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In this session, hear Oracle E-Business Suite General Manager Cliff Godwin deliver an update on the Oracle E-Business Suite product line. This session covers the value delivered by the current release of Oracle E-Business Suite, the momentum, and how Oracle E-Business Suite applications integrate into Oracle’s overall applications strategy. You’ll come away with an understanding of the value Oracle E-Business Suite applications deliver now and will deliver in the future.

Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service combines Web, social, and contact center experiences for a unified, cross-channel service solution in the cloud, enabling organizations to increase sales and adoption, build trust, strengthen relationships, and reduce costs and effort. Come to this session to hear from Oracle experts about where the product is going and how Oracle is committed to accelerating the pace of innovation and value to its customers.

This general session features the latest Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance application updates and showcases the most-recent releases. You will gain an understanding of the challenges of continuously monitoring the activity of cloud-based applications and how on-premises GRC applications can help enterprises stay in compliance with their policies and mandates. In addition, you will get insight into the future of Oracle’s GRC solutions via a general roadmap.

In this session, learn how innovation in fiscal governance can generate competitive advantage for your business, and see how improving the quality and integrity of fiscal data by calculating insurance and validation operations enables risk reduction and total control over the information that impacts fiscal management. Check out tools that allow better monitoring of fiscal tax area performance by analyzing indicators that support your strategic decision-making related to fiscal operations, thus helping you to improve your business processes.

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.

This session presents the eight steps that any company can take to provide customers with high-quality customer experience. These steps are based on best practices proven by industry leaders in virtually every market category. Session leaders also present a straightforward, practical, and effective action program for implementing your customer experience solution.

In this session, learn how leading companies are getting business value from their Oracle value chain planning implementations. Customers will discuss the key ingredients for success, main business challenges, planning processes implemented, and business results achieved.

Upgrading your enterprise resource planning solution is one of the most important business decisions among top executives at companies that rely on Oracle E-Business Suite. As Oracle Premium Support for Oracle E-Business Suite 11 comes to a close, stakeholders must determine whether to perform a technical upgrade or take the opportunity to reassess their business processes and reduce their functionality gaps to support their strategic growth plans. A successful migration to Oracle E-Business Suite 12 is a critical step in preparing your company for future business challenges. PwC can help your company make that move safely.

Attend this session to learn how organizations can develop their talent pool and retain professionals in a competitive market that faces a skilled-labor shortage.

The global economic crisis, increased volatility, limited liquidity, greater sophistication of financial instruments, and the role of treasury in preserving a company's financial health or even business survival makes for a complex environment in the financial services industry. In this session, learn how to manage in today's challenging financial services landscape.

Do want to get the lowdown on Oracle Master Data Management applications? This session covers the product releases, explains the strategy, and shows you some roadmaps. It also looks at the Oracle Fusion MDM applications, the first enterprise-grade SaaS MDM product suite. The Oracle Fusion MDM products provide a modern, next-generation, multidomain foundation for managing master data on-premises and in the cloud. You’ll hear strategies for leveraging MDM and data quality in the enterprise and how you can derive business value by deploying an MDM foundation for strategic initiatives such as customer experience management, product innovation, and financial transformation. And as a bonus, the presentation discusses the confluence of MDM with technologies such as big data, social, and mobile.

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), on behalf of IBM and Oracle, recently surveyed several C-level executives in North America and Western Europe to understand how HR can take on a bigger role in driving growth. The resulting reports highlight the actions senior HR leaders can take to place themselves at the heart of the debate on a company’s strategic direction. In this session, IBM and Oracle HCM specialists review the findings of the EIU research reports and provide guidance on how technology innovation can help align talent strategies with long-term business goals.

The outsourcing marketplace is evolving from being a simple means of reducing the cost of labor to being a means of transforming business through innovation. However, achieving innovation in an environment of performance-based contracts requires even more creativity, and the solutions sometime do not involve groundbreaking methodologies or tools. The innovation can start with the human factor. Learn more from this case study involving Oracle's JD Edwards applications.

Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management (Oracle Fusion CRM) is a 100 percent open, standards-based set of integrated CRM modules designed to be effective, efficient, and easy to use to help drive unprecedented sales performance. In this session, learn how Oracle Fusion CRM enables companies to create better sales plans, generate more quality leads, and achieve higher win rates and find out why customers are adopting Oracle Fusion CRM today. Gain a deeper understanding of the unique capabilities only Oracle Fusion CRM provides, and learn how Oracle’s commitment to CRM innovation is driving a wide range of future enhancements.

You run your business on JD Edwards applications from Oracle. Now hear from Oracle experts about how to take full advantage of all the great tools, resources, and product updates you're entitled to through Oracle Support. In this session, you will learn how to work more efficiently, upgrade more easily, and effectively manage risk. Topics include health checks, configuration management tools, and the My Oracle Support Community. Come hear about upgrading: the why and how, including the automation of the upgrade process. New users and experts alike will walk away with fresh ideas and easy-to-implement next steps.

