2007 Events

Date / Time Group Topic Location Sponsor
1/12/2007
4:00 pm TO
6:00 pm
BI Forum, Applications Forum Bridging the Gap Between Business and IT: the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing challenge. Luncheon @SMU Legacy 12noon-2pm in Plano – David Fenton, BI Strategist, Zensar Technologies

Chart of Accounts Change without Re-implementing! A Case Study of a $3.5 B Global Software Entertainment Company – Suhas Vaze, Sr Financial Consultant, Chartered Accountant from Zensar Technologies
SMU Legacy Campus Zensar Technologies
2/15/2007
4:00 pm TO
6:00 pm
Technology Forum Tuning Oracle9i/10g using Statspack & AWR – meeting RSVP STRONGLY ENCOURAGED – Rich Niemiec, CEO, TUSC Oracle Corp. Irving TX TUSC
3/2/2007
4:00 pm TO
6:00 pm
Applications Forum Oracle UPK (User Productivity Kit) Hands-on-Lab and Workshop – Jennifer Mazza and Beth Renstrom from Oracle SMU Legacy Campus Oracle
3/9/2007
11:30 am TO
2:00 pm
Business Intelligence Forum BI Forum: An Intro to Oracle 10 G OLAP: – Ratan Vakil,

Part 2 “Bridging the Gap Between Business and IT” Thoughts and lessons learned from local manufacturers – David Fenton, BI Strategist, Zensar Technologies
SMU Legacy Campus Zensar Technologies
3/15/2007
4:00 pm TO
6:00 pm
Technology Forum Tuning Workshop – Cary Millsap, Oracle Magazine 2005 Author of the Year – Hotsos Oracle Corp. Irving TX Hotsos
4/13/2007
11:30 am TO
2:00 pm
Business Intelligence Forum BI Forum: Intro to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition & OBI Application:  Joel Gremillion, Oracle BI Team SMU Legacy Campus Oracle
4/19/2007
4:00 pm TO
6:00 pm
Technology Forum Oracle 11g Database New Features – Linda Smith, Oracle Oracle Corp. Irving TX TEKsystems
5/4/2007
11:30 am TO
2:00 pm
Applications Forum Accounting Setup Manager in Release 12 – Jason Rapisand from Lucidity Consulting Group SMU Legacy Campus Lucidity Consulting
5/11/2007
11:30 am TO
2:00 pm
Applications Forum Oracle BI Enterprise Edition w/ DBI & EPM: Joel Gremillion, Oracle BI Team SMU Legacy Campus, Dallas TX Oracle
5/17/2007
12:00 PM TO
2:00 PM
Applications Forum How to Become an Oracle Applications DBA – Special Panel, Including John Stouffer, Solution Beacon; Mike Towery, KnightWorks Consulting Oracle Corp, Irving TX Solution Beacon
5/22/2007
8:15 AM TO
10:00 PM
Supply Chain Series Supply Chain Series: UTD and Zensar present Cisco Systems Case Study  on “Demantra implementation and Supply Chain Management Excellence” – Salil Amonkar, Zensar Manufacturing Practice Head (Past Director of Operations, Cisco Systems)

Supply Chain Excellence… a practitioner’s view – Salil Amonkar, Zensar Manufacturing Practice Head (Past Director of Operations, Cisco Systems)
UTD Plano Campus, TX Zensar
6/8/2007
12:00 PM TO
2:00 PM
Business Intelligence BI Forum: Hyperion Acquisition, issues/opportunities, conversion Case Study Exologic Corp – Thomas Fimiani, Founder, Exologic Corp SMU Legacy Campus, Dallas TX Exologic
6/20/2007
8:00 am TO
5:00 pm
Supply Chain Series UTD 1 day RFID event ($100 discount for DOUG members) – Practioners from Wal-Mart, Neiman Marcus etc… UTD Plano Campus, TX UTD Intelligent Supply Networks
6/20/2007
5:00 pm TO
9:00 pm
Special Event DOUG Membership Drive at Blue Mesa Grill Blue Mesa Oracle
6/21/2007
4:00 PM TO
6:00 PM
Technology Forum The Latest in Oracle Application Server Technology – Tim Fox, Principal Consultant, Enkitec Oracle Corp, Irving TX Enkitec
7/17/2007
8:00 am TO
5:00 pm
Business Intelligence Forum Data Warehouse 2.0 – 3 day Certification with Bill Inmon and Dereck Strauss. July 17th-18th-19th, 2007 – For Certified Architect list see www.inmondatesystems.com SMU Legacy Campus, Dallas TX DOUG & Bill Inmon Data Systems & Teksystems
7/19/2007
4:00 PM TO
6:00 PM
Technology Forum Oracle10g: Behind the Scenes of Flashback Technology – Kirti Deshande, Sr DBA – Architect

