Some ODTUG News

ODTUG Kaleidoscope, the Oracle Developer Tools User Group annual conference which next year is running in Washington DC, has a call for papers that closes on November 10th. This year, I'm the content lead for the BI, DW and Hyperion Reporting track and together with the rest of the committee, we're trying to pull together an exceptional agenda based around OBIEE, OWB, ODI, Discoverer and the Hyperion reporting tools. By June next year when the conference runs, the 11g versions of OBIEE and ODI should be out, and OWB11gR2 is already with us, so this will be probably the first conference where we'll be able to talk about our experiences with the tools with them actually out on general release.

If you saw details of our BI Forum in Brighton last May, but you were based outside of Europe and couldn't make it, this would be an excellent event to put forward a paper for, and attend in June next year. If you're Europe-based but fancy a trip over to DC in June (or indeed from anywhere outside the States), this is a great excuse to get over and meet other BI & DW developers from North America and around the world. ODTUG is a worldwide user group that focuses solely on development tools, and the sessions we run are practical, focused on tips and techniques and led by developers like yourselves. If you're considering putting a paper forward, do so now and we'll hope to see you in June 2010. Also, if you want to discuss potential topics with me, just drop me a line and I'd be happy to offer advice.

In other news, you might have seen a few weeks ago a posting where I mentioned that I was standing for a position on the ODTUG board. I'm so keen on what ODTUG are doing, particularly around creating a worldwide community for BI, DW and Hyperion developers, that I decided to stand for the ODTUG election and I'm very pleased to announce that I secured a place on the board. Thank you very much to everyone who voted for me, and I'm particularly looking forward to working with the rest of the ODTUG board, and the membership, to bring more great BI and DW content to the user group. With the imminent release of OBIEE 11g, together with updates to OWB and ODI, we're at an inflection point with the various Oracle tools and I'm really keen that ODTUG remains the premier destination for help and support around their adoption.

I'm also looking forward to working with Shyam Nath from BIWA, and Faun De Henry from OAUG, so that all of the international user groups can work together to meet the needs of developers and customers using Oracle's BI & DW tools and applications.