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Join Tim Vlamis August 15-18, 2016 in Belmont, CA

Vlamis Staff June 24, 2016

Join Tim at Oracle Headquarters this August as he will be teaching classes on Predictive Analytics with Oracle Data Mining and Oracle R Enterprise Essentials for Oracle University. These courses will be taught at OU’s

Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service Migration

Jonathan Clark May 26, 2016

We ran into some interesting migration issues while migrating our Oracle Cloud accounts around. We had a stand-alone Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) account. We used it for some client development and internal training. We

Try Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence on the Oracle Cloud for Free!

Jonathan Clark April 13, 2016

Our new Oracle Test Drive is up and running! Click here to see Dan Vlamis announce the launch while at Collaborate 2016. To just go ahead and try out a test drive for yourself, click

Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence 12c on AWS EC2 Instance

Vlamis Staff March 30, 2016

If you have ever worked as a developer inside of a larger organization and have needed to quickly and easily create a demo or research environment you may have found it difficult to provision the

Vlamis March 2016 Newsletter Distributed

Dan Vlamis March 18, 2016

We published our March 2016 Newsletter that included the following articles: ▪ Oracle Advanced Analytics iSeminar ▪ New Release of BI Cloud Services (BICS) ▪ New OU Predictive Analytics Course Now Available ▪ Tim to

Oracle Advanced Analytics iSeminar March 23rd at 2:00 PM Eastern 11:00 AM Pacific

Tim Vlamis March 15, 2016

Click here to Register Join me for an in-depth exploration into predictive analytics using Oracle Data Mining and Oracle R Enterprise. If you’ve been wanting to expose your colleagues to the power of using the

Data Visualization for 3rd Graders

Dan Vlamis March 4, 2016

I recently had the opportunity to present to Mrs Neth’s local elementary school class. There’s a lot to be learned from 3rd graders. The subject of the presentation had to do with community activism and

Leveraging the OBIEE 12c Baseline Validation Tool.

Vlamis Staff February 25, 2016

Oracle came out with an awesome tool for regressing testing and verification of OBIEE lifecycle and migration. This is the Baseline Validation Tool (BVT). This is a command line tool that is governed by an

Data Modeling – What does it mean to you?

Mike Caskey February 25, 2016

What do you think of when you hear “Data Modeling”? Is it the tools we use or the concept of how we model data? “Data modeling is often the first step in database design and