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We would like to thank everyone who participated in the Oracle Data Certificate Program at BIWA Summit Jan 9-10, 2013 . Fourteen attendees registered to participate in this BIWA Certificate Program. Thirteen took the final Quiz and the below is the outcome... Instructor Level Certificate  - Brendan Tierney Oracle Data Scientist Certificate  Don Ferguson, CherryRoad Technologies Jorge Anicama, IBM (GBS) Tim Vlamis, Vlamis Software Solutions Vijayalakshmi Muthukrishnan, Motorola Sicheng Liu, Deloitte Consulting Avik Bhattacharya, Printpack Inc. Ari Kaplan, Ariball Paul Mitchell, Oracle Honorary Oracle Data Scientist Certificate  Mark Hornick, Oracle Shyam Varan Nath, IBM (the above helped with the organization of the Oracle Data Scientist Curriculum and the Quiz) Associate Level  Suresh Anand, Sashatech LLC Participation Certificate  Ahmed Kopap Ekine Akuiyibo Khader Mohiuddin We congratulate everyon...

BIWA Summit 2013 is just 2 days away! While you are there (and yes you can still register for the event), you can earn your BIWA Oracle Data Scientist Certificate. In order to do this, you will have to attend the following sessions on Jan 9 or 10 at the Summit: 1) Attend the talk by Brendan Tierney  The Oracle Data Scientist    (this is mandatory to attend if you want to earn your certificate) Then attend three of these sessions (minimum of one Hands-on-Lab): Jan 9  at 2:30 PM Karl Rexer, Tim Vlamis   Hands-on Lab with Data Mining       (HoL)        OR Chris Lynskey  Oracle Endeca Information Discovery in Action Jan 10 at 8:45 PM Keynote: Vaishnavi Sashikanth   Making Big Data Analytics Accessible Jan 10 at 10:10 AM Mark Hornick    Learn to use Oracle R Enterprise 1.3    (HoL)   OR Sudip Majumder  Industry Specific Data Warehousing & Analysis of Industry Specific Big ...

First of all Happy Holidays! Here is how to make your 2013 great!, kick off your year by attending BIWA Summit Jan 9-10, 2013 by registering here . The BIWA Summit is now less than 4 weeks away! This is an in-person BI /  DW related event organized by IOUG's BIWA SIG . Check out the variety and depth of the topics covered in this event here . There is a broad range of topics from Business Intelligence (OBIEE, BI Publisher), Data Warehousing, Advanced Analytics including the Big Data and the Hyperion EPM including coverage of Essbase. Some uses cases of Engineered systems for BI/DW will be covered as well. My talk is on use of Advanced Analytics within the packaged BI... in other words use of Oracle Data Mining using Spend Classification with Procurement and Spend Analytics ( OBIA stack). .. What else makes BIWA Summit unique?  It's an event that is 100% decided to Business Analytics, i.e. how to gain competitive advantage using data and insights from data. As ...

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...