Oracle
Update on Exalytics Pricing
In my previous blog post (Exalytics : How much will it cost me ?) I gave an outline of the pricing you might expect for an Exalytics machine.
The final pricing that I gave of approx $3+M was based on the per processor licencing.
Yesterday (24th Jan) the Oracle Business Intelligence blog by Manan, included the pricing based on the per user licences.
The following is a breakdown of the Exalytics pricing based on the minimum 100 user licencing.
Licence Costs (100 users)
Exalytics machine = $135,000
TimesTen = $300 x 100 users = $30,000
BI Foundation Suite = $3,675 x 100 users = $367,500
Giving a grand total of $532,500.
Support Costs (100 users)
But we need to add the annual support costs to this.
Exalytics machine support = $29,700.
TimesTen support = $66 x 100 users = $6,600
BI Foundations suite = $809 x 100 users = $80,900
Total support costs (100 users) = $116,500
First year & on-going costs costs
Total first year cost for an Exalytics machine = $532,500 + $117,200 = $649,700
Plus on going annual support costs of $117,200 in year 2 and subsequent years.
Discounted Costs
If you are one of the lucky customer who can If I use the same discounts, as I did in my previous blog post, of 25% discount on hardware and 60% discount on the software, we get:
Year 1 cost of : ($135,000*0.75) + ($397,500*0.40) = $260,250
So it might be possible to get an Exalytics machine for $260+K, plus annual support costs.
Exalytics : How much will it cost me ?
Over the past couple of weeks the costing for the Oracle Exalytics machine has been made public by Oracle and there has been a number of articles. What I’ve done in this blog post is to collate this information. I give what I understand to be the cost of purchasing an Exalytic machine and to get setup and running.
The pricing structure starts at
Exalytics machine + cost of BI Foundation Suite + TimesTen licences
Exalytics machine = $135,000
TimesTen = $34,500 per processor licence or $300 per named user(min 100 users)
BI Foundation Suite = $450,000 per processor licence or $3,675 per named user (same number of users as for TimesTen = min 100 users)
Annual Support Costs
Exalytics machine = $29,700
TimesTen = 22% of software licence – $7,590 per processor licence or $66 per named user (min 100 users)
BI Foundation Suite = $99,000 per processor licence or $809 per named user(min 100 users)
The Exalytics machine consists of a single server with 1TB of RAM and 4 Intel Xeon E7-4800 processors, with 10 cores each.
So the total cost of an Exalytics machine based on the processor licence will be something towards the $10M. Now this is before the discounts that you can negotiate. There are reports of discounts ranging up to 25% on hardware and 60% on software. The size of the discount is depended on your size etc. So this initial $10M cost could be reduced to $3M+.
Please note that I may have gotten some or all of this pricing wrong. If I have then forgive me and let me know what is wrong. I can correct it to ensure that we have the correct costs.
OUG Ireland 2012 Conference & Re-launching the SIGs in Ireland
The schedule of presentations for the 2012 Oracle User Group Ireland conference has just been released.
This year the conference will be in the Dublin Convention Centre.
There are 5 parallel streams with sessions running all day. Key notes presentations will be given by Eileen O’Mara from Oracle Ireland (given in the morning) and the key note at the end of the day will be given by Mogen Norgaard from Miracle AS in Denmark and founder of the OakTable Network.
There will be 7 Oracle ACE Directors and 3 Oracle ACEs presenting at the conference in addition to other speakers from Ireland, UK and Netherlands. Here is the full list of Oracle ACEs that are presenting
Debra Lilley, ACE Director
Mark Rittman, ACE Director
Roel Hartman, ACE Director
Simon Haslam, ACE Director
Frits Hoogland, ACE Director
Mogens Norgaard, ACE Director
Lonneke Dikmans, ACE Director
Brendan Tierney, ACE
Marcin Przepiorowski, ACE
Grant Ronald, ACE
It is also FREE to attend. So go ahead an book yourself a place for a full day Oracle training.
To register your place – Click here
The agenda for the conference can be found here – Click here
There are a few important web and social media links that might be of interest for all Oracle people in Ireland.
Web : www.oug.og/ireland
Twitter : @oug_ire
@oug_ire2012 For the 2012 conference related tweets
LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3441701
Re-launching the SIGS in Ireland
Over the past few years the User Group SIGs have been a bit quiet here in Ireland. Except for the BI (&EPM) SIG, which has been getting a good attendance since it launched back in 2009.
