OAUG Collaborate 2014 Las Vegas

Members of our E-Business Suite Applications Technology Group will be at the OAUG Collaborate
14 conference at The Venetian and Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 7 to 11, 2014.



 

 

Please drop by any of our
sessions to hear the latest news and meet up with us.

 

 

 

 

 
Speaker Sessions

 

15259 – Oracle E-Business Suite Technology: Latest Features and Roadmap
Lisa Parekh, Vice President, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

Monday, April 7, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 303

This Oracle development session provides an overview of Oracle’s product strategy for Oracle E-Business Suite technology, the features and benefits of recent releases and certifications, and the product roadmap. This is the cornerstone session for Oracle E-Business Suite technology. Learn about the latest enhancements to the user interface, systems administration and management tools, and options for extending, customizing, and integrating Oracle E-Business Suite with other applications.

14067 – 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2
Nadia Bendjedou, Sr. Director, Product Strategy, Oracle
Kevin Hudson, Sr. Director, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

Monday, April 7, 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 303

Whether you are on 11i, 12.0 or 12.1, this is a must session. This development session will help you prepare for future uptake of Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 by explaining the technology and skills requirements for 12.2, and highlighting what you can do now. It will include a deep dive into the internals of Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Online Patching to help you understand how to ensure your custom code will be compatible with Online Patching.

15187 – Deployment and System Administration of Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2
Max Arderius, Manager, Applications Development Group, Oracle


Monday, April 7, 3:20 pm – 4:20 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 303

This Oracle Development session covers the latest technology stack for Oracle E-Business Suite, including the use of Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database 11.2. Topics include an architectural overview of the latest updates, installation and upgrade options, new configuration options, and new tools for hot cloning and automated “lights-out” cloning. Come learn how online patching (based on the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Edition-Based Redefinition feature) will reduce your database patching downtimes.

15243 – Online Patching with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2
Kevin Hudson, Sr. Director, Applications Technology Group, Oracle


Tuesday, April 8, 10:15 am – 11:15 am
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 303

Online Patching in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 reduces your E-Business Suite maintenance downtimes. This Oracle development session details how online patching works, with special attention to what’s happening at a database object level when patches are applied to an Oracle E-Business Suite environment that’s still running. Come learn about what this means to E-Business Suite administrators, and how to update your custom code to work with online patching.

15284 – Oracle E-Business Suite – Strategy, Update and Roadmap
Cliff Godwin, Sr. VP, Application Development, Oracle

Tuesday, April 8, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Room: Level 2, Venetian Ballroom AB

In this session, hear from Oracle E-Business Suite General Manager Cliff Godwin as he delivers an update on the Oracle E-Business Suite product line. The session covers the value delivered by the current release of Oracle E-Business Suite applications, the momentum, and how Oracle E-Business Suite applications integrate into Oracle’s overall applications strategy. You will come away with an understanding of the value Oracle E-Business Suite applications deliver now and in the future.

 

15287 – Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Certification Primer and Roadmap
Steven Chan, Sr. Director, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

Tuesday, April 8, 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 303

Is your Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack up to date? Are you using all the latest capabilities? This Oracle development session covers the latest certifications and roadmap for the Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack, including database versions, middleware, operating systems, browsers, Java,business intelligence, management packs, security options, clouds, and virtualization. The session also covers the most commonly asked questions about tech stack component support dates and upgrade implications.

 

15261 – Planning and Doing Your Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade
Anne Carlson, Sr. Director, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

Wednesday, April 9, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

Are you on Oracle E-Business Suite 11i or 12.0 deciding what to do next? This session discusses project planning and execution considerations for customers who are looking to upgrade to 12.1 or 12.2. It combines tips from other customers with expert advice from Oracle’s support, consulting, and development organizations. You will learn how to: choose whether to target 12.1 or 12.2, decide between upgrade and reimplementation, identify needed time and resources, manage custom code, minimize downtime, and more.

 

15269 – Latest Oracle E-Business Suite User Interface and Usability Enhancements
Maher Muhanna, Manager, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

Wednesday, April 9, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 309

This Oracle development session details the latest UI enhancements to Oracle Application Framework. Developers and users will get a look at new features that enhance usability, and new capabilities for personalization and extensions. See new rich UI capabilities that make the interface more flexible and interactive than ever before. Learn about improvements to the home page and navigator, new widgets, interactive tables, mobile device support, and more.

