Application Strategy and Services

The Applications Strategy and Services track includes sessions that discuss the overall strategy of Oracle applications as a variety of Applications through leadership, user experience, and integration sessions. These sessions apply to all the Oracle applications product lines, including E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, and others. In addition, you’ll find sessions covering services that aim to help you maximize the value of your applications investment, accelerate your implementation timelines and business results, and optimize your post-implementation monitoring and support-such as sessions about Oracle Support, Oracle Consulting, On Demand/SaaS for applications and Oracle University.

• Application Integration
• Enterprise Security and Compliance
• Environment Cloning and Provisioning
• JVM Diagnostics and Monitoring
• EBS Middleware
• Quality and Load Testing

Asset Lifecycle Management

Organizations are realizing significant cost savings and improved planning capabilities through integration of the entire asset lifecycle. From sourcing and procurement through capitalization, financial and operations management and write-off, out-of-the-box enterprise integration links all business functions for complete asset visibility and control.

BI/Data Warehousing/EPM

Business intelligence (BI), data warehousing (DW), knowledge management (KM), data mining, analytics: What does it all mean? Is Business Intelligence just having a data warehouse? Enabling organizations to function more efficiently and make better decisions is more than just designing and knowing to use analytics, but also implementing a combined solution with business processes and knowledge as well as architecture of tools and database solutions. BI and analytics are about better decision making and supporting an organization's competitive edge. By implementing a data warehouse is there a way to use the information for the business and produce analytics? Learn how organizations are using BI to transform their operations and sustain their competitive advantage. This track examines how BI, DW, and EPM function together enable these solutions and assist companies in making the right decision.

• Business Analytics
• Process and Practices
• Data Management and Governance
• Accessing Distributed Data
• Better Reports and Better Information
• BI Driven Organizational Transformation
• Corporate Performance Management
• Data Analysis
• Data Mining
• Data Quality
• Data Visualization
• Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL)
• Faster Cubes for Faster Information
• Information Lifecycle Management
• Managing Images
• Managing Unstructured Data and Text
• OLAP
• Operational Analytics
• Partitioning
• Predictive Analytics
• Process Metrics
• Real-Time Analytics
• Tuning Warehouse for Performance
• BI New Features
• Custom BI Environments
• Data Warehouse Appliance
• Interactive Dashboards
• Reporting Tool Evaluations
• Tool Evaluations (Oracle and Third Party)
• Data Governance
• Hardware-Database Engine
• Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting

Big Data (BIG)

Nowhere is the impact of data growth on factors like storage, access and analysis more obvious than the realm of Big Data. These massive data sets are quickly accelerating out of the terabyte range, and zettabytes or even petabytes are becoming a near-term reality. Big Data is driven by the massive amounts data collection mechanisms in place today, for everything from customer tracking to research projects to financial transactions. This includes large amounts of unstructured data, as well as formats new to the database, including multimedia.

How do organizations drive results without being overwhelmed by the processing power needed to handle all of this information? Big Data sessions will cover solutions like parallel processing and innovative data mining solutions, as well as specific technologies like Hadoop and scalable storage options.

• Unstructured Data

C-Level Development

It takes more vision, more innovation and more direction than ever for executives to surmount the challenges in today’s economy. Yet despite what you may read in the financial pages, there is a cause for optimism in today’s business climate. This track provides the inspiration and know-how you need to rediscover the value of business fundamentals while continuing to investigate the new systems, processes, strategies, and markets.

• Strategy
• Networking

Cloud Computing

How do you determine if going to the cloud is right for your company? Are the benefits promoted such as reduced cost, increased storage capability and flexibility realistic? This track is designed to provide you with information to help you make the decision along with provide you with case studies from those that have experienced it. Already using the cloud? Learn some best practices from other users that can help make it even more efficient. Private, public and hybrid clouds will be covered.

• Virtualization
• Cloud Applications
• Public Hosting
• Private Hosting
• Grid Computing

Customer Relationship Management

The customer is always right, so you need to be right about your customers. Creating profitable, loyal customers is the ultimate goal of customer relationship management (CRM) — customers who will continue to buy from you when a competitive alternative exists. Gain insight and guidance from your peers who are setting the standard for customer-centric business transformations.

Database

The Oracle relational database continues to evolve to include more new features, and as a result, has become even more complicated. On top of all the daily challenges of maintaining a high performance database, now you have to be sure the data are available 24×7 and compatible with other systems. This track is designed to provide DBAs of every experience level and industry with the tools to productively and creatively administer your data.

• Database Consolidation
• Database Performance and Scalability
• Database Security
• High Availability and Database Protection
• Backup and Recovery
• Best Practices for E-Business Suite
• Clustering
• Connectivity
• Data Management
• Diagnostics and Performance Tuning
• Installation/Migration/Upgrade
• Monitoring/Administration
• New Features
• PL/SQL Tuning and Best Practices
• RDBMS Internals
• SQL Tuning and Best Practices
• Streams/Replication
• Tool Evaluations (Oracle and Third Party)

Development

Working in application development means learning an alphabet soup of languages and performing a balancing act between Web-based, wireless and client/server applications. What will give you the edge to create successful applications? Do you use the Oracle suite of tools, or do you need to look for something that you can integrate? And how will your applications be used? With wireless technology? Through a portal? Will your forms and reports be used on an intranet or on the Internet? This track covers the topics that surround the development and deployment of your applications.

