Keynote
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Colby Springer, CIO Club Corp |
Keynote
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Keith Morrow, CIO 7-Eleven
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Collaborative
Supply Management: Implementing Trading Partner Collaboration
Businesses today face a tough economy as well as closer
scrutiny from investors and shareholders. As a result, most companies must
justify trading partner collaboration projects with evidence of fast
payback—typically within the first 12 months of implementation. To achieve a
collaboration project’s ROI in a short timeframe, companies must leverage
current technology investments and effectively extend business processes to
trading partners across the supply network. According to Michael Hammer of
the Harvard Business Review, “Streamlining cross-company processes is the
next great frontier for reducing costs, enhancing quality and speeding
operations. It’s where this decade’s productivity wars will be fought.” These
productivity wars will be won through the ROI achieved by trading partner
collaboration and collaborative execution.
Supply Chain veteran, Rich Sherman, will address trading partner
collaboration and the importance of Collaborative Supply Management in
today’s complex, extended supply chains. Attendees will gain insight into the
key elements of supply chain collaboration, why integration and trading
partner collaboration projects fail, and how to overcome barriers to
collaboration. Mr. Sherman will also discuss why trading partners are leery
of adopting collaborative relationship management solutions, along with
recommendations on what will inspire them to adopt |
Richard Sherman, ClearOrbit
Richard J. Sherman is an internationally recognized
writer, researcher, and speaker on logistics, supply chain management,
collaborative commerce, marketing and organizational change. He currently
serves as Chief Marketing Officer at ClearOrbit, headquartered in Austin,
Texas. ClearOrbit is the recognized leader in providing innovative supply
chain process management applications for managing, automating, and
coordinating supply chain execution activities and enterprise visibility
across global distribution networks.
As a research director, he successfully launched the supply chain
management advisory services for AMR Research and was a leading member of the
team that founded the Supply Chain Council. Throughout his career, Mr.
Sherman has held senior management positions with EXE Technologies, Syncra
Systems, Numetrix, Ltd., Information Resources, Inc., Mercer Management
Consulting, Digital Equipment Corporation and Unisys Corporation serving
clients in retail, wholesale, manufacturing, and logistics services
(warehousing & transportation).
He is a frequent contributor of articles related to eBusiness,
collaborative commerce and supply chain management, and speaks at
conferences, symposiums, and universities regularly. Considered an industry visionary, he
serves on the VICS CPFR Committee, the North American Leadership Team of the
Supply Chain Council, the National Advisory Board to the Center for Logistics
Management at the University of Nevada-Reno, and is a professional member of
the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) and the Warehousing Education and
Research Council (WERC). He has
served as an executive in residence at the University of Tennessee, Michigan
State University, and the Ohio State University among others. An alumnus of the University of Notre Dame
for both undergraduate and graduate degrees, Mr. Sherman has attended
management development programs at Michigan State University, Miami
University, and the Universities of Tennessee and North Florida |
Improve
performance and lower costs of your Oracle Applications with Application
Resource Management
Oracle
Application customers including Sun Microsystems, Applied Materials and
Tektronix have adopted a new best practice in their Oracle application
environments called Application Resource Management (ARM). ARM is a new class of application aware
infrastructure that monitors and manages data growth in an application
environment and takes action to maintain high service levels of performance
and stability. The presentation will
explain how ARM works and explain why leading enterprises have adopted ARM to
meet or exceed service levels in the face of consolidations, data growth and
regulatory compliance business initiatives.
Each of these business initiatives has dramatic data growth
implications. The presentation will
include a discussion of the traditional solutions (such as adding server and
storage capacity) enterprises have used to manage their Oracle
applications--and why these short term solutions ultimately fail to deliver
long term results in these application environments. Also, we will detail the requirements for
selecting ARM solutions – what to look for -- as well as a roadmap for a
successful implementation. Case studies
will be used to illustrate ARM practices at Sun, Applied Materials, Tektronix
and others, and will include descriptions of measurable business improvements
such as performance, stability, and cost savings.
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Leonard Asuncion, OuterBay
Leonard spent the past 10 years with one of the largest
users of Oracle Applications, United Parcel Service in logistics and business
development. In the past 2 years, Leonard has spent time educating
people in the Application Data Management market and how it benefits companies
that utilize Oracle, PeopleSoft and Custom Applications. Leonard
has spoken at various Oracle conferences relating to incorporating an
Application Data Management strategy for upgrading to future Oracle
releases, overcoming performance issues and conveying the importance of
a Life Cycle Management strategy to maintain regularatory compliance.
Leonard received both his BS in San Jose and MBA from Golden Gate |
"To
Patch or Not to Patch – It’s Not a DBA Question"
In earlier releases of the Oracle
Applications the area of patch application and patch application strategy was
the purview of the technical support team - namely the applications
DBAs. These early patches were
usually very specific in nature, target to address specific bugs or functionality
in the software. In the more recent
versions of the applications, 11i in particular, the patching strategy has
become much more of a business decision.
Two major reasons for this are as follows: 1) Patches are
predominately being released in sets and packs that often have a much wider
range of impact than the desired resolution to a given issue; and 2) The
involvement of Oracle Support in any reported issue is directly proportional
to the degree in which you are patched-current. The target audience of this white paper is not only corporate
technical teams, but also the functional business teams and management. Different patching methodologies will be
presented with the relative merits and risks of each, as well as the impacts
on the technical and business teams. |
Alicia Hoekstra, Solution Beacon
Alicia Hoekstra has over 18 years
experience with information technology and has been working with,
implementing, upgrading, and supporting the Oracle Applications, domestically
and internationally, for more than 10 years.
