Looking forward to BI at #Kscope 12!

Guest Blogger: Kevin McGinley

My first Kscope experience was just last year, and what a Kscope it was!  From presenting to attending sessions to networking to winning the Editor’s Choice award, the week was packed full of great experiences.  Kscope ’11 was such a fantastic experience that when I was asked to coordinate the BI track for Kscope 12, I happily said yes.

Because BI was so popular at Kscope ’11, the planning committee expanded the number of sessions we have to cover the most interesting BI content: OBIEE, BI Applications, ODI & GG, BI Publisher, Exalytics, and BI/EPM integration are all covered this year.  I’m really excited that we’re able to offer a good mix of intro sessions, advanced sessions, and customer case study sessions across many areas of Oracle BI.  Since Oracle is always pushing the boundaries of BI forward (and because they keep acquiring companies!), it’s important to make sure we keep attendees abreast of what’s going on in Oracle BI while offering those ever important tips-and-tricks, how-to’s, lessons learned, and best practices on the products and versions that attendees are using today.

In addition to great sessions throughout the week, there will also be a BI Symposium on Sunday and the return of hands-on labs at two different times during the week.  The hands-on labs are very popular and offer a great way for attendees to test drive modules of Oracle BI that might be new to them.  In addition to the symposium and hands-on labs, we’re also planning some ‘unconference’ activities to engage attendees of the BI track in different ways.  Those who register (http://kscope12.com/registration) in the BI track will hear more about these as we get closer to the conference!

I want to thank everyone who submitted abstracts to speak at Kscope ’12.  While we can’t accept everyone, it’s a testament to the ODTUG community that we had a tough job selecting the best of the best for the BI track.  I also want to thank my great team for the hard work they put into selecting the very best possible BI agenda we could put together.  I’m looking forward to BI at Kscope ’12 and I hope to see you there!

BI Team

• Kent Graziano
• Stewart Bryson
• Scott Eaton
• Wayne Van Sluys
• Ray Kwan

#Kscope 12: Developer Toolbox

Guest Blogger: Eddie Awad

Hi, my name is Eddie Awad and I will be attending ODTUG Kscope this year. In case you don’t know me, here is a quick introduction: I have been developing applications using Oracle technologies and tools since 1994. I am an Oracle ACE Director and the creator of OraNA.info and OracleCommunity.net. You can find me on Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, and my blog.

Kscope 2012 is going to be my third ODTUG conference I attend. The first one was Kaleidoscope 2009 in Monterey, California. Yes, it was named Kaleidoscope back then. The second one was Kscope 2011 in Long Beach, California. The upcoming Kscope 2012 is going to be held in San Antonio, Texas.

This year’s Kscope is a special one to me. I volunteered to lead the Developer’s Toolbox track team. My task was to build a team of volunteers from the Oracle community and then together determine appropriate sub-tracks, review and rate the submitted abstracts and create a draft schedule for the track.

More than 85 abstracts were submitted to the Developer’s Toolbox track alone. The team then engaged in a blind review, meaning that each team member rated all the abstracts without knowing the authors and rated all the authors without knowing their abstracts. The end result was the selection of 32 abstracts. It was not easy but we made it. Without further ado, I present to you the Developer’s Toolbox track team:

• Alex Nuijten, Oracle ACE Director (@alexnuijten)
• Ben Prusinski, Oracle ACE Director (@benprusinski)
• Cary Millsap, Oracle ACE Director (@CaryMillsap)
• Hans Forbrich, Oracle ACE Director (blog)
• John Flack, Oracle ACE (profile)
• Lewis Cunningham, Oracle ACE Director (@TheRealLewisC)
• Mark W. Farnham, Oracle ACE (@pudge1954)
• Patrick Barel, Oracle ACE (@patch72)
• Roel Hartman, Oracle ACE Director (@RoelH)
• Tim Hall, Oracle ACE Director (@oraclebase)

I was also in contact with Steven Feuerstein who offered valuable input and feedback regarding the PL/SQL related abstracts.

I would like to thank everyone for their help in putting together the best Developer’s Toolbox track ever. Also, kudos to the ODTUG Kscope12 Conference Committee for their support during the whole process.

