This will be an end-to-end walkthrough of the administration functions of Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). Attendees will have an understanding of the methods and vocabulary to manage and administrate the Oracle BI Cloud Service and will have the basic knowledge to create and deploy BICS.

Come learn how predictive analytics can be. Oracle Advanced Analytics provide a range of powerful data mining algorithms in the Oracle Database for problems such as predicting customer behavior, anticipating churn, identifying up-sell and cross-sell, detecting anomalies and potential fraud, market basket analysis, customer profiling, text mining and retail market basket analysis.

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Analytic Views (a new feature included in Oracle Database 12.2) change the way you build analytical applications. Analytic Views are created in a similar way to regular relational views, but allow you to add multiple levels of data and calculations that insulate your application from complex SQL necessary to calculate even simple concepts such as time series, share calculations and aggregations.

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? What training and guidance beyond the built-in suggestion engine should you employ?

So you've heard about the major new features of Oracle BI 12c, including Visual Analyzer, Data Mashups, and BI Ask, but what's it *really* like to upgrade to BI 12c? How do you ensure that the upgrade process goes smoothly? Sure, VA looks exciting, but what about the library of dashboards and analyses you've built up over the years?

For many there is a misperception that deploying map views is hard or requires additional licensing on their database or purchasing 3rd party map content. In truth, everything you need to deploy map views is either freely available or included in your OBIEE license and you can have map views up in running in almost no-time.