Update on Oracle Business Analytics

Analytics is all over the news and was featured at Oracle OpenWorld this year. Hear the latest features that were added in Oracle’s Business Analytics offering, as announced at Oracle OpenWorld. One of the exciting features is the ability to integrate Machine Learning into Oracle’s Analytic offerings.

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Predictive Analytics and Oracle Data Visualization Case Study

In this session hear how Beckman Coulter used Oracle Cloud, R, and Oracle Data Visualization to teach predictive analytics and create significant returns through an intensive workshop program. Dozens of participants from across the business used internal Beckman data to work on their own business cases, but were guided by expert proctors.

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Perspectives on Machine Learning and Data Visualization in Oracle Analytics and BI

According to Harvard Business Review, “the most important general-purpose technology of our era is artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning (ML) — that is, the machine’s ability to keep improving its performance without humans having to explain exactly how to accomplish all the tasks it’s given.”

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Using Ravello in the Cloud as a Customer and a Partner

Whether providing a demonstration, a training course, or even working on a development environment, Vlamis Software Solutions turns to Ravello for its ability to quickly create a fully functional server environment with minimal effort, saving time and money on installation and configuration.

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DVD 3.0 New Features

See live and be “in the know” about new features to be added to Oracle Business Analytics products such as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Data Visualization Cloud Services (DVCS), Business Intelligence Cloud Services (BICS) by seeing a live demo of the latest features added to Data Visualization Desktop (DVD).

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Predictions and Seeing the Future Clearly: Tales from the Trenches of Advanced Analytics in Finance, Marketing, and Operations

Everyone wants to integrate data mining and predictive analytics into their finance and business processes, but how do you set yourself up for success when your team members aren’t experts in data science or predictive analytics and you’re loathe to send your data to an outside firm?

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Forecasting and Time Series Analysis in Oracle Business Intelligence

Forecasting is one of the most universally required (and reviled) business functions in analytics. OBIEE and Data Visualization now have the ability to automatically generate sophisticated forecasts with the click of a mouse. We’ll explain how OBI uses R to construct both exponential smoothing and ARIMA models.

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Data Visualization for Oracle BI 12c and Visual Analyzer

Oracle's Visual Analyzer tool is especially designed for data exploration, whereas traditional OBIEE dashboards tend to be designed for data explanation. How do you provide best practices for how to explore data, since this tends to be more ad hoc in nature?

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Big Data and Oracle Tools Integration: Kafka, Cassandra and Spark Creating Real Time Solutions – Collaborate 17 – IOUG

The session will go over understanding the value of Big Data Tools (Kafka/R/Cassandra/Spark/Cloudera) and how to integrate and best use those tools within the Oracle environment of Oracle DB, Hyperion Planning and OBIEE. We will review the reasons for integration, how to integrate, and integration best practices.

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