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What are the best ways to make an application work well in Exadata and what design choices should be considered? This TechCast will offer substantial advice on porting existing applications to Exadata. We will also review risk areas and aspects worth testing based on migration experience.
The reviewed application domain is a large-scale trickle feed ETL for very high volume reporting, also including a variety of smaller transactional and ad-hoc query systems. We'll discuss porting and running a large mature ODS and reporting data warehouse from Oracle 10g to Exadata. We will cover migration strategies, tuning, and application rearchitecture.
Presenter: Aaron Werman is a senior architect at a large prime brokerage and architect for the data warehouse and its technical strategy and performance. He has deep experience in VLDB, Oracle, and heterogeneous systems.
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 Note: Audio will *not* be streamed over the internet. 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.
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.
Presenters: 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.
Dan Abugov is a consultant and business development manager for NAVTEQ. NAVTEQ is the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data (digital location content) enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world. Dan has 25 years of experience with database management system, having developed database software for both Digital Equipment Corporation and Oracle. Dan has spent the last 10 years focusing on spatial technologies in the database, and often speaks at event like Oracle OpenWorld, COLLABORATE, and the Spatial Special Interest Group.
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 Note: Audio will *not* be streamed over the internet. 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.
*** 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!
Presenter: Aaron Werman is a senior architect at a large prime brokerage and architect for the common data warehouse and its technical strategy and performance. He has deep experience in VLDB, Oracle, and heterogeneous systems.
