I am hitting the road soon as I have been invited to speak in Auckland, New Zealand as part of the OTN Asia Pacific Tour and in Sydney, Australia at the ODTUG Seriously Practical Conference. Both of these conferences are scheduled for the week of October 31. Due to commitments at my company, I was unable to speak at other OTN Tour stops in Bangkok, Thailand, Beijing, China and Manila, The Philippines but don't worry. My friend Edward Roske will be speaking at all locations.
The trip will start in New Zealand with 2 presentations at the NZOUG Conference 2011 on October 31 and November 1. The presentations, and related abstracts, I am scheduled to do in Auckland are:Find Meaning in Your General Ledger Using Oracle Essbase
Oracle owns several General Ledger applications and, with the addition Oracle Essbase, now has a world class analytic engine. However, many Oracle general ledger users may not know that Essbase exists or know how it can help them. Attend this session and learn what Essbase and learn how
companies are leveraging Essbase to analyze the data in their General Ledger.
What is Oracle Essbase and How Is It Different From the Oracle Database?
Since the acquisition of the Hyperion suite of products, including the Essbase analytic server, many Oracle professionals have wondered "What is this piece of software called Essbase, how is it different than the Oracle database, and why would I need it?" Attend this session to see Essbase and
the Oracle Database compared and contrasted from both the technological and the business perspectives and to see opportunities for Oracle customers to leverage these technologies.
The first session is completely new content that I need to generate before I leave for Auckland. My assumption for this presentation is that the audience will be from the Oracle GL user audience and I want to introduce them to Essbase. I also plan to discuss the Oracle products that link together Essbase and the GL such as ERPi and FDM, but I don't yet have any good videos showing how it works. Does anyone out there have any cool FDM type of videos you could share? And, of course, I will also talk about Essbase Studio drillthough and Dodeca.
The second session in Auckland is a session that closely parallels the article I wrote for this quarters ODTUG Technical Journal.
The schedule calls for us to fly from Auckland to Sydney, Australia on Wednesday, November 2 for the ODTUG EPM/BI Seriously Practical ("SP") Conference. I am doing two different sessions in Sydney on November 3 and 4:Unleashing the Power of Essbase in Excel
Excel was the original user interface for Essbase and remains the most popular user interface for Essbase data. Attend this session by Tim Tow, Oracle ACE Director, and learn techniques, tips and tricks to make Essbase spreadsheets easier to create, easier to maintain and more performant using both the classic Excel Essbase add-in and Smart View. Tim, who was also one of five charter Microsoft Excel MVPs worldwide, has 16 years of Essbase spreadsheet experience, wrote some of the original Excel/Essbase demoware, and has helped thousands of users over the years.
Best Practices for Expanding Essbase with the API’s
The Essbase API is what elevates Essbase beyond being just a product and turns it, instead, into a platform. Customers can leverage the Essbase APIs to finely tailor their Essbase experiences and can range from simple automations to full applications. Join one of the world’s most experienced Essbase API developers, Oracle ACE Director Tim Tow, and learn best practices for using both the Essbase VB API and the Essbase Java API.
These two sessions will be, for the most part, new content but it is content that comes from what I do *everyday*. I am excited about the SP Conference as maybe ODTUG can put on SP Conferences in other parts of the world. Where would you like ODTUG to do a Seriously Practical Conference?
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