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8:30am PDT

Analytics and Data Summit 2018 Opening Remarks Tuesday

Dan Vlamis will introduce Analytics and Data Summit 2018 and Spatial Summit leaders will introduce the Spatial Summit during opening talks on Tuesday.

Speakers

Mark Hornick

Senior Director, Oracle

Mark Hornick is the Senior Director of Product Management for the Oracle Machine Learning (OML) family of products. He leads the OML PM team and works closely with Product Development on product strategy, positioning, and evangelization, Mark has over 20 years of experience with integrating... Read More →

Tracy McLane

GIS / Engineering VPD Lead, Bechtel Infrastructure

Tracy McLane has been a Bechtel Distinguished Scientist since 2012, and served as the GIS Technical Discipline Lead for the company from March 2007 to February 2018. In this role, she was responsible for the development of the GIS Technical Center of Excellence, the Enterprise... Read More →

Nick Salem

Distinguished Engineer, Neustar

A Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Neustar, Nick is the Principal Software Architect behind the ElementOne platform and has over 20 years developing enterprise geospatial analytics applications. He holds 21 Oracle Certified Professional / Expert / Specialist credentials... Read More →

Dan Vlamis

President, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

Dan Vlamis is President and founder of Vlamis Software Solutions, a boutique consultancy which has led more than 200 Business Analytics implementations for more than 25 years at many of the world’s leading organizations. Recognized by Oracle as an Oracle ACE Director, he consults with Oracle Product Management regularly. Dan covers Oracle Analytics... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 8:30am - 9:00am PDT
1-Auditorium

General

9:00am PDT

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud and Oracle Analytics Cloud—Better Together!

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is the industry’s first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing database cloud service, offering you high availability, performance and security without human intervention. Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud is the industry’s leading cloud analytics platform, empowering you to achieve broader, deeper, and faster insights with augmented analytics in a hands-free platform. Join Oracle executives Andy Mendelsohn and Waqar Hasan to hear how Oracle’s new Cloud services leverage AI and machine learning to redefine the state-of-the-art for data warehousing and analysis, so you can ask any question of any data and get better answers faster

Speakers

Waqar Hasan

Senior Vice President, Oracle Big Data Analytics

Dr. Hasan serves as Senior Vice President with responsibility for development of analytics products. Prior to Oracle, he was Senior Vice President of Data at Visa with responsibility for Visa’s data platform and data-driven products targeted at 15,000 banks, 40 million merchants and... Read More →

Andy Mendelsohn

Executive VP, Database Server Technologies, Oracle

Andrew Mendelsohn is executive vice president for database server technologies at Oracle. He is responsible for the development and product management of Oracle’s family of database products including Oracle Database, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, Oracle Berkeley DB, and... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
1-Auditorium

General

10:10am PDT

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud: Easy, Fast and Highly Elastic

Oracle recently expanded its Data Management Cloud portfolio with the addition of the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service to help customers and partners with the deployment of data-mart or data warehouse environments to gain faster insights from their critical business data. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is the first of many cloud services built on the “self-driving” Oracle Autonomous Cloud Database technology. This service is integrated with applied machine learning to deliver unmatched high performance, reliability, and instant elasticity.
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud uses the same Oracle Database software and technology found in existing on-premises data warehouse deployment, and is compatible with Oracle’s in-database machine learning algorithms, analytics and BI tools, as well as popular 3rd party offerings. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is simple to deploy, enabling traditional data mart environments or new monetization use cases.\

Speakers

George Lumpkin

Vice President, Product Management, Oracle

George Lumpkin is Vice President of Product Management for Oracle data warehouse solutions. George has been with Oracle for twenty-six years, and has a tenured experience across database, data warehouse, big data and analytics foundations. He also has a degree from Harvard University... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 10:10am - 11:00am PDT
1-Auditorium

Data Warehousing and SQL

10:10am PDT

An Introduction to Graph: Database, Analytics, and Cloud Services

Graph analysis employs powerful algorithms to explore and discover relationships in social network, IoT, big data, and complex transaction data. Learn how graph technologies are used in applications such as fraud detection for banking, customer 360, public safety, and manufacturing. This session will provide an overview and demos of graph technologies for Oracle Cloud Services, Oracle Database, NoSQL, Spark and Hadoop, including PGX analytics and PGQL property graph query language.

Speakers

Jean (Oracle) Ihm

Product Manager, Spatial and Graph, Oracle Spatial and Graph

I'm a Product Manager for Oracle Spatial and Graph technologies. Mapping and location and graph analysis for Database, Big Data, and the Cloud.

Jan Michels

Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Jan Michels represents Oracle on the ANSI and ISO committees responsible for standardizing SQL, while working closely with the Oracle database server development teams. He has been involved in designing extensions for the SQL language for 20 years. Jan is chair of the DM32.2 Ad Hoc... Read More →

Hans Viehmann

Product Manager, ORACLE Corporation

Hans Viehmann is working for ORACLE Corporation as Product Manager for the Oracle Spatial and Graph option and the „Location Products“. He holds a degree in Physics from Hamburg University and started his career in Research before joining ORACLE over twenty years ago. After various... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 10:10am - 11:00am PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Big Data Cloud Service (OBDCS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things

10:10am PDT

HOL: Introduction to Oracle Analytics and Data Visualization

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Speakers

Joseph Kuttikat

Director of Product Management, Oracle Analytics, Oracle India

Joseph is a Director of Product Management for Analytics family of products at Oracle. He has 10+ years of product management expertise and overall 15+ years of software industry experience. Along with his PM responsibilities, Joseph has been an Oracle technology evangelist on multiple... Read More →

Philippe Lions

Senior Director, Oracle

Philippe has an extensive experience with BI and data intelligence, both from the business user world side and the software designer world side. His career splits between holding Business Analyst roles in several corporations and for the second half, over a decade in BI Product Management... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 10:10am - 12:05pm PDT
6-Bldg 500

Analytics

Track Analytics

11:15am PDT

Turning Relational Database Tables into Spark Data Sources

Big Data Analytics requires unstructured data (a.k.a. Big Data) but also Master data generally stored in RDBMS tables.

Apache Spark furnishes the Spark SQL interface for querying unstructured data using SQL. This interface provisions the Datasource API with a JDBC interface for accessing relational databases. How to join RDBMS tables with Big data using Spark SQL without moving data over?

This session describes an implementation of the Spark Datasource API and explains the optimizations that (i) allow parallel and direct access to the RDBMS database (with the option of controlling the number of concurrent connections); (ii) introspect the RDBMS table, generate partitions of Spark JDBCRDDs based on the split pattern and rewrite Spark SQL queries into the RDBMS SQL; (iii) use hooks in the JDBC driver for faster type conversions; (iv) push down predicates to the RDBMS, prune partitions based on the where clause to reduce the amount of data returned to the RDBMS.

Speakers

Kuassi Mensah

Director Product Management, Oracle Corporation

Kuassi is Director of Product Management at Oracle. He looks after the following product areas (i) Java connectivity to DB (Cloud, on-premises), in-place processing with DB embedded JVM (ii) MicroServices and DB connectivity, and related topics (Data & Tx models, Kubernetes, SAGAs... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 11:15am - 12:05pm PDT
5-Rm 105

Big Data

Products Big Data Connectors, Database Enterprise Edition
Track Big Data, Analytics

11:15am PDT

Architecting for Analytics

This session answers architecture questions related to the overall structure and strategy for an enterprise analytics system. How do we design a data warehouse for analytics purposes? What do we integrate into a central warehouse or maintain in separate data marts? How do we integrate long term storage systems that we need to query only occasionally? Data lakes? Big Data?? What are the tradeoffs with different tools and how much do we invest in custom code? How do we integrate real-time data streaming? What ETL and integration strategies are we going to use? Where and how do we extend our raw data with calculated measures and analytic functions? How do we create a system that has a strong foundation, but can grow and evolve over time? This presentation will draw from real-world data architecture projects that were designed with analytics in mind.

Speakers

Mike Caskey

Senior Consultant, Vlamis Software Solutions

As a senior consultant, I am a veteran Oracle data warehouse architect and a Software Engineer. While I have solid experience working with transactional systems, my specialty has been data warehouse and business intelligence applications. I bring tremendous data warehouse experience... Read More →

Dan Vlamis

President, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

Tuesday March 20, 2018 11:15am - 12:05pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Data Warehousing and SQL

11:15am PDT

Oracle Machine Learning & Advanced Analytics: New Features, Cloud & Road Map

Oracle Advanced Analytics 12.2c delivers new features and significant performance gains. OAA new features include an unsupervised feature selection algorithm, ESA algorithm, partitioned models. OAA can now build machine learning models on billions of records in minutes, “score” millions of records even faster and supports real-time model deployment. Integration with R now supports R model registration for in-database processing. Oracle Data Miner adds a workflow Scheduler. ORAAH adds new ML algorithms. Oracle Machine Learning, a new Zeppelin based notebook supports collaborative model building and deployment in Oracle Data Warehouse Clouds. Several customer reference use cases will be presented.

Speakers

Charlie Berger

Sr. Dir. Product Mgmt, Oracle Machine Learning, AI, Oracle

Charlie Berger is the Sr. Director of Product Management, Machine Learning, AI and Cognitive Analytics in Oracle Server Technology. Since 1999, he has been responsible for Oracle’s machine learning—starting when Oracle acquired Thinking Machines Corporation where he was VP of... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 11:15am - 12:05pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Machine Learning

Products Advanced Security, Airlines Data Model, Big Data Connectors
Track Machine Learning, Analytics, Internet of Things

11:15am PDT

Sneak Preview: Graph Cloud Services and Spatial Console for Database Cloud

Cloud services change the way we provision, deploy and perform analytic application development. They can simplify the development and deployment experience and make it possible for developers and data scientists to use analytics in which they had little or no expertise.

Two new planned cloud services from Oracle for spatial and graph analysis offer low-code and no-code capabilities. The spatial cloud services include no-code spatial analysis, automated geo-enrichment of data, visual map analysis, and simplified spatial application creation for analysts and developers. The graph cloud services provide an analyst and developer studio with dozens of prebuilt, low-code graph algorithms with wizards to automate modeling, loading, and visualizing graph data and analysis results.

These mapping and graph analysis services offer over hundreds of geospatial and graph analysis functions. Data access will be available through rich APIs, along with SQL-based spatial and graph query languages.

Speakers

Jayant Sharma

Sr Dir, Prod Mgmt, Oracle USA Inc

Dr. Jayant Sharma is Director, Spatial Product Management at Oracle . He has over twenty years experience in databases and spatial information systems. He is currently focused on the product strategy, and design, of spatial components for Oracle's database and middleware products... Read More →

Jim Steiner

VICE PRESIDENT, ORACLE

Jim Steiner is Vice President of Product Management in the Oracle Server Technologies Division. He heads product management and strategy for Oracle’s spatial, graph, and several Big Data technologies. Mr. Steiner joined Oracle in 1995 as Director of Product Management and Marketing... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 11:15am - 12:05pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Spatial and Graph

Products Big Data Cloud Service (OBDCS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Strategy

12:20pm PDT

Lightning Round

Join us for our lightning round presentations by our sponsors. These are about 4-minute presentations by each sponsor, moving quickly between sponsors. Come have lunch with us! You can also download each of the sponsors' presentations.

