Rittman Mead Presentations at Oracle Open World 2008

Rittman Mead are providing a number of presentations at Oracle Open World, taking place in San Francisco from September 21st to 25th 2008. Here's a rundown on the sessions we'll be running or taking part in:

Extending and Customizing the Oracle BI Applications Data Warehouse
Session ID : S301063 Speaker : Mark Rittman
Date : Sunday, September 21st 08:30 - 10:00, Moscone West 2008

"The Oracle BI Applications are a set of packaged dashboards, metadata, data warehouse tables and ETL routines that provides pre-built analytics against a range of ERP and CRM systems. In this presentation, we look at how the BI Apps data warehouse can be extended and customized using the Informatica ETL tool, using Oracle's suggested methodology and leveraging data warehousing best practices. We examine how practical this approach is and whether or not it is a cost-effective alternative to creating a new data warehouse from the ground-up."

ODTUG Essbase Symposium Part 3 : Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
Session ID : S301081 Speakers : Mark Rittman, Borkur Steingrimsson
Date : Sunday, September 21st 16:30 - 17:30
Location : Moscone West 3016

"With Release 11x of Oracle’s Hyperion performance management products, Oracle Essbase and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition can easily interact. Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office talks to both, Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting can jump to an Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition report, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition can use Oracle Essbase as a datasource. This session shows a BI solution with the best of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle Essbase."

Automating Business Decisions with Oracle Real-Time Decisions
Session ID : S300201 Speaker : Mark Rittman
Date : Monday, September 22nd 14:30 - 15:30
Location : Moscone West 3008

"This session looks at how Oracle Real-Time Decisions can be used to create a self-learning, predictive decision engine that can be used to automate a range of business decisions. It shows how a project is constructed, how Oracle Real-Time Decisions concepts are applied to the scenarios, how Oracle Real-Time Decisions leverages data mining and predictive modeling techniques, and how its functionality is then incorporated into your Java business applications and BPEL business processes."

Data Modeling Techniques using Oracle Business Intelligence Server
Session ID : S300202 Speaker : Mark Rittman
Date : Tuesday, September 23rd 09:00 - 10:00
Location : Moscone West 3008

"This presentation looks at techniques for transforming disparate normalized application data into the single logical star schema required by Oracle Business Intelligence Server. It examines data modeling situations such as ragged hierarchies, slowly changing dimensions, joining facts of differing granularity, and incorporating historic and real-time data and looks at how you can extend the predefined warehouse that comes with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications as an alternative to creating your own data warehouse from scratch."

I will also be taking part in the Oracle ACE Directors' "Birds of a Feather" Tips and Techniques Panel, along with Lewis Cunningham, Eddie Awad, Tim Hall, Hans Forbich, Rich Niemiec, Arup Nanda and Bradley Brown:

Oracle ACE Directors' "Birds of a Feather" Tips and Techniques Panel
Session ID : S300480 Speakers : Mark Rittman and other ACE Directors
Date : Thursday, September 25th 10:30 - 11:30
Location : Moscone South 301

"Join ACE Directors LewisC, Eddie Awad, Mark Rittman, Tim Hall, Hans Forbich, Rich Niemiec, Arup Nanda, and Bradley Brown for a birds-of-a-feather panel discussion in which they share their best tips and techniques to make your life easier, faster, and more productive. Oracle ACE directors come from a wide variety of technical backgrounds, and this panel brings a tremendous amount of experience to the table. Attendees are encouraged to submit their hardest questions in a game of Stump the Chump! The goal is to educate, excite, and entertain."