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COLLABORATE 09 Pre- and Post-Conference Workshops
Designed to deepen your conference educational experience and propel your professional growth, in-depth workshops provide the opportunity to spend time with recognized industry leaders and top Oracle trainers. Details on this year’s offerings are below.
Implementing Oracle E-Business Suite: Internal Controls Challenges
This workshop is essential for any company that is implementing or has recently implemented E-Business Suite. We will cover key areas such as internal controls deficiencies and common ways to mitigate the risks, building a proper audit trail, implementing and designing application security, privileged user / super user monitoring, support principles and design, implementing application controls and change management best practices.
Learning objectives:
- Review internal controls and security challenges in the applications and key modules and ways to overcome the challenges
- Review application security best practices, including common segregation of duties issues and access to sensitive functions and data
- Identify common application controls and challenges related to their implementation
- Discuss different techniques for building a proper audit trail, including monitoring of privileged users
- Discuss change management best practices and common challenges for companies running Oracle E-Business Suite
AppsPerf: Maximizing the Performance and Scalability of your E-Business Suite Systems
The AppsPerf workshop provides detailed tuning expertise and tips based on real-life deployments and extensive experience. Attendees will also learn how to effectively tune and manage the entire E-Business Suite environment using a holistic approach and well proven techniques. Attendees will also have a unique opportunity to network with the world’s top Applications performance experts. The workshop will consist of a series of four sessions including tuning the Application Server and JVM, Concurrent Manager, Workflow and the Database tier.
Learning objectives:
- Obtain proven Applications performance tuning tips and techniques
- Significantly increase your knowledge of Applications Performance tuning and best practices
- Learn how to approach, diagnose and resolve complex performance and scalability issues
Fusion Middleware’s Excellent Adventure
Actual projects using the Fusion Middleware suite will be presented, with an emphasis on the Oracle E-Business Suite, followed by a Q&A session with the panel of presenters. At the end of this full-day workshop, you will know what skill set is needed for successful Fusion development. This is your chance to learn from people who have real-life Fusion experience. If you want to take maximum advantage of Oracle Fusion Middleware, you cannot afford to miss this workshop.
This workshop brings together a combination of resources to provide insight into Fusion Middleware development and best practices. The case studies have been chosen from the winners of the 2008 Oracle Excellence Awards for their use of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Technical sessions will be presented by Oracle Fusion Middleware experts and Oracle product managers.
Learning objectives:
- Become familiar with key fusion tools
- Learn how these tools are being used in successful projects
- Learn important tips on how to approach Fusion Middleware within Oracle Applications
- Meet with people that have successfully implemented Fusion Middleware
Enable Oracle EBS for B2B Transactions using Oracle Fusion Middleware
This workshop provides hands-on lab exercises to understand the usage of Fusion Middleware components in enabling B2B integration for Oracle ESB based customers. Usage of Oracle B2B, Oracle BPEL will be demonstrated by means of good lab exercises.
Best practices for integration with Oracle ESB will be explained. Users will configure Oracle ESB for Publication and Subscription of B2B transactions.
- Oracle BPEL Hands-On Labs provide insights into:
- Overview of service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Overview XML, XSD, XPath, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI
- Oracle BPEL Process Manager Concepts, components
- Oracle BPEL Process Manager Designer (JDeveloper)
- XPath Expression Builder
- Deploying the BPEL Process
- Exploring Oracle BPEL Console (Administer and Monitor processes)
- Orchestrating Services with BPEL
- Fault Handling and Exception Management
- Transformation Services — XSLT Mapping Tools
- Adding and configuring a Notification Service
- Oracle B2B Labs
- Understand Oracle B2B integration Architecture
- Understand Business protocols supported by Oracle B2B Integration
- Create and test Guidelines using Document Editor (SpecBuilder)
- Create and manage trading partners
- Create business agreements between trading partners
- Create different reports (such as Status report)
- Handle different exceptions
- Invoke BPEL process from B2B
Possible Error scenarios will be explained and best practices for handling the all possible exceptions will be demonstrated.
