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 thought 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:

• Disaster Recovery Planning

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, knowledge management, data mining, analytics: what does it all mean? What does it have to do with my data warehouse and databases? Today you have to do more than tune your data warehouse. You have to start at the beginning with the design, work through to the deployment, and keep it tuned for peak performance. Plus, you need to make the most of that stored data by analyzing it and using it to give your company a competitive advantage. Business intelligence has moved beyond the data warehouse to access other data sources; learn how BI is helping companies make the right decisions. This track examines the growth of business intelligence and the partnership with data warehousing to make the most of your key data sources.

Applicable sub-categories:

• Oracle BI New Features
• Best Practices
• Oracle OLAP (cube creation, deployment, management)
• Essbase technology
• Data Mining
• Oracle Spatial
• Oracle Database Platform/Exadata
• EPM
• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
• Analytics
• Crystal Ball
• Data Analysis
• Performance Tuning
• Information Lifecycle Management
• Tool Evaluations (Oracle and Third Party)
• Operational Analytics
• Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting
• Data quality
• Extraction, transformation, load (ETL)
• Accessing distributed data
• SOA integration
• Data Governance
• Master Data Management (data hubs)
• Partitioning
• Tuning warehouse for performance
• Faster cubes for faster information
• Managing images
• Managing Unstructured data and text
• Better reports and better information
• Custom BI environments
• Real-time analytics
• Interactive dashboards & EPM
• Reporting Tool Evaluations
• Corporate Performance Management
• Data Visualization

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:

• Oracle New Development Features
• Diagnostics and Performance Tuning
• Backup and Recovery
• Data Security
• Best Practices
• Streams/Replication
• Installation/Migration/Upgrade
• RDBMS Internals
• Tool Evaluations (Oracle and Third Party)
• Clustering
• Data Management
• Monitoring / Administration
• Virtualization
• Connectivity
• Grid Computing
• Java Coding Best Practices
• SQL Tuning and Best Practices
• PL/SQL Tuning and Best Practices
• Middleware

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:

• 11g Features
• Best Practices
• Web Development
• Data Programming
• Frameworks
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Testing / Quality Assurance
• Performance Tuning
• Security
• Tool Evaluations (Oracle and Third Party)
• Connectivity

Executive

More information on the Executive track will be available soon.

Financial Management

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-categories:

• Contracts

Governance Risk and Compliance

Governance 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.

Human Capital Management

In the face of brutal competition, leaders must drive superior levels of efficiency and performance throughout their operations. This track discusses how Human Capital Management can be employed to create a direct line of sight between key objectives and workforce performance, improving operating and financial results.

Infrastructure Technologies

As a technology professional, you have the ability to guide a company’s direction. Part of your evolving responsibilities includes implementing best practices and understanding viable future technologies. Your knowledge 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 database environment. Topics focus on an enterprise scope when dealing with networks, hardware, middleware, backup strategies, disaster recovery, data management and technology trends.

Applicable sub-categories:

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

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 Mgmt/Application Integration

Master Data Management consolidates and maintains complete, accurate and authoritative master data across the enterprise and distributes this master information to all operational and analytical applications as a shared service.

Applicable sub-categories:

• Middleware
• Data Modeling (e.g. normal form, designer, CAD, UML)

Project and 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.

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. S kills 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:

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

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.

Supplier Relationship Management and Procurement

Supplier Relationship Management is the integrated suite of procurement applications that dramatically cut all supply management costs. Enterprise SRM reduces spend on goods and services, streamlines procure-to-pay processes and drives policy compliance.

Applicable sub-categories:

• Contracts

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-categories:

• Contracts