Rittman Mead BI Forum : Call for Papers

For anyone interested in the "Experts-Level" Oracle BI Forum that we are planning to run later this year, we now have a venue and a date:

The Rittman Mead Oracle BI Forum
Hilton Metropole Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom
14th and 15th May, 2009 (with drinks reception on the evening of the 13th May)

We've been able to put together a special package with the hotel, with pricing for the event looking like this:

Conference fee (waived for speakers), includes all meals and refreshments : £450
2 Nights Accommodation at Hilton Metropole, Brighton : £150

We will be posting details on how to register shortly, but if you're interested, want to reserve a place and haven't previously got in contact, drop me an email and I'll add you to the mailing list (warning - we're up to 45 potential attendees already, and the maximum capacity will be 50, so let me know soon if you're interested).

In the meantime, we're now opening the "call for papers". As we've mentioned before, the idea of this event is to run an Oracle BI conference for experienced developers and customers, where we can focus on advanced-level papers and more technical topics. The focus area is Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Essbase and Oracle Data Integrator, and the aim of the event is to bring together all the Oracle OBIEE/Essbase/ODI experts and present topics that will be of interest to this group. Some typical areas we'd like to cover include:

Optimizing OBIEE performance (caching, aggregation, federated queries)
OBIEE and Oracle DW reference architectures
OBIEE high availability, clustering, integration with DB and app server clustering
Essbase and OBIEE, particularly leveraging MDX, Essbase aggregations etc
ODI and Essbase
Extending ODI through knowledge modules
OBIEE integration with SOA, BPEL etc

If you'd like to put a paper forward, send an abstract including title and the area you'd like to cover (no more than 200 words) to mark.rittman@rittmanmead.com. The deadline for papers is February 13th 2009, and once the papers are in we'll open up voting to everyone who's registered an interest in the event. As I mentioned in the previous postings, the model for this event is the Hotsos Symposium, an event that runs every year in the States and focuses on Oracle database internals and performance tuning; hopefully we can get something similar running for OBIEE, and try and bring people together who've got a passion for OBIEE, ODI and Essbase technologies.

By the way - this is my 1000th post on the blog, which is kind of appropriate seeing as this sort of event is something I've wanted to organize for a long time. Let's hope it's a success.