Oracle OpenWorld presentations

This year again I will be at the Oracle OpenWorld event that will be held in San Francisco September 21-25 where I will perform the following presentations :

Building Very Rich Portals with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g (S301162 and S300017)

This session covers how the University of Laval used Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g to build dynamic rich portals based on SOAs for more than 40,000 users. You will discover how you can use Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Application Development Framework, and Oracle WebCenter 11g to build rich Web pages, using dynamic portals you can customize at runtime; integrate third-party applications while maintaining context between them; and add collaboration features so your users can communicate in real time. The session includes a case study.

Oracle Fusion Middleware: A Set of Tools for Your Enterprise (S300200)

Oracle Fusion Middleware can secure enterprises, create a service bus to exchange data/services between Oracle applications and existing systems, create workflows, manage documents in a central repository, offer availability to Oracle applications, create/manage reports, and use Microsoft .NET to create Web applications. This session, with a customer case study, covers products/best practices. Oracle Fusion Middleware can help integrate Oracle's Siebel and Oracle E-Business Suite into systems and implement SOA with event-driven architecture.

Oracle portal products (Portal, WebCenter, Stellent, BEA) : which one should you use ? (S301790)

During this session the five products of Oracle that allow you to build portal systems will be presented with their roadmap. You will see an overview of Oracle Portal, the brand new Oracle WebCenter 11g, Stellent UCM + Site Studio, BEA AquaLogic and BEA WebLogic Portal products. At the end of this presentation, you will get a good idea of these products, how to use them, to which purpose you should use them and what are Oracle plans regarding the future for these products (new name, end of life ?, products merge, etc.) for the months to come.

I'll also be at the ADF Methodology Unconference and part of the Oracle ACEs related events.

If you plan to go to that event this year and would like to meet me in person, don't hesitate to let me know and I'll be more than happy to meet with you.

ECM Interview at Oracle

Oracle recently published a video of an interview I did when I went to Collaborate 2008 in Denver, Colorado where I was explaining why Université Laval has chosen Oracle ECM (Enterprise Content Management formerly known as Stellent) to manage its electronic documents and also host most of his web sites.

You can see the video here and you can see that Université Laval is an Oracle ECM customer here.

Enjoy !

Oracle OpenWorld ADF Methodology Unconference

This year at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 that will be held September 21-25 in San Francisco, some Oracle ACEs (including me) will do an unconference about ADF Methodology to create a common Oracle JDeveloper ADF Methodology. Look for this unconference if you plan to assist to this event and would like to get more information about the kind of methodologies you can use to support your Oracle ADF development projects, ask questions to experts that did one than more ADF projects using different methodologies to support their development, hear about their experience, share yours and help us build a common world-wide ADF methodology. I will be there to discuss about the methodology we are using here at Université Laval to support our ADF development projects.

The official web site of this unconference can be found here. This session will be held Wednesday 24th September 9:00am – 10:30am and the agenda can be found here. If you plan to attend this session, please let us know here.

I look forward to meet you next September.

Oracle ADF Faces 10.1.3 IE 7 Browser support

For your information, Oracle ADF Faces 10.1.3.4 is certified with IE (Internet Explorer) 7. Please note that only version 10.1.3.4 is certified with IE 7; the versions before that one (ex. 10.1.3.3) may work with IE 7 but are not certified against it.

Here is the official Oracle link where you can get more information about that :

Oracle JDeveloper (10.1.3.4.0) installation guide

Please note that you will need to deploy the Oracle Application Server (or upgrade your 10.1.3.X release to the ) 10.1.3.4 release to make your ADF Faces 10.1.3.4 web based application work correctly.

Oracle JDeveloper and Subversion

When you use Oracle JDeveloper 10g+ to build custom web applications with a team and you don't have any version control system deployed inside your organization, you can use Subversion that is an open source version control system to manage the source files of your JDev projects. Subversion is pretty well integrated with Oracle JDeveloper 10g+, is easy to install (works with MS Windows, Linux and Unix), is fairly easy to use and it's free. You can even configure it to connect to your LDAP repository (like MS Active Directory as we did here at Université Laval) to sync it with your enterprise security repository (user codes + groups).

Here are two links on OTN that gives you information about how to use Subversion with Oracle JDeveloper :

Integrating 3rd Party Version Control Tools with JDeveloper
Team Development Using Subversion

Here at Université Laval, we are using Subversion to manage the source files of our Oracle JDeveloper projects, our Sungard's Banner High-Ed files we have modified to adress some specific business requirements we have and to manage the source files of our Oracle Forms based applications (+ reports).

