Details on The RedDatabase Symposium
I've finally got around to updating the events page on our website, taking down the old Open World and ODTUG events and uploading details of the UKOUG Conference and some of the engagements already booked in for 2008.
One of the events next year that I'm particularly looking forward to is the RedDatabase Symposium in The Hague on Monday 10th March - Wednesday 12th March 2008, and Munich on June 2nd - 4th 2008.
The speaker list looks like a who's who of database, middleware and BI development (and me, of course...) and includes Jonathan Lewis, Mogens Norgaard, Julian Dyke, Lucas Jellema, Carel-Jan Engel and Daniel Fink, and with my session on the subject of "Analytics and Data Warehousing Using Oracle 11g and OBIEE ".
Here's the abstract for the session:
"Analytics and Data Warehousing Using Oracle 11g and OBIEE
Mark Rittman, Rittman Mead Consulting
This one-day seminar takes delegates through the new BI & data warehousing features found in Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10g and Oracle's OLAP and analytical tools.
Topics:
- ETL and DW development using Oracle 11g and OWB 11g
- New Data Warehousing and ETL features in Oracle Database 11g
- New features in Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g
- ETL techniques using Oracle's DW tools
- Leveraging alternate ETL tools such as ODI, ESB and Oracle Streams
- Creating the BI foundation later with OBIEE BI Server
- Introducing Oracle BI Server and the Oracle BI EE architecture
- Core BI Server functionality and it's relation to the Oracle 11g Database
- Creating the BI Server metadata layer
- Caching, Summary Management
- Creating metadata over federated data sources
- Reporting and Dashboards using OBIEE Presentation Server
- Creating reports using Oracle Answers
- Publishing reports to Oracle Interactive Dashboards
- Advanced Techniques using Answers
- The OBIEE Presentation Server SOAP interface
- Analytics and OLAP Analysis using Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase
- Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase fundamentals
- Oracle OLAP 11g Storage model and SQL Interface
- Using Oracle OLAP 11g Analytic Workspaces as DW summaries (MVs)
- Key Essbase fundamentals and architecture
- Using Essbase as an Oracle BIEE data source
- Benefits and role of OLAP and the two Oracle OLAP engines"
Even though I'm only speaking on the one day, I'll probably go over for all three just to be able to hear the other presenters. Also, Munich and The Hague are pretty cool places and should make pretty good venues for the two events. Should be good.
Finally, I'm looking for an organization (or organizations) to help me put together a seminar tour in the USA / North America, and in the Middle-East / Gulf States. It'd be on the same material as above (perhaps spread over more than one day) - if you're interested, or know of someone who might be able to help me organize something, let me know at [email protected] and we can have a chat.