SQL for Data Warehousing and Analytics

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

Here is a link to the recent Q&A Spotlight with Oracle's George Lumpkin on the BeyeNETWORK. The session was called " Incorporating Big Data into an Enterprise Information Architecture "   This article is an interview by Ron Powell with George Lumpkin, Oracle's Vice President of Product Managment, Big Data and Data Warehousing. Ron and George discuss the trends in data warehousing, big data analytics and grid computing, and how Oracle's Exadata platform is taking these trends to a new level… Read more here: http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/15480

Oracle University has created a new page for training courses and materials relating to Big Data. You can find more information by clicking here:  http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=402%p_nl=OBDA . There are training plans for both DBAs and developers so this is a great site to bookmark.  Below are details of the latest courses released on OU for Big Data: Introduction to Big Data - In this course, you are introduced to Big Data and Oracle's Big Data solution. Topics covered are Oracle Big Data Appliance and Oracle Big Data Connectors. As you progress through the course, the various phases of Big Data are covered. Using a case study, the phases of acquiring, organizing, and analyzing are discussed.You can find more information by clicking here:  http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getCourseDesc?dc=D75058GC10 Introduction to Oracle NoSQL Database - In this course, students will identify the key features, benefits, and...

A report in today's Daily Telegraph (UK) indicates that shopping centers are tracking customers via their mobile phones, see here:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/8995867/Shopping-centres-track-customers-with-mobile-technology.html . Those of you who were at last year's OpenWorld event in San Francisco will remember the demo scenario we used in many of our Big Data presentations, which showed exactly how this could be done using Oracle technology.  My colleague Jean Pierre Dicjks has dissected the demo scenario we created in a recent blog post on the Oracle Data Warehouse blog, see here:  http://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/entry/understanding_a_big_data_implementation According to the Daily Telegraph report over 30 major shopping centers in the UK have installed monitoring technology although it is not clear how many have switched it on and are actively using it. This report has an interesting quote from Lawre...

We have posted a new whitepaper from Winter Corporation on Oracle.com/bigdata . The title is " Big Data: Business Opportunities, Requirements, and Oracle's Approach " This paper is a great introduction to Big Data and explains how Oracle addresses the enterprise requirements for big data via its overall approach to data management, via its Engineered Systems. The first section provides an overview of Big Data and what this new term actually means. There is a breakdown of the three key areas usually associated with Big Data (Volume, Variety and Velocity) as well as a discussion about the additional Oracle derived key term: "value density". It always helps to include some examples when explaining new concepts like these and this report looks at three areas: E-Commerce and Consumer Marketing Engineering and Manufacturing Healthcare; The examples provided for each industry have a number of things in common: High volume to be analyzed Data arriving for an...

An important date for your 2012 calendar : January 12 2012, at 12:00PM ET Join David Segleau , Director of Product Management at Oracle , and an expert on NoSQL. David will discuss the spectrum of big data solutions, and then focus on two common technologies for capturing and storing big data: Hadoop Distributed File System and Oracle NoSQL Database. He will discuss the approach and strengths of each application, and provide use cases for when to use each one. The presentation concludes by summarizing how to transform and filter data as needed, loading it into an Oracle data warehouse for the deep analytics needed to generate new insight. In this webcast you will learn about: - Oracle's big data solutions Different big data use cases with technology recommendations The strengths of both Oracle NoSQL Database and Hadoop Distributed file system To register for the webcast go here: http://www.information-management.com/web_seminars/-10021607-1.html