Streams and Topics
Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
Business Strategy
Development
Fusion
Middleware
Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle RDBMS
Emerging Technologies
MySQL
Engineered Systems
Infrastructure
Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
- BI Tools
Data Warehousing, ETL and OLAP topics such as summary management, partitioning, Exadata, Oracle OLAP or Hyperion Essbase, Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Warehouse Builder.
How to approach Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects (methodology), design and concepts related to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (eg Financial Analytics, HR Analytics etc), Enterprise Performance Management, Strategy & Scorecard Management, reporting and financial analysis using tools from Oracle (such as OBIEE on HFM or Planning).
If you are unsure where your presentation fits, please place the abstract under this topic & the UKOUG judging committee will select your topic for you.
Business Strategy
Emerging Technologies
Sessions in this stream need not major on specific Oracle or third party products, but could instead focus on the topics.
Sessions in this stream need not major on specific Oracle or third party products, but could instead focus on the topics.
Sessions in this stream need not major on specific Oracle or third party products, but could instead focus on the topics.
Sessions in this stream need not major on specific Oracle or third party products, but could instead focus on the topics.
Sessions in this stream need not major on specific Oracle or third party products, but could instead focus on the topics.
Sessions in this stream need not major on specific Oracle or third party products, but could instead focus on the topics.
Describing successful implementations of applications products and services for betterment of business operations. R12 implementations in progress would be of specific interest.
A focus on solutions provided by Oracle's Business Alliance Partners. Topics may cover how Oracle software performs on particular hardware platforms, or how Business Partner software provides the solutions to specific problems.
If you are unsure where your presentation fits, please place the abstract under this topic & the UKOUG judging committee will select your topic for you.
ADF, JDeveloper, frameworks, mobile applications, Application Lifecycle Management, Software Configuration Management, etc.
APEX, SQL Developer, PL/SQL, Application Lifecycle Management, Software Configuration Management, etc.
Upgrades to, migrations off Portal, Forms, Reports, Discoverer, Designer.
SOA, BPMN, WebCenter, BPEL, BAM, SOA governance, etc. (Development as opposed to deployment and production catered for in the middleware stream).
Master Data Management, SQL Developer Data Modeler, JDeveloper diagramming, Agile, etc.
Java, PHP, .Net, XML, Groovy, Hudson, etc.
If you are unsure where your presentation fits, please place the abstract under this topic & the UKOUG judging committee will select your topic for you.
Everything you need to know about technology and applications direction, including suggestions and examples on how to use the fusion technology today getting ready for the applications of tomorrow.
What can an Applications User do today to get ready for Fusion? How the Fusion Middleware can be integrated today, AIA, BI Publisher etc.
Understanding Oracle's Fusion Strategy, Lifetime Support, Applications Unlimited, Fusion Edge and Full Fusion applications.
If you are unsure where your presentation fits, please place the abstract under this topic & the UKOUG judging committee will select your topic for you.
Sessions relating to the upgrade of Oracle iAS to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: user experiences, architecture and installation, migration of applications (Java or Forms), identity management considerations, configuration and administration for existing iAS administrators.
Using WebLogic to run enterprise applications - administration and management (e.g. Enterprise Manager, WLST), performance tuning, deployment techniques. This topic also includes discussions about installation, tuning, best practices, management, backup/recovery, high availability and architecture planning.
Topics related to the wealth of products available from Oracle to support Identity and Access Management processes. Includes: OID, OVD, OAM, OIF, OIM.
Production considerations for using Oracle SOA Suite and Portal products including: BPEL, BPM, OSB, BAM, and WebCenter. Also includes deployment practicalities of Business Rules and Human Workflow and integration with ADF.
If you are unsure where your presentation fits, please place the abstract under this topic & the UKOUG judging committee will select your topic for you.
Topics of cross-application interest.
Aimed at people using, working with or interested in Oracle's Customer Relationship Management suite of application modules. Presentations to include, but not be limited to; 11i and 12 experiences, Novel use of functionality, Limitations, Workarounds.
Aimed at people using, working with or interested in Oracle's Financials suite of application modules. Presentations to include, but not be limited to; 11i and 12 experiences, Novel use of functionality, Limitations, Workarounds.
Aimed at people using, working with or interested in Oracle's Human Capital Management suite of application modules. Presentations to include, but not be limited to; 11i and 12 experiences, Novel use of functionality, Limitations, Workarounds.
Aimed at people using, working with or interested in Oracle's Projects suite of application modules. Presentations to include, but not be limited to; 11i and 12 experiences, Novel use of functionality, Limitations, Workarounds.
Aimed at people using, working with or interested in Oracle's Supply Chain / Manufacturing suite of application modules. Presentations to include, but not be limited to; 11i and 12 experiences, Novel use of functionality, Limitations, Workarounds.
Covering E-Business Suite and other Oracle application suites.
Presentations related to administering applications (Oracle and 3rd party off-the-shelf packages) running on top of Fusion Middleware, such as Oracle E-Business Suite or Fusion Applications.
If you are unsure where your presentation fits, please place the abstract under this topic & the UKOUG judging committee will select your topic for you.
Covering Enterprise Manager (Database Control and Grid Control); Backup and Recovery using RMAN and other Technologies; Archiving Security; Administration & Maintenance.
Covering Oracle Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Clusterware; Automated Storage Management (ASM); Third-party Cluster Managers and Cluster File Systems; High Availability and Replication; Data Guard, Active/Passive failover; Oracle Streams; Golden Gate; other replication technologies and ExaData.
Oracle Spatial; XML DB; Advanced Compression.
Statistics gathering and management Optimization; Tuning; Problem-diagnosis and root-cause analysis.
If you are unsure where your presentation fits, please place the abstract under this topic & the UKOUG judging committee will select your topic for you.
New technologies that change the way people work – papers are invited that give strategic overview insight or oracle based solutions.
MySQL
- MySQL
Aimed at people using or starting to look at MySQL.
Engineered Systems
Inviting papers that talk about use cases, lessons learnt or implementation studies for the engineered system family of products.
- Exadata
- Exalogic
- Exalaytics
- Database Appliance
Infrastructure
To ensure we have a stream dedicated to the oracle infrastructure range of solutions. We encourage papers that look at the use of individual products or parts of the stack. Papers can be on, but not limited to:
- Hardware
Topics related to using either Oracle/Sun or other hardware by other manufactures with Oracle software products. - Storage
Trends and techniques in storage that impact Oracle systems, e.g. solid state disks, ZFS, NFS vs SAN, storage virtualisation, thin provisioning. - Virtualization
The use and best practices when using Oracle or 3rd party (e.g. by VMware, Microsoft, IBM, HP) virtualisation products to run Oracle systems. - Operating System
- Security
- IT Management
- Systems Management
The use of Oracle Enterprise Manager and other products to manage a large Oracle estate and private clouds - monitoring, deployment, patching/upgrades and service level management are all relevant topics. - Platform
- Server and Storage Management
Operating systems configuration and tuning storage technologies e.g. Solid State Disks; ZFS Oracle VM; Solaris Zones; other virtualization technologies.