I did a presentation on that subject recentely at Kaleidoscope 2008 in New-Orleans where I explained how we have installed Subversion to manage the source files of our ADF (JDev), Sungard's Banner and Oracle Forms based applications. If there is some interest, I can write a post to summarize the content of that presentation on my blog or you can get a copy of that presentation on the ODTUG Kaleidoscope Web site.

Gartner Enterprise Architect Activity Cycle Overview paper

I recently read a paper from Gartner that was discussing about activity cycle overview of an enterprise architect in his day to day job.

Here is a short resume of this article.

The enterprise architect activity cycle overview articulates the activities that enterprise architects performs to create and systain business-driven enterprise architectures. There are five key activity categories: strategize, architect, lead, govern and communicate.

The scope and focus of Enterprise Architecture has evolved during these last years; it first began with a technology focus only and has evolved to information architecture, business process analysis and application integration involving many stakeholders across the enterprise.

The enterprise architecture team is responsible for ensuring that the different constituencies of the enteprise work together in a holistic fashion to design architectures that support the business strategy.

Gartner has developed the enterprise architecture activity cycle to describe the types of activities that architects perform in the course of their work.


Strategize

This category involves building the business context that is a critical input of the enterprise architecture and represent the business strategy of the enterprise in the enterprise architecture.

Architect

This is the category where architects spends most of their time creating standards, guidelines, roadmaps and documentation of the state architecture with the future state vision in mind.

Lead

Enterprise architecture is about being proactive, understanding and collaborative; finding solutions that meet both business and IT needs; and turning visions into implementation plans. Architects use that enterprise architecture to motivate and encourage project teams to implement strategic solutions.

Govern

This is the process by which decisions are made in the organization about how much money to spend and where and how to spend it. Enterprise architecture and governance are intimately intertwined. Enterprise architecture provides no value to the enterprise unless it is used to make decisions in projects and procurements.

Communicate

Successfull architecture teams spend a great deal of time on communications. They know that their job is to explain the future-state vision to a wide variety of constituencies and to articulate why adherence to that vision will provide a better solution for the enterprise than the tactical solutions that are developed within project silos. A key activity at the beginnin of any enterprise architecture program is crafting a communications plan. One of the key parts of the communication plan is analyzing feedback and modifying the message where necessary to be more effective.

Source

This document is available in the Gartners document library :

Activity Cycle Overview: Enterprise Architect
Publication Date: 22 March 2006/ID Number: G00138081

Oracle ACE Directors, who are they ?

I get questions quite often about my role as an Oracle ACE Director, so here's a post that will provide answers to these questions.

Oracle ACE Directors are recognized Oracle experts in the industry that share their knowledge and experience with the global Oracle community. These persons are nominated by Oracle and must fullfill some criterias in order to be elligible for this special program. When you are nominated by Oracle, you must maintaint a blog (like this one) where you share your knowledge with the community, you must do presentations in your local community, participate to some Oracle User Group events, write technical articles and get involved in an active Oracle User Group.

An Oracle ACE Director get direct access to the Oracle product management team and has budget to travel to Oracle User Group events to do presentations. Regarding me, I've been been involved a lot in the Oracle community for years now and nominated in September 2006 as an Oracle ACE Director. I have good expertise and skills with most of the Oracle Fusion Middleware products that are available today and a strong Java background as well.

During the last two years, I've been travelling in different Oracle User Group events trying to do presentations on different subjects in order to share my knowledge with the community.

If you are part of an active Oracle User Group and looking for new speakers, don't hesitate to contact the Oracle ACE Director near your location. I'm sure they will be pleased to come down to your location and perform one or many presentations.

For more information about the Oracle ACE Director program, follow that link.

Please note that Oracle ACE Directors are not allowed to nominate someone for this program, only senior Oracle employees are allowed to do so.

Technical reviewer of a JDeveloper and ADF 11g book

I've been asked to review the chapters of a book that is being written by Oracle recognized experts in the industry that will cover JDeveloper and ADF 11g. This book will show you how to build your own web applications using JDeveloper and ADF 11g (the same stack that is being used in Fusion Applications at Oracle). Throughout the book, the following ADF components will be explained in details: JSF, ADF Faces, ADF Business Components, ADF Model, ADF Security and the new Task Flow feature.

If there is any specific topic or subject that you would like to see covered in a book like this one, I invite you to send me an email (see my profile in this blog) to let me know and I'll share your ideas with these guys.

Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit event

This week was the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit event in Baltimore, MD where I did a presentation with Vince Casarez, VP of Product Management at Oracle.

