These FREE to OPN Partners hands-on workshops highlight both the hardware and software components that are engineered to work together to deliver Oracle Exalytics - an optimized version of the industry-leading Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database with analytic extensions, a highly scalable Oracle server designed specifically for in-memory business intelligence, and Oracle's proven Business Intelligence Foundation (OBI 11g v 11.1.1.6 and Essbase) with enhanced visualization capabilities and performance optimizations.

Priority will be given to Partner individuals who have passed or scheduled to take the Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite 11g Essentials (1Z1-591) exam, and to Partners who have purchased an Exalytics for their own data centres to demonstrate it to their clients.

Topics covered will include:

• Exalytics Architectural Overview
• Upgrade and Lifecycle Management
• Times Ten for Exalytics
• Summary Advisor Utility
• Essbase and EPM System on Exalytics
• Dashboard and Analysis Interactions
• OBIEE 11.1.1.6 Features and Advanced Topics

After taking this course, you will be well prepared to architect, build, demo, and implement an end-to-end Exalytics solution.You will also be able to extend your current analytical and enterprise performance management application implementations with numerous Oracle technologies specifically enhanced to take advantage of the compute capacity and in-memory capabilities of Oracle Exalytics.

Prerequisites

• Experience and understanding of OBIEE 11g is required

·       Previous attendance of Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Workshop or BIEE 11g Introduction Workshop is highly recommended, and priority will be given to Partner individuals who have passed or scheduled to take the Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite 11g Essentials (1Z1-591) exam.

• Good understanding of data warehousing and data modelling for reporting and analysis purpose.  Strong experience with database technologies preferred

Attendee to provide their own laptops which must meet the following minimum hardware/software requirements:

Hardware

• Minimum 8GB RAM
• 60 GB free disk space (includes staging)
• USB 2.0 port (at least one available)
• It is strongly recommended that you bring a mouse. You will be working in a development environment and using the mouse heavily.

Software

• One of the following operating systems:
  • 64-bit Windows host/laptop OS
  • 64-bit host/laptop OS with a Windows VM (XP, Server, or Win 7, BIC2g, etc.)
• Internet Explorer 7.x/8.x or Firefox 3.5.x
• WINRAR or 7ziputility to unzip workshop files:
  • Download-able from http://www.win-rar.com/download.html
  • Download-able from http://www.7zip.com/
• Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 or higher
  • Downloadable from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
  • CPU virtualization mode needs to be enabled. We will provide guidance on the day of the workshop.  Attendees will be given a VirtualBox image containing a pre-installed Oracle Exalytics environment.

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