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Community Spotlight with Community Rank 10 and Analytics Guru Gianni Ceresa
In our first Community Spotlight we are introducing Gianni Ceresa, a rank 10 Analytics Guru and 2024 Oracle Analytics Ambassador. We have interviewed Gianni about his experience with Oracle Analytics products, and the community and his suggestions to all community members.
Please read the interview below:
- What is your current role & company? I'm a consultant and owner of DATAlysis LLC. My unofficial one could be data factotum: I work with data of any shape, relational, multidimensional, graph, and unstructured. I find it, move it, transform it, analyze it, and use it to answer questions.
- How many years of experience do you have using Oracle Analytics? I first discovered an Oracle Analytics product in 2008. I attended an OBIEE 10g training. The product fascinated me and made me want to discover more about how it worked, how it could be used, and how it could be "abused" to push it beyond its own boundaries.
- Which Oracle Analytics products do you use? Mostly Oracle Analytics Server and Cloud. But also, the various variants, from the "old" OBI Apps to the modern FDI, and Fusion-related products like BICC and OTBI.
- What is your preferred feature within Oracle Analytics? It is the semantic model: having an abstraction layer allowing various data sources to be federated into a unified business view of data, tailored to the needs of the business. It allows us to connect two different worlds that use different languages: the physical one, and the functional vision of it. It's what has made the product so powerful and modern for more than 15 years now.
- What did you do to become Analytics Guru (Rank 10) in the Community? Simply trying to support people working with Oracle Analytics products. When I started my career, I had many questions and little answers. I was lucky enough to find some professionals who took the time to answer my questions and make me know these products better. Now I believe it's normal that I try to do the same, by offering my time in trying to support the community.
- What do you like about the Oracle Analytics Community website? First and foremost, the forum: it's very much undervalued, maybe because forums are a bit "old school". But still, in a forum you can easily learn a lot by asking questions to your peers out there, and people invest their time in answering and supporting each other. The real benefit is when there is a discussion, when a solution is explained, and therefore everybody can learn something that they will be able to reuse in the future. And the fact that now we can find a lot of information about the community, details about events, in a single place, without having to search in different websites.
- What do you expect from the Oracle Analytics Community in the next year? Ideally to have even more people who start using the forum to learn more about the product, and not just to solve an immediate problem. They will come back sharing their own knowledge and experience with others.
- Are you active with one or more user groups? I am a board member of the Swiss Oracle User Community (SwissOUC), and I also volunteer for UKOUG when needed. I'm also active by presenting at conferences organized by the various user groups all around the world.
- What is your favorite Oracle Analytics event? The community, and the events have changed a lot in the last few years. I really like the main yearly conference of UKOUG because it's usually the last one of the year: a kind of Christmas party to meet people for the last time of the year, till the next one. It is always great to meet colleagues and other people interested in Oracle Analytics and spend some time discussing new features and challenges.
- What is your advice for new Oracle Analytics community members? Don't be selfish. The community should not be seen just as a tool to make your job easier. It's an alive entity, it exists fully, and only, on the give-and-take principle. You can take from the community, and you should also consider giving back to it, to keep it alive and make it grow. The community can help you today, and tomorrow you can maybe help somebody else in the community.
If you have any feedback or questions for Gianni, please ask here.
Thank you @Gianni Ceresa and thanks to all Oracle Analytics community members.
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Thank you @Gianni Ceresa for all your help on the community! It's amazing to see your interview and know you a little bit more 🙂
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Congratulations and Thank you @Gianni Ceresa for your investments in building our community! We are better together :)
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A big congratulations and an even bigger thank you @Gianni Ceresa! We appreciate your time and valuable contributions to the Oracle Analytics community. Love your comment on giving back to the community to help it grow.
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Big thank you @Gianni Ceresa, I appreciate your contributions to the Oracle Analytics community. It so helpful your comments.
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Thanks for all that you do in the community, @Gianni Ceresa and good to catch up with you at UKOUG this year!
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Great to see some recognition for your hard work @Gianni Ceresa ! As a relative newcomer to the analytics space, having experts like yourself share their time and insight to help others get the best of Oracle Analytics is a real gift!
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I join the congratulations. Gianni knows Oracle Analytics like few others and I greatly appreciate his pragmatic, “marketing free” view of the product and his contributions to the community. I hope that his opinion on the future development of Oracle Analytics will be seriously taken into account by product management. Keep going, @Gianni Ceresa ….
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Thank you @Farivar Javanbakhti-Oracle for this spotlight, and thank you everybody else who commented above (and below, planning for the future :D ).
Let's keep making this community alive and push the products being better known and give them some extra love, from both sides: users and Oracle.
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Congratulations and Thank you very much @Gianni Ceresa. I was benefited with your Answers/Suggestions for my questions here. Your answer for about Community is very much true. Give and take policy keeps community alive and useful for all. Once again thank you.
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Congrats @Gianni Ceresa you are always helpful and a wealth of knowledge. I have read many of your contributions.
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