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 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 →
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 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
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
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 →
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
Big Data is growing exponentially, requiring massive-scale infrastructure however, business analytics has shifted from reactive to proactive analysis; this is the era of streaming data (a.k.a. Fast Data). Apache Hadoop is very good for analyzing data at rest but cannot handle streaming data. Big Data analytics needs new Big data frameworks. Apache Spark brings in-memory processing and RDD data abstraction which allow real-time processing of streaming data however its micro batch architecture incurs high latency. Apache Flink brings low latency and could address Spark limitations however it is not as mature and largely adopted as Spark. Apache Beam promotes its portable Beam model across Big data frameworks (Spark, Flink, Dataflow). Tis session presents and overview of the major Big Data frameworks and suggests that DBA should embrace these frameworks and expand their skills as a necessary path to becoming Data Architects.
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 10:10am - 11:00am PDT
4-Rm 104
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.
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
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.
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 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 11:15am - 12:05pm PDT
2-Rm 102
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.
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
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.
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 →
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 →
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 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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 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 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 →
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
Customer 360 degree views require data from a variety of streaming sources to be integrated with data stored in Big Data systems and databases. Machine learning and analytics applications need access to mobile device feeds, online community logs, social media feeds, and much more, along with business critical data stored in the database. Tools for data movement between streaming data sources, Big Data platforms and Oracle Databases are essential. In this session, learn about tools that move data between these systems, using technology such as Hive storage handlers for Kafka, direct path load, SQL, and custom Hive SerDes. We will step through using these tools to work with Streaming data (Kafka), Big Data, and Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Melli Annamalai is a product manager at Oracle. She has vast experience in multiple technology areas related to unstructured and semi-structured data management. Her current focus areas are Graphs, Apache Kafka, and Big Data. She works closely with customers as they deploy solutions... Read More →
Tuesday March 20, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm PDT
4-Rm 104
As early as 2001 Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) design patterns like "Corporate Information Factory" (CIF) began to emerge. Theses patterns established EDW as the central focus of reporting. Current BI/DW 1.0 projects still follow these patterns today. Problems in the BI/DW 1.0 methodology have appeared. Increases in data volume, variety and velocity have all created considerable challenges for this legacy architecture. In this presentation we will review the legacy of BI/DW 1.0 and dive into the future BI/DW 2.0 and 3.0 architectures. Taking a close look and advanced staging areas, operational data stores and how those architectures can be used for cloud facilitation in BI/DW 2.0. Additionally, this presentation will drive into the BI/DW 3.0 data tipping point and where various Oracle products fit in these new emerging modern data architectures.
A business and technology consultant with over 20 years of experience in delivering value to organizations by closing the gap between business needs and IT capabilities. I take a hands on approach to delivering technical work, with a strong ability to speak to and gather C-Level requirements... Read More →
Tuesday March 20, 2018 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
5-Rm 105
No hype cycles or predictions of a gazillion things here. IoT is big. You get it. You know your business and have great ideas for a business transformation strategy. What comes next? Time to make it happen! We present a step-by-step plan to develop your technology implementation strategy on the Oracle Cloud. We discuss the evaluation of communication standards and IoT messaging protocols, data analytics considerations, edge-to-cloud technical architecture, IoT platform selection, end-to-end security, enterprise systems integration and monetization techniques. Seize market opportunities by following our methodology to design and implement a systems architecture that meets complex demands for security, flexibility, durability, and scalability.
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 →
Tuesday March 20, 2018 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
4-Rm 104
Lending Club’s Big Data Analytics platform is going through a major transformation to adopt the Lambda Architecture with Real-Time reporting and execution of AI/ML models on Real-Time data. Lending Club's OLTP platform is transitioning to a Microservice-based architecture. At the heart of both solutions is GoldenGate for BigData. We are using a single server configured to run the replicats serving JSON payloads and Avro formats using same set of trail files. We implemented a custom java replicat to stream JSON messages to AWS Kinesis. We are using HDFS handler to stream data in Avro format to HDFS and AWS S3 to be consumed by AWS EMR, Hive on Tez/Presto/Spark. The solutions have been architected in a secure, reliable, and resilient manner.
Venky Guruswamy is a seasoned database professional with over 15 years of progressive experience in various tech domains of banking, financial, retail, ecommerce primarily managing Oracle, Mysql, MongoDB ,Teradata databases. He is currently the Principal DBA at Lending Club leading... Read More →
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.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Wednesday March 21, 2018 3:25pm - 4:15pm PDT
1-Auditorium
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.
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
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.
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 →
