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    Welcome to the Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics
    Special Interest Group (BIWA SIG) Website!

    Current Announcements:
    Wednesday,  September 8, 12 noon Eastern
    BIWA Wednesday TechCast Series - 28th Event!              
    Information Visualization Using Maps in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
    Dan Vlamis - Vlamis Software Solutions

    Maps convey dense, multi-dimensional relationships in data faster and more intuitively than any other graphical display methodology. Access to accurate information properly displayed is critical in today's competitive environment. Corporations and large organizations require new tools and methods for developing and sharing data-based insights.

    New in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is the ability to easily create dashboards that incorporate map views which can display your key performance indicators. In 11g, maps are simply a new type of view - just like tables and graphs. You can color-code a map based on some metric (e.g. show sales regions color-coded by revenue), overlay graphs on a map (e.g. showing revenue by product category for each region of the country), and drill on a map (e.g. from sales regions down to sales districts). You can combine performance data with demographic information and NAVTEQ point of interest data to understand not only what, but why. For example, an increase in sales may correlate to a new mall opening nearby. Mapping BI data reveals geospatial relationships in an intuitive, visually attractive way.

    Come join a collaboration of Vlamis Software, the Oracle Business Intelligence team, and NAVTEQ to see how your organization can use maps in your business intelligence systems to explore your data and reveal compelling insights.

    Presenter: Dan Vlamis is the head of Vlamis Software Solutions, the premier US consulting firm focused on Oracle-based Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions. The firm has a long history of close contact with Oracle development teams and aggressive adoption of leading edge technology. Dan is a nationally-recognized speaker who has presented at numerous Oracle conferences including Open World and COLLABORATE. Dan was the program chair of the BIWA Training Days at COLLABORATE10, a highly successful event with worldwide participation.

    Audio Dial-In:Audio Dial In: 866 682 4770 Meeting ID 1683901 Passcode 334451
    List of Toll-Free International Dial-In Numbers: http://www.intercall.com/oracle/access_numbers.htm


    Web Conference: To register and join in conference Click Here (You can register ahead of time and add the event to your Outlook Calendar.)

    Compatibility Check:  This web conference will use the Go To Meeting system. If you have not used Go To Meeting before, please register ahead of the event and click the View System Requirements link on the registration page.


    Next BIWA Conference:  COLLABORATE 2011 IOUG Forum!
    April 10-14, 2011 Orlando, Florida
    Call for Speakers is open at http://www.call4abstracts.com/c4a/ioug2011/
    Click Here for Details on COLLABORATE 11  IOUG Forum


    Thanks to all participants at "Get Analytical with BIWA Training Days" at COLLABORATE 10!
    Thanks to the hundreds of BI professionals who  participated at our national conference April 18-22 in Las Vegas!  With over 60 technical talks, hands on labs, a deep dive, a BIWA reception and a BI Boot Camp, this event was a great successor to the BIWA Summits of 2008 and 2007.
    Click Here for Details

    BIWA Membership Survey 2010
    BIWA's membership survey at the start of 2010 brought valuable insights from a large group.    Click Here for the Survey Report
    Call for Presentations:  BIWA  Wednesday TechCasts
     

    ***  PRESENT AND WIN AN APPLE iPOD TOUCH!  ***
    BIWA is giving an Apple iPOD Touch to the best new presenter.  Be part of the TechCast series and get a chance to win!  Note that the contest is limited to new presenters, to encourage fresh participation by the BIWA community.

    BIWA invites all Oracle professionals (experts, end users, managers, DBAs, developers, data analysts, ISVs, partners, etc.) to submit abstracts for 45 minute technical webcasts to our Oracle BIWA (IOUG SIG) Community in our Wednesday TechCast series. To submit an abstract, you need to be a BIWA SIG member.
    * Already a BIWA SIG member? click here to submit a BIWA TechCast abstract. 
    * Not yet a BIW member? Joining is FREE and EASY. Simply click HERE to enter your information and request to become a member of the BIWA SIG. You will be sent an email so you can Login and then submit your abstract.

    Our audience is technical so BIWA Wednesday TechCasts presenters are encouraged to include a significant amount of technical detail. Live demos are strongly encouraged. Each BIWA TechCast starting this Spring will be recorded and posted on the BIWA web site for on-demand viewing.   TechCasts will be selected based on the interest to the BIWA community of data analysts, business analysts, line of business (LOB) managers, application developers, architects and DBAs.

    If your abstract is selected, you will be contacted and invited to present on a Wednesday BIWA TechCast at 12:00 EDT that is convenient to your schedule. 

    Example topics of particular interest to BIWA summit attendees include, but are not limited to the following:
    Data Access and Data Integration
    - Data quality
    - Extraction, transformation, load (ETL)
    - Accessing distributed data
    - SOA integration
    Data Warehouses
    - Data Governance
    - Master Data Management
    - Partitioning
    - Tuning warehouse for performance
    - Faster cubes for faster information
    - Managing images
    Reporting and BI Dashboards
    - Better reports and better information
    - Custom BI environments
    - Real-time analytics
    - Interactive dashboards & EPM
    - Essbase and OBI EE
    Advanced Analytics
    - Predictive analytics
    - Data mining and text mining
    - SQL Statistical functions
    - Fraud detection
    - Market basket analysis
    - Churn prevention
    - OLAP - building and using "cubes"
    - What if? analysis
    - Leveraging spatial data
    - Time series and forecasting
    - Harvesting more insight from your data
    Best practices
    Case Studies
    Tips & Tricks
    We hope you can join us as either a BIWA Wednesday TechCast presenter or attendee!


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