Presenting at Collaborate’06, Nashville

I'm going to be presenting next week at the Collaborate'06 event in Nashville, Tennessee. Collaborate'06 is a joint conference between the IOUG, OAUG and Quest Direct and is being held at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Nashville, from April 23rd through to April 27th.

The first presentation I'll be giving will be with one of our partners, QDecisions, on a new product they are launching called QMortgage. QMortgage is a "packaged" business intelligence application for the Mortgage market built on Oracle Database 10g, Oracle OLAP and Oracle BI Beans. During the presentation, we'll be talking about the idea behind QMortgage and how the packaged approach can significantly reduce the amount of time it takes to deliver a BI solution.

I'll be going through how Oracle's BI components were used to build the application, how we've leveraged and extended Oracle Business Intelligence Beans, and how we delivered OLAP reporting through both thick and thin client Web Interfaces, and through JSR-168 compliant portlets. You can see this presentation at the OAUG FIN SIG on Wednesday at 2.00pm in Donelson A in the Ramada Hotel, and again on Thursday at 11.00am in Belle Meade AB in the main event location.

The second presentation is on Wednesday at 3.15pm in Cheekwood C in the main conference location, and is on Best Practices for the OLAP Option to Oracle Database 10g. This is an update on the previous OLAP Best Practices presentations I've given, is updated for 10g Release 2, and is pretty much the definitive OLAP tuning paper I'm going to present, at least until 11g comes out. I'm pretty pleased with this one as I've covered off most bases, incorporated sections on the Sparsity Advisor and Partitioning, and reordered and tidied the paper up a bit to make it read easier. If you come along to the presentation I'll be showing off these new 10gR2 features in action, and I can answer any questions you've got about Oracle OLAP performance tuning.

If you aren't going to Collaborate'06, you can download the papers and presentations from here:

• QMortgage : Building a Packaged Mortgage Analytics Application using the Oracle Database 10g OLAP Option and BI Beans (paper)

• QMortgage : Building a Packaged Mortgage Analytics Application using the Oracle Database 10g OLAP Option and BI Beans (powerpoint slides)

• Best Practices for the OLAP Option to Oracle Database 10gR2 (paper)

• Best Practices for the OLAP Option to Oracle Database 10gR2 (presentation)

As you'd expect, I'll be blogging from the event, so check back next week for summaries of the BI presentations and photos from the event.