Date / Time |
Group |
Topic |
Location |
Sponsor |
1/15/2009
04:00 pm to
06:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
Tracing: How to communicate about Oracle performance among DBAs, Developers, and Users – Cary Millsap, President, Method-R
UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS (in Irving), Gorman Lecture Center, Room A. –
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University of Dallas (in Irving), Gorman Lecture Center, Room A |
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2/19/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
AWR Analysis – Kapil Goyal, Principal DBA (Performance Group), Fidelity Investments
RAC Overview for Dummies – Oracle Corporation
|
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX |
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3/6/2009
12:00 PM to
1:30 PM |
Applications Forum |
Accounts Payable Process Automation – Business reasons, financial benefits, lessons learned (a case study) – Zahid Khalid. Managing Partner of The Hardstone Group |
Oracle Building; 222 Las Colinas Blvd W, Suite 1000, Irving, TX 75039 |
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3/12/2009
04:00 pm to
06:00 pm |
BI Forum |
Hyperion Interactive Reporting: Cube Query Against Essbase – Vince Tran, interRel Consulting |
Oracle Corp. – Las Colinas, TX |
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3/12/2009
4:00 PM to
6:00 PM |
Fusion Middleware Forum |
Implementing Oracle Identity Management Using External Authentication Plug-In – Dinesh Gupta, Manager, Centroid Systems |
Oracle Corp. – Las Colinas, TX |
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3/19/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
The Journey to 11g: All About Getting Upgraded – Sales Engineer – Oracle Corporation |
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX |
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4/2/2009
8:30 am to
11:30 am |
Applications Forum Technology Forum |
Oracle Technology Solutions Fair -Oracle Experts across Applications, Technology and Fusion Middleware Representatives from Oracle Customer Relations, Oracle Consulting, Oracle Finance, Oracle University and the local Oracle User Group, as well as seve – Oracle Corporation |
Four Season Resort, Irving TX |
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4/16/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
Why does the Oracle optimizer hate my SQL? – Riyaj Shamsudeen, Principal DBA, Ora!nternals |
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX |
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5/3/2009 |
ALL |
Collaborate09 May 3-7, 2009 – Orlando Florida – IOUG – OAUG – QUEST – Oracle |
Orlando Florida |
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5/14/2009
04:00 pm to
06:00 pm |
BI Forum |
OBIEE: Introduction to Oracle’s Premier BI Toolset for a Hyperion Audience – Daniel Thomas, US Analytics
Get Smart in Uncertain Times with Oracle Business Intelligence – Daniel Fager, Oracle
|
Oracle Building, Las Colinas |
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5/21/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
AWR, Part 2: Trending – Kapil Goyal, Principal DBA (Performance Group), Fidelity Investments
ASM for Dummies – Nitin Vengurlekar, Oracle Corporation
|
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX |
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6/5/2009
12:00 pm to
2:00 pm |
Applications Forum |
Case Study on Demantra Implementation – A DBA Perspective – Sunday Ichie, Texas Instruments |
Oracle Building; 222 Las Colinas Blvd W, Ste 1000, Irving, TX 75039 |

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6/10/2009
5:00 pm to
9:00 pm |
Special Events |
DOUG Membership Drive Party – |
Blue Mesa Gril, Addison TX |
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6/16/2009
04:00 PM to
06:00 PM |
Fusion MW Forum |
CANCELLED – Fusion Middleware Forum – |
Oracle Building |
None |
6/18/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
RAT (Real Applications Testing): SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA) and DB Replay – Chandra Pabba, Pinnacle Technical Resources |
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX |
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6/23/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Professional Development Forum |
Establishing a Project Management Office (PMO) – 4pm to 6pm – Tony Reed, CPA, PMP – project management consultant, speaker, writer, and athlete
Finding the I in TEAM How We Saved Millions on Upgrades and Implementations. (Repeated from OAUGs 2009 Collaborate Conference) – Tony Reed CPA, PMP
|
Oracle Building, Las Colinas TX |
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6/30/2009
4:00 pm to
7:00 pm |
Professional Development Forum |
Professional Development Day: – Interviewing Tips – – Resume Tips – – Market Trends/Rates – – Three Staffing Firm Experts: Jim Westrom, Apex Systems, Babbich & Asso., E.J. Demaree
– Keeping Yourself Marketable – – Accelerating Your Influence – – Emmanuel Delpierre, Chairman Advisory Counci. Christine Lambden and Casey Conner, authors of Consulting Stance
|
Oracle Bldg, 1st Floor, Las Colinas TX |
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7/9/2009
04:00 pm to
06:00 pm |
BI Forum |