A founder of the Applications SIG of the Dallas Oracle User Group as
well as an active participant in DOUG and SCOUG, Alicia also served on the
international OAUG Board of Directors for three years. Alicia frequently speaks and writes on a
number of Oracle Applications implementation and upgrade topics at local,
regional, and international user group meetings and conferences. |
Enforcing
Business Rules and Security in Oracle Applications. Two Approaches
Most businesses running Oracle Applications have
requirements to make changes to or restrict access to standard Application
Forms. First Approach: A custom table driven application to store
field and block properties, which are set by the forms custom library at run
time. Field and block properties are grouped as rules and these rules can be
assigned to the Site, Application, Responsibilities, Users, or Profile. By
using this approach you can make forms look and behave differently for
different users with out modification. Second Approach: A custom table driven application to
store table and column properties that are enforced by simple database
triggers generated by the application. Table and column properties are
grouped as rules and these rules can be assigned to the Site, Application, Responsibilities,
Users, or Profile. The database triggers determine if a rule exists for the
current user and will return a form error message if the rule is violated. In
addition to table and column properties, SQL statements can be defined to
enforce most any business rule |
Mike Rodgers, Orchard
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Ten Ways to
Annoy Your DBA
This
presentation will deal with ways that developers can annoy their DBA and how
to avoid some of these annoyances.
The presentation will concentrate on queries and their optimization,
but will touch on some other issues as well.
The presentation is geared towards the intermediate developer who is
familiar with SQL. Specific topics
will include analyzes of tables, the anti-join query (NOT IN (SELECT...)),
deadlocks, and table space usage.
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Michael Shreeve, Braun Consulting
Michael Shreeve
is a Senior Manager within Braun Consulting's Business Intelligence business
unit. He has been both a developer
that has annoyed his share of DBAs as well as being the annoyed DBA for data
warehouse projects over the past seven years
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Workflow
Builder
Abstract in regular |
Karen Brownfield, Solution Beacon
Karen Brownfield of Solution Beacon has 25+ years
experience programming, installing, and managing applications used in various
industries including Chemicals, Entertainment, Defense, Recruitment, and
Hospitality. The past 12 years she has focused on Oracle Applications
specializing in Financials and Workflow as functional specialist, programmer,
team lead, and/or project manager. Karen is an active member of the
international OAUG Board of Directors, serving in multiple capacities in the
last 10 years, including President and Past President; and has presented many
papers and training sessions at the various OAUG and user group conferences
locally, regionally, and internationally. Karen can be reached by email at
kbrownfield@solutionbeacon.com. |
Introducing
Oracle iSetup
Looking
to save time, reduce risk and increase setup accuracy on your Oracle
E-Business Suite Implementation project? With the release of Oracle iSetup,
true setup automation is finally here.
iSetup provides you with automated setup of the Oracle E-Business
Suite, enhancing the quality of your setup and increasing the efficiency of
your implementation.
Oracle
iSetup is a new Internet-enabled application that allows you to configure
Oracle E-Business Suite in a quick and cost effective manner. iSetup empowers
you to quickly setup your critical business processes using an intuitive,
web-based questionnaire.
iSetup
presents you with an easy-to-answer business questions. Once you record your
responses to these questions, iSetup automatically translates your business
requirements into setup options. The intelligent rule engine makes sure that
your responses are mutually consistent. iSetup compliments your responses
with the knowledge base of leading business practices to generate setups for
the Oracle E-Business Suite.
This
presentation will go into the details of Oracle iSetup scope, availability,
usage, future direction and customer success stories
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Kirk Williams – Frontier Consulting, Inc.
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Outsourced
Hosted Solutions – Pro’s & Con’s
This
presentation will focus around current experiences with Oracle Outsourcing
and other Oracle Hosted Solutions Providers.
Benefits of the Outsourced solution will be discussed along with the
Business Drivers that should be considered when reviewing an Outsoucred
Solution
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Kirk Williams – Frontier Consulting, Inc.
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No more
Oracle Sales Compensation? – Now give them “Incentives”! Implementing Oracle Incentive Compensation
Oracle
Sales Compensation no longer exists as of 11.5.7. This presentation will
provide insights into implementation of Oracle Incentive Compensation.
Changes from Oracle Sales Compensation will be discussed along with the
prerequisites required for successful implementation of the new html-based
module. We will also discuss the skillset required for implementation, the
structure of a Compensation Plan, and additional functionality in Oracle
Incentive Compensation
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Gary Pearson, Torques Technology
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Using the
Customer Contact Center to Revolutionize Customer Service in Today's Economy
This presentation outlines Oracle's Contact Center Applications
can be leveraged to improve customer loyalty and profitability |
Matt Hampton, Matt Hampton is a Manager of Customer Solutions with the Dallas
office of Braun Consulting, specializing in customer contact centers, and CRM
implementations. He has over seven
years of implementation experience and eight plus years of business
experience in contact centers His
most notable projects were with General Motors, Direct TV, DBS Bank of Singapore, Shell, Tricon
Global Industries, and New York Times.
Mr. Hampton has worked in all life cycles of these projects, and has
consistently delivered project deliverables on time and on budget for his
clients. He has worked on many facets
in these contact center implementations including the following: vendor assessment, outsourcing, business
strategy, business analyst, configuration/development, testing, training,
knowledge transfer, and change management
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Data
Warehouse
With
Oracle9i Database's unique performance and scalability features, customers do
not need to rebuild their data warehouses from the ground up when data
volumes, user demands, and analytical processing overwhelm their original
systems. This presentation looks at
the manageability, performance and security features that Oracle9i provides
to support the demanding needs of today's data warehouses. It puts these
features into context by providing real world insights into the Oracle9i data
warehouse
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Michael Coleman,
Michael is a Principal Technology Sales Consultant in
Oracle's Commercial Sales division.
He has been in the computer industry for 18 years with the last 7
years working for Oracle. Michael's
focus areas at Oracle are large scale systems, high availability and Data
Warehousing |
Collaboration
Suite
Email,
voicemail, meeting participation, calendaring and file sharing are critical
activities of every business. They create the communication and content
management infrastructure within a company. The ability to conduct business
over many different communication channels holds the promise of faster and
more flexible interaction with customers, partners and employees. Accepting
the challenge to provide this streamlined interaction requires integrated
communications systems based on a common technology infrastructure. Oracle
satisfies this demand by offering integrated email, voicemail, phone, fax,
scheduling, calendaring, real-time on-line meeting services and file
management in a single product, Oracle Collaboration Suite. This session will be an overview of the
Oracle Collaboration Suite solution and how it provides a complete,
integrated collaborative environment. |
Jill Jennings, Oracle Corp
Jill
Jennings is a Senior Sales Consultant in the Dallas area Oracle office.
