March 8, 2007
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
San Antonio, Texas USA
Thanks to GITA, our partner sponsors, and
all the users and solutions providers who made this year's user
conference a success!
Congratulations to the 2007 Oracle Spatial Excellence
Award recipients!
Education and Research Award: TU Delft (Delft
University of Technology)
Innovator Award: Where2GetIt
Integrated Enterprise Award: Las Vegas Valley
Water District
Partnership Award: Autodesk
Wednesday,
March 7
6:00-8:30
p.m.
Opening Reception
Sponsored by:
Thursday, March 8
8:30-9:00
a.m.
Welcome—Introductory
Remarks Jim Steiner, Sr. Director, Server Technologies,
Oracle
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Oracle Spatial
11g—Technical
Overview Dr. Siva Ravada, Director of Software Development,
Oracle Spatial Products
An introduction to planned Oracle Spatial 11g new features, including:
3-D
OGC Web Services
Network Data Model Enhancements
GeoRaster Enhancements
Routing & Geocoding Engine Enhancements
Workspace Manager
10:30-1:00
a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Oracle MapViewer 10.1.3 Dr. Jayant Sharma, Technical Director,
Oracle Spatial Products
A deep dive look at Oracle MapViewer, including:
The Las Vegas Valley Water District AM/FM/GIS Division responds to
organizational demand for facility-based information in one of the fastest
growing cities in the country. Modernizing our CAD-GIS integration using
Autodesk's Topobase with Oracle Spatial improved our ability to respond
to business requirements. Implementing Topobase eliminated 80% of our
in-house customization while improving our ability to provide accurate
data to customers. Oracle Spatial is the common denominator between
Topobase and ArcSDE and allows for elegant and tight integration of
the 2 production systems.
Like many other regional entities, West Virginia state is developing
a maintainable organization-wide addressing database, realized by a
stack of spatially-enabled components. We discuss the alternative technologies
we evaluated and the technical reasons for choosing Oracle Spatial 10g
for vector and raster storage, and Oracle MapViewer 10g for map
generation. We decompose the WVSAMS web-based maintenance application
and discuss the advantages of JDeveloper-managed ADFFaces/Trinidad JSF
development, and the current ORM technique & alternatives including
Toplink and Hibernate/EJB 3.
The GIS department database has become the corporate gold mine. Not
only is the technology robust enough to support large databases, but
executives realize the value of mining the data for enterprise use.
This session will highlight four application workflows within a utility
company - design system for data acquisition;
analytical tool for long-range planning; Oracle Application Server 10g
MapViewer application for geospatial asset data queries; a tax billing
report. The session includes demonstrations and code samples.
GE Energy delivers geospatial asset management solutions focused on
the unique aspects of modeling utility networks. Recently, the company
has embarked on the development of utility applications completely based
on Oracle Spatial, without the need for proprietary abstraction layers,
providing an opportunity to provide market-leading products that truly
support Oracle's vision for the utilization of Oracle Spatial. This
presentation demonstrates how various Oracle Spatial components such
as the network data model are being leveraged to address fundamental
utility business processes.
This session covers the challenges and considerations
involved in providing GIS functionality to mobile devices. This case
study highlights the process of converting the existing DOD MilitaryINSTALLATIONS
web based GIS application so that it can be accessed via PDA and SmartPhone
devices. The talk will discuss the technical and user interface challenges
inherent in designing mobile web applications, including navigation
limitations, slow network speeds, small screen sizes, and device quirks.
Technologies used: Oracle Spatial, J2EE, eSpatial's iSmart server.
This presentation will review initial data collection and maintenance
procedures for Florida's Turnpike Enterprise asset management system
(TEAMS), and will detail the development and implementation of a data
maintenance system utilizing Oracle Spatial and Acquis' ADE Remote.
This technology provided a means of realizing the Turnpike's ultimate
vision of live field data maintenance along the entire Turnpike network,
while meeting interim requirements for timely data collection and maintenance
via remote, disconnected map-based interfaces.
This session will detail and include demos of how Oracle Spatial 10g,
its network data model, and Oracle MapViewer support two mobile solutions
for the State of Victoria in Australia. The first was developed to service
over 90,000 visitors to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and route
them to venues, restaurants, hotels and other attractions via Melbourne's
public transport network. The second application documents the impact
of bushfire (wildfire) devastation and assists in subsequent recovery
activities.
This presentation explores how an organization faced with frequently
reassigning employees created a relocation scenario analysis tool using
the Oracle Spatial routing engine. The organization has been able to
identify optimal plans based on start/end points, the types of employees
relocating, what types of positions they can fill, etc. The session
includes a demonstration of how Navteq/ACDI data is loaded, as well
as how transportable tablespaces are used in the application.
By adopting Oracle Spatial, Where2GetIt
upgraded its legacy spatial platform gaining increased geocoding and
driving directions accuracy while increasing their volume capacity by
multiples. The combined Oracle/Navteq solution is used to support
geocoding, reverse geocoding, proximity search and driving directions.
The Oracle/Navteq spatial platform has allowed Where2GetIt to enhance
proximity searches by including searching locations by drive time and
drive distance. The technology installation, setup, configuration
and the W2GI APIs will be demonstrated during this session.
Oracle Spatial greatly simplifies the process of gathering information
in relation to location. Almost everything that utilities do in day
to day business includes location as a factor. Most utilities continue
to solve the problem of spatially locating their assets by utilizing
legacy GIS engines. But some have recognized the simplicity brought
about by Oracle Spatial. The questions utilities need to answer in their
daily activities can be answered by querying the database through SQL.
Several real life examples of significant business gains will be explored.
The benefits of Oracle Spatial as an enterprise data store are well
recognized around the world. Greater Toronto Airport has chosen this
technology to store their mission critical information. For most engineering
applications, however, Oracle Spatial has to be used as part of a larger
context. This presentation covers the business cases and technical requirements
that motivated Toronto Airport to select Oracle Spatial as part of their
engineering and facility management solution.
This presentation will focus on the practical value of Oracle technology
to Himmerlands Elforsyning (HEF), a grid operator in the northern part
of Denmark. This session highlights the use of Oracle for geographical
mapping, grid analysis, project planning and economic calculations.
We discuss our usage of Oracle Locator and workspace manager for versioning.
Oracle 10g enables HEF to attain development goals efficiently,
and provides robust and secure management of our valuable data for the
future on a standardized open platform.
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