UKOUG Business Intelligence & Analytics Special Event, London, May 16th

March 30th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

It’s been a week or so since my last blog posting, so I thought I’d better do
an update. I’ve been busy working away on the presentations and papers I’m doing
for Collaborate’06 in Nashville, and when I finally get down to some writing I
tend to enter "the zone", where I just ignore any emails or other distractions
and try and finish off what I’m doing. So, if you’ve dropped me an email or
posted on the forum and I’ve not got back, apologies and I’ll try and catch up
over the next few days.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that the UKOUG are running a
Business
Intelligence and Analytics Special Event in the Grange City Hotel, London,
on May 16th. Now what I couldn’t say at the time was why this event was going to
be so special, but if you read my posting last week about Oracle’s BI
announcements around Fusion, you might be interested to know that we’ve managed
to line up a whole bunch of senior Oracle speakers who are going to explain how
all this new technology is going to fit together. We’ve got a presentation by
David Pryor who’s going to explain Oracle’s strategy around Fusion, Siebel
Analytics and the current product line, whilst Morgan Russell is presenting in
the technical stream on how the BI product line-up will look going into the
future. Paul Badger is going to explain how Oracle’s CPM product line-up (EPB,
PM and DBI) will fit into the Fusion strategy, whilst Jon Ainsworth is going to
talk about how the trends in the BI marketplace will move BI from a "nice to
have" to a mainstream technology over the next few years. Finally, we’ve got a
couple of excellent customer presentations, a talk on analytics, OLAP and data
mining by Doug Cackett, and a presentation by Brian Gregory on how corporate
governance processes can be applied to CPM and business intelligence. Here’s the
current speaker line up: (agenda, PDF,
here)

"Oracle’s own development innovation and recent acquisitions -
PeopleSoft, Retek, Siebel – have transformed and expanded the breadth of
Oracle’s Business Intelligence solutions. David will explain Oracle’s
strategy for the development of Business Intelligence technology for
organisations implementing analytic solutions, as well as providing a BI
foundation in Oracle Fusion applications."

"In this presentation, Jon will review the reality of BI adoption in
business today, plus some of the business drivers that affect it going
forward. In this context Jon will then discuss some of the likely technology
and functional shifts that we are likely to observe as BI evolves into a
”main-stream technology “ over the following years."

"Attend this presentation to understand how Oracle is moving down the
road to BI Fusion with the addition of Siebel Analytics to its BI portfolio.
This presentation will provide a product update on Oracle’s complete range
of BIW technology. See for yourself why Oracle is excited about BI."

"The journey from Information to Knowledge can be littered with broken
intentions and compromised principles. The final destination rarely matches
those glossy pictures in the guidebook. At RIAS, we do not claim to have
discovered Utopia but we do believe that we have arrived at a BI solution
that has much to commend it. Hopefully, the sharing of our experiences may
make your journey that much richer."

  • "Why OLAP & Data Mining Should Be Part Of An Integrated Process",
    Doug Cackett, Oracle Corporation (abstract TBA)
     
  • "Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring & Analysing your Business", Paul
    Badger, Oracle Corporation (abstract TBA)
     
  • "Agile Procurement: BT And BI", Stephen Martin, BT, Chief Architect -
    Business Intelligence and Data (abstract TBA)
     

  • "Can
    You Apply Corporate Governance To Your BI/CPM Data And Process?"    , Brian
    Gregory, Senior Director, Compliance, Oracle Corporation EME

"A great deal of attention and effort has been correctly applied to
ensuring that transactions in a compamy’s ERP system are correctly
controlled and recorded. But can management say the same about their CPM/BI
data? If they can’t what is the value of this data? This session will look
at the challenges and how Oracle’s Performance Foundation can help you apply
Governance principles to CPM/BI data creation."

There’s also a partner stream where the company I work for, and Noetix, will
get to do a presentation. As long as I don’t have to go up head-to-head with
Morgan I might even do something on how the new Oracle Analytic Server works,
but it depends on whether I get enough free time between now and then to put
something together. Until then, you can
register for a
place here (it’s free, even for non-members) and I’ll hope to see you all on
the day.

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