Learning objectives:
- Understand Oracle ESB best practices for Integration
- Oracle BPEL usage in B2B integrations Architecture
- Service Oriented Architecture concepts and terminology as related to integration technology
- Understand the JDeveloper IDE
- Understand Oracle Application Server SOA Edition containing Oracle BPEL Process Manager, and Oracle ESB
Techniques to Sail Through (or Around) The Perfect “Project” Storm (i.e. Limited Resources, Lack of Time and/or Changing Scope)
When was the last time that you worked on a project under perfect conditions? That’s to say that there were no constraints, such as
- Resources (Human, Material, and Money/Budget)
- Time
- Scope
All of the unlimited resources were available at your beck and call. You had more monetary resources (budget) than you could spend. You had so many people (human resources) clamoring to get on the project that you had to turn people away. And all of your materials, such as software and hardware, arrived on time, were installed without any problems, and were ready to run out of the box. There were no delivery dates or deadlines. And the project scope/requirements never changed because scope creep never occurred. Or, you were able to change the deadline to correspond with scope changes.
Chances are great that you worked on projects that went through the “perfect storm.” You faced resource problems. Too little money was allocated, the money evaporated too quickly or the budget was cut for more important projects. Hardware was delivered late and there were problems with installing the software. And you either didn’t have enough people, the right people weren’t available and/or you experienced turnover of key people during the project. Furthermore, you faced the quagmire of an unmovable deadline and a movable scope. For the most part, we must manage projects during the perfect storm. This presentation is based on over twenty years of first-hand, project management experiences. This includes fifteen years of upgrading and implementing Oracle applications on high profile, multi-million dollar and/or international projects. The projects were for small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, quasi-governmental and governmental agencies.
Sometimes, our ship capsized during the storm (i.e. the project was abandoned). Other times, we sailed through the storm and survived (i.e. the project was in trouble, but we recovered and it was implemented on time). And we even sailed around the storm and had the perfect project (i.e. a $10 million project was completed for $2.6 million). Each situation represented learning experiences. We examined what happened (both the good and the bad), why it happened and how we could prevent it in the future. This included learning how to:
- Educate the stakeholders (and team members) about project management
- Address budget and schedule problems
- Gain control over and stopping project creep
- Manage problem resources (i.e. vendors, contractors, and employees)
- Identify and cost justifying project risks and contingencies
- Renegotiate the project constraints
- Manage the stakeholder anxiety and expectations
- Keep the staff motivated during the project (GOMOPLEX)
During this seminar, you’ll learn the tips on how to regain control of wayward projects and how to prevent problems from occurring. There will be case studies and class discussion.
Learning objectives:
- Identifying and understanding the project constraints
- Recognizing and identifying the problems in the project
- Identifying the options for recovering the project
- Working with the stakeholders
- Planning and implementing the recovery plan
AppsPerf: Maximizing the Performance and Scalability of your PeopleSoft Enterprise Systems
The AppsPerf workshop will provide attendees with detailed tuning expertise and tips based on real-life deployments and extensive experience. Attendees will also learn how to effectively tune and manage the entire PeopleSoft stack using a holistic approach and well proven techniques. Attendees will also have a unique opportunity to network with the world’s top PeopleSoft performance experts. The workshop will consist of a series of four sessions including tuning the Web Server, Application Server, Process Scheduler, and the Database tier.
Learning objectives:
- Learn proven PeopleSoft performance tuning tips and techniques
- Significantly increase your knowledge of PeopleSoft Performance tuning and best practices
- Learn how to approach, diagnose and resolve complex performance and scalability issues
Application Security Design Best Practices
In this seminar, we will look at the proper design and implementation of application security and related best practices. We will review the features of the traditional function security model as well as the use of Oracle’s User Management module (UMX). We will discuss how to implement NSIT’s RBAC standard and how to properly design security based on roles. We will also discover how to build a proper audit trail for both management monitoring and compliance purposes. Finally, we will cover various best practices and how to implement these principles in an E-Business Suite environment.
Learning objectives:
- Review the features of the Function Security and User Management modules
- Cover Segregation of Duties and User Access Controls best practices
- Discus how RBAC Standards and Role Design Principles are implemented
- Provide methods for monitoring user activity and building an audit trail
- Detail various application security best practices and how they are implemented in an E-Business Suite environment.
Embracing Change for Success
Embrace change or change will embrace you. Our world is changing at an accelerated rate, but who remains successful and why?
Learning objectives:
- Discover the top three reasons for accelerated change
- Accelerate through the stages of positive and negative change