Speakers

Robert Brown

Kumaran

Providing Technology Engineering Services, Sales, Business Development, contract negotiations, ERP solutions, software development and IT services to enterprise and technology companies. Also, specializing in software & technology business development in the Silicon Valley and Southern... Read More →

Hayk Chakhchakhyan

Head of Marketing, Fivetran

Data Pipelines, ETL, ELT, Data warehousing, BI, Analytics, SQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Looker, Tableau, BigQuery.

Julie Herd

Director, Technical Marketing, E8 Storage

E8 Storage is a pioneer in shared accelerated storage for data-intensive, high-performance applications that drive business revenue. E8 Storage’s affordable, reliable and scalable solution is ideally suited for the most demanding low-latency workloads, including real-time analytics... Read More →

Peter Koutroubis

Sr. VP of Operations, ERPA

Eighteen years of Information Technology consulting services experience with eight plus years specifically focused on Oracle technologies. Extensive experience in program and project management in data warehousing and business intelligence. Public Sector Contribution Award from the... Read More →

Kirby Lunger

Partner, Performance Architects

Kirby Lunger is a Partner at Performance Architects, a leading business and technology consulting firm focused on enterprise analytics (analytics, BI and EPM). She maintains over 22 years of experience in the consulting, internet services, and software markets. She is the Co-Chair... Read More →

Steve MacCabe

Application Specialist, Safe Software Inc.

Steve has been employed with Safe Software as an FMETechnology Expert since 2011. His role is helping customers solve theirdata interoperability challenges with a particular focus on FME Server clients.Steve is also FME Certified in Desktop, Server and as a FME Trainer. Prior tothis... Read More →

Dave Madan

Managing Director, Qubix, Inc.

We help businesses (big and small) maximize their return on investment for Oracle Business Analytics, Enterprise Performance Management & Big Data. Our recipe for success is our desire to innovate and re-imagine how Oracle EPM and BI solutions are deployed to reduce complexity and... Read More →

Jay Mason

Associate Partner | Analytics, IoT & Cybersecurity, M&S Consulting

Digital Transformation Architect: AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, Iot and Cybersecurity20 years of IT consulting experience for commercial and government clients. Senior architect and project manager helping enterprises migrate streaming analytics to modern cloud-based architectures... Read More →

Sarath Menon

Global Partner Manager, HERE Technologies

As partners for more than 17 years, Oracle has relied on HERE Technologies to deliver high quality digital map data and robust location cloud services. Integrating mapping, analytics, geocoding, and routing, our data and location cloud services have helped power Oracle products, including... Read More →

Richard Solari

Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Richard Solari is a Director in the Deloitte Analytics and Information Management Practice and currently serves as the Oracle Business Intelligence and Analytics National Practice Lead. Mr. Solari’s primary area of focus and expertise is Oracle Data Warehousing, Business... Read More →

Tim Tow

Founder and President, Applied OLAP, Inc

Tim Tow is the Founder and President of Applied OLAP and the visionary for the innovative Dodeca product line. He has been working exclusively with Oracle Essbase since 1995, specializing in the Essbase Java API. An Oracle ACE Alumni, Tim blogs on Essbase topics, leads the development... Read More →

Dan Vlamis

President, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

Matt Vranicar

President & CEO, DataRoad Technologies LLC

An entrepreneur with experience starting firms and managing them on sound business principles, I am a strong believer in optimism, positive attitude and not accepting any limits. I continually look forward to my next set of challenges, opportunities and successes. Failure is not... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 12:20pm - 1:10pm PDT
1-Auditorium

General

1:10pm PDT

A Practical Business Approach to Implementing Oracle Analytics Cloud

Implementing and Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) ecosystem can be a challenge. When successfully implemented they can deliver significant business value. However, may BI implementations fail because they are long, complex and ultimately do not meet the business's needs. We discuss an approach for reducing technical complexity and ensuring business needs drive the implementation of the solution. Using the Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) offers the organizations a robust platform for implementation a business intelligence ecosystem and accelerates the solution cycle.

This presentation looks to provide relevant information to anyone looking to implement a Cloud based Oracle BI ecosystem to support organizational business processes. Initially we will conduct a cost benefit comparison of on premise verses cloud based solutions. Also, this presentation will provide a overview of the Oracle Analytics Cloud features and functionality. Then we will review a full life cycle methodology.

Speakers

Peter Koutroubis

Sr. VP of Operations, ERPA

Tuesday March 20, 2018 1:10pm - 2:00pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Analytics

Products Business Intelligence
Track Analytics, Cloud Computing

1:10pm PDT

Oracle Database In-Memory - Real-Time Analytics

Oracle Database In-Memory introduces a new in-memory columnar format that is compatible with all existing applications. Join Oracle Product Management to learn in detail what motivated Oracle to develop this new technology and how it works alongside the traditional row format to provide a unique “dual format” architecture. This session will explore how Database In-Memory enables "Real-Time Analytics" by allowing analytic style queries to be run directly on source data. It will also explore the key performance enhancing features of Database In-Memory including in-memory scans, predicate push down, hash joins with bloom filters, vector group by aggregation, and new high-performance features like In-Memory Expressions and Join Groups. The session will conclude by exploring how the new in-memory functionality interacts with key database performance features such as Real Application Clusters (RAC), Partitioning, parallel execution, and much more.

Speakers

Andy Rivenes

Product Manager, Oracle

Andy Rivenes is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation and is a Product Manager for Database In-Memory. Prior to that Andy was a Product Manager for Heat Map, Automatic Data Optimization, SecureFiles and DBFS. Andy has been working with Oracle products since 1992... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 1:10pm - 2:00pm PDT
5-Rm 105

Data Warehousing and SQL

Products Database In-Memory
Track Data Warehousing and SQL, Analytics

1:10pm PDT

Powerful Spatial Features You Never Knew Existed in Oracle Spatial and Graph

Even expert users may not know some of the powerful functions available in Oracle Spatial and Graph, or how to optimize common spatial requirements. I often find myself working with customers that implement spatial requirements the way they had to with other spatial solutions, instead of the best way they can by leveraging powerful unique capabilities available in Oracle Spatial and Graph. Many times the reason is "I didn't know that existed". This session will cover how Oracle Spatial and Graph natively integrates with key Oracle Database features such as transparent data encryption (TDE), redaction, partitioning (all types), and also powerful nearest neighbor strategies, new spatial functions introduced in 12c, as well as an overview of spatial functions you never knew existed. Customer use cases and code examples will be included. This session is intended for a technical audience, but others will also gain useful insights on the powerful capabilities of Oracle Spatial and Graph.

Speakers

Daniel Geringer

Spatial Solutions Specialist, Oracle Corporation

Spatial Solutions Specialist -- Joined Oracle in 1995 to work on Oracle's spatial technologies -- Works with customers and partners around the world to solve spatial requirements in a scalable manner. -- Test, benchmark, and develop Oracle spatial technologies on Oracle Engineered... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 1:10pm - 2:00pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and SQL

1:10pm PDT

HOL: Machine Learning 101 with Oracle Data Miner and ADWC's Machine Learning Notebook

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Learn the fast and way to perform machine learning using SQL Developer 17.2’s Oracle Data Miner drag and drop workflow UI. Learn from multiple experts in the room who will provide 1:1 coaching, guidance and instruction as requested in performing several hands on tutorials. Ask questions, get answers and come away with a comfort level of using Oracle’s machine learning capabilities in your use cases.
Also, try the new Oracle Machine Learning (OML) Zeppelin-based notebook for the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud (ADWC). OML extends Oracle’s offerings for data science in the cloud. OML’s collaborative, notebook environment helps data scientists built, share, document and automate data analysis methodologies that run in ADWC. Come learn about how easy it is to use Oracle’s newest SQL notebook technology to access and view data and build and deploy predictive machine learning models.

Speakers

Charlie Berger

Sr. Dir. Product Mgmt, Oracle Machine Learning, AI, Oracle

Karl Rexer

President, Rexer Analytics

My company: www.RexerAnalytics.comI started Rexer Analytics in 2002. We're a small data science, predictive modeling & analytic CRM consulting firm. We help clients explore and understand their customers' needs, market to them more effectively, and use data to make better strategic... Read More →

Tim Vlamis

VP and Analytics Strategist, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

An Oracle Ace and expert in the visualization of data and the design of business analytics strategies, Tim combines a strong background in the application of Oracle-based business analytics and data mining with extensive experience in business modeling and valuation analysis. Tim... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 1:10pm - 3:20pm PDT
6-Bldg 500

Machine Learning

Products Big Data SQL, Cloud Machine, Data Miner, Exadata Database Cloud Service
Track Machine Learning, Analytics, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and SQL

2:30pm PDT

What's new and what's coming with Oracle DV

In this session, we will demo how to make the most of the latest capabilities of Oracle DV (Oracle Analytics Cloud, or DV for Desktop version) to analyze and visualize any data. This will navigate all the aspects of DV, Data Preparation, Data Flows, Data Viz, Machine Learning, etc. This session is open to business users and technical users, with no pre requisite knowledge of Oracle DV.

Speakers

Joseph Kuttikat

Director of Product Management, Oracle Analytics, Oracle India

Philippe Lions

Senior Director, Oracle

Tuesday March 20, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Analytics

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC)
Track Analytics, Machine Learning

2:30pm PDT

Accelerating Joins and Aggregations on the Oracle In-Memory Database

Analytic workloads are dominated by joins, aggregations, and scans. In-Memory columnar databases have optimized scans using compressed data formats and SIMD vectorization techniques, but have made little impact to the rest of the query execution plan. The Oracle Database In-Memory (DBIM) Option introduced new SQL execution operators that accelerate analytic queries by optimizing aggregation over joins for star schemas. Group-by expressions are pushed down into the scans of dimension tables, creating a unique key per distinct group called a Dense Grouping Key (DGK). A Key Vector is allocated that maps join keys to DGKs, which is used to filter non-matching rows during the fact table scan. Passing rows are then aggregated directly on compressed codes into DGK-indexed result buffers using SIMD. Our solution replaces traditional join and group-by processing (bloom filters, hash table build/probe, etc) with blazing fast inlined scan operators, improving query elapsed time by as much as 10X.

Speakers

Shasank Chavan

Vice President, In-Memory Technologies, Oracle

Lead an amazing team of brilliant engineers in the Database organization responsible for developing Oracle's In-Memory Column Store. We currently are hyper-focused on leveraging emerging hardware technologies to build the next-generation data storage engine that powers the cloud... Read More →

Ekrem Soylemez

Architect, Oracle

I have been working in Oracle RDBMS development for 23 years. During that time, I have worked on data storage, Oracle OLAP, and most recently the SQL engine. My current focus is improving performance of analytic queries, particularly those that are run against In-Memory Columnar... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Data Warehousing and SQL

Products Database In-Memory
Track Data Warehousing and SQL, Analytics

2:30pm PDT

Cloud2Cloud - IoT & EPM: Connecting GE Predix to Oracle EPBCS

In this presentation, Gary Crisci, Principal Data & Information Architect/Oracle Ace and Shyam Nath, Director-IoT, will walk you through GE’s Predix platform; a cloud based solution that can capture industrial data for various Edge devices. We will discuss scenarios for utilizing this valuable information, including how you get it in the hands of the people who need it, and into a tool that allows them to use the information to make better decisions.

