Guest Blogger: Mark Rittman, ODTUG Board
Mark Rittman, ODTUG Treasurer
It’s just a few days now until I travel over to San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld 2011, for what is probably for me the professional highlight of the year. As one of the ACE Directors, I get to go to a two-day briefing across the whole range of Oracle’s technology products at HQ before OpenWorld starts, and then I travel to downtown San Francisco for when the event starts properly on Sunday.
Sunday is a great day if you’re an ODTUG’ger as we’re running a number of Sunday Symposiums covering topics such as BI, EPM, Data Warehousing, APEX and Web architecture. I’ve been organizing the BI Symposium that runs on the Sunday afternoon, and I’ve invited some of the great and good from the OBIEE blogger and developer community to come and present, including
– Christian Screen (http://www.artofbi.com) on Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Action Framework: Basic to Advanced Integration
– Jeff McQuigg (http://greatobi.wordpress.com/) on Oracle Business Intelligence Metadata Development: Advanced Solutions
– Myself (http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog) on OBIEE 11g Change Management and Deployment Best Practices
– Stewart Bryson (also at http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog) on Aggregation : Oracle Optimizer vs. Oracle BI Server
– Kevin McGinley, winner of the ODTUG KScope’11 Best Paper Award, on Upgrading Your Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Software
This is a great opportunity to hear some of the best Oracle BI speakers in one place, over just a few hours, and with lots of opportunities for interaction. The sessions will take place from mid-day through to 5pm and will run in Moscone West 2011.
And finally – once you’ve finished at the BI Sunday Symposium, get yourself across to Larry Ellison’s opening keynote in Hall D, Moscone North, where I hear on the grapevine that there’ll be some very interesting product news concerning BI. If you’re coming to Open World, hopefully I’ll see you there, otherwise you can read all about it in my upcoming BI column in the ODTUG Technical Journal!
*You can also see Mark at the SP Conference in Sydney, Australia.*
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