Pictures and Presentations from Training Days 2009

Last week was our second Training Days event in London, and this year we had twenty attendees over the three days with the sessions being led by myself, Borkur and Venkat. The venue this year was a grand old room in the Bloomsbury Hotel in London, as you can see from the photos below it was aptly called "The Library".

The focus this year was on OBIEE development and management; Essbase and Planning; and ETL using OWB11gR2 and ODI. Here's Venkat on Day 1 talking about OBIEE and Delivers integration with Java and BI Publisher:

For me, highlights of the three days were meeting the various delegates from across the UK and Europe (and in particular, getting a chance to spend more time with Alex Hansal, one of the lead instructors on OBIEE at Oracle University); meeting some great guys from Logica and Atos Origin and of course our friends at Bicon; talking Essbase and OBIEE integration with a number of people with real project experience; and of course the social events we organized including a meal in the City of London at the end of Day 2.

Venkat and Borkur did sterling service as usual, with Venkat running most of Day 2 covering several aspects of Essbase development, and Borkur running two very technical sessions, one on Day 1 on the BI Management Pack and here, at the start of Day 3, where he set up a live cluster of Oracle BI Servers and BI Presentation Servers after being last out of the bar the previous night.

If you couldn't make it to this year's events, I've uploaded the complete three days' slides to our website, which you're welcome to download:

More photos of the event are on Flickr.

If you're coming to the UKOUG Conference in November in Birmingham, we are also running a couple of events you might be interested in. On the Tuesday night of the conference we are hosting an Oracle BI meetup for BI&DW customers, delegates and speakers at the Pitcher and Piano, Brindley Place, from 6pm - 9pm (more details on this nearer to the event), and I'm running one of the extended masterclasses on the Wednesday where I'll be going through what's new and important in OBIEE. If you're going to Birmingham for the main UKOUG conference, keep an eye out on the blog for more details nearer to the event.

In the meantime, thanks to everyone who came along to the Training Days event, and we can't wait for next year's one where hopefully we'll be taking an in-depth look at OBIEE 11g, ODI 11g and Essbase 11.1.2.