We will illustrate how we capture industrial data from sensors using GE’s Predix cloud platform to determine leading indicators of when large maintenance events are likely to be due and what will be the nature of the maintenance required. We will then demonstrate how to transfer the data into Oracle PBCS for Planning and Budgeting purposes.

Speakers

Gary Crisci

Principal Architect, General Electric

Technology evangelist and senior IT leader specializing in enterprise financial systems, with interests in data architectures, analytics, and distributed ledger technologies• Extensive expertise with complex, multi-tier, system deployments (on-premise, Cloud, and Hybrid) including... Read More →

Shyam Varan Nath

Enterprise Cloud Architect, Oracle

Tuesday March 20, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm PDT
5-Rm 105

Internet of Things

Products Software as a Service (SaaS)
Track Internet of Things, Analytics, Cloud Computing

3:35pm PDT

Monetize product usage and Retain customer success with Oracle Bigdata

Data is at the heart of Product organization's decision making process. Yet, only a few pieces of valuable product usage data are deployed for financials analytics. In this session learn how RecVue processes trillions of product usage data points with Oracle Bigdata cloud and build analytics to monetize product usage, reduce customer churn and retain customer success.

Speakers

Anto Joseph

VP, Technology, RECVUE

Anto is a technologist, innovator, and product strategist. He leads the engineering and operations teams at RecVue. His teams are responsible for delivering RecVue (SaaS), including the user interface, applications and frameworks. He believes deeply in building technology products... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 3:35pm - 4:05pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Big Data

Products Big Data Cloud Service (OBDCS)
Track Big Data, Analytics

3:35pm PDT

Customer Analytics with Oracle Advanced Analytics - from reactive to proactive

Long gone are the days when mass mails with the same message and offer were sent to all customers. With the amount of data companies have on their customers together with tools such as Oracle Advanced Analytics a new world of possibilities for personalized and proactive marketing opens up. A company with customer data in an existing datawarehouse built on Oracle databases have a short time to market for an advanced analytics platform using the licensed option of Oracle Advanced Analytics. In this session I will go through the learnings along the way from being reactive to proactive using the whole offering of R together with Oracle Advanced Analytics to empower data scientists and analysts to generate cutting edge customer insights inside the database.

Speakers

Magnus Perman

Senior Consultant / Solution Architect, SIGMA IT Consulting

Magnus is a senior consultant working for the Swedish company SIGMA IT Consulting. Magnus holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and has over 15 years experience of working with different clients and delivered solutions within the areas of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Analytics... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 3:35pm - 4:05pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Machine Learning

Products Advanced Analytics (OAA), R Distribution (ORD), R Enterprise (ORE)
Track Machine Learning, Analytics

3:35pm PDT

Forecasting the storm recovery resource allocation in electric utility network

A leading cause of power outages in the US is weather driven equipment failure events. Oracle utility customers are seeking machine learning techniques (recommended by the USDOE) to improve real-time risk assessment for critical assets based upon incoming weather forecast. Given an accurate prediction for the location, type, and amount of the storm-damaged equipment, the utility company can position the right number of specialized crews and material resources ahead of time. We develop a novel machine-learning model trained on the history of asset failures and reported weather. Since the weather-reporting stations might be far from the assets and some weather data measurements might be missing, we interpolate the weather conditions at the asset locations using a triangularization function computed with a barycentric coordinates technique implementation. We report performance comparison of multiple machine learning models to recommend the best damage prediction tool.

Speakers

Kenny Gross

Architect, Oracle

Kenny C Gross, PhD, is an AI Architect in Oracle's Physical Sciences Research Center in San Diego, CA. Kenny specializes in advanced pattern recognition and prognostic anomaly discovery for Big Data applications in IoT industries, life sciences, and business business-critical data... Read More →

Andrew Vakhutinsky

Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Andrew Vakhutinsky is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Labs. He has Ph.D. in Operations Research from University of Maryland, College Park, and M.Sc. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from Moscow University of Physics and Technology. Andrew's previous experience includes... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 3:35pm - 4:05pm PDT
4-Rm 104

Machine Learning

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC), Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS), Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
Track Analytics, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and SQL, Machine Learning, Big Data

3:35pm PDT

18c Spatial New Features Update

With the Oracle Database 18c release, Oracle Spatial and Graph brings new performance and usability features across the board to complement features introduced in Oracle Database 12c Release 2. This release also makes it easy to develop spatial applications in Oracle Cloud. Spatial now supports distributed transactions, making it easy to develop web applications that update spatial data. More geometry types can be converted between SDO_GEOMETRY and JSON formats, and Oracle REST Data Services supports spatial queries. Sharding support (introduced in 12.2) is now extended to spatial tables and indexes. Web services are enhanced to support multiple data sources so that a single web service instance can serve data from different database schemas, and CSW 2.0.2 ISO metadata application profiles are supported. GeoRaster now supports many GDAL functions via external procedures.
Learn what’s new with the leading spatial platform that’s fast, cloud-ready, and developer-friendly.

Speakers

Siva Ravada

Senior Director of Engineeting, Oracle, USA

Siva manages the development team for Oracle’s spatial technologies. He is one of the founding members of the development of Spatial technologies in Oracle since the Oracle7 release. He holds numerous patents, has several journal and conference publications, and authored a book... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 3:35pm - 4:05pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Database Enterprise Edition, Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Data Warehousing and SQL, General, Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing

4:20pm PDT

Ordnance Survey Ireland: National Mapping as a Service

Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi), the Irish national mapping agency, maintains national spatial data sets and creates mapping products for government agencies and the public. Achieving a leadership role in national mapping requires addressing many challenges: dealing with the explosion of 3D terrain data from aerial photos and satellites, needing to automate complex workflow processes, handling 1.2+ petabytes of data holdings including geospatial data with scalability and security, and sharing data widely with the public._x000D_
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With the Oracle Spatial and Graph, Database 12c, and Exadata platform, OSi has addressed these challenges. OSi uses Oracle Spatial and Graph point cloud, raster, and linked open data capabilities for solutions in the areas of Cartographic Automation, 3D Solid Geometry, Point Cloud Classification, Visualisation & Dissemination and Geospatial Linked Data. OSi is also looking toward cloud-based solutions using Oracle. Learn about OSi’s innovative geospatial solutions._x000D_
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Speakers

Éamonn Clinton

General Manager, Geospatial Services, Ordnance Survey Ireland

Éamonn Clinton is the General Manager, Geospatial Services, Data Governance & Quality and Spatial Strategist with Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Irish national mapping agency. Éamonn has worked in the geospatial industry for over 20 years. He has worked on a large number of public... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 4:20pm - 4:45pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Database Enterprise Edition, Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, Spatial and Graph (OSG), Weblogic
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data

4:20pm PDT

Architecture Live - Designing an Analytics Platform for the Big Data Era

Don't miss the Architecture Live experience! In this interactive session, you'll witness two industry experts digitally illustrating data-driven architectures live, with input and feedback from the audience.

Kafka, Lambda, and Streaming Analytics will be all covered. We’ll tell you what these words mean, and more importantly how they affect the choices we make building an enterprise architecture. With the Oracle Information Management Reference Architecture as the backdrop, we'll clarify and delineate the different components involved in delivering big data, fast data, and all the gray area in between. The Architecture Live experience will be fun and different, and we'll all learn something along the way.

Speakers

Stewart Bryson

Owner, Red Pill Analytics

Stewart is the Owner and Co-founder of Red Pill Analytics, and has been designing and implementing BI systems since 1996. He is an Oracle ACE Director, is an internationally recognized writer and speaker in the Oracle Community, and co-host for the audio and video podcast See Data... Read More →

Jean-Pierre Dijcks

Master Product Manager, Oracle

Highly experienced product manager with 15 years of experience in enterprise software and enterprise data. Currently responsible for all product management aspects (technology, GTM, Enablement etc.) of Oracle Big Data Appliance and Big Data Cloud Service at Oracle.Active interest... Read More →

Tuesday March 20, 2018 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Big Data

Products Big Data Cloud Service (OBDCS), Big Data Preparation Cloud Service, Big Data SQL, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization (DV)
Track Big Data, Analytics, Data Warehousing and SQL, Strategy

9:00am PDT

Advanced Dashboard Techniques: Ultimate 360 Student View

Learn how Florida International University takes advantage of the OBIEE Business Intelligence technologies for report design, end-user interactive tools and data delivery. From requirement and validation phases to benefits realized from using the dashboard as a centralized source for actionable data.

Speakers

Ayodele Osikoya

Business Intelligence Developer, Florida International University

Ayodele Osikoya has over 5 years of diversified experience in the areas of Business Intelligence and Business Process Improvement. He has experience in requirement analyses, data mining ,forecasting and statistical analysis. Currently, he and his team are implementing the Florida... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 9:00am - 9:25am PDT
4-Rm 104

Analytics

Products Business Intelligence;Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE);Data Integrator (ODI)
Track Analytics, Big Data, Data Warehousing and SQL

9:00am PDT

BRIO Migration at The University of Pittsburgh - Scaling New Heights in BI

The University of Pittsburgh's CFO Office faced the pending retirement of the Hyperion BRIO query tool and chose a path to migrate to Oracle's OBIEE platform that resulted in better query performance, a common data model with shared calculations, and greater user engagement in self-service analysis. This session will recap the timeline of events that helped to transition UPitt to a modern BI platform using OBIEE. We will address the challenges that are typically faced in migrating users from a product that they are comfortable with in order to provide a more robust reporting environment. A review of BRIO to OBIEE feature comparisons and data model enhancements will be covered.

Speakers

Dianne DeNezza

Director, FIS Business Solutions, University of Pittsburgh

Dianne is the Director of the Financial Information Systems, Business Solutions department and has over 20+ years working with Oracle EBS. Her team is responsible for supporting Financial and HCM applications, including GL, AP, PO, HR, Payroll, Benefits, Oracle Time and Labor & Custom... Read More →

Margaret Motsi

Consultant, Performance Architects

Margaret is a Consultant at Performance Architects, Inc. with experience in consulting and software development in the Business Intelligence (BI) arena.She has worked on multiple solutions, building a strong functional expertise in business strategy, financial reporting and analysis... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
5-Rm 105

Analytics

Track Analytics, General

9:00am PDT

Internet of Things Architecture Panel

This Panel will be lead by the the Authors of the recently published book called "Architecting the Industrial Internet." This session will cover:
1) How and Why Industrial Internet is different from consumer IoT?
2) Why Platform approach to IoT?
3) Big Data and Industrial Analytics
4) Use Cases / Case Studies
5) Professional implications of IoT

Speakers

Shyam Varan Nath

Enterprise Cloud Architect, Oracle

Carla Romano

Director - Development, Big Data, IOT & Data Warehouse for Industries

Carla has been involved in industry-focused business intelligence, data warehousing, big data, and most recently IOT for the last ten years

Wednesday March 21, 2018 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
2-Rm 102

Internet of Things

Products Internet of Things Cloud Service
Track Internet of Things, Analytics

9:00am PDT

Analyze the Global Knowledge Graph with Visualization, Cloud, & Spatial Tech

Every 15 minutes the world’s news is captured into the Global Knowledge Graph. The data set contains nearly a trillion sentiment snapshots and more than 1.5 billion location references.
Oracle ingested the data set on the Bare Metal Cloud to create a data warehouse. The project was designed to meet the needs of big data users, such as cyber threat and defense intelligence analysts. They require analysis of the connections between people, places, events, content and sentiment embedded in traditional data sources. They also need a pipeline and robust visualizations to filter the data, carve out relevant subsets and save the results to a property graph database for further analysis.
This session will describe the challenges, complexities, and technologies used to create a 35TB data warehouse, and filter, visualize, analyze and write results back, with a single click, to the Oracle Spatial and Graph database using Tom Sawyer Perspectives.

