After spending the 2 weeks visiting a customer site in Switzerland, then becoming a work hermit for a month, I am off to the ODTUG Board Meeting this weekend in San Francisco. The Board Meeting also marks my return to
official responsibilities representing the Hyperion community. On my ODTUG agenda, I have a couple of Hyperion-related goals:
- To make the KScope conference the best national education conference for Hyperion customers; and
- To clarify the Oracle concepts of user groups for the user community.
Oracle has a plethora of user groups and often there are overlaps in what these groups do, thus it can be really confusing for end users. As a result, attendance at the user group conferences as dropped to a fraction of the attendance back in the Hyperion Solutions days. Much of the drop is due to the fact that in the Oracle world, the conferences are put together by the user groups themselves versus organized by the company. Oracle does have the Oracle Open World conference, which is huge, but the Hyperion portion last year had, maybe 500 people. By contrast, some of the Hyperion Solutions conferences had 7,000 people with a common focus.
To achieve these goals, I need your feedback to take to our Board. Several of you have reached out to me with your thoughts on how I can help the user community in general using my position on the Board. Please send me your feedback/ideas via email at
timtow@appliedolap.com.