• Application Integration
• Connectivity
• Data Programming
• Frameworks
• Testing/Quality Assurance
• Tools & Technology
• Web Development
• New Features
• Java Coding Best Practices
• Tool Evaluations (Oracle and Third Party)

Engineered Systems

High performance is key, but software and hardware conflicts can sap your speed. Maybe it’s time to consider Engineered Systems, and take advantage of a pre-integrated solution with some serious power. Learn how to optimize your database performance, decrease your time to production and reduce your overall costs with the family of products within this track.

• Exadata
• Exalytics
• Exalogic
• SPARC SuperCluster
• Database Appliance

Financial Modules

The Financial Module track provides the regimen needed to maintain the health and well-being of an organization. This track covers the systems and processes that enable efficient operations and support strong internal financial controls.

• Contracts
• Bolt-on Applications
• Financial Applications

Human Capital Management

In the face of brutal competition, leaders must drive superior levels of efficiency and performance throughout their operations. Human Capital Management is not just about compliance and tracking data. This track discusses how Human Capital Management can be employed to improve workforce performance to drive top line financial results and covers Human Capital Management processes ranging the hire to retire and ways to improve operating efficiencies and bottom line performance.

Manageability

With each new Oracle Database release, more self-management features are added. These improvements can automate previously time-consuming tasks like monitoring and tuning, and do so consistently across the enterprise, giving database administrators more time to focus on improvements, innovation, and cost-efficiency. Manageability topics include change management, configuration, diagnostics & tuning, deployment and patching, and data security.

• Storage Management
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Application Management Pack
• E-Business Management Pack
• PeopleSoft Management Pack

Manufacturing

In order to compete in the manufacturing arena companies must deal with the pressures of globalization, increasing supply chain complexity and increasing customer expectations. Learn how different companies are gaining a competitive edge by building responsive and lean manufacturing organizations.

Master Data Management (MDM)

Master Data Management is a set of disciplines, processes and technologies for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, timeliness and consistency of multiple domains of enterprise data - across applications, systems and databases, and across multiple business processes, functional areas, organizations, geographies and channels.

• Data Quality
• Data Governance
• External Content
• MDM Hubs
• Organizational Change

Middleware

Your database is optimized and you’re running the latest applications, so why are you still experiencing slowdowns and breakdowns? Chances are, it’s your middleware. Because it handles the communication between applications and operating systems, the ever-changing mix of middleware technologies might be your biggest challenge, or your greatest opportunity. Learn from Oracle experts on their experience with application servers, data integration, identity management, service-oriented architecture, web experience management, WebLogic and more and make your solutions seamless

• Application Servers
• Data Integration
• Identity Management
• SOA/BPM
• Web Experience Management (Content Management, Portal, Social Network)
• WebLogic

Professional Development

It’s not enough these days to just know how to tune a database or build a Web page. You need to have all the skills to stand out in the sea of IT professionals and to move ahead. Skills like risk analysis, project management, determining return on investment, resolving conflicts and team building are just as valuable in the work place. This focus area highlights the other professional and personal skills you need to get ahead and to advance your career.

• Attracting and Retaining Professionals
• Certification
• Communication Skills
• Mentoring
• Project Management
• Risk Analysis
• Team Building
• Training

Project Portfolio Management

Learn about applications that enable organizations to plan, select and manage projects and programs across the enterprise. Whether in IT, delivering professional services, constructing a bridge, launching a global advertising campaign or driving efficiencies around business processes, today more than ever, project portfolio management (PPM) is at the very core of business operations. This focus area will help you leverage PPM into strategic advantage via visibility and control into all stages of the project lifecycle and by driving transparency into business decisions.

• Project Management
• Project Financial Management
• Project Budgeting and Chargebacks
• Portfolio Management
• Resource Management
• Team Collaboration
• Risk Management
• Project Accounting
• Project Contracts and Billing

Sales Order Fulfillment

Sales Order Fulfillment applications streamline and automate the entire sales order management process, from order promising and order capture to transportation and shipment. It captures multi-channel demand, including EDI, XML, telesales and web storefronts. Business benefits include reduced fulfillment costs, reduced order fulfillment cycle time and improved order accuracy and on-time delivery.

Security, Risk and Compliance

Security Risk and Compliance is not just about business controls that legislation requires. It makes sound business sense to protect your reputation, remain competitive, ensure your staff follows your business processes and control your business finances, in addition to any legislation or industry requirements. Follow this track if you are affected by government regulations or industry requirements, or you want to improve your management of business risk and enable your organization to operate more effectively.

Sourcing & Procurement

The sourcing and procurement of goods and services is a critical business process to many organizations. Supplier Relationship Management is the integrated suite of procurement applications that can assist in managing supply costs. Enterprise SRM reduces spend on goods and services, streamlines procure-to-pay processes and drives policy compliance.

• Contract Management
• Purchase Order Management
• Requisition Management
• Sourcing and Sourcing Optimization
• Spend Classification and Analytics
• Supplier Collaboration
• Supplier Management

Supply Chain

When a performance-driven approach is applied to a manufacturing-based enterprise, an effective, streamlined supply chain takes center stage. These enterprises focus on performance-enhancing initiatives that let them reduce inventories and operational costs and improve customer service through better, timelier product availability. Such near-flawless execution is a result of having crystal-clear visibility into the supply chain to identify problems early and make real-time adjustments to supply chain processes.

• Contracts