UKOUG Conference & Exhibition
October 28th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
It’s almost time again for the UKOUG
Conference & Exhibition, which this year is taking place a month early
and is running on the 1st - 3rd November up at the ICC in Birmingham.
There’s a number of presentations, workshops and panel sessions that’ll be of
interest to Oracle business intelligence and data warehousing users, including
the following:
- Oracle
Warehouse Builder "Paris" Release by Martin Cooper on Monday
on Monday at 11:15 - Oracle
Balanced Scorecard From Monitoring to Management by Chris Hett on
Monday at 16:30 - Custom
Reports Vs. Discoverer Queries - Identifying the appropriate reporting tool
by Louise Shaw on Monday at 17:35 - MASTERCLASS:
Developing Advanced Business Intelligence Applications with Oracle OLAP
by Oracle Corp on Monday at 14:00 - Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools Focus Pub (free beer!) on
Monday at 19:40 - Enabling
OLAP Analysis Using Oracle Business Intelligence 10g (my presentation)
on Tuesday at 10:15 - Business
Intelligence & Reporting Tools Panel (I will be chairing this,
Jon Mead from SolStonePlus will be on the panel) on Tuesday at 11:10 - Scaling
To Infinity - Partitioning Data Warehouses In Oracle by Tim Gorman (I’ll
be chairing this one), Tuesday 12:45 - Enterprise
Planning & Budgeting (EPB) - The Real Deal by Ian Hayman on Tuesday
at 13:40 - CPM
- Dream or reality by David Pryor, on Tuesday at 15:10 - XML-Powered
Enterprise Information Systems Delivered through BI Beans by Jon Mead,
Tuesday 16:35
Also, if you’re interested, I’ll be chairing these additional Oracle
technology sessions:
- Inside
Multiversioning: Read and Write Consistency, Tom Kyte, Monday 14:40 - Keeping
the Database Open 24 Hrs with Oracle Online Redefinition, Lillian Hobbs,
Monday 16:50 - Extreme
PL/SQL Programming A Web Application in 60 Minutes!, Sten Vestali,
Wednesday 10:00 - Statistics
- how often and how precise ?, Jonathan Lewis, Wednesday 13:10 - You
Probably Don’t Need Dataguard, Niall Litchfield, Wednesday 15:25
Whilst you’re up at the conference, pop along to the SolStonePlus
stand (74-76), say hello if you see me, and make sure you enter our competition
to win an LCD TV, surround-sound system or one of twenty DVD players. We’ll be
showing off the latest Oracle BI&W products including Oracle Database 10g,
Discoverer ‘Drake’, Oracle Warehouse Builder and the OLAP Excel Add-in, and I
and the rest of the SolStonePlus team will be more than happy to chat about any
aspect of Oracle technology.
