OUG Ireland BI Special Interest Group launched

Posted: April 22nd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Oracle | 1 Comment »

At the OUG Ireland 2009 we launched the OUG Ireland Business Intelligence Special Interest Group. All OUG Ireland members are welcome to join. Tony Cassidy from Bearing Point and me will co-chair the SIG.

We will hold our first meeting in June or July 09. I will give a presentation on Oracle Data Integrator and how it favourably compares to Oracle Warehouse Builder. This will be followed by a hands on tutorial on how to develop Knowledge Modules in ODI Designer. We will also try and organise a session on a more business orientated topic.

One Comment on “OUG Ireland BI Special Interest Group launched”

#1 Paul Weston said at 3:12 am on October 22nd, 2009:
Sorry to have missed the talk. Could you please send notes to the non-displayed email address provided. Thanks

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