Ok that is a mouthful, Cameron Hawthorne and Adam Higgs  are going to give a great presentation of migration of existing reporting on Discoverer to the OBIEE as well as look at Virtual Private database and Resource Manager integration with OIBIEE in Oracle 11g.

Where: Level 11 Meeting Room, Oracle House, 300 Ann Street When: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:00pm – 02:00pm RSVP: By Thursday 01st July 5pm, using the links below or emailing vicepresident.qld@ausoug.org.au. Yes, I’m attending! No thanks

The details are as follows, extracted from the QLD e-bulletin

 

Focusing on Business Intelligence

We are very pleased to bring to you a meeting specifically focused on Business Intelligence, with two presentations on unlocking the information in your corporate databases to provide competitive advantage to your organisation, and delivering that information to your customers in a secure and controlled manner.

Agenda: 12:00-12:30pm Registration, Light Refreshments 12:30-1:00pm Moving from Oracle Discoverer to OBIEE Cameron Hawthorne, Advantage BI Consulting Customers who have deployed Oracle Discoverer reporting solutions in their organisations over many years are asking how they can continue to add value to their existing investment. This presentation will deliver some insights into the options available for these customers, focussing on the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Suite range of products. We will consider the business case for migrating the BI environment to OBIEE, and highlight the technical issues and possible solutions when making the move. 1:00-1:30pm OBIEE – 11g Database VPD and Resource Manager Integration – Adam Higgs, Cube Fusion With data warehouses increasingly becoming the driving force behind many organisations business decisions data security is often left out of the picture influenced by sales pitches promoting a single accurate 360 degree view of the organisation”.  With the proliferation of data consolidated from all corners of the business it has never been more important to protect the data especially as data increasing in value when combined within a data warehouse. This presentation will provide a practical demonstration of OBIEE integration with VPD and application context and highlight the benefits that can be achieved through centralizing security management.  Furthermore it will show how database resources can be controlled via Resource Manager and integrated within OBIEE to meet the needs and priorities of the business. 1:30-2:00pm Questions and Networking 2:00pm

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About the speakers:

Cameron Hawthorne (http://au.linkedin.com/in/cameronhawthorne) is the Managing Consultant for Advantage BI Consulting, a Brisbane based Oracle partner providing Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse consulting services to private and public sector organisations. He has been designing, building, and supporting Oracle DW and BI solutions since 1990 for organisations in Australia and Europe. A long time advocate for Oracle data warehousing, OLAP, and BI technology, he has presented papers to user group conferences since 1999, and has been a part-time instructor for Oracle Education in Brisbane since 2004.

Adam Higgs (http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamhiggs) is the Managing Director of Cube Fusion, an Oracle Business Intelligence consultancy based in Brisbane and Stockholm.  A highly trained expert Adam is an Oracle Certified Professional and a dedicated evangelist of Oracle technologies.  Beginning his career as a DBA in the public sector and swiftly moved into the private sector with Cap Gemini Sweden.  Having excelled as a DBA and gaining experience in RAC, Data Guard, RMAN Backup & Recovery and becoming a leading Nordic expert in Streams he sort to compliment his skills by joining the Business Intelligence team at Oracle Sweden.At Oracle he became heavily involved with “best practice” data warehouse architecture reviews and well versed in Oracle BI products including OWB, OBIEE and BAM integrating solutions with Flashback, VPD, Scheduler and full data lifecycle management. With solid knowledge and experience in database architecture, ETL design and BI technology coupled with a track record of quality on time deliveries Adam is confidently able to design and implement an entire BI and Data Warehousing stack with solutions that fully exploit the technologies available.  With in-depth cross functional skills he is able to appreciate the impact that design decisions have on the overall data warehouse architecture.

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The Australian Oracle User Group AUSOUG in association with other bodies is on in Melbourne in August and I will be presenting what will be my first paper at the national conference . I am very happy to see I have had a paper accepted on Identity Manager 11g.  I will be having a look at some aspects of the underlying makeup of the identity management system in 11g.

Still to finalize my outline but will be spending some time on LDAP and its part in identity management  and how it works.

Looking forward to seeing readers at the conference.

 

See ya round

 

Peter

I was  just read again the article at ITNews about how Larry sees the future of Oracle under his stewardship. I can only say that for someone that relies on the Oracle ecosystem for my bread and butter I can’t be happier. The business that will keep me going with employment is in the middle of this and will require myself and many others that want to be involved for some time to come. I must say I am surprised by the Exadata figures, $1billion in the pipeline is pretty impressive and shows how the future of the Sun Oracle relationship might improve the livelihood of those people that relied on the old Sun ecosystem and that there is a lot of life in the old Sun dog yet and that can only be good for them. Interesting the statements about Silicon it makes sense, there is a number of technologies that Oracle has that will excel as embedded technologies in the silicon. These would include database functions for data handling, already doing this in the Exadata, but expect it to become more widespread as time goes on. There is crypto capabilities in some of the inherited hardware for Sun and this will become more tightly coupled for Advanced Security, SSL on the middle tier  and other functionality where crypto is required in some measure. Embedded databases using say Times Ten might become a reality Coherence embedded in the network layer., so caching is very close to the network adaptor.

