BIWA Summit
"My learning experience at COLLABORATE 10 was great...I wanted to learn about OBIEE in general -- and I did. I wanted to learn about the component parts to OBIEE -- and I did. I wanted to learn how to enhance and improve my existing Data Warehouse -- and I did. I wanted to learn how I might more efficiently access data in Oracle E-Business Suite -- and I did (NoetixViews). I learned a ton, and I was able to meet industry professionals and experts, too....I look forward to the next event."
-- Lee Averett, Custom Reporting Manager, Cummins Northwest, LLC

IOUG BIWA SIG

BIWA Summit

The IOUG is excited to once again partner with the BIWA SIG to present a special "conference within a conference" on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, held in conjunction with COLLABORATE 11 – IOUG Forum -- BIWA Summit.

 

Those interested in Analytics, BI, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and OBIEE are encouraged to participate in this special forum.

 

Why Attend COLLABORATE 11 - IOUG Forum
Featured Speakers
BIWA Summit Sessions
Best of BI/DW/EPM from COLLABORATE 10
Register for COLLABORATE 11 - IOUG Forum

 

Why Attend COLLABORATE 11 - IOUG Forum

 

The IOUG Forum will once again feature sessions that offer attendees information about OBIEE, BI technologies, Essbase, Exadata and more. With sessions specifically devoted to users like you, registering for COLLABORATE 11 is a must!

 

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Featured Speakers

Mark Townsend, Vice President, Database Product Management
Better Together: Exadata with Analytics and Business Intelligence
Wednesday, April 13, 10:30am

What makes Oracle’s “red stack” so good for DW, BI and Analytics?  Have you had to explain to line of business managers who want to better leverage their data and want to “Compete on Analytics” how IT can help?  Have you ever needed more than 'speeds and feeds' value proposition to convince business users of the value of an Exadata data warehouse?

Have you ever wondered how to describe to your technically-oriented customers that BI EE works better than Cognos or Business Objects on Exadata?   Oracle has embarked on a decade’s long strategy to move the algorithms to the data vs. exporting the data to external servers for analysis and business intelligence.  Now, with Exadata, all the years of technology investment comes together in a fusion of technologies making the Oracle Database the best platform for DW, BI and Analytics—and for developing next-generation Applications that best leverage these capabilities.

This presentation discusses what makes Oracle Exadata Database, in-Database Analytics and Oracle Business Intellligence (OBIEE)  the best data management, data warehousing, data analysis and business intelligence platform available today—and tomorrow.

This presentation will:

  • Discuss the decades long evolution and advancement of the entire Oracle DW, Analytics and Business Intelligence “red stack”
  • Present key features that differentiate Oracle’s market leading solution

Mark Townsend has been with Oracle since 1989, and has worked with customers and partners in three major geographies. He currently works with Oracle's Server Technology Division, as the Vice President of Product Management, reporting to the head of Database Development, and is directly responsible for the ongoing R&D planning of future releases, and the co-ordination of the product release process for the database across Oracle. He also manages a global database evangelist program, with a team of database experts that are available for customer presentations, technical insights, and proof-of-concepts and benchmarks. Mark regularly talks to partners, customers and analysts, to better understand new technology and how it can be successfully applied to existing and emerging data processing requirements.


Balaji Yelamanchili, Senior Vice President, Product Development
Oracle BI and EPM: Overview of Strategic Direction
Tuesday, April 12, 10:30am - 11:30 am

In this session Balaji Yelamanchili, the new Oracle SVP of Development for BI/EPM, will articulate the long range vision of the EPM, BI Apps and BI Tech product lines at Oracle. He will begin by highlighting the strategic products in each product line that will attract the most R&D investments in the coming years and proceed to trace the steady progress of the integration of the BI and EPM product lines over the past 3 years. Balaji will then call out the core themes that will guide the strategic direction of each product line over a multi-year, multi-release horizon.  In doing so he will discuss both the planned evolution of existing product line capabilities as well as several brand new areas of innovation such as exploiting recent advances in in-memory technology for greater system performance and speed-of-thought visualization, inline predictive modeling and analysis within the BI Apps, and plans for providing the full power of Oracle’s BI capabilities on a broad array of mobile devices. 

Balaji Yelamanchili currently serves as the Senior Vice President for Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management Products, at Oracle. In this capacity, Balaji has overall responsibility for Oracle’s business analytics and performance management strategy, product management, product development, and product GTM functions. Balaji previously served as a Senior Vice President and General Manager for Content Management and Archiving Division, at EMC Corporation. In this capacity, he was responsible for EMC’s Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration, Compliance, and Archiving offerings. Earlier, Balaji served as Vice President, Products for Documentum Inc. with responsibility for all of the company’s product lines. Balaji has more than 20 years of development, marketing, and management experience in the software industry. He has strong background and deep knowledge of the enterprise software industry and its ecosystem. Prior to Documentum, Balaji was at Rational Software Corporation (now part of IBM) and Electronic Data Systems (now part of HP), in a variety of development, marketing, and market development areas.

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BIWA Summit Sessions
  • New Features of OBIEE 11g - Using in the Real World, Chris Claterbos, Vlamis Software Solutions Inc.
  • RPD Modeling Basics, Abhinav Banerjee, IBM
  • Fast Complex BI Analysis with Oracle OLAP, Dan Vlamis, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.
  • Reporting on Essbase and Oracle OLAP using BI EE, Venkat Janakiraman, Rittman Mead Consulting
  • KPIs and Scorecards using OBIEE 11g, Mark Rittman, Rittman Mead Consulting
  • Enhancing Your Data Warehouse Data Completeness Using APEX, John Heaton, iSeerix
  • BI and EPM Panel: The Foundation for Success, Shyam Nath, BIWA SIG
  • Oracle 11gR2, Your First Day with Security, Gary Gordhamer, Trianz Inc
  • OBIEE and BI Applications - Road to Success!, Shyam Nath, BIWA SIG
  • OBIEE - EPM - A Security Integration Primer, Andrea Hessey, Printpack Inc

 View the full listing of BIWA Summit sessions here.

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 Best of BI/DW/EPM from COLLABORATE 10

 

Download our "Best of 2010" BI presentations to get a taste of what user-driven education is all about.

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