Upcoming Oracle Technology Events for Nebraska and Iowa

I wanted to make you aware of some upcoming Oracle Technology events here in the Heartland.  I pulled these from an email from Bob Lankford, my local technology rep.  Thanks Bob!

 

Exadata Lunch Seminar Feb 10th in Omaha, Feb 11th in Des Moines
If you are using any database from any vendor in your organization, you should attend this lunch seminar.  The seminar will explain the architecture and benefits of the Oralcle Exadata Appliance.  The solution may not be a fit for every situation but it is a snapshot of what the future holds for computing and appliances.  Oracle Exadata Storage Servers combine smart storage software from Oracle and industry-standard hardware from Sun to deliver the industry's highest database storage performance. To overcome the limitations of conventional storage,

Oracle Exadata Storage Servers use a massively parallel architecture to dramatically increase data bandwidth between the database server and storage. In addition, smart storage software offloads data-intensive query processing from Oracle Database 11g servers and does the query processing closer to the data. The result is faster parallel data processing and less data movement through higher bandwidth connections. This massively parallel architecture also offers linear scalability and mission-critical reliability.

For Additional information on Exadata: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/exadata/index.htm

Feb 10^th, Omaha Regency Marriott          11:30 -1:00 PM  10220 Regency Circle, Omaha, NE  68144
Feb 11^th, Des Moines, Embassy Suites  11:30 - 1:00 PM 101 East Locust, Des Moines, IA 50309

To register: Contact Ajit Sherring at email ajit.sherring@oracle.com or call 800.363.3059 Ext 22090 

Heartland OAUG held at the Gallup Organization, Omaha NE Feb 11th, ( 8:00 - 1:00 )

We are within TWO weeks of registration for the next Heartland OAUG Mini Conference on February 11, 2010, hosted by Gallup here in Omaha.  New sessions have been added since 1/12/2010.

Registration is free for our users/members.  Please feel free to pass this email along to coworkers or friends who could benefit from this conference!

We have added a new track for Users!  - EBS R12.1 Financials: Centralized accounting through SLA, tax capabilities & payment processing.  Finance Integrations:  Integration technologies specific to the finance organization (credit card, ach, lock box, pcard, etc.).  Finance Insight to Action:  Continuing on the discussion by Joe Thomas, a demonstration of the finance dashboard capabilities.  If you are upgrading or thinking of up grading to R12, this might be a helpful session for both your technical and user community!

When:   8:00 am - 1:00 pm Thursday, February 11^th 2010
Where:  Gallup, 1001 Gallup Drive.  Omaha NE 68102

Register by January 31st and be entered into a drawing to win and iPod Nano!

Joe Thomas, Oracle Senior Director, BI Application will be in Omaha as our keynote speaker and for a series of special presentations on Oracle BI.

We will also have sessions covering the topics of Database, Middleware, Applications and Business Intelligence.  Check the links below for the most current speakers.

More info at:  http://heartlandoaug.spaces.live.com
Register at:  http://heartlandoaug20100211.eventbrite.com
Our site: http://heartlandoaug.spaces.live.com/
At OAUG: http://ne.oaug.org/
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/heartland_oaug

