UKOUG Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG
January 31st, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Today was the day for the
UKOUG Business
Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG meeting, held up at the
Institute of
Physics, London. Most of you probably know that I chair the SIG which
involves doing the welcome bit at the start, introducing (along with Andy and
Jagdev) the various speakers and getting feedback from the attendees on what to
include in future events. This time around we had Jonathan Lewis and Carl Dudley
in the audience, together with Peter
Scott and Jeff Moss. Here’s
a few photos from the day.
First up is Jeff Moss, with "Five Tips for Tuning Your Data Warehouse"…
Kevin Lancaster, with two presentations, one on SQL access for
Analytic Workspaces, and another on extending the calculation abilities of
Analytic Workspaces…
And who is this dashing gentleman in the lilac suit…?
Finally, Jagdev and Andy, the two SIG Deputies.
More over at
Flickr. I was pretty pleased with how the day went actually; beforehand I
was worried that I’d made it too "techy", too many data warehousing
presentations (as opposed to reporting tools, business-type ones) but the
feedback we’d got recently was that there wasn’t enough technical content, so we
gave it a go. In the end we had a fairly packed room which stayed that way
almost right through to the end, and the presentations were all excellent and
delivered in an interesting and engaging way. Well done to everyone.
Check back here and on the UKOUG
website for news on the Reporting Tools event that we’re planning for May.
It’ll be like a "super-SIG" event, with two streams (business and technical), a
focus on reporting tools, third-party vendors and a venue that’ll probably be at
a hotel in central London. Until then, I’m off for a few days to Nice, so best
not to expect any updates for a few days (I’ve been told not to take the laptop,
but little does she know that I can still get ‘net access on my phone…)
