IOUG Webinars - December 5, 2012 Update

Interrogating Your Cloud Applications with Oracle
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST

Presented by: Sumit Sarkar, Certified Consultant, IBM

Register today to discover more information on how to make Cloud data and Oracle data communicate with one another more effectively. The webinar will present a demo of Oracle SQL Developer, in conjunction with Database Gateway for ODBC (DG4ODBC) connecting to Salesforce.com.
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Embarcadero Hosted Webinar: The 30 Year DBA Evolution 
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
7:00am PST / 10:00am EST
11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST

Hosted by: Embarcadero
Speaker: Martin Hubel

In the past 30 years, relational databases have moved from query tools to OLTP engines for critical applications and beyond. Applications have changed from in-house development to the deployment of packaged applications. Outsourcing and off-shoring is becoming more popular, while at the same time, there are fewer people to do the job. As organizations evolve, are companies looking to eliminate the role of the DBA or change the role into something else?
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Jailbreak the DBA! Doing more with less in a virtual world
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
      
Featured Speaker: Daniel Young, Manager of Enterprise Database Administration at Indiana University

Participate in this webinar to learn more about Indiana University’s effective use of enterprise class Oracle services to over 120,000 students, faculty and staff. Listen to the essential principals that have resulted in the Database Administration staff to focus on the important and not the mundane.
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Exposing WebCenter Data on Mobile & Desktop Devices through the REST APIing more with less in a virtual world
Thursday, December 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST

Featured Speaker: John Sim, Senior Software Consultant

Learn the most effective ways to leverage the WebCenter REST API and create cross-device compliant mobile and desktop applications using a single code base. During the webinar, web-based frameworks like Jquery mobile, Zepto, Sencha Touch, Phonegap, Appcelerator & Adobe Air will be reviewed and seen how easily they can enable content from WebCenter to be pulled, synced, and even stored locally for when instant access to content without internet access.
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How Oracle Came to Rule the Database World & How to Tune it to Perfection!
Monday, December 17, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST

Join this session to review Amazon’s top selling Oracle Database book by Rich Niemiec, Oracle 11g Release 2 Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques. The webinar has a technical focus containing numerous tips on topics such as interval partitioning, invisible indexes, function-based indexes, top 25 initialization parameters, flush buffer cache, SQL performance analyzer, xplan, table joins, extended statistics, exadata, and much more!
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SharePoint is NOT an ECM System- Reasons Why
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST

Featured Speaker: John Sim, Senior Software Consultant

Discover the most effective ways to control the WebCenter REST API and create cross-device compliant mobile and desktop applications using a single code base. Become familiar with frameworks, such as, Jquery mobile, Zepto, Sencha Touch, Phonegap, Appcelerator & Adobe Air, and how they can allow content from WebCenter to be pulled, synced, and stored locally.
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Building the Integrated Data Warehouse With Oracle Database and Hadoop
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST

Featured Speaker: Gwen Shapira, Senior Consultant at Pythian, Oracle ACE Director Member, Oak Table Network

From tracking customers in online stores to tweets and blog posts, unstructured data is rapidly growing and businesses are looking for ways to analyze it. In this presentation, learn why storing and processing unstructured data is a challenge best answered by specialized systems such as Hadoop.  Become more familiar with Hadoop and the advantages it has to offer.
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Big Data, Integration, and Governance: Ask-the-Experts
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST

Data archiving, data quality, data security, discovery, MDM ... The list of best practices recommended by analysts and industry experts continues to expand every year. So how can you make sense of it all and get the most value for your organization from your Oracle applications and/or Oracle Database and data? Join us as our panel of experts share case studies and their expertise to help you understand which best practices to prioritize and focus on. Don’t miss this interactive discussion.
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Testing the Bounds of Data Governance

Presented by: Kimberly Madia, WW Product Marketing Manager, IBM and Thomas Wilson, President and CEO, Unisphere Media

Join this webcast to review the findings of the (2012 IOUG Test, Development and QA Survey) and discuss the best practices and issues that it highlights. Learn effective ways to deliver quality applications and functionality as a result of improved streamlining and processes.
This webinar is now available online.  Visit the link to watch the webinar and enter your information to receive access to the survey.