Dan Vlamis is a BI/DW/EPM track chair of Collaborate 2010, taking place in Las Vegas April 18-22, 2010. BIWA is working with Collaborate this year to bring similar content to BIWA Summit 2008 to a larger audience.
BIWA is hosting the following:
Deep Dive on OBIEE.
BI Bootcamp, with purpose-built schedule of sessions in one room that give you information on everything BI at Oracle on Monday and Tuesday.
Hands-on Labs that enable attendees to try out the software for themselves.
Over 50 sessions dedicated to Oracle BI, data warehousing and analytics.
The BIWA Reception Tuesday evening where you can talk with Oracle executives and speakers one-on-one
When you register for Collaborate, enter the code BIWA2010 to ensure that you can attend all of these great events. You’ll also receive a discount over the regular admission price for Collaborate.
Vlamis Software will be in full force at Collaborate. Please let us know if you will be attending so we can set up separate meetings with you. We’ll see you there!
Join us in St. Louis or Kansas City as we’ll be presenting a session titled “Tales from the Front: Strategies for a Successful OBIEE Implementation” and manning a table so that we can talk with customers about their existing and upcoming BI and Data Warehousing needs and projects.
Marty Gubar, Data Warehousing Product Management, Oracle, will be presenting Make Oracle BI EE Smarter and Faster with Oracle OLAP Cubes as part of the BIWA SIG TechCast series. The presentation will be on January 13 at noon Eastern time. Oracle OLAP is an analytic engine embedded in the Oracle database. It delivers fast answers to complex analytic queries to any SQL-based application. In this webcast, you will learn how Oracle BI EE can leverage Oracle OLAP’s analytics. First, you will learn how to set up BI EE metadata over OLAP cubes using a new Analytic Workspace Manager plug-in. Then, you will see how the cube is queried using BI EE Answers.
For more information about the TechCast, see www.oraclebiwa.org. If the event has passed, you can see information on the techcasts tab of the Oracle BIWA web site.
German analyst firm, BARC (Business Application Research Center) has taken over The BI Survey from Nigel Pendse (formerly known as The OLAP Report). This year, to ensure higher quality, they will only include information about a vendors product, if they receive a minimum of 50 responses.
All participants will receive a summary of the results from the full survey
Be entered to win $50 Amazon vouchers
Ensure their experiences are included in the final analysis
Answers are anonymous and their participation is not provided to anyone
Personally, I would like to see Oracle BI, Essbase, BI Publisher, Oracle OLAP, and related technologies represented in the survey, as I think this will benefit the entire Oracle BI community.
I saw an interesting study comparing the total cost of ownership of SQL Server 2008 to Oracle 11g. The study was published by The Edison Group. I have no relationship with them, but I thought it was worth pointing to their study which breaks down the time it takes for someone to install and manage a database. Highlights from the Executive Summary include:
The study results show that, while both the vendor products have features to help average database administrators (DBA) perform everyday administrative tasks, Oracle Database 11g holds a substantial advantage over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Our detailed analysis reveals that:
DBAs can perform typical administrative functions in 41 percent less time when using Oracle Database 11g compared to Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Oracle Database 11g requires 43 percent fewer steps for the same set of standard RDBMS tasks than Microsoft SQL Server 2008 using Edison’s metric for complexity assessment.
Benefiting from increased DBA productivity due to lower complexity and higher efficiency cited above, businesses could save up to $33,520.47 per year per DBA by using Oracle Database 11g rather than Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Fortunately, The Edison Group has made the whole 85-page study available to the public. If you are looking at Oracle vs. SQL Server, it’s definitely worth looking into.
I had a chance to be interviewed by John Gunn at Oracle OpenWorld about partners getting the BIC2g image. There was a studio of sorts in the OPN lounge where they interviewed various partners about what they are doing. It was a great opportunity for me to talk about the BIC2g program and get a video recorded. Check out the recording posted on Youtube and also check out the BIC2g offering on our BIC2g web page.
Here at Vlamis we’re typically buried in the sticky details of real world Oracle BI solutions and clients’ needs, but occasionally, we also like to delve into the latest thought leadership in business intelligence and business performance management, especially when it’s a book from one of Oracle’s own. Read the rest of this entry »
Cathye Pendley and I presented a session titled Budgeting and Planning with Microsoft Excel and Oracle OLAP at Oracle OpenWorld. We will be presenting a session similar to this on the web for those that had to miss our original presentation or wanted more detail.
The first presentation I attended last week was Praveen Deshpande’s presentation on Discoverer “What’s New; What’s Coming”. There were several key things I saw and heard. 1) Discoverer (OBIEE SE) is not going away and 2) Support for Oracle 11g OLAP in Discoverer for OLAP is coming and 3) Support for Oracle 11g OLAP in Spreadsheet Add-in is also coming.
This is GREAT News! I know that there have been many rumors, for some time, that Discoverer was going away. I personally could not see that happening because of such a large user base and the price to upgrade to OBIEE. But according to what I heard that is definitely not the case. There are no plans to drop Discoverer and there is active development underway. Discoverer for OLAP supporting 11g OLAP was already on the roadmap, it just did not make the 11g release. The big surprise was that 11g OLAP support in the Spreadsheet Add-in was on the plan. Not sure what that means, I could not get any details on what it will do. The target release is with the 11gR2-PS1, that is Patch Set 1. No firm dates but may be sooner than later, I hope.
I saw many more things that I will post about this weekend but I am still catching up on my Job Stuff!