I am not the first one and will not be the last one to tell you that Kscope is the best technical conference for Oracle professionals. You would not want to miss it this year, here is why:

• 250+ technical presentations from the brightest minds in the Oracle community
• 3 days of Hands-on Training
• 5 all-day symposiums
• Great networking opportunities including: Lunch-and-learn sessions with Oracle ACE Directors, meet the Oracle experts, vendor showcase, and special events
• Great venue: the JW Marriott resort in San Antonio which has two golf courses, spa, five restaurants, six acres of heated pools, fountains, waterfalls, 650-foot rapid river ride, 1,000-foot lazy river, 100-acre nature preserve and more.

One more reason to attend: I will be presenting too. My presentation will be about data caching in SQL and PL/SQL, in other words, how to make your application run faster.

I guarantee that if you attend Kscope you will come out of it full of new ideas and knowledge about tips, tricks, techniques and technologies you never even knew existed.

Hope to see you there… FYI REGISTER before March 25th to get the Early Bird Rate.

Congratulations to the 2012 ODTUG Executive Commitee!

The ODTUG Board of Directors met on Tuesday, January 3, 2012, to elect the Executive Committee members for the ODTUG Board. My congratulations go out to the winners of this election process. The Board has once again elected me as President (my final year on the Board due to term limits – although I can re-enter the election process in the fall of 2013 – and my fourth as the President). I look forward to the challenges that the organization will undoubtably face in the next 12 months, and also serving alongside the rest of the Board and the new Executive Committee.

Elected for the first time to the ODTUG Executive Committee, Monty Latiolais will be serving as the Vice President of ODTUG. Monty is currently starting his third year as a Board Member for ODTUG, and has served in varying capacities and on various committees while on the Board and even before he became an ODTUG Board member. Monty will be a great addition to the Executive Committee, and as I spoke to Monty just after the conclusion of the election process, he is very excited about his newly expanded role within the organization. Based upon his track record of success so far within ODTUG, I expect nothing but the same type of results from him in this position.

Barbara Morris, left, and Monty Latiolais, right

The 2012 Secretary is Bambi Price. Bambi has served as Secretary for ODTUG before, and most recently, last year as the Vice President. Bambi is committed to ODTUG expanding its reach into global markets, as evedenced by our participation in the InSync conference and hosting our very own SP conference in Sydney, Australia last year. Bambi will continue to serve the organization proudly and represent you, the members as well.

Dave Schleis, Bambi Price, and husband Frederick Price

Rounding out the Executive Committee is the 2012 Treasurer, Jerry Ireland. Jerry returns to the ODTUG Board after  a one year absence, and also returns to an Executive Committee position. Jerry has served as Vice President before, and is returning to another familiar slot for him on the ODTUG Board as Treasurer. Jerry brings much user group experience, and real world experience and expertise back to the Board. His financial knowledge will be well served in this role on the Board.

Jerry Ireland, pictured here at a dinner with Debra Lilley in 2009

So, what to look forward to in the next few weeks? Well, the ODTUG Board will be gathering for their winter face to face meeting in a couple of weeks. This will take place at the 2012 KScope conference location, the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country resort. We’ll be setting the direction of the organization for 2012 and beyond, all the while familiarizing the entire Board with the conference location. Look for some more information about what to expect at KScope12 to come from the ODTUG Board Members, as everyone will be spending more than 3 days at the resort.

A smaller group of the Board will then leave directly from the Board Meeting and head to Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores, CA for the annual IOUC Leaders Summit. This summit hosts the leaders from user groups across the globe. Oracle provides the conference location and setting, and the leaders talk directly with Oracle to learn things beneficial to our members for the year. In addition, perhaps the greatest benefit is that the user group leaders take advantage of this opportunity to network with other user group leaders, to learn from each other, and to work with each other for the benefit of the overall user community. Who benefits the most from this event? That’s right, it’s you, our members.

Look for more updates on these and many other ODTUG initiatives in the next few months.

Oh, have I mentioned that you really should be making your plans to attend KScope 12 in June? Find the details here. We are experiencing tremendous interest in the conference, and registration is going well. We anticipate that we will completely fill up the hotel, so make your plans and reserve your room today!

One last thing to mention as we start 2012.  We want to continue to provide you with the best Oracle Content around so if you would like to present a webinar please contact Lauren lauren@odtug.com so we can get our calendar filled up.

…and the Winner is…YOU

Monty Latiolais, ODTUG Board Member

Guest Blogger: Monty Latiolais

The Holiday season is upon us and most of us are hard at work wrapping up year-end projects, or at least wrapping up our presents. Kscope 11 is but a memory and while it seems Kscope 12 will never arrive, trust me, it will be here in the blink of an eye. In fact, there is much to report.

