Oracle OpenWorld 2014:Unauthorized BI Scoop Session

Thursday, October 16, noon CST

IOUG BIWA SIG TechCast

Dan Vlamis and Tim Vlamis

Vlamis Software Solutions

816-781-2880

http://www.vlamis.com

BIWA Summit 2015, Jan 27-29

Oracle HQ Conference Center

Accepting Abstracts and Registration Open NOW!

Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analyticsand Spatial

IOUG Special Interest Groupwww.biwasummit.org

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• Oracle Partner and reseller since 1995

• Developed more than 200 Oracle BI systems

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• Business Intelligence

• Analytics

• Web development and portals

• Deliver• Design and integrated BI and DW solutions

• Training and mentoring

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The following is our interpretation of some events at

Oracle OpenWorld. It is intended for information

purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any

contract. It is not a commitment in any way. We may

not even agree with what we present anyway. If you

really want to know what happened at Oracle

OpenWorld, you should just go yourself. The

development, release, and timing of any features or

functionality described for Oracle’s products remains

at the sole discretion of Oracle.

• Cloud Cloud Cloud

• Engineered systems

• Vertical integration

• Industry solutions

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Oracle’s Expressed Strategy

All have important implications for

business intelligence and analytics

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Sunday

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Sunday

Well-attended session on DV for OBI 11g

(75 people?)

Good to be done Sunday

Larry Keynote

• Still got to see boat videos

• Cloud for Everything

• History of Oracle

• Larry recapping career?

Dan to Oracle ACE Dinner

• Oracle Graph Database: RDF W3C standards.

SPARQL language capability – semantic web –

interconnectivity

• Advanced Analytics Update:

• Brendan Tierney’s book is out

• Advanced Analytics is everywhere

• Oracle In Memory Database on Exalytics

• Implications for Times Ten for summary management

• Thank you dinner with Brian Macdonald at Crustacean

Restaurant

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Monday

• Thomas Kurian Keynote

• Demo of Visual Analyzer rocked!

• Oracle Big Data Discovery against Hadoop (Endeca)

• Mobile Cloud Service

• Customer Experience Suite

• BI Mobile showcasing BI Ask

• “Profitability by product and cities for TVs in a stack bar chart”

• What’s happening with Endeca – inspiration and back

end integration

• Oracle has obsession with data discovery, Tableau

• Use of Oracle DB by BI?

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Tuesday

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Skyros Style!

• 50% Faster

• 3TB Memory

• 4.8TB Flash

• 7.2TB Disk

• Oracle DB 12c w/In Memory

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Exalytics X4-4 Announced

• Oracle wants to sell engineered systems

• The “in-memory” answer

• TimesTen?

• Featured far more than Exalogic

• Renewed emphasis on enabling the front end

• Oracle in memory database will be integrated into

Exalytics.

• John Fowler has interesting insights into architecture.

Seems (we hope) the middleware gang is listening

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Implications of Exalytics

• OTBI

• Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

• Source is Fusion applications

• UI is beautiful

• OTBIE

• Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Enterprise

• For specific applications (see for OTBIE Human Capital

Management Cloud Service)

• BI Apps and ODI – Informatica is dead end for BI Apps

• Migration will be supported. Little detail on that.

• New implementations should use ODI

• R coming to OBIEE – Embedded R Engine

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Tuesday

• SampleApp is major Oracle BI platform

• OBIEE will be framework, extend via plugins

• Oracle should capitalize on CEIM capabilities and

approach

• Oracle concerned about competition from Tableau and

similar

• Endeca front end will be integrated

• What is BI Admin tool replacement?

• Cloud will influence BI future

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Oracle BI Takeaways

• Now we have OBIA, OTBI, OTBIE, and OBIEE.

• BI apps now generally have the “analytics” in their title,

but they’re still called “BI Apps”.

• OBISE has been deprecated.

• Also BI Foundation Suite

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It’s All Clear Now

• Vlamis Reception

• Good turnout

• Street construction

• Great contacts with Oracle and customers

• Oracle Press Party

• Not in basement anymore!

• New book coming out end of 2014

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Tuesday Night

• Recorded video• Laura Ramsey (Analytics)

• Bob Rhubart (BI)

• OLAP and In Memory

• Matt Fritz from Darden was great

• BIWA SIG planned BIWA Summit keynotes

• Demo grounds – better for deep conversations

• Met with Neil Mendelson – very illuminating• Private meetings maximize OOW value

• Discussed intersection of BI and Statistical / Predictive Analytics

• Big Party!• Lots and Lots of people

• People learned to Walk This Way with Aerosmith

• Is this what people go to Oracle OpenWorld for?

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Wednesday

• BI Cloud Services

• Metadata repository editing for end users?

• Thank you to Pioneer Balloon Company

• Best for extensions and new implementations of OBIEE

(for now)

• Data Warehouse and Big Data Leaders of the Year

• CaixaBank, dunnhumby, Hundai Motor Group

• DBA of the Year Americas

• Rand Bell, Starbucks

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Thursday

• Special SQL Analytics Session at Oracle HQ

• In depth session on using SQL to do analytics

• People spent by Friday – tough to absorb technical

topics

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Friday

• Going to cocktail parties and seeing who knows you

• Vegetarian lunch etiquette. If you’re a “non-veg” diner,

don’t take the veggie lunch.

• No races on the big screens this year. Did have local

rock bands playing between North and South.

• Talked our way into the Java Events. I guess it’s “open

source”.

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Fun Parts of OpenWorld

• Oracle talks about Analytics, but not always a concrete

message

• Visualization is hugely important

• Successful firms are actively developing analytics

• Oracle focused on cloud

• Oracle BI will change a lot in next few years

• Everybody in BI and analytics needs to learn Big Data

• Oracle should use database as a compute engine

• R will be everywhere in analytic applications

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Recap

• October 25-29, 2015

• Reserve hotel early

• Stay in Union square area (but loud)

• Next year we predict will be big for • Oracle Business Intelligence 12c

• Oracle Advanced Analytics (ODM and ORE)

• ORAAH (Oracle Advanced Analytics for Hadoop)

• Big Data Discovery / Big Data SQl

• Lots of R

• Suggest Oracle share more and sell less. People attending OOW already are sold on Oracle. Help attendees with software.

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Looking to OOW 2015

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Resources

Oracle OpenWorld Home

https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html

Oracle OpenWorld Keynotes

https://www.oracle.com/openworld/live/on-demand/index.html

Review of DW and Big Data at OOW14

http://oracle-big-data.blogspot.com/2014/10/review-of-data-warehousing-and-big-

data.html

Vlamis Presentation – Data Visualization for Oracle BI 11g

http://www.vlamis.com/papers2014/#sep28

Book Page for Data Visualization for Oracle BI 11g

http://www.vlamis.com/DVforOBI/

Vlamis Software Web Site

http://www.vlamis.com/