In particular the Oracle Technology SIG basically ceased to exist over the past 5 or 6 years, since the days when John Knox and Tagdh Cashman were running it.
At the conference it is hoped that to get some people to volunteer to get this SIG back up and running again. Maybe we could get 3 SIG events each year. What do you think ?
Drop me an email if you have any questions regarding the SIGs in Ireland (I’m deputy chair of the BI & EPM SIG).Hopefully
I’ll see you there on the 21st March.
New additions to my Oracle Magazine Collection
I put out a call a few months ago looking for help in completing my Oracle Magazine collection. I also had a letter in the Nov/Dec 2011 edition of Oracle Magazine looking for help.
The following people contacted me in December offering to send me some of my missing editions.
Lisa Dobson – Oracle DBA at Durham University and Vice President of UKOUG
Debra Lilley – President of UKOUG
Christian Antognini – Trivadis AG, Switzerland
Dan Vlamis – Vlamis Software Solutions, MO, USA
Many thanks for your donations.
It seems that people don’t keep their Oracle Magazines!
I’m now just missing a very small number of editions since 1992. Can anyone else help ?
Does anyone have any Oracle Magazines from before 1992 ?
The following table gives the current collection (printed editions). The grey boxes are the editions that I’m still missing, and keep an eye on my Oracle Magazine page for updates.
My first set of Oracle Products
I started working with Oracle back in 1993 and my first project involved working with Oracle 5, Forms 2.3 and for reports RPT.
The Oracle Database and tools were very simple back then, but there was lots of “features” to work around.
Check out this video, for a short demo of Oracle 5 and Forms 2
What version of the Oracle Database do I need ?
Oracle has recently made available a very useful webpage that that lists the functionality available for each version of the 11g Database. So before you decide which version of the database to purchase, check out this webpage.
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/product-editions-066501.html
i-BI : A new name for real BI
I’ve been working in the BI and related fields since the mid 90s. Over the past number of years I’ve gotten a little bit confused about what Business Intelligence (BI) really means. Maybe it’s just a bit of old age kicking in way too early.
It seems to me that the term Business Intelligence has been hijacked by a large number of companies and software vendors. It seems that every “reporting tool” has been re-labelled into a Business Intelligence tool, without providing any really intelligence features. You are still just a reporting tool with no real intelligence features. Yes you do have some nice graphics that can be used instead of just listing numbers. But that is not Business Intelligence.
Business Intelligence is going beyond what these tools are capable off. Most of the skills and abilities for BI comes from the people who are doing it, not the tools. In reality you will need to use a number of tools or to write some custom code to help you gain the extra bit of insight into your data. The “reporting tools” can then deliver the results.
Also Ralph Kimball said a long time ago that the skills of someone working in the DW/BI area was that they needed to be half-DBA and half-MBA.
A quote that I heard recently from the Predictive Analytics World Conference, was “You need to be able to ask the right question”. This is to ensure that you can frame your analytics projects correctly and be able to measure the results.
I think that this question was key back in the mid 90s when I started out in the BI field and I still think it applies to all areas of BI. The thing that we have lost in BI is the real intelligence part of it.
So I’m proposing a new name for really BI. It is intelligent-Business Intelligence (i-BI).
Lets differentiate between BI and the real intelligent BI work.
What do I mean by intelligent BI (i-BI) ? What I mean area skills in Data Warehousing, Time Series Analysis, Advanced Analytics, Data Mining, Predictive Analysis, solving or addressing real business problems, etc.
Or maybe I’m just wrong and have missed some developments in BI over the past 16+ years. Or maybe I’m becoming a bit too cynical.
What do you think ?
Oracle Analytics Update & Plan for 2012
On Friday 16th December, Charlie Berger (Sr. Director, Product Management, Data Mining & Advanced Analytics) posted the following on the Oracle Data Mining forum on OTN.