 

15290 – Upgrading Your E-Business Suite Customizations
Sara Woodhull, Principal Product Manager, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

Wednesday, April 9, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 303

Come to this Oracle development session to learn about selecting the best upgrade approach for your existing customizations. Also learn how to create an inventory of your customizations and a strategy for mapping them to new functionality offered in E-Business Suite. The session will help you understand customization scenarios and use cases, tools, and technologies to ensure that your Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 environment fits your users needs and that any future customizations will be easy to upgrade.

 

14665 – Oracle E-Business Suite Roadmap: What’s New in Release 12.2 Beyond Online Patching
Jeanne Lowell, VP, EBS Strategy, Oracle

Thursday, April 10, 8:30 am – 9:30 am
Room: Level 1, Marco Polo – 703

Learn more about Oracle E-Business Suites product roadmap of recent releases and future plans to deliver new capabilities for years to come. Jeanne Lowell, VP of EBS Product Strategy, will cover what’s new in R12.2 beyond online patching, including functional enhancements and improved user experience.

 

15286 – Part 1 – Getting Optimal Performance from Oracle E-Business Suite
Samer Barakat, Director, Applications Performance, Oracle

Thursday, April 10, 8:30 am 9:30 am
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

This packed Oracle development session summarizes practical tips and lessons learned from performance-tuning and benchmarking the world’s largest Oracle E-Business Suite environments. Apps sysadmins will learn concrete tips and techniques for identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks on all layers of the technology stack. Also learn how Oracle’s engineered systems such as Exadata and Exalogic can dramatically improve the performance of your system.

 

15378 – Part 2 – Getting Optimal Performance from Oracle E-Business Suite
Samer Barakat, Director, Applications Performance, Oracle

Thursday, April 10, 9:45 am 10:45 am
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

This packed Oracle development session summarizes practical tips and lessons learned from performance-tuning and benchmarking the world’s largest Oracle E-Business Suite environments. Apps sysadmins will learn concrete tips and techniques for identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks on all layers of the technology stack. Also learn how Oracle’s engineered systems such as Exadata and Exalogic can dramatically improve the performance of your system.

 

15257 – Advanced Oracle E-Business Suite Architectures: Maximum Availability, Security and More
Elke Phelps, Sr. Principal Product Manager, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

Thursday, April 10, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 303

Join this session to build upon the 3-tier logical Oracle E-Business architecture to meet your business requirements. Features that provide high availability, scalability and performance including load-balancing, clustering and virtualization are covered. Apply these features for disaster recovery planning. Learn about optional deployments for advanced security and reporting. Also covered are the latest tools and technologies for extending E-Business Suite including SOA enablement and the Integrated SOA Gateway.

 

15260 – Oracle E-Business Suite Plug-in for Enterprise Manager – Features and Roadmap
Angelo Rosado, Principal Product Manager, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

Thursday, April 10, 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 309

This session gives an overview of the latest releases of Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Application Management Suite for Oracle E-Business Suite, including new features and product roadmap. By attending this session, you will gain an understanding of how you can reduce your overall IT costs, gain insight into the health of your system, and dramatically improve the productivity of EM administrators, DBAs, System Administrators, Developers, and other users by automating operational tasks.

15288 – Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Best Practices: Technical Insight
Udayan Parvate, Sr. Director, Release Engineering, Quality and Release Management, Oracle

Friday, April 11, 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 303

This session is ideal for organizations thinking about upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 or 12.2. It covers the fundamentals of upgrading, including the technology stack components and supported upgrade paths. Hear from Oracle Development about the set of best practices for patching in general and executing the technical upgrade, with special considerations for minimizing your downtime. Also get to know about relatively recent upgrade resources.

15256 – Oracle E-Business Suite Integration Best Practices
Rekha Ayothi, Lead Product Manager, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

Friday, April 11, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

Oracle is investing across applications and technologies to make the application integration experience easier. Learn more about Oracle’s integration offering across data- and process-centric integrations. These technologies can be used to address various application integration challenges and styles, including SOA and REST services based integration. Learn how, when, and where you can leverage Oracle solutions to connect end-to-end business processes, and to build new solutions including mobile applications.

