Hands on With Oracle OLAP 11g for Smarter and Faster Data Warehouses

Can I move my existing "multi-dimensional cubes" to 11g? Can I really improve my warehouse performance using OLAP? What is the benefit of upgrading to OLAP 11g? Do you need those "analytic workspace" things if you're going to use Oracle Business Intelligence? And can Oracle BI really generate more efficient SQL than you?

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Hands on with Essbase, Smartview, and Hyperion Visual Explorer

Hyperion reporting and analysis tools, including Smartview, Hyperion Visual Explorer, and Smartspace give users an easy-to-use interface for manipulating and analyzing multi-dimensional data stored in Essbase cubes. Come gain first-hand knowledge of what is possible with Essbase in this interactive session.

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Having Your Business Intelligence the Way You Want It!

Oracle's Business Intelligence (OBI EE+) is a platform from which to build your BI delivery the way you want it. This presentation discusses the various ways to provide data access to all users inside and outside the organization. Using the open service based architecture users can now access the OBI EE data in JDeveloper to produce custom applications and Apple iPhone users can view reports and receive alerts no matter where they are.

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Faster and Smarter Data Warehouses with Oracle Database 11g (IOUG)

Oracle Database 11g OLAP provides several new features that can be used to enhance the performance of Oracle Database-based data warehouses. In addition, while providing a complete summary management capability, they can add more calculation capabilities. Views are automatically created that enable standard SQL to access the original data and additional measures. With the calculations in the database, you can securely store all of your business rules and measures there, as this presentation illustrates.

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Integration of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle Essbase Plus (IOUG)

This session demonstrates how Oracle Essbase Plus can be used as a datasource for Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition. It uses a step-by-step approach in presenting the methodology for combining these two technologies.

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Building Cubes and Analyzing Data with Oracle OLAP 11g (IOUG)

Are you involved in generating reports for your business, but want to know which formats are best to use in which situations? Would you like a simple way of understanding when to use pie charts, bar charts, line charts and bubble charts? Want to know when data is presented objectively and when it's not? You'll learn basic design principles for writing reports and generating graphs.

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Visualizing Data with Oracle BI

Are you involved in generating reports for your business, but want to know which formats are best to use in which situations? Would you like a simple way of understanding when to use pie charts, bar charts, line charts and bubble charts? Want to know when data is presented objectively and when it's not? You'll learn basic design principles for writing reports and generating graphs.

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Building Cubes and Analyzing Data Using Oracle OLAP 11g

Can I move my existing "multi-dimensional cubes" to 11g? Can I really improve my warehouse performance using OLAP? What is the benefit of upgrading to OLAP 11g? Do you need those "analytic workspace" things if you're going to use Oracle Business Intelligence? And can Oracle BI really generate more efficient SQL than you? This presentation will demonstrate the process of migrating 10g cubes and dimensions to 11g and using Oracle OLAP 11g to create cubes and analyze data.

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Oracle BI Oracle OLAP Essbase-The Benefits and Cost of Openness

Companies with heterogeneous environments need to analyze data from multiple sources, through multiple application servers, in multiple presentation environments. The "hot pluggable" products work well for this need: Oracle Data Integrator, Essbase, Real-time Decisions, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, and BI Applications.

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Implementing Oracle BI EE on Top of Oracle OLAP Cubes

Can I move my existing "multi-dimensional cubes" to 11g? Can I really improve my warehouse performance using OLAP? What is the benefit of upgrading to OLAP 11g? Do you need those "analytic workspace" things if you're going to use Oracle Business Intelligence? And can Oracle BI really generate more efficient SQL than you? This presentation will demonstrate the process of migrating 10g cubes and dimensions to 11g and using Oracle OLAP 11g to create cubes and analyze data.

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