She has been with Oracle for over four and a-half years, specializing in
Oracle’s middle-tier technology stack, Oracle9iAS, and Oracle Collaboration
Suite. Jill may be contacted through email at jill.jennings@oracle.com or her
direct office number, (972) 868-3454. |
ABC’s of
Building Workflows
Workflow
is everywhere in Release 11i. Whether you need to customize an account
generator, set the timeouts in the Oracle delivered workflows, or you want to
write your own, you must know how to use the Builder Tool. This
presentation will give a brief overview of the pieces of the workflow technology
and then focus on how to use Workflow Builder to create or customize
workflows
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Karen Brownfield, Solution Beacon
Karen Brownfield of Solution Beacon has 25+ years
experience programming, installing, and managing applications used in various
industries. The past 12 years she has focused on Oracle Applications
specializing in Financials and Workflow as functional specialist, programmer,
team lead, and/or project manager. Karen is an active member of the
international OAUG Board of Directors, serving in multiple capacities in the
last 10 years, including President and Past President; and has presented many
papers and training sessions at the various OAUG and user group conferences
locally, regionally, and internationally. |
Public Sector
Challenges migrating from legacy to Oracle
The
institutional change management issues, administrative culture changes, and
technological challenges that accompany a public school district when
migrating from legacy systems can seem overwhelming. An analysis of how the Dallas
Independent School District replaced its older legacy systems with Oracle
Financials, HR and Payroll applications in a fifteen month implementation. A
case study of a large public sector enterprise migrating from legacy systems
to an industry-standard Web-enabled business model, and the view from the
project manager who lived to tell the tale, with lessons learned
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Lee Allen, DISD
Lee Allen is the Executive Manager for Business Services
Training & Support for the Dallas Independent School District. He has
been with the DISD since May 1997, and has also overseen the district’s
Technology Services division. Mr.
Allen was the project manager for the district’s 15-month migration from
legacy financial and human resources systems to Oracle Web-based applications. Mr. Allen worked in the Santa Fe Public
Schools from 1987-1997 |
Database
Resource Manager: Another Tool in the DBA's Arsenal
The
main goal of the Database Resource Manager is to give the Oracle DBA more
control over priority of jobs CPU usage thus better managing the server. The
Oracle Database Resource Manager includes a scheduling mechanism that keeps
track of CPU time consumption and performs scheduling decisions at fixed
time-intervals. It also contains a mechanism to control the number of concurrently
active sessions. Once all active session slots are filled, subsequent
sessions attempting execution will be queued and let into the system as other
active sessions finish their work.
The Resource Manager also allows the administrator to set scheduling
policies based on the predicted execution time of a query (e.g. only run very
long queries in a low priority group or not at all). The presentation will
review the use of the Resource manager and present a short case study.
|
Mike Towery, KnightWorks Consulting
Mike has over 18 years data processing experience in all
phases of system development on a wide range of hardware, operating systems,
and enterprise wide databases. He has installed and maintained numerous
Oracle databases as well as performed DBA activities for those databases. He
has been responsible for SQL/PL-SQL and database tuning, backup and recovery
for multiple Oracle databases and hardware environments. He has led the
performance testing for a number of Oracle's largest and most challenging
application implementations. His teaching experience at Southern Methodist
University enables me to clearly communicate Oracle concepts. In addition,
Mike has his own consulting company, KnightWorks Consulting, through which he
performs Oracle DBA services. |
Using 11i
Delivery Regions and Zones features to Schedule and Release Sales Orders
Review
the new features in 11i Order Management for defining Delivery Regions and
Zones with associated Intransit Times.
Demonstrate the use of the intransit times to calculate Schedule Dates
for sales order lines to control the release of sales order lines for picking
|
April Stooksberry, Independent Consultant, CPA
April Stooksberry's Education includes a Bachelor and a
Master of Science in Accounting and Information Systems from University of
North Texas. Practical business
experience includes cost analysis, budget preparation and analysis, domestic
and international financial reporting, retail sales and management, asset
accounting and management, inventory accounting and management, and customer
service. This business experience is
coupled with over 15 years of experience in systems analysis, design,
testing, and implementation of custom and packaged applications including over
10 years of experience in Oracle application implementation projects. |
Financials
Family Pack D-A Preview of New Functionality coming in 11.5.9
A preview of Release 11.5.9 for Financials via Family Pack
D. Family Pack D contains much of the functionality that will be provided in
Release 11.5.9 of the Financial Applications. The presentation will cover the
Functionality as advertised, as well as many of the "gotchas" and
challenges encountered at an actual site (early adopter) as part of their go
live. |
Mark Clark, o2Works
Mark Clark has thirteen years of experience with Oracle
Applications, having started his career at Oracle Corporation in their
consulting services practice. He participated in and led implementations and
upgrades throughout North America, and on behalf of multinational interests
overseas. Additionally he has taught classes for Oracle University throughout
their US Education centers. He has been involved with founding and
co-founding two nationally focused consulting practices that specialize
exclusively in Oracle Applications. Mark recently joined the international
OAUG Board of Directors in addition to his active leadership as the president
of the South Central Oracle Users Group, and as a founder and Board Member of
the North Central OAUG. He frequently speaks and writes on a number of Oracle
Applications implementation and upgrade topics at local, regional, and
international user group meetings and conferences. Mark can be reached by
email at mclark@o2works.com or by phone at 214.616.9605. |
RAC Demo
This
session demonstrates Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster (RAC) solutions on
HP’s Itanium2 servers. The focus is on a single hardware solution based on HP
platforms as small as the rx2600 server up to the Superdome with Itanium2
processors. A brief discussion of how HP is able to boot the Itanium2
platforms to multiple operating systems is provided. The presentation/demonstration focuses on
the characteristics of RedHat Linux cluster solutions. It starts with
two rx2600 servers with shared storage in a powered-down state and goes
through all of the procedures required to bring it to an operational RedHat
Linux cluster. Oracle 9i RAC is then added to demonstrate the availability,
scalability and manageability of a RAC database in a Linux cluster. This
includes fail-over and parallelized scalability queries. A brief discussion
of RAC functionality is provided to understand how this database technology
takes advantage of HP’s cluster solutions
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Steve Gonzalez, HP
Steve is a Senior Solutions Architect in Hewlett-Packard's
Central Region BCS Regional Support Group. He has been in the computer
industry for over 29 years with the last 18 at HP in support of UNIX and
high-performance platforms. Steve's current responsibilities include
focus on HP's AlphaServer and Itanium2 product families and the UNIX
operating systems that run on those platforms. Steve has developed
numerous white papers and training classes for implementation of HP cluster
technologies for TruCluster, HP-UX ServiceGuard and RedHat Linux clusters |
Corporate
Governance: Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 and Oracle Corporation
How
is the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 going to impact corporate America? Should
corporations take a pro-active or re-active stance to compliance of the Act?
