UKOUG Conference & Exhibition

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.