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Get Analytical with BIWA Training Days at COLLABORATE 10 Taking place April 18-22 in Las Vegas, this event is the successor to the BIWA Summit conferences of 2008 and 2007. Register today for early-bird rates and save hundreds of dollars! Click Here for Details
Presenters: Sunil Ranka is an OBI EE Architect, currently working for Trianz Inc (www.trianz.com). He has been an Architect/Tech Lead in analytics at Cisco Systems and a Senior Developer with Oracle Corp in financial (Sarbanes Oxley compliance) and CRM application areas.
Audio Dial-In: 866 682 4770 Audio Meeting ID: 1683901 Audio Meeting Passcode: 334451 List of International Toll-Free Numbers: http://www.intercall.com/oracle/access_numbers.htm Web Conference: Please browse to https://stconference.oracle.com and enter 6009368 in the Conference ID field and your name in the Your Name field. Compatibility Check: If you have not used Oracle's web conference system before, please ensure your system compatibility by going to https://stconference.oracle.com/imtapp/app/nuf_sys.uix.
Other Wednesday TechCasts Coming Soon (always at noon Eastern time) - Mark Your Calendars!
Announcing BIWA Training Days at COLLABORATE 2010 IOUG Forum!! April 18-22, 2010 Mandalay Bay Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada See details on BIWA Training Days After 2 successful annual Summit Conferences on its own, BIWA is joining the big leagues! Instead of a stand-alone Summit, BIWA's next in-person conference will be a key part of the IOUG Forum of the Collaborate '10 conference, April 18-22, 2010, in Las Vegas. Our section of the IOUG Forum is titled BIWA Training Days.
The large-scale COLLABORATE conference environment, with the extraordinary facilities of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and the excitement of Las Vegas, will make BIWA Training Days a truly outstanding event.
BIWA Training Days will include:
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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. If you are already a BIWA SIG member, click here to submit a BIWA TechCast abstract. If you are not already a member of BIWA, 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!
During this presentation we will talk about why OBIEE should give built-in integration with the following Web 2.0 components/concepts:
We also discuss how approaches like AJAX, JSON, which represent data only, are far more compact than XML, which means better performance than sending XML over the network. Implementing this in OBIEE can improve report performance a great deal.
Finally, we will show case how BI reports are published in a wiki, so that others can add to the content and construct a formidable resource of knowledge and expertise on business performance. Such wikis can be applied to specific areas of business operation or to more strategic performance management either at the line-of-business level or at an enterprise level.
Presenter: Sunil Ranka is an OBI EE Architect, currently working for Trianz Inc (www.trianz.com). He has been an Architect/Tech Lead in analytics at Cisco Systems and a Senior Developer with Oracle Corp in financial (Sarbanes Oxley compliance) and CRM application areas.
Audio Dial-In: 866 682 4770 Audio Meeting ID: 1683901 Audio Meeting Passcode: 334451 List of International Toll-Free Numbers: http://www.intercall.com/oracle/access_numbers.htm Web Conference: Click here Compatibility Check: If you have not used Oracle's web conference system before, please ensure your system compatibility by going to https://stconference.oracle.com/imtapp/app/nuf_sys.uix.
This session will use a series of customer use cases from Financial Services and other industries, to show how to use Oracle Crystal Ball to calculate the uncertainty inherent in the numbers. As well, the session will highlight new capabilities in BI to report on both value and risk combined. Oracle Crystal Ball is a leading spreadsheet-based application for risk measurement, including probabilistic modeling, simulation, time-series forecasting and optimization.
Presenter: Lucie Trepanier focuses on pre-sales activities for Crystal Ball as well as product integration strategies within Oracle. Lucie has over 20 years experience in product management, marketing, project management, engineering and cost estimation. Prior to working in software, she spent many years in consulting engineering, construction and electronics manufacturing. Lucie holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and can be found most nights at the dance studio, prepping for her next ballroom competition.
Audio Dial-In: 866 682 4770 Audio Meeting ID: 1683901 Audio Meeting Passcode: 334451 List of International Toll-Free Numbers: http://www.intercall.com/oracle/access_numbers.htm Web Conference: (details coming soon)
