Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Management Packs can help you save up to 80% on managing hardware and software configurations and compliance. Join us for this live one-hour presentation and demo to discover how this solution can help you collect, report, track and compare system configurations to maintain consistent, up-to-date environments and reduce overall operational costs.

During this presentation, you will see a live-demonstration of the following Configuration Management features:  

• View and analyze configuration and deployment information
• Search based on predefined criteria.
• Compare configuration information to identify and eliminate configuration drifts.
• Manage policies, including policy notifications and user-defined policies.
• Database compliance dashboard

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Oracle's new Configuration Management capabilities help you in simplifying configuration management, improving service levels and enforcing compliance for business-critical applications. With recent addition of Application Configuration Management capabilities, Enterprise Manager provides the best-in-class Configuration Management solution for Oracle with real-time change detection, policies for key industry standards, best practices and comprehensive compliance reporting.

Join us for this live presentation and demonstration to learn how Oracle Configuration Management solution allows you to get Extreme Control for IT's Extreme Challenges. During this session we'll focus on following capabilities of Oracle Configuration Management solution:

• Discovery and tracking of IT assets and components - helps in identifying IT assets and their relationships to quickly remediate configuration issues
• Simplified management - with a rich portfolio of more than 100 Oracle and non-Oracle configuration management templates, including templates for Linux, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM WebSphere, customers can more efficiently implement configuration management across the entire application deployment lifecycle
• Real-time change detection of unauthorized changes - enables customers to easily meet industry and regulatory compliance requirements;
• Easy integration in complex environments - allows customers to fully utilize existing IT investments, for example, by enabling closed-loop reconciliation on change requests across heterogeneous IT environments.

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Enterprises today are implementing compliance frameworks such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards. A crucial consideration for these compliance frameworks is real-time configuration change detection and reporting. Join us for this live presentation and demonstration to know how Oracle Configuration Management Pack solves this need through a Configuration Change Console, which detects and captures user and application actions that result in changes to the infrastructure without requesting or requiring user input. This automates the compliance audit trail and minimizes the time it takes to uncover compliance breaches. Configuration Change Console also includes out-of-the-box and user defined policies and controls to further help in achieving compliance with industry standards.

During this presentation you will see a live-demonstration of the following Configuration Change Console features:

• Dashboard overview with a pre-selected compliance framework
• Unauthorized and Authorized change detection in real-time
• Integration with customers change management system and processes
• Change requests in Remedy change management system
• Authorized and Unauthorized changes being performed
• Changes recorded as an Authorized and Unauthorized
• Viewing detailed change information
• Ease of customization and defining new monitoring policies to meet the ever-changing compliance needs
• Simplified compliance reporting

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Application quality and performance issues can have major impact on your bottom line - impacting revenue, customer loyalty and satisfaction and your company's reputation. However, even today, industry studies suggest that 75% of applications are still deployed without adequate testing. The majority of functional testing that is performed is still done manually and load testing prior to deployment to assess and tune application performance is not a common practice.

Join us for this live 1-hour presentation where we will introduce Oracle Application Testing Suite, a new offering from Oracle Enterprise Manager, and show how it can help you automate your functional and regression testing, automate your load and performance testing and manage your overall test process.

During this presentation you will see a live demo of the following Application Testing Suite solutions:

• Oracle Functional Testing
• Oracle Load Testing
• Oracle Test Manager

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Virtualization is a reality today. Enterprises are increasingly adopting server virtualization to consolidate workloads, rollout software and services faster, save costs and gain operational efficiencies. But unmanaged virtualization brings with it increased risk in terms of additional complexity in diagnosing problems and managing configuration, higher administrative costs due to server sprawl, and saturation of physical resources.

Join us for this live presentation and demonstration of Oracle VM Management Pack to learn how you can accelerate the adoption of virtualization by overcoming these challenges, optimizing the use of IT resources, improving hardware utilization, rolling out new servers and software faster, and reducing costs without adding the complexity and cost associated with multiple management tools.

During this session, we will specifically focus on demonstrating following benefits of the Oracle VM Management Pack:

• Managing virtual environments with an application perspective
• Lifecycle automation of virtual servers and guest virtual machines
• Faster server and software rollout using Oracle VM Templates
• Defining configuration policies and tracking configuration relationships
• High Availability and Fault Tolerance

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Oracle Coherence is an in-memory data grid solution that enables organizations to predictably scale mission-critical applications. Effectively managing your Oracle Coherence environment is critical to maximizing application availability and ensuring a high quality of service (QoS).

