Rolta TUSC honored at Collaborate 10 with 25 sessions!

April 18-22, 2010

Mandalay Bay Convention Center - Las Vegas, NV

Collaborate 10 Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community helps users of the full family of Oracle business applications and database software gain greater value from their Oracle investments. Created by and for customers, COLLABORATE 10 offers an expert blend of customer-to-customer interaction and insights from technology visionaries and Oracle strategists.

Rolta TUSC and Piocon have been honored by being chosen to present 25 sessions during the conference in both the OAUG and the IOUG areas:

R12 Upgrades: Why, When, and How (OAUG) - Application Strategy & Services
Many E-Business Suite users have not yet upgraded to R12, and the clock is ticking! This presentation will review some of the compelling reasons to upgrade to R12, when to do it, and some best practices to consider in approaching the upgrade process.

Driving Unbelievable ROI through Operational Intelligence with OBIEE (IOUG) - BI/Data Warehousing/EPM
Manufacturers, oil refineries, energy companies, consumer products firms and many others grapple with challenging environments. These environments demand high-uptime, continuous through-put, high-volume, and other constraints. Whether your toughest challenge is keeping your operations running 24x7, eliminating contaminations, reducing errors, or otherwise streamlining your operations, Business Intelligence can play a key role in your success. Learn how Chevron used an operational Business Intelligence solution to increase up-time and save millions in their oil refining operations. Hear how this solution can be adopted to your needs, leveraging the flexibility and adoptability of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Plus suite and the power of an underlying data warehouse.

Hi Ho Hi Ho - it's off to data mine with OBIEE we go (IOUG) - BI/Data Warehousing/EPM
ODM and OBIEE are BI match made in heaven. Oracle database 11g has surprisingly powerful statistical capabilities built-in. Oracle Data Miner (ODM) provides even more powerful tools for finding hidden patterns of information in your Oracle database. OBIEE provides a robust dashboard creation tool. Marry ODM and OBIEE and you will create dashboards that reveal this hidden, actionable information from your Oracle database. Act on this information to improve your business. This presentation will review some of the statistical functions/techniques available for free in your 11g database. We will touch on the additional capabilities in the ODM tool. We will then show you how to visualize this information in drill-to-detail dashboards created with OBIEE.

Enhancing External Applications with OBIEE Web Services (IOUG) - BI/Data Warehousing/EPM
Learn how to leverage your BI investment by increasing the availability across an organization. The BI Server platform provides web services to expand BI to external applications. Learn how to get charts, graphs, and reports out of Dashboard and Answers and into other available applications. Discuss how to pull data from OBIEE with queries or XML. Also, cover how to push changes to the OBIEE system. Walk though examples of how this can be done. Discuss potential pitfalls when going-live and real-world experiences and solutions.

Navigating the Master Data Management Maze (OAUG) - Master Data Mgmt/Application Integration
Successful management of master data is a critical component of any system implementation. Determining what data elements need to be managed, which system or process will own and use the data, and what application technology will be used to support the master data management process is a complex project on its own. This presentation will review the master data management landscape, explore best practices, and identify which application products should be used to support different master data management scenarios.

How to Manage Customizations Using Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite (OAUG) - Application Strategy & Services|Development|Infrastructure Technologies
This presentation will provide a case study of how Oracle Applications Change Management Pack 3.0 helped The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory package and deploy their customizations as part of their Oracle E- Business Suite R12.1 implementation. It will contain real-life examples on how to use Setup Manager, Customization Manager and Patch Manager to coordinate an end-to-end administration of Oracle E-Business R12 Customizations.

Oracle Report Manager: Tips, Tricks and Traps (OAUG) - Financial Management
Provide useful information for R12 implementation teams for implementation of Oracle General Ledger, Financial Statement Generator and Report Manager. Indirectly “educate” users about new R12 Report Manager features. Help avoid potential pitfalls using actual experience from implementing Report Manager

PM BlackJack - The 21 things your Project Sponsor really wants to know (OAUG) - Professional Development|Projects and Portfolio Management
When your project manager is dealt a good hand, projects run smooth. But how easy is it to read the play when the cards run cold and things get tough? Your project updates need to provide enough information to know when its time to double down, when its time to raise the stakes and when its time to fold. This presentation will provide you with 21 key project performance indicators that can be used to help drive decisions and most importantly, gauge the odds of your projects success.