Here's the abstract of the presentation I did during this event :

Université Laval : Building Rich Experiences

Université Laval is the oldest education center in Canada and it's adopting the latest technology from Oracle to provide a context-rich experience for their users. In this session, you'll learn how Université Laval leverages Oracle to create an interactive user environment that integrates Web 2.0 technologies, third-party applications, collaboration and content management to improve their business processes, enrich workflows and provide users a better experience.

I got an audience of approximatively 70 persons in the room and got very good comments on my presentation as well. I met interesting persons and had a chance to chat with one of the Gartner's analyst that was there.

I'll be doing a longer version of that presentation with more technical details in three weeks at the Collaborate 2008 event that will be held in Denver (April 14-17) if you plan to be there and would like to see it.

The event was interesting, we heard stuff about the latest trends in portals, content and collaboration. It was my first experience at a Gartner event and I did enjoy it. It's high level stuff but very interesting if you want to get a neutral opinion on some of the products that are available on the market today and also hear about what will be the next hype in the portals, content and collaboration industries.

Now Chief Architect of Université Laval

Recently, I moved to Université Laval where I have accepted a position there: Chief Architect. I've been working since January 2007 at Université Laval as a consultant where I've been part of very interesting projects:

• Sungard's Banner deployment;
• PeopleSoft HCM deployment;
• Oracle Grid Control deployment;
• the ENA project (Environnement Numérique d'Apprentissage - Digital Learning Environment) that is a replacement for WebCT with very cool new features (unique student's and teacher's portals, collaboration services (workspaces, personal spaces, presence server, email, calendar, etc.) and very rich user interfaces);
• depolyment of an Identity and Access management solution (including SSO) ;
• enterprise architecture.

Université Laval is based in Quebec city and is the oldest university in Canada (founded in 1852). It's also the first french speaking university of America. There is 16 faculties, 13 services, 350 programs offered in 17 schools. There is 38 000 students and 7 000 employees.

Here's the URL of Université Laval web site if you want to get more information about this university.

Within that new role, I will now cover a new topic on my blog : high education.

Utah Oracle User Group Training Days 2008

13-14 March will be held the Utah Oracle User Group Training Days 2008 in Salt Lake city where I will perform the following training sessions:

Oracle WebCenter 11g deep dive

During this 2.5 hour technical session, you will learn the new features of Oracle WebCenter 11g and how you can build dynamic Web portals using this tool. To begin, the brand new WebCenter 11g environment will be introduced to you where you will discover its different layers: WebCenter Framework, WebCenter Services, WebCenter Composer and WebCenter Spaces. Then, each of these layers will be presented in details.

WebCenter Framework allows you to add portlets to your existing ADF Web based applications. In this section, you will learn how to create and add portlets to your ADF Web based applications using JDeveloper 11g and WebCenter Framework.

WebCenter Services allows you to add services to your ADF Web based applications like live content, wikis and discussion forums. In this part, you will learn how you can add one of these services inside your existing ADF Web based applications and configure it.

WebCenter Spaces allows you to create dynamic portals very easily. In this section, you will see an example of personal and group spaces and how they work. You will also learn how you can add your own task flows into your dynamic portal application using JDeveloper 11g and WebCenter Spaces.

WebCenter Composer allows you to modify Web pages that compose your dynamic portal in real time. In this section, you will learn you can use WebCenter Composer and also how you can add your own items inside its resource catalog.

In the next section, its security model will be briefly covered and you will learn how you can add security into WebCenter. Finally, typical deployment scenarios will be covered in order to help you better understand what it takes to deploy WebCenter inside your organization.
Throughout this presentation, you will see live demos and exercises that will show you the features of Oracle WebCenter 11g covered in this technical session.

Oracle BI Publisher deep dive

During this 2.5 hour technical session, you will learn how to install, configure, administer and use Oracle BI Publisher to create dynamic reports inside your organization. Oracle BI Publisher is the latest reporting tool of Oracle that is available as part of Fusion Applications and as a standalone application that you can use to create your own reports. In this session, only the Enterprise Edition release will be covered.

To begin, an overview of its internal architecture will be performed and you will learn how to install and configure Oracle BI Publisher. Then, a walkthrough of its features will be done based on the role of persons that use it in their day to day work: system administrators, developers and end users.

From a system administrator’s point of view, you will learn how you can administer BI Publisher to:

• create and modify existing data sources;
• define users and roles;
• configure the delivery options of the generated reports (email, fax, print, etc.).

Then, from a developer’s perspective, you will learn:

• how you can create and modify data sources using the Web Console;
  
• how to create, modify and deploy report templates using MS Word;
  
• how to run and debug reports.

