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

Mark Rittman

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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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