Speakers

Kevin Madden

Chief Software Engineer, Tom Sawyer Software

With more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, Kevin Madden brings an innovative approach to Tom Sawyer Software. Originally the third software engineer at Tom Sawyer Software, today he plays a strategic role in the direction of the company's server-based products... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Bare Metal Cloud Database Service, Big Data SQL, Cloud Machine, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), NoSQL Database Enterprise Edition, Spatial and Graph (OSG), Weblogic
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and SQL

9:25am PDT

Comprehensive Cloud Analytics on Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service!!!

In this session, you will learn how DiLytics integrated Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) data into Oracle Analytics Cloud Service. DiLytics designed a Data Warehouse for Planning and Budgeting Analytics and developed a package to load data from Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service into the data warehouse. This enabled creation of metrics, KPIs and Dashboards in Oracle Analytics Cloud for extensive insight into the PBCS data. This empowered City of Oakland’s Financial Planning team to analyze budget details, actual spend, planned position details by job class, one-time and ongoing costs, Variance by department, etc. FP&A team is able to get insight into performance of planning process, effectiveness of budget, etc.

Speakers

Shyam Panda

Founder and President, DiLytics Inc

Data Integration, Analytics, Business Intelligence. Shyam was Product Manager for BI Applications at Oracle. In his current role, Shyam:- Consults with customers on their current situation in the evolution of BI/Analytics in their enterprise- Recommends the best course of actions... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 9:25am - 9:50am PDT
4-Rm 104

Analytics

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC), Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS), Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
Track Analytics, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and SQL

10:05am PDT

Data Integration in the Cloud Era

With the drastic rise in cloud offerings from Oracle, developers and users are scrambling to integrate data from on-premise and cloud solutions. This can range from small file transfers containing financial data to solutions for tools like Essbase Cloud Services, to large data sets containing millions of records sourced from a data warehouse loaded into Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). We also find ourselves integrating across cloud applications (for example, sourcing data from financial systems for reporting and analytics in other cloud tools). This presentation focuses on the gears that move the data, and presents an array of options and best practices to manage data integration and data movement. Come learn about a variety of methodologies available, as well as a cross-product overview. Finally, hear about real world examples, and how data integration actually works with various Oracle cloud products.

Speakers

Thomas Blakeley

Manager / Architect, Performance Architects Inc

Tom Blakeley is a Manager & Architect at Performance Architects, with over six years of experience with business analytics solutions, utilizing Oracle Essbase, Hyperion Planning, and Oracle Business Intelligence to name a few. His specialties include consulting, IT, corporate finance... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 10:05am - 10:55am PDT
1-Auditorium

Analytics

Products Data Integrator (ODI), Data Integrator Cloud Service (ODICS), GoldenGate, GoldenGate Cloud Service (GGCS), Analytics Cloud (OAC), Essbase, Essbase Cloud
Track Analytics, Data Warehousing and SQL

10:05am PDT

Analyzing and resolving performance through aggregation tables in OBIEE 12c

This presentation will cover the process of resolving performance issues in OBIEE 12c. We will explain how to analyze poorly performing reports and dashboards. How to view the sql behind poorly performing analytics and dashboards. Explain the process implementing aggregate tables to improve performance.

Speakers

Ervin McFadden

Senior BI Consultant, US-Analytics

Certified Professional Business IntelligenceOver fifteen years of Accounting and Information Systems experience. Extensive use of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle Financial / Manufacturing Applications and development tools. Including the following Oracle... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 10:05am - 10:55am PDT
4-Rm 104

Data Warehousing and SQL

Products Business Intelligence, Partitioning
Track Data Warehousing and SQL, Analytics

10:05am PDT

Follow the Money: A Graph Model for Monitoring Bank Transactions

Examining the flow of bank transactions is key to analyzing financial operations such as fraud detection, client segmentation, personalized offers, risk modeling, client retention, etc. In particular, bank analysts are challenged to understand the behavior of companies that make large bank deposits and then transfer significant sums – to entities both inside and outside the bank’s network. They are also challenged by the limitation of relational and traditional BI tools to effectively model and analyze the money flows between a customer, its bank, and external 3rd parties. Banco Galicia has addressed this challenge by modeling money flows as a complex graph of transactions. The result is a powerful approach to support the analysis and visualization of money flows across a large network of bank-affiliated transactions. This session will desdescribe how Banco Galicia uses Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph to understand the topology and behavior of money transfers.

Speakers

Federico Garcia Calabria

Senior Consultant, Oracle

Federico Garcia Calabria has a college Degree in Informatics Engineer and a Masters Degree in Data Mining. He currently works as a Senior Consultant in Oracle Consulting Services where he has been contributing primarily as a Big Data/Business Intelligence/SOA analyst on banking and... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 10:05am - 10:55am PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning

11:10am PDT

Graph Modeling and Analysis for Complex Automotive Data Management

Mazda is an automotive manufacturer that routinely needs to link and analyze data from different sources like production, sales, inventory, and logistics. Most manufacturers use a bill of materials (BoM) to provide a master system for parts and their relationships. However, BoM developers have long realized the difficulties of modeling the complex relationships between components using a RDBMS. Moreover, BoM data must also align with master (or transaction) data from disparate IT systems. This paper highlights a novel approach to apply a graph database to create a flexible BoM of interconnected auto components. This system uses the property graph database and in-memory analytics in Oracle Spatial and Graph. We found the graph data model to be more effective at modeling, querying, and visualizing complex relationships in our data, while also integrating with different production systems. We will also share performance results of complicated pattern matching queries using PGQL._x000D_
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Speakers

Masahiro Yoshioka

Principal Engineer, Mazda Motor Corporation

Yoshioka Masahiro is currently responsible for evaluating and implementing advanced technologies in IT at Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, Japan. He and his team are currently focused on technologies in Big Data & AI – to identify opportunities to apply those technologies to... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 11:10am - 11:35am PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Internet of Things

11:10am PDT

Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics in the Oracle Analytics Cloud

This session will focus on the built-in capabilities of Oracle Analytics Cloud and OBIEE 12c to do predictive analytics and machine learning. Clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection are all available as single-click built-in functions using R. We’ll show not only the business use cases for these functions, but also how to extend and interpret the results sets from advanced analytic algorithms. We’ll cover how to leverage the power of R (the world’s most popular programing language for advanced analytics) through Oracle’s packages and through the thousands of open source packages available. We’ll also show the latest capabilities for building and scoring data using machine learning models in OAC and OBIEE 12c.

Speakers

Tim Vlamis

VP and Analytics Strategist, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

Wednesday March 21, 2018 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Analytics

Products Advanced Analytics (OAA), Business Intelligence
Track Analytics, Machine Learning

11:10am PDT

Extreme Analytics on the Exadata Cloud

Exadata is the platform to run analytics. Now run these queries on the cloud; either in your data center or ours. See the features and deployment models available for the Exadata Cloud. In addition, we will go over the Exadata Features available to you on the service to launch your analytics into overdrive. Other topics covered will be Exadata smart software features such as smart scans, storage indexes and HCC. Also databases options to help with analytics such as in-memory. Live demos of the service will also be used as examples in each of the topics covered.

Speakers

Brian Spendolini

Product Manager, Oracle

Brian is currently the Product Manager of Oracle's Exadata Cloud Service. Previously he was a product manager for the Enterprise Database Cloud Service (DBCS). Before his product management roles, Brian was in GSE where he was a lead developer on demoweb (demo.oracle.com). He was responsible for the backend infrastructure (database and application security, data security, LDAP integration, ORDS configuration and metadata) as well as the demo store section of demoweb. The demo store is his 3th content management system here at Oracle preceded by Retrieve... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
5-Rm 105

Cloud Computing

Products Exadata Database Cloud Service
Track Cloud Computing, Analytics

11:10am PDT

Operationalizing Machine Learning

Most data science projects begin with data, “tools” and scripts but fail to get beyond the data scientist. They hit a wall when attempting to “operationalize” the models. Netflix never implemented the algorithm that won the Netflix $1 Million Challenge. This dichotomy between enterprise and algorithms is eliminated when algorithms are built into the data management platforms. By “moving algorithms to the data”, Oracle Database and Big Data Clouds are now data management and advanced analytical platforms. “Robots” can replicate human tasks by capturing best practices discovered in the data and automating that process using machine learning deployed models. Developers use SQL, R and Oracle Data Miner UI to build, evaluate and deploy advanced analytical methodologies. See how to go beyond “tools” to enabling RPA (robotic process automation) applications. Several Oracle “predictive” Applications will be shown as examples._x000D_

Speakers

Charlie Berger

Sr. Dir. Product Mgmt, Oracle Machine Learning, AI, Oracle

Wednesday March 21, 2018 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Machine Learning

Track Machine Learning, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and SQL

11:35am PDT

Construct a Public Security Data Analysis Engine Using Oracle Big Data Solution

Criminal analysis and prediction involves using many, varied data sources with various data formats. A city level public security department in China looked to Oracle's big data technologies to address their business requirements. We delivered this project to our customer using Oracle Database 11.2, Big Data Spatial and Graph 2.2, BIEE 12c, Data Visualization, Big Data Discovery 1.3.2 products.
We integrated various data including emergency call (911), demographic, hotel bookings, criminal records, live traffic, and other data sets, to perform accommodation analysis, criminal prediction analysis, correlation analysis, and operation efficiency dashboard and reporting. The property graph features in Big Data Spatial and Graph were key to performing these analytics, and the solution integrated Oracle's big data technology into one platform.

Speakers

Justin Zou

Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle

Justin Zou has more than 10 years hands on experiences of IT/consulting work , especially at Big Data field.

Wednesday March 21, 2018 11:35am - 12:00pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Big Data

Products Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Big Data, Analytics, Spatial and Graph

1:00pm PDT

Chart Your Journey from Oracle Business Intelligence to Oracle Analytics Cloud

How do you decide when to move Oracle Business Intelligence from on-premises to the cloud? In this session learn about a road map that outlines what to do and when to do it as you chart your journey to Oracle Analytics Cloud. Learn about best practices and lessons learned from actual real world implementations.

