SQL for Data Warehousing and Analytics

If you cannot attend this year's OpenWorld event in San Francisco then make sure you checkout our Oracle Day 2012 programme. This is a series of roadshows touring major cities around the globe and each one promises to be a great event. Oracle Day 2012 features learning tracks and sessions tailored for accelerating your business in today’s environment. Oracle simplifies IT by investing in best-of-breed technologies at every layer of the technology stack and engineering them to work together so you can focus on driving your business forward. Throughout its history, Oracle has proved it can address the most complex IT challenges and solve the business problems of our customers. Discover more about Oracle’s strategy for powering innovation in Data Warehousing, Big Data and Analytics. As with OpenWorld, Big Data is going to be a huge part of these events and the sessions we have scheduled will reinforce the message that Oracle is different because only Oracle offers the complete end-...

Not often I agree with IBM but thanks for the name-check and confirmation that our big data strategy is the best way forward for customers: http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/business-intelligence/7-enterprise-friendly-ways-of-dealing-with-big-data.html In an interview in Enterprise Apps Today online magazine, former Forrester Research analyst and current IBM Big Data evangelist James Kobielus said: "This is where Hadoop MapReduce — which Kobielus calls the real “core” of Hadoop — comes into play. “What MapReduce represents is the industry’s first-ever vendor-agnostic framework for building a broad range of advanced analytics. What we think of as advanced analytics is supported within this sort of abstraction framework for development called MapReduce.” After the data is transformed, it’s fed downstream into another database, such as an Oracle Exadata data warehouse or OLAP cubes, or even to an in-memory platform such as Oracle Exalytics" Nice to know that IBM is advisi...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19148154 Tesco (UK's largest food retailer) is branching out into the world of virtual shopping. I have already seen this type of system running in Japan and now it has finally reached the UK. For the next couple of weeks Tesco will be trialling its interactive virtual grocery store in the departure lounge at Gatwick Airport. They have installed four interactive screens that you slide by hand to display different sets of shelves. There will be about 80 products available to order. If you want to buy one, you scan the barcode with your smartphone. This allows you to order your basket of basic essentials and have them delivered the day you get home from your vacation or business trip. The virtual shop front creates some interesting big data opportunities. As Tesco owns the app then they are freed from working with the mobile phone provider since the app itself can capture all the relevant data - GPS location, selections and identification of the...

We have just released a new report based on a survey of 333 C-level executives from U.S. and Canadian enterprises spanning 11 industries to determine the pain points they face regarding managing the deluge of data coming into their organizations and how well they are able to use information to drive profit and growth. There are some very interesting findings, such as the following: 94% of C-level executives say their organization is collecting and managing more business information today than two years ago, by an average of 86% more 29% of executives give their organization a “D” or “F” in preparedness to manage the data deluge 93% of executives believe their organization is losing revenue – on average, 14% annually – as a result of not being able to fully leverage the information they collect Nearly all surveyed (97%) say their organization must make a change to improve information optimization over the next two years Industry-specific applications are an important part of ...

We have just published five new exciting videos about Big Data that will help you understand why big data is so important and why your organization needs big data. The last three videos in the series cover the key stages in a typical big data workflow: how to acquire, organize and analyze big data. You can view them all on YouTube using the following links: Overview for the Boss : http://youtu.be/ikJyrmKdJWc Hadoop : http://youtu.be/acWtid-OOWM Acquiring Big Data : http://youtu.be/TfuhuA_uaho Organizing Big Data : http://youtu.be/IC6jVRO2Hq4 Analyzing Big Data : http://youtu.be/2yf_jrBhz5w These videos are a great place to start learning about big data, the value it can bring to your organisation and how Oracle can help you start working with big data today. Big Data Episode 1: Overview for the Boss - The boss needs to present a big data strategy to the CEO. But what's it all about? And above all, what's the value to the business? Two team members give him… En...

Join us on 12th June in EMEA for our latest virtual Developer Day on Database 11g Application Development. This virtual event offers:  Hands-on ( for some tracks but not the data mining or big data tracks - sorry ) experience developing database-backed applications with innovative and performance-enhancing methods.  Chance to learn from Oracle database application development experts.  Get post-event benefits such as advanced lab content downloads.  Full details, including registration details, are here: https://oracle.6connex.com/portal/database2012/login/?langR=en_US&mcc=EMEAint There is a packed 4-track agenda and the event will cover the key tools, frameworks, techniques, and best practices for building database-backed applications, information on how to get the best from Oracle's Advanced Analytics option and an overview of Oracle's Big Data technologies. Included as part of the database track is a session on Oracle Data Mining starting at 11:30am BST.  There ...

Planning a Big Data architecture is not about understanding just what is different. It’s also about how to integrate what’s new to what you already have – from database-and-BI infrastructure to IT tools, and end user applications. Oracle’s own product announcements in hardware, software, and new partnerships have been designed to change the economics around Big Data investments and the accessibility of solutions. The real industry challenge is not to think of Big Data as a specialized science project, but rather integrate it into mainstream IT. To help customers understand how to best integrate Big Data capabilities to their overall information architecture we released a new whitepaper on OTN. This paper also covers integration of big data from enterprise architecture perspective and describes some typical use cases. To view the report follow this link:  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/entarch/articles/oea-big-data-guide-1522052.pdf