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Educational Tracks

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.

Applicable sub-categories:

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

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

National Registry of CPE Sponsors

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.

Applicable sub-categories:

  • Processes and Practices
    • Accessing Distributed Data
    • Analytics
    • Best Practices
    • Better reports and Better Information
    • BI driven Organizational Transformation
    • Corporate Performance Management
    • Data Analysis
    • Data Mining
    • Data Visualization
    • Extraction, Transformation, Load (ETL)
    • Faster Cubes for Faster Information
    • Information Lifecycle Management
    • Managing Images
    • Managing Unstructured Data and Text
    • OLAP (cube creation, deployment, management)
    • Operational Analytics
    • Partitioning
    • Performance Tuning
    • Predictive Analytics
    • Process Metrics
    • Real-time Analytics
    • SOA Integration
    • Tuning Warehouse for Performance
  • Tools
    • BI New Features
    • Custom BI Environments
    • Data Warehouse Appliance
    • Interactive Dashboards
    • Reporting Tool Evaluations
    • Tool Evaluations (Oracle and Third Party)
  • Data Management and Governance
    • Data Governance
    • Data Quality
  • Hardware-Databased Engine
  • Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting

Select sessions in the BI/Data Warehousing/EPM track are eligible for CPE credit.

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.

Applicable sub-categories:

  • Backup and Recovery
  • Best Practices
  • Clustering
  • Connectivity
  • Data Management
  • Data Security
  • Diagnostics and Performance Tuning
  • Grid Computing
  • Installation/Migration/Upgrade
  • Java Coding Best Practices
  • Middleware
  • 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)
  • Virtualization

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.

Applicable sub-categories:

  • Application Integration
  • Best Practices
  • Connectivity
  • Data Programming
  • Frameworks
  • New Features
  • Performance Tuning
  • Security
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
  • Testing / Quality Assurance
  • Tool Evaluations (Oracle and Third Party)
  • Tools and Technology
  • Web Development

Executive

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. The Executive 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.

Financial Management

National Registry of CPE Sponsors

Financial Management 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.

Applicable sub-category:

  • Contracts

Select sessions in the Financial Management track are eligible for CPE credit.

Go With the Flow: Projects to Profit (Supplement to Financial Management Track)

When running a project, costs are tracked against a budget and a series of tasks. Throughout the life of the project a business must be able to gauge profitablity. Nine sessions present how Oracle Financials can help you track costs and profitability through the life of a project.

Fusion

Oracle’s Fusion Applications are the result of a massive engineering effort spanning more than six years, with over 100 product offerings currently available in the product line. Fusion Applications constitute a mix of the best elements of Oracle’s JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel systems, reengineered for Service Oriented Architecture using Oracle Fusion Middleware tools and infrastructure. Fusion Applications add value by emphasizing the concepts of User Experience design, management by exception, and pervasive Business Intelligence.

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.

Infrastructure Technologies

As a technology professional, you have the ability to guide a company’s direction. Part of your evolving responsibilities includes improving business processes, implementing best practices and understanding viable future technologies. Your knowledge of offerings will help lead discussions to apply technology to the changing needs of the business. This track covers the information you need to participate in your company’s infrastructure decisions surrounding the applications, middleware and database environment. Topics focus on an enterprise scope when dealing with networks, hardware, integration, middleware, backup strategies, disaster recovery, data management and technology trends.

Applicable sub-categories:

  • Case Studies
  • Configuration Management / Version Control
  • Corporate Regulatory Compliance (e.g. auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley)
  • Data Protection
  • Data Purging and Archiving
  • Database Security
  • Design/Configuration (hardware, software, network)
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Enterprise Integration (function, data)
  • Green IT and Virtualization
  • Hardware Architecture
  • High Availability and Clustering
  • Industry Best Practices
  • Performance Monitoring and Tuning
  • Storage (RAID, SAN, NAS, ASM)
  • Systems Management (e.g. UNIX/Linux, Windows)
  • System Monitoring
  • System Security (e.g. firewall, LDAP, hardening best practices techniques)
  • Technology Directions (Industry and Oracle)
  • Tool Evaluations (Oracle and Third Party)

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.

Applicable sub-categories:

  • Best Practices
  • Data Quality
  • Data Governance
  • External Content
  • MDM Hubs
  • Middleware
  • Organizational Change

Primavera

Vertical industries are utlizing the Primavera PPM products to manage projects throughout their lifecycles. Successful implementation of Primavera allows companies to utilize real-time data to reduce costs, optimize resources, manage tasks, minimize risks and meet delivery deadlines. Primavera track participants only, please visit the Primavera SIG website for conference registration details.

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.

Applicable sub-categories:

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

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.

Applicable sub-categories:

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

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 and 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.

Applicable sub-categories:

  • Contract Management
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Requisition Management
  • Sourcing and Sourcing Optimization
  • Spend Classification and Analytics
  • Supplier Collaboration
  • Supplier Management (including risk management)

Supply Chain Planning

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.

Applicable sub-category:

  • Contracts
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