Let’s talk for a minute about the content. First, we received more abstract submissions this year than ever before – over 750 in total. While it’s great to see such interest and enthusiasm for Kscope, it also means that the choice of who gets accepted just got a whole lot tougher. We made some changes to the process this year. The biggest change was implementing a blind review – meaning that the speaker and the abstract were peer reviewed separately. This really forces the speaker and the subject matter to stand on its own merit. It definitely adds more work for the content teams, but if the result is a stronger lineup of speakers and sessions, then the effort has been worthwhile. Much credit goes to David Schleis and Natalie Delemar, who chaired the non-EPM and EPM content respectively, as well as the content team leads and content teams. WELL DONE!

The recommendations from the content teams were received at the beginning of December. The Kscope Conference Committee then gave its approval. Looking at the final lineup of speakers and sessions, all I can say is WOW! You guys continue to amaze. The content is by far the strongest of any Kscope I’ve been a part of. Attendees will be faced with the impossible task of deciding between Tom Kyte, Jonathan Lewis, Edward Roske, Steven Feuerstein, Tracy McMullen, Mark Rittman, Cary Millsap, Duncan Mills, Kevin McGinley, Dr. Paul Dorsey and dozens of other must-see speakers. How you do that is up to you. My job is to make that decision as tough as possible and I assure, we succeeded.

Now that the content is in place, the Conference Committee turns its focus to the Community Service Day, the General Session, the Wednesday night Special Event, and the various receptions to be held throughout the week. Kscope11 did set the bar pretty high, but know that we are on the job, hard at work to not just meet expectations, but to shatter them.

When it comes to Kscope, there are many winners. San Antonio was announced as a winner last June. Just last week, hundreds of speakers were notified that they, too, were winners.  However, the real winner at Kscope is…YOU, the attendee. If you’ve never attended a Kscope conference before, let me say, there’s nowhere else you can get this content, from these speakers, at this fabulous venue. It’s a win, win….win situation.

We’ll see you in San Antonio!

JW Marriott San Antonio

Mark Rittman Says Farewell to the ODTUG Board

Mark Rittman, ODTUG Treasurer 2011

Guest Blogger: Mark Rittman,

Well I’m writing this blog post just before my last ever ODTUG board meeting, after having served for the last two years following being elected in 2009. It’s been a fun two years, with a lot of hard work thrown in as well. I’ve stood down from the board this year due to family commitments, but I’ll still be working as a volunteer and co-chair (along with Kent Graziano) of the ODTUG BI&DW SIG (you can join our group on LinkedIn).

In my first year on the board, I “learned the ropes” and generally worked to represent the BI community within ODTUG. This year, I’ve continued those tasks, and also took on the responsibility of being the ODTUG treasurer, giving me responsibility for the user group’s finances, including the conference budget, which contributes the vast majority of our revenue. With my BI background, I worked with Kathleen and the YCC team to streamline and simplify the financial reports we produce each month, highlighting key ratios, changes year-on-year and month-on-month, and focusing on some key performance indicators that helps us understand, at a glance, if we’re on track for the year. I’d say this is probably my proudest achievement, and thanks also to Wendy at YCC, and to the finance committee, for their advice and help over the year.

Apart from being treasurer, my general ODTUG board duties included a monthly board meeting call, where we discuss upcoming events, initiatives to better serve the members, and any issues arising from the running of the user group. Twice a year there are face-to-face meetings, where we take a couple of days to think about the long-term goals for ODTUG, and again focus relentlessly on making sure we serve you, the members, in the most effective way possible.

So I’m saying my farewells to the board now, but I’ll still be around and definitely at KScope 12 in San Antonio, where I’m presenting a couple of papers and I’m also bringing my family to the wonderful JW Marriott hotel. Maybe in the future I’ll be able to stand again for the board, once the kids grow up, but until then, I’m sure ODTUG is in very safe hands …!

A Thank You Note from Martin Giffy D’Souza

Martin Giffy D’Souza, ODTUG Board Electee

Guest Blogger: Martin Giffy D’Souza

2012 and Beyond

I was first introduced to ODTUG about four and half years ago, when my manager back then recommended that I go to a conference in New Orleans called Kaleidoscope (Kscope). I didn’t know it at the time, but saying “yes” was truly a life changing experience. During the conference I felt like a kid at Disney World, full of excitement. Not only did I get to meet some of the world’s best Oracle developers but I also had a great time at all of the events that the conference had to offer.

