At Oracle OpenWorld Latin America 2012, in addition to in-depth sessions in specific technical tracks, you’ll have the opportunity to choose from sessions that look at technology from a broader perspective, focusing on strategies, roadmaps, and trends. Content for these sessions will center around Applications, Business Intelligence, Database, Industries, Middleware, Oracle Services, or Server and Storage Systems, so you can focus on the topic that is of most interest to you, or sample across the technology discussions. Following are some of the featured sessions.
In this session, you will hear an overview of the Oracle Taleo integrated talent management solution. You will learn about Oracle Taleo products’ unique point of view in the market and hear stories of customers’ business results. You will also gain an understanding of the vision and product roadmap for the future.
In this session, learn about the long-term vision and roadmap for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Human Capital Management applications. You will hear about the features and functions planned for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.2. You will also understand how PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.2 can deliver value to your organization through streamlined self-service, deep core HR capabilities, and robust talent management solutions. The session also discusses planned enhancements to PeopleSoft Human Capital Management beyond the 9.2 release.
The world’s most complete CRM solution, Oracle’s Siebel Customer Relationship Management (Siebel CRM) helps organizations differentiate their businesses. Come to this session to learn about the Siebel product roadmap and how Oracle is committed to accelerating the pace of innovation and value for its customers on this platform. Additionally, the session covers how Siebel customers can leverage many Oracle assets such as Oracle WebCenter Sites; InQuira, RightNow, and ATG/Endeca applications, and Oracle Policy Automation in conjunction with their current Siebel investments.
Social is changing the customer experience! Come find out how Oracle can help you know your customers better, encourage brand affinity, and improve collaboration within your ecosystem. This session reviews Oracle’s social media solution and shows how you can discover hidden insights buried in your enterprise and social data. Also learn how Oracle Social Network revolutionizes how enterprise users work, collaborate, and share to achieve successful outcomes.
Oracle’s complete commerce solution tackles today’s toughest retail challenges—channel explosion, unpredictable paths, and customer diversity—to forever change the game for retailers by unifying two proven market leaders, ATG and Endeca, in a single solution. In this session, you will learn how the Oracle ATG and Oracle Endeca product families are being integrated with each other as well as with the broader Oracle CRM, Oracle Retail, and Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings.
Oracle Fusion Applications is a 100 percent open and standards-based set of integrated enterprise applications including HCM; CRM; financials; supply chain; procurement; project portfolio management; and governance, risk, and compliance. This general session provides insight into the current strategy of the product line and a high-level roadmap for each product area.
Many of the world’s largest organizations, including 85 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Suite to meet their complex and ever-changing financial and nonfinancial reporting requirements while also lowering the cost of compliance and delivering an unprecedented level of data quality. The purpose of this session is to familiarize the attendees with the capabilities of Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Suite and the possibilities it offers for streamlining their monthly, quarterly, and annual financial consolidation, reporting, and filing processes.
Learn how to achieve the benefits of Oracle Exadata for database consolidation. In this session, you’ll hear best practices from Oracle experts on the migration of legacy Oracle Database instances to Oracle Exadata. Also you’ll learn how to take advantage of Oracle Exadata architecture in a consolidated environment for multitenant database consolidation and how to predict application database performance with Oracle Real Application Testing and the SQL Performance Analyzer feature of Oracle Database to simulate application workloads. You’ll hear how to leverage Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services, including an Oracle Solution Support Center as well as onsite and remote Oracle Advanced Support Engineers, to maximize performance of Oracle Exadata.
MySQL DBAs and developers are constantly challenged to secure, optimize, and maintain their MySQL applications as business needs and SLAs expand into new Web- and cloud-based use cases. Attend this session for an overview of the advanced MySQL Enterprise Edition features that provide the highest levels of security, performance, and availability for all of your MySQL deployments. The session explores advanced features for
Learn how to achieve the benefits of Oracle Exadata for database consolidation. In this session, you’ll hear best practices from Oracle experts on the migration of legacy Oracle Database instances to Oracle Exadata. Also you’ll learn how to take advantage of Oracle Exadata architecture in a consolidated environment for multitenant database consolidation and how to predict application database performance with Oracle Real Application Testing and the SQL Performance Analyzer feature of Oracle Database to simulate application workloads. You’ll hear how to leverage Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services, including an Oracle Solution Support Center as well as onsite and remote Oracle Advanced Support Engineers, to maximize performance of Oracle Exadata.
