Common knowledge says that if there is something wrong with the database, blame DBAs. Fortunately for database administrators, about 95% of such cases have nothing to do with their job responsibility. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of time to explain this to any manager. And it takes even longer for the organization as a whole…

As the web has come of age, so have the frameworks and technologies used to deliver web applications. What once were basic text-and-form pages are now rich, responsive data-rich applications that can look and feel like “native” desktop counterparts. Oracle is creating a new generation of rich applications using the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF).…

Come to this session to learn how and why four customers migrated to the Oracle Database Appliance.  

Integration of existing IT applications is becoming increasingly required to support business processes. In this context, the use of service-oriented design principles has proven itself in practice: both existing and new functionality is exposed in the form of (basic) services. Modern orchestration languages, such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), allow to implement business…

In 2010, Northeast Utilities (a Connecticut-based Electric and Gas utility with over 2 million customers) embarked on an ambitious BIDW initiative to integrate data across its Meter Operations business unit. The resulting Oracle data warehouse combined with a 50+ dashboard OBIEE application proved successful and is heavily-used today. But with large data volumes (and more…

New features bundled with Recovery Manager have been progressively making a strong product even stronger. Oracle has attended to some useability enhancements in particular which address the difficulty of backing up and restoring huge information repositories. Reduced overhead for operating system snapshots as well as the ability to breakdown and parallelize the workload of backup…

Today’s organization has to be able to compete in this global economy with both small and large players around the globe as the barriers to entry in many markets get lower. The ability to compete successfully requires success on many fronts: Operational efficiency Customer intimacy Product and Service Innovation BPM can provide the agility needed…

In This Presenation, you will learn how to plan and execute a successful SOA 10g to SOA 11g Migration. You will also learn commonly faced challenges, Risks for such project and how to overcome and mitgitae the risks. In the end there will be some tips and tricks will be shared for execution along with…

IBM will jointly present the latest information and announcements for Oracle solutions running on Linux on IBM System z, including Oracle Database, Middleware, and Applications Solutions (Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, and Siebel) with an overview of the technical material available to assist the installation process. Included will be the overview of the IBM Oracle Zseries SIG…

Classic Oracle DBAs are somewhat starved for the "big overview" knowledge that will make them better decision makers and less hesitant to use MySQL. Oracle covers wide ranges of solutions and doubts appear concerning the 2 most popular databases on the market. The aim is to allow an existing Oracle DBA to get to grips…