This session provides a comprehensive overview of Oracle’s product strategy for value chain execution (Oracle Logistics Manager, Oracle Transportation Management, and Global Trade Management), the capabilities and associated business benefits of recent releases, and a review of capabilities on the product roadmap. This is the cornerstone session for the Value Chain Execution product group.

Managing the talent of your organization is difficult and time-consuming. Costs related to replacing a key worker are very high. See how Oracle Fusion Talent Review and Oracle Fusion Succession Management can help your organization plan for the future, mitigate risk, and help your people with a plan for growth. This session also discusses the future of talent management and what’s new with Oracle’s other talent management products.

Oracle’s human capital management product family is leading the way with new technology, new products, and new ideas. In this general session, you will learn about the ways Oracle is leading the way into a new forum for doing business. From mobile applications, secure business in the cloud, and support for traditional ease-of-use requirements, see how Oracle is moving applications forward into the cloud, enabling you and your organization to work the way you want to work.

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.

Learn the art of the possible for upgrading your JD Edwards software from Oracle in 100 days or less! This is an abridged version of the 100-day workshop offered by Oracle and Oracle partners. Discover resources, tools, and best practices for project planning, code analysis, testing, and other components of the upgrade process. Hear the story of a customer who successfully upgraded to the latest release of JD Edwards in 100 days.

Get an impression of Oracle’s vision and roadmap for value chain planning (VCP), and hear customer success stories. This presentation provides an overview of Oracle’s planning applications and strategy for prospective as well as existing users.

The DF-e (electronic tax document) is a reality in Brazil, and the integration among management systems is a major challenge in day-to-day business. Aware of this scenario, SYNCHRO presents a single solution, integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite ERP applications, which stores and manages all DF-e types including NF-e (electronic invoice), CT-e (electronic transport bill), CC-e (electronic letter of correction), and NFS-e (electronic services invoice) issued and received. In addition, SYNCHRO has developed exclusive technology that allows NFS-es to have automated receipt, despite the lack of a national standard. In this session, learn about the various alternatives and hear real-world results from Brazilian customers using Oracle E-Business Suite 12 integrated with SYNCHRO's fiscal solution.

This session provides a comprehensive overview of Oracle’s product strategy for Oracle Projects, the capabilities and associated business benefits of recent releases, and a review of future enhancements on the product roadmap. This is the cornerstone session for Oracle Projects.

For all businesses—both public and private sector—effectively meeting the challenges of reduced budgets, increased stakeholder expectations, and a heightened regulatory environment will mean the difference between success and failure. This session provides an in-depth look into Oracle’s Primavera enterprise project portfolio management (EPPM) solutions and how they are helping global enterprises deliver greater financial discipline, operational excellence, and risk mitigation. Included in the session will be an overview of the current challenges in EPPM, actionable best practices, and client examples. Join us to learn how Oracle's enterprise vision and broad solutions can enable a distinct competitive advantage across your business.

This session reviews how to justify, plan, and execute a successful upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1. It provides best practices and lessons learned from customers that have already performed this upgrade and discusses how the new capabilities in Release 12 and 12.1 can be leveraged to maximize your business benefit.

• Information security
• Performance improvement
• Scalability
• Availability
• Optimization of existing functionalities
• Best performance environment for managing competition and scalability; more-effective administration
• Better use and distribution of infrastructure resources
• Increased security for backup process and application availability (archiving)
• Architecture organized by solution type

In this session, you will hear about a vision of the future of recruiting with Oracle Taleo products. You will also learn about the rapid evolution of talent acquisition practices and how they are influencing key areas of roadmap investment in this area for Oracle.

Consumers are constantly connected to the internet through smart, portable, and highly usable devices. By 2016, 50 percent of online sales are expected to be from devices other than PCs, while about US$700 billion of retail store sales will be influenced by some kind of mobile device. Amazon, eBay, and Apple are all generating well in excess of US$1 billion in sales via mobile channels. This session examines how e-commerce, mobile, and social have all converged, providing companies with opportunities to grow their businesses by leveraging each of these technologies in very different ways.

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.

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 offers many functionalities to support your global operations via role-based access, centralized banking, payments, accounting setup, and automated inter- and intracompany accounting, to name a few. This session discusses how the new capabilities in Release 12 and 12.1 can be leveraged to maximize your business benefit and shares the best upgrade planning tips from Oracle's support, consulting, development, and IT organizations. You’ll get specific cross-product advice on how to understand the factors that affect your project’s duration, decide on your project’s scope, develop a robust testing strategy, leverage Oracle Support resources, and more.

Attend this session to learn how Oracle’s Agile product lifecycle management family of products can enable companies to accelerate product innovation and maximize product profitability through the robust management of the information, processes, and decisions about their products enterprisewide and across the global product network. Explore how implementing collaborative, integrated solutions can ensure effective knowledge transfer throughout your organization. Case studies in this session showcase how Oracle's Agile customers manage the enterprise product record as the single source of truth for all product information.

