, get answers on what advanced analytics can do for you. 6.   Get on the inside track to what’s next—find out what is on the Product Roadmap from the Oracle Product Managers. 7.   And did we say have a lot of food and fun while doing it all. 8.   Meet some of the Global Data Warehouse and Big data Leaders. 9. Bring back home professional socialization memories and Tips that you can put to use next Monday morning at work! 10.   Enjoy the great Oracle HQ ca...

The Annual BIWA SIG ( Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics Special Interest Group  recently concluded on July 30-31. The event had FREE virtual sessions in topics like Advanced Analytics, Exadata, BI/EPM, IoT, Spatial & Graph related topics. Below are the session titles: Big Data Analytics with Oracle Advanced Analytics 12c and Big Data SQL  Exadata: Elastic Configurations and IaaS – Private Cloud  Why Oracle Database In-Memory? Use Cases and Overview  What’s new in Oracle EPM and BI Infrastructure  The State of Internet of Things (IoT)  Graph Data Management and Analytics for Big Data  Italian Ministry of Labor & Social Policy -- A Journey to Digital Government This two day virtual event, provides the members of BIWA SIG and IOUG or the Oracle community at large, an easy way to find out what is going on in the industry. The speakers were a mix of Oracle Product Managers and well as industry practitioners. ...

Collaborate 2015 --  Engineered systems sessions (Thanks to Syamal of Exadata SIG) 476 Mon. Apr. 13 Oracle Exadata Technical Deep Dive: Architecture and Internals  Exadata| Oracle Database Engineered Systems Banyan D 2:00 - 3:00 pm  243 Mon. Apr. 13 Exadata and SuperCluster for SAP  Exadata| Oracle Database Engineered Systems Banyan D 3:15 - 4:15 pm  291 Mon. Apr. 13 My Exadata X2 Is Ready to Be Retired. A Case Study for the Life Cycle Journey to Newest Engineered System, X5-2  Exadata| Fusion Middleware Engineered Systems Banyan D 3:15 - 4:15 pm  245 Mon. Apr. 13 Oracle Database Appliance: Case Studies  Oracle Database| Real Application Clusters Engineered Systems Banyan D 4:30 - 5:30 pm  286 Tue. Apr. 14 Using Exadata IORM to Achieve That Mind-Blowing Performance Consistently  Exadata Engineered Systems Banyan D 9:45 - 10:45 am  10382 Tue. Ap...

This will be my 12th IOUG Forum next week! I have attended IOUG Forum since 2003, which is prior to 2006 when it morphed into Collaborate with IOUG, OAUG and Quest joining hands. So why do I attend Collaborate every year and look forward to it even after a decade? The IOUG Forum at Collaborate is the meeting ground for all Oracle users and Technologists. It is one of the best Professional Networking event for Oracle Practitioners. Real world customers are vocal about that worked and what did not (and how they overcame it), in an environment what is free from Oracle Marketing pitches. However, a limited number of invited Oracle Product Manager's and Executives, help to have a healthy dialog and look at the product roadmaps. Apart from educational sessions, Panel discussions, exhibit hall, there is plenty to network with peers and of course have a bit of fun (in the limited free time) at Vegas. There will be several SIG (Special Interest Meetings) that will provide you means to k...

I’m pleased to announce I am the Program Advisor of the Chief Data Strategy Forum taking place later this month, March 30 & 31 at the Hilton Boston Back Bay. I invite you to attend the event, and get 20% off registration with my special promo code “CDSF_SPEAKER”. Download the event agenda here: http://bit.ly/1AdiGLj The Forum is designed like an executive roundtable, with intimate-discussion focused master classes, rolling roundtables, keynote presentations, networking sessions and much more. I am especially looking forward to hosting a post-presentation discussion by colleague Chris Larkin, GTO of GE Healthcare, who will host “Advanced Analytics: What They Mean to a CDO”. Other industry experts include Satyam Priyadarshy, Chief Data Architect, Halliburton; Assad Shaik, Chief Data Scientist, PNC Financial; and James Brenza, Chief Data Officer, InXite Health Systems – just to name a few. If you have any questions about the event, please reach out to the team at IQPC at...

Due to popularity of the Oracle Data Science Certificate Program from the prior 2 years, we will offer the same this year. The BIWA Summit along with Spatial Summit and NoCOUG Winter Conference takes place at Oracle HQ, Jan 27-29, 2015. In order to earn the Oracle Data Science / IoT Certificate, the registered attendees of the event, can attend 4 of the 8 suggested sessions and then take the online test. The online test will be released in a few days after the Summit. The list of the suggested sessions are: Be on the lookout for more details at the event and by Twitter. Please remember the hashtag #BIWASummit. Thanks

See you soon! Thank to all those who regsitered for BIWA / Spatial / NoCOUG Summit 2015! We look forwarding to seeing you  next Tuesday  at the Oracle Conference Center at 350 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA.  This post contains some important information that will help you get the most out of the conference. Bring a Computer to Participate in Hands on Labs   If you are interested in participating in the Hands On Labs at BIWA Summit 2015,  you will need to bring a laptop.  The lab sessions will be run with Remote Desktop for most of the labs or VNC. Most Windows operating systems have a remote desktop client pre-installed that will work. The  VNC Viewer client  is free and open source and we will have it on thumb drives for those classes. If you are using a Macintosh, Linux, or an iPad or other tablet, there are many different clients available for both Remote Desktop and VNC. For those hardy souls that want to try this on a mobile de...