Speakers

Bill Roy

Senior Director Information Technology, Western Digital Corporation

InMail Send an InMail to Bill Roy More actions Strong track record of being a trusted adviser to the business, built on my ability to understand their requirements, challenges, & business issues and use my technical expertise to design solutions that help them improve productivity... Read More →

Richard Solari

Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Wednesday March 21, 2018 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Analytics

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC)
Track Analytics, Cloud Computing

1:00pm PDT

Moving from On-Prem Essbase and OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud in 6 Weeks or Le

Essbase is finally in the cloud! So should you consider migrating to the cloud? Join us for the session where we will introduce and demo Essbase cloud services. We will show you all the features and functions available in Oracle Analytics Cloud, show you what is the same between on-prem and the cloud and what is different. We will review how the steps to migrate your Essbase applications to the cloud and what roadblocks and pitfalls to look out for. We will then show you how to maintain your Essbase applications in the cloud. - dimension builds, data integrations, automations, and more. Come to the session to learn when and why migrating to the cloud may make sense for you.

Speakers

Wayne Van Sluys

Senior Consultant, interRel Consulting

Wayne Van Sluys has been working with Business Intelligence Analysis and Reporting since 1998, both as a Developer and Lead Architect. His work has primarily centers around the integration of OBIEE and Essbase. Wayne has a master's degree in education and brings a training and development... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
5-Rm 105

Analytics

1:00pm PDT

Using Machine Learning in OBIEE for Predictive Analytics and Actionable BI

This presentation focuses on unlocking the power of Data Science for data-driven decision support. It details the pragmatics of using Machine Learning techniques in OBIEE for actionable BI and Predictive Analytics from a business standpoint. Two industry use cases are presented to illustrate the implementation of the same using OBIEE 12c.

Speakers

Lakshman Bulusu

Consultant, Princetoinfo

Lakshman Bulusu has around 30 years of US experience as a database developer, database engineer, and database architect using Oracle, MySql, Sqlserver and Vertica across telecom, retail, healthcare, pharma, and insurance industry verticals in both OLAP and OLTP environments.His book... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Machine Learning

Products Advanced Analytics (OAA), Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Data Visualization (DV), Database Enterprise Edition, R Enterprise (ORE)
Track Machine Learning, Analytics, Big Data

2:20pm PDT

Discovering Tax Fraud in Florence, Italy with a Semantic Graph Database

One of the most cost-effective activities Italian town halls are supposed to carry out is tax evaders detection. That is why the city of Florence asked Evodevo to develop the Florence Fraud Detection System, a Decision Support System to help municipalities employees in automating the detection process.

The Florence Fraud Detection System consists of several databases merging into an Oracle 12c db with Spatial & Graph option with a description logic rules layer on top. The rules were derived from a study about the tax fraud domain in the specific section of Italian citizens resident abroad, in order to classify the citizens of Florence into different levels of suspiciousness. The system includes a Joseki SPARQL endpoint customization with pre-written semantic queries.

The session will consist of: an introduction to the context; a technical overview; a system demonstration.

Speakers

Claudia Corcione

Knowledge Engineer, Evodevo

Project Manager, Knowledge Manager and Ontology Designer at Evodevo s.r.l., I graduated in Philosophy and I specialized in Philosophy of Science and Artificial Intelligence. I deal with knowledge management systems, ontology design, text classification, cutting-edge research systems... Read More →

Silvia Naro

Software Engineer, Evodevo

Software engineer and semantic technologies specialist at Evodevo. I graduated in Computer Science, with a special focus on AI.I have been dealing with semantic technologies especially triplestores and rule-based systems; Question Answering Systems and Recommendation Systems.As Software... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 2:20pm - 2:45pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Track Analytics

2:20pm PDT

Transitioning OBIA On-Premise to OAC

The transition from Oracle Business Intelligence Applications On-Premise to Oracle Analytics Cloud can be a challenging and rewarding initiative.
This presentation looks to provide relevant information to anyone looking to transition from on-premise OBIA to OAC. The discussion will focus on the roles involved from business intelligence analyst, ETL developer, OBIA System Admin/DBAs in the Full Solution Life Cycle of an Implementation including Design, Fit/Gap Analysis, Build, Test, Implementation and Post Go-Live.

Speakers

Peter Koutroubis

Sr. VP of Operations, ERPA

Wednesday March 21, 2018 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
4-Rm 104

Analytics

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC)
Track Analytics, Cloud Computing

2:20pm PDT

Spark Streaming vs. Kafka Streams - two stream processing platforms compared

Independent of the source of data, the integration and analysis of event streams gets more important in the world of sensors, social media streams and Internet of Things. Events have to be accepted quickly and reliably, they have to be distributed and analyzed, often with many consumers or systems interested in all or part of the events. In this session we compare two popular Streaming Analytics solutions: Spark Streaming and Kafka Streams.
Spark is fast and general engine for large-scale data processing and has been designed to provide a more efficient alternative to Hadoop MapReduce. Spark Streaming brings Spark's language-integrated API to stream processing, letting you write streaming applications the same way you write batch jobs. It supports both Java and Scala.
Kafka Streams is the stream processing solution which is part of Kafka. It is provided as a Java library and by that can be easily integrated with any Java application.

Speakers

Guido Schmutz

Platform Architect, Trivadis

Guido Schmutz works for the Oracle Platinum Partner Trivadis. He has more than 30 years of technology experience. At Trivadis he leads the Trivadis Architecture Board. He has long-time experience as developer, coach, trainer, and architect in the area of building IT systems. In the... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
5-Rm 105

Big Data

Products Big Data Cloud Service (OBDCS)
Track Big Data, Analytics

2:20pm PDT

Anomaly detection and machine learning - with Oracle Management Cloud

The Oracle Management Cloud is a broad platform which has great capabilities on mining data and perform machine learning in order to detect anomalies in your IT systems. In this way you will be able to pro actively detect possible bottlenecks, predict peak loads so you can take the necessary actions to scale your system. In this session it will be explained how to use these features.

Speakers

Michel Schildmeijer

Lead Technologist, Qualogy

Having made his start in the pharmacy sector, Michel transitioned to IT in 1996, working on a UNIX system and the MUMPS. He currently works as a Lead Technologist at Qualogy, His passion for middleware started in 2000 when working as a support analyst for a financial institute with... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Machine Learning

Products Advanced Security, Cloud Machine, Software as a Service (SaaS)
Track Machine Learning, Analytics, Cloud Computing, General

2:20pm PDT

HOL: Using Property Graph and Graph Analytics on Oracle NoSQL DB to analyze data on Meetup.com

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Meetup.com is a social media platform for people interested in the same subject to gather in groups, also to plan, and organize meetings in order to connect with meetup group members for the purpose of exchanging knowledge, discussing subjects and form new networks. All data related to meetup groups and their members, the events they organize and speakers at events as well as comments regarding events can perfectly representated as a property graph. This gives the opportunity to use graph algorithms to analyze these data.
The purpose of this presentation is to show how to build a graph from Meetup.com data and how to use Oracle´s Property Graph In-Memory Analytics Framework to analyze the graph in order to (1) find influencers for certain topics in different locations or (2) identify hot topics people are interested in most. The HOL is "tell & show" using BDL VM 4.11 as environment, RStudio for data wrangling and Big Data Spatial and Graph with Oracle NoSQL DB as data layer. Scripts will be uploaded to and available via Github.

Speakers

Karin Patenge

Business Development Manager, Oracle Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG

Karin Patenge is currently working as a Business Development Manager for Technology. She joined Oracle in 2007 as a PreSales Consultant with the focus to enable customers and partners in embedding Oracle Technologies (software products and services) in their solutions. Having a background... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 2:20pm - 3:10pm PDT
6-Bldg 500

Spatial and Graph

Products Big Data SQL, Big Data Cloud Service (OBDCS)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics

2:45pm PDT

Graph-enabled Data Discovery and Lightweight records of processing tool supporting GDPR requirements

Organizations are managing greater amounts of information from different sources and countries, and face complex privacy and data protection requirements. The European Union has introduced a sweeping General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As of May 2018, GDPR will enforce new accountability obligations and restrictions on international data flows affecting all organizations offering goods or services to EU residents.

GDPR SMART is an Oracle Consulting solution designed to help organizations address and mitigate potential risks associated with data processing activities. GDPR SMART is a graph-enabled platform that identifies all user Personal Information stored in their systems; automatically categorizes existing data sets; and analyzes potential risks inherent in these data. We will show how GDPR SMART supports the 2018 mandate. We will demo its rich functionality using Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph technologies, with Big/Fast Data processing, NLP and machine learning.

Speakers

Wojciech Wcislo

Head of EMEA Warsaw ICCC, Oracle

Experienced consulting manager and architect with 10+ years of IT consulting experience out of which 6+ on various management positions. Consulting manager and P&L owner in EMEA consulting. Responsible for the delivery of consulting services and projects to regional customers, business... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 2:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC), Data Visualization (DV), Data Visualization Cloud Service (DVCS), Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Cloud Computing

3:25pm PDT

Feedback from the business. Am I on the right path to customer success?

Measure Processes, Manage Feedback, Link to Process, Drill to detail, From Insight to Action…
You've heard of all this before, but it is hardly ever completely implemented. The steps from Insight to Action are hard to capture with Action Links as we try to do with Business Intelligence. But when you use the capabilities of platforms such as BICS and PCS the implementation and adjustments can be very easily accomplished. You can even empower your business users to adjust the solution themselves. Creating BPM / BAM / BI solutions can now be done with webbased tools only that appear like low-code solutions. Can you use this to empower the business to stay connected and stay on track with your ever changing environment?
We will set out a few steps to gather the right input and to stay flexible with your integrated Business solution. The demo includes integrations between BICS and PCS that are the cornerstones for digitally empowered business by using self service as the starting point.

Speakers

Hasso Schaap

Analytics Designer, Qualogy

Come talk with me about all kinds of Business Analytics and Business Process Management. Especially the Oracle Cloud Platform is in my interest. Just like specific Finance and Human Capital Management topics.I'm a certfied specialist in Business Analytics and Big Data.

Wednesday March 21, 2018 3:25pm - 4:15pm PDT
5-Rm 105

Analytics

Products Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS), Data Visualization (DV)
Track Analytics, Cloud Computing

3:25pm PDT

Level Up -- The technologies you need to learn to stay relevant in analytics

The world of business analytics is rapidly changing. Technology is focused on bringing more and more functionality to end users and automating or obscuring many of the tasks that were the cornerstone of a number of technology careers. As the skills that were in extremely high demand 5 or 10 years ago become less valued in the marketplace what skills should you focus your efforts on today, that take advantage of the skills you already have, to continue to advance your career as a technologist?
In this panel discussion thought leaders from the analytics industry will exchange views on the changing landscape of business analytics and technology and share their impressions of the current and future state of the industry. The panel, with participation from attendees, will try to separate the hype from reality about what skills really matter and how to stay relevant and advance your career in the ever-changing world of analytics.