Oracle Data Guard knocks down barriers to providing a 100 percent guarantee that data is protected regardless of the distance between production and disaster recovery sites. You must attend this session if performance concerns have been an obstacle to implementing synchronous zero-data-loss protection. Eliminate data loss and simplify recovery for every Oracle Data Guard configuration by using a single-standby database and new capabilities for synchronous transport over a wide-area network, with little or no performance impact and minimal additional cost or management complexity. The session also presents the gold standard of data protection: Oracle Data Guard configurations that use multiple standbys for best protection and to reduce planned and unplanned downtime.
This session covers best practices for maximizing availability and replication performance with Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Exadata. The session includes tips on configuration for extract and replicate and discusses the use of Oracle Database’s Database File System feature for trail and checkpoint files.
Oracle Data Mining, a feature of Oracle Advanced Analytics, embeds powerful data mining algorithms in the SQL kernel of the database for problems such as predicting customer churn, customer behavior, up-sell/cross-sell, fraud detection, market basket analysis (beer and diapers, for example), customer profiling, and customer loyalty. With it, data analysts can analyze data, target customers, find important correlations and patterns that can help businesses better compete, fight fraud, and generate PL/SQL code for deployment—all while keeping the data and analytical methodologies inside the database. Additionally, Oracle R Enterprise integrates open source R with the database to expand the statistical and advanced analytics functionality Oracle offers.
Weblogs, social media, smart meters, sensors, and other devices generate high volumes of fast-moving data: big data. This session explains how to harness big data, your existing data, and predictive analytics to make better decisions in an environment of rapid shifts in behavior and instant feedback. It outlines a technology landscape for maximizing the impact of your big data implementation on your business.
You will learn about the technologies that constitute a big data architecture, how to leverage and implement advanced analytics for real-time decisions, and the tools needed to know the unknown.
Consolidating databases onto private clouds, utilizing database services in public clouds, deploying engineered instead of manually built systems, and integrating big data into business intelligence applications and dashboards are top priorities for many IT organizations. Oracle Database is fundamental to the success of IT projects such as these, but what can customers anticipate next? Join Oracle Vice President William Hardie in this session to learn how the latest innovations from Oracle Database Server Technologies can help accelerate IT projects, protect enterprise data, lower IT costs, and add value to the business.
This session discusses and demonstrates how Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) can easily extend Oracle Fusion Middleware and enterprise application functionality to mobile users. Whether users are accessing them from an iPhone, iPad, Android phone/tablet, or even feature phone, Oracle ADF provides a common framework to deliver browser-based as well as on-device mobile applications. Although most of the mobile platforms require extensive and expensive efforts to integrate with the enterprise platform, Oracle simply extends the enterprise platform to mobile devices through Oracle ADF, which lowers TCO and helps you deliver what really matters: compelling mobile applications for enterprise application users.
Oracle WebCenter is a user engagement platform for social business, connecting people and information. Attend this session to learn about the Oracle WebCenter strategy, and understand where Oracle is taking the platform to help companies engage customers, empower employees, and enable partners. Business success starts with ensuring that everyone is engaged with the right people and the right information and can access what they need through the channel of their choice—Web, mobile, or social. Are you giving customers, employees, and partners the best-possible experience? Come learn how you can!
Learn about the latest and greatest features of Release 2 of Oracle GoldenGate 11g, Oracle’s market leading replication product. This presentation covers features for all databases, such as the built-in conflict detection and resolution routines, globalization, and performance improvements. It also outlines the new features for Oracle Database, such as the integrated log mining server and support for compressed objects, as well as for non-Oracle databases, including the introduction of DB2 iSeries platform support. Finally, it looks at new product certifications, including Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalytics platform support for Oracle GoldenGate.
Demands to incorporate internet-scale applications, data, and social media traffic with existing IT infrastructure require extreme availability, reliability, and scalability. In this session on industrial-strength SOA, learn how Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata engineered systems address these requirements.