What parts of the companies are most likely to be impacted and how? What are
the requirements of the Act and how can applications and technology aid in
the compliance with the Act? What are the consequences for not
complying? What approach are the large audit and consulting firms
taking to alleviate corporate risk pertaining to the Act? What are the
anticipated costs for companies to become compliant with the Act? How
can Oracle applications and technology aid companies in their compliance with
the Act? The presentation will
provide you with a high level familiarization of what the Act entails and
possible solutions for complying with it. Examples of how companies are
utilizing Oracle application and technology solutions in a effort to fully
comply with the Act will be covered
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Ted Sherrill, Oracle Corp
The presentation will be given by Ted Sherrill a Oracle
Principal Sales Consultant with a BBA in Accounting and a MBA in Information
Systems. Ted has over seven years as a Oracle employee covering
technology and application solutions. Ted also has worked in public
accounting and served as a accountant and IT specialist for a multi-national
corporation |
Supply Chain
With
increasingly unique and unpredictable customer demands for innovation, speed,
quality, and service, all supply chain participants are rapidly adopting new
e-business practices to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment.
These practices allow companies to lower costs, increase velocity, and drive
new business enabling them to survive and thrive. Oracle enables
companies to leverage new e-business best practices to automate all processes
within a company and to collaboratively extend automation across the supply
chain. This session will review the current Oracle Supply Chain
footprint with a focus on how companies can lower costs and drive
efficiencies with Oracle Applications
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Amy Descombaz, Oracle Corp
Amy Descombaz is a Senior Sales Consultant at
Oracle. She has been with Oracle for over three years focusing on
Supply Chain Applications and supports the West Commercial Sales team.
Before joining Oracle, Amy was a Sales Consultant for a mid-market ERP
company and was a Manufacturing Engineer at Texas Instruments. Her
responsibilities at TI included program management of outsourced
manufacturing |
New Features
of Oracle’s Development Environment
This
presentation will explore the latest features and upcoming strategy for
Oracle’s Internet Development Suite.
The discussion and demonstrations will focus on Oracle Designer,
Oracle SCM, Oracle Forms and Oracle JDeveloper
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Cindy Haley, Oracle Corp
Cindy Haley is a Principal Sales Consultant in the Dallas
Oracle office. She has been with
Oracle for fourteen years, specializing in custom development with Oracle’s
development environment. Cindy may be
contacted at cindy.haley@oracle.com or (972)401.5705. |
Dial “M” for
Mobile - De-mystifying the use of Oracle’s Mobile Supply Chain Application
This
presentation will reveal the in’s and out’s of implementing Oracle’s Mobile
Supply Chain Application. The
discussion is based on an 11.5.7 implementation completed in the last
year. Areas covered will be: Reasons for implementing MSCA; The
hardware required to implement the application; The Creation of Bar Code Labels;
Performing Remote Transactions; Tips for Implementing MSCA
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Sandi Briggs, Torque Technology
Ms. Sandra H. Briggs is an Experienced Consultant for
Torque Technologies with 9 years of industry experience and 14 years of
consulting experience. She has recently implemented Oracle’s MSCA, Inventory,
BOM, WIP in an 11.5.7 environment.
Other Oracle experience has been with the Advanced Planning System and
the Warehouse Management System. She
has over six years of other ERP experience and four years of Supply Chain
Planning and eCommerce experience.
She has worked with companies in commercial, aerospace, process, and
discrete industries to improve their use of business systems in a production
environment. Her primary focus has been on scheduling, inventory, production
control, and engineering data management functions. Her project roles
include: project manager, functional team lead, education and training
specialist, implementation support, business analyst, documentation
developer, and software selection support |
Collaborative
Procurement: A quantum leap in supply chain efficiency
Oracle 11i Internet Procurement suite of applications has
provided an unprecedented opportunity to take costs and time out of your
procurement cycle and give you a competitive advantage. To reap the benefits,
you need to look at the procurement process in a whole new light. This
presentation will discuss how two companies justified the investment in
iProcurement and reaped the benefits by successfully implementing the
applications. Procurement executives, professionals and application Super
Users from Manufacturing, Distribution and Service companies will benefit
from this presentation. |
Raj Wagle, Solix Systems
Raj Wagle has
been an Oracle Applications consultant for the past four years. He has
performed numerous 11i e-business suite implementations in manufacturing,
distribution and procurement areas. For the prior 14 years, Raj worked for
EDS in various capacities – as a Business Development Manager, Management
Consultant and ERP Systems Project Manager, and assisted numerous large and
mid-size companies worldwide to improve internal operations and supply chain
efficiencies. Raj’s academic background is in mechanical engineering,
management information systems and business management. He is presently a
Senior Manager – Oracle Practice at Solix Technologies.
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Oracle
Applications and Linux: The Truth Behind the Hype
Linux
is starting to garner a lot of attention lately as a low-cost platform for
business applications. But is it
ready for Oracle 11i Applications?
Does it live up to the hype?
What are the key considerations for moving to Linux? This presentation attempts to go beyond
the hype surrounding Linux and provide an accurate high-level picture of how
Linux is affecting the Oracle Applications world and who can take advantage
of the cost-savings associated with Linux.
