ODTUG Oracle OpenWorld 2018 Sessions 
APEX
What Every DBA Needs to Know About Oracle Application Express
Francis Mignault, Insum Solutions
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Time: 3:45 – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Moscone West, Room 3001
Once an enterprise starts using Oracle Application Express, many applications are rapidly created to help manage the business. DBAs start asking questions about managing Oracle Application Express and installing it in Oracle Databases, such as: How can I properly backup and recover Oracle Application Express applications? How do I integrate an Oracle Application Express installation with Oracle E-Business Suite? What are the different components required and supported for the middle tier? Those questions and much more are answered in this session.
Business Intelligence
BI Developer to Data Engineer with Oracle Analytics Cloud Data Lake
Mark Rittman, MJR Analytics
Date: Monday, October 22, 2018
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Location: Marriott Marquis (Yerba Buena Level) - Nob Hill C/D
In this session look at the role of a data engineer in designing, provisioning, and enabling an Oracle Cloud data lake using Oracle Analytics Cloud, Data Lake. Attendees learn how to use data flow and data pipeline authoring tools and how machine learning and AI can be applied to this task, as well as how to connect to database and SaaS sources along with sources of external data via Oracle Data as a Service. Discover how traditional Oracle Analytics developers can transition their skills into this role and start working as a data engineer on Oracle Public Cloud data lake projects.
Active Directory Integration and Single Sign-On for Oracle Analytics Cloud
Becky Wagner, Rittman Mead Consulting Ltd
Date: Wednesday, Oct 24, 2018
Time: 11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Marriott Marquis (Yerba Buena Level) - Nob Hill C/D
Setting up Active Directory integration and single sign-on for Oracle Application Continuity are not small tasks. In this session learn about the journey, lessons learned, and tips from this real-world case study. Get into the fine details and see what worked, pitfalls to avoid, and ongoing maintenance suggestions. The learning objective for attendees of this session is to take away lessons learned from a real-life implementation of Oracle Application Continuity using Oracle Identity Cloud Service, Active Directory bridge, and Active Directory federation services for single sign-on.
Drinking Our Own Champagne: Oracle Analytics Cloud at ODTUGTim German, Qubix
Date: Wednesday, Oct 24, 2018
Time: 3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Marriott Marquis (Golden Gate Level) - Golden Gate C2
ODTUG is an independent, not-for-profit, global user group and the host of ODTUG Kscope, one of the world's largest annual Oracle user conferences. In 2017 it decided to implement an Oracle Analytics Cloud system to provide the conference team with advanced analytics. In this session learn how ODTUG used Oracle Analytics Cloud to support conference planning activities such as providing analytics on session attendance and ratings, and enabling the content review team to align with attendee objectives. The system also aided in the ongoing effort to expand the reach of ODTUG’s analyses to cover areas such as footfall, marketing, and membership and attendee demographics. Learn from ODTUG’s practical experience configuring, maintaining, and developing Oracle Analytics Cloud.
Database
3D: Docker for Database Developers
Roel Hartman, APEX Consulting
Date: Monday, Oct 22, 2018
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Location: Moscone West - Room 3020
This session begins by briefly covering the Docker basics and then dives in into the more intermediate use of Docker. This session is aimed at database developers who would like to set up a development and/or test environment using a microservices architecture consisting of multiple containers (for example, one container for an Oracle Database, one or more containers to support Oracle REST Data Services, and one or more containers to execute specific NodeJS applications). Setting this up in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Service Classic is also discussed.
How a Mobile Payment Company Profits from Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud
Holger Friedrich, sumIT AG and Simon Uhde, TWINT AG
Date: Thursday, Oct 25, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Location: Moscone West - Room 3002
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud enables many industries to run elastic data warehousing installations with little to no organizational overhead. TWINT is the leading national Swiss mobile payment provider. In a highly competitive market, the company has to adapt to the growing business and amount of data. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is a means to stay ahead of the curve regarding data management and data warehousing for TWINT. This session presents TWINT's experiences with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. Learn how an existing data warehouse is successfully deployed into Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, how initially data can be transferred, and how subsequent data loads are done.
It's All About the Bots: How Chatbots Will Revive Your Desktop Applications
Mia Urman, AuraPlayer USA Inc
Date: Monday, Oct 22, 2018
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Location: Moscone West - Room 3020
The world of mobility is moving faster than anyone can imagine it. Millennials today don't talk, they chat; they don't have addresses, they have locations; they don't email, they message. In this session hear about Oracle Bots Platform and how it can help transform your desktop applications from an outdated liability to a transformative part of your business. Learn how to develop a bot and what pieces are needed to make conversational applications work. Learn how intents, flows, entities, and conversational applications come together to bring desktop applications into the next generation. The session also includes a live demo and customer case study.
