More content. More technology. More training.
Get more at X-Treme. This exclusive two-day program will consist of highly technical, deep-dive content that you can only get at Oracle OpenWorld. Oracle experts from applications and technology will be on hand to guide you through a series of intense breakout sessions and X-Treme hands-on workshops.
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The X-Treme program offers twelve tracks covering topics such as Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC),
business intelligence, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Siebel CRM, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and much more. Due to the complexity and
technical depth of the workshops, registration is restricted to one track for the duration of the weekend.
Register today to attend the X-Treme program. As part of your X-Treme registraton you will need to select one track of your choice from
the list of X-Treme program tracks that are offered. Space is limited and registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Oracle OpenWorld attendees: Register now for the X-Treme Weekend program for the discounted rate of $650. .
X-TREME PROGRAM TRACKS
Getting on the Grid with Oracle Database 10 g—Using RAC, ASM and Grid Control
Database administrators
System architects
Software engineers
Technical managers
Description:
Come join us to learn how to install, configure, manage and use Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Oracle Grid Control. This two-day X-Treme workshop session offers you the opportunity to build and test RAC, ASM and Enterprise Manager Grid Control environments. Developers and technical experts from Oracle will be on hand to support and guide you throughout the entire session and provide you with advice, tips and tricks. This workshop will run late into the night on Saturday and all day Sunday. You will be provided with a complete set of hardware and infrastructure for your personal use.
Highlights will include:
Several deep-dive technical sessions about related subjects complement the workshop
Developers and technical experts will talk about product implementation and share their practical experience with Oracle RAC, ASM and Grid Control
Bring your own application with you and RAC-enable it during the workshop session
Base your application on Oracle ASM during the event
Prerequisites
Attendees interested in this track should have at least intermediate to advanced knowledge in the following areas:
Linux Operating System
Clustering Concepts
Storage Concepts
Oracle Database Concepts
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Oracle Real Application Clusters Concepts
Oracle Database Installation and Configuration
Oracle Database Administration
Oracle Database Diagnostics
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Building Highly Available Environments with Oracle Database 10 g
Database administrators
System architects
Software engineers
Technical managers
Description:
Come join us to learn how to configure and deploy your Oracle Database for maximum availability. This two-day X-Treme workshop session offers you a hands-on learning opportunity to maximize the availability of your Oracle Database by following the best practice principles of Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture, and learning how to build and configure Oracle Database 10g's industry-leading availability capabilities such as Data Guard, Flashback, Recovery Manager (RMAN) and Oracle Secure Backup (OSB). Developers and technical experts from Oracle will be there to support and guide you throughout the entire session and provide you with advice, tips, and tricks.
Extending Oracle Content Management Solutions through APIs and BPEL
Database administrators
System architects
Software engineers
Technical managers
Description:
Oracle Database 10g is being enhanced with optional new capabilities designed to address the challenges of managing the lifecycle of unstructured content such as Word documents, presentations, spreadsheets, digital images, etc. Your database and your ability to support content in enterprise business processes can also be significantly extended through a comprehensive set of Web services and Java APIs, BPEL Process Manager, and event-triggered Java agents. This track will provide attendees with a deep understanding of these facilities as well as hands-on training on how they can be used to extend the capabilities of your Oracle Database to better manage unstructured content. Developers and technical experts from Oracle will be there to support and guide you throughout the entire 2-day program and provide you with advice, tips, and tricks.
Lockdown Your Data with Oracle Database Security
Database administrators
Security / system architects
Software engineers
Technical consultants / technical managers
Corporate compliance / technical staff
Corporate IT security officers
Compliance auditors
Description:
Join us to learn what you need to know to lockdown your data. Whether protecting it from the outside hacker, insider threat, or seeking to enforce controls to meet today's increasing compliance and privacy requirements, Oracle Database 10g offers a wealth of capabilities to secure your data and enforce preventive controls. This two-day workshop will focus on how to "harden" your existing Oracle database installation as well as how to install, configure, and manage leading Oracle security capabilities to improve overall system security. Get hints and tips, and learn firsthand from experts in security.
You will learn:
Best practices around database installation to mitigate security risks
Automation techniques for patch management using Oracle Enterprise Manager to ease ongoing patching of your systems
How to build realms and set up command rules to restrict application and data access using Oracle Database Vault
Setting up and enforcing encryption in the database to protect sensitive information using Transparent Data Encryption
Best practices to implement row level data classification using Oracle Label Security
Sneak preview and test-drive Oracle's forthcoming Audit Vault to make disparate audit information secure and meaningful
Prerequisites
Attendees should have a firm foundation in Oracle database administration and database security
Managing the Grid: Complete Data Center Management Using Enterprise Manager 10 g Grid Control
Database administrators
Application server/middleware/application administrators
System and network administrators
Technical IT managers interested in a heavy technical dose of the new EM Grid Control product
Description:
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control is Oracle's single, integrated solution for managing all aspects of the Oracle Grid and the applications running on it. Oracle Grid Control couples a potent, top-down monitoring approach to delivering the highest quality of service for applications with a cost-effective, automated configuration management, provisioning, and administration solution. This powerful combination provides unequaled management for any size Oracle data center.
