“I find that [COLLABORATE] is the best single source of training. The multitude of educational sessions gives me the opportunity to upgrade my skills in numerous areas of interest at the same time, as opposed to taking a five-day course on a single topic.”
— Steve Allison, Database Administrator, SkyTerra Communications
IOUG Forum Education Sessions Now Available
Only the IOUG Forum provides you the chance to receive real-world knowledge and best practices on subjects of importance to you as an Oracle database or technology professional, including Business Intelligence, 11gR2, virtualization, storage, OBIEE and more.
View the IOUG scheduling tool to view the 275 education sessions available at the IOUG Forum and search by track, speaker, category and more to find exactly what you are looking for. Focus areas include:
You can also create your personalized schedule and download it to your Outlook calendar. (Your schedule is not binding and is for your planning purposes only.)
If you'd like to view all education sessions across all three users groups, view the COLLABORATE 10 Joint Scheduler.
Tracks include:
Application Strategy and Services
Asset Lifecycle Management
Infrastructure Technologies
BI/Data Warehousing/EPM
Customer Relationship Management
Database
Development
Executive
Financial Management
Human Capital Management
Governance Risk and Compliance
Manufacturing
Master Data Management/Application Integration
Project and Portfolio Management
Professional Development
Sales Order Fulfillment
Supplier Relationship Management and Procurement
Supply Chain Planning
Utility Customer Applications
Application Strategy and Services
The Applications Strategy and Services track includes sessions that discuss the overall strategy of Oracle applications as a variety of Applications thought leadership, user experience, and integration sessions. These sessions apply to all the Oracle applications product lines, including E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, and others. In addition, you'll find sessions covering services that aim to help you maximize the value of your applications investment, accelerate your implementation timelines and business results, and optimize your post-implementation monitoring and support-such as sessions about Oracle Support, Oracle Consulting, On Demand/SaaS for applications and Oracle
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Asset Lifecycle Management
Organizations are realizing significant cost savings and improved planning capabilities through integration of the entire asset lifecycle. From sourcing and procurement through capitalization, financial and operations management and write-off, out-of-the-box enterprise integration links all business functions for complete asset visibility and control.
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BI/Data Warehousing/EPMBusiness intelligence, knowledge management, data mining, analytics: what does it all mean? What does it have to do with my data warehouse and databases? Today you have to do more than tune your data warehouse. You have to start at the beginning with the design, work through to the deployment, and keep it tuned for peak performance. Plus, you need to make the most of that stored data by analyzing it and using it to give your company a competitive advantage. Business intelligence has moved beyond the data warehouse to access other data sources; learn how BI is helping companies make the right decisions. This track examines the growth of business intelligence and the partnership with data warehousing to make the most of your key data sources.
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Customer Relationship Management
The customer is always right, so you need to be right about your customers. Creating profitable, loyal customers is the ultimate goal of customer relationship management (CRM) – customers who will continue to buy from you when a competitive alternative exists. Gain insight and guidance from your peers who are setting the standard for customercentric business transformations.
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Database
The Oracle relational database continues to evolve to include more new features, and as a result, has become even more complicated. On top of all the daily challenges of maintaining a high performance database, now you have to be sure the data are available 24x7 and compatible with other systems. This track is designed to provide DBAs of every experience level and industry with the tools to productively and creatively administer your data.
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Development
Working in application development means learning an alphabet soup of languages and performing a balancing act between Web-based, wireless and client/server applications. What will give you the edge to create successful applications? Do you use the Oracle suite of tools, or do you need to look for something that you can integrate? And how will your applications be used? With wireless technology? Through a portal? Will your forms and reports be used on an intranet or on the Internet? This track covers the topics that surround the development and deployment of your applications.
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Executive
Wouldn’t it be easier to be an executive if we could erase the recent shenanigans of others in the business world and turn the economy around? It takes more vision, more innovation, more direction, and more elbow grease than ever for executives to surmount these challenges – and produce more with less. Despite what you may read in the financial pages, there are plenty of reasons for optimism in today’s business climate as the economy begins to rebound. The COLLABORATE Executive Track provides the inspiration and know-how you need to rediscover the value of business fundamentals while continuing to investigate new systems, processes, strategies, and markets.