A case study involving a current Oracle 11.5.8 Applications
demonstration instance on Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 is explored, showing
what was saved and gained by moving from a Dell/Windows environment to a
Dell/Redhat Linux environment.
This presentation is primarily for key IT stakeholders in
an Oracle Applications environment, including System Administrators, Database
Administrators, and IT managers who are interested to learn more about Linux
and how it fits into the current Oracle Applications marketplace |
Russ Johnson, Braun Consulting
Russ Johnson is
a Senior Consultant with Braun Consulting, responsible for performing Oracle
Applications DBA and developer skills on 11i E-Business Suite
implementations. Russ has been
involved with 5 11i implementations and is the 11i Applications DBA for the
instance used in the case study
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The Internals
of “Internal Orders”
This
presentation will provide an overview of the Internal Order Process Flow, the
strategic business decisions for implementing internal orders, key set up
considerations and impact, manual and auto creations of internal orders and
customization considerations. The
topic will be based on a recent release 11.5.7 implementation.
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Pearletta Ullrich, CPIM, Torque Technology
Ms. Pearletta Ullrich, is a consultant for Torque
Technology with 21 years of industry experience and 6 years of Oracle
consulting experience. This includes 10 years of experience in the
manufacturing industry. She has implemented
Inventory, Master Scheduling/MRP, Supply Chain Planning, Purchasing, Bill of
Materials/Engineering, Work in Process, and Workflow. She has completed five implementations on
Oracle Applications release 11i. Ms
Ullrich has her Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) from
APICS. |
SQL – DBA’s
Best Friend
In
this presentation, techniques utilizing SQL scripts and the Oracle RDBMS data
dictionary to support dba needs will be presented. Selected scripts will be used to function as templates for
presenting types of script structures.
Sample scripts demonstrate how to create scripts that generate secondary scripts to build
database objects, alter objects, analyze objects, identify potential database
problems or support normal dba maintenance activities. Utilization of PL/SQL functions in SQL
scripts will also be discussed and demonstrated.
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Lee Millikin, Consultant
Dr. Lee Millikin first began using query languages in 1980
to maintain IMS hierarchical
databases. First as an Oracle
Principal Instructor, then as an active consultant and contractor offering
DBA services, he has utilized SQL*Plus and the data dictionary to develop a
large library of SQL scripts to support dba needs. In addition to scripts to support dba activities, Dr. Millikin
has worked with numerous developers to tune as well as create SQL scripts to
meet complicated data mining needs |
11i
HR/Payroll/Benefits Strategies after Financials
The
Oracle HRMS product family has vaulted into the role as HRMS industry leader
over PeopleSoft and SAP based on new functionality in Release 11i. Many Oracle Financials customers are
maximizing their Oracle 11i E-Business Suite investment and implementing the
Oracle HRMS product suite and thus saving, on average, 25% annually by eliminating
inefficient “best of breed” solutions.
We will discuss shared data between Oracle HRMS and Financials,
critical implementation factors, and realistic project expectations unique to
the HRMS suite. We will address new
functionality in 11i HRMS, such as Oracle Benefits (Standard and Advanced)
and Self Service HR
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Ken Conway, BOSS Corporation
Ken Conway is Executive Vice President at BOSS Corporation
and leads a team exclusively dedicated to Oracle HRMS (HR, Payroll, Advanced
Benefits, etc.) solutions throughout North America and Europe. Ken has worked with Oracle HRMS
implementations for over 8 years in both management and hands-on roles
including several of the first successful implementations that went into
production in the United States |
FSG’s Made
Simple
This presentation will demonstrate the fundamental
elements necessary in developing and deploying standard FSG’s. These fundamental basics include
definition of row sets, column sets and reports. In addition advanced topics
will be covered that include: consolidated reports, creating reports using
different levels or details, changing column sets to break out reports, using
segment overrides, using row sets for departments, utilizing % of Rows and %
Columns and using statistical accounts. |
Ronda Ellis & Karen Brownfield, Solution
Beacon
Ronda Ellis of Solution Beacon has over 20+ years of
business and accounting knowledge that encompasses several different
industries that include: Real Estate and Banking, Retail, Hospitality,
manufacturing and Services. Ronda
holds a Bachelor’s degree from Dallas Baptist University. She has presented at numerous local,
regional and national conferences.
Ronda has spent the last 9 years utilizing and implementing Oracle Applications. The modules include: AR, AP, FA, GL, CE,
INV, PO, PA, and Sales Compensation.
Ronda currently serves on the South Central Oracle Applications User
Group board as Chair. In addition,
Ronda serves as the Vice-Chair and OAUG representative for the South Central
Oracle User Group, as well as the President of the Fort Worth Oracle User
Group. Ronda has participated in
various project roles that include: Project Manager, Project Lead, and module
lead. Ronda can be reached by email
at rellis@solutionbeacon.com. Karen
Brownfield of Solution Beacon has 25+ years experience programming,
installing, and managing applications used in various industries including
Chemicals, Entertainment, Defense, Recruitment, and Hospitality. The past 12
years she has focused on Oracle Applications specializing in Financials and
Workflow as functional specialist, programmer, team lead, and/or project
manager. Karen is an active member of the international OAUG Board of
Directors, serving in multiple capacities in the last 10 years, including
President and Past President; and has presented many papers and training
sessions at the various OAUG and user group conferences locally, regionally,
and internationally. Karen can be reached by email at
kbrownfield@solutionbeacon.com. |
Increasing
Shipping EfficiencyThrough Device and Application Integration
Efficient order fulfillment is critical to managing supply
chain costs and customer service levels.