Join us for this live 1-hour presentation to find out how Enterprise Manager Coherence Management Pack helps you get insight into the key performance indicators of Oracle Coherence, quickly isolate problems and take corrective actions. This pack provides automated provisioning of Oracle Coherence cluster and thereby helps you in significantly reducing the risk and total cost of management.

During this presentation, you will see a live-demonstration of the following features:

• Monitor the performance and health of the Oracle Coherence cluster
• Analyze the performance of caches
• Manage by exception - isolate low performing nodes and compare configuration
• Change runtime configuration parameters
• Automate the process of creating a new cluster and scaling the existing cluster

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Join us for this live technical presentation to learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager can help you mange the complete Oracle WebLogic environment, by proactive monitoring, intelligent diagnostics of production applications and ensuring compliance with industry standards. By managing multiple WebLogic server domains and related infrastructure through a single console it makes the overall management simple and cost effective. Enterprise Manager comes with unique 'best practice' policies for WebLogic servers recommended by Oracle and helps administrators to adhere to industry standards like ITIL and SOX.

During this presentation, we will specifically focus on following features:

• Managing multiple Oracle WebLogic Server Domains, clusters and servers
• Monitoring Server Resources
• Monitoring Applications and Web services
• Setting Metrics Thresholds and viewing alerts/events notifications
• Managing WebLogic Server configurations - Configuration collection, tracking and comparison.

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Companies have made large investments in composite applications to adapt quickly to changing business requirements. Unfortunately, the challenge of managing the performance of these complex environments is significantly higher than for traditional systems.

Join us for this live technical presentation to learn how Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler (CAMM) can help you rapidly optimize service levels and reduce the mean time to repair your complex SOA and J2EE applications by providing critical IT visibility combined with business-level context information. By leveraging a sophisticated modeling engine, this solution identifies and correlates metrics across applications, automatically analyzing metadata present in portals, J2EE artifacts, ESBs, and BPEL to maximize ROI from SOA environments.

During this presentation, we will specifically focus on following benefits of CAMM:

• Fast time to monitoring through automated metadata analysis
• Reduced operating costs through dynamic re-configuration
• Rapid ROI from metrics in context which use native framework concepts

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In today's business environments, end-users have high expectations for the applications they depend on. Join us for this live technical presentation and demonstration to discover how Oracle Enterprise Manager Service Level Management Pack offers the most effective services monitoring solution by providing tools that model many types of business services, measure key service indicators from end-user experience to back-end systems performance to generate service level reports for both executives and administrators.    

According to a survey by Enterprise Management Associates, more than 90 percent of application failures have a major impact on business. But there's a way to avoid those time-consuming and expensive disruptions and at the same time, get the best performance, highest availability, and maximum hardware utilization for your application environments.

With Oracle Enterprise Manager you not only get the unique management capabilities for PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, and E-Business Suite applications, but also an end to end solution to manage applications, middleware, database, and host, all from a central location.

During this presentation we will discuss the following:

Historically, the cost of managing large sets of systems has increased linearly or more with each new system added to the enterprise.  In addition, the error-prone manual processes that plague most data centers, drive up the overall cost of management.    As complex, multi-tier applications become widespread, administrators are tasked with managing more systems and the relationships between those systems become much too complicated to track manually. 

Join us for this live one-hour presentation and demo to discover how Enterprise Manager Grid Control allows customers to deliver heightened application performance and realize dramatic savings in IT administration and maintenance costs.  Businesses of all sizes can attain measurable IT cost savings by extending the availability of computing resources, cultivating more productive and effective administrators, and achieving higher quality of service. 

During this presentation, you will see a live-demonstration of the following Software Lifecycle Automation features:

• Cost effectively manage "many systems as one"
• Clone Oracle Homes and Instances
• Provisioning of RAC/CRS and AS clusters
• Bare Metal OS Provisioning
• Automation of Oracle patch processes
• Direct connection to MetaLink (Oracle Support)
• Critical Patch Facility

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.

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Today many organizations are concerned about cost-cutting and are expecting their IT to 'do more with less'. A good percentage of total IT Operations expense is incurred towards repetitive and mundane tasks and organizations are exploring ways to automate these tasks to ensure agility and improve efficiency.  

Join us for this live one-hour presentation and demonstration to discover how Enterprise Manager Provisioning and Patch Automation Pack allows customers to realize dramatic savings in IT administration and maintenance costs through "Mass Automation". According to a recent Forrester study, this solution provides an ROI of 124% over a payback period of 14 months. 