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Financial Management
Financial Management provides the regimen needed to maintain the health and well-being of an organization. This track covers the systems and processes that enable efficient operations and support strong internal financial controls.
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Governance Risk and Compliance
Governance Risk and Compliance is not just about business controls that legislation requires. It makes sound business sense to protect your reputation, remain competitive, ensure your staff follows your business processes and control your business finances, in addition to any legislation or industry requirements. Follow this track if you are affected by government regulations or industry requirements, or you want to improve your management of business risk and enable your organization to operate more effectively.
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Human Capital Management
In the face of brutal competition, leaders must drive superior levels of efficiency and performance throughout their operations. This track discusses how Human Capital Management can be employed to create a direct line of sight between key objectives and workforce performance, improving operating and financial results.
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Infrastructure Technologies
As a technology professional, you have the ability to guide a company's direction. Part of your evolving responsibilities includes implementing best practices and understanding viable future technologies. Your knowledge will help lead discussions to apply technology to the changing needs of the business. This track covers the information you need to participate in your company's infrastructure decisions surrounding the database environment. Topics focus on an enterprise scope when dealing with networks, hardware, middleware, backup strategies, disaster recovery, data management and technology trends.
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Manufacturing
In order to compete in the manufacturing arena companies must deal with the pressures of globalization, increasing supply chain complexity and increasing customer expectations. Learn how different companies are gaining a competitive edge by building responsive and lean manufacturing organizations.
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Master Data Management/Application Integration
Master Data Management consolidates and maintains complete, accurate and authoritative master data across the enterprise and distributes this master information to all operational and analytical applications as a shared service.
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Project and Portfolio Management
Learn about applications that enable organizations to plan, select and manage projects and programs across the enterprise. Whether in IT, delivering professional services, constructing a bridge, launching a global advertising campaign or driving efficiencies around business processes, today more than ever, project portfolio management (PPM) is at the very core of business operations. This focus area will help you leverage PPM into strategic advantage via visibility and control into all stages of the project lifecycle and by driving transparency into business decisions.
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Professional Development
It's not enough these days to just know how to tune a database or build a Web page. You need to have all the skills to stand out in the sea of IT professionals and to move ahead. Skills like risk analysis, project management, determining return on investment, resolving conflicts and team building are just as valuable in the work place. This focus area highlights the other professional and personal skills you need to get ahead and to advance your career.
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Sales Order Fulfillment
Sales Order Fulfillment applications streamline and automate the entire sales order management process, from order promising and order capture to transportation and shipment. It captures multi-channel demand, including EDI, XML, telesales and web storefronts. Business benefits include reduced fulfillment costs, reduced order fulfillment cycle time and improved order accuracy and on-time delivery.
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Supplier Relationship Management and Procurement
Supplier Relationship Management is the integrated suite of procurement applications that dramatically cut all supply management costs. Enterprise SRM reduces spend on goods and services, streamlines procure-to-pay processes and drives policy compliance.
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Supply Chain Planning
When a performance-driven approach is applied to a manufacturing-based enterprise, an effective, streamlined supply chain takes center stage. These enterprises focus on performance-enhancing initiatives that let them reduce inventories and operational costs and improve customer service through better, timelier product availability. Such nearflawless execution is a result of having crystal-clear visibility into the supply chain to identify problems early and make real-time adjustments to supply chain processes.
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Utility Customer Applications
Proven software applications that help utilities achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle’s industryleading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware and database technologies. Customers are enabled to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands, and deliver on commitments to environmental conservation.
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Why COLLABORATE?
As a speaker of the IOUG Forum, you'll also receive access to additional education and events presented by the COLLABORATE 10 co-hosts, the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest), providing you the opportunity to:
- COLLABORATE with thousands of Oracle users to share success stories, challenges and solutions for Oracle technology and applications.
- LEARN from experts and leaders in the Oracle community from more than 900 education sessions by the IOUG, OAUG and Quest, presenting best practices and tested solutions.
- DISCOVER technology solutions and strategies with access to more than 250 of the leading IT solution providers exhibiting in one open forum.
- GAIN inside information and insight from Oracle leadership and technology visionaries, and leverage our users groups' collective voice to Oracle.