Learn how SkinCeuticals teamed with ClearOrbit to seamlessly combine
handheld RF scanners, fixed station POS scanners, weigh scales, bar code
printers, laser jet printers and freight rating systems to streamline their
shipping process within Oracle 11i. |
Tarek Omar, Rob Harris - SkinCeuticals; Dan Kubala - ClearOrbit,
As
the manufacturer of the original topical vitamin-C formulations,
SkinCeuticals, Inc. is the pioneer in the field of anti-oxidant
research. SkinCeuticals products are
sold through the world’s leading dermatologists, plastic surgeons,
obstetricians, gynecologists, day spas and salons. SkinCeuticals is located in Dallas, Texas, USA and has distribution
in all 50 United States, and in 16 countries worldwide. Tarek Omar is a graduate of Southern
Methodist University with a degree in Finance and Real Estate. Tarek joined SkinCeuticals, Inc. shortly
after it was founded in 1994. He has
worked in just about every area of the organization, including Operations,
Accounting, sales reporting and compensation, and Information
Technology. His extensive knowledge
of SkinCeuticals core business processes, along with his technical expertise,
contributed to his team’s successful implementation of Oracle11i. SkinCeuticals was able to successfully
implement 18 Oracle modules in 78 days, while internally managing all
technical aspects of the implementation.
Tarek is currently involved in leveraging the technological resources
in place at SkinCeuticals, Inc. in effort to provide his company with the
most efficient and effective ERP/CRM system available. Rob Harrison is a graduate of Southern
Methodist University with a bachelor of science in Engineering Management and
Information Systems. While attending SMU, Rob participated in SkinCeuticals
Summer Internship program, where he assisted in the implementation of Oracle
11i. Upon graduation Rob joined the SkinCeuticals team full time, an has been
focused primarily on leveraging SkinCeuticals Oracle environment, and seeking
increased efficiency throughout their supply chain. Dan Kubala is ClearOrbit’s Director of Product Marketing,
overseeing product marketing and market research initiatives. Previously,
Kubala was Vice President of Marketing at Tanknology, responsible for
marketing and business development for technology-based environmental
services. Prior to that Kubala was
Technology Marketing Manager at the IC2 Institute, managing business strategy
and market analysis for high-tech firms employing federal R&D in
commercial applications. Kubala has also worked in product management and
supply chain management positions in the consumer products industry. His technical background comes through
experience as project leader on a software development team at Image Sciences
Incorporated and as a consultant to IBM. He holds a BA in Mathematics from
the University of Dallas and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
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WMS
Implementation Success
Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS) is a powerful and
capable software solution for manufacturers and distributors that is looked
upon by many as a key component in Oracle’s 11i E-Business Suite. This
session focuses on the knowledge resources, methodology and challenges to assure
success with Oracle WMS. The ClearOrbit team will further detail the
complexities and technical challenges they overcame in their latest WMS
implementation at Zachry Construction – a privately held construction company
headquartered in San Antonio, Texas with more than 10,000 employees and
world-wide material management needs. We encourage everyone with an interest
in warehouse management systems and mobile user automation projects to
attend. |
Dusty Knight, Cleatius Copeland – ClearOrbit
Dusty
Knight is currently a Project Manager responsible for managing large-scale
supply chain execution projects for ClearOrbit. Dusty was the Project Manager for ClearOrbit's implementation
of Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS) at Zachry Construction Corporation. Dusty has over 9 years in operations
consulting experience, and was been responsible for developing several
implementation methodologies including methodologies for WMS implementations,
ClearOrbit Gemini Series implementations, and project management. Cleatius Copeland is currently Director of
Professional Services for ClearOrbit, responsible for overall customer
satisfaction. He has been with
ClearOrbit 2 ½ years and has spent 8 years leading Professional Services organizations
in the Supply Chain Execution and ERP marketplace. Prior to this experience, he spent 20 years in Distribution and
Manufacturing operations, primarily in the High Tech and Packaging
industries.
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Using
Business Intelligence with Oracle’s E-Business Suite
Along with the different modules
in Oracle's E-Business Suite, some analysis of the data can and will need to
be done with other Oracle DW/BI software and/or Oracle partner/third party
tools. An introduction into what
Business Intelligence is and is not will be presented, along with an overview
of the major players in this market space.
After helping the audience understand the reason behind using these
tools, the next focus will be on how and when to use them. Each attendee will learn the advantages
and disadvantages of the products under Oracle's Business Intelligence
umbrella. After going through many
OFA and OSA implementations, I will offer some very practical guidelines on
using OFA and OSA, including some areas to consider if you may be migrating
to or considering EPB (OFA/OSA replacement) in 2004. We will then contrast and compare these
two modules to the use of 9iAS Discoverer, BIS (11.5.7 and below), DBI
(11.5.8 and above), and the other intelligence modules. Part of this comparison will include a
discussion of the underlying architecture that BI uses in Oracle Applications
EDW (11.5.8 and above), Jaros Analytics (11.0.3 and 11i), and DecisionPoint
Analytics (10.7, 11.03., and 11i).
Finally, each attendee will receive a briefing in a proven methodology
that assesses your readiness and resources to implement a Business
Intelligence Solution |
David Fuston – FMT Systems
David Fuston has managed multiple projects involving
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, Data Warehousing, Data Marts, Data
Transformation, Online Analytical Processing, and Business Intelligence
utilizing Oracle RDBMS and Express MDBMS technologies since 1992. He has been an active beta tester in
programs for Oracle Applications 11i, Oracle Sales Analyzer, Oracle Financial
Analyzer, Discoverer, and 9iAS. As
an author and presenter of multiple basic and intermediate level technical
papers, he has been a speaker at International Oracle User Group (IOUG),
Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG), and Oracle AppsWorld
conferences. Currently, he is serving
as the vice-president of the BI/DW SIG of OAUG. |
Oracle BIS
and Enterprise Data Warehouse
Are you confused by all the Oracle Intelligence
buzzwords? B.I.S., E.D.W.,
Discoverer, P.M.F., - What does it all mean?
Oracle E-Business Suite customers are now bombarded by 178 products
that make up the Oracle E-Business Suite.
One of the most confusing areas is Business Intelligence. There are a number of parts, all with a
different acronym and some with the same name! Bring clarity to the situation. Learn how the Business Intelligence puzzle fits together to
satisfy all you company’s reporting needs |
Nick Roppolo – Braun
Consulting
Mr. Roppolo is a Manager in Braun Consulting's enterprise
Applications practice, with over six years of experience providing supply
chain solutions including iProcurement and iSupplier Portal
implementations. Nick’s experience
includes functional and technical Oracle purchasing experience with multiple
clients |
Centralizing
Data Access
Finding it challenging to get meaningful data from Oracle
Applications and other data sources?
