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Are You an ODTUG Kscope Aficionado?

Posted in Kscope, Kscope 17, ODTUG, Uncategorized with tags , , , on June 13, 2017 by RZGiampaoli

Hi guys, today I have a very exiting opportunity for all kscope veterans that would like to help the newcomers.

The ODTUG K Team

If you are an ODTUG Kscope aficionado and think you can help guide the ODTUG Kscope newcomers down the right path? Join the K Team! K Team members are here to help newcomers take advantage of everything ODTUG has to offer. Interested in being involved? Sign up now and we’ll send you all the information you need.

Let’s help the newcomers to get the most of our beloved conference and of course have a lot of fun in the process 🙂

See you guys in a couple of weeks at Kscope 17!!!

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Kscope 17 is approaching fast!!! And we’ll be there!

Posted in ACE, Data Warehouse, Essbase, Hyperion Essbase, Java, Kscope 17, ODI, ODI Architecture, Oracle, Performance, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on June 8, 2017 by RZGiampaoli

Hi guys how are you? We are sorry for being away for so much time but this year we have a lot of exiting things going one, then let’s start with what we’ll be doing at Kscope 17!

This year we’ll present 2 sessions:

Essbase Statistics DW: How to Automatically Administrate Essbase Using ODI (Jun 28, 2017, Wednesday Session 12 , 9:45 am – 10:45 am)

In order to have a performatic Essbase cube, we must keep vigilance and follow up its growth and its data movements so we can distribute caches and adjust the database parameters accordingly. But this is a very difficult task to achieve, since Essbase statistics are not temporal and only tell you the cube statistics is in that specific time frame.

This session will present how ODI can be used to create a historical statistical DW containing Essbase cube’s information and how to identify trends and patterns, giving us the ability for programmatically tune our Essbase databases automatically.

And…

Data Warehouse 2.0: Master Techniques for EPM Guys (Powered by ODI)  (Jun 26, 2017, Monday Session 2 , 11:45 am – 12:45 pm)

EPM environments are generally supported by a Data Warehouse; however, we often see that those DWs are not optimized for the EPM tools. During the years, we have witnessed that modeling a DW thinking about the EPM tools may greatly increase the overall architecture performance.

The most common situation found in several projects is that the people who develop the data warehouse do not have a great knowledge about EPM tools and vice-versa. This may create a big gap between those two concepts which may severally impact performance.

This session will show a lot of techniques to model the right Data Warehouse for EPM tools. We will discuss how to improve performance using partitioned tables, create hierarchical queries with “Connect by Prior”, the correct way to use multi-period tables for block data load using Pivot/Unpivot and more. And if you want to go ever further, we will show you how to leverage all those techniques using ODI, which will create the perfect mix to perform any process between your DW and EPM environments.

These presentations you can expect a lot of technical content, some very good tips and some very good ideas to improve your EPM environment!

Also I’ll be graduating in this year leadership program and this year we’ll be all over the place with the K-Team, a special team created to make the newcomers fell more welcome and help them to get the most of the kscope.

Also Rodrigo will be at Tuesday Lunch and Learn for the EPM Data Integration track on Cibolo 2/3/4.

And of course we will be around having fun an gathering new ideas for the next year!!!

And the last but not least, this year we’ll have a friend of us making his first appearance at Kscope with the presentation OBIEE Going Global! Getting Ready for More Than +140k Users (Jun 26, 2017, Monday Session 4 , 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm).

A standard Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) reporting application can hold more or less 1,200 users. This may be a reasonable number of users for the majority of the companies out there, but what happens when an IT leader like Dell decides to acquire another IT giant like EMC and all of their combined 140,000-plus users need to have access to an HR OBIEE instance? What does that setup looks like? What kind of architecture do we need to have to support those users in a fast and reliable way?
This session shows the complexity of Dell’s OBIEE environment, describing all processes and steps performed to create such environment, meeting the most varied needs from business demands and L2 support, always aiming to improve environment stability. This architecture relies on a range of different technologies to support that huge amount of end users such as LDAP & SSL, Kerberos, SSO, SSL, BigIP, Shared Folders using NAS, Weblogic running into a cluster within #4 application servers.
If the challenge was not hard enough already, all of this setup also needed to consider Dell’s legacy OBIEE upgrade from v11.1.1.6.9 to v11.1.1.7.160119, so we will explain what were the pain points, considerations and orchestration needed to do all of this in parallel.

