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Webinar on What’s New in Oracle Analytics 5.6 and 5.7 with Live Demo on August 5
I spent the weekend preparing slides and demos for my webinar titled “What’s New in Oracle Analytics 5.6 and 5.7” to be presented on Aug 5 at 12pm US CDT. Just like past webinars in

Webinar: What’s New in Oracle Analytics 5.6 and 5.7 – August 5
Oracle Analytics releases are coming faster and faster. We are combining information for versions 5.6 and 5.7 into a single webcast to be presented August 5, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. US Central time. Register today! Major

All Good Projects Must Come to an End
Saying goodbye to the Sunoco FAMIS project… I was hired by Vlamis back in 2004 to work on the migration of an outdated Oracle Express, PCX 5.0 installation to the “new” Oracle OLAP 10g. It

Presenting panel as part of AnDOUC TechCast Days July 9
We need your ideas! I will be presenting a panel along with Edelweiss Kammermann and Philippe Lions as part of AnDOUC TechCast Days. Our session will focus on “Challenges, Solutions, Workarounds: Making Analytics Systems Work“
Vlamis Featured in Oracle Howdy Partner Series
Brendan Doyle released his latest Howdy Partner video. It was a lot of fun to be interviewed by Brendan Doyle as part of his “Howdy Partner” series on YouTube. Brendan has an easy-going style that

Find version number for OAC
In case you haven’t heard, OAC version 5.6 is now available. OAC instances will be upgraded over the next few weeks. Oh…you don’t know what version you’re on? I kept forgetting where it is, so

Enterprise Data Visualization course scheduled for May 6
Your next chance to take Dan and Tim’s Enterprise Data Visualization: Executive Dashboards and Managerial Displays course will be on May 6 at 9am US Central Time. Offered by O’Reilly Live Training, this 3.5 hour

Understanding Natural Growth: Why We Should Be Using the Logistic Function to Model Covid-19
Understanding Natural Growth: Why We Should Be Using the Logistic Function to Model Covid-19 Very few things in living systems grow in straight lines. They tend to follow growth patterns that accelerate and then decelerate.

Meet the Vlamis Interns!
All of us here at Vlamis, like so many others of you, are practicing social distancing and working from home. This can create some stressful, frustrating issues that we haven’t faced on a regular basis
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