Attend this session to hear how Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials 9.2 solutions enable cost reductions while supporting business growth and increasing regulations and oversight. Come see how PeopleSoft Financials lease 9.2 boosts user productivity, extends financial visibility for liability and receivables exposure, streamlines business process operations, and provides for efficient compliance and controls. The session also discusses roadmap candidates to support tomorrow’s business opportunities planned for delivery beyond the 9.2 release.

Do you think it’s an all-or-nothing leap to Oracle Fusion Applications? Think again. In this session, learn how Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub can coexist with your current financials systems to address common problems such as integrating accounting from third-party transactional systems or improving reporting and analysis capabilities of investments in Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials. See how customers are leveraging Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub to reduce integration costs and standardize accounting from non-Oracle systems to meet reporting requirements in an automated and controlled fashion and how others are addressing complex reporting requirements with better information access and analytics to help them make better decisions throughout the accounting period.

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.

Driven by the increasing demand for relevant information about business performance, customers are increasingly prone to integrate information among different business functions. The ability to have an integrated view of financial, regulatory, and operational reports in a consistent model is becoming a strategic necessity for creating reliable plans that encompass the whole organization. Attend this session to learn how PwC can help you leverage your investment in Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle Hyperion Financial Management to achieve these goals.

In this session, Oracle discusses the latest innovations and product direction for business analytics technology and applications. If you are interested in business analytics, this is a must-attend session.

This session introduces Oracle Endeca Information Discovery, the latest addition to Oracle’s business analytics portfolio. Learn how you can find fast answers to the new questions that confront your business every day, while avoiding the confusion and inconsistencies brought about by spreadsheets and desktop tools. You will hear from others who have leveraged Oracle Endeca Information Discovery to use structured, semistructured, and unstructured data and solve the problems at the heart of their business.

Oracle Exalytics provides tremendous performance and TCO benefits for business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance management (EPM) deployments. In this session, learn how Oracle Exalytics can supercharge both your BI and  EPM applications, from operational reporting and prepackaged BI applications to reduced planning cycle times.

The networked economy challenges traditional spreadsheets and department-oriented planning mechanisms. Today effective plans need to connect the organizational value chain in an integrated manner. Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Planning Suite enables organizations to link their strategic, financial, and operational plans to achieve both the vertical and horizontal alignment this requires. The purpose of this session is to familiarize the attendees with the capabilities of Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Planning Suite and the possibilities it offers for integrating and improving their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.

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.

New features have recently been added to the Oracle Real-Time Decisions decision engine that enable the creation of highly innovative business user applications. Those applications can combine any of the advanced capabilities of the automated predictive learning engine and decision optimization capabilities of Oracle Real-Time Decisions to empower front-line business users to control and operationalize the analytical logic of their business processes. In this session, the Oracle Product Management team demonstrates those exciting innovations and how to build such differentiated process optimization applications in the context of customer experience optimization and fraud management use cases. The team also discusses the Oracle Real-Time Decisions product strategy and roadmap.

Are you building or considering building your own cloud? Whether it is IaaS, DBaaS, or PaaS, Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a one-stop solution for configuring and managing a cloud. This session discusses how, as an IT administrator, you can organize existing and new IT resources into a cloud, enable self-service provisioning, publish applications as cloud services, and meter and manage the cloud. The presentation walks you through best practices and customer experiences in implementing a cloud in the real world for greater agility, IT efficiency, and reduced costs.

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• Security and auditing• Performance, scalability, query analysis, and tuning• Backup/recovery• Application design, development, and deployment• Managing MySQL and Oracle with a common set of tools

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 provides an overview of Oracle’s platform as a service (PaaS) offering. Oracle now offers its industry-leading database and application platform as a cloud service. With this offering, developers will get the best of both worlds: the stability and familiarity of running on the class-leading database and application platform technology with all the benefits of cloud deployment, such as no upfront costs, a pay-as-you go model, and capacity on demand. As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations need a strategy and a plan for moving to the cloud. This session explores best practices for organizations moving to cloud computing.

You've been hearing a lot about how big data is game-changing technology that allows companies to enrich their data management platforms with insights gained from unstructured and semistructured data. The ecosystem includes Apache Hadoop, Hive, and Pig; NoSQL databases; connectors; R; and more. But how do you actually apply these technologies in the real world? This session provides an end-to-end demonstration on how to leverage the big data platform to deliver real business value. Using a Web-based movie streaming service as an example, the session examines topics including how to use NoSQL databases to drive the user experience, how to process application logs to derive meaningful business metrics, how to combine data in Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) with data in a relational database, how to apply advanced analytic techniques to provide targeted movie recommendations to customers, and using business intelligence discovery tools to identify opportunities.

Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Guard are two complementary solutions that can be integrated together seamlessly in Oracle cloud implementations. This session focuses on how both modes of extract (Classic and Integrated Capture) can be used with Oracle Data Guard for disaster recovery purposes or to offload extract processing.

Oracle Database 11g provides advanced spatial features to support geospatial applications, location-based services, and corporate spatial information systems. In this session, learn how using these advanced features for data manipulation allows customers to apply the geographic component in their company’s core business as a support tool for key business processes. With Oracle, you can deploy services mapping, geocoding, and route creation quickly and easily, enabling cost reduction and broad support for decision making.

The Oracle Database Appliance is an excellent consolidation platform for midsize and departmental databases. With 24 cores, 192 GB of memory, and plenty of storage both inside and outside the box, the appliance has the power to easily handle multiple databases, providing a database consolidation solution for environments in which larger servers may not be economically viable. Come to this session to learn how two Oracle Database Appliance customers consolidated multiple databases onto a single appliance, reducing both operational and capital costs while simplifying their environment and reducing their management workload.

This session steps you through the process of signing up for and provisioning the Oracle Database Cloud Service, loading data, developing applications with Oracle Application Express, and creating RESTful Web services. This end-to-end process introduces the major components of the Oracle Database Cloud Service and explores their use.

Large-scale data processing is undergoing tremendous transformations: new datasources are more readily available, and businesses are focusing more heavily on analytic solutions. Oracle’s database technologies are making tremendous strides to meet these requirements. In this presentation, hear about the latest technologies for parallel execution in the database, new SQL capabilities, deep analytical and statistical computations at scale, integration between Oracle Database and big data technologies such as Hadoop, and how these technologies are being optimized on Oracle engineered systems.

Oracle Exalytics is an engineered system built for real-time business intelligence. Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, one of the software components in Oracle Exalytics, provides in-memory analytics with extreme performance. This technical session describes the latest-release features in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, including analytic functions, OLAP operators, and in-memory columnar compression. It also describes how Oracle Business Intelligence uses Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database to speed up query performance and dashboard visualization. Learn best practices for achieving optimal Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database query performance. The session also shares selected customer use cases.

The very latest release of Oracle Database brings exciting new technology that enables you to manage many databases as one and consolidate more databases onto a particular platform than would otherwise be possible. It enables very fast provisioning of a new database, or of a clone of an existing database, and very fast redeployment of an existing database to a new platform, and it introduces mechanisms for rapid patching and upgrade of Oracle Database. Moreover, it gives you secure separation of the duties of the application administrator from the duties of the administrator of the Oracle-supplied system. This session explains how this new cloud technology works.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c provides a fresh approach to system management and helps drive value, from the infrastructure up into the application stack. This session exposes how Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center can change the way you look at a server and can speed your IaaS plans.

Hear from the Oracle product team about a new unified solution to shield Oracle Database instances and non-Oracle databases from external and internal attacks, audit database activity, and monitor database traffic to block SQL injection attacks and other unauthorized SQL. Learn how this new unified solution provides centralized auditing, with support for collecting and analyzing database and operating system audit trails, audit policy templates, alerting, security reporting, and more. This session presents real-world customer case studies and proven best practices for monitoring database traffic on the network, establishing whitelists/blacklists, using SQL substitution and other enforcement policies, custom reporting, and integration with other security infrastructures.

Consolidation is a key strategy enabling IT organizations to achieve greater efficiencies and maximize utilization of IT resources, which lowers capital costs, because fewer resources are required to provide services. Operational costs are also reduced, because fewer components are managed and maintained. Many companies have achieved exceptional results by consolidating Oracle Database instances in private clouds.This session examines database consolidation deployment options and the benefits they provide. It presents guidance for successful consolidation, including best practices for defining workloads that should be consolidated, sizing analysis for shared system resources, and techniques to guarantee intertenant isolation.

In this session, experts discuss the security capabilities in the latest generation of Oracle Database technology as well as innovative new solutions to protect Oracle Database instances and non-Oracle databases. Learn how Oracle is responding to customer requirements to stay ahead of the evolving threat and regulatory landscape with new paradigms in application security, data redaction, “secure by default,” minimizing of the attack surface, context-based auditing, database firewall-based network monitoring, and more. See how Oracle offers a comprehensive database security defense-in-depth solution that offers unprecedented protection for mission-critical data relied on by customers worldwide.

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.

The recently released next-generation Oracle Database has many new database management features for the advanced DBA. This session discusses key new features that simplify database management, maximize database performance, enable smart diagnostics, and provide the basis for smart and effective database administration.

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.

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.

Learn about Oracle Advanced Analytics, which features technologies that bring powerful predictive modeling algorithms to Oracle Database for solving problems such as predicting customer churn, customer behavior, up-sell/cross-sell, fraud detection, market basket analysis, and customer loyalty. Oracle Advanced Analytics' Oracle Data Mining component is embedded in the SQL kernel of Oracle Database, using PL/SQL code for deployment. The Oracle R Enterprise component makes the popular R statistical programming language ready for the enterprise and big data through tight integration with Oracle Database, and the Oracle R Connector for Hadoop feature provides access to data stored in a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for big data analytics.

