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Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2009

15 April, 2009 (23:40) | Critical Patch Updates | By: Stewart

The Critical Patch Update Advisory is available at any of the following locations:

Oracle Technology Network: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm

The next four Critical Patch Update release dates are:
* July 14, 2009
* October 13, 2009
* January 12, 2010
* April 13, 2010

04/22/2009 Meeting

9 March, 2009 (22:01) | Meetings | By: Stewart

Unifi, Inc.
7201 W Friendly Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27410

3:00 - 3:15 Meet & Greet
3:15 - 3:30 Scripts & Tips (Everyone)
3:30 - 5:30 11i New Features with Q&A - Tom Kyte

Sponsor: TEK Systems - http://www.teksystems.com

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April 22nd Guest Speaker - Tom Kyte

3 February, 2009 (19:53) | Announcements | By: Stewart

PTOUG is pleased to announce that Tom Kyte (http://asktom.oracle.com) will be speaking at our April 22nd meeting.  More information to follow.

01/21/2009 Meeting - CANCELLED

20 January, 2009 (16:08) | Meetings | By: Stewart

Unifi, Inc.
7201 W Friendly Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27410

3:00 - 3:15 Meet & Greet
3:15 - 3:30 Script / Tip / Whitepaper swap (Everyone)
3:30 - 4:15 TBA
4:15 - 5:00 TBA

Sponsor: TEK Systems - http://www.teksystems.com

SEOUC Discount

20 January, 2009 (16:04) | Announcements | By: Stewart

As former attendees of our last Southeastern Oracle Users Conference (SEOUC), we are hoping you will join us for SEOUC 2009, February 25 & 26, at the Renaissance Charlotte Suites Hotel. We want to make the conference even more affordable by offering you an additional $25 off the early registration rate, making your conference fee just $250 for two full days of training!  To take advantage of this special offer, when you register at www.seouc.com, use the VIP passcode SPECIAL. If you cannot attend this year, please feel free to forward this to someone who might benefit from attending this economical two-day training opportunity.

Conference highlights include Rich Niemiec’s Keynote Address, How Oracle Came to Rule the Database World, more than 40 technical presentations to choose from, vendor exhibits, and networking events that are sure to advance your Oracle knowledge.  Additional conference details, including a complete list of technical presentations and registration, are available online at www.seouc.com.

In addition to a reduced registration rate, the conference hotel rates are very reasonable at just $149/night.  To make reservations, call 704.357.1414 or 800.HOTELS1 and be sure to reference SEOUC or Southeastern Oracle Users Conference to ensure you receive the discounted rate.  Reservations must be made by Monday, January 26.

We are looking forward to seeing you again in Charlotte in February!

Linda & Shannon
SEOUC Conference Coordinators
910.632.9442

Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2009

14 January, 2009 (11:06) | Critical Patch Updates | By: Stewart

The Critical Patch Update Advisory is available at any of the following locations:

Oracle Technology Network: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm

The next four Critical Patch Update release dates are:
* April 14, 2009
* July 14, 2009
* October 13, 2009
* January 12, 2010

SEOUC - Charlotte - February 25 & 26

25 November, 2008 (21:14) | Announcements | By: Stewart

Don’t forget to submit your presentation for the upcoming 10th Southeastern Oracle Users Conference, taking place in Charlotte, NC, on February 25 & 26. The submission deadline is Wednesday, December 3.
 
Rest assured you do not need to be an Oracle expert to submit.  If you are working with Oracle products and have tips or advice you are willing to give, a story to tell, or have figured out some neat way to ‘get the job done’, consider submitting an abstract to present.

Share your knowledge by presenting at the conference. Presentations may be 60 or 75 minutes in length and may be targeted to novice, intermediate, advanced, or all attendees. Suggestions for topics are below:

  • Application Development, tools, languages, modeling, design/build techniques
  • Data Warehousing/BI, design philosophies, tools, case studies, migrations
  • DBA, backup/recovery, network connectivity, tuning, migration, tools
  • Oracle Apps, financials, supply chain/procurement, payables, HRMS, manufacturing, projects
  • Professional Skills, project management, certifications, team building
  • Security, database, applications, auditing, checklists
  • System Architecture/Administration, hardware, networking, performance
  • Other, share your success stories or tools of the trade

Submit your presentation today at www.seouc.com!  Questions?  Call 910.352.8413 or email shannon@seouc.com.

Upcoming Oracle Events (November - January)

6 November, 2008 (11:45) | Announcements, Webcasts, Workshops | By: Stewart

Oracle Application Express Workshop (11/20 @ 2:30pm)
Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX), formerly called HTML DB, is a rapid web application development tool for the Oracle database. Using only a web browser and limited programming experience, you can develop and deploy professional applications that are both fast and secure. Oracle application express combines the qualities of a personal database, productivity, ease of use, and flexibility with the qualities of an enterprise database, security, integrity, scalability, availability and built for the web. You can try Application Express simply by signing up for an account at apex.oracle.com.  This workshop will provide you hands on experience with the Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) with expert guidance from some of Oracle’s Application Express (Oracle APEX) specialists.
http://launch.oracle.com with the PIN apex_workshop 

