The Independent Oracle Users Group
(IOUG) is again hosting their annual educational event COLLABORATE 08:
Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community, April 13-17
in Denver, Colorado, with third-year co-hosts the Oracle
Applications Users Group (OAUG) and the Quest
International Users Group (Quest). The event is recognized as one of
the largest and most comprehensive Oracle-based user conferences, and
COLLABORATE provides a central location for education and networking
with more than 7,500 professionals in the greater Oracle community.
More than 425 customer- and expert-led sessions, informal events,
roundtables, Oracle presentations and 250 solution-provider insights
offer customers tried and true practices, approaches and solutions to
integrate into their current and future strategies. “While
content will span a number of concentrations and skill levels, key
content focuses for this year will include Oracle Database 11g, 10g
and9i, developer technology, BI, Fusion Middleware,
SOA, grid computing, data warehousing, and much more,”
said IOUG president Ari Kaplan.
Participants of the IOUG Forum get access to ‘IOUG
Forum only’ activities, like new tracks
specific to newly-acquired Oracle customers, including Hyperion and
Stellent. Tailored conference-within-a-conference programming will
specifically address these audiences core needs and offer opportunity
for the broader Oracle community to learn about these additions to the
Oracle market.
Stellent education will includea keynotespeech byAndy
MacMillan, vice president of product management for content management,
along with Al Hoof, president of the Minnesota Stellent Users Group, and
will feature more than 30 Stellent-focused educational sessions.
Hyperion programming will feature keynote speaker John Kopke, senior
vice president, enterprise performance management global business unit
at Oracle Corporation, and will be composed of more than 100 sessions.
Other IOUG Forum benefits include an opening keynote address from Andrew
Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Oracle Database Server
Technologies, and an in-depth interview with Dylan Tweney, senior editor
of Wired News; exclusive IOUG hands-on labs; priority seating at
expert technical sessions; expert panels; “unconference”
sessions, which are PowerPoint Free Zones or peer-to-peer discussion
forums; special interest group welcome receptions; and a “tuning
Oracle” coffeehouse with the IOUG Board.
The IOUG Forum represents the collective voice and intellectual capital
of the IOUG community. Designed by customers, for customers, programming
is based on community feedback and top interests. In a recent survey of
the Oracle customer ecosystem, the top three critical areas facing the
customer community in the coming year are: the environment,
providing/improving high availability and managing upgrades and
migrations. The IOUG Forum sessions are designed with these challenges
in mind so that customers are armed with leading practices to better
implement, manage and improve their Oracle infrastructures. To register
for COLLABORATE 08, please visit: https://www.ioug.org/collaborate08/attending/registration.cfm.
About the Independent Oracle Users Group
Founded in 1993, the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) is a global
membership organization that provides Oracle users the opportunity to
enhance their productivity, maximize their investment and influence the
quality, usability and support of Oracle technology. The IOUG represents
the voice of Oracle technology and database professionals serving nearly
20,000 database administrators, developers, architects, technical
managers and other Oracle professionals throughout North America and
worldwide. The IOUG empowers its members to be more productive and
successful in their business and careers by delivering education,
sharing best practices and providing technology direction and networking
opportunities. For more information, visit www.ioug.org
or call (312) 245-1579.
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