Harnessing the Full Power of OA Framework Personalizations in the E-Business Suite (OAUG) - Development
Attendees will learn how to use the flexibility and power of OA Framework personalizations to make changes to E-Business web pages without customizations. Topics covered will include simple personalizations, such as changing prompts, moving and hiding fields, making fields required, making fields read only, and setting default values. More advanced topics include modifying css styles, adding custom regions, adding flexfields, adding attachments, working with foreign languages, and migrating personalizations.

Optimally Leverage your Oracle Hyperion Investment (OAUG) - Application Strategy & Services|BI/Data Warehousing/EPM|Financial Management
Never before has it been more important to understand your organization's investment in Oracle's Hyperion solutions and the application of these technologies. This Session will review the approach for taking a detailed look at your Hyperion environment. Templates will be provided to assist in the articulation of your Current State from a business function, administration, and technology perspective and the mapping of opportunities to improve support and extend the usage of your Oracle Hyperion Investment.

RMAN 11g New Features R1 and R2 (IOUG) - Database
Cover RMAN New features and their use for 11g R1 and R2 11g R1 Archive Log Management Improvements, Network Aware DUPLICATE, Archive Log Management Improvements, Fast Incremental Backups on Physical Standby, Improved Backup Compression Performance, Improved Integration with Data Guard, Optimized Undo Backup, Read-Only Transported Tablespaces Backup 11gR2 Duplicate without Connection to Target Database, Oracle RMAN backup capabilities to Web Storage Services, Automatic Block Repair, New Duplicate options, Enhanced Tablespace Point-In-Time Recovery (recovery of a dropped tablespace), New SET NEWNAME Clauses and Format Options

Security and You (IOUG) - Database
Focus on the primary characteristics of database security and how the use of new oracle features can enable a safer environment. We will discuss the practical use of Advanced Security Option, Virtual Private Database and Database Vault. Plus some of the more interesting bits from various external security challenges.

The SQLTXPLAIN Utility - Everything You Wanted To Know About Your SQL Statement - And Then Some (IOUG) - Database
The SQLTXPLAIN utility was introduced in Oracle 10gR2 as a supplement to the Oracle Tuning Pack. The SQLTXPLAIN utility is separately downloaded and installed into the target database and invoked while SQL "of interest" is running. The utility performs a comprehensive analysis of the running statement (or set of statements) and everything related to them, from execution plans evaluated, to initialization parameters, to intimate detail of tables and indexes involved in the query. The results of this analysis are output in a nicely formatted HTML report. This presentation describes a real world sample of this report and how it is useful. In particular, the recommendations section of the report and how to implement the recommendations for all users or selected users through the use of SQL profiles is discussed.

Tuning the Oracle Grid (IOUG) - Database
This presentation will show the top ten tips when tuning your architecture for grid computing. Oracle has come a long when from when they first introduced clustering. The tools continue to improve and the installation continues to get better and easier. The main focus is to show many of the Grid Control screen shots so that the attendee can see the depth of the product.

The Best Oracle Database 11gR1 & 11gR2 New Features (IOUG) - Database
This presentation will look at which 11gR1 & 11gR2 new features should be investigated for use. Most of the features that will be covered will be related to the DBA, but there will also be a few outside that realm. There will be simple examples to show the basic functionality of the following new features to quickly understand their use.

Centralize Your AWR Data for Better Analysis (IOUG) - Database
AWR is a powerful feature that was introduced with Oracle 10g and continued to improve with 11g. Learn how you could utilize that power at an enterprise level by bringing you AWR data together into a central repository for compare reports across databases in your enterprise keeping snapshot data for longer periods without taking space in your live databases. This adds to the flexibility and power of AWR, get some ideas how you might leverage this in your enterprise.

Artistic SQL - Uncovering Gems in the OTN Forums (IOUG) - Database
The OTN SQL and PL/SQL Forum archive contains a vast array of advanced SQL tricks and techniques that should be added to the tool chest of even the most seasoned developer. Buried in the almost 2 million postings of the forum are nuggets of SQL genius, elegant solutions to complex problems and inspired queries. Come along on a journey and re-learn SQL from the most skillful query writers in the world - the artisans of the OTN Forum.

Recession-proof your company with SOA (IOUG) - Development
The ability to rapidly modify service offerings is becoming key to success in today's turbulent economy. Many companies are turning to SOA to help their business reduce development effort and achieve agility, but implementing SOA effectively has proved a daunting challenge all its own. How can today's IT managers and CIOs realistically propose SOA and quickly deliver benefits without risking their jobs? Rolta TUSC's Brad Brown will explain why historic SOA implementations have failed, how you can benefit from innovative software that fundamentally transforms the complexity of implementing SOA to an "instant" task, and how an agile, iterative approach can deliver rapid ROI for your business and ultimately lower total cost of ownership. In a time where budgets can be cut at a moment's notice, this briefing will ensure you derive value from your SOA initiatives in weeks and become the "hero" for your business.