You will learn:
Manage configuration and change across your enterprise
View and analyze configuration and deployment information
Manage policies, including policy notifications and user-defined policies
View and respond to critical patch advisories and security advisories
Manage application service levels
Monitor service availability, performance and usage tests
Measure key transactions and services from remote user communities using "beacons"
Define service level rules
Monitor and report on service levels
Manage application performance
Monitor and understand the end-user experience
Alert administrators to problems and their potential impact
Diagnose the root cause of problems
Quickly correct performance issues to maintain compliance with service level agreements
Lower management costs through grid automation
Cost-effectively manage "many systems as one"
Provision RAC/CRS and AS clusters
Bare Metal OS Provisioning
Automation of Oracle patch processes, including critical patch updates
Diagnose and tune database performance issues
Use Oracle Database 10g self-management features such as Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM), Automatic Workload Repository (AWR), Active Session History (ASH) and Automatic SQL Tuning Advisors
Quickly discover performance bottlenecks
Implement remedies using Enterprise Manager's guided workflow.
Who Should Attend:
Project managers
Java developers
Portal developers
IT managers
Description:
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a portfolio of leading, standards-based, and customer-proven software products that spans a range of tools and services including J2EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management. This comprehensive and well-integrated family of products offers complete support for development, deployment, and management of Service Oriented Architecture.
If you're working with Oracle Application Server, Oracle JDeveloper, BPEL Process Manager, Identity Management, or Oracle Portal, the Oracle Fusion Middleware X-Treme program is the perfect lead-in to your Oracle OpenWorld experience. A range of comprehensive, deep-dive sessions will help you take the technologies you're working with now to the next level.
You'll get the opportunity to meet, talk with and learn from key members of Oracle's product management and engineering organization. Take advantage of this unique opportunity today.
Developing for Fusion with JDeveloper and ADF—Get to know the Oracle Java EE development environment and the technologies used for the Fusion generation of Apps. This session introduces you to the JDeveloper IDE and teaches you development with the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF). Learn business services development with ADF Business Components and presentation layer development using JSF and ADF Faces.
Service-Oriented Architecture for the Next Generation of Business Integration—During this session, learn how Oracle Fusion Middleware, based on the principles of Service-Oriented Architecture, can drive better integration within your IT systems and provide seamless collaboration with your business partners. This lesson will incorporate technologies including BPEL, Web Services, and Business Activity Monitoring.
Use Oracle Portal and Oracle Fusion Middleware to Kick-Start SOA Within Your Enterprise—Services Oriented Architectures (SOAs) offer greater business agility and reduced IT costs when compared to the web and client/server architectures of today. However, many organizations are unsure how to get started or are in search of an effective way to roll out SOA within their IT infrastructure without disrupting ongoing operations. In this session you will learn how you can use Oracle Portal and supporting capabilities in Oracle Fusion Middleware to get started with SOA and composite application development. Specifically, you will build a portal interface and portlets that expose and publish services from back-end applications, that surface business processes, and that extend application services using on-the-glass integration. Come and learn the technology and techniques that will help you unify your IT infrastructure and services catalog and give your users a unified view of business flows, services and events within a common user interface.
Identity Management—Directory Configuration and Management for Real-World Deployment—Oracle Virtual Directory (OVD) delivers the hot-pluggable capability to quickly connect an application to multiple sources of user identities. This session will include Oracle Virtual Directory server and manager installation, configuring LDAP adapters to Microsoft AD and Sun Directory Server, configuring SSL and non-SSL directory connections, creating and configuring OVD with relational databases, as well as joins, logging, troubleshooting and support.
Next Generation Business Intelligence for Actionable Insight to Everyone in the Enterprise
Business users
Analysts
Software engineers
Technical managers
Report builders
Dashboard builders
Business intelligence application developers
Power users who create relational or OLAP queries
Description:
In this session, you will learn how end users can construct their own queries and build their own dashboards using Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition. Oracle BI Suite EE lets you empower employees at all levels with the information they need to make better business decisions easily and efficiently by creating reports, charts, and performance management dashboards through drag-and-drop interface in a completely self-service, Web-based environment. Oracle BI Suite EE lets you collaborate and share business insight through email, and schedule and deliver your reports to dashboards or even wireless devices. You will also have hands-on experience in administrative tasks for defining the physical, logical, and presentation layers to define how end users will interact with the data using business terms. In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to use the components of Oracle BI EE, including Oracle BI Answers, BI Dashboards, BI Advanced Reporting, BI Delivers, and BI Server Administration. Join us for deep-dive BI hands-on workshops that you won't find on the regular OpenWorld agenda.