Building Sustainability Dashboards with greenEPM Powered by Essbase – Len Vitello, greenEPM
Visual Analysis: Going Beyond Two-Dimensional Grids and Charts – Dan Murray, Tableau Software
|
Oracle Building, Las Colinas |
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7/16/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
Rapid Development with APEX – Consultant – Enkitec
What’s New in Oracle Development – Consultant – Enkitec
|
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX – 1st Floor Meeting Room |
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8/7/2009
12:00 pm to
2:00 pm |
Application Forum |
Riceland Foods, Inc. Bank Reconciliation Case Study – Don Ford from Kerdock Consulting |
222 Las Colinas Blvd, Suite 100, Irving, TX 75039 |
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8/20/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
Data Guard for Dummies – Charles Kim, Novara |
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX – 1st Floor Conference Room |
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8/27/2009
4:00 PM to
6:00 PM |
Fusion Middleware |
Introducing Oracle FMW 11g – Shari White, Sr. Sales Consultant, Oracle |
Oracle Building – Las Colinas, Texas |
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9/15/2009
04:00 pm to
06:00 pm |
BI Forum |
Achieving a Common Goal: Creating an Oracle EPM Center of Excellence – Edward Roske, Oracle ACE Director
Hidden Features of Oracle Essbase – Edward Roske, Oracle ACE Director
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1000 Ballpark Way, Suite 304, Arlington, TX 76011 o Watch the Texas Rangers from a Luxury Suite at The Rangers Ballpark in Arlington after the meeting |
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9/17/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
Near Zero Downtime Database Migrations – Caiping Yue, Senior Consultant, Stonebridge |
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX – First floor conference room |
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10/2/2009
12:00 pm to
2:00 pm |
Apps Forum |
Making Elephants Dance – Managing Employee Performance through Oracle’s Talent Management – Gaurav Bansal |
Oracle Building. 222 W Las Colinas Blvd, Ste. 1000, Irving, TX 75039 |
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10/11/2009 |
ALL |
Oracle Open World – October 11-15 2009 – San Francisco, CA Moscone Center – Oracle corp. |
San Francisco, California |
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10/15/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
Application Express: Making Oracle FUN and Highly Productive! – Ricky Burke, independent Oracle consultant |
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX, First floor conference room |
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10/28/2009 |
Special Event |
October 28-29: Jonathan Lewis seminar on tuning for DBAs and developers – Jonathan Lewis |
Plano Location – registration required |
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10/29/2009
2:00 pm to
5:00 pm |
Supply Chain Forum |
Supply Chain Management in the Era of Mass Customization: industry trends and technology roadmap. Keynote from TBD, 1st session: Oracle Sales Consultant, Wes Arnold
How to answer the challenge of faster, more efficient mass customization. A case study of Dresser Inc. – Josh Jujjavarapu, Oracle configurator Practice Lead and Eash Pallipuram, Director Enterprisee Solutions
|
UTD Plano Campus |
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10/29/2009
6:00 pm to
7:00 pm |
Special Event |
Optimising through Understanding – One SQL – Jonathan Lewis |
SMU Legacy Campus, Building 4, Room 122 |
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11/5/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Fusion Middleware Forum |
Enterprise 2.0 A Case Study of Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) including the Award-Winning Webcenter Portal, UCM, Collaboration and SOA suite – Sri Ayyeppen, CTO, Keste and Sanjay Date, Solutions Architect, Keste
SOA Business Cases – How do you get started with SOA? – Sanjay Date, Solutions Architect, Keste
|
Oracle Building, Las Colinas |
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11/12/2009
03:00 pm to
06:00 pm |
BI Forum |
Data Warehouse 2.0 – Bill Inmon
Using Unstructured Text for Decision Making – Bill Inmon
|
Oracle Building. 222 W Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, TX 75039 Urban Tower CR |
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11/17/2009
12:30 pm to
05:30 pm |
BI Forum |
2009 Hyperion & BI User Summit
This meeting will offer 2 tracks: the Hyperion 11x & BI/EPM Track. Both tracks will offer insightful presentations –
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222 W. Las Colinas Blvd, Urban Tower Conference Room Irving, TX 75039 |
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11/18/2009
4:00 pm to
6:00 pm |
Technology Forum |
WEDNESDAY Meeting!! Lower Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 – Kerry Osborne, Enkitec |
Oracle Corp. Las Colinas TX, First Floor Conference Room |
 |
11/19/2009
5:00 PM to
9:00 PM |
Special Events |
Holiday Membership Appreciation Party; http://www.doug.org/registration_mixer.com to RSVP – |
Maggiano’s Little Italy (8687 N Central Expressway Dallas, TX – Northpark mall) |