During this presentation and live-demonstration we will discuss the following for Software Lifecycle Automation solution:

• Patch Automation Solution overview - support for CPUs, patchsets, recommended one-offs.
• Best practices with experiences from reference customers.s
• Provisioning of RAC/CRS and AS clusters
• Demonstration on applying multiple patches (5 in the demo) across multiple databases (15 in the demo) in one single patching session.

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A poorly performing application can have a significant impact on the effectiveness of business operations. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that IT managers and database administrators spend most of their time investigating and alleviating the causes of performance bottlenecks. Oracle Diagnostics and Tunings Packs offer a comprehensive set of automatic performance diagnostics and tuning functionalities that provide customers with a complete, cost effective, and easy-to-use solution for managing their Oracle Database environments.

Join us for this live one-hour presentation to discover how Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and the Diagnostic and Tuning Packs can help solve the very challenging and complex task of database performance diagnostics and SQL tuning. Learn how Oracle can help you reduce the manual labor associated with managing database systems, lower your operational costs, and help you meet your service level agreements by proactively identifying performance bottlenecks and their remedies.

During this presentation, you will see a live-demonstration of the following features:

• Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)
• Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)
• Historical Performance Analysis
• Active Session History (ASH)
• Automatic SQL Tuning
• SQL Tuning Advisor
• SQL Access Advisor
• SQL Tuning Sets

 Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, an industry-leading family of management products, is the solution customers need to manage their Oracle environments. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Oracle Grid Control), the Enterprise Manager 10g flagship, delivers centralized management functionality for the complete Oracle IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies.

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A key challenge in data center operations is the difficulty administrators face in managing services and applications that use multi-vendor technologies. Consolidating an administrator's monitoring view of the data center and correlating the data across multiple systems and applications can help save time and money assessing problems that can lead to devastating down time.

Join us for this live technical presentation to discover how Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-ins and connectors can help you reduce operational costs by consolidating information about your entire heterogeneous environment in a central console. Learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager can minimize down time by correlating availability and performance of the complete IT stack and perform root cause analysis.

During this presentation, you will see a live-demonstration of features for the following components:

• IBM Websphere plug-in
• SQL Server plug-in
• Remedy Helpdesk Connector

 Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, an industry-leading family of management products, is the solution customers need to manage their Oracle environments. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Oracle Grid Control), the Enterprise Manager 10g flagship, delivers centralized management functionality for the complete Oracle IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies.

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Change - it's one thing that database administrators have to constantly deal with in today's complex IT environments. The change may come in the form of an application upgrade created by your application vendor or a patch issued from your application development team. DBAs spend countless hours tracking environment changes to keep staging or reporting systems in sync with production systems. Tasks ranging from schema change tracking, updating initialization parameters can become complex, pain-staking and sometimes error-prone because of manual nature of these tasks. The Database Change Management Pack of Oracle Enterprise Manager is specifically designed to help database administrator manage change easily and efficiently through its web-based interface. Because the DB Change Management Pack is integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, DBAs can monitor and track changes and synchronize them across the entire enterprise.

Join us for this live one hour presentation and demo to discover how Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and the DB Change Management Pack can help you significantly reduce the manual labor associated with managing changes in your data dictionary caused by application upgrades, perform a comparison across multiple databases, and automate the entire tracking process. Learn how Enterprise Manager can help you develop best practices to keep your schema and your database environments in sync.

Discover through the live demonstration how you can use Change Management features to:

• View a baseline of the EBusiness Suite 11.5.9 schema
• View and compare schema changes caused by an upgrade to EBusiness Suite 11.5.10
• Understand the impact of the above application upgrade on the dependent customization or extension modules
• Compare initialization (init.ora) parameters across databases
• Keep track of change versions
• Visually compared complex objects such as PL/SQL or views
• Use the built in job system to automate change management processes

 Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, an industry-leading family of management products, is the solution customers need to manage their Oracle environments. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Oracle Grid Control), the Enterprise Manager 10g flagship, delivers centralized management functionality for the complete Oracle IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies.







 

Join us for this live technical presentation to learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager - Management Pack Plus for SOA provides the most complete and integrated management solution for Oracle Service Bus (formerly AquaLogic Service Bus) to manage multiple domains more effectively with fewer resources. You'll learn about the unique capabilities that increase visibility, improve production assurance, and lower the total cost of ownership for your Oracle Service Bus.

During this presentation, you will see demonstrations of the following management capabilities for an Oracle Service Bus environment:

• Service deployment
• Service discovery and monitoring
• Composite application modeling and monitoring
• Service infrastructure monitoring
• Service level management
• Configuration management

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