| Date / Time | Group | Topic | Location | Sponsor |
| 1/17/2008 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm |
Technology Forum | Oracle Performance Tips and Tricks – 5-7 pm – different time than usual!, Oracle building, Las Colinas – Cary Millsap, Hotsos | Oracle Corp. Las Colinas |  |
| 2/1/2008 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm |
Applications Forum | Release 12 Focus on Financials @ The SMU Legacy Campus in Plano, TX – Alyssa Johnson, Solution Beacon | SMU Legacy Campus, Plano TX |  |
| 2/7/2008 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM |
Business Intelligence & Fusion Middleware | Oracle Fusion Middleware, Fusion Applications and 11g Release 5PM-7PM, Oracle Building – Las Colinas – Jason Oglesby, Applied Technology SC, Oracle Corporation | Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX |  |
| 2/21/2008 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm |
Technology Forum | Oracle – The Foundation for Legacy Modernization, Oracle building, Las Colinas – Ron Gray, Oracle
Embedded Databases: TimesTen, Berkeley and Oracle Lite – Thomas Simonson, Oracle
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Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX |  |
| 2/21/2008 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm |
CIO Peer Group | 1st CIO Peer Group Event. Dinner by invitation only. – Tony Reed, CPA, PMP author: The Achievement Equation
Talent Management: your career and your organization – David Hebert, Sr Advisor, The Hackett Group
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Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse |   |
| 3/7/2008 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Applications Forum | Pay for Performance – An Introduction to Oracle’s Compensation Workbench. – Gaurav Bansal, President of Evolveaid, an Oracle HCM consulting firm | SMU Legacy Campus, Plano TX |  |
| 3/13/2008 08:00 am to 11:00 am |
CIO Peer Group | CIO Peer Group: Executive Breakfast: “Business value impact of IT” Hackett Sr Advisor – Bruce Kelly, The Hackett Group Sr. Business Advisor | Four Season’s Hotel, Irving TX | |
| 3/13/2008 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM |
Business Intelligence & Fusion Middleware | Visual Representation of Geo Data using Oracle MapViewer – Jim Healer, Senior Oracle Consultant, Enkitec
Rapid Web Development Using Grails – Scott Walter, Senior Technical Architect, Perficient
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Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX |  |
| 3/20/2008 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Technology Forum | Oracle VM, Oracle building, Las Colinas – Oracle Corporation | Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX | |
| 4/10/2008 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM |
Business Intelligence & Fusion Middleware | “Oracle Application Integration Architecture – Building Composite Business Processes On A Service Oriented Architecture” – Jill Jennings, Principal Regional Sales Consultant, Oracle Corporation
“Deploying a High Availability Oracle SOA Infrastructure” – Shriram Subramanian, Director Oracle FMW Practice, Perficient
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Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX |  |
| 4/12/2008 0:0 to 0:0 |
National Event | Collaborate 08 Denver April 12-18, 2008 in Denver Colorado – | Denver, CO |  OAUG & Quest |
| 4/17/2008 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Technology Forum | 11g New Features for DBAs and Developers, Oracle building, Las Colinas – Charles Kim, Novara, and Sam Alapati, DBA, Boy Scouts of America | Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX | |
| 5/2/2008 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm |
Applications Forum | Application Integration Architecture (AIA) in action – Rob McMillen, Triora Group | Room 422, SMU Legacy Campus, Plano, TX |  |
| 5/2/2008 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm |
Apps Forum | Application Data Growth Management – Farhan Mohammad | Room 422, SMU Legacy Campus, Plano, TX |  |
| 5/15/2008 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Technology Forum | Oracle Unbreakable Linux – Thor Nolen, Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle Corporation
11g New Features – A Developer’s Perspective – Ricky Burke, Independent Consultant
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Oracle Corp. Las Colinas | |
| 6/6/2008 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM |
Apps Forum | Considerations for Multi-National Rollout of Oracle Financials – Jim Canning | 222 West Las Colinas Blvd, Ste 1007, Irving, TX 75039 |  |
| 6/12/2008 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM |
Business Intelligence & Fusion Middleware | “Deploying a High Availability Oracle SOA Infrastructure” – Shriram Subramanian, Director-Oracle FMW Practice, Perficient
“Introduction to BEA AquaLogic Toolset & Speculation on the Future” – Scott Cote & Chris DeBracy- Sr. Architects, Perficient FMW Practice, Perficient
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Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX | |
| 6/19/2008 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Technology Forum | Security-O-Rama: Annoy Snoops, Thwart Hackers, Protect Your Data! – Oracle Corporation | Oracle Corp. Las Colinas |  |
| 6/26/2008 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM |
DOUG Members and New Members | Membership Drive Party | Blue Mesa Grill Addison | |
| 7/10/2008 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM |
Business Intelligence & Fusion Middleware | Getting Coherence: Introduction to Data Grids – Randall Rhea from Oracle | Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX | |
| 7/17/2008 4:00 to 6:00 |
Technology Forum | Multi-topic: Portal Development/Portal Demos/Monitoring the Oracle Application Server/Performance Tuning for Developers – Tim Fox, Enkitec | Oracle Building | |
| 8/7/2008 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM |
Business Intelligence & Fusion Middleware | Improving collaboration effectiveness by extending Oracle environments into S&OP off-line planning processes. – Andres Arce, Enterprise Account Executive, BoardwalkTech, Inc.
