> a bunch of stuff deleted I am going to have to say that you are asking two different questions.
TDWI is THE definitive organization for getting certifications/ training/information about Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence as a discipline. I would strongly suggest that you do look into that because there is no point in simply learning one vendor's tools and set of techniques. There are overall best practices that you simply will not learn if you lock into one vendor, no matter how much market share they currently have. Having said that, Oracle does not have a certification path for BI/DW that i know of except for Hyperion/ESSBASE (and i just visited the certification site to check) so again, I have to suggest getting a solid grounding in the fundamentals. BI/DW is fundamentally different than any other sort of database work and while Oracle is one of the leaders they are not close to being the only player and the entire field is growing fast enough that an upstart could come from nowhere with a killer appliance and sweep up huge market share. In the BI/DW space flexibility and knowledge of the basics are the keys to being a success. Download a copy of OBIEE+ and dig into it for sure but if you don't have the fundamentals down you will not learn much. Read all that you can on the topic as well. There are tons of great books on the topic and there are tons of great, and not so great, web resources out there as well. The other thing to bear in mind is that DW/BI is not a strictly technical discipline. To be really good at it you need to have a deep curiousity about the business side of the equation, merely being a skilled geek (not an insult, I consider myself a geek among other things) is not enough. My technical skills are very good and i am very proud of them, but where I add value to my organization (I currently run the reporting and dashboarding group for my company) is in the turning of data into information and that is what the TDWI training can help you with. Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
