To get a good return on their investment organizations need to do more with their reporting systems than counting widgets or adding up sales across geographies. Adding value to the business is about looking at trends and anomalies and finding the items of significance that need business of focus, and to do that we need…

Oracle Business Intelligence 11g uses Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle WebLogic Server to provide a distributed systems management environment through Oracle Enterprise Manager. Many BI configuration options are now managed through Oracle Enterprise Manager and can be scripted with the Oracle WebLogic Server scripting tool. This presentation provides an overview of the Oracle BI systems…

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is Oracle's strategic platform for reporting, dashboards and analysis, and integrates with Oracle's hardware, EPM products, in-memory and storage technology to provide an end-to-end analytics solution. This presentation takes a look at the latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence, demos new features, and explains how new capabilities announced at Oracle…

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications are Oracle's prebuilt suite of analytic applications, recently broadened and expanded to include new applications and significant enhancements. This session profiles the suite of applications, reviews the new products and enhancements, and covers the strategy and roadmap. Learn how Oracle Business Intelligence Applications can help convert insight into action to increase…

Learn from our team of experienced consultants ODI Tips and Tricks in this Hands on lab. We will cover everything from proper setup to clearing log files to automating ODI.

Social Networking has a huge potential, but BI has so far not tapped the possibilities hidden in the vast amounts of social-network data. This presentation looks at the structure of social networks and their special characteristics and assesses the challenges they pose to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. We ask: “how can BI be best…

This two-hour, hands-on tutorial shows how executives and BI users can visually create illuminating ad hoc BI queries, and build insightful dashboards natively in Microsoft Excel directly against Oracle Database OLAP Option. We introduce the business value of multi-dimensional OLAP cubes. Then Excel's PivotTables are used to investigate business measures broken down simultaneously by, say,…

Based on the presenter's experiences in upgrading an OBIA 7.9.6 installation to OBIEE 11g, this presentation will present an analysis of the 11g architecture and upgrade path. The presentation will expose the architectural differences and dive into the 11g integration with the WebLogic server. It will explore the new schemas and repositories created for OBIEE…

There has been an explosion of IT applications in recent years. This presents a major challenge for companies with regards to IT investments in hardware for databases. This can be dedicated database hardware for a specific set of applications, shared database hardware across all disparate applications within the organization, or a mix of both. This…

What do DBAs and others need to know about Oracle on Sun virtual environments? You can split up a Sun server to deploy multiple Oracle environments, with each one isolated and behaving like a separate box. You can consolidate your Oracle environments in a secure and yet flexible manner. In this session we will address…