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October 2009

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Oracle OpenWorld 2009: The Sessions You Can’t Miss
Read all about the upcoming OpenWorld offerings in these categories:

Watch Oracle OpenWorld Live on LiveStream.com
Oracle OpenWorld Live will Webcast live on LiveStream from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, October 12-14, direct from the OTN Lounge in Moscone West.

Live programming includes major keynotes, Q&A with OTN heavy hitters, Justin Kestelyn with special editions of TechCast, segments with Tom Kyte and Wim Coekerts, select technical sessions—plus a wide range of serious and not-so-serious employee- and user- generated video as it’s created right at Moscone Center during the conference.

Unveiling Oracle Exadata V2
Sun Oracle Database Machine: The First OLTP Database Machine

Introducing version 2 of the world's fastest database machine: The Sun Oracle Database Machine. The new database machine goes beyond data warehousing to also deliver extreme performance and scalability for online transaction processing applications (OLTP). More...
Oracle Validated Integration: Standardized, Reliable, and Tested Partner Integrations
With Oracle Validated Integration, Oracle Applications customers can be confident that a partner’s integration has been tested and validated as functionally and technically sound, that the partner solution is integrated with Oracle Applications in a reliable, standards-based way, and that the integration operates and performs as documented.

Follow Oracle on Twitter
Stay tuned to the latest news about Oracle’s releases, listen to up-to-the-minute podcasts, read Q&As with execs, and more. Follow Oracle today for access to constant updates. More...

TECH DIVE

Looking Backward and Forward at User Experience
Usability expert and Oracle consultant Joe Dumas talks about the evolution of the user experience, the impact of user interface on productivity, and what customers can expect from the next generation of Oracle enterprise products.
More...

ISVs Accelerate Application Deployment with Oracle VM Template Builder
ISVs are speeding application deployment with Oracle VM Template Builder, a free, open-source, graphical utility that makes it easy to use Oracle Enterprise Linux “Just enough OS”–based scripts for developing prepackaged virtual machines for Oracle VM. More...

BLOGOSPHERE
Frank Buytendijk, VP of EPM Strategy The Curious Case of Financial Consolidation
By Frank Buytendijk, VP of EPM Strategy

Judson Althoff, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Alliances and Channels Don't I Know You from Somewhere?
By Judson Althoff, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Alliances and Channels

Mary Ann Davidson,  Chief Security Officer Summer R & R
By Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer

Read all Oracle blogs.
WEBCASTS

Centralized User Lifecycle Management for Databases
Register today for a complimentary Webcast to learn how you can centrally manage, automate, and audit database user accounts and access. Improve privileged users’ productivity while enforcing security and compliance across your entire database infrastructure.

Enterprise Database Security—Using Strategy to Make the Most of Your Budget
Learn how to

  • Approach database security holistically
  • Formulate a comprehensive strategy
  • Start to think about a database security plan
  • Leverage existing database infrastructure to automate security and compliance
Register for this Webcast with Roxana Bradescu, Oracle senior director, and guest speaker Noel Yuhanna, principal analyst at Forrester Research.

New Technologies and Best Practices for Database Encryption
Listen to Adrian Lane, SANS analyst, along with Roxana Bradescu, Oracle's senior director of database security products, describe and compare methodologies for data encryption. Sponsored by Oracle. Register now.

Accelerate Time to Value with Successful Delivery of Enterprise Applications
With Rapid Deployment, Oracle has brought together three key solutions: Oracle Application Integration Architecture, Oracle Master Data Management, and Oracle User Productivity Kit and Tutor. Together these offerings enable you to increase the value achieved from your enterprise applications while lowering total cost of ownership. Register now.

Why Collaboration Is Hot: Getting Ahead of the Business Curve in a Disruptive Market
There’s been a lot of talk about organizations reducing and delaying investments in new technology—but that’s not the whole story. A recent survey by Forrester Research revealed surprisingly fast and broad growth in enterprise adoption of collaboration technology. To hear more, register for the Webcast, Why Collaboration Is Hot: Getting Ahead of the Business Curve in a Disruptive Market with Rob Koplowitz, Forrester principal analyst. Register now.

USER GROUPS/EVENTS

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Forum—World Tour
Learn how Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g helps you to achieve IT efficiency; extend and enhance investments in CRM, ERP, and other applications; and provide a more agile, cost-effective foundation for innovation. Information-packed sessions, case studies, demos, and more.

ODTUG Seriously Practical Training: OPP and APEXposed 2009
November 10-11
Atlanta, Georgia
Register for one and attend both!

OPP2009 features training sessions with the experts, including Steven Feuerstein, Bryn Llewellyn, Mary Gable, John King, and John Jeunnette. See the agenda or register.

APEXposed 2009 will be led by Scott Spendolini and features presentations by Mike Hichwa, David Peake, Bharat Pappu, and Anton Nielsen. See the tracks or register.

CIRCUIT Co-Located Users Group Conference (Quest International)
November 18-20
Washington DC
More...

See all upcoming Oracle events.

EDUCATION

Get a Free Self-Study Course
Here’s a way to stretch your training dollar. A current promotion allows students who attend a five-day Live Virtual Class to receive a FREE Self-Study CD-ROM, valued up to $900. NOTE: The deadline for this promotion has been extended to November 27, 2009. Learn more.

Featured Oracle University Courses
For more information, call 1.800.529.0165 in the U.S. or 1.800.510.3432 in Canada to speak with an education sales representative.

  • JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CNC Foundation Rel 8.98 – RWC (U.S. / Canada)
  • PeopleSoft: Benefits Administration Rel 9 (U.S. / Canada)
  • Hyperion: Oracle Essbase 11.1.1: Bootcamp (U.S. / Canada)

UPK Developer Rel 3.5 Course
Oracle UPK provides a collaborative development environment to create system-related assets—the "People to System" documentation. This course is designed for course authors, editors, and other individuals in need of recording and editing content in the User Productivity Kit Developer. Learn how to preview your content in the available playback modes before publishing. Also explore the various deployment options for publishing, including the options for printed documents, and learn how to customize templates for player and print output.

New Siebel 8.1 Courses
Oracle University announces the availability of new versions of essential courses. You can take the first three Siebel 8.1 courses shown below as standalone courses in any order. Additional 8.1 courses are in the works and will be available soon.

  • Siebel 8.1 Installation and System Administration (U.S. / Canada)
  • Siebel 8.1.x Tools (U.S. / Canada)
  • Siebel 8.1.x Business Automation (U.S. / Canada)

FEATURED OFFER

JD Edwards..IBM


ADVISOR WEBCASTS

Expert information on services, products, and technologies comes straight to your desktop through Oracle Web Conferencing. Coming up:

Oracle E-Business Suite
October 20
Community - Projects: Release 12.1.1 Projects Features

Oracle Financial
October 21
Exploring the Refund Process from a Receivables Perspective

Oracle Database
October 7
Community: Overview of the Performance Diagnostic Guide (PDG)
October 28
Community: Overview on Data Guard and Standby Database

PeopleSoft Enterprise
October 8
Enterprise PeopleTools: Introduction to Multi-Channel Framework (MCF)
October 21
Campus Solutions 9.0 XMLP Transcripts Overview of Updates and Enhancements
October 27
Integration Engine Load Balancing and Failover

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
October 14
Setting Up Employee Benefits Self Service in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne HCM
October 22
Sales Intercompany Processing in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
October 27
Understanding Matrix Items
October 28
AR Draft

JD Edwards World
October 20
Post Installs for A91/A92 Do WHAT??

For a complete list, visit the Oracle Advisor Webcasts site.


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