Oracle CloudWorld is less than two weeks away! Oracle ACEs have a number of sessions scheduled for September 21, 2023, as you can see below. They cover topics such as OCI, Kubernetes, APEX, SQL and much more. We invite you to browse the list below and add to your agendas the sessions that you are most interested on!

Alex Nuijten, Oracle ACE Director and Roel Hartman, Oracle ACE Director

  • Oracle APEX and Application (12:30 pm – 01:15 pm PDT)

In a perfect world, your Oracle APEX SaaS solution would be deployed with a click of a button, have a separate database for each customer, and let customers choose when they want to upgrade to the next version. And the customer wouldn’t have to worry about default lookup data, either, because the SaaS provider would do that. This perfect world can be created with application containers and Oracle APEX. Learn the basics of application containers, how data is shared and separated in each container, and how a new version is rolled out.

Alex Zaballa

  • The Oracle DBA In The Autonomous Era (03:00 pm – 03:45 pm PDT)

So you’re a long-time DBA—now what? We go into detail on using Oracle Autonomous Database offerings—showing how Oracle helps DBAs simplify management while enabling them to advance their skills and knowledge. See how Oracle Autonomous Database eliminates mundane and routine management tasks, freeing up DBAs to focus on extracting more value from their day-to-day. Take a deep dive into what you really need to know so your DBA career can thrive in an autonomous-driven world.

Basheer Khan, Oracle ACE Director

  • Creating Oracle Fusion Applications Extensions (12:30 pm – 01:15 pm PDT)

Oracle Fusion Cloud applications offer a lot of functionality out of the box, but how do you extend and configure them to match your unique needs and requirements? Oracle’s Application Platform offers you the same tools and techniques used by Oracle’s developers to build your own extensions and integrate them into Oracle Fusion apps. Learn from the experience of your peers, customers, and Oracle product managers, and share your thoughts and requirements.

Biju Thomas, Oracle ACE Director

  • Estimate Cloud Requirements Accurately Before You Start The Cloud Migration (09:40 am – 10:00 am PDT)

Learn how to estimate Oracle Database and application server requirements, compare the performance before and after migration, and uncover critical, performance-impacting configurations in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Reviewing workload data and correctly sizing cloud infrastructure directly relates to customer cloud outcomes. We review multiple scenarios where customers saw performance increases and spend reductions even though the OCI deployment was a smaller footprint than what the customers had on-premises.

Dan Vlamis, Oracle ACE Director and Cathye Pendley, Oracle ACE Associate

  • Advancing Analytics At Rosendin Electric (10:15 am – 11:00 am PDT)

Are you interested in taking analytics to the next level? Learn how Rosendin Electric leveraged Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), and other cloud offerings to build a modern system to support analytical decision-making for their business owned by more than 7,000 employees. Hear how they turned a manually intensive semi-annual report into an automated weekly report with visualizations that allow a diverse set of users to quickly identify issues and key performers, let Rosendin increase use of the data, and opened up the system by using the Power BI Connector for OAC. Learn the success story and the struggles along the way.

Erik Benner, Oracle ACE Director

  • Multicloud Management With Ansible  (01:05 pm – 01:25 pm PDT)

Ansible is popular for multicloud management because of its ability to automate the entire stack—from infrastructure to application deployment—across different cloud environments. Included with Oracle Linux is Oracle Linux Automation Manager (OLAM), which supports multiple cloud providers, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and lets users manage infrastructure across multiple clouds from a single platform. OLAM is secure, not requiring any agents on managed systems, making it easier to manage multicloud environments. Learn how to use OLAM to manage both on-premises and cloud-based workloads, focusing on the security capabilities and the ease of deploying Ansible playbooks with enterprise capabilities.

  • Do This, Not That: Top 10 Tips To Monitor Oracle Database, WebLogic, And More (09:00 am – 09:45 am PDT)

Learn proven tips to successfully monitor Oracle databases, WebLogic, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), and more using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Stack Monitoring, an OCI-based solution for monitoring apps and its tech stack running in hybrid environments. Use the Discovery UI to discover apps such as E-Business Suite or Oracle’s PeopleSoft, or resources such as Oracle Database systems, WebLogic, SQL Server, Tomcat, or any OCI service. Extend Discovery to monitor apps that expose metrics through Prometheus endpoints. Use Enterprise Summary UI to monitor status and performance across application tiers. Enrich monitoring with Metric Extensions. Discover our techniques for holistic monitoring of your IT environment using Stack Monitoring.

Fernando Simon, Oracle ACE Director

  • Patching Best Practice For Oracle Database And Grid Infrastructure (01:45 pm – 02:30 pm PDT)

Patching is an activity that, while not the most fun or exciting thing to do, is vital to maintain the security and stability of any production system. We cover topics such as automation, zero-downtime patching, and coordinating patching for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and databases. We also share real customer experiences with patching in demanding production environments—providing practical insights to make patching experiences smoother and more successful.

Gail Anderson, Oracle ACE Pro and Paul Anderson, Oracle ACE Associate

  • Say The Words: Modern Java With JavaFX And GraalVM For Rich Client UIs (03:00 pm – 03:45 pm PDT)

Wordle is a popular online game where you have up to six tries to guess a hidden five-letter word. By combining the power of the JavaFX UI toolkit with the latest Java Development Kit features, we show how to implement a client-side version for desktop and for mobile devices using GraalVM to generate native images for IOS and Android. Learn how to create the main UI layout with Scene Builder and use specialized UI controls with pseudo-classes for CSS styling. Understand JavaFX property binding to control UI state, use JavaFX animation, and summarize the game results with JavaFX charts. We also use modern Java, including lambdas, streams, method references, records, and enhanced switch expressions.