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
How to Apply Blockchain, AI, IoT with Oracle Cloud: User Conversation
Hans Kolbe, Celantra Systems
Date: Monday, Oct 22, 2018
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Location: Moscone West - Room 3024
The Emerging Technologies special interest group brings together users and technology experts to assess and discuss emerging technologies such as distributed ledger (e.g. Blockchain), artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things. In this session see a showcase of Oracle’s latest Blockchain, IoT, and AI offerings. Learn how Oracle Cloud opens a new universe for integrations with the latest market-driven data and technologies. Topics discussed include what the technologies are and how they are used/use cases, how you can use Oracle Cloud to get the top benefits, and the direct links to various applications or job functions. Experts from Oracle and other companies are available for discussion and your questions.
EPM
Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service: The Master Data Solution
Tracy McMullen, interRel Consulting
Date: Monday, Oct 22, 2018
Time: 3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Moscone South - Room 105
It’s inevitable that your business strategy, models, growth, people, financials, etc. are consistently changing. It’s hard to stay on top of these changes and realign your business as it happens. Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service has arrived (a new tool modeled after its on-premises version, Oracle Data Relationship Management) to help standardize dimensions, hierarchies, attributes, and mapping maintenance across the enterprise. Adventist Health is one of the first adopters of this tool. In this session hear its story and why it chose Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service for data governance, collaboration, and master data management across applications.
Oracle EPM Cloud in Real Life: Four Real-World Cloud Migration Case Studies
Bobby Ellis, Datavail
Date: Monday, Oct 22, 2018
Time: 5:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Location: Moscone South - Room 152
Everyone is talking about the cloud and for financial professionals, Oracle EPM Cloud is on the list of considerations. But there are lots of questions about Oracle EPM Cloud as well. For example, how does it perform? Is it as robust as Oracle Hyperion on-premises? How easy is it to implement? Can all of a company’s data be moved over? In this session get answers to these questions and more by exploring four different successful real-world Oracle EPM Cloud migration and implementation case studies for Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service, Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service, and Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud Service. Attendees get a birds-eye view into the practicalities of moving to the cloud and making the business case for their own company.
Vitamix: A Blend of Many EPM Cloud Applications and More to Come
Badri Narayanan, Vita-mix , Vatsal Gaonkar and Wayne Paffhausen, Edgewater Ranzal
Date: Thursday, Oct 25, 2018
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Location: Moscone South - Room 152
Vitamix implemented Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud Service in 2017 and Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service and Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service implementation in 2018. Oracle E-Business Suite loads drivers that can be used for trend-based modeling across budget, forecast, and rolling forecast scenarios. Cloud data management is used to sync actuals data from Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service to Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service and to sync budget data from Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service to Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service. This session focuses on these implementation and the seamless data integrations between the cloud applications.
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service Revenue Forecasting by Cohorts
Cindy Eichner, Finit Solutions
Date: Wednesday, Oct 24, 2018
Time: 4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Moscone South - Room 154
In this session learn how Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service was implemented to forecast revenue by cohorts with libraries of schemes in different plan types. Learn why the client chose to move its Excel forecasting models to Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service while data integration was accomplished using on-premise Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management, Enterprise Edition. Leave this session knowing about a different type of solution that can be built with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service.
Happily Ever After: ODTUG and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service
Gary Crisci, General Electric
Date: Thursday, Oct 25, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Location: Moscone South - Room 155
ODTUG had wanted to utilize Oracle’s solutions, but the investment in computing assets made it unfeasible. Oracle’s cloud provides a way for smaller organizations to adopt enterprise-class software without incurring the overhead typically associated with these advanced applications. In this session see a demo of the ease of deploying an Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service app for ODTUG. Learn about the process of creating an app, importing metadata and financial data from ODTUG’s general ledger, and building feature-rich dashboards and reports. Discover some of the novel features in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service such as managing metadata via the Smart View Excel add-in.
Two Years into an Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service
Kevin Hebbel, SC&H Consulting and Michael Zink, Brookfield Property Group
Date: Wednesday, Oct 24, 2018
Time: 3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Moscone South - Room 153
Thayer Lodging, the first organization to go live with Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service and implement a joint ERP and EPM cloud solution, made the shift to the cloud to revamp its end-to-end financial close and reporting process, from subsidiary ledgers and data collection all the way through financial reporting. In this session learn how the rapidly growing global hospitality and investment company’s financial overhaul knocked 50 percent off of its average time to close; achieved complete visibility into the entire close process including consolidation, data collection, and reporting processes; and enabled the accounting and finance teams to have complete control over the entire financial close process without any reliance or burden on the company's IT department.
*All sessions subject to change
