Orange County ORACLE User Group

Quarterly Meeting Announcement

Wednesday July 26, 2000

8:30 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast (Networking Opportunity)

9:00 AM

Official Call to Order and OCOUG Business

9:15 AM

ORACLE APPLICATIONS

– Applications Release 11i: Update, Technology and Major New Features

¨ Oracle – J. Michael Barrette

¨ Learn about Oracle’s NEW Order Management system, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, the Selling Point Configurator, Self Service Purchasing 5 (called iProcurement 11i), and other new features.

ORACLE DBA

- Building a High Availability (HA) Environment

¨ BMC Software - Alan Jwo

¨ How do you define High Availability? Learn common criteria for HA solutions and common HA HW (RAID) and SW solutions.

¨ Features and benefits of Oracle’s HA solutions: Standby Database, Parallel Server, and Replication.

10:20 AM

Break Time (Refill on Coffee and Network with Your Fellow ORACLE Professionals)

10:35 AM

ORACLE DBA

– Network-Attached Database
Storage in an Oracle Environment

¨ Network Appliance – Bruce Clarke

¨ What is Network-Attached Storage?

¨ Conventional Wisdom vs. Reality: Risk of Data Loss and Slow Connections vs. Performance Improvement and Virtual RAID

¨ Key Advantages of Network-Attached Storage for Database Files

DATA WAREHOUSE

- Visual Data Discovery

¨ High Tower Software – Dr. Ursula Schwuttke (President & CEO)

¨ History and theory of data visualization tools.

¨ New ideas on the future of the visualization marketplace will be presented.

11:40 AM

Close of Business (Announcements and Door Prizes) -

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