Dan Vlamis

Dan Vlamis has been developing business intelligence and OLAP applications since 1986 when he graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. After graduating, he worked for Information Resources Inc. (IRI) where he led the back-end team that wrote Oracle Sales Analyzer in Express. In 1992 he left IRI and moved to the Kansas City area where he founded Vlamis Software Solutions Inc. which has led more than 200 BI and OLAP implementations.

Dan has been a popular speaker at major Oracle conferences such as Oracle OpenWorld, Collaborate, and ODTUG Kscope for two decades and is known for his live demos of Oracle software. As an Oracle Business Intelligence Warehousing and Analytics SIG (BIWA) board member of the IOUG, he chaired BIWA Summit 2014 and BIWA Summit 2015.

Recognized by Oracle as an Oracle ACE Director and on the editorial board of Oracle Magazine, he consults with Oracle Product Management regularly. Dan covers Oracle BI and related products through his popular blog at www.vlamis.com/blog. Dan was a co-author on the Oracle Press book Oracle Essbase and Oracle OLAP - The Guide to Oracle's Multidimensional Solution.