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The BIWA Summit speaker line-up has been announced. Check here for the complete list . Here is the list of the four solid keynote speakers: Balaji Yelamnchili Tom Kyte Vaishnavi Sashikanth and Ari Kaplan (a noted Sports Analyst of Major League Baseball fame) The sessions are divided in the following Tracks: BI  (OBIEE, Visualization, Mobile BI, BIP etc.) DW (Data Warehousing, Data Integration and Spatial Intelligence Big Data with Analytics (Concepts of Hadoop, Oracle Big Data Appliance) Advanced Analytics (Oracle Data Mining, Oracle R Enterprise, Spend Classification etc.) and Enterprise Performance Management (Essbase, Hyperion Planning/HFM Infrastructure etc.)  Hands-on Labs on topics like OBIEE, Exalytics, BIP, OLAP, ODM, ORE, Essbase etc. See the detailed list of sessions here  http://www.biwasummit.com/schedule/sessions These sessions will be over two days on Jan 9-10. If you have not registered yet, click here to confirm your seat today....

This post will give you a sneak peak in to the content that you should expect at BIWA Summit Jan 9-10, 2013 at Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, CA. This place is within walking distance from Oracle Head Quarters and the cylinder (DB) shaped buildings. The BIWA Summit kicks off with the Welcome reception on Tue night at Hotel Sofitel. Next morning, Tom Kyte will kick-off the event with his keynote. Expect a total of 4 BI and related Keynotes, about 8 Hands-on Labs and several sessions spanning tracks like BI, DW, Big Data, Advanced Analytics and EPM. There is also a sub-track on Spatial Analytics. Here are the keynotes: Day 1 Tom Kyte - What's new from Oracle in BI and Data Warehousing           Balaji Yelamanchili - Fast and Furious : A Sneak Peak into the Future of Oracle BI Day 2 Vaishnavi Sashikanth - Making Big Data Analytics Accessible            Ari Kaplan - Sports Analytics in Action The...

The BIWA Summit Jan 9-10, 2013 registration opened last week. Take a look at the BIWA Summit website here . Registration starts at $299 for IOUG members ($349 for non-members). To make the most of the event, plan to stay at Hotel Sofitel where the event will take place. This will allow you to take full advantage of the off-hour events and networking with Professionals from North America and other countries like UK, Belgium and so on... Here I would like to quote a few pointers from Tom Singer's article recently published in a magazine. Tom is a "Network Catalyst" who I met in a CIO event a few years ago... His 10 Tips to maximize the Conference-Networking experience go as follows: 1) Create a Plan - Have a game-plan ahead of time about what kind of people you want to meet and get to know. If for e.g. I am working on an OLAP project, I would perhaps like to meet experts like Dan Vlamis, who is one of the top experts. I may look for some customers who recently implemen...

The BIWA Summit is a no-frills events where the goal is to attract the best minds of the World in the space of Oracle BI, Advanced Analytics, Big Data and related fields. The event will be in Hotel Sofitel. Click here to register for the event.   Registration starts at $249 for IOUG members or $299 for non-members. We encourage you to stay in the hotel, so that you can maximize you opportunities for professional networking. We will announce more in-formal events around the two-day event on Jan 9-10.  If you stay at Hotel Sofitel, you will be able to get the free shuttle from San Francisco airport, the details are here:  http://www.sofitel.com/gb/hotel-0922-sofitel-san-francisco-bay/location.shtml The property overlooks a Lake and is walking distance to the Oracle HQ cylindrical offices that represent the Databases. If you are coming from out of town, we suggest you come by Jan 8, early evening. The parking is free at Hotel Sofitel for local residents to B...

========================================= The next Oracle BIWA Summit, organized by the leading Oracle Special Interest Group (SIG) for Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics professionals, will be held on Jan 9,10 2013, at The Oracle HQ Sofitel Hotel , in Redwood City, CA.  The Oracle BIWA Summit brings together Oracle ACE experts, customers who are currently using or planning to use Oracle BI, Warehousing and Analytics products and technologies, partners and Oracle Product Managers, Support Personnel and Development Managers.  Everything and everyone that you will need to be successful in your Oracle “BIWA” implementations will be at the Oracle BIWA Summit, Jan 9-10, 2013. The Call for Speakers is now Open. Please submit your Speaker Proposals at: http://BIWA13.org BIWA SIG is part of IOUG ========================================== The Focus Areas for Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics -BIWA Summit include: 1)  ...

I decided to sit closer to the front in the morning keynote today to get better pictures than the comfort of the desk and power outlet in the assigned seating for Bloggers. My picture of Big Data slide by Intel, in Diane's keynote, was re-tweeted by @OracleOpenworld. I found the Intel keynote by Diane Bryant really high quality. She was able to bring in the right themes like Business Intelligence ( 5 + 6  =10 where 5 BI professionals in 6 months can create an ROI of $10m !), Big Data, in-memory database (TimesTen) and the convergence of Server processing, networking and storage. One striking contrast in the Intel keynote was focus on IT and the Business Transformation enabler. I did not see any thrust on traditional IT shops being asked to "outsource" the core IT to Public or Private Cloud. The Oracle keynote on Sunday seemed to focus in that direction. The Customer Experience Conference starts today as well....

The focus at Oracle Openworld 2013 is on Cloud model of computing, the shift from CAPEX to OPEX. In other words, Oracle is trying to convey that instead of upfront investments in larger systems and infrastructure, customer now have the choice to "pay as they go" in the Cloud computing. The slide used by Larry in his Tue keynote about the uptake of Fusion Applications,  https://twitter.com/shyamvaran/status/253264386804826112/photo/1 shows that most of the "Fusion Customers"  which I believe now includes Taleo customs as well, are Public Cloud based. Oracle is talking about Private Cloud, my understanding is that in this model, Oracle would offer to manage the infrastrucutre in the customer premises where customers are not comfortable that data or application should leave their premises. http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/cloud/private/overview/index.html However, it seems customers will pay based on some degree of usage / computing power or storage, even in the Pr...