Hands On With Oracle Business Intelligence 11g – A Quick Start

This hands on lab will present a quick overview of the changes in OBIEE 11g (11.1.1.7) and allow users to create reports using these new features. The new features of BI Publisher will also be covered and the new web based layout editor will be used to create pixel perfect reports.

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Oracle Data Mining Hands-On Lab

Oracle Data Mining is part of the Oracle Advanced Analytics Option to the Oracle Database. If you learn by doing, come get your hands on Oracle Data Mining and build your own workflows in a step-by-step exercise led by Oracle University instructor for ODM, Tim Vlamis. You'll use the SQL Developer 3.1 Data Miner extension to evaluate data and build data mining workflows in an intuitive GUI interface.

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Visualization Best Practices in Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

Packed with tips from real-world implementations, this session features our data visualization guru who will break down the visualization options in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g and detail when and how to use each. You'll learn the appropriate use of specific graphs and charts, how to effectively design dashboard templates, how to maximize the impact of pivot tables, and how maps can convey more information than other visualization techniques.

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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Data Visualization Best Practices

Packed with tips from real-world implementations, this session features two data visualization gurus who will break down the visualization options in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g and detail when and how to use each. You'll learn the appropriate use of specific graphs and charts, how to effectively design dashboard templates, how to maximize the impact of pivot tables, and how maps can convey more information than other visualization techniques.

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Visualizing OLAP Data With Multiple Products

When business people want to perform analysis, they need data that is aggregated and broken down by some sort of dimensions. While relational databases can aggregate this data on the fly, they often are not fast enough. The common approach to solving this problem is to store data in some sort of multi-dimensional cube structure. The Oracle database can store this data inside the Oracle database using a natural structure called a cube.

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Oracle BI 11.1.1.6.2 New Features

Oracle BI 11.1.1.6.2 has been released, followed by the first bundle patch (BP1) that fixed a few bugs in 11.1.1.6.2. The two headline features in this release are a new version of BI Mobile with a new iPad app, and the release of Trellis charts, which were shown at last year's Oracle OpenWorld in the Exalytics presentations.

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OBIEE 11g – Using the New Features of Answers and BI Publisher

This hands on lab will present a quick overview of the changes in OBIEE 11g and allow users to create reports using these new features. The new features of BI Publisher will also be covered and the new web based layout editor will be used to create pixel perfect reports.

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