ODTUG and Rittman Mead in Sydney : ODTUG BI/EPM Seriously Practical Conference

As my colleague Ashley Beauman mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Rittman Mead are pleased to be co-sponsoring the ODTUG BI & EPM Seriously Practical Conference, running in Sydney, Australia on November 3rd and 4th 2011. Along with James & Monroe, Oracle Technology Network (OTN) and Park Lane, and together with fellow ACE Directors Tim Tow and Edward Roske, we're helping to organize what will be ODTUG's first full event "down-under", with two days of intensive Essbase, EPM and Essbase content running in the Sydney Harbour Marriott Hotel.

From Rittman Mead, myself and Stewart Bryson will be presenting, with sessions on OBIEE 11g RPD modeling, the OBIEE 11g Action Framework, Agile Data Warehousing using OBIEE and Exadata, and comparing the BI Server to the Oracle Database when it comes to results aggregation. I'll also be running an session at the start of Day 2 across both streams, talking about the practicalities of integrating OBIEE 11g and Essbase, and also providing the opening keynote with Tim and Edward.

Apart from myself and Stewart, the event also feature local speakers such as Chetan Khimjee (Oracle Corporation) and Arnie Bhattacharya (SMS), and we're also hoping that Kevin McGinley, winner of the ODTUG KScope'11 best paper award will be able to join us too. If you're an Essbase or EPM Suite developer, there's a whole track led by Edward and Tim focusing on practical developer issues, and together with the BI track we're helping organize, we're hoping it'll be a great event for Australia, New Zealand and AsiaPac's BI and EPM developers.

Registration is open now, and numbers attending are limited so be sure to register soon - and we'll look forward to seeing everyone in Sydney in November.