Marc Beinhoff, CEO of Saleforce.com, accused Oracle of architecting the "false Cloud". Was he right or wrong? In this session we explore how to architect the "right Cloud" with Oracle technologies. Architecture approaches, Cloud design, and Cloud Risk mitigations with Oracle technologies. We will explore using Oracle technologies for Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud and how this will add value and flexibility to your organization.

To innovate and keep a competitive edge, organizations need to leverage the power of agile and responsive Web applications. Oracle WebCenter Portal enables you to do just that, by delivering intuitive user experiences for enterprise applications to drive innovation with composite applications and mashups. Attend this session to learn firsthand from customers how Oracle WebCenter…

Your company already runs world-class Oracle line of business (LOB) applications to help support various business functions. Meet the Microsoft SharePoint team accompanied by a panel of Business-Critical SharePoint experts, including Microsoft partners and their customers, to discuss the benefits of connecting your Oracle applications with SharePoint to create business-critical solutions that improve business processes,…

: Logical entity/relationship (E/R) models also referred to as "conceptual" or "semantic" models define the information requirements of the enterprise independent of the resulting implementation. A well defined E/R model is the key to successful development of data-oriented applications. This presentation will provide an overview of the fundamentals of E/R modeling as the definition of…

Originally Broadcasted 3.5.2013 If you’re like most DBAs, you may have gotten blamed for application performance issues at one time or another. Maybe the root cause of a problem did originate in the database, but maybe it didn’t. It can be difficult to tell—especially when communication among the application, storage, virtualization, and database teams isn’t…

With large multi-terabyte databases it can be difficult to quickly back out a large amount of database changes. One way to back out changes and have your production database up and available for use is to use Flashback Database. And you can back out the changes from your large standby database by using Snapshot Standby.…

Partitioning and compression are technologies that have been in the Oracle database for a long time. The EXCHANGE PARTITION command is the key to large-scale and scalable data loading in a data warehouse, and a key prerequisite for the effective use of compression. But now there are many different types of compression available in Oracle…

This presentation will discuss the latest Oracle database features certified and supported by SAP applications. This presentation is targeted for Oracle DBAs and SAP basis administrators responsible for managing an Oracle database running under SAP applications.

Testing data warehouse projects can be extremely challenging due to the heterogeneous nature of data sources and large volumes of data. Based on our experience in implementing data warehouses and BI systems, we have come up with a set of best practices/patterns in testing which can minimize the risks associated with OBI projects. The methodology…

Databases keep getting bigger and bigger. Business applications that utilize ever-growing databases are expanding at an alarming rate. To stay competitive, businesses require additional functionality, and the technology needed to make that functionality possible keeps getting more complex. To make matters worse, the DBAs needed to keep it all running are hard to find and…