OOUG Meeting Agenda July 22, 2004

Meeting Location:                       printer-friendly version

5600 Post Rd
Dublin, OH 43017
(614) 410-4550

Please RSVP by Friday, July 16^th, 2004 to membership@ooug.org
We need to give an accurate headcount to the facility and caterer in advance.  If you plan to attend, please RSVP.

If you need overnight lodging, see the list of local hotels.

Meeting Cost:

• Free for 2004 OOUG members
• $10 for full-time students (bring valid student ID)
• $20 for non-member attendees

The meeting includes 4 hours of presentations, breakfast, lunch and snacks. Gift giveaways will vary but usually include drawings for Oracle books. At the July meeting everyone will receive a copy of 2 posters:

• Data Dictionary for Oracle 10g from CA
• V$ Views for Oracle Database 10g from TUSC

Meeting Schedule:

• 2004 OOUG members attend free 
• Non-members  $20
• Full-time students  $10

Presentation Abstracts:

Using Oracle Business Intelligence Tools to Analyze Data Warehouses

Are you considering building a business intelligence/data warehousing solution? Are you experiencing integration pain from a "best of breed" solution or a metadata mess? Who has the latest data? What impact will this change have? How can you turn your queries into reports? How do you take advantage of the latest Oracle Database features?

This presentation will discuss the latest technologies for building business intelligence and data warehousing systems introduced with Oracle 9i/10g, 9i Internet Developers Suite (9iDS), and OracleAS Discoverer 10g.

These include:

• 9i Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
• Oracle OLAP
• JDeveloper
• BI Beans
• Discoverer for OLAP (new in Discoverer 10g)
• Accessing Oracle OLAP data from Excel

The attendees will be shown how to start building OLAP warehouses and how to develop simple and complex applications using BI Beans and JDeveloper. A sample datamart will be built and an application will be shown that accesses this data during the presentation. A comparison between thick and thin client applications will also be discussed. The talk concludes with a review of the advantages of an integrated approach.

Turning Data Into Information: Building The Intelligent Business

As paper-based business processes move into the electronic age, companies are being deluged with data. All too often, that information gets backed up and placed on a shelf, accruing nothing but dust for your company. However, the science of capturing and analyzing real-time data and turning it into actionable business information is transforming the way companies view manage data. Using new desktop tools and best practices, business decisions that once took days, weeks or months of research and deliberation now require only minutes. Find out how to harvest the wealth of information buried in the everyday data being generated by your business, to reap rewards of real-time visibility into your key operations.

Speaker Information:

Dan Vlamis

Dan Vlamis has been developing OLAP applications since 1986. He founded Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc. in Kansas City in 1992. He is a recognized expert in the international Oracle business intelligence community, and is a regular speaker at major Oracle conferences. He developed the data loader and aggregator modules of Oracle Sales Analyzer. He is a beta tester for Oracle's newest business intelligence products and is in regular contact with Oracle business intelligence product managers. He can be reached at (816) 781-2880 or dvlamis@vlamis.com.

Jim Gallo

Jim Gallo has more than 21 years of information technology experience. He serves as the enterprise data architect for Worthington Industries, focusing his attention on delivering value through business intelligence and analytics. Prior to joining Worthington Industries, Gallo delivered multiple business intelligence architectures and solutions to clients that included Fortune1000 companies, the U.S. Department of Defense, state government agencies and an international bank. He has several magazine publications dealing with data warehousing and business intelligence.