Building a User Definable and Flexible UI with ApEx - Case Study (IOUG) - Development
Brad will discuss how he built a GUI and GIS application with ApEx for Independent Nation. Independent Nation is a company that specializes in providing intelligence to independent voters. The application is used to provide that intelligence. Merging voter registration, voter contribution and numerous other data sources, Brad built an application that is dynamic and flexible. The application can easily be used for any other GIS-type applications. It's built on data about people, their properties or addresses they live at, and other information about them. This case study will demonstrate Brad's approach to designing and developing applications that allow customization by changing data, not code.

Jazz Up Your Existing Web Applications with AJAX (IOUG) - Development
Update your existing web applications without throwing away years of investments. Create innovative and dynamic AJAX-enabled web user interfaces by adding a JavaScript framework to your application. JavaScript frameworks provide standard UI components and which provide feature-rich, cross-browser user interfaces, including incremental page updates and drag and drop. This session shows you how you can integrate the Ext JavaScript framework into an existing Oracle ADF web application to create a rich Web 2.0 application that performs beyond the expectations of your users.

Tony's Top 10 Oracle Development Tips and Techniques (IOUG) - Development
Throughout my 16 years working with Oracle, I have accumulated a list of tips and techniques that assist with the development of Oracle based custom applications. These tips and tricks can be used to improve application performance, to streamline code, and to create higher quality applications. The speaker will describe each topic in detail as well as provide real world examples of how to use them.

When A Good Cluster Goes Bad (IOUG) - Infrastructure Technologies
This presentation will address the ecosystem needed to support Clustering technologies. The primary focus will be on Oracle Real Application Clusters but will also touch on VERITAS Cluster Services, HP Service Guard and several other cluster solutions. When implementing a clustering technology, what key criteria from an operations perspective, skill perspective need to be taken into consideration? Additionally what is the un-communicated Service Level expectation? Going beyond what the SLA or SLO may have been documented; Clusters can do wonderfully visible bad things. Though it is intend to aid in infrastructure stability, when not implemented correctly Clustering can have unanticipated results.

Flying in the Clouds-- an Introduction to Cloud Computing (IOUG) - Infrastructure Technologies
An Introduction to Cloud Computing, fundamental concepts, principles, benefits, and challenges. The session will start with an overview of Cloud and helping to define what cloud is and what it consists of-- a 101 so to speak so that participants have a firm understanding of Cloud Computing, Software as Service, and the concepts that makeup this new paradigm. We will cover what makes cloud computing unique from its predecessor paradigms and why the industry is so excited about moving companies and data centers into the cloud. The session will also cover practical approaches to implementing a cloud project, both as a cloud provider or a cloud consumer�in other words a methodology for "entering the cloud". We will also cover approaches for overcoming challenges, dispelling myths, and how to take incremental steps for getting started with a cloud implementation.

SOA Today: How to use Agile Methodologies on SOA and achieve Rapid Results (IOUG) - Master Data Mgmt/Application Integration
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is complex, lengthy, and riddled with challenges. Many organizations have had frustrating experiences in the path they chose and some have even given up on their SOA initiatives. This session will present a refreshing and effective approach to achieving rapid and incremental results in SOA, all the while educating participants on how to keep their projects aligned with the "big-picture" SOA Roadmap. Approaches include how to leverage an Agile methodology with SOA, when to use top-down vs. bottom-up vs. middle-out, and how to ensure business success through the use of SOA pilots. The session will also cover fundamental principles of Service Oriented Architecture by explaining definitions, concepts, and practices. This will help participants gain a common understanding of what SOA is, what constitutes SOA, and why it is so important to businesses.

A Failure to Communicate (IOUG) - Professional Development
This presentation is a look at why teams fail to communicate. The reasons often make a lot more sense than most people think. It's not just politics, but often life and personalities that get in the way of project successes. Are you part of the solution or part of the problem? Do you escalate or de-escalate a situation? Successful projects have a lot more to do with the process and structure of a project than the people and the synergy of those people. Setting up the right processes to run a project builds the synergy necessary to create a great team environment. This session will focus on project critical success factors as well as what makes a winning instead of whining team.