What else did Larry say of interest EMC is vulnerable, thats interesting they have a great product group and solid products with a strong market share in virtualization and yet Larry has in effect said watch this space. Interesting fight ahead is what I see.

See ya round

Peter

AUSOUG QLD is running the FNQ roadshow again. This is a chance for those in Central and North QLD to get a chance to see a number of presentations from Oracle and Implementers of Oracle solutions. if you are in the north of the state I would recommend you making an attempt to attend these presentations

The location, venue and timing details are as follows:

Rockhampton – kindly sponsored by SPARQ/Ergon Energy:

Date: Tuesday, July 20th Time: Starting at 12:30pm, concluding by 5:30pm Venue: Ergon Energy Building, Barcoo Room Level 1, Cnr Alma & Fitzroy Streets Rockhampton Townsville – kindly sponsored by James Cook University: Date: Wednesday, July 21st Time: Starting at 12:30pm, concluding by 5:30pm Venue: TBC, James Cook University, Townsville Cairns : Date: Thursday, July 22nd Time: Starting at 12:30pm, concluding by 5:30pm Venue: TBC Similar to last year, there will be presentations relating to database and middleware, with potential additions this year for applications, SOA governance and Primavera. Invitations will be sent separately, for each location, within the next two weeks … please stay tuned for more information and the final agenda. For more information or if you are not a member or are from interstate and in one of these locations at the time and would be interested in attending send an email to the Vice-President of the QLD section to get further information. Other Information from the Bulletin AUSOUG QLD Committee 2010 Mark Lancaster President Loretta Bayliss Vice-President Michael Krogh OAUG Representative Jon Gooding Committee Member Kris Downey Committee Member Peter McLarty Committee Member Victoria Clarke Committee Member Cameron Hawthorne Committee Member

We have had some very successful events already this year, which include:

Creative Conditional Compilation – sponsored by Sage Computing Services

Scott Wesley of Sage Computing Services in WA presented on “Creative Conditional Compilation” in an evening timeslot in March. The change from a daytime to evening event had a very different vibe, harking back to the traditional “beer and pizza” get together. Scott commented on how well the beer was going down midway through the presentation, and everyone stayed around after the presentation for far longer than a daytime event. Expect to see one or two more evening events later in the year.

R12 Forum – sponsored by Prescience Technology

March saw us run the second of our “R12 Forum” invitation events, with a focus this time on patching, post-upgrade complexities and the sustainability of R12 solutions.  This event was conceptualised as a result of a number of similar organisations, all of which have been early adopters of Oracle’s R12 upgrade roadmap, expressing a strong desire to consult closely with each other with regard to issues, experiences and resolutions they had each encountered.  The event has now evolved into a National Conference Call and presentation, which we aim to run quarterly, for the forseeable future.  Interest has been strong from organisations seeking more information on the upgrade and re-implementation process … please let us know if you would like more information.

APEX Training - sponsored by Sage Computing Services

Both the 3 day beginner and 2 day advanced Oracle APEX training courses in April were well attended, and the feedback received has been very positive. The special discount we arranged through Sage Computing Services meant the more attendees, the cheaper the course became. Final pricing saw a saving of approximately 40% for each course – a great result.

QLD Performance by Design + Optimising Oracle on VMWare, by Guy Harrison (Quest Software): Monday, May 24, 2010 03:00pm Where: Oracle House, Level 14 300 Ann St Brisbane When: Monday, May 24, 2010 03:00pm – 05:30pm RSVP: RSVP to vicepresident.qld@ausoug.org.au to advise your attendance by close of business on 20-MAY-2010. Alternatively, indicate your attendance now: Yes No No, not interested in topic

Guy Harrison, Director of R&D at Quest Software, will be presenting two great topics at our May meeting.

The first topic Guy will be sharing his insights on is Performance by Design and the second is Optimising Oracle on VMWare. We have also invited members of the VM User Group to attend, given the shared interest area.

Agenda:

3:00pm Welcome 3:10pm Performance by Design 4:00pm Tea break 4:15pm Optimizing Oracle on VMWare 5:00pm Questions, networking 5:30pm Finish

Guy Harrison is a director of research and development at Quest Software, and has over twenty years experience in application and database administration, performance tuning, and software development. Guy is the author of Oracle Performance Survival Guide (Prentice Hall, 2009) and MySQL Stored Procedure Programming (O’Reilly with Steven Feuerstein) as well as other books, articles and presentations on database technology. Guy is the architect of Quest’s Spotlight® family of diagnostic products and has contributed to the development of other Quest products such as Toad®

Please use the buttons on this email to RSVP for this event – we appreciate your co-operation and it helps greatly for catering purposes.

See ya round

Peter