News On The Forthcoming UKOUG BIRT SIG

Things are pretty busy at the moment, with a number of projects about to kick off that use OWB and the new Business Intelligence 10g products. At the current time I'm spending most nights away from home and I've got a number of personal projects on the go, including writing an article for OTN on dashboards using Discoverer "Drake" and Oracle Portal, trying to make a start on my 10g DBA certification, getting to grips with the OWB Paris beta and working on the agenda for the upcoming UKOUG BIRT SIG. The latter is pretty much finalized now so I thought it worth posting a few notes about this upcoming event.

If you're based in the UK or Ireland and a UKOUG member then you might be interested in our next Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG event on February 3rd, to be held at the Oracle City Office, London. Due to popular demand we've got a bit of an Enterprise Planning & Budgeting theme this meeting, with a live product demo, a talk by Oracle's Mark Pesticcio (who's been the technical lead on EPB "Early Adopter" projects in the UK and Europe), a talk by Fred Dean on data entry options for EPB, and an extended EPB Q&A with Oracle's Paul Badger and a number of Oracle partners (including SolStonePlus).

As well as the EPB presentations, Martin Cooper is giving a talk on Oracle Data Hubs and data warehousing, and I'll be giving an update on Oracle Business Intelligence 10g and what's coming with Oracle OLAP and AWM10g. If you're looking to come along, make sure you book a place as soon as possible as the previous meetings have all filled up weeks beforehand. Otherwise look forward to seeing some of you there early next month.