Looking Forward to the UKOUG Conference
It seems so soon after Open World, but in a week or so's time the UKOUG annual Conference & Exhibition is running at the ICC, Birmingham. There's going to be quite a big Rittman Mead contingency at the event, with Jon and I joined by Borkur and Peter who've been working with us on projects, and for the first time ever I'll not be on stand duty, and actually able to attend talks and generally take part in the event.
Monday is a particularly busy day for me, as I'll be introducing Nick Whitehead and Frank Buytendijk for the BI keynote, then dashing down to Jonathan Lewis' talk on Playing Russian Roulette with Silver Bullets. After that, I'm taking part in four consecutive sessions:
- 14:15 - 15:15, Hall 9 : Oracle Discoverer - Product Roadmap and Integration with Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, I'm co-presenting this with Mike Durran with Mike doing the roadmap and myself demonstrating the new integration features
- 15:25 - 16:10, Hall Exec 2 : OWB Best Practices and Advanced Techniques - Jon was originally going to do this, but he's moving house on Monday now (yeah, right...) and I've stepped in to do it - I'll be covering some of the new features in OWB11gR1 so come along if you're interested in hearing best practices and what's new
- 16:45 - 17:45, Hall 8a : Integrating Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus with Oracle Fusion Middleware - here I'll be showing the SOA integration with OBIEE, plus talking about integrating with IdM and Oracle Data Integrator
- 17:55 - 18:40, Hall 6 : BI Panel Session chaired by Peter Scott (I think, now), and with myself, Frank, David Prior and Simon Griffiths, Oracle Magazine BI Architect of the Year. Or perhaps I'll chair it and Peter will be on the panel - whichever way it'll be a great session.
After that, it'll be a quick shower and then across the ICC bridge to the Pitcher and Piano, where we'll be holding the blogger meetup at 8pm. Should make it an interesting day.
Tuesday is a bit quieter, with no BI sessions that day but some excellent talks by Tom Kyte, Jonathan Lewis and Lilian Hobbs, followed later on by the Community Focus Pubs, basically a free bar based around the various SIGs and this year, with our new BIRT SIG deputy, Mick Bull, handing out the free drinks tickets.
Wednesday is back to the BI track, with presentations by Pete Singleton on Essbase, Borkur on Implementing Access Control with OBIEE, a BI Roundtable in Hall 1 Foyer L5 facilitated by myself, and then a presentation by Lisa Dearnley-Davidson on Best Practices for Implementing OBIEE.
Thursday wraps up the conference, with some good OBIEE presentations by Martin Hammer and Hamish Donaldson, a talk on Enterprise Performance Management by John O'Rourke, and then my final session, an extended finale on some of the whizzy new features in OBIEE including Essbase integration, data modeling, identity management, aggregate persistence, MS Office integration, time-series functions and SOA integration:
- 13:25 - 15:30 : Hall 11b - Advanced Development Techniques using Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus
If you haven't signed up there's still some places left, and short of going to Open World it's about the best, most informative and best networking Oracle event you can go to, and like all user group events it's big on real-world advice and short on marketing. Hopefully see you all there.