Day 2 at Oracle Open World 2007

Yesterday was my busiest day at Open World, with an interview in the morning with SearchOracle.com, on Oracle's BI strategy and data warehousing best practices, followed by the main conference session given by Jon and I, on integrating Oracle BI EE and SOA. Funnily enough I was more concerned about the interview than the conference session, in the end both went off well with a more or less full room in Moscone 301.

Once the session and the interview were over, it was time to go over to the Thirsty Bear (my unofficial HQ for the event, I've been in there every night so far) for the blogger do. Thanks again to Vikki and Justin from the OTN team for sponsoring the event, I'm glad to say we finished off the very generous bar tab from Oracle and Tim Hall even managed to make it following his earlier trip to the hospital.

It was actually a pretty good evening in the Thirsty Bear, I also bumped in to some of the Enterprise Irregulars, some of the Oracle BI product management team I'd previously corresponded with but not met in person (Alan Lee, Krishnan Viswanatha, nice to meet you both), plus some of the AppsLab team who recently put the Oracle Mix site together.

Today is two of the presentations I've most been looking forward to - Phil Bates' talk on event-based BI and the new Action Framework in OBIEE11g, and a talk on the new OLAP functionality coming in Answers Plus. After that I'm planning to revisit Francis Ford Coppola's restaurant with Mike Durran and Jon, in the meantime though I'm sitting in the main hall waiting for the keynotes from Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. I wonder how he'll top the penguins this year...