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BIWA Summit 2014 starts tomorrow ! 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 4 recommended sessions. The suggested sessions to attend are (any 4): Tue Jan 14 How UK Universities Are Using Oracle Data Science to Protect Their Income Brendan Tierney, Oralytics Room 202 Introduction to Oracle's R Technologies Mark Hornick, Oracle Room 202 Hadoop and Oracle DW. What should You Use and When? Brian Macdonald, Oracle Room 202 Best Practices for In-Database Analytics Charlie Berger, Oracle   Room 202 Wed Jan 15 In-Database MapReduce for DBAs and  Developers, using SQL and Hadoop Kuassi Mensah, Oracle   Room 102 Supercharge Data Warehousing with an Enterprise Data Hub Clarke Patterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Cloudera  Keynote Big Data Analytics for the Industrial Int...

The annual event - BIWA Summit is almost here.. The event takes place at Oracle HQ Conference Center from Jan 14-16, 2014. If you are not from Bay Area or out-of-state, then probably you would fly to San Francisco (SFO) airport which is close by. The SJC and OAK are the other airports in driving distance. The highlights of the event this year is a strong lineup of keynote and other speakers, many of which are Oracle ACE or ACE Directors in the  BI and related space. The keynote speakers include: Clarke Patterson from Cloudera Balaji Yelamanchili from Oracle James Taylor from DMS   and Philippe Lions from Oracle. The BIWA Summit will allow you plenty of networking opportunities, throughout the event as well as during the Reception on Jan 14 and Happy Hour at Jan 15. More to come...

Oracle Openworld Sep 22-26, 2013 is almost here!  This is an event I have been attending since 2003 and have been lucky enough to be a speaker in an average of 1+ session every year. While the event has grown in size, mainly due to Oracle acquisitions, it has remained by far the largest professional event I have ever attended. My guess for this year is close to a total of 50,000 attendees spread between the Openworld, JavaOne, MySQL Connect, Customer Experience and HCM events.. The line of keynotes for Oracle Openworld 2013 is quite interesting, with Larry Ellison speaking on Sunday and Tuesday, historically his Wed afternoon keynote used to be the biggest one where in past he has announced Exadata and other big products. In recent years though, I noticed, he started announcing the new major products on Sunday evening and this allowed the attendees to learn about it during the event and not wait for Oracle to publicly unveil the products only on Wed afternoon. My favorite keyn...

Is Customer Experience (CX) a new buzz word and simply CRM (Customer Relationship Management) redefined? Customer experience (CX) is the sum of all experiences a customer has with a supplier of goods and/or services, over the life tme of the customer. CX is not just about the fiscal transaction that takes place between the customer and the company, rather the before and after experience as well. It defines whether a customer is not just an "high-volume order placer" rather an advocate for the product / service. For instance. due to my good Customer Experience with say Linkedin, I am not just a high volume user of the system but also a stronger advocate. Other variations of the definition include "A customer experience is an interaction between an organization and a customer as perceived through a customer’s conscious and subconscious mind. It is a blend of an organization’s rational performance, the senses stimulated and the emotions evoked and intuitively measured ag...

Title Oracle BI Applications: Leveraging Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Golden Gate for next generation Analytics Description Oracle BI Applications are Oracle’s pre-built Suite of Analytic Applications, and are an ideal analytic solution for companies using Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel CRM, and JD Edwards. This session, led by Oracle Product Management, will profile the next generation Analytic Applications powered by the data integration capabilities of Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Golden Gate. Learn about the existing offering, newly introduced benefits, and discuss the strategy and roadmap. Objectives 1. Understand the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications for ODI solution 2. Learn about which customers are best targeted for this solution 3. Hear about the OBIA Roadmap and Strategy from Product Management Speaker Bio Robert  Davis – Director of Product Management Robert  is a Director of Product Management respon...

Believe it or not, Collaborate 2013 is here. It marks the 20th anniversary of the IOUG .  We talk a talk about  information lifecycle managrment (ILM) or full lifecycle of the project. Likewise, user groups such as IOUg have it's lifecycle of infancy, growth, diversification as so on. Oracle with its spree of acquisition and diversification of product portfolio, keeps the users groups on its feet as well. Groups like IOUG arrange Board meetings, typically at Collaborate, even before the main vent starts, to allow brainstorming and stay current with all the developments in the industry and the Oracle user landscape. While Collaborate is great place to listen to the experiences from the fellow users, make best use of the other opportunities such as networking, providing feedback to the User groups, SIG's so that they can improve and meet the user expectations. You will find the IOUG Board of Directors and the SIG leaders in many of the IOUG events.. Feel free to provide your i...

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...