BIWA TechCasts  and Other Events

BIWA presents many  TechCasts (webcasts) on a wide range of topics.  Presenters have included Oracle Product Managers, Independent Consultants, and Software Vendors.  We want the Webcast series to be responsive to your needs, so please contact us with your comments and suggestions.

Attending a webcast:  
Video:  To watch the slides during the live talk, go to the link included in the email invitation and stored online in the Events section of the BIWA website.  The video site is typically stconference.oracle.com.  Please be sure to check your computer's compatibility with the system before you try to listen to a webcast:  this will ensure that your system works during the talk.

Audio:  For live audio, dial  866 682 4770, enter the Meeting ID specified in the invitation and then enter the Meeting Passcode specified in the invitation.  For international Toll-Free dial-in numbers, click here.

List of all BIWA Events:

• January 27, 2010, Oracle BI EE Integration and Migration  by Jim Glazar and Pablo Bryan (slides 1MB, recording 38MB )
• January 13, 2010, Make Oracle BI EE Smarter and Faster with Oracle OLAP Cubes  by Marty Gubar (slides 1MB, recording 58MB )
• December 2, 2009, Best Practices for Deploying a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g  by Maria Colgan (slides 3MB, recording 18MB, white paper 3MB )
• November 18, 2009, OBIEE: A High-Performance Reporting Platform at Gallup  by Tom Ruhlman and Swapan Golla (slides 2MB, recording 28MB )
• November 4, 2009, Oracle Data Mining for Text, Clustering, and Classification:Case Study of a Recommendation Engine  by Mark Hornick (slides 1MB, recording 20MB)
• October 21, 2009, Oracle Warehouse Builder 11.2: Enterprise-grade Data Integration for the Oracle Data Warehouse  by Antonio Romero (slides 1MB)
• October 7, 2009, Get the Best out of Partitioning  by Hermann Baer (slides 2MB)
• September 30, 2009, Sun Oracle Database Machine for Data Warehousing  by Jean-Pierre Dijcks (slides 8MB, recording 19MB)
• September 23, 2009, Fraud and Anomaly Detection Using Oracle Data Mining   by Charlie Berger (slides 10MB)
• September 9, 2009, OBIEE Analytics/Reporting Solutions for E-Business Suite  by Shyam Varan Nath (slides 10MB, recording 81MB (WMF file), )
• August 19, 2009,  Oracle OLAP at Gallup - A Scalable Unified Approach to BI Reporting by Swapan Golla (no slides, recording 15MB )
• August 5, 2009,  The Oracle Database 11g Optimizer: Good things get even better, by Maria Colgan (slides, recording 15MB)
• July 22, 2009,  Oracle Data Mining Overview and Demos by Charlie Berger (slides, recording 37MB)
• July 8, 2009,  OBI EE Strategies for Success by Cathye Pendley (slides, recording 9MB)
• June 24, 2009,  Excel For Business Intelligence Using Oracle Database 11g OLAP Option by Russ Tront (slides, recording 35MB NOTE:  Skip to Minute 9 for start)
• February 27, 2009,  Oracle BI and EPM Demo Virtual Machines Available on MS Windows by Dan Vlamis (slides, recording 28MB NOTE: For audio, skip to Minute 13)
• January 28, 2009, Ensuring Success with an Initial OBIEE Plus Project by Matt Metrik 
  

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• Dec 2-3, 2008,  BIWA Summit Conference in Redwood Shores, California
• November 5, 2008, Preview of BIWA Summit 2008 by Summit Leadership
• August 27, 2008, The Question of DW Approaches: Contrasting Inmon and Kimball by Ian Abramson  (recording, slides)
  
