2004 Events

Applications Forum and Business Intelligence Focus Group
Date Topic Location
April 20, 2004 Join us for the 1st DOUG ApplicationsForum Group Meeting SMU in Legacy Campus
August 5, 2004 BI Meeting: Reggie Nitcher, Lead Architect on a 10 terabyte data warehouse for Caremark, will present on data cleansing and data quality using tools from FirstLogic and Informatica
Sanjay Mishra, Director Internal Systems at Handango, will present a case study of drastic performance tuning.		 SMU in Legacy Campus
September 30,2004 BI Panel discussion with Oracle DBA’s on performance, tuning and loading challenges associated with large databases.
4:30-6:00p		 SMU in Legacy Campus
October 21, 2004 Oracle Applications Day. Westin Galleria
December 2, 2004 BI Meeting: Customer/Vendor Case Study Joint Presentation by: David Akina of Trinity Industries and Shannon Mayfield, Noetix
Business Intelligence Options for Oracle Applications Customers by Mike Spencer, Jaros Technologies Partner.		 SMU in Legacy Campus
February , 2005 05 BI Meeting: Presentation #1: By Kyle Foster of Decision Point Software
Presentation #2: By Rodney Cole of CLD Solutions		 SMU in Legacy Campus

 

Special Events
Date Topic Location
April 21, 2004 In conjunction with DOUG, SMU’s Advanced Computer Education Center will host a CIO Panel. Join us for a lively discussion with some of Dallas’ industry leading companies including:

  • Howard Moore – CIO, EADS Telecom (Airbus sister company)
  • Bertrand Petit – CIO, Rexel USA
  • Sheldon Arora – CEO, Esoftsolutions
 SMU in Legacy Campus
April 23, 2004 OAUG/Solution Beacon Road to Orlando
June 24, 2004 Membership Drive Summer Mixer: Thank you to our sponsors: Oracle       EADS Telecom   and G.F. Prime – The newest Hot Spot in Dallas.
Over 100 members had fun, enjoyed the buffet and blue martinis!
December16, 2004 Holiday Party 5pm-9pm:  Sponsors are welcome to join Oracle  ,  Keste  and G.F. Prime –

DOUG Monthly Meeting  
Date Topic Location
1/15/2004 Oracle 10g: SQL New Features – Sanjay Mishra, I2 dba Lead (coauthor of Mastering Oracle SQL, Oracle SQL Loader: The Definitive Guide, Oracle Parallel Processing)

Oracle 10g: Oracle Enterprise Manager deep dive – Ron Gray, Oracle Corp. Database Solutions and Team
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
2/19/2004 Essential IT Considerations for Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Have you met your Certification requirements? – Adil Khan, Fulcrum Information Technology

How to meet the Sarbanes-Oxley challenge with Oracle Collaboration Suite – Errol Conor, Oracle Corp. Solutions Architect
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
3/18/2004 Part 1: Oracle Application Server 10g – An Evolution to the Grid – Jill Jennings, Oracle Corp. Solutions Architect

Part 2: Managing Oracle Application Server 10g – An Evolution to the Internet – Jill Jennings, Oracle Corp. Solutions Architect
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
4/15/2004 “Let the Oracle speak” Interactive Voice Response for Oracle Applications. – Ricky Burke, Sr. Oracle dba, DISD

Powerful applications out of thin air! Experience ERP in the Palm of you hand. – EADS Telecom CIO, Howard Moore and team: John Reeder, Srirama Ayyeppen
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
5/20/2004 Are you buying this? Oracle Sourcing for your entire buying process. – Rodney Hauth, Sr. Sales Consultant, Supply Chain Applications, Oracle Corp

10g new feature – HTML DB The “Centralized” Personal Database Environment – Mark Musser and Ron Gray, Sr. Solutions Architect, Oracle Corp.
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
6/17/2004 Post Upgrade Support in the Release 11i World – Peter Adamson / John Stouffer, SolutionBeacon

ERP Project Control Strategies: Saving Your ROI with ACM – Allan Hooks – Cover article for the Summer 2004 OAUG Insight Magazine and Keith Conn, InternextGroup
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
7/15/2004 The Revolution in Database Backup & Recovery – Mark Jumaga, President and CTO, Database Appliances

Advanced Index Topics: covers the Oracle Index Internal Structures and performance issues that plague all database engines: the relationship between Index leaf blocks and the data blocks they point to. Covers 9i and 10g index-related parameter settings – Dan Hotka, Author/Instructor/Oracle db Expert
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
8/19/2004 RFID Technology Defined – Current and Future Impact on Your Business! – Dan Kubala, ClearOrbit, Director of Marketing

How will the new financial transactions standards affect you? – Susan Colles, VP Global Treasury Services, Bank of America
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
9/16/2004
Secure Documents in Oracle: How Business Information Delivery can provide a 90 day ROI and reduce your costs by 90%. – Jasen W.T. Judd, MBA, Captaris Solutions Consultant – Vector ESP
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
10/21/2004 NOW part of Oracle Applications Day at the Westin Galleria. Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
11/18/2004 Physical/Logical Standby Databases with 11i Finapps – Learn how to implement a standby database with your 11i system – Adam Janbolat, Principal, DBA4aDAY

An Introduction to Oracle Wait Interface – Kirtikumar Deshpande, Sr Oracle DBA, Verizon Information Services
 Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX
12/16/2004 HOLIDAY PARTY 5pm-9pm G.F. Prime Steackhouse & Bar Oracle Corporation
Las Colinas, TX