Since New Orleans I’ve attended, and presented, at all the Kscope conferences: in Monterey, Washington D.C., and this year in Long Beach. During that time I’ve continued to grow a successful blog, spoken at other conferences, co-authored and authored several APEX books, became an Oracle ACE, co-founded my own consulting company (ClariFit), and, most importantly, met a lot of amazing people. I honestly don’t think I would have had all these opportunities had it not been for the support and exposure I’ve received from ODTUG and its members.

All this being said, I’m ecstatic to be in a position to give back to the organization that has opened so many doors for me. Thanks to your support (especially those in the APEX community); I will be sitting on the ODTUG Board of Directors starting in January. As a new member of the Board, I look forward to continuing the excellent work that the current Board is doing to help grow the community and ensure that ODTUG is the premier Oracle user group to be a part of.

Personally, I hope to bring some fresh new ideas to the table and be a strong representative for Oracle developers in the community. More specifically, I’m going to help represent the APEX developers within the ODTUG community.

I look forward to the challenges and adventures in the new year and am honored to have received the opportunity to represent you for the next two years.

- Martin

A Thank You Note from Jerry Ireland

Jerry Ireland, ODTUG Board Electee

Guest Blogger: Jerry Ireland

I am honored to be returning to the board. I want to thank all of you that took the time to cast your vote for the board this year. One of my goals is to increase the participation in this important member privilege. After all, we are charged with maintaining the excellence of the organization and shaping its future and the best way for you to be sure that we are representative of our membership is to vote.

One of the things that makes me proudest of being a part of ODTUG is that, to my knowledge, it has never made a decision that did not have the Oracle developers of this world’s best interests as the number one consideration. One of the things that set our conference apart from others is the unprecedented networking opportunities with the top developers in the world and the Oracle project managers. As the ODTUG conference continues to grow, it will be a challenge to maintain this advantage. ODTUG has done a good job reaching out to and working with other user groups. I am a strong believer in the importance of this and will be working hard to promote it.

A little background info

By the late 80’s I was working exclusively with Oracle at an E-Business Suite early adopter. Designer brought me to the first Oracle Case SIG (OCSIG) conference. I have utilized Designer to build everything from trivial applications to data warehouses to enterprise models. Awards include ODTUG Volunteer of the Year and Oracle Ace for Application Development. I am currently co-owner of Rightsizing Inc., a small consulting group.

I first served on the ODTUG board in 1990. I stepped down for a few years to make room for new blood and to concentrate on a new software spin off. I have served as treasurer and vice president and chaired many conferences. I am also very active in the Oracle Application User Group.

Thank you again for voting.  I would like to extend an invitation to anyone who has ideas, complaints, encouragements or other comments to contact me either at jerryi@rsiz.com or on LinkedIn. I also encourage you to get involved. Go to the ODTUG website and volunteer.

Seriously, the World Series?

While this is the ODTUG Blog, as the primary author behind most posts I feel I can take a day off here and there for non-ODTUG topics. Today is one of those days. However, before I go down that path, I’d like to encourage you to vote in the ODTUG Board Elections. The elections close on November 1st at midnight, PDT. Here is a link to take you to the candidates page:  http://www.odtug.com/apex/f?p=500:250:0

Now, how about the World Series? I live just outside of St. Louis, and have been a Cardinals fan all of my life. This year, however, was a year like no other. Spring training starts, and we lose one of our ace pitchers, Adam Wainwright, for the season to Tommy John elbow surgery. Matt Holliday lost a period of time with an emergency appendectomy. Albert Pujols breaks his wrist. Despite all that, the Cardinals continued to battle. The Milwaukee Brewers were the Cardinals main foe throughout the year. The Cardinals were 10 1/2 games out of the wild card chase in late August. No one (well maybe outside of the team) thought that they had any chance of making the playoffs. However, a funny thing happened. The team became a team. They got on a roll and started making up ground. Heading into the final week of the season, the Cardinals were still on the outside looking in. But they didn’t give up. On the last day of the season, the Cardinals won their game 8-0, and the Braves lost to the Phillies in 13 innings, sealing the wild card for the Cardinals.

