Business Intelligence is changing, moving from the preserve of a small number of analysts to being used and relied on by everyone within the organization. Managers and team members who need a complete view of their business now demand real-time as well as historical data, data incorporated from events and services, interactive dashboards and alerts, a consistent, unified single version of truth and all of it based on a scalable platform that integrates with their existing infrastructure. Sometimes referred to as "Enterprise Business Intelligence", this next-generation of business intelligence goes beyond simple reports and graphs and integrates BI tools and functionality directly into the infrastructure of the organization.

Aimed at business intelligence developers, power users and project managers, this new seminar by Mark Rittman takes delegates through the architecture and thinking behind Enterprise Business Intelligence and shows how the combination of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Fusion Middleware can be used to build integrated, standard-based and enterprise-level business intelligence applications. Using tools such as Oracle BI Server, Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle Interactive Dashboards, Oracle Answers and Oracle SOA Suite, this seminar shows delegates how to build a next-generation BI architecture from the ground-up.

The Enterprise Business Intelligence seminar is being run over two days in Europe, Middle-East and Africa during 2007 and 2008 and contains of 8 sessions of 1.5 hours each, consisting of presentations, examples and discussions.

Day 1 - Building the Enterprise Business Intelligence Infrastructure

This first day will concentrate on building the data and application architecture to support Enterprise Business Intelligence.

  • Session 1: Delivering Enterprise Business Intelligence with Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle Fusion Middleware
  • Session 2: Advanced BI Data Modelling Techniques using Oracle BI Server
  • Session 3: Integrating Event, Service and database-based data sources using Oracle Data Integrator
  • Session 4: BI Identity Management using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition

Day 2 - Delivering Enterprise Business Intelligence Applications

The second day looks at how this platform is used to deliver analytics, analysis and decisions through both Oracle’s Enterprise Edition Presentation Server, and through SOA-based business applications and business processes.

  • Session 1: Advanced Techniques using Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards, Answers and Delivers
  • Session 2: Introducing Oracle Real-Time Decisions
  • Session 3: BI and Service-Orientated Architectures
  • Session 4: Integration and Delivery, and Looking to the Future of Oracle BI

The seminars are being organized and hosted through Oracle University, and the current list of confirmed dates and locations are:

The seminar is also being run as a single-day event in the following Australian and New Zealand cities:

and contains the following sessions taken from the 2-day masterclass:

One-Day Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclass

  • Session 1: Enterprise BI using Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle Fusion Middleware (overview of BI EE platform and today’s BI environment)
  • Session 2: Building the BI Infrastructure using Oracle BI Server, Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Fusion Middleware Identity Management
  • Session 3: Advanced Techniques using Oracle BI Dashboards, Answers and Delivers
  • Session 4: Oracle BI and Service-Orientated Architecture

We’re very excited about the material in this course, as it corresponds with our long-term vision around leveraging Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition’s and Oracle Fusion Middleware to add insights and intelligence into business processes and applications. We have worked closely with a number of product management and development teams within Oracle to put this material together, and in most cases this’ll be the first time such detailed, developer-focused material on OBIEE and Fusion Middleware integration has been delivered outside of Oracle; we also have some great tips and tricks on working with Answers, Dashboards and Delivers, together with some excellent new material on using Oracle Data Integrator alongside the OBIEE toolset.

If you’re interested in attending the seminars, use the links to contact the Oracle University offices in each country, take a look at this more detailed blog post, or drop us an email for some more details. Hopefully we’ll see you all at one of the seminars over the next twelve months.