This presentation covers the current certification status of SAP products for Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic, and Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster as well as certification updates for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. It also covers advanced techniques for reducing downtime for patching, such as the integration of shadow Oracle homes.

Today’s explosion in data volume introduces significant challenges. IT managers need to efficiently manage their existing data storage infrastructure to control costs while continuing to deliver acceptable application performance. Oracle Database provides a robust set of compression capabilities that enable IT managers to succeed in this complex environment. In this session, Oracle experts guide you through a deep dive that shows how online transaction processing (OLTP) table compression not only saves storage but can also increase performance and how you can reduce your overall database storage footprint by enabling compression for unstructured data, backups, indexes, and Oracle Data Guard redo log network transport. The session also offers compression best practices.

Oracle Exadata is one of the most innovative engineered systems available today, and Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture provides the high-availability (HA) blueprint for a variety of Oracle technologies. Come to this session to learn how Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture best practices are tightly integrated and applied to Oracle Exadata for both online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehouse customers, reducing downtime from unplanned outages and planned maintenance activities. Specific topics include Oracle Exadata hardware fault tolerance, migrating to Oracle Exadata with minimal downtime, configuring Oracle Database’s Oracle Automatic Storage Management feature, Oracle Data Guard, backup and recovery, cloning, patching, and upgrading.

The ability to perform data analysis in real time is critical to the success of enterprise companies in a competitive market. This session discusses the latest-release functionality in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database that supports in-memory analytics requirements. Besides having a proven record of accomplishments for accelerating the performance of online transaction processing (OLTP) database applications, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is used for real-time fraud detection, portfolio risk analysis in financial services, performance-critical queries in data marts, and real-time interactive dashboards and visualization with Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Exalytics. The session shares selected real-life customer use cases.

Oracle Database has several components that can be combined to implement automated information lifecycle management (ILM), including Oracle Partitioning, Oracle Advanced Compression, and Oracle Database’s Hybrid Columnar Compression feature. These capabilities enable you to retain more data for longer in your production databases while significantly reducing storage costs and increasing performance. In addition, the management overhead for Oracle Database ILM is low, enabling IT departments to achieve these benefits while minimizing staff requirements.

A platform as a service (PaaS) environment offers developers a simple approach to deploying and managing Java applications. It reduces your time to market and increases the utilization of your resources. It is not merely the deployment of VMs that enables PaaS. In this session, learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager’s latest feature set can help you build, deploy, and manage PaaS within your enterprise, using technologies you are already familiar with.

Social technology 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. In this session, we review Oracle’s social solutions and show how you can discover hidden insights buried in your enterprise and social data. 

This session discusses why customers are choosing Oracle Exadata to consolidate their SAP application workloads. All steps of the implementation—evaluation, testing, and go-live process—are covered. The session presents performance results from running real SAP workloads and results of testing high-availability scenarios, using standard Oracle Clusterware with advanced SAPCTL features to protect SAP Central Services. It also discusses the latest news on the technical and commercial benefits of using Oracle Exadata in production with SAP applications.

In this technical session, you will learn how to leverage the unified Oracle Exadata/Oracle Exalogic platform to deliver extreme performance for your mission-critical applications. Learn from an existing customer about the technical design of its Oracle Exadata/Oracle Exalogic deployment and the business value this organization derived. The session focuses on the deployment best practices for performance and scalability and shows how the environment is managed. Other topics covered include migration strategy, resource management, and high availability.

In this session, discover the best way to simplify your database infrastructure with a solution that unifies the world’s #1 database with a server and storage appliance, ensuring performance, availability, flexibility, and growth at low costs. See how to get licenses on demand instead of according the servers’ capacity. Learn more about Oracle Database Appliance, and see the benefits it can bring to companies from different segments and of sizes.

Come see how Oracle Exadata is helping companies transform their data centers to enable the lowest cost of ownership, achieve greater speed in new product launches, and accelerate response time for business demands.

New and exciting Oracle Database technologies allow you to better protect your data against unauthorized access and information loss due to failures and disasters, and offer many other benefits as well. Join us at this panel to learn how customers are leveraging Oracle Database to provide the best service level to their business customers.

Consumer behavior, the competitive environment, and the technology landscape are quickly changing in the retail industry. What sets the best retailers apart is their ability to align business processes that enable a truly differentiated customer experience across all touchpoints. To drive profitable growth, retailers must align those experiences with smarter decisions and processes. Learn how to create connected internal and external interactions that put the customer at the center of your decision-making from planning to execution on a single enterprise platform.

