Oracle makes a lot of claims about running their applications on their engineered systems Exadata and Exalogic.  What does an all Oracle design look like, what non Oracle delivered items are required, and most of all what do you need to learn. PowerPoint Whitepaper

Oracle Database 12c was released in 2013 with hundreds of new and enhanced features that can help customers run their organizations more effectively and efficiently. The Multitenant Architecture is one of the most fundamental changes that put the "Cloud" in Database 12c.  It allows organizations to realize much higher levels of database consolidation while realizing lower…

The Doctors Company is the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer. They are committed to protecting their customers through a broad portfolio of insurance products and educational resources. Their website is a critical asset for educating their customers and prospects, and with the more and more users accessing this content on mobile devices they needed…

This session will highlight the success that HealthPartners has had with leveraging their Oracle WebCenter investment to build an enterprise employee portal. Discussion will focus on the issues HealthPartners had with previous portal sites, including lack of corporate branding, non-personalized experiences, and ineffective searches for site content – all leading to low adoption. The presentation…

More and more customers are implementing the Oracle Database Appliance. Learn about why four different customers chose the Oracle Database Appliance and how they use it.

We live in an increasingly mobile world. Real-time access to important business data, regardless of time or location, is no longer an exception it’s the rule. With mobile solutions specifically designed for Oracle’s JD Edwards, you can closely manage approvals, inventory and sales orders in the office, in the factory or on the road. Attend…

As Oracle Database environments scale into the multiterabyte range, it is not uncommon for IT organizations to routinely exceed their backup window. EMC Data Domain storage systems integrate seamlessly with Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN), reducing backup cost and accelerating recovery. This session details how to gain faster, more efficient backup and recovery of your…

Finding ways to make ETL loads faster is not always obvious. Moreover, there is a difference in how to tune OLAP vs OLTP databases. Some of the techniques learned through years of tuning EBS seem to make no effect on tuning a BI ETL. This presentation will discuss why this is the case, present some…

Until now, storage has always been a major bottleneck for DBA and App admins in meeting their SLAs and delivering critical agility with copy services across Dev/Test and analytics & reporting. All-flash Arrays (AFAs) take away all risk and complexity in areas like performance tuning and capacity planning by delivering the scale-out architecture, consistent performance,…

Compliance, internal security requirements are all putting pressure on keeping the organizations data safer from insiders as well as outsiders.  We as database administrators must bring to the table ways to keep the database data safer and more secure then every before.  In this presentation we will examine technology as well as process and procedures…