Speakers

Charlie Berger

Sr. Dir. Product Mgmt, Oracle Machine Learning, AI, Oracle

Stewart Bryson

Owner, Red Pill Analytics

Arthur Dayton

Senior Consultant, Vlamis Software Solutions Inc

Arthur Dayton is a business analytics and data integration professional who works as a Senior Consultant for Vlamis Software Solutions. He teaches technology fundamentals to students at the University of Nebraska Omaha and also shares technical knowledge on his blog https://helpm... Read More →

Nick Salem

Distinguished Engineer, Neustar

Wayne Van Sluys

Senior Consultant, interRel Consulting

Tim Vlamis

VP and Analytics Strategist, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

Wednesday March 21, 2018 3:25pm - 4:15pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Analytics

Products Active Data Guard, Advanced Analytics (OAA), Advanced Compression, Advanced Security, Airlines Data Model, Analytics Cloud (OAC), Bare Metal Cloud Database Service, Berkeley Database, Big Data Cloud Service (OBDCS), Big Data Connectors, Big Data Discovery (BDD), Big
Track Analytics

3:25pm PDT

How To Build A Business Analytics Business Case When The Future Is Cloudy

We all know that IT spend is getting cloudier and cloudier these days, with software, infrastructure and platform spend moving to the cloud…but we are also all in situations where we need to make the best use of our organization's investment in existing applications and infrastructure! In this session, we will discuss practical advice for making the business case to move to cloud as appropriate for BI/business analytics and related software/infrastructure/platform solutions, with a detailed conversation around when cloud makes sense financially...and when it doesn't. We will discuss real-life case studies on companies that moved to the cloud; companies that chose (near-to-mid-term) to stay fully on-premise; and companies that made the business case for a hybrid environment for the foreseeable future. Learn how you can evaluate what makes sense for you and your organization!

Speakers

Kirby Lunger

Partner, Performance Architects

Wednesday March 21, 2018 3:25pm - 4:15pm PDT
2-Rm 102

General

Track General, Analytics, Cloud Computing

3:25pm PDT

manufacturing_df.transform().fit()

Real life Manufacturing Data is not like iris or titanic. We cannot just .fit() and .score(). We need to effectively .transform() the data. In this presentation, we will look at the complexity of manufacturing data and various ways to feature engineer manufacturing data to derive meaningful variables to solve manufacturing problems. Specifically we will look at a. Methods to construct machine learning data set for different type of Manufacturing like Lot Controlled, Serial Controlled, Batch Manufacturing, Discrete Manufacturing b. Transformation method of time series data from Machine Sensor Readings c. Various binning transformations on transaction data

Speakers

Sreeram Hariharan

Senior Prinicipal Applications Engineer, Oracle Corp

Application Developer working on Adaptive Intelligent Applications for Manufacturing.

Wednesday March 21, 2018 3:25pm - 4:15pm PDT
6-Bldg 500

Machine Learning

Products Advanced Analytics (OAA), Big Data Cloud Service (OBDCS), R Enterprise (ORE)
Track Machine Learning, Analytics

3:25pm PDT

Using Spatial in Oracle Cloud with Developer Tools and Frameworks

Developers can now build location analytics and map visualization into their cloud applications with Spatial using popular developer tools and frameworks. This session will provide examples of Spatial development for the cloud using mainstream frameworks such as Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS), Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle JET, NODE.js, and Python. These examples typify Spatial in the mainstream of cloud development.

Speakers

David Lapp

Product Manager, Oracle

David Lapp is senior principal product manager for Oracle's spatial and graph technologies, focused on Cloud and Big Data solutions. His experience includes working as Spatial and Business Intelligence solutions specialist in Oracle's Public Sector group, where he engaged with several... Read More →

Siva Ravada

Senior Director of Engineeting, Oracle, USA

Wednesday March 21, 2018 3:25pm - 4:15pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Database Cloud Service
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Cloud Computing

4:30pm PDT

A Cognitive Study on Data Visualization

With data volumes exploding and a greater variety of data available,business users want to explore more data and discover new insights that they can apply readily to improve business strategies, operations and customer engagement.With easier data exploration,users are seeking to increase the depth and frequency of their data analysis.This is a significant change because users who engage in analytics processes interact with data differently from what has been the norm with traditional BI.Rather than just consume data,they ask questions,try different views and approaches,build predictive models, and more.Supporting users’ forays into analytics is critical because it’s becoming clear in nearly every industry that organizations need to be more analytical to compete effectively.Visual analytics can help users become more productive with data by using software to integrate data analysis capabilities with modern,graphical ways of expressing information.Such technologies give users more power. This study that examines experiences with BI, visual analytics, and visual data discovery to uncover how organizations can move forward to make users more productive with data and use technologies to improve collaboration. This study explores where users are succeeding with BI and analytics and where visual analytics can improve their decisions. Currently, users are not fully satisfied with their ability to use visual analytics functionality. Training and education are needed to help them understand how to use visualization effectively and exploit new methods of data analysis.

Speakers

Ranajoy Bose

Sr. Manager, Cloud Solution Engineering, Oracle

Ranajoy Bose is a Solution Engineering manager of the Analytics Pillar based out of the Oracle Cloud Solution Hub in Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of rich experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics and Data-warehousing across various verticals and geographies, with market... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Analytics

Products Data Visualization (DV), Data Visualization Cloud Service (DVCS), Data Visualization Desktop (DVD)
Track Analytics

4:30pm PDT

How to get from A to Z using multiple Oracle Products

This session will cover a real world example of multiple Oracle products being used for data projects and marketing campaigns across an enterprise level business vertical.

A major national partner in the telecom space - with 600 retail locations and 8 million customers - needed comprehensive analytic help which required the following cloud based Oracle products:
1) OCI - Bare Metal - Housing the entire US consumer database of 260 million records with 100's of household attributes
2) OAC - Geo-spatial audit of their retail trade area currently used for prospect canvassing
3) OAC - Using Advanced Analytics to create extensive profiles/personas of who was buying their product
4) OAC - Using advanced modeling techniques to build predictive audience files to power new customer acquisition programs
5) ODC and OnRamp Services - Pushing millions of prospect and customer records into Onramp Services for use in OMC
6) OMC - Monitor existing customer buying cycles for renewal and cross-sell opportunities - and suppression against new prospect audiences
7) OMC - Monitor behavorial triggers inside BlueKai DMP for optimal promotion of client brand
8) OAC - Effective post campaign reporting with ROI and other KPI’s used for better attribution of marketing spend.

Speakers

Jerry Gearding

Chief Technology Officer, DX Marketing

Multi-disciplined technology, cloud, marketing and business leader with a consistent track record of driving increased levels of profit, productivity, ROI and overall customer satisfaction. Recognized as a technology evangelist and change agent who designs and implements best of class... Read More →

Ray Owens

CEO, DX Marketing

Data-driven decisions are all the rage nowadays, but DX Marketing's founder and CEO Ray Owens has long been a numbers guy. His three decades of data analytics experience and real world customer insight form the foundation of both the capabilities as a business and the marketing philosophies... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
4-Rm 104

Analytics

Products Advanced Analytics (OAA), Bare Metal Cloud Database Service, Data Miner, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Track Analytics, General

4:30pm PDT

Setting up Oracle BI with Amazon Redshift

So you want to use Oracle Business Intelligence but your organization doesn't have an Oracle Database, or maybe you do but most of your data sources are stored in a warehouse such as Redshift or Snowflake.

At first glance it might seem that Oracle BI is no longer an option, but don't worry -- it is. In this presentation, we'll guide the audience through the nuanced complexity faced when installing a JDBC Driver for the purpose of connecting Oracle Business Intelligence to a database that isn't Oracle. While we use Redshift as an example, the shared insights will be helpful for anyone connecting Oracle BI to any warehouse or database.

Speakers

George Fraser

CEO & Co-founder, Fivetran

George Fraser is co-founder and CEO of Fivetran, a fully managed data pipeline built for analysts. Fivetran is a Y Combinator-backed company with over 350 customers relying on it to centralize their data. When Fivetran began in 2012, they realized that ETL tools were ill-equipped... Read More →

Wednesday March 21, 2018 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
5-Rm 105

Data Warehousing and SQL

Products Big Data Connectors, Big Data Preparation Cloud Service, Big Data SQL, Business Intelligence, Database as a Service (DaaS), Database Cloud Service, MySQL Cloud Service, Software as a Service (SaaS), Storage Cloud Service
Track Data Warehousing and SQL, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing

4:30pm PDT

Easy To Use Self Service Maps in Oracle Database Cloud

See a newly designed self-service spatial visualization and analysis component for Oracle Database Cloud. The tool is intended to simplify the use of Oracle Spatial and Graph features for Database Cloud Service users and developers. It is designed to benefit users with or without domain expertise in spatial data management and analytics.
The session will demonstrate end-to-end workflows such as:

Select database content (one or more tables or views with spatial information), visualize it on map, customize the map, share the result
Upload a spreadsheet with spatial data (e.g. Lat/Long points) or identifiers (e.g. city or state names) and perform the same set of steps as above
Perform ad-hoc spatial queries, visualize and share the results
Create a dashboard-like page with multiple maps to show comparisons (e.g. Sales by Year)

Speakers

Carol Palmer

Sr. Principal Product Manager, Oracle

Carol is a senior principal product manager in Oracle's Spatial & Graph product group. She is focused on spatial and graph cloud services and components and serves as Oracle representative to the Spatial & Graph SIG board.

LJ Qian

Director, Software Development, Oracle

Dr. Liujian (LJ) Qian obtained his Ph.D from Penn State, and Master's degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Academia

Wednesday March 21, 2018 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Database Cloud Service
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Cloud Computing

8:45am PDT

Leveraging Analytics in Higher Education

Big data is still a trending topic in higher education and other industries. While understanding the importance of big data is critical, most universities are not leveraging the power of small data. Many data warehouse implementations in higher education fail as they only provide reports that do not aid in improving daily business functions. This session will highlight various technologies and strategies in incorporating data and analytics into the institutional culture. Business intelligence is not just getting sophisticated reports but being integrated into the applications that students, faculty, advisors, and staff use daily. Data and analytics should be used to drive processes and provide alerts when interventions are needed. This session will provide an overview of how Valdosta State University have integrated data into the academic and administrative functions of the university, leading to improved insight and value.

Speakers

Brian Haugabrook

CIO, Valdosta State University

IT executive with extensive experience in business intelligence, data analysis, enrollment and retention management. Ability to blend leadership, strategic vision, innovation, and technical expertise to define and deliver a campus-wide vision and strategic plan for all academic and... Read More →

Thursday March 22, 2018 8:45am - 9:35am PDT
4-Rm 104

Analytics

Products Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS), Database Enterprise Edition
Track Analytics, Data Warehousing and SQL, General

8:45am PDT

Governance? Governance!! Ensuring Trust, Compliance and Collaboration

Join Oracle Engineering to hear real world use cases of how Oracle Customers have utilized Data Integration Platform Cloud – Governance Edition, DIPC-GE, as the foundation for data governance across their big data enterprise. This will include use case patterns, known pitfalls, as well as tips and tricks for future proofing your data governance investment. Oracle Engineering will review how our customers have utilized DIPC-GE to provide a proactive, trusted big data platform, which enables collaboration and enforces compliance across the enterprise. At the core of DIPC-GE is the data catalog which is used to create comprehensive catalog of data entities as well as business terms. The data catalog enables many advanced use cases within data governance, such as; data classification, data quality insights, data profiling, data lineage, impact analysis, AI/ML linkage of data assets to a business glossary, all with rich collaboration and built in flexible workflows and auditing. Join us!

Speakers

Jayant Mahto

Product Manager, Oracle

Jayant Mahto has been working with Data Integration for the past 20 years. His history in Oracle dates back 15 years ago first developing Business Intelligence Applications and then as product manager for the Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Metadata Management products.