Technological advances and improvements in service delivery systems in the private sector have increased citizen expectations in regards to public services. Organizations within the scope of the public sector must keep pace with these expectations by identifying better ways to deliver services faster and at lower cost. However, as communication channels have multiplied, organizations have seen their infrastructure systems become increasingly complex and costly—which inhibits not only those systems' effectiveness but also the organizations' connection with their constituents. Learn how to reverse that trend in this session.

This session covers the latest global and regional financial services industry trends affecting multichannel banking services distribution. Attendees will also learn about building the brand through industry best practices for marketing, sales, and services, including virtual banking and social networks interaction.

Business services present many challenges for communications service providers (CSPs), including the need to capture complex, customized requirements; support long-lived orders with frequent updates; automate the delivery of complex services such as IP/Ethernet VPNs; enable self-care; and support service-level agreements. Attend this interactive customer panel session to learn how leading CSPs are addressing these requirements.

Insurance companies are seeking to provide better service to customers while reducing administrative costs. Come to this session to learn how Oracle Cloud services enable insurance companies to do just that.

The demand for high performance coupled with the need for connectivity with different technologies throughout multichannel client relationships poses a security challenge for companies—particularly in an increasingly competitive environment. In this session, learn where the challenges lie and how to address them to prevent unwanted information leakage.

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!

Business applications are critical to growing your business, but deployment realities can keep you from seizing market opportunities. If you’re spending too much time and money putting hardware and software components together, it’s time to consider a new approach. Oracle’s engineered systems are a preintegrated, tested, and certified platform built from the ground up to consolidate your critical databases and applications and run them with blazing performance. Attend this session to learn why Oracle Exalogic is the logical choice for running Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications, and other business applications while lowering your risk, reducing TCO, and simplifying IT operations.

There is a new integration need specific to applications offered as cloud services. Customers need to integrate with this new breed of applications. Compared to integrating with on-premises applications, existing paradigms to ensure reliability, performance, and security need to be revisited. This session highlights how best to integrate with Oracle’s portfolio of cloud applications—including Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management, Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management, and Oracle’s Taleo and RightNow product lines—and discusses how Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Data Integration provide all the integration capabilities for cloud applications and on-premises applications. In the session, customers share their real-life application integration experiences.

In this session, get to know Oracle Developer Cloud Services, a hosted environment for your application development infrastructure, including version management, build services, tasks and defects tracking, wikis, document storage, and more.

In this session, learn how to minimize risks and maximize results when implementing portals and identity management projects using Oracle Identity Management and Oracle WebCenter. The session includes success-case presentations for both solutions.

We have come a long way from the days when Web single sign-on addressed core business requirements. Today, as technology and business evolve, organizations are seeking new capabilities such as federation, token services, fine-grained authorizations, Web fraud prevention, and strong authentication. This session explores the emerging requirements for access management and what a complete solution is like, with real-world customer case studies and product demonstrations.

Oracle’s middleware portfolio offers many benefits and opportunities for companies of all sizes. In this session, Vander Muniz, Oracle product manager at CTIS, talks about this solutions portfolio. Following Muniz, Eduardo Cardoso, development manager at Trend, discusses the specifics of the largest hotel operator in Brazil, which holds one of the most advanced reservation systems in the world. Rodrigo Ramirez, IT services manager at Trend, also explains how Oracle SOA Suite products enabled Trend to improve the integration mechanism essential for communication between the company, its suppliers, and its sales partners.

The advent of industry megatrends such as social data, device sensor data, and mobile computing platforms’ growth in popularity over desktops means that data volumes are going to be explosive, with organizations trying to figure out how to save and analyze the data. Oracle Data Integrator is critical to any enterprise big data strategy—it provides native support for Hadoop and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) via Oracle Big Data Connectors. In this session, you’ll learn about Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Big Data Connectors and how, coupled together, they provide the critical connectivity to multiple big data sources. Also, hear how Oracle Data Integrator supports business intelligence/data warehouse enterprise initiatives that are extended through big data analytics.

If you are developing, managing, or planning enterprise Java and business application deployments on Oracle WebLogic Server with Oracle Coherence or Oracle GlassFish Server applications or continue to have deployments of Oracle Application Server, this session will give you the roadmap of how Oracle is evolving this infrastructure to be the next-generation cloud application foundation for its customers. In the session, the product management team shares Oracle’s vision, product plans, and roadmap for this server infrastructure and how it will be used in the rapidly maturing cloud infrastructure space. The presentation will help you make key decisions about running your enterprise applications on Oracle’s enterprise Java server foundation.

In this session, learn how Oracle Fusion Middleware platform as a service (PaaS) can supercharge productivity with instant access to a platform for developing and deploying business applications in the cloud, complete with integrated security and database access. See how these capabilities are used by Oracle Java Cloud Service.

As the demand for big data analytics and integration grows across all industries, this session focuses on the role of the Oracle event-driven solution platform in delivering vital real-time integrated analysis intelligence to the data streams consumed and emitted from these large distributed data stores

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.

