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IOUG Forum Education
The IOUG Forum education will be categorized into the following education tracks. Click the links below to learn more about what will be covered in each of the IOUG Forum tracks.
Architecture
As a technology professional, you have the ability to guide a company's direction. Part of your evolving responsbilities include implementing 'best practices', understanding viable future technologies. Your knowledge will help lead discussions to apply technology to the changing needs of business. This track will cover the information you need to participate in your company's architecture and infrastructure decisions surrounding the database environment. Topics will focus on an enterprise scope when dealing with networks, hardware, backup strategies, disaster recovery, data management, and technology trends. Subcategories include:
- Technology Strategic Directions
- Design/configuration (hardware, storage, network)
- Oracle Upcoming Architecture Features
- Network Connectivity
- Enterprise Integration (Function, Data)
- Clustering and High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Enterprise Security (e.g. Firewall, LDAP, hardening best-practices techniques)
- Tool evaluations (Oracle and third party)
- Operating systems
- Best practices
- Data Modeling (e.g. CAD, UML)
- Case studies
- Enterprise backup/Disaster recovery
- Data Archiving
Business Intelligence/Warehousing
Business 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 design and work wthough to the deployment, then 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. Subcategories include:
- 11g Features
- Best Practices
- Business Intelligence (e.g. BI Publisher)
- Data Warehousing
- OLAP (e.g. cube creation, deployment, management)
- Data Mining (e.g. Oracle Data Miner and Real Time Decisioning)
- Data Integration (e.g. ETL, Warehouse Builder, Oracle Data Integrator)
- Data Analysis (e.g. Analytic (OLAP) Applications, SQL Analytic Functions)
- Performance Tuning (e.g. Large Objects, Indexing, Partitioning, Query Rewrite)
- Reporting (e.g. Discoverer, Excel)
- Corporate Performance Management
- Data Visualization
- Information Lifecycle Management
- Master Data Management (e.g. Data Hubs)
- Tool Evaluations (Oracle and third party)
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 of 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. Subcategories include:
- Applications Administration (e.g. PeopleSoft, SAP, Cerner, LifeSciences)
- 11g features
- Backup/Recovery
- Connectivity
- Streams/Replications
- Virtualization (e.g. VMWare)
- Operating Systems (e.g. shell scripting)
- Installation/Migration/Upgrade
- Performance/Tuning
- RDBMS Internals
- Data Security
- Tool Evaluations (Oracle and third party)
- Clustering (e.g. RAC)
- Best practices
- Monitoring/Administration (e.g. OEM, Grid Control, Diagnostics)
- Data Management (e.g. ASM, ILM, Flashback)
- Regulatory Compliance (e.g. Auditing)
Development
Working in application development means you need to know an alphabet soup of languages and need to be able to perform a balancing act between the middle-tier and web-based applications. What will give you the edge to create successful applications? Do you use Oracle's suite of tools or do you need to look for something that you can integrate? Most importantly, how will your applications be used - with wireless technology, through a portal? Will your forms and reports be used on an intranet or the internet? This track will answer all of your questions while cover the topics that surround the development and deployment of your applications. Subcategories include:
- Connectivity (e.g. JDBC, ODBC, Wireless)
- Application Express
- Service Oriented Architecture
- 11g Features
- Configuration Management/Version Control
- Performance Tuning
- Database Programming (e.g. SQL, PL/SQL, SQLPlus)
- Security
- Tool evaluations (e.g. SQL Developer, TOAD, JDeveloper, WebCenter, Eclipse)
- Frameworks (e.g. ADF, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, Struts)
- Testing/Quality Assurance
- Best practices
- Virtualization (e.g. VMWare)
- Application Developments (e.g. PeopleSoft, SAP, Cerner, LifeSciences)
- Web Development (e.g. Java, XML, .NET, BPEL, JSF, Web Services, PHP, Spring)
Middleware
Getting more out of what you already have enables your company to operate, adapt and expand their business. It is now the norm for applications to deliver content via web browsers and to get the information from the database we need to exploit application servers. This is the skill you must have in today's explanding information architecture and Oracle Application Server (Fusion Middleware) is an expanding technology that you will need to control within your company and system architecture. This track will help you deliver and secure your information as well as configure, utilize, and tune the power of the application server. Subcategories include:
- Administration (e.g. Clusters, Application Server)
- 11g AS upcoming features
- Backup/Recovery
- Connectivity
- Features/New Features (e.g. AS 10g, 3 rd Party)
- Content Management (e.g. Stellent, Portal)
- Service Oriented Architecture (e.g. SOA Suite)
- Hardware configuration (e.g. load balancing)
- Installation/Configuration/Migration/Upgrade
- Internals
- Performance Tuning
- Integration Process (BPEL) and Data (Data Integrator)
- Programming (e.g. Java, PL/SQL, JSP, XML, HTML, BPEL, AJAX, Web Services)
- Security
- Tool Evaluations (Oracle and third party)
- Identity Management (e.g. SSO, OID, LDAP)
- Best practices
Professional Development
To become the complete Oracle technology professional it is not enough to just know how to tune a database or build a web page. You also need to have ALL the soft skills to stand out in the sea of IT professionals and to move ahead and up in your career. Skills like risk analysis, project management, determining return on investment, resolving conflicts and team-building are just as valuable in the work place as knowing the ins and outs of technology. This track highlights the other professional skills you need to get ahead to advance your IT career. Subcategories include:
- Certification (e.g. OCP, PMI)
- Project Management
- Team Building
- Training
- Mentoring
- Personal Skills
- Risk Analysis
- Communication Skills
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