Finally, from a user’s perspective, you will learn:

• how to access the BI Publisher repository from the Web;
  
• how to navigate inside the report repository;
  
• how to generate a live report and change it’s execution parameters;
  
• how to use the report scheduler.
  

The internal API of BI Publisher will be covered briefly in order to show you how you can invoke BI Publisher from an external application and customize it to your own needs (like changing its look and feel and adding your own logo).

Finally, typical deployment scenarios will be covered in order to help you better understand what it takes to deploy BI Publisher inside your organization.

Throughout this presentation, you will see live demos and exercises that will show you the features of Oracle BI Publisher covered in this technical session.

I look forward to meet you there !

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008

On June 15-19 in New-Orleans, Louisiana will be held the ODTUG's Kaleidoscope 2008 event where I will perform the following technical presentations :

How BI Publisher can help you manage the reports of your whole enterprise

During this session, you will discover how we have deployed BI Publisher to manage the reports of Oracle applications (Siebel, eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft), Oracle ADF Web based applications and third parties applications (Sungard’s Banner). You will also learn the benefits of BI Publisher compared to Oracle Reports for you IT team and your end users plus, you will see how you can mix it with Oracle Content DB and Stellent UCM to stored your dynamically generated reports. Installation, configuration and deployment tips will be shared throughout this presentation. This presentation is based on two distinct customer case studies.

Managing your Oracle Forms, PL/SQL and ADF source files in a single environment

During this session, you will discover how Collabnet Subversion can help your IT team to manage your Oracle Forms, PL/SQL and ADF (Java) source files in a single configuration management environment. You will also learn how you can automate the deployment of your Oracle Forms and ADF applications in your different development environments using Apache Maven and Apache Continuum together. Installation, configuration and deployment tips will be shared throughout this presentation. This presentation is based on a customer case study.

Plus, during the day before the event I'll perform the following presentation during the Fusion Symposium day :

Building very rich portals using Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

During this session, you will learn how we have used Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g to build dynamic rich portals based on SOAs that are used by more than 40,000 users. You will discover how you can use Oracle JDeveloper, ADF and WebCenter 11g to build rich Web pages using dynamic portlets that you can customize at runtime, how you can integrate third party applications together while maintaining context between them, and also how to add collaboration features so your users can communicate with each other in real time. You will also discover how you can store your Web pages in Oracle Stellent UCM and easily manage these documents. You will also learn how you can use the new features of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g to implement business processes and workflows that you can expose through WebCenter 11g in order to give your users a better experience with the system. Finally, a real customer case study will be used throughout the presentation to provide you with a real world scenario.

I look forward to meet you there !

IOUG Collaborate 2008

April 13-18 in Denver, Colorado will be held the IOUG's Collaborate 2008 event where I will do the following (brand new !) technical presentations :

Oracle Portal, WebCenter and Stellent: which one should you use ?

During this session, the three Oracle products that allow you to build portal based applications will be presented. You will see an overview of Oracle Portal, the brand new Oracle WebCenter 11g and Stellent UCM + Site Studio. For each product, you will see the pros and cons and the area where they fit best. Screen shots and customer case studies will be highlighted throughout the presentation. At the end of this presentation, you will have a solid understanding of these three products, how to use them and what you should use them for.

Oracle Fusion Middleware: a set of tools for your enterprise

Did you know that by using Oracle Fusion Middleware you can:

• secure your whole enterprise (provide authentication and authorization with single sign-on enabled, manage identities and still use your existing Microsoft AD);
• create an enterprise service bus to exchange data and services between your Oracle apps and your existing systems;
• create enterprise workflows to share processes between your Oracle apps;
• manage your documents in a central repository;
• provide high availability to your Oracle apps;
• create and manage your reports using a unique tool that your end-users can use;
• still use your existing Microsoft.NET development environment to create your Web applications?

During this presentation, most of the Oracle Fusion Middleware products will be presented with best practices highlighted for each of them. You will discover how Fusion Middleware products can help you integrate Oracle Siebel and Oracle eBusiness suite into your existing systems. You’ll also learn how to implement a SOA with an event driven architecture using Fusion Middleware where some common patterns will be introduced to you. Finally, a real customer case study will be used throughout the presentation to provide you with a real world scenario.

Oracle Identity Management: the best solution to secure your enterprise

Oracle Identity Management is the best security solution available on the market today to secure your enterprise. If you want to know how Oracle Identity Management can secure your applications by providing a unique access control, by securing your Web services, by managing your identities and by centralizing your security while synchronizing your existing security infrastructures, then this session is for you!

