Rittman Mead at the UKOUG Tech and EBS Conference, Birmingham, 30th Nov - 1st Dec 2009
It's just a few weeks until the conference highlight of the year for Rittman Mead, the UKOUG Technology and EBS Conference and Exhibition in Birmingham. In previous years the UKOUG has tried to bring everyone together for this main event at the Birmingham ICC, but as Oracle has acquired so many companies it became impossible to run everything in one week, and so this year the event focuses on just technology (including BI and Data Warehousing) and Oracle E-Business Suite.
This year we will be at Stand 50, just next door to where we were last year. This year we'll again have our famous Rittman Mead beer, we've got some exciting demos of OBIEE, OWB and the EPM Suite, and we'll be joined over the three days by just about everyone from Rittman Mead in the UK. Last year we had the six of us, now we're up to eleven consultants plus Chris Raby who handles our business development.
This year we will be delivering three conference sessions:
- "Oracle BI EE and Essbase Integration Step-by-Step", Monday 14:45 - 15:45, presented by myself and Venkat Janakiraman
- "Under the covers of ODI and the Oracle BI Applications", Tuesday 14.30 - 15.30, presented by myself
- "Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Masterclass", Wednesday 13.50 - 15.50, presented by myself, Venkat, Adrian Ward and Borkur
This year at the Masterclass, as well as tackling the basics of modeling and reporting, we'll be tackling three of the questions that most often come up from our customers: How do we model non-dimensional (OLTP) sources using the BI Administration tool; How do we join together fact tables that do not have the same dimensionality; and how do we (safely) migrate OBIEE projects from one environment to the other. Although OBIEE 10g is a fairly mature technology now, these questions always come up and it seems that no-one is too sure about how to approach them. We'll deliver a session on this (together with a general update on the product) and try and tackle them for you.
We're also running a BI "Fringe Event" on the Tuesday night at the Pitcher and Piano from 6pm - 9pm, where we'll put some money behind the bar, lay on some nibbles and try and get all the BI speakers, delegates and users together for an informal get together. We'll be inviting all those that came to the BI Forum in May and the Training Days in October as a kind of "reunion", but we'd be happy to have anyone along with something interesting to say on Oracle BI. If you want to come along, please send me an email or add a comment so we can get an idea on numbers. Other than that, see you all in Birmingham in a few weeks time.