Preparing for an Upgrade to Oracle Business Intelligence 12c

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? Upgrades are not only about tools and techniques, but also about improving and updating your implementation and correcting accumulated problems.

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Preparing for BI 12c Upgrade

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?

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Oracle Database Analytic Views

Analytic views (new in Oracle 12.2 and discussed at Oracle OpenWorld) will let you easily transform tables into the next-generation data source for BI applications and Excel Pivot Tables. Analytic views add analytic content to data using a dimension model and a library of hierarchical, time series, and other calculations.

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Learn Predictive Analytics in 2 hours!! Oracle Data Miner 4.0 Hands on Lab

Learn predictive analytics in 2 hours!! Multiple experts in Oracle Advanced Analytics/Oracle Data Mining will be on hand to help guide you through the basics of predictive analytics using Oracle Advanced Analytics 12c, a Database 12c Option and SQL Developer 4.1's Oracle Data Miner workflow GUI.

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Scaling R to New Heights with Oracle Database

Oracle R Enterprise (ORE), a component of the Oracle Advanced Analytics Option, provides a comprehensive, database-centric environment for end-to-end analytical processes in R, with immediate deployment to production environments. Entire R scripts can be operationalized in production applications - eliminating the need to port R code.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2015 | Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service Live Demo

Oracle featured their new Data Visualization Cloud Service (DVCS) in multiple keynotes during Oracle OpenWorld, including a live demo by Larry Ellison. This seems to be a validation of the title that we chose for our Oracle Press book Data Visualization for Business Intelligence 11g.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 | Upgrading from Oracle BI 11g to Oracle BI 12c

Oracle BI 12c is now released! This release has many new features, the two most visible being support for Visual Analyzer, and the ability for end users to upload their own data without having to ask IT to model their data with RPD file changes, commonly called Data Mashup.

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Monday, November 23, 2015 | Fifth Annual OpenWorld Unauthorized BI and Analytics Scoop Session

Join Dan and Tim as they kibitz on what they saw, heard, (and didn't hear) at Oracle OpenWorld 2015. Just like last year, this session will feature Dan and Tim's light-hearted take on the major announcements and what it all means for the real world of Oracle BI, big data, and analytics. We'll welcome questions, speculations, and alternative interpretations from other attendees.

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