EPM Roadmap – John Hernandez, Oracle
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Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX | BoardwalkTech, Inc. |
| 8/8/2008 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Apps Forum | Common pitfalls in implementing and maintaining an OAB system – Gaurav Bansal | Oracle building in Las Colinas, 222 West Las Colinas Blvd, Room 1007, Irving, TX 75039 | |
| 8/8/2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM |
Apps Forum | Demantra Presentation from Oracle – | Oracle building in Las Colinas, 222 West Las Colinas Blvd, Room 1007, Irving, TX 75039 | |
| 8/21/2008 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Technology Forum | Tuning the Oracle Grid ** RSVP required – different venue: University of Dallas/Irving ** – Rich Niemiec, TUSC | University of Dallas (Irving), Gorman Lecture Hall, Room A |  |
| 9/4/2008 08:00 am to 10:30 am |
DOUG – UTD Intelligent Supply Network Series | UTD Intelligent Supply Network – Procurement for the 21st Centure. Procurement Comes of Age – Trends, Challenges and Procurement Capability Model – Cris Sawchuck, The Hackett Group Sr Business Advisor
Oracle Supply Chain Applications: today’s features, business benefits and Oracle Procurement Road Map. Case study and Lessons Learned – Wes Arnold, Oracle Sr. Sales Consultant and Saeed Mogharabi, VP Enterprise Solutions, Dibon Solutions
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UTD Campus, Plano TX | |
| 9/11/2008 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM |
Business Intelligence & Fusion Middleware | BEA and Oracle Product Integration Strategy – Shari White, Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle | Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX | |
| 9/18/2008 4:00 to 6:00 |
Technology Forum | Current Trends/Products for Backup and Recovery, Oracle building, Las Colinas – Oracle Corporation | Oracle Building, Las Colinas TX | |
| 9/21/2008 0:0 to 0:0 |
National Event | September 21-25, 2008: Oracle Open World 2008 in San Francisco, CA – | Moscone Center, San Francisco CA | |
| 10/3/2008 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Apps Forum | Proactive Risk and Compliance Strategies for Uncertain Times – | Oracle building; 222 West Las Colinas Blvd , Room 1007, Irving TX 75039 | |
| 10/3/2008 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Apps Forum | Characterizing Workload for the Oracle E-Business Suite – Larry Klein, Hotsos | 222 West Las Colinas Blvd, Ste 1007, Irving, TX 75039 |  |
| 10/9/2008 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM |
Business Intelligence & Fusion Middleware | Oracle’s EPM Roadmap – John Hernandez, Oracle
Oracle Identity Management – Jill Jennings, Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle
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Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX | |
| 10/12/2008 7:30 am to 1:00 pm |
Enterprise Mobility Series | TENTATIVE 1/2 day Enterprise Mobility Series: Verizon Industry update, Enterprise Solutions and demos – Industry Experts and Corporate Users | Verizon Wireless Training Center, Lewisville TX |  |
| 10/16/2008 4:00 to 6:00 |
Technology Forum | 11g Performance-specific New Features; RAC Performance Myths, Oracle building, Las Colinas – Riyaj Shamsudeen, Oracle DBA, Pythian | Oracle Building, Las Colinas TX | |
| 11/13/2008 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM |
Business Intelligence & Fusion Middleware Forum | Social Media – Part 1: How do we know it works? – Shanti Mangala, Sr. Solutions Architect, Perficient
Integrating Oracle EPM System, Fusion Edition with Your Data Warehouse Strategy – Ed Roske, CEO, interRel Consulting
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Oracle Building, Las Colinas TX |
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| 11/20/2008 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Technology Forum | Product Announcement: Query Processing Revolutionized – James Brienski, Senior Directory, BI/DW, Oracle Corporation
VLDB (Very Large Databases) and ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) – Oracle Corporation
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Oracle Corp. Las Colinas – Urban Towers Conference Room – ground floor | |
| 12/4/2008 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM |
DOUG Members and New Members | DOUG Holiday Party | Blues Mesa Grill Addison | |