The NLDS put the Cardinals up against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Cardinals were huge underdogs for that series. The Cardinals won the best of 5 game series on the road in Philadelphia, against arguably the best pitcher of the last few years in baseball, Roy Halladay. Chris Carpenter went to the mound for the Cardinals, and tossed a three hit shutout in the decisive game. What a series!

In the NLCS, the Cardinals went up against the Milwaukee Brewers. Both teams were fighting for the right to represent the National League in the World Series. I was lucky enough to secure a couple of tickets to Game 5 of this series, and Lisa and I looked forward with hope to see a good game. The game ended up being a Cardinal victory, 7-1, and the Game 6 in the series saw the Cardinals with the pennant on the road against the Brewers.

St. Louis Pictures

Lisa in front of Budweiser Wagon

Mike in front of Clydesdales

Lisa at Kiener Plaza Fountain

View of Arch from Kiener Plaza

Bring on the World Series and the Texas Rangers!

While we weren’t luucky enough to be able to secure tickets in St. Louis for any World Series games, I have a very good friend in Dallas that invited me down to experience the World Series from a different perspective – that of being in a distinct minority (50,000 people, probably 49,000 of them rabid Texas Rangers fans).

We had tickets to Games 3 & 4, which provided two radically different outcomes. The St. Louis Cardinals, riding on the stong shoulders of Albert Pujols, won Game 3, 16-7. The game saw perhaps the greatest single game offensive performance by a single player in World Series history. Albert Pujols tied the record for hits in a game (five), home runs in a game (three), RBIs in a game (six), runs scored in a game (four), and set a new record for total bases in a game (fourteen). The silence was deafening in the stadium when Pujols hit his first home run in the sixth inning. I left the stadium that day knowing that I had witnessed history, an individual game performance that may never be equaled.

The next evening, Derek Holland proved to be to tough of a pitcher for the Cardinals to handle on that night. The Cardinals fell to the Texas Rangers that night 4-0, to even back up the series at two games apiece.

Game 6 returned to St. Louis, and saw the home team have to come back from a 7-4 deficit. With one run in the 8th, and a dramatic, 2 out, two run triple from our hometown’s own David Freese, the Cardinals sent the game into extra innings. In the 10th, Josh Hamilton gave the Rangers a two run lead with his first home run of the series, forcing the Cardinals to score two to tie in the bottom of the 10th. Once again, the Cardinals came through to tie the game. Without scoring in the top of the 11th, the Cardinals only needed one run to send the Series to Game 7. David Freese once again took the stage, and cracked a home run that sent Cardinal Nation into a frenzy. What a dramatic game (that I’m sure my commentary did not do justice to). In Game 7, the Rangers started out the scoring, but a masterful pitching performance by Chris Carpenter, coupled with some good fortune and persistence by the St. Louis Cardinals led them to their 11th World title, which poetically came in 2011.

The series was very competitive, and the Texas Rangers and their fans have nothing to be ashamed of. They are a class organization, and have a wonderful fan base. We teased each other both nights that I was there, but never a rude word was said. I sincerely hope that they get to experience the joy of a World Series Championship in the very near future, just not when they’re facing my St. Louis Cardinals!

Texas Pictures

2 Cardinal Fans in Enemy Territory

Scoreboard at Ballpark in Arlington

National Anthem Ceremony

A Cardinal Fan and a Texas Legend

Tim Tow’s Heading to Australia!

Guest Blogger: Tim Tow, ODTUG Board

Australia, Here I Come!

Like many, if not most, Americans, I have always wanted to visit Australia but have never had the opportunity.  Well, that all changed last month when I was asked to speak at the NZOUG Conference in Auckland, New Zealand and the ODTUG SP Conference in Sydney, Australia.  For those of you familiar with my blog, you may have read that I often work 12-hour days.  This is only possible with the support of my wife, and I am happy that she also shares in the rewards gained from my hard work.  One week from today, my wife and I will be on our way to Oz!

We are flying directly to Auckland and will have a little over 3 days to explore the area and to recover from jet lag before the conference starts on Monday, October 31.  We plan to visit the camp where, during WWII, my wife’s grandfather was stationed immediately after two of the worst battles in the Pacific, Tarawa and Saipan.  Other than that, we are still undecided about our weekend agenda.

My presentations in Auckland are comprised of completely new content that I have written and will be presenting for the first time at this conference.  In Auckland, the first presentation is entitled “Find Meaning in Your General Ledger Using Oracle Essbase”.  This session will discuss some of the use cases for Essbase when used to explore and analyze data in the General Ledger.  I will show at least 3 different ways that customers can use Essbase as a starting point for understanding what is in the GL and am working with the Oracle Fusion Financials team on how Essbase is leveraged within Fusion Financials.