Gustavo Gonzalez, Oracle ACE Director

  • The Five Critical Drivers For Your Best Long-Term Strategy Extending Cloud Apps (09:00 am – 09:45 am PDT)

Many organizations still believe the myth that cloud SaaS cannot be customized or extended—and this is holding back new projects and initiatives. If this is true in your business, you need to act. We cover how to extend your Oracle Fusion applications with the right tools and total control over the code with a long-term strategy. Learn how Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service, embedded into Fusion apps, is an option. Plus, explore Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle APEX, and other options that give you a complete set of tools for your long-term development strategy. We also present cases of customers who have built integrated and seamless solutions. With Fusion applications, the users won’t notice they’re running extensions.

Holger Friedrich, Oracle ACE Director

  • SQL Domains Are Key For Efficiently Implementing GDPR, Data Mesh, And More (01:45 pm – 02:30 pm PDT)

SQL domains, as added in Oracle Database 23c, can be the cornerstone for efficiently implementing a variety of important use cases, including regulatory requirements like GDPR as well as modern development processes for analytic environments like data mesh. Any use case that requires an annotated, searchable data model can benefit immensely by using SQL domains. We discuss SQL domains in general and illustrate how to use them effectively for different use cases—and how they enable automation of data handling for different domains. We demonstrate the concepts and possibilities live.

Jennifer Nicholson

  • Oracle ACE Program Roundtable (09:00 am – 09:20 am PDT)

Topic tailored for partners to innovate, grow and succeed with their customers: The Oracle ACE Program is Oracle’s community program recognizes and rewards individuals for their contributions to the Oracle community. Oracle ACEs share their knowledge and helping the Oracle community. Most members have technical expertise in areas such as applications and app development, business intelligence, cloud, database management, GraalVM, Java, Linux, middleware and MySQL. We will discuss ways to get involved in the Oracle community, including presenting at conferences, blogging, writing articles and books and participating in Oracle User Groups. The ACE program is a great community for networking, finding a mentor, and making life-long friends.

Kosseila Haddalene, Oracle ACE Pro

  • Explore OCI DevOps: Pipeline Your Terraform Stack From GitHub To OCI (12:30 pm – 12:50 pm PDT)

We explore the main features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DevOps and explain how its speed and reliability make it a solution of choice for your integration and delivery practice in OCI compared to Other 3rd-party CI solutions. We will cover features such as seamless integrations with OCI vault and code repositories like GitHub or GitLab, or how to leverage OCI devops as a source for your Resource Manager stack. Finally, witness a demo based on a Terraform configuration (N-tier compute) stored in GitHub, which will be linked and pipelined into OCI using OCI DevOps and review its logs. The goal is to pique your curiosity on the numerous possibilities this OCI Devops service can empower your CI/CD experience.

Oren Nakdimon, Oracle ACE Director

  • Write Less (Code) With More(Features) (09:00 am – 09:45 am PDT)

We discuss many useful examples of features that have been recently added to Oracle Database and that allow developers to become more efficient and productive. Learn about features that enhance the SQL language so SQL statements can become much shorter and more readable than before. And discover other features that offer built-in functionality that previously had to be implemented by the application.

Shinichiro Otsuka, Oracle ACE Director

  • Oracle Database Blockchain Table Deep Dive With DX Use Case (03:00 pm – 03:45 pm PDT)

Recently, blockchain’s tamper resistance and traceability has attracted attention. These two values are highly compatible with the digital experience (DX) business, and many proofs of concept are being conducted. However, the influence of consensus algorithms in conventional blockchain technology often makes it difficult to reach performance targets. The Oracle Blockchain table is a solution that can break through this limitation. Take a deep dive into the Oracle Blockchain table using a carbon information traceability system as a use case. We explain the architecture, implementation method, performance, bottleneck identification, and countermeasures. Finally, we introduce how it evolves in Oracle Database 23c converged database.

Simo Vilmunen, Oracle ACE Pro

  • OKE – Why It Makes Sense To Use Kubernetes in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (08:30 am – 09:15 am PDT)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is one of the flagship services of OCI, yet we don’t hear enough about it. Do you know there are several benefits on using OKE directly on OCI and not doing it on any other cloud provider? We cover core OKE functionality from a deployment perspective, as well as lessons learned on using it and best practices when deploying OKE on OCI from a security and network perspective. Discover how all the built-in automation—as well as integration with other OCI services—can help you. Once you learn these integrations and deployment capabilities, you can find a good way forward with OKE.

Tim Vlamis, Oracle ACE Director and Dan Vlamis, Oracle ACE Director

  • Unleash The True Analytical Power Of Oracle Database With Oracle Analytics (09:00 am – 09:45 am PDT)

Oracle Database has a wide variety of advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities, many of which customers haven’t yet tapped into. With direct integration into Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), advanced options such as Graph Analytics, Geospatial calculation, and text analysis can deliver immense value to users at any skill level. Learn how to utilize these advanced capabilities from OAC, and hear how Bowie State University, Maryland’s first historically black university, is using Oracle Database with OAC to analyze university enrollment, as well as how they plan to use these capabilities to further their goals.

Check out the entire agenda featuring the Oracle ACEs presenting on September 21 and add your favorite sessions to your calendar now! You can also take a look at the agendas for September 19 and September 20!