Oracle Analytic Applications and BI Workshop, Feb 23rd, Omaha Regency Marriott

Oracle Invites You To A Free 1-Day Hands-on Analytic Applications & Business Intelligence Workshop. You are invited to a 1-day Oracle Business Intelligence workshop which will allow you to get hands-on experience with Oracle Analytic Applications building ad-hoc reports, creating dashboards and providing access to Oracle and non-Oracle data sources using Oracle BI Enterprise Edition. Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Omaha Regency Marriott 10220 Regency Circle, Omaha, NE  68144 Registration To reserve your space for this hands-on event please call 1.800.820.5592, ext.7231. Workshop Requirements (Mandatory): Laptop computer with network card Internet Explorer 6.0+ or Mozilla 1.7x During the workshop participants will explore: The relationships between business intelligence and data warehousing How to pull data from multiple sources into a consolidated view When should data be brought into the Analytic Applications Data Warehouse How to quickly create dashboards for your entire organization How to proactively alert end-users using exception based reporting Introduction and Overview of BI Server Administration Integration with BI Publisher for enterprise pixel perfect reporting Integration with Essbase Understand the value of Oracle's Integrated Business Intelligence Solution Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) is the most comprehensive portfolio of technology and applications for enabling the insight-driven organization, including leading BI applications, BI platform technology, and data warehousing. With the #1 market share in business analytics, Oracle BI enables organizations to gain complete and timely insight, distribute intelligence pervasively, and drive more effective actions and processes. Oracle BI is hot-pluggable with Oracle and non-Oracle environments so customers can fully leverage existing data sources, systems and applications. At the same time, by offering comprehensive, integrated solutions that are optimized and pre-integrated with Oracle database, middleware, and applications, organizations can benefit from reduced cost and complexity, as well as a unified BI infrastructure. Please join us for an interactive hands-on workshop that will enable you to start providing actionable Business Intelligence to anyone in your organization.

Agenda 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration, Continental Breakfast 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Welcome, Introductions, Roles & Responsibilities 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Oracle Business Intelligence Overview & Best Practices 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Oracle Business Intelligence Workshop Demo 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon Workshop - Creating Reports and Dashboards & Essbase Integration 12:00 noon -1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Workshop - Creating Reports and Dashboards & Essbase Integration 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Q&A and Wrap Up

WebCenter Suite Lunch Seminar  March 10th, Omaha  March 11thh Des Moines

This is a great lunch session to understand Oracle strategy with Portal technology.  Oracle WebCenter Suite is the industry™s only complete, open, and manageable portal platform that integrates Enterprise 2.0 capabilities into business processes and custom and packaged enterprise applications to create richer connections and deliver faster time-to-value. Its unified, standards-based portal framework supports the creation of all types of portals, Web sites, and composite applications and is designed to enable business users to evolve these applications as their business requirements change.

March 10th, Omaha Regency Marriott 11:30 -1:00 PM  10220 Regency Circle, Omaha, NE  68144
March 11th, Des Moines, Embassy Suites   11:30 - 1:00 101 East Locust, Des Moines, IA 50309

To register: Contact Ajit Sherring at email ajit.sherring@oracle.com or call 800.363.3059 Ext 22090

Enterprise Content Management Lunch Seminar April 20th, Des Moines, April 21st Omaha

This lunch seminar will focus on Oracle’s Content Management solutions, what it is, how it compares with its competitors and how it can provide value to your organization.  Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is comprised of Document Management, Web Content Management, and Digital Asset Management in a unified application that enables users to interact with documents, web content and digital assets and provides organizations with the ability to provide the right content, at the right time, and in the right format to employees, customers, vendors, and partners. Core ECM controls and manages the lifecycle of all types of unstructured content, while maintaining the integrity of the content and controlling access to it within or beyond the organization. The solutions lower risk and streamline business operations by: helping prevent problems arising from hard to find, lost or mislaid unstructured content; bringing it into the context of business processes; and allowing content to be distributed more quickly, more conveniently, and more securely.

April 21st, Omaha Regency Marriott  11:30 - 1:00 PM  10220 Regency Circle, Omaha, NE  68144
April 20th, Des Moines, Embassy Suites  11:30 - 1:00 PM  101 East Locust, Des Moines, IA 50309

To register: Contact Ajit Sherring at email ajit.sherring@oracle.com or call 800.363.3059 Ext 22090

Sun Oracle Acquisition cocktail reception coming soon!

Coming soon after the official acquisition closure: Oracle Acquisition of Sun Social Mixer.  I will be hosting a social mixer at a local establishment with drinks and appetizers.  This will provide a  chance to understand what the acquisition means as well as the resources from both Sun and Oracle that are your points of contact.  Stay tuned for the official announcement and dates and location of this event.

 

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