 

Special Interest Groups (SIG)

15330 – OAUG E-Business Suite User Management SIG Meeting
Susan Behn, Infosemantics, Inc.

 

Monday, April 7, 3:20 pm – 4:20 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

Oracle has released
new features in EBS 12.2 to secure flexfields and their associated value
sets using user management roles and grants. Sara will present how to
implement and use this new functionality.

Guest Participation: Q&A Session with Sara Woodhull, Principal Product Manager, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

15325 – OAUG Database SIG Meeting
Michael Brown, BlueStar

Tuesday, April 8, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

Guest Participation: Q&A Session with Elke Phelps, Principal Product Manager, Applications Technology Group, Oracle

15328 – OAUG EBS Applications Technology SIG Meeting
Sandra Vucinic, VLAD Group, Inc.
Christina Blincoe, Burns & McDonnell

Wednesday, April 9, 8:30 am – 9:30 am
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

Guest Participation of Applications Technology Group staff members including Steven Chan, Elke Phelps, Kevin Hudson, Max Arderius among others.

15346 – OAUG Upgrade SIG Meeting
Sandra Vucinic, VLAD Group, Inc.
Andy Katz, Komori

Wednesday, April 9, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

Guest Participation of Applications Technology Group staff members.

 

Panels

14437 – Oracle E-Business Suite Cloning Panel
Sandra Vucinic, VLAD Group, Inc.

Tuesday, April 8, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

This panel will discuss differences between available release 11i, R12,
R12.1 and R12.2 cloning methods. Advantages and disadvantages of each
cloning method will be discussed in depth. This panel of experienced
database administrators will lead a discussion focusing on the questions
such as “which cloning method is best to use in your particular
environment”. Attendees will gain practical knowledge, tips and tricks
to assist with cloning of Oracle E-Business Suite release 11i, R12,
R12.1 and R12.2 environments.

Guest Participation of Applications Technology Group staff members including Max Arderius among others.

 

15377 – Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Panel
Sandra Vucinic, VLAD Group, Inc.

Thursday, April 10, 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Room: Sands, Level 1 – 203

In this panel
discussion, our panelists will answer your questions about the upgrade
effort, issues, and problems being faced by users and customers. Hear
directly from the experts and find out how to apply their lessons
learned to your organization. Why do you need to upgrade? Should you
upgrade to EBS R12.1 or R12.2? Have you found a problem that our
panelists might help with? Come to this session to get your R12.x
upgrade questions answered.

Guest Participation of Applications Technology Group staff members
including Anne Carlson among
others.

 
 

Meet the Experts

Don’t miss this
opportunity to meet with Oracle E-Business Suite tools and technology
experts. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the
Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy.
The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest
releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so
come ready with your questions. Space is limited.

15556 – Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Stack
Tuesday, April 8, 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
Room: Level 1, Casanova – 505

  • Steven Chan, Oracle
  • Elke Phelps, Oracle
  • Max Arderius, Oracle

15557 – Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Strategy and Roadmap
Tuesday, April 8, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Room: Level 1, Casanova – 505

  • Cliff Godwin, Oracle
  • Jeanne Lowell, Oracle
  • Nadia Bendjedou, Oracle

15560 – Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Strategy and Roadmap (Repeat)
Wednesday, April 9, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: Level 1, Casanova – 505

  • Cliff Godwin, Oracle
  • Jeanne Lowell, Oracle
  • Nadia Bendjedou, Oracle

15566 – Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrades Best Practices
Thursday, April 10, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Room: Level 1, Casanova – 505

  • Anne Carlson, Oracle
  • Nadia Bendjedou, Oracle
  • Samer Barakat, Oracle
  • Udayan Parvate, Oracle
15567 – Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Stack (Repeat)
Thursday, April 10, 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Room: Level 1, Casanova – 505
  • Steven Chan, Oracle
  • Elke Phelps, Oracle
  • Max Arderius, Oracle

Demos

Kiosk #33 – Oracle E-Business Suite – Technology, Upgrade and System Management

We have one booth in the exhibition demogrounds this year, where
you can get your questions answered. Please stop by and meet our staff
to have discussions about Oracle E-Business Suite Technology, SOA-based Integration, Upgrades, Maintenance, Online Patching, System Administration, Configuration and more.

 

 

 

For complete listing of all speaker sessions and other activities, please visit the OAUG Collaborate Web Site.