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OUG Scotland Conference & Exhibition 2008


 

The OUG Scotland Conference & Exhibition 2008 will be held at the Radisson Hotel, Glasgow on Wednesday 8th October 2008.

Following the success of the OUG Scotland Conference & Exhibition 2007 this year's event is expected to be event bigger with over 250 delegates and eight Exhibitors.

This year we will run five parallel streams to include Oracle Technology DBA, Technology Developer, Applications, Business Intelligence along with the added bonus of a Partner stream. The presentations included in the agenda will be presented from senior Oracle speakers, customers and Partners.

The evening drinks reception will enable you to network with your peers as well as enjoying a few free drinks.

The Exhibition will include key Oracle partners and suppliers of Oracle related products and services and will be open to delegates throughout the day.

For a PDF version of the agenda please Click here

09.15 – 10.00

Registration and Coffee

10.00 – 10.10

Welcome and Introduction

Thomas Presslie, OUG Scotland Chairman

10.10 – 10.25

Our future together

Stephen Gold, Vice President, Key Accounts - Technology 

10.25 – 10.30

5 minutes to change into streams

Sessions/Streams

Applications Stream

Developer Stream

DBA Stream

Business Intelligence Stream

Partner Stream

 

 

10.30 – 11.15
SESSION 1      

  

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting for Projects - Our Graphical Solutions

Robert Scriven, Cairn Energy

Visual Data Modelling with Oracle SQL Developer

Sue Harper, Oracle

Understanding Advance Queuing

Julian Dyke, Julian Dyke.com

What's in OWB 11GR2

 

Nathalie Nunn, Oracle

Data Quality - The critical success factor for Enterprise Intelligence

Lisa Dobson, SolStonePlus

  11.15 – 11.35

Tea and Coffee Break

 

 

11.35 – 12.20
SESSION 2

Recipe for a Successful upgrade to R12

Fiona Martin, IBM

What would Jack do? 24 tips on how to survive Oracle Portal

Stefan Heumann, Sopra Group

An Introduction to ASM and ZFS

Jason Arneil, Nominet

Spreadsheets! Who needs them? We now have the SQL Model Clause 

David Martland, Britannia Building Society

Best Practices for your Oracle spreadsheet environment

Mark Gray, Global Software

 12.20 – 12.25

Five minute interchange

 

 

12.25 – 13.10
SESSION 3

 

How Scottish Natural Heritage implemented HR on top of their Oracle E-Business Suite financials implementation

Patrick Haston and Evelyn McKeand, Scottish Natural Heritage

 

Entry Points into SOA

Mark Simpson, Griffiths Waite

Is Oracle smarter than your DBA?

Niall Litchfield, Maxima

 

The truth about Analytic Apps - an answer to the problem of getting BI out of your corporate applications

Dermot Murray, Maxima

 

Where next for Oracle Fusion Middleware?

Martin Percival, Oracle

 13.10 – 14.00

Lunch

 

 

14.00 – 14.45
SESSION 4

 

Managing E-Business Suite Configuration using ConfigSnapshot

Robert Brentnall, Configuration and Release Manager and Andy Harriss, 2e2

Adventures in APEX - Development experiences

 

Pete Williamson, Standard Life

 

Is my backup (re)covered?

Piet De Visser, LogicaCMG UK

 

Discoverer Delivers

Debra Lilley, Fujitsu

Towards a green workforce

Ramesh Menon, Tata Consultancy Services  

 14.45 – 15.00

Tea

 

 

15.00 – 15.45
SESSION 5

Telecommunication Service Ordering - MACD enchancements in R12

Doug Toop, Inatech

How to generate web services from Oracle Forms business logic and data access layers

Peter Sechser, PITSS

Make life easier with Grid Control

James Anthony, Oracle

Real-time BI Dashboards with APEX

Andrew Archibald, inOApps

What's the latest in Fusion?

Debra Lilley, UKOUG Director   

 15.45 – 16.00

 AOB and close in stream

 16.00 – 18.00

 Networking Reception

 

 

UKOUG would like to thank the OUG Scotland Conference and Exhibition sponsors: Oracle, SolStonePlus, Tata and Global Software Inc. 

Please click on the logos below to read more about them.

                           
         

 

 

This event is managed by Aimee Kimerling, please contact her at: aimee@ukoug.org for further information

Information at SIGs is presented for member's best exploitation and use, in respect of their investment in Oracle and related technologies. This therefore may be sensitive in nature. In order to preserve this benefit for members, the UKOUG requests that this information is utilised for this purpose only.

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