Paper at Oracle Business Intelligence Conference

I have just presented a paper with my colleague at the recent OBIEE conference held at the London Bridge Hotel on Tuesday 8th November. Nerve racking as we only had a day's notice, but the presentation was well received.

We were demonstrating what we have achieved combining spatial data, namely a road network, with business data, the mechanisms behind the scene and some of the output we produce.

Drop me line if you want a copy of the presentation.

-- Update

Oracle have kindly put the presentation up and you can view it here.

OBIEE SampleApp 11.1.1.5 available on OTN

SampleApp V107 includes a multiple enhancements since previous 11.1.1.3 public release. Many examples showcase OBIEE 11.1.1.5 new features (Mobile, New types of data sources), and numerous additional OBIEE examples were added (Geospatial, Datamining, Functional examples and more).

Get it here.

Performance Metrics for Management

I was on a trawl to get backing for (yet another) an argument at work.

My argument has always been that everyone should understand how the numbers on a dashboard are derived, and its indicative value, is it good, bad, normal, etc. The viewer should also understand what the trend behind this number is, what makes this number better, or less bad.

Find out how OBIEE helps to track H1N1.

Looking back at some of the uses of OBIEE I came across this:

Kaleida Health’s Flu Monitoring Dashboard was developed quickly using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to provide insightful reporting regarding patients with the flu, including H1N1.

 
Find this article here.

The dashboards were used to monitor the arrival and location of patients to help predict where spikes would occur and allocate resources to most effect.

A positive and heartwarming story.