Presented by Dan Vlamis

Now that Oracle BI 11.1.1.6 is available from Oracle, do you really care? Most people know that this release is the base release for the Exalytics Engineered solution announced at Oracle OpenWorld by Larry Ellison. But what actually is new in this release? Join Dan Vlamis of Vlamis Software Solutions for a review of the new features release 11.1.1.6. We'll demonstrate as many of them as the time allows.

Just to whet your appetite, here are some of the features we will discuss:

• Brief overview of Exalytics (we could spend a whole TechCast on this subject)
• Changes to prompting on dashboards to eliminate the need for the Apply button
• Adding selection steps to analyses in dashboards
• Option to automatically add columns to views when adding columns in the Criteria tab
• New Scorecard views
• Enhancements to Map views
• Support for MDS XML for repositories (instead of RPD files)
• Ability to print model diagrams from BI Admin Tool
• BI Publisher enhancements

Presented by Dan Vlamis

Now that Oracle BI 11.1.1.6 is available from Oracle, do you really care? Most people know that this release is the base release for the Exalytics Engineered solution announced at Oracle OpenWorld by Larry Ellison. But what actually is new in this release? Join Dan Vlamis of Vlamis Software Solutions for a review of the new features release 11.1.1.6. We'll demonstrate as many of them as the time allows. Just to whet your appetite, here are some of the features we will discuss:

• How does an Exalytics Engineered solution change what you can do with BI?
• Changes to prompting on dashboards to eliminate the need for the Apply button
• Adding selection steps to analyses in dashboards
• Option to automatically add columns to views when adding columns in the Criteria tab
• New Scorecard views
• Enhancements to Map views
• Support for MDS XML for repositories (instead of RPD files)
• Ability to print model diagrams from BI Admin Tool
• BI Publisher enhancements

Presented by Brian Terry

Microsoft Excel is the most pervasive BI product. Oracle OLAP is a powerful multi-dimensional BI engine right in your Oracle Database. This session demonstrates how this cost effective database option allows any analytical enterprise user to directly employ this engine for fully interactive business intelligence from Excel. No special training is required—it's just pivot tables—no new software to learn. The solution described uses a small driver to enable Excel's multi-dimensional queries to translate directly into Oracle OLAP access. There is no complicated middle tier. We will present customer examples and the surprising benefits they have encountered by empowering end users to access their data warehouse data directly from Excel.

By Tim Vlamis, Vlamis Software Solutions

Packed with tips from real world implementations, data visualization gurus Tim and Dan Vlamis will breakdown the visualization options in OBI 11g and detail when and how to use each. You'll learn the appropriate use of specific graphs and charts, how to effectively design dashboard templates, how to maximize the impact of pivot tables, and how maps can convey more information than other visualization techniques. You'll see how to leverage the latest "dense" visualization options from the OBI 11.1.6 release and reveal patterns and trends in a minimum amount of screen real estate. From data mashups to movement and maps, Tim will help you optimize your OBI dashboards.

Presented by Cathye Pendley

As the world's leading provider of outsourced customer contact solutions and voice-related services, West Corporation initiates and manages millions and millions of outbound and inbound calls and messages on behalf of their blue chip clientele. Building a cutting edge data warehouse around Oracle 11g database and Oracle OLAP with OBI Foundation Suite as a front end, West remains determined to lead the CRM and hosted call center landscape with innovative analytical capabilities and big data capacities. Join West implementation partner Vlamis Software Solutions and West as they break down the strategy, design, and implementation secrets that is bringing this project in on time and under budget.

Presented by Cathye Pendley

As the world's leading provider of outsourced customer contact solutions and voice-related services, West Corporation initiates and manages millions and millions of outbound and inbound calls and messages on behalf of their blue chip clientele. Building a cutting edge data warehouse around Oracle 11g database and Oracle OLAP with OBI Foundation Suite as a front end, West remains determined to lead the CRM and hosted call center landscape with innovative analytical capabilities and big data capacities. Join West implementation partner Vlamis Software Solutions and West as they break down the strategy, design, and implementation secrets that is bringing this project in on time and under budget.

Presented by Dan Vlamis and Tim Vlamis

Packed with tips from real world implementations, data visualization gurus Tim and Dan Vlamis will breakdown the visualization options in OBI 11g and detail when and how to use each. You'll learn the appropriate use of specific graphs and charts, how to effectively design dashboard templates, how to maximize the impact of pivot tables, and how maps can convey more information than other visualization techniques. You'll see how to leverage the latest "dense" visualization options from the OBI 11.1.6 release and reveal patterns and trends in a minimum amount of screen real estate. From data mashups to movement and maps, Tim will help you optimize your OBI dashboards.