Building very rich portals using Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

During this session, you will learn how we have used Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g to build dynamic rich portals based on SOAs that are used by more than 40,000 users. You will discover how you can use Oracle JDeveloper, ADF and WebCenter 11g to build rich Web pages using dynamic portlets that you can customize at runtime, how you can integrate third party applications together while maintaining context between them, and also how to add collaboration features so your users can communicate with each other in real time. You will also discover how you can store your Web pages in Oracle Stellent UCM and easily manage these documents. You will also learn how you can use the new features of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g to implement business processes and workflows that you can expose through WebCenter 11g in order to give your users a better experience with the system. Finally, a real customer case study will be used throughout the presentation to provide you with a real world scenario.

I look forward to meet you there !

Blogtagged !

I've been blogtagged by Shay Smeltzer at Oracle recently and it's now my turn to let you know height things you probably don't know about me and tag height other persons after.

8 things about myself

1. I love water sports especially Wakeboard even if I consider myself a little "old" to ride a board. I ride every weekend in the summer. I am not a pro and still have much to learn but I love that. The pleasure to get out of the water on a board and move right to left behind the boat and perform some jumps is so cool !
2. I do camping with my family every weekend and we enjoy doing that. No Internet access, no mobile phone working, just plain nature. My wife, my three kids and myself really enjoy that activity and this has tied us more closer all together;
3. I have an interest for good wine. My stepmother import wine from France and she showed me a lot of stuff about wine and how it is produced. Since then, I drink different kinds of wines and compare those between each other;
4. I don't like winter ! In Quebec city, winter is so cold and we have too much snow. But, this is where I leave (this is probably why I work harder during winter than summer !);
5. I like to play golf but I definitely need to follow some golf classes. When you play golf, you are in the nature and some golf courses offers you really impressive views. This is the best place to relax and discuss about everything with your friends and / or your customers (when you are on business duty);
6. I enjoy playing the "Guitar Hero" game on the XBOX 360 box - I am not a "gamer" but definitely like to play that game (when I can find time for that hehehe). I try to improve myself each time I play;
7. I played bass guitar when I was younger. I even have also played in a group. At that time, I wanted to do that everyday and become famous. I wanted to go in California to study bass guitar in order to become a rock star and start record my own albums. Today, when I go on stage, it's to perform presentations about IT - not to play music !
8. I got a Mustang GT sports car a couple years ago that was incredible (red color fully equipped). I love sports car but now drives a family car (much better when you have a family). This has been a dream comes true for me to buy that car (Mustang GT) but did cost a lot at that time !

That's it ! I hope that you enjoyed learn new stuff about me.

Here's the list of persons I now tag Mike Lehman, Lonneke Dikmans, Lucas Jellema, Omar Tazi, Matthias Wessendorf, Faisal Ghadially and George Trujillio.

NYCMetro: Enterprise Content Management technical session

Here are the notes I wrote during the session titled “Enterprise Content Management” by Bryan Christie from Oracle:

• Oracle has more than 2000 content management customers where 1000 of them have deployed ContentDB;
• With the Stellent acquisition, that number has increased to 4000;
• Bryan has more than 20 years of experience in that domain;
• from the statistics, with the acquisition of Stellent, Oracle is now one of the leader in the Content Management space behind OpenText, EMC and IBM

Enterprise Content Management platform

• enterprise document services;
• automate process oriented imaging applications;
• find and manage content in other systems;
• secure info beyond the repository

Product line

• Content DB (runs on top of Oracle DB, Enterprise Manager is used to manage content)
• Universal Content Management
• Imaging and Process Management
• Universal Records ManagementInformation Rights Management

Content DB

• Basic content management services;
• Uses Oracle DB for content storage;
• Use it to consolidate your data

Universal Content Management

• Complete ECM;
• Content transformation;
• Portals / Extranets / Call Centers;
• Multi-site management;Web Content + digital assets + document management

Image and Process Management

• Image-based processes;
• High volume applications;
• Intereact with LOBs systems;
• For one specific customer, it handles 30 000 documents transactions a day;
• For another specific customer, it handles 75 million images per year

Information Rights Management

• Single or group of documents;
• Single person or group of peoples;
• Start / stop times + revoke afterdelivery;
• Single device or roaming across the Internet;
• Open, print, edit, annotate, interact, play, stop and pause;
• Include emails;
• Distributes rights management between centralized server and desktop;
• Classification-based right management;
• Mobile access to sealed information;
• Used internally by Oracle to manage all of their documents;
• You can seal documents by using tools and APIs (assign user rights (roles));
• Licence server required;
• You can monitor access and pre-defined custom reports;
• Security: roles, classifications, users, groups and process;
• Roles ex.: contributor, reviewer and reader;
• