OOW 2007 News

Oracle OpenWorld 2007 (San Francisco, Nov 11-15) is just a couple of months away.

The Session Tracks | Oracle OpenWorld 2007 page lists four tracks:

• Applications
• Technology
• Industries
• Services

and you can view a listing of all the tracks and content at this page: Oracle OpenWorld - Content Catalog

Some sessions pertinent to BI:

• How-to: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Self-Learning Predictive Analytics--Automate Real-Time Intelligent Decisions - Ed Suen, Oracle
• Overview: Next-Generation Enterprise Semantic Layer - Ed Suen, Oracle
• Oracle Business Intelligence Road Map and Strategy - Rich Clayton, Oracle; Paul Rodwick, Oracle
• Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edtion Plus - Mark Bauer, Oracle; Matt Elumba, Oracle
• Architecture: Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Advantages and Deep Dive - Rao Adivikolanu, Oracle; Esmond Chia, Oracle
• What's Coming in Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus Foundation - David Granholm, Oracle
  
• Cisco Systems: Implementing a Customer Intelligence Center with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition - Maria Forney, Oracle; Ryan Uda, Cisco Systems; Dongyan Wang, Cisco Systems

For those interested in the Discoverer to BI EE migration, this is a session you must attend:
How-to: Migrating an Oracle Discoverer System to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition - Mike Durran, Oracle

and two by yours truly:

• Enhanced Interactive Visualizations and Dynamic Data Exploration within Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Dashboards
• Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Office Integration: The Information Consumer Approach

In case you are interested in the new OLAP capabilities in Oracle Database 11g, especially as they relate to materialized views (MVs), this is the session for you:
Enhanced Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Oracle OLAP 11g - William Endress, Oracle
Early bird registrations close on September 14 (Register now)

Michael informs us at his blog that he shall be presenting a paper - Paper accepted at Open World 2007 - Build an EUL in One Hour is the official name of the session.
Mark Rittman also has a paper on BI and SOA (Open World, BIWA, UKOUG and Oracle Mag) - Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and SOA: Step by Step is the official name of the track.

I shall, hopefully, have more posts on the conference over the next couple of months.