Presented by Chris Claterbos

This hands on lab will present a quick overview of the changes in OBIEE 11g and allow users to create reports using these new features. The new features of BI Publisher will also be covered and the new web based layout editor will be used to create pixel perfect reports.

Presented by Dan Vlamis

Oracle BI 11.1.1.6.2 has been released, followed by the first bundle patch (BP1) that fixed a few bugs in 11.1.1.6.2. The two headline features in this release are a new version of BI Mobile with a new iPad app, and the release of Trellis charts, which were shown at last year's Oracle OpenWorld in the Exalytics presentations. Join Dan Vlamis of Vlamis Software Solutions for a review of the new features in release 11.1.1.6.2. We'll demonstrate as many of them as the time allows.

Just to whet your appetite, here are some of the features we will discuss:

• New Oracle BI Mobile HD iPad App
• Trellis Views and Microcharts
• New nested folders
• Ability to hide presentation layer objects
• Scorecard and Strategy Management improvements
• Live demonstration

Presented by Dan Vlamis

When business people want to perform analysis, they need data that is aggregated and broken down by some sort of dimensions. While relational databases can aggregate this data on the fly, they often are not fast enough. The common approach to solving this problem is to store data in some sort of multi-dimensional cube structure. The Oracle database can store this data inside the Oracle database using a natural structure called a cube.

Cubes are natural ways for data to be stored, especially when users want to visualize data using dimensions such as TIME, GEOGRAPHY, or PRODUCT, or any other dimensions that users want to perform analyses on. In this presentation, we will briefly describe cube data in Oracle OLAP and then focus on ways that cube data can be visualized. We will show multiple products including Oracle BI, as well as other products that can access OLAP data via Simba's MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP, such as Microsoft Excel, arcplan, DeltaMaster, and many others. Come see Oracle OLAP in action using several different visualization tools.

Presented by Tim Vlamis and Brian Terry

Packed with tips from real-world implementations, this session features two data visualization gurus who will break down the visualization options in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g and detail when and how to use each. You'll learn the appropriate use of specific graphs and charts, how to effectively design dashboard templates, how to maximize the impact of pivot tables, and how maps can convey more information than other visualization techniques. The presentation shows how to leverage the latest "dense" visualization options from the recent Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.6 release and reveals patterns and trends in a minimum amount of screen real estate. From data mashups to movement and maps, this session will help you optimize your Oracle Business Intelligence dashboards.

Presented by Dan Vlamis

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Presented by Tim Vlamis

Packed with tips from real-world implementations, this session features our data visualization guru who will break down the visualization options in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g and detail when and how to use each. You'll learn the appropriate use of specific graphs and charts, how to effectively design dashboard templates, how to maximize the impact of pivot tables, and how maps can convey more information than other visualization techniques. The presentation shows how to leverage the latest "dense" visualization options from the recent Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.6 release and reveals patterns and trends in a minimum amount of screen real estate. From data mashups to movement and maps, this session will help you optimize your Oracle Business Intelligence dashboards.

Presented by Tim Vlamis

Oracle Data Mining is part of the Oracle Advanced Analytics Option to the Oracle Database. If you learn by doing, come get your hands on Oracle Data Mining and build your own workflows in a step-by-step exercise led by Oracle University instructor for ODM, Tim Vlamis. You’ll use the SQL Developer 3.1 Data Miner extension to evaluate data and build data mining workflows in an intuitive GUI interface.

Presented by Jonathan Clark

This hands on lab will present a quick overview of the changes in OBIEE 11g (11.1.1.7) and allow users to create reports using these new features. The new features of BI Publisher will also be covered and the new web based layout editor will be used to create pixel perfect reports.

Presented by Jonathan Clark

Hands-on training is a great way to provide training. But how do you provide hands-on training to a group of IT professionals on the intricacies of enterprise-class server environment? Providing only one training server is fraught with the danger of one student bringing down the system for everyone. Providing servers for each attendee can be very complicated and expensive. We will demonstrate how you can use any typical classroom computer to provide training for even the most hardware-hungry of enterprise software by using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). We will go over how to use the EC2 environment and the methods we use to prepare our training environments to make them bullet-proof, even with the most curious of class attendees.