Thursday March 22, 2018 8:45am - 9:35am PDT
6-Rm 106

Data Warehousing and SQL

Products Data Integrator (ODI), Data Integrator Cloud Service (ODICS), GoldenGate, GoldenGate Cloud Service (GGCS)
Track Data Warehousing and SQL, Analytics, Big Data

8:45am PDT

Analyzing Blockchain and Bitcoin Transaction Data as Graph

Blockchain technology and Bitcoin will potentially revolutionize business transactions. Blockchain offers a robust, decentralized platform for privacy and trust. It underlies the digital crypto-currency Bitcoin, which can be exchanged freely and anonymously, without a central authority. Bitcoin transactions - recorded publicly, and growing at a rate of 100,000's of transactions per day - provide an invaluable dataset to gain insight into the behavior of digital currency and the underlying Blockchain technology. Blocks, transactions with potential multiple inputs and outputs, and flow of bitcoins between addresses, form a sophisticated real-time graph. This talk details a pipeline used to gather bitcoin transaction data and analyze it with powerful graph cloud database technologies.

Speakers

Xavier Lopez

Senior Director, Oracle

Xavier Lopez is Senior Director of Product Management in Oracle's Spatial and Graph products group. Over the last 20 years he has played a key role championing the development of spatial and graph database technologies in Oracle. He is currently focusing on the development... Read More →

Zhe Wu

Architect, Oracle

Zhe Wu is an architect working on semantic and graph technologies in Oracle USA. He leads the design, architecture, and development of the inference engine for W3C RDFS/SKOS/OWL in the database, Java APIs for RDF Semantic Graph, RDF triple-level security, SQL-based graph analytics... Read More →

Thursday March 22, 2018 8:45am - 9:35am PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Big Data Cloud Service (OBDCS)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning

8:45am PDT

HOL: Oracle DV & ML : come try it live !

Limited Capacity seats available

Come to this hands on lab to run Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning models in Oracle DV and build stunning visualizations with it!

Speakers

Joseph Kuttikat

Director of Product Management, Oracle Analytics, Oracle India

Philippe Lions

Senior Director, Oracle

Thursday March 22, 2018 8:45am - 10:40am PDT
2-Rm 102

Analytics

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC)
Track Analytics, Machine Learning

9:50am PDT

Sensing, Seeing, and Showing: Visualizing Data in Oracle Analytics Cloud

The process of scientifically uncovering insights in complex data sets is one of the most exciting areas of Visual Analytics. You’ll see how to break down the steps in data exploration so that you discover key findings quickly, efficiently, and comprehensively. Showing and telling others your data stories use many of the same visualization tools and concepts, but the challenge is making this effective for different people with different backgrounds, skills, and abilities. We’ll cover advanced topics like Sankey, parallel coordinates, trellis, and force vector charts and while reinforcing fundamental principles that lead to exceptionally effective screens of all kinds. Join the authors of THE book on Data Visualization for Oracle Business Intelligence as we share the yet to be tapped potential of Oracle Analytics Cloud and Data Visualization through a series of live demonstrations.

Speakers

Dan Vlamis

President, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

Tim Vlamis

VP and Analytics Strategist, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

Thursday March 22, 2018 9:50am - 10:40am PDT
1-Auditorium

Analytics

Products Business Intelligence
Track Analytics

9:50am PDT

Analytic platform with a hybrid approach of home grown and vendor tools

Adopting any new technology is daunting, in addition to peer pressure, there is also a need to size up as data grows, all without breaking the bank. The original BIWA 2015 presentation was on how any IT shop can build a commodity Hadoop cluster with Dell servers, Redhat Linux, Infiband network cards and Cloudera HDFS. Most of the coding was in Java, and OLH (Oracle Loader for Hadoop) was used to load data into an Oracle 12c in-memory table (presented at OOW15). The expertise of Computer Science faculty, staff and students was used for the full project with vendor support.The group has since enhanced the cluster with SSD (Solid State Drives) and SPARK2, and written Python Spark Machine Learning code to analyze Gigabyte size aircraft logs. The visualization of the data using R-Oracle has been planned for the future.

Speakers

Abhinav Arya

Research Intern, Naval Postgraduate School

Arijit Das

Research Associate, Naval Postgraduate School

Arijit Das is a computer scientist with BS/MS degrees in Computer Science (MNREC, India & Oregon State University) and an MSEE from University of Nevada Las Vegas. He currently is a research faculty at the Computer Science Department of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California... Read More →

Jim Zhou

Researcher, NPS

Thursday March 22, 2018 9:50am - 10:40am PDT
4-Rm 104

Machine Learning

Products Big Data Connectors, Database In-Memory, Spark2, Python, Cloudera
Track Machine Learning, Analytics, Big Data

9:50am PDT

Ingesting streaming data into Graph database

This talk presents the experience of a customer project where we built a stream-based ingestion into a graph database. It is one thing to load the graph first and then querying it. But it is another story if the data to be added to the graph is constantly streaming in, while querying it. Data is easy to add, if each single message ends up as a new vertex in the graph. But if a message consists of hierarchical information, it most often means creating multiple new vertices as well adding edges to connect this information. What if a node already exists in the graph? Do we create it again or do we rather add edges which link to the existing node? Creating multiple nodes for the same real-life entity is not the best choice, so we have to check for existence first. We end up requiring multiple operations against the graph, which demonstrated to be a bottle neck. This talk presents the implementation of an ingestion pipeline and the design choice we made to improve performance.

Speakers

Guido Schmutz

Platform Architect, Trivadis

Thursday March 22, 2018 9:50am - 10:40am PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Business Intelligence, Cloud Machine, Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database, Database Cloud Service, Real Application Testing
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data

10:55am PDT

New Oracle Analytics Cloud Essbase Account? Now What Do You Do?

You have worked hard to convince your company they should move to the Oracle Analytics Cloud and have just received your OAC URL, username, and password. You anxiously login to find that you have no service instances provisioned! So, where do you start? Join this session to see a step-by-step walk through of provisioning the necessary services, getting your first Essbase databases converted from on-premise Essbase into the cloud, and connecting to those services using Smart View.

Speakers

Tim Tow

Founder and President, Applied OLAP, Inc

Thursday March 22, 2018 10:55am - 11:45am PDT
4-Rm 104

Analytics

Products Essbase Cloud
Track Analytics

10:55am PDT

Oracle & R -- Advanced Analytics on Steroids

The value of Oracle R Enterprise and the ability to use custom R scripts in various Oracle analytics tools cannot be understated. …But how do you use R to maximize your organization’s analytics? From the standard, included scripts to custom scripts, this session will focus on making sure the “secrets” are known about using R scripts in Oracle analytics tools.

Speakers

Sarah Zumbrum

VP BI and Analytics, Accelytics

Sarah Craynon Zumbrum is an Oracle ACE Alumni (Director) currently a Public Sector Enterprise Cloud Architect specializing in Business Intelligence and Analytics for Oracle. She has previously worked in-house as a business intelligence architect and as an EPM consultant, specializing... Read More →

Thursday March 22, 2018 10:55am - 11:45am PDT
1-Auditorium

Machine Learning

Products Business Intelligence
Track Machine Learning, Analytics

10:55am PDT

Fake News, Trolls, Bots and Money Laundering -- Find the Truth with Graphs

Millions of dollars are spent every year on big data analysis of tweets, trends, Facebook commentary and social media sentiment. Detecting money laundering, fraud and other financial crimes becomes more difficult as the structure of shell corporations and the flow of transactions follow labyrinthine structures. Identifying suspicious activities, false information and fraudulent patterns is increasingly important in today’s information economy. See how graph analysis, database and visualization tools expose fabricated trends, troll and bot-created content and fraudulent financial transactions. Learn about the powerful graph capabilities in Oracle Spatial and Graph, Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph and Oracle’s Cloud services.

Speakers

Sungpack Hong

Research Director, Oracle

Research Director at Oracle Labs.Leading projects regarding large-scale graph and data analysis -- platforms and applications

Jim Steiner

VICE PRESIDENT, ORACLE

Thursday March 22, 2018 10:55am - 11:45am PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing

12:00pm PDT

Pilot your Oracle Business Intelligence 12c Cloud Migration on Virtual Box

You know you need to get started on that Oracle Business Intelligence upgrade from 11g to 12c so you do a “lift and shift” to the cloud, but IT resources are tight, plus you’re not really sure how everything is going to fit together and you are going to have to wait for the Database and Server Administrators to get the environments set up. No problem, just use your laptop or PC to pilot the entire migration using Virtual Box and Sample Applications. In no time you will be up and running, using the migration and baseline validation tools, connecting to your real data, verifying dashboards and running reports in 12c. Once that is taken care of you can proceed to the cloud.
This is a case study of how Aleris International piloted its migration from OBIEE 11.1.1.7 to 12.2.1.1 using a laptop, Virtual Box and Sample applications for OBIEE.

Speakers

Mark Whitlock

BI Architect, Aleris International

Mark Whitlock is a Certified Oracle DBA, OBIA 7 Certified Implementation Specialist, past Director of IT in an Oracle database environment, Project Manager for Department of Defense and Global Decision Support Analyst. Currently a Senior BI Architect for Aleris International Inc... Read More →

Thursday March 22, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Analytics

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC), Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS), Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP)
Track Analytics, Cloud Computing

12:00pm PDT

Spatial analytics with Oracle DV, Analytics Cloud, and Database Cloud Service

Oracle Data Visualization (DV) and Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) include powerful features to gain insights from spatial and location-based information. This session will first review the built-in spatial and mapping capabilities of DV and OAC. We will then cover techniques to extend these built-in capabilities with additional spatial analytics and mapping using using features of Oracle Spatial and Graph in Oracle Database Cloud Service.

Speakers

David Lapp

Product Manager, Oracle

Jayant Sharma

Sr Dir, Prod Mgmt, Oracle USA Inc

Thursday March 22, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC), Data Visualization (DV), Data Visualization Cloud Service (DVCS), Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Cloud Computing

1:30pm PDT

Using Oracle R Enterprise for Event Registration Modeling and Propensity to Buy

Oracle Marketing Advanced Analytics team has been using Oracle R Enterprise(ORE) for propensity to buy modeling for the past few years. We have recently expanded our use of ORE to event registration. The models allow Oracle to target the right contacts for email marketing for product events. We have shown up to 4X increase in registration rates from model targets over the baseline. The presentation will cover an overview of the results of our modeling as well as some key insights we have learned on how to model using ORE.

Speakers

Joseph Darschewski

Sr. Data Scientist, Oracle

Sr Data ScientistOracle Marketing Advanced AnalyticsMS Statistics15+ years experience

Thursday March 22, 2018 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Machine Learning

Products Advanced Analytics (OAA), Data Mining (ODM), R Enterprise (ORE)
Track Machine Learning, Analytics, Big Data

1:30pm PDT

The Role of Master Data Management (MDM) for Data Centric Automation Strategies

In the engineering and construction industry, master data is key to data centric execution strategies for data exchange and integration. Innovative architectures for the digitization and deployment of master data support engineering information from its conceptual 2D and 3D design phases to their downstream uses in procurement, scheduling and construction. Building Information Management (BIM) hierarchical classification standards and other master data play a key role in the automated transformation and normalization of BIM 3-dimensional model records and their integration with other business system data. This presentation will identify some of the key master data needed to support the engineering automation processes for the exchange and integration of 3D model data in an Oracle Spatial and Graph data environment, and the data dictionary-driven architectures that help leverage master data as part of data centric innovation strategies.

