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. 
  
Register Here for 3-day Workshops:
   
    
      
      11-Dec-12
      
      
      Birmingham
      
      
      UK
      
    
    
      
      29-Jan-13
      
      
      Utrecht
      
      
      NL
      
    
    
      
      12-Feb-13
      
      
      Frankfurt
      
      
      Germany
      
    
    
      
      12-Mar-13
      
      
      Moscow
      
      
      Russia