UKOUG Tech and EBS Conference, Day 0

Mark Rittman

Nov 30, 2009 • 2 min read

Today's the first full day of the UKOUG Technology & EBS Conference in Birmingham, UK, and I'm currently getting my presentations ready for later on today. This year we've again got a stand in the main exhibition hall, where we'll be running demos of OBIEE, Warehouse Builder and the rest of the Oracle BI technology stack. Yesterday though was all about getting up to Birmingham, getting the stand set up and then off in the evening for the second annual ACE Director meal.

The evening was organized by Debra Lilly and myself, with Todd from the OTN team kindly bringing along the credit card and passing along messages from Vikki, Lillian, Justin and the team back from HQ. We had an excellent turnout with 25 ACEs and ACE Directors from around the world, including such names as Steven Feuerstein, Bryn Llewellyn, and Mogens Norgaard, and it was a great chance to catch up with people such as Marco, Dimitri, Dan Morgan, Tim and others that I tend to see only at other conferences around the world.

Today's a busy day for me, with the following two sessions running later today:

“Oracle BI EE and Essbase Integration Step-by-Step”, Monday 14:45 – 15:45, presented by myself and Venkat Janakiraman
“Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2 New Features”, Monday 16:15 – 17:00, presented by myself

We've also got a fun demo running on the stand (Stand 50) where we're using OBIEE as part of a football management simulation, where you can pretend to be an investor looking to put money into any of the Premier League teams and seeing, through the use of analytics, writeback and the dashboard where this money would be put to best use. I'm trying to persuade Chris to rig the numbers so that Arsenal always get relegated and Spurs win the league, but I think at least the latter is a bit beyond the powers of Oracle BI - perhaps we need to deploy Essbase in the background. Anyway, if you're at the conference then be sure to pop by stand 50 if you get a moment, otherwise hopefully I'll see a few people at the various conference sessions.

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