Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour 2012 : Venues and BI Presentations

Mark Rittman -

Next week I'm honoured to be taking part in the Oracle ACE Directors Nordic Tour, taking in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki over four days. Organized by Heli Helskyaho (Finnish Oracle Users Group) and Sten Vesterli (Danish Oracle Users Group) along with the leaders of the Norwegian and Swedish User Groups, and with the kind support of the OTN and the ACE Director program, we're running four conference days in four countries covering all of Oracle tech from database through BI to ApEx and Fusion Middleware.

As well as myself, I'm joined by Carl Dudley (University of Wolverhampton), Julian Dontcheff (Accenture Finland), Alex Nuitjen (AMIS), Tanel Poder (Enkitec) and Sten Vesterli (Scott/Tiger). Each country event will have a different agenda selected by the local user group, with my own sessions covering a wide range of topics from ODI through OBIEE to Fusion Middleware and Endeca. Each presenter is an expert in their field, all proceeds go to the local user groups and many of the events have drinks, dinner or other social meet-ups after the main sessions end.

Here's the dates and locations of each event in the tour, along with the sessions I'll be delivering (links are to the full agenda for each event):

Copenhagen, Denmark, October 23rd 2012

  • Oracle Endeca Information Discovery for Oracle BI and DW Developers

Stockholm, Sweden, October 24th 2012

  • Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence with Oracle Fusion Middleware: Tips and Techniques
  • High-Speed, In-Memory Big Data Analysis with Oracle Exalytics

Oslo, Norway, October 25th 2012

  • Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence with Oracle Fusion Middleware: Tips and Techniques
  • Oracle Endeca Information Discovery for Oracle Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Developers

Helsinki, Finland, October 26th 2012

  • Introduction to ODI for Oracle DW developers
  • Oracle Endeca Information Discovery for Oracle Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Developers

As well as using slides I'll also be demonstrating OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 and Exalytics, along with Endeca Information Discovery, ODI, WebCenter, ODI and Oracle R Enterprise. To get everything working in an integrated way I've put together the "mother of all demo environments", running all of these products (apart from EID) in the same Oracle WebLogic Server domain, managed by the same EM instance, running on my 16GB RAM Macbook Pro using an SSD disk - fingers crossed all is working together properly, so I should be able to demo all the integration features working together.

That's it for now - next stop, Copenhagen.