Photos from Training Days 2010, London

Last week was the first of our OBIEE 11g Training Days 2010 events, held at Holborn Bars in London. Thirty OBIEE developers from around Europe joined us for three days of discussions, demos and optional labs around the new 11g release of Oracle Business Intelligence.

The idea for the event was for the some of the Rittman Mead consulting team to present three days of new material around OBIEE 11g, focusing on product architecture, the install, creating the repository, creating reports and the new maps and KPI scorecards, through to Essbase integration and clustering/HA. Here's a photo of the delegates at the start of one of the sessions:

and here's me leading the session on Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management:

Certainly after a number of installs of OBIEE 11g across a variety of laptops, between us and the delegates I think we managed to hit and then debug most of the install issues (hint - use the loopback adapter, don't use Windows 7's WinXP mode and make sure you set the hostname correctly in the hosts file), and then we went on to cover such hot developer topics as mapping, the new extensions to the RPD data model, the new scorecarding and KPI framework, and even get a few people connected to an Essbase database and work with some of the new Essbase integration features. For those customers whose organizations have gone out and bought OBIEE, we provided some optional labs and sample data so that delegates could try out some of the features we described.

One of the thing we always try and do at Rittman Mead events is emphasize the social and networking aspects. Most people shared around their contact details and business cards, and we all went out for a fantastic meal at a local "gastropub" near to the venue on the second night.

The rest of the photos are uploaded here on Flickr.

We're about to run the event again now in Atlanta, with Stewart and the team taking the lead this time. I'm over here as well to answer any questions, and we'll post photos and feedback on the event at the end of the week. If you missed out on this event and are interested in attending in the future, we're probably going to run it again in February in all three countries, so if you're interested in attending, drop us a line at trainingdays2011@rittmanmead.com.