Oracle BIWA User Community

The Oracle Openworld 2012 is here... Sunday is dedicated to the User Groups. Moscone W is full of User Group / SIG driven sessions. These help to provide a user perspective to the Oracle stack and is a great place to network with the Oracle User Group Leaders...and of course all the active User Group members. My session is at 2:15 PM on Sunday at Moscone W L2 (Rm 2020). My focus is Oracle BI Applications - a Deep Dive... I plan to cover about Advanced Analytics as well as BI Apps and Advanced Analytics comes together. Look forward to the Keynote today evening... let us see what is announced today v/s what is held back for Wed keynotes...

IOUG's Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics (BIWA) SIG will re-introduce the in-person BIWA Summit, on Jan 9, 10 (Wed, Thur) 2013. The location of this event will be Sofitel Hotel, close to Oracle Head Quarters, in Redwood City, CA. This place is nearby to San Francisco (SFO) airport and also  well connected to Oakland (OAK) and San Jose (SJC) airports.  Click here to register for the event.   Registration starts at $249 for IOUG members or $299 for non-members. The 2 to 2 1/2 day event will have in-person session in tracks like BI, DW, Advanced Analytics and Big Data. The Oracle's Engineered systems run across this stack, so look forward to some use cases of engineered systems for BI/DW or Big Data as well. The BIWA Summit, had hand on lab (HoL) as well, free to the registered attendees. To see the content from the last BIWA Summit check here . If you would like to speak at BIWA Summit 2013 or be a hands on lab facilitator, please submit ...

Oracle Openworld 2012 is just a week away! The User Groups take the center stage on Sunday at Moscone West.  Here are a few IOUG / BI related sessions, I would suggest to attend: 1) CON7484, Shyam Varan Nath, IBM / BIWA at 2:15 PM  (Room 2020) Deep Dive to Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 2) Choose one of these at 3:30 PM CON2644, Mark Rittman, RM Oracle Exalytics and TimesTen for Exalytics Best Practices CON5395, Stewart Bryson, RM Replacing a Legacy Data Warehouse: A Case Study on OBIEE as a Migration Hub 3) UGF10575,  at 8:00 AM (Room 2020) 3D BI: Building new Flexibility in Enterprise-Wide Decision-Making with Oracle BI 4) Big Data Talks from at 9 AM (Room 2020) UGF10408, Andy Flower Big Data – A BIG part of Information Management 5) UGF10407, Ian Abramson, at 10:30 AM (Room 2020) Big Data: The Future is Now 6) UGF10406, Steve Johnston, 12:30 PM (Room 2020) Big Data, Integration and Governan...

Why you should attend the Free Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) BI, Warehousing and Analytics (BIWA) SIG 2-Day Virtual Summit August 15-16, 2012 10.  Learn from Industry leaders and Oracle experts about best practices, customer examples, “How to” and visions for the future that you can put to work in your company immediately 9.  It’s FREE!! 8.  It’s a Virtual Conference so you don’t have to leave your desk or incur travel expenses 7.  You can pick and choose and dial-in for just the sessions that most interest you. 6.  Lean about OBIEE, Exadata, Big Data, Endeca, Exalytics and more... 5.  Come see how Big Data Analytics and Predictive Analytics can give your company a competitive advantage 4.  You can watch and listen while you are still working (or eating!)! 3.  Ask questions, get answers from experts and other Oracle users 2.  See how you can gain more business value from your investment in Oracle BI, Warehousing and Analytic...

BIWA Virtual Summit 2012 is approaching soon! So why should you attend it?  This two day event packs 10+ Virtual sessions, about an hours each, that covers all aspects of BI and Advanced Analytics. If terms like "Data Scientist" intrigues you, then you will find all that you need to know it in the BIWA Summit. Day 1 kicks off with a key note by James Taylor. It is followed by a session by Charlie Berger on all about advanced analytics. The day continues with session that feature Oracle VP of BI Robert Stackowiak where he will cover Exadata and Big Data. Marty Gubar will take a deep dive into how to harness Big Data for business use. This is followed by Dan Vlamis who will talk about all kinds of visualization of OLAP data. Day 2 features a key note by Oracle VI Balaji, Sunil Ranka on OBIEE performance tuning, Jeff on Essbase, Matt from Oracle on newly acquired Endeca and Florian on Oracle BI Applications. So if you have not registered yet, do it now... https://www1....

BIWA Virtual Summit 2012 (Aug 15 - 16), 11 AM to 5 PM ET  From Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics  (Day 1 Keynote) James Taylor, CEO, Decision Management Solutions Abstract: The data you have, the way you analyze it, and the way you act on this analysis drives better business outcomes.  James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions, Faculty Member at International Institute for Analytics and the leading expert in Decision Management shows that to make the most of your data, you need to do more than just adopt predictive analytics - you need to deeply embed predictive analytics in your day to day operational systems. Companies that use predictive analytics to get more value from their data are outperforming their competitors in areas such as underwriting, origination, marketing, customer retention, fraud detection, collections and more. In this opening keynote, James shows you how to build on your investments in BI - reporting, visualization and dashb...

The First ever BIWA Virtual Summit will be held on Aug 15 - 16, 2012. This will be a virtual only event spread over two days.  Each day the event will be between 11 AM ET and 5 PM ET, mostly in 1 hr sessions. ( Link to Abstracts ) You need to register for each day separately. Day 1, Wed Aug 15, 2012 Data  Warehousing and Advanced Analytics Focus (Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/485134176 ) 11 AM ET AM   Key Note From Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics James Taylor, CEO Decision Management Services Noon ET       Oracle Advanced Analytics, Data Mining, Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Exalytics - What, Where, When? Charlie Berger, Oracle Corporation 1 PM ET.       Oracle in an Integrated Big Data & Analytics Infrastructure by Bob Stakowiak, Oracle 2 PM ET.       Uncover the Value in Big Data with Oracle's Big Data Platform by Marty Gubar 3 PM ET.     ...