Learn how to simplify access to the information stored in your Oracle
Apps database and how to accelerate the delivery of your business
intelligence strategy while enhancing your current investment in business
intelligence technology including query and reporting tools, dashboards and
portals, and ETL tools. |
Eric Nelson - Noetix Corporation
Eric
Nelson is a Senior Sales Consultant for Noetix Corporation with over 20 years
of information technology experience. His background includes
extensive work in the areas of Data Warehouse design and implementation,
Business Intelligence, and Analytical Applications. |
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Making
Discoverer Easy to Use for Financial Analysis across the Enterprise Abstract: The audience will learn how to maximize
the user experience with Discoverer by deploying proper underlying
infrastructure. This presentation will review alternative approaches and
identify cost effective ways to accomplish the recommended approach. It will include a Discoverer demo. Executive
Summary: Discoverer is a very powerful tool for analysis
yet many Discoverer users have trouble getting the information they need.
Developing an EUL to simplify access to the data in Oracle Applications helps
but is not the whole answer. An additional layer between Oracle and
Discoverer is needed to greatly simplify reporting and analysis. If set up right, Discoverer is so easy to use that most
business users can get the data they need for complex analysis without much
training at all. Some IT people think that lack of training is the reason why
business users get frustrated with Discoverer. Training alone does not work.
The most common problem occurs when Discoverer is used to accommodate
inadequate infrastructure. This presentation will provide a recipe for proper
use of Discoverer including a demonstration of how to quickly and cost
effectively deploy a data warehouse to optimize reporting and analysis. It
will include common mistakes made by Discoverer users in the Oracle Applications
environment and show how to avoid these mistakes. The recipe for success with Discoverer includes several
things. A properly designed EUL is important, but for analyzing data from
Oracle Applications, this is not the right starting point; it is secondary.
An additional "transformation layer" (TL) is required to provide
optimum results. The EUL concept is meant to hide data structure complexity
from Discoverer users. For simple applications, an EUL alone may suffice but
for Oracle Applications, a TL is a necessity. The good news is that components are now available that
provide this transformation layer (in the form of packaged data warehouses)
and are some are inexpensive to implement. The old fashioned methods of
providing this layer are building a custom data warehouse or using views. The
newer technologies include Oracle’s EDW, DBI, EBP and several 3rd party
analytics products, and tools to build it yourself like Oracle Warehouse
Builder. This presentation will include a demonstration where we
will show enabling complex analysis in a few minutes. |
Stan Choflet, Mike Spencer – Jaros Technologies
Stan Choflet and Mike
Spencer are Principals with Jaros Technologies, the company with the leading
packaged data warehouse for manufacturing and distribution companies using
Oracle Applications. Mike has been
involved in Manufacturing Industry solutions for over 15 years and his
background includes 3 ½ years as an Oracle sales consultant and manufacturing
applications specialist. Mike’s deep
understanding of Oracle Applications and data warehousing offers unique
insight into business process improvement.
Stan, also an Oracle alum, has over 20 years experience in the high
tech industry including extensive experience with enterprise software
solution sales and generating ROI from software investments. |
Oracle 9i
Online
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Dean Richards – Insession
For more than 15 years, Dean
Richards has been applying his consulting management and business development
skills to the management and support of Oracle databases throughout a diverse
range of environments. His expertise
extends beyond Oracle database administration to encompass experience in
legacy systems, development environments, systems integration, data migration
and many other challenging environments.
Richards's past experience includes work as a Senior Engineer with
McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), Consultant at Daugherty Systems, and as a
Consulting Practice Director with Oracle.
Richards is currently a Senior Marketing Analyst with the Oracle Tools
Sales division at Insession Technologies. |
Oracle's
Daily Business Close - What it Means, How to Achieve
Oracle has been making a lot of noise around their ability
for organizations to see a daily snapshot of their operations – the daily
business close – including leads, sales, inventory, and revenue, to allow
companies the ability to manage by fact rather than by opinion. This presentation will discuss Oracle’s
view of the daily business close and how it is achieved, then explore today’s
reality and practical approaches to increasing information timeliness in your
organization |
Mike Zesch – Braun Consulting
Mike has been
with Braun Consulting since being hired from Oracle Corp to initiate and
build Braun’s Dallas office in 1998.
Mike draws expertise from having lead numerous Oracle implementation
projects in the manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, and energy
industries. Leveraging previous
experiences at Oracle, Nortel, and Raytheon, where he managed large systems
implementation and software development projects, as well as his many roles
at Braun Consulting, this presentation promises to be an informative and
straightforward discussion of Oracle’s products, positioning, and
capabilities
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Do you have
A-RICE List? A-RICE stands for Applications, Reports, Interfaces,
Conversions, and Enhancement
A-RICE is a simple spreadsheet
based tool developed for documenting
Applications-Reports, Interfaces, Conversions and Enhancements and their
related information in a single centralized document. The document will help in documenting the
business software infrastructure.