Hear (1) how SOA and BPM benefit from “hardware and software engineered for each other,” (2) how Oracle Exadata provides the data tier with unparalleled scalability and performance for SOA and BPM running on Oracle Exalogic, (3) customer case studies, (4) best practices and topology guidelines, (5) information on tools that help operate, manage, provision, and deploy—to help reduce overall TCO. Extreme engineering at its best!
Enterprises everywhere are adopting a cloud computing model through use of public clouds; building private clouds; and consolidating on shared, elastically scalable platforms and infrastructure. And as part of their cloud journey, they are looking for choice—that is, why, when, and how they adopt cloud innovations.
Attend this session to learn how Oracle Cloud offers that complete choice—enabled by a rich portfolio of services designed and built on industry standards. With Oracle Cloud, enterprises can finally leverage existing IT skill sets and avoid lock-in of their business applications in the cloud.
Oracle Fusion Middleware is the leading business innovation platform for the enterprise and the cloud. Innovative businesses today are utilizing new platform technologies for their enterprise applications—embracing social, mobile, and cloud technologies. Convergence of these three technologies opens the door for business innovation—changing how customers interact, employees collaborate, and IT manages services. Successful adoption requires a comprehensive middleware platform that delivers secure multichannel user experiences, integrates back-end systems, and supports flexible deployment. In this general session, hear how developers leverage new innovations in their applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Oracle Linux, the best Linux for the enterprise, provides a fast, modern, reliable Linux platform trusted by thousands of customers worldwide. Used internally by Oracle’s development and Global IT teams, heavily tested for data center and cloud deployments, and backed by an enterprise-class support program, Oracle Linux is designed for customers running mission-critical applications on Linux.In this general session, Oracle executives discuss Linux strategy, the roadmap, contributions to the Linux mainline kernel, and what’s in store for upcoming releases of Oracle Linux and Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. Don’t miss this session.
Collaborating with the Linux community, Oracle engineers contribute to advancing Linux for mission-critical deployments. Oracle Linux is the culmination of work with the Linux community and Oracle’s own product development teams. In this technical session, attendees will learn about the recent developments in Oracle Linux and Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, including performance enhancements, Ksplice zero-downtime kernel updates, and the Btrfs file system. The session also covers developments such as T-mem and DTrace. Attendees who want to harness the full power of Oracle Linux will gain valuable insight into new functionality and why Oracle Linux is the best choice for their environment.
Oracle offers the industry’s most complete and integrated virtualization portfolio, enabling organizations to realize benefits beyond simple consolidation as they transform their data centers into flexible cloud-based infrastructures. Join Oracle experts to learn about Oracle’s desktop-to-data-center virtualization solutions, with complete and integrated management of physical to cloud computing, from apps to disk. This don’t-miss session offers details of the latest product updates and strategy related to Oracle's server and storage virtualization solutions, including integration with enterprise applications. You will also hear about real-world examples of users that are benefiting from these solutions.
In this session, hear from key storage executives from Oracle’s SAN, NAS, and tape businesses about Oracle’s storage strategy and the exciting developments since last year’s Oracle OpenWorld. Learn why Oracle storage is delivering on the promise to be faster and more efficient for Oracle software and beyond. Discover why Oracle storage is best for your heterogeneous environment and superior for Oracle software.
This general session goes through the strategy and roadmap for Oracle Solaris. It covers how Oracle Solaris 11 is being deployed in cloud computing and the unique optimizations in Oracle Solaris 11 for the Oracle stack. The session also offers a sneak peak at the latest technology under development in Oracle Solaris and what customers can expect to see in the coming updates.
Oracle Solaris 11 was built as the best platform for the cloud and enterprise applications. This session explores how Oracle’s built-in optimizations in Oracle Solaris 11 improve performance and deliver unique functionality with Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server, and Java. Learn from the experts, find out how to turbocharge your Oracle software deployments on Oracle Solaris 11, and see how to take advantage of the built-in virtualization capabilities to cloud-enable your infrastructure. The session also provides best practices from Oracle Optimized Solutions for Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server.