Speakers

Tracy McLane

GIS / Engineering VPD Lead, Bechtel Infrastructure

Thursday March 22, 2018 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Enterprise Metadata Management, Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics

1:30pm PDT

Headache Due To Merger or Acquisition? Here's The Prescription for Financials

This session will describe a customer success story where the customer needed to quickly replace the budget/forecasting and financial reporting systems of a large business unit they had acquired (or they would face severe penalties). The customer is a large financial services company that is based in Jersey City, NJ (2.9bn annual revenues).

The customer chose to implement PBCS and BICS and have them run on Oracle DbaaS. Apps Associates performed the implementation and developed near real time integration across PBCS, BICS, EBS R12 and Workday. Apps Associates’ BICS Financial Accelerator was used to load data from EBS R12 into BICS/DbaaS and provide financial reporting. BICS was implemented as the single BI solution for all financial reporting and analysis - including drill down to detail.

The PBCS/BICS platform is now being rolled out to other areas of the organization.

Speakers

Myles Gilsenan

Practice Director, Apps Associates

Myles is a Director with Apps Associates and has more than 20 years of global experience in the design and deployment of large scale data warehousing and analytics solutions. He spent the first 10 years of his career at a Big 4 consulting firm leading international ERP and BI deployments... Read More →

Thursday March 22, 2018 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Analytics

Products Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS), Data Visualization Cloud Service (DVCS), Database as a Service (DaaS)
Track Analytics, Data Warehousing and SQL

1:30pm PDT

Why IoT is the killer use case for AutoML

While AI/ML has matured enough to solve many real-world problems effectively, this process typically requires close interactions between three separate skill sets – the domain expert, the data scientist and the programmer. A typical IoT user is a line-of-business person such as a Plant Supervisor or a Fleet Manager. AutoML enables automatic selection of the most appropriate algorithm that suits the domain problem learned based on the interactions with domain expert. Also, AutoML automatically selects the hyper parameters and tunes the models without requiring data scientist skills. Furthermore, AutoML automates the repetitive analytics needed for retraining models warranted by the high velocity IoT data. Therefore, AutoML is the key enabler of analytics in the industrial IoT. Since the typical business benefits in IoT involve significant savings, IoT is the killer use case for AutoML. We will present how Oracle IoT Cloud applies AutoML for industrial IoT problems.

Speakers

Viji Krishnamurthy

Sr. Director - Data Science, IoT and Blockchain Products, Oracle

Viji has over 16 years of experience as head of data science, analytics product management, product development and operations leader in Enterprise Software, Blockchain, IoT and Consumer Electronics industries. Viji holds patents on ML/AI implementations in supply chain, industrial... Read More →

Thursday March 22, 2018 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
6-Rm 106

Internet of Things

Track Interet of Things, Analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning

1:55pm PDT

Measuring Published Citation using Graph Modeling and Analysis

Research organizations, along with their funding agencies, routinely need to measure the performance of their organization. The application of scientific citation indexing is a widely used metric for evaluating the success of a research organization. This paper highlights the novel use of graph modeling, analytics and visualization to improve this metric of scientific performance. Our approach models an index of published scientific publication and citations as a connected graph. We used the Oracle in-memory graph analytics engine (PGX) to carry out graph analysis, statistical inferencing, and visual exploratory analysis. Our results illustrate how these graph modeling combined with statistical analysis, such as stochastic block model (SBM), can improve the measurement and evaluation of scientific research.

Speakers

Keisuke Honda

Research Administrator, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Keisuke Honda, Ph.D. is a Research Administrator in The Institute of Statistical Mathematics at Tokyo, Japan, where he works to enhancement research collaboration with industry and to promote several HPC projects. He leads project which is to develop new criteria to measure research... Read More →

Mio Takei

Project Senior Technical Support Specialist, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Mio Takei is a Technical Specialist in Analytics at The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan. She has previously worked as a consultant specializing in Business Intelligence and Analytics at Oracle Japan.

Thursday March 22, 2018 1:55pm - 2:20pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data

2:30pm PDT

Key Take-Aways in Exploring Oracle Cloud to Modernize BI and Analytics

Tektronix is a world-leading manufacturer of test and measurement equipment. Like many global organizations with complex business operations, the process of bringing together data resources for analysis is a challenging but critically important business function. Several business units at Tektronix used independent BI platforms, leading to integration challenges. A fast-track project run by Vlamis Software Solutions using Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) data visualizations consolidated these disparate systems into one modernized their business analytic platform. This all built upon the good work done in various departmental silos as well as their data warehouse and legacy OBIEE system. Come with your questions about how to balance the technology preferences of different functional user groups, how to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your current OBIEE implementation, and how to build momentum during a modernization initiative.

Speakers

Eshwari Mulpuru

Sr. Business Apps Manager, Tektronix Inc.

Tim Vlamis

VP and Analytics Strategist, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

Thursday March 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Analytics

Products Analytics Cloud (OAC), Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
Track Analytics

2:30pm PDT

How Search Augments Analytics

Traditional Business intelligence (BI) has delivered a great value to organizations, enabling them to better data-based decision making. However, today the speed to make business decisions has outpaced the traditional BI's ability to adapt and answer quickly new questions.

In this talk we introduce a very powerful engine like Apache Solr and demonstrate how easy it is to set it up and start getting answers right away. Since a picture is better than a thousand words we will also introduce Banana (a fork of Kibana) as its graphical front end for data analysis.

Finally, We will also discuss about Solr Analytics 2.0 which, provides the ability to search on live data perfectly complementing the use of a traditional data warehouse database.

Speakers

Jorge Anicama

Manager, PwC

Over 16 years of experience in all phases of Architecting, implementing, and supporting BI and Data Warehousing solutions for customers in the USA, Europe and Latin America. Worked with many industries including Banking, Insurance, Telco, and Retail.

Jean-Pierre Dijcks

Master Product Manager, Oracle

Thursday March 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm PDT
4-Rm 104

Big Data

2:30pm PDT

Spatial Analytics with Spark & Big Data

Sensor feeds and social media data contain much latent location information such as addresses, place names, and GPS coordinates. How can you uncover those location relationships and patterns for better business insights? How can build applications to track moving objects in real time? Learn about spatial technologies for Spark, Hadoop, and NoSQL, and how to build analytic applications using Java. Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph offers a set of analytic algorithms, services, and data models that support big data workloads. Data scientists and developers can be more productive by using dozens of prebuilt spatial functions and services. Users can harmonize data and group results based on spatial relationships, track moving objects, and apply spatial services to cleanse, filter, normalize, and process geospatial data sets, and easily perform spatial queries with new Hive and Spark SQL features.

Speakers

LJ Qian

Director, Software Development, Oracle

Dr. Liujian (LJ) Qian obtained his Ph.D from Penn State, and Master's degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Academia

Siva Ravada

Senior Director of Engineeting, Oracle, USA

Thursday March 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data

3:40pm PDT

Getting Started with Graphs on Oracle Database Cloud Service

With Oracle Database Release 12.2, property graph capabilities are now offered in Oracle Spatial and Graph, and can be easily deployed in Oracle Database Cloud Service. You can store and model graph data, and run sophisticated graph analytics such as detecting patterns and generating recommendations using the In-Memory Parallel Graph Analytics (PGX) engine. This session walks you through the steps, including how to enable Oracle Database Cloud Service with property graph capability, set up a remote PGX server with Oracle Java Cloud Service, and run queries for graph analysis.

Speakers

David Lapp

Product Manager, Oracle

Charles Wang

Consultant, Oracle Spatial and Graph, Oracle

Zhe Wu

Architect, Oracle

Thursday March 22, 2018 3:40pm - 4:05pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Database Cloud Service, Java Cloud Service, Spatial and Graph (OSG), Weblogic
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning

3:40pm PDT

Using GeoJSON in the Oracle Database

Location and other geographical information is traditionally stored in Oracle databases using specialized data types, such as the SDO_GEOMETRY type. That data type is powerful and flexible, but can be difficult to use. A modern alternative is to use a JSON-based encoding, called GeoJSON instead. GeoJSON is a lightweight format suited to data exchange and transfer, popular for reading and publishing spatial data on the Web, in Big Data, and for the Internet of Things.

This session will explain the way GeoJSON encodes a variety of geographical objects, from simple points to complex multi-polygonal structures. It will also explain how those structures can be indexesd, and how they can be used in spatial analytics, in isolation or in conjunction with classic SDO_GEOMETRY types.
Finally we will show how the GeoJSON objects can be displayed on a map.

Speakers

Albert Godfrind

Spatial and Graph Solutions Architect, Oracle

Albert Godfrind has over 25 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying IT applications. His interest and enthusiasm for spatial information and geographical information systems started at Oracle when he started using the spatial extensions of the Oracle database in... Read More →

Thursday March 22, 2018 3:40pm - 4:05pm PDT
3-Rm 103

Spatial and Graph

Products Database Enterprise Edition, Spatial and Graph (OSG)
Track Spatial and Graph, Analytics, Big Data, Internet of Things

3:40pm PDT

Add Streaming Analytics to your Legacy Application with Apache Kafka

While relational databases are still the king of transactional processing systems, they have a hard time keeping up with the increasing demand for real-time analytics. In this session we will build and demonstrate an end-to-end data processing pipeline. We will discuss how to turn changes in database state into events and stream them into Apache Kafka. We will explain the basic concepts of streaming transformations using windows and KSQL before ingesting the transformed stream in a dashboard application. And lastly we will explore the possibilities of adding microservices as subscribers.

Speakers

Stewart Bryson

Owner, Red Pill Analytics

Bjoern Rost

Consultant, Pythian

Björn Rost is an Oracle ACE Director, and one of Pythian’s top Oracle experts. A popular presenter, Björn travels the world attending technology conferences, sharing insights, and learning with his wide network of peers. Björn also served as president of IOUG’s RAC special... Read More →

Thursday March 22, 2018 3:40pm - 4:30pm PDT
1-Auditorium

Big Data

Track Big Data, Analytics

3:40pm PDT

Oracle Database In-Memory Implementation and Usage

Oracle Database In-Memory is one of the most fascinating new database features in a long time, promising an incredible performance boast for analytics. This presentation provides a step-by-step guide on when and where you should take advantage of Database In-Memory, as well as outlining strategies to help you ensure you get the promised performance boast regardless of your database environments. These strategies include how to identify which objects to populate into memory, how to identify which indexes to drop, and details on how to integrate with other performance enhancing features. With easy-to-follow real-world examples, this presentation explains exactly what steps you need to take to get up and running on Oracle Database In-Memory.

Speakers

Andy Rivenes

Product Manager, Oracle

Thursday March 22, 2018 3:40pm - 4:30pm PDT
2-Rm 102

Data Warehousing and SQL

Products Database In-Memory
Track Data Warehousing and SQL, Analytics