Prerequisites
Involvement in business intelligence projects
The Leading, End-to-end Data-Warehousing Platform with Enterprise ETL, OLAP, and Data Mining Capabilities
Database administrators
System architects
Software engineers
Technical managers
Business intelligence application developers
ETL developers and architects
Data quality engineers
Metadata architects
Data mining modelers
Description:
The Oracle Database is the best platform for supporting your business intelligence applications. Oracle provides an industry leading ETL (extract, transform, and load) tool, deeply integrated OLAP capabilities, and sophisticated data mining capabilities. Join us for deep-dive BI and DW hands-on workshops that you won't find on the regular OpenWorld agenda. Here you'll learn directly from Oracle experts in the following areas:
How to design, deploy, and manage a feature rich data warehouse environment using Oracle Warehouse Builder
How to deliver rapid query-response times and sophisticated analysis with Oracle OLAP
How to incorporate predictive analytics and advanced data-mining techniques into your business intelligence infrastructure with Oracle Data Mining
Designed for administrators, data architects and database developers of data-warehouse and business-intelligence systems, you will have hands-on experience across all of the key database capabilities for delivering business intelligence.
Prerequisites
Beginner level understanding of basic data warehousing concepts
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools and Technology
Developers
Consultants
Technical leads
Systems and applications administrators
Description:
The EnterpriseOne technology X-treme weekend program has been designed for customers, partners, and consultants with prior, hands-on technical experience with the EnterpriseOne tool set. This extremely hands on session will update your configurable network computing (CNC), application development, installation, and upgrade skills to the latest release level. This program will give you the training from the people who architected, designed, developed, and tested the product. You will have access to the experts for your most detailed questions.
The topics in the course will include best practices and hands on lab exercises for:
Installing the WebSphere Application Server 6.0 for optimal use with your EnterpriseOne implementation
Installing Oracle Technology stack for EnterpriseOne. This will include Oracle Application Server for optimal use with your EnterpriseOne implementation
Configuring the EnterpriseOne system security including role based security and security features added since the EnterpriseOne XE release
Using the Fusion middleware component XML Publisher to create powerful, pixel perfect reports from your EnterpriseOne database
Building powerful, web centric applications using Powerforms and the other latest EnterpriseOne tools for web based applications
Optimizing your EnterpriseOne implementation for best performance and user productivity
Review upgrade best practices including tips and techniques
Best Practices for End-to-End Siebel CRM Deployments
Siebel architects
Siebel developers
Technical leads
Systems integrators
Siebel system, application and database administrators
Description:
Siebel CRM products are the most technologically advanced solution that offers concrete reduction in operational costs. This track will provide end-to-end best practice guidance for implementing Siebel CRM in the enterprise-scale environment. You will improve general knowledge of Siebel installation, deployment, performance tuning, operations, integration, usability, configuration, and testing strategies.
The sessions and hands-on workshops will familiarize attendees with how to plan, setup and maintain key components of Siebel CRM to improve implementation costs. Top Siebel experts will share their experience on the following subjects:
Architecture planning for a successful Siebel CRM deployment
How to build effective business processes operations
Designing Siebel user interface for end users
How to secure your Siebel application deployment
Siebel Enterprise Application Integration and Web Services
How to plan, diagnose and tune for optimal performance, scalability and availability
Siebel Test Automation
Monitoring Siebel run-time operations
Prerequisites
Attendees interested in this track should have prior experience with Siebel CRM applications.
PeopleSoft Enterprise: Tools and Technology
Developers
Technical leads
Consultants
Project managers
Description:
PeopleSoft Enterprise tools and technologies transform the way organizations implement, use, and maintain enterprise software. The Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) is a unique, customizable solution that can help your organization quickly create documentation, enterprise training, and support materials needed to drive project team and end user productivity. In addition, a hands-on session provides an introduction to Process Modeler, an understanding of the depth and breadth of content provided in delivered models, and guidance on how to modify them and use them to best advantage.
Join us for hands-on workshops that you won't find on the regular OpenWorld agenda. You'll get the opportunity to meet, talk with and learn from key members of Oracle's product management and engineering organization. Take advantage of this unique opportunity today. Workshop will include:
Oracle XML Publisher—Enterprise Reporting and Delivery Platform
Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) for PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications
Business Analysis and Simulation
Prerequisites
PeopleSoft Reporting (recommended but not required)
E-Business Suite: Tools and Technology
Developers
Technical leads
Consultants
Project managers
Description:
Oracle provides the technology foundation for building complete Business Applications with embedded analytic access, with Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) as well as enterprise reporting and delivery platform with Oracle XML Publisher. The Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) is a unique, customizable solution that can help your organization quickly create documentation, enterprise training, and support materials needed to drive project team and end user productivity. In addition, a hands-on session provides an introduction to Process Modeler, an understanding of the depth and breadth of content provided in delivered models, and guidance on how to modify them and use them to best advantage.
Join us for deep-dive hands-on workshops that you won't find on the regular OpenWorld agenda. You'll get the opportunity to meet, talk with, and learn from key members of Oracle's product management and engineering organization. Take advantage of this unique opportunity today. Workshop will include:
Oracle XML Publisher—Enterprise Reporting and Delivery Platform
Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) Customization and Extensibility
Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) for E-Business Suite Applications
Business analysis and simulation
Prerequisites
E-Business Suite System Administrator such as AOL/Concurrent Processing (recommended)
Intelligences Families from Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) (required)
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