Fusion Middleware – Shari White, Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corp, Irving TX TEKsystems
8/3/2007
11:30 am TO
2:00 pm
Applications Forum Apps Forum: Integrating Discoverer 10.1.2 with Oracle E- Business Suite 11i. SMU Legacy Campus TX Lucidity Consulting
8/10/2007
12:00 PM TO
2:00 PM
Business Intelligence Forum BI Forum: “10 Deadly Sins of BI” Presented by Oracle Partner Metricsphere SMU Legacy Campus, Dallas TX Metricsphere
8/16/2007
4:00 pm TO
6:00 pm
Technology Forum Database Vault/Audit Vault – Linda Smith, Solution Architect, Oracle Corporation Oracle Corp, Irving TX TekSystems
9/11/2007
8:00 am TO
5:00 pm
Technology Forum IOUG 1 day BootCamp with Tom Kyte! – Tom Kyte, Oracle VP, and askTom from Oracle Magazine SMU Legacy Campus, Dallas TX DOUG & IOUG
9/14/2007
12:00 PM TO
2:00 PM
Business Intelligence Forum BI Forum: “How Oracle BI Gave My Weekends Back” – Jon Gerush, American Heart Association and Aaron Stutsman, eVerge Group SMU Legacy Campus, Dallas TX eVerge Group
9/17/2007
8:00 am TO
5:00 pm
Applications Forum Applications Forum: SCOAUG Training Day co-sponsored with DOUG – Check www.scoaug.org for details Westin Park Central SCOAUG & DOUG
9/20/2007
4:00 PM TO
6:00 PM
Technology Forum Myths & Misconceptions about redo, undo, commit and rollback / Tools and techniques for advanced debugging in Unix/Solaris environments – Riyaj Shamsudeen, DBA, Cingular Oracle Corp, Irving TX TekSystems
10/12/2007
12:00 pm TO
2:00 pm
Business Intelligence Forum BI Forum: “Oracle Analytical Workspace Manager and OBI EE”  – Cathye Pendley & Mark Thompson, Vlamis Software Solutions SMU Legacy Campus, Dallas TX Vlamis Software Solutions
10/18/2007
4:00 PM TO
6:00 PM
Technology Forum Oracle10g Streams: Data Replication Made Easy – Kirti Deshpande, Oracle books author Oracle Corp, Irving TX TekSystems
11/2/2007
12:00 pm TO
2:00 pm
Applications Forum Applications Forum: Oracle Corp – Applications Roadmap update – Oracle consultant SMU Legacy Campus, Dallas TX Oracle
11/15/2007
4:00 PM TO
6:00 PM
Technology Forum Oracle OpenWorld in Review – Linda Smith, Solution Architect, Oracle Corporation Oracle Corp, Irving TX TekSystems
11/29/2007
5:00 pm TO
9:00 pm
Special Event Doug Holiday Party Blue Mesa Grill Blue Mesa Oracle, Keste…
12/11/2007
8:15 am TO
10:00 pm
Supply Chain Series Wireless Solutions for Transportation and Distribution Industries – Saeed Mogharabi, PhD

UTD Plano Campus, TX Dibons Solutions
12/14/2007
12:00 PM TO
2:00 PM
Business Intelligence Forum BI Forum: Oracle BI Customer Success Story – Presented by local Oracle BI Partner: MetricSphere Consultant SMU Legacy Campus, Dallas TX Metricsphere Solutions