“… soon you’ll be able to use the new Oracle R Enterprise (ORE) functionality. ORE is currently in beta and is targeted to go General Availability in the near future. ORE brings additional functionality to the ODM Option, which will then be renamed to the Oracle Advanced Analytics Option to reflect the significant adv. analytical functionality enhancements. ORE will allow R users to write R scripts and run them inside the database and eliminate and/or minimize data movement in/out of the DB. ORE will provide R to SQL transparency for SQL push-down to in-DB SQL and and expanding library of Oracle in-DB statistical functions. Packages that cannot be pushed down will be run in embedded R mode while the DB manages all data flows to the multiple R engines running inside the DB.
In January, we’ll open up a new OTN discussion forum specifically for Oracle R Enterprise focused technical discussions. Stay tuned.”
I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the new Oracle R Enterprise, in 2012. In particular I’m keen to see what additional functionality will be added to the Oracle Data Mining option in the DB.
So watch out for the rebranding to Oracle Advanced Analytics
Charlie – Any chance of an advanced copy of ORE and related DB bits and bobs.
Oracle Big Data Videos
Mark Townsend, Database Product Manager at Oracle gave a presentation on Big Data at the UKOUG conference and used the following videos to illustrate how a company can evolve their Big Data into useful and meaningful information.
Big Data – Gold Mine or just Stuff
I’m an Oracle ACE
At 5:20pm today (Friday 2nd December), I received an email from the Oracle ACE program. I had been nominated for the award of Oracle ACE.
“You have been chosen based on your significant contribution and activity in the Oracle technical community. Like your fellow Oracle ACEs, you have demonstrated a proficiency in Oracle technology as well as a willingness to share your knowledge and experiences with the community.”
I am so honoured, considering the experts from around the world that are members of the Oracle ACE program.
The Oracle ACE Award is issued by the Oracle Corporation and the award is made to people who are know for their strong credentials in the Oracle community as enthusiasts, advocates and technical knowledge.
Oracle Big Data & Analytics Sessions at UKOUG Conference
There are a number of BIG Data and Analytics presentations at the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham (4th Dec – 7th Dec).
I’ve worked my way through the agenda grids for each day of the conference and I’ve come up with the following list. If you are interested in BIG Data and Analytics these presentations are a must see
| Monday | 12:15-13:15 | Exadata Live – Graham Wood – Hall 7A |
| 5th Dec | ||
| Tuesday | 9:00-10:00 | Big Data-Are you ready – Mark Townsend – Hall 1 |
| 6th Dec | 10:10-10:55 | Who’s afraid of Analytic Functions – Alex Nuijten – Hall 5 |
| 11:15-12:15 | Analysing Your Data with Analytic Functions – Carl Dudley – Hall 9 | |
| 16:40-17:40 | Mobile Analytics using OBIEE 11g – Jon Mead – Exec Room 1 | |
| Wednesday | 9:00-10:00 | Oracle 11g Database Automatic Parallelism – Joel Goodman – Hall 9 |
| 7th Dec | 15:20-16:05 | How to Deploy your Oracle Data Miner in a Live Environment – me |
Exalytics Events over the next week
The BIWA SIG is hosting a techcast called “Using Oracle R Enterprise” on Wednesday 30th November, 2011 at noon EST (approx 6pm GMT).
The TechCast is being presented by Mark Hornick, Senior Manager, Oracle Advanced Analytics Development
URL for TechCast: https://stbeehive.oracle.com/bconf/confDetails?confID=334B:3BF0:owch:38893C00F42F38A1E0404498C8A6612B0004075AECF7&guest=true&confKey=608880
— Web Conference ID: 303397
— Web Conference Key: 608880
— Dialup: 1-866-682-4770, ID 5548204, passcode 1234
Several analytic tool vendors have added R-integration to their software. However, Oracle is the largest company to throw their weight behind R. On October 3, Oracle unveiled their integration of R: Oracle R Enterprise (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/features-oracle-r-enterprise-498732.html) as part of their Oracle Big Data Appliance announcement (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/512001).
Oracle R Enterprise allows users to perform statistical analysis with advanced visualization on data stored in Oracle Database. Oracle R Enterprise enables scalable R solutions, while facilitating production deployment of R scripts and Hadoop based solutions, as well as integration of R results with Oracle BI Publisher and OBIEE dashboards.
Check out the Oracle YouTube video (5min), that demos how an Exalytics application that can analyse almost a billion records instantly.
If you are attending the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham, Jon Mead (RittmanMead) is giving a presentation called “What can Exalytics do for me?” and is on Tuesday 5th December @15:35, in the area above the box office.
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