Thank you guys and see you there!

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DEVEPM will be at KScope 17!!!

Posted in ACE, EPM, Kscope 17, ODI, ODTUG on January 9, 2017 by Rodrigo Radtke de Souza

Hi all, how are you doing? With a little delay (sorry, I was on vacation 🙂 ) we are very happy to announce that DEVEPM will be once again at KScope! We are very honored to be selected to present on the best EPM conference in the word! Here is what we are going present at Kscope 17:

Data Warehouse 2.0: Master techniques for EPM guys (powered by ODI)

“EPM environments are generally supported by a Data Warehouse, however, we often see that those DWs are not optimized for the EPM tools. During the years, we have witnessed that modeling a DW thinking about the EPM tools may greatly increase the overall architecture performance.

The most common situation found in several projects is that the people that develops the data warehouse does not have a great knowledge about EPM tools and vice-versa. This may create a big gap between those two concepts which may severally impact performance.

This session will show a lot of techniques to model the right Data Warehouse for EPM tools. We will discuss how to improve performance using partitioned tables, create hierarchical queries with “Connect by Prior”, the correct way to use Multi-Period tables for block data load using Pivot/Unpivot and more. And if you want to go ever further, we will show you how to leverage all those techniques using ODI, which will create the perfect mix to perform any process between your DW and EPM environments.”

Kscope is the largest EPM conference in the world and it will be held on San Antonio, Texas on June 2017. It will feature more than 300 technical sessions, five symposiums, deep dive sessions, and hands on labs over the course of five days.

Got interested? If you register by March 25th you’ll take advantage of the Kscope early bird rates, then don’t waste more time and let’s be part of the greatest EPM event in the world. If you are still unsure about it, read our post about how Kscope/ODTUG changed our lives! Kscope is indeed a life changer event!

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KScope 17 Abstract submission deadline is approaching fast!!!!

Posted in ACE, Kscope, Kscope 17 with tags , on October 3, 2016 by RZGiampaoli

Hello guys how are you doing?

This will be a quick post, in fact it’ll be a question and a reminder. Let’s start with the question:

What do you guys think about adding a little bit of excitement in your lives and a lot of knowledge and friendship as a side effect? How? This will be your life if you decide to share a little bit of your knowledge with your fellow developers at KScope 17.

Looks scary but it isn’t at all (at least after the first time 🙂 or second… heheh). Everybody in KScope is so receptive and friendly, basically everybody is having a great time and learning a lot doing so.

And don’t even think something like “ahhh but everybody there are ACEs… and knows a lot” or “I need to be well-known so my abstract pass the cut” or even “I’m not good enough” and other things like this because we are the proof that anybody can make it.

Think about it…. 2 guys from Brazil (that means, English is an issue 🙂 and we know that), nobody never ever know even that we were alive, we had, at that time, just created our blog and we never went to any international conference before (than we didn’t know what expect)….

If this is not scary I don’t know what it is….

But even so we submit an abstract (and reading it today I can’t realize how Cameron figured out what in hell we were talking about there…..) but the important thing is that they give us a chance and since then, we are presenting at KScope, learning how to and trying to improve every time.

Ok but you can think “What I’ll gain with that! It’s a lot of work!!!”

Well, it’s a lot of work, but, and this is true for a blog too, after you start to share your knowledge you start to think way ahead you normally do, mainly because you cannot think in a local solution anymore, you need to think in how to make it useful for everybody. And this improves a lot your horizons and the capability to design and create solutions.

Also, you’ll be always trying to do something new because you need material for the next year 🙂 and the next year arrives very fast 🙂 it’s almost a nonstop process. You submit your abstract, wait for the results, prepare your material, get ready to present, go to KScope and present you session, fly back and start to think about what you’ll present next year, prepare the new abstract and so on…

And if you are a manager and is thinking how to improve your team performance….. motivate them to submit sessions to KScope or write a blog. I can guarantee the results for both, the team and the career development.

Now for the reminder 🙂 deadline for submit abstracts to KScope is getting near. You have until Oct-14 to submit your summary and abstract. Don’t need to be huge or anything like this. It just needs to be interesting and I’m sure you’ll change your life :).

Thanks guys and see you at KScope 17, the lair of knowledge and fellowship 🙂

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