A-RICE will also be very helpful in metrics about the E-Business
Infrastructure and also in assessing impact and analysis of the same. |
Mehesh
Vallampati – Oracle Corp
Mahesh Vallampati is a Install Base
Senior Sales Consultant at Oracle Corporation. Prior to this role, he was a practice manager in Oracle
Financial Services Industry group. He
has over 10 years of experience with Oracle and has worked at Oracle for 8
years consulting at several Fortune 500 companies. His current role in Oracle is to facilitate customer
interaction with support and Oracle processes. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas
A&M University. |
Oracle
Pricing – Basic to Advanced
The challenge of implementing the “pricing module” is
understanding the overall impact of pricing within the Quote to Cash
process. This session will review the
configuration steps and dependencies in an Oracle Pricing (Basic or Advanced)
implementation. This presentation will
show lessons learned over various Oracle 11i implementations, options with
pricing, approaches to data conversion and data maintenance. During the presentation, simple to complex
pricing will be discussed using real world examples. Also included during the discussion will
be a review of the latest pricing features from Oracle Application versions
11.5.7 and 11.5.8. Highlights of the
presentation include attribute mapping and pricing formulas. At the
conclusion of the presentation, the audience will have a clearer
understanding of the implementation of Oracle Pricing (Basic to Advanced) and
the issues that await them |
Joe Lenard – Torque Technology
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Paying
Time-off: The Oracle PTO Accrual Process
This presentation presents a case study of an Oracle HRMS
PTO accrual process implementation. Drawing parallels to Oracle Payroll, it
addresses the unforgiving nature of such an implementation and proposes
methodology for "cleaning-up" the mistakes that are inevitably
made. The paper also attempts to clarify some fundamental concepts of the
Oracle PTO process and how, in this client's situation, it became necessary
to directly modify the Oracle seeded "Carryover Process" for a
successful implementation. |
George Kong
and Leah King- VarTec Telecom, Inc
George Kong is a Lead Developer at VarTec Telecom. He has
9 years of Oracle Applications experience including Financials, HR, Payroll,
and Benefits. Leah King has two years
experience implementing and supporting Oracle HRMS, Payroll, and OAB. She is
currently employed at VarTec Telecom. |
iSupplier
Portal Vendor Set Up Options
iSupplier Portal provides your suppliers with greater
visibility regarding their interactions with your company’s buying
organization. This session examines
various processes for registering suppliers, the considerations for selecting
a process, and communicating to your suppliers about using iSupplier Portal. |
Faun deHenry
- FMT
Solutions
Faun deHenry is CEO of FMT Systems Inc., which provides
professional services to assist companies in the areas of change management
and business process integration. Ms. deHenry has 20 years experience
delivering and overseeing professional services. After more than a decade of
working on system integrations in manufacturing, professional services,
utilities, and distribution environments, Ms. deHenry has refined her
thinking into FMT’s change management and business process solution. |
ERP Business
Intelligence Options
When completing your ERP/MRP/CRM implementation, you will
enter scores of information and in some areas, will struggle to get that
information back out in a meaningful format for analysis and decision-making
purposes. There are a multitude of
business intelligence solutions available to you for implementation, each of
which has associated pros and cons.
This paper will discuss some of your options and considerations for a
hybrid approach that combines parts of one or more of those options. |
Craig Strus –
Appsability
Mr. Strus Graduated with degrees in Engineering and
Computer Science and is currently Vice-President of Appsability, LLC. Mr. Strus has been working with Oracle
technology for 8 years. Through 15
years of consulting, he as designed, built, and directed the construction of
over 50 systems, including OLTP, OLAP, ROLAP, and ERP solutions. |
Sarbanes-Oxley and
the new Oracle Internal Control Manager product
The scandals surrounding
Worldcom, Enron and Tyco in 2002 have created an environment where the
officers of a company have to warrant to their shareholders, not only the
accounting information, but the controls they have in place to safeguard the
assets of the company, and the validity of the financial statements they
produce. The passage of
Sarbanes-Oxley now makes the officers of a company personally liable and
responsible for the quality of their internal reporting. Oracle will soon be introducing a new
product, Oracle Internal Control Manager (ICM), that leverages their
technology stack to help customers support several major components of
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. This
presentation provides an overview of the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, and
discusses supporting functionality to be included in Oracle’s new ICM. |
Nicholas
Pollard, Mitch Damek – Deloitte
Mitch Damek is a Senior Manager in Deloitte & Touche’s
Management Solutions and Services consulting practice. Mitch’s primary service areas are Oracle,
and Financial Transformation Services.
Mitch has over 12 years of consulting experience implementing information
systems, developing system strategies and helping clients improve business
processes. The demands of the
marketplace have recently forced Mitch to focus much of his time assisting
client with Sarbanes-Oxley from a technology perspective, which led to his
and Deloitte’s involvement with Oracle on the development of the new Oracle
Internal Control Manager product and its early adopter program. |
Database
Archiving When and How
Most sites have been resigned to
maintain all their historical data in their production database, for fear of
losing access to historical data should they ever archive. The consequence of this inaction is
performance degradation, heavy maintenance requirements in effort and time
(labor and batch processes), and increased hardware acquisition costs
(processing power and storage). For
historical business information contained in Oracle as structured data, there
were great technical challenges that make the separation, and archival of
that data difficult and risky. This
presentation will share best practices and time-proven tools for database
archiving. The results of database
archiving can be a smaller Oracle production database, without sacrificing on
demand access to archive relational data.
Benefits of this approach include: * Improved performance with ad hoc
queries; * Improved batch processing performance; * Reduced DBA maintenance
time; * Faster data recovery and disaster recovery windows; * Reduced
database infrastructure costs |
Sue Prazuch -
Princeton
Softech
Sue
Prazuch has over 30 years of experience in the software industry with
specific expertise in the areas of application development, conceptual data
modeling, database design/implementation, data migration, testing
methodologies and programming tools.
Ms. Prazuch began her career in IT as a programmer in a banking
environment, and has additionally worked in the areas of insurance,
manufacturing and finance as a programmer analyst, system designer and
database administrator. She also has
broad experience in technical education as in instructor, training developer
and education manager. Ms. Prazuch
has addressed a wide variety of audiences both domestically and
internationally, and is much sought after as a speaker and instructor. |
11i… And
Please Add RAC
This presentation charts the technical journey taken for
one client that chose to implement 11i with 9i Real Application Clusters
(RAC). The client chose RAC to meet their business requirement of no more
than five minutes down time for the 11i application environment. The 11i software can take advantage of 9i RAC’s ability to
provide high availability for the database tier. However, Oracle does not
include RAC as an option during the 11i installation. The following steps are
required for 11i to use RAC: 1.
Install operating system cluster software 2.
Install 11i 3.
Install 9i 4.
Upgrade 8i to 9i 5.
Configure RAC This presentation will cover each of the above steps in
detail. At the end of the presentation, we will briefly discuss
the following closely related topics: |