Back to the UK, Then off to Dusseldorf

April 21st, 2007 by Mark Rittman

I’m back in the UK now after a rather eventful flight back from the States; our flight from Las Vegas to San Francisco was delayed by around an hour, which meant we arrived at SFO at 4.00pm for a 4.30 flight back to Heathrow. After a 20-minute dash through SFO from Terminal 1 to Terminal 3, amazingly we made it to the gate with 5 minutes to go (including going through security again, shoes off, belt off and so on) and the nice people at Virgin Atlantic let us on to the flight even though it’d already closed. Unfortunately, my luggage wasn’t so lucky and I’m still waiting for it to be delivered. Still, at least I’m back and my bag of dirty washing can follow a bit later.

As it is, I’m only here for today and then tomorrow I’m up again at Heathrow to fly off to Dusseldorf, Germany, for another round of my BI Masterclasses. This, and the next one I’m running in Milan in May, are the last of the existing set of masterclasses, and I’ve updated the material with information on BI Publisher, BI EE 10.1.3.2, plus some new material on putting OWB projects in to production. After that, I’m back in the UK and meeting up with the RTD product manager in the UK to go through how it will be included in the next round of Masterclasses - I’m particularly keen to get some examples together of how RTD, BPEL and BI EE can be used together to build an “intelligent” operations dashboard, my thinking here is that delegates actually want to see the mechanics of how these products work together so they can go back to their organizations and actually start putting prototypes together. As well as that, I’ve got my ODTUG Kaleidoscope presentations to put together, which means that April and May are going to be rather busy…

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Comments

  1. Borkur Says:

    April 22nd, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    Mark,

    Seem like you are getting as much mileage as Tom Kyte :) Sounds like Vegas was a blast, despite the hurried rush through SFO.

    What’s up with that Hyperion event you mentioned. Will you be sitting through the whole week, or just a few days?

    cheers,
    Borkur

  2. Mark Rittman Says:

    April 23rd, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Borkur,

    I’m at the Hyperion event for the whole time, it’s only three days (Sun, Mon, Tuesday). The first day is just a reception in the evening I think, so i’ll mainly be going for the two remaining days at the end; it’ll be interesting to see what Oracle tell the Essbase users about how their product will fit in with Oracle’s BI stack, and it’ll also be interesting to see how their financial management apps stack up.

    regards

    Mark

  3. Borkur Steingrimsson Says:

    April 24th, 2007 at 8:36 am

    Mark,

    I will be in Lyon that weekend, but heading back Sunday afternoon. Otherwise I could have shown you around a bit. It’s by far my favorite city in France. Good eating, guaranteed :)
    Borkur