Charlotte Tech Day – Next Generation Data Center (11/11 @ 10am)
Morton’s Steakhouse
Next-Generation Data Center Tech Day is a half-day overview of Oracle technologies and best practices for delivering dramatic improvements in your data center operations. These information-rich working sessions feature customer success stories to illustrate how you can:
    * Improve efficiency with server clustering, load balancing, and application grid technologies
    * Drive IT agility with on-demand provisioning, automation, and real-time predictive monitoring
    * Boost availability with disaster protection, failover strategies, and quality of service management
    * Green your operations with server consolidation, virtualization, and energy-saving best practices
http://www.oracle.com/dm/09h1global/20439_ev_next-gen_data_center_oct08.html

How to Improve your most Critical Business Process (11/13 @ 8:30am)
Innsbrook Marriott, 4240 Dominion Boulevard, Glen Allen, Virginia 23060
Manoj Das, Sr. Director of Product Management and Linus Chow, a Principal Consultant at Oracle focused on the Business Process Management (BPM) Technology.  Manoj and Linus will give an overview of Oracle’s offering and how it can have an immediate impact on your company.

Charlotte Tech Day – BI/EPM (11/18 @ 10am)
Morton’s Steakhouse Southpark
Learn how the business intelligence (BI) industry continues to evolve – with Oracle Business Intelligence products leading the way.
At this event you will:
    * Learn about the Oracle Business Intelligence strategy and roadmap
    * Attend product demonstrations for an in-depth look at Oracle’s comprehensive, best-of-breed BI technology
    * Get an overview of Oracle’s hot-pluggable BI architecture with a focus on Hyperion Essbase Integration
http://www.oracle.com/dm/09q2field/22017_ev_oraclebi_technology_charlotte_nov18.html

“Leap Forward” with Oracle Identity Management for E-Business Suite (11/19 @ 12pm)
Join us for the first of four Oracle Internet Seminars addressing how Oracle’s Award-Winning Identity Management Suite has helped our Oracle Applications customers extend their existing investments and tackle their most difficult security, compliance and automation issues.
https://conference.oracle.com/imtapp/app/conf_enrollment.uix?mID=124697906

“Leap Forward” with Oracle Identity Management for PeopleSoft (12/03 @ 12pm)
Join us for the second of four Oracle Internet Seminars addressing how Oracle’s Award-Winning Identity Management Suite has helped our Oracle Applications customers extend their existing investments and tackle their most difficult security, compliance and automation issues.

Oracle Security Workshop - Charlotte Oracle Office (12/16 @ 9am)
Securing data is one of the most critical and business-sensitive issues faced by IT security architects and database administrators. Oracle offers a solid set of products for implementing high-end database security policies. This hands-on workshop offers customers a technical overview of the following Oracle 10gR2 and 11g security products:·
   Advanced Security Option – network encryption
   Transparent Data Encryption (TDE),
   Tablespace-level data encryption, encrypting backups using RMAN·
   Database Vault – provides separation of duty and lockdown capabilities against privileged database users·
   Audit Vault – provides centralized audit collection and reporting capabilities for Oracle and selected non-Oracle databases·
   Enterprise Manager Data Masking Pack – provides numerous built-in and customizable scrambling/masking functions for ensuring that sensitive production data is not visible within staging or test environments

“Leap Forward” with Oracle Identity Management for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (12/17 @ 12pm)
Join us for the third of four Oracle Internet Seminars addressing how Oracle’s Award-Winning Identity Management Suite has helped our Oracle Applications customers extend their existing investments and tackle their most difficult security, compliance and automation issues.
https://conference.oracle.com/imtapp/app/conf_enrollment.uix?mID=124695171

Oracle Grid Control Workshop - Charlotte Oracle Office (12/18 @ 9am)
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2, is the only tool that can monitor and manage not only every Oracle software in your grid environment, but also Web applications, hosts and the network in between. Grid Control is also extensible via a comprehensive set of pre-built non-Oracle Plug-ins that can be used to monitor additional Non-Oracle components. We are offering a Hands-on workshop that will demonstrate all of these abilities and much more.

Leap Forward with Oracle Identity Management for Siebel (01/09 @ 12pm)
Join us for the final Oracle Internet Seminars addressing how Oracle’s Award-Winning Identity Management Suite has helped our Oracle Siebel customers extend their existing investments and tackle their most difficult security, compliance and automation issues.
https://conference.oracle.com/imtapp/app/conf_enrollment.uix?mID=124696376

Oracle Critical Patch Update October 2008

15 October, 2008 (07:10) | Critical Patch Updates | By: Stewart

The Critical Patch Update Advisory is available at any of the following locations:

Oracle Technology Network: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm

The next four Critical Patch Update release dates are:
* January 13, 2009  
* April 14, 2009  
* July 14, 2009  
* Oct 13, 2009

10/15/2008 Meeting

6 October, 2008 (08:34) | Meetings | By: Stewart

Unifi, Inc.
7201 W Friendly Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27410

3:00 - 3:15 Meet & Greet
3:15 - 3:30 Script / Tip / Whitepaper swap (Everyone)
3:30 - 4:15 FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) for Oracle (Stewart McGlaughlin)
4:15 - 5:00 TBA

Sponsor: DataMasters - http://www.datamasters.com

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