Mobile technology has gone from nice-to-have to a cornerstone of user engagement. Mobile access enables users to have information available at their fingertips, enabling them to take action the moment they make a decision, interact in the moment of convenience, and take advantage of new service offerings in their preferred channels. All your employees have your mobile applications in their pocket; now what are you going to do? It is a critical step for companies to think through what their employees, customers, and partners really need on their devices. Attend this session to see how Oracle WebCenter enables you to better engage your customers, employees, and partners by providing a unified experience across multiple channels.

This session shows why Oracle Fusion Middleware is the leading innovation platform for today’s new business applications—powering Oracle Fusion Applications with rich capabilities for social, mobile, the cloud, and business analytics. Learn the value Oracle Fusion Middleware provides to Oracle Fusion Applications and existing Oracle Applications. Understand Oracle Fusion Applications’ architecture and the role of Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle WebCenter, and Oracle Identity Management. See how customers have implemented Oracle Fusion Middleware to improve productivity and lower IT costs today with Oracle Applications and lay a foundation for business innovation while getting ready for Oracle Fusion Applications.

Modernization is key in order to stay competitive. In this context, Pitss developed a solution for helping companies upgrade from earlier products to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g releases, including Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Forms, and Oracle Application Development Framework. Learn more about this offer from Pitss, which is represented by Algar Technology in Brazil, and join us in this discussion with representatives of Pitss, Algar, and CTIS Tecnologia.

As businesses move beyond process automation, the new opportunity for innovation with business process management centers on business empowerment, intelligent operations, and social and mobile collaboration. This session presents an overview of the latest features of Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g and Oracle’s vision for BPM. It also introduces Oracle process accelerators, business solutions built on top of Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite and architected around a core set of best practices that fully leverage the power of the suite.

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!

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.

Attend this session to learn how an Oracle WebCenter Sites solution works to provide multichannel customer experience. See how some companies that have already deployed the platform have benefited from a better relationship with customers.

Learn how application-driven virtualization on Oracle Exalogic will enable you to extend the benefits of virtualization to your Oracle applications and middleware. Oracle VM provides the foundation for virtualization on Oracle Exalogic today, and the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control feature of Oracle Enterprise Manager provides complete application-to-disk management. This session shows you how these products have been integrated to work together and how a current customer is taking advantage of these new capabilities on Oracle Exalogic.

Your customers engage with your company online in different ways throughout their journey—from prospecting by acquiring information on your corporate Website to transacting through self-service applications on your customer portal—and then the cycle begins again when they look for new products and services. Ensuring that the customer experience is consistent and personalized across online properties—from branding and content to interactions and transactions—can be a daunting task. Oracle WebCenter enables you to speak and interact with your customers with one voice across your Websites and portals by providing an integrated platform for delivery of self-service and engagement that unifies and personalizes the online experience. Learn more in this session.

Learn how to use management, monitoring, and administration features in Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle WebLogic Suite, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c to manage your environments, from development to production. This session includes new features and best practices related to monitoring, domain configuration, lifecycle management, and deployment to the cloud. It also discusses strategic directions for management.

Social business is a revolution, one that is causing rapidly accelerating change in how companies and customers engage with one another and how employees work together. Oracle’s goal in becoming a social business is to create a socially connected organization in which working collaboratively across geographical locations, lines of business, and management chains is second nature, enabling innovative solutions to business challenges. We can achieve this by connecting the right people, finding the right content, communicating with the right people, collaborating at the right time, and building the right communities in the right context—all ready in the CLOUD. Attend this session to see how Oracle is transforming itself into a social business.

In 11g Release 2, Oracle’s identity management products are designed to help customers plan for tomorrow’s identity requirements today. This session focuses on how Oracle is helping customers address emerging identity management requirements for mobile, social, and the cloud. It also explores how customers are reducing their TCO and simplifying their implementations with Oracle Identity Management.

Data warehousing solutions are as critical for IT environments as online transaction processing (OLTP) systems. Attend this session to see how Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle GoldenGate provide industry-leading performance and scalability for data integration on Oracle Exadata. In the session, Oracle Product Management demonstrates how Oracle Data Integration can maximize the performance of source and target systems and minimize batch windows while ensuring data quality—all without adding more hardware resources. The session focuses on best practices for Oracle Data Integration on Oracle Exadata that deliver high performance and low TCO for your data warehousing solutions. It includes real-life customer examples.

Do you have business processes that span multiple applications? Are you grappling with how to have visibility across these business processes; how to manage content that is associated with these processes; and, most importantly, how to model and optimize these business processes? Attend this session to hear how Oracle WebCenter and Oracle Business Process Management provide a unique set of integrated solutions to provide a composite application dashboard across these business processes and offer a solution for content-centric business processes.

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.