• July 23, 2008, Implementing Access Control in Oracle BI EE by Borkur Steingrimsson   (recording 57MB)
• June 25, 2008, Introduction to Hyperion Products,  by Tracy McMullen
• May 28, 2008, Introduction to Essbase,   by Ed Rosske
• April 30, 2008, OracleBI, Oracle OLAP and Essbase Compared, by Dan Vlamis, (recording 23MB)
• March 19, 2008, Oracle Development's tips and tricks for effectively using Oracle Warehouse Builder, by Jean Pierre Dijcks
• Feb 13, 2008, Predictive Analytics using Oracle Data Mining and Oracle BI EE, by Charlie Berger (recording 33mb)
• Jan 30, 2008, Best Practices for Managing Successful BI Projects, by Len Rosenblum (recording 17mb)
• Jan 23, 2008, Oracle Data Mining for Targeted and Personalized Letter Generation with BI Publisher , by Mark Hornick (recording 19mb)
  

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• Dec 12, 2007, Implementing Oracle BI EE on Top of Oracle OLAP Cubes--10g and 11g, by Dan Vlamis
• Nov 11, 2007,  4 Technical Sessions in BIWA Track at IOUG day,  Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco
• Oct 2-3, 2007,  BIWA Summit Conference in Reston, Virginia
• Sept 19, 2007,  Gaining the Most Value from the BIWA Summit
• Sept 11, 2007,   Inside the Oracle 11g Optimizer, by Maria Colgan  ( slides, recording 19MB)
• August 8, 2007, Oracle and Hyperion Roadmap: Building an Enterprise Performance Management System
• July 11, 2007,  Warehouse Builder 11g - What is new and where do we go from here?, by Jean-Pierre Dijcks (slides, recording 19MB)
• June 27, 2007, Next Generation Enterprise Reporting and Delivery, by Mike Donohue (slides, recording 21MB)
• June 13, 2007, Tableau Software for Visual Analysis, by Eric Johnson
• May 30, 2007,  Enterprise Data Mashups with Denodo Technologies, by Rich Walker
• May 16, 2007, How Oracle is Addressing Emerging Trends in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, by Robert Stackowiak  (slides, recording 23MB)
• May 2, 2007,  Oracle's In-Database Statistical Functions, by Charlie Berger  (slides, recording 19MB)
• April 25, 2007  A Simple Fraud Detection Application using Oracle Data Mining, by Bob Haberstroh   (slides, recording 22MB)
• April 2007, SIG Sessions at COLLABORATE 2007
• Mar 28, 2007, Oracle's Information Lifecycle Management Assistant, by Lilian Hobbs
• Mar 22, 2007, Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence Platform, by Shyam Varan Nath (http://SFOUG.org)
• Mar 21, 2007, Oracle Data Mining Overview, by Charlie Berger  (slides)
• Mar 14, 2007, Oracle OLAP: Fast Answers to Tough Questions Using SQL-based Applications, by Marty Gubar (slides, recording)
• Mar 7, 2007, InforSense Technology Overview: Managing your Analytics Process in Oracle, by Doug Freud (slides, recording)
• Feb 28, 2007, Oracle Partitioning - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Hermann Baer (slides, recording 24MB )
  
• Feb 15, 2007, Extracting knowledge from SAP data using Oracle Data Mining, by Mark Hornick (PPT available)
• Jan 31, 2007, ETL, Business Rules - OWB, by Jean-Pierre Dijcks (slides,  recording 18MB)
  

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• Dec 2006, Data Warehouse Architecture and Best Practices, by Ian Abramson (PPT)
• Nov 16, 2006, COUG: Oracle Data Mining and Inforsense Oracle Edition
• Oct 22, 2006, Oracle OpenWorld: Introduction to BIWA SIG (PPT)
• Oct 2006, NOUG: Enabling Oracle Business Intelligence Platform
• Sept 2006, NYOUG Annual Day: Intro to BI, Real Time Analytics & Data Mining
• Aug 2006, NY DW SIG: Introduction to OLAP
• Aug 2006, COUG: Introduction to OLAP
• June 2006, NYOUG: Introduction to Oracle Data Mining