My second Auckland session is entitled “What is Oracle Essbase and How Is It Different From the Oracle Database?”  This session, which parallels an article I wrote for the current issue of ODTUG Journal, is targeted toward traditional Oracle developers who may have heard of Essbase but really don’t know what it is.  My presentation uses a relational database design concept commonly used to support analysis, the star schema, and proceeds to translate it into similar constructs in Essbase.  The presentation also discusses the key differences, both architecturally and from the user’s perspective, between Essbase and the Oracle database.

If you happen to be in New Zealand, don’t miss this conference.  You can get more information at http://nzoug.org/events/nzoug-conference-2011.

On Wednesday, November 2, we travel to Sydney for the ODTUG EPM and BI SP (“Seriously Practical”) Conference.  Like in Auckland, my presentations at the SP Conference on November 3 and 4 are comprised of completely new content.  The first session, entitled “Unleashing the Power of Essbase in Excel”, will cover the two Excel add-ins for Essbase, the classic Excel add-in and Smart View.  I will spend a good bit of time in this session discussing and demonstrating some of the new capabilities added to Smart View 11.1.2.1.102.  This new Smart View version features near parity with the functionality of the classic add-in and, finally, will meet the demands of most classic add-in lovers.  The new functionality also makes many of the time-tested techniques used with the classic add-in possible again, so I will review some of my favorite spreadsheet design tips.

The second presentation in Sydney returns to my core (and geeky) competency with a discussion of best practices using the different Essbase APIs.  In this session, “Best Practices for Expanding Essbase with the APIs”, I will talk about lessons learned from the past 17 years of my experienced with both the VB and the Java APIs.  I am still working on this presentation, but I plan on covering more than just the coding aspects and will talk a little about how to build dependable software with the Essbase APIs.

If you are in or near Australia, make plans to attend the SP Conference now.  This conference covers not only EPM, but also BI as well.  Fellow Oracle ACE Directors Edward Roske and Mark Rittman, along with newly minted Oracle ACE Stuart Bryson, from Rittman Mead, have teamed with local speakers from Accenture and James and Monroe to bring you a content-packed agenda that can help your company get a higher return on its investment in the Oracle EPM and BI platforms.  You can get more information about the ODTUG SP Conference and register at http://odtugspconference.com/.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Q&A with ODTUG SP Conference Presenter: Anthony Stefanac from James & Munroe

Guest Blogger: Bambi Price, ODTUG Board

Q & A with ODTUG SP Conference Presenter, Anthony Stefanac James & Munroe

Anthony is one of the owners of James & Munroe, specialists in Enterprise Architecture, Support and Implementation of Hyperion products. He will be presenting ‘Making your Life easier with EPM utilities’ at our SP Conference being held in Sydney, 3^rd and 4^th November this year.

 Q: What made you start working with Oracle BI & EPM Products?

I started as a graduate at Qantas who were using Hyperion as their BI tool to initially report management information and their route profitability.   I thought the technology was great, as it gave decision makers quick access to information in a structured and logical way to assist with strategic corporate initiatives.  I moved into Consulting to further develop my Hyperion EPM & BI skills from there.

 Q: What has been the biggest improvement that you can see with these products?

Stability, Performance Improvements and improved Integration between all of the Oracle products. It is still early days to being perfect from an integration perspective but it is definitely heading in the right direction.

Q: What is the most common type of issue your clients have?

Demands from the business to report results on a more timely basis and have greater visibility to their information.   With requirements for closer integration between transactional, operational and management systems and the constant introduction of new Oracle products, we are continuing to find improved solutions to achieve this.

Q: Why do you think an Oracle, BI or EPM user should attend the conference?

They will have the opportunity to meet like-minded individuals in different industries to share their experiences and knowledge.  They will also have the opportunity to hear from and meet with global product leaders and see product demonstrations of the latest Oracle offerings from a practical perspective.  Often training in products is too high level for people who have gained working knowledge of the applications.  They need the tips and tricks to get further efficiency gains, which is exactly what this training will offer.

Register today for the ODTUG SP Conference! 

Advanced Registration Rate: October 2 – October 27, 2011
AUD$895

Standard Registration Rate: After October 28, 2011 
AUD$1095