There’s a lot of talk these days about how to connect the customer journey across various touchpoints—from Websites and e-commerce to call centers and in-store—to provide experiences that are more relevant and engaging and ultimately gain competitive edge. Doing it all at once isn’t a realistic objective, so where do you start? Come to this session, and hear about three steps you can take that can help you begin your journey toward delivering the connected customer experience. You’ll hear how Oracle now has an integrated digital marketing platform for your corporate Website, your e-commerce site, your self-service portal, and your marketing and loyalty campaigns, and you’ll learn what you can do today to begin executing on your customer experience initiatives.

As organizations seek to encourage more and more user self-service, business users are now primary end users for identity management installations. To simplify and empower these end users, the customer experience is crucial: interfaces must be intuitive, personalizable, and user-friendly. With that said, customizations need to be minimized (to avoid costly upgrades) or easy to upgrade. Further, to deliver business value, identity management implementations need to have both identity administration and identity governance, for standard as well as privileged accounts. This session explores how Oracle identity governance solutions deliver complete identity administration and governance, with support for emerging requirements such as cloud identities and mobile devices.

Every integration project brings its own unique set of challenges. There are many tools and techniques to choose from. How do you ensure that you have a means of consistently and repeatedly making decisions about which tools, techniques, and technologies are used? In working with many customers around the globe, Oracle has developed a set of criteria to help evaluate a variety of common integration questions. This session explores these criteria and how they have been further organized into decision trees that offer a repeatable means for ensuring that project teams are given the same guidance from project to project. Using these techniques, the presentation shows how you can reduce risk and speed productivity for your projects.

Most Oracle Forms applications contain hundreds of man-years of investment. So what do you do with that investment? Squeeze an extra few years out of your investment by getting on the latest version? Modernize your technologies? Or dump it and migrate to Java, Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF), Oracle Application Express, or even .NET? Come to this session to meet with some of the leading Oracle Forms experts for an open discussion on the options; costs; risks; and fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Oracle Forms.

Learn how Oracle clients take advantage of Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services to help to accelerate ROI, optimize performance, and improve system reliability.

Attend this session to see who earned Oracle Consulting customer awards for 2012. These awards recognize the business leadership, technology innovation, execution excellence, and ability to achieve business benefits to accelerate each organization’s goals through each successful implementation. 

Providing easy and fast services to the population is a key benefit that administrations and governments at federal and state levels should strive to offer their citizens. In this session, learn how Oracle technology makes it possible to enable dynamic automation of several citizen service processes in an environment with large volumes of information, allowing streamlined interaction between constituents and their governments.

This highly interactive panel discussion in Spanish showcases several successful Latin American customers that have leveraged their Oracle investments to extend into the cloud with greater value, choice, and confidence using Oracle Cloud services. Hear how these customers have accelerated business results, lowered risk, and reduced TCO with Oracle Cloud services delivered on the Oracle technology platform, using optimized, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-based processes. 

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.

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 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.

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.

Attend this session to get the latest update on Oracle’s SPARC server and engineered systems strategy from the SPARC product team.

Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is the first engineered system developed on Oracle’s SPARC platform. Learn how it delivers dramatically improved operating efficiency and provides an ideal platform for application consolidation through its uniquely powerful and integrated hardware and software technology. It combines Oracle’s SPARC T4-4 servers running Oracle Solaris 11 with the database optimization of Oracle Exadata, the accelerated processing of Oracle Exalogic software, and the high throughput and availability of Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, all on a high-speed InfiniBand backplane. This session also includes real-world case study results you can put to practical use now.

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.

Leveraging public and private clouds is now a common way to deploy services to the enterprise. A burgeoning addition to the cloud model is cloud access to desktop applications. With Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of hardware and software, engineered to work together, a complete desktop cloud solution can be designed for accessing Oracle Applications and other enterprise software. In addition to the Oracle expert presenting in this session, representatives from Mercado Libre will discuss how their company has streamlined access to desktops, applications, and data by using Oracle's desktop virtualization solutions.

Oracle’s SPARC servers and engineered systems running Oracle Solaris are ideal for mission-critical Oracle Database applications that require high performance, best-in-class availability, and unmatched scalability. This session provides an overview of the unique capabilities of SPARC servers and engineered systems running Oracle Solaris and how to optimize configurations for the best-possible performance. It presents tuning tips for reliable performance in consolidated environments and offers insights into world-record performance and tighter integration of SPARC hardware and software that leads to optimized solutions.

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, explore best practices across three key Oracle technologies to maximize your database performance and get the highest levels of efficiency in your disk storage. Learn about the unique quality-of-service (QoS) architecture in Oracle's Pillar Axiom storage systems, which enables you to move partitioned data to low-cost, high-capacity media and dynamically manage storage system resources (CPU, cache, I/O priority) so hot partitions receive a higher level of service and better performance. See how you can leverage streamlined communication protocols between Oracle Database and Oracle storage—including using the Oracle Database Direct NFS Client feature, which provides a high-bandwidth solution for transferring data and transforming performance with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance. And find out how to take advantage of the tremendous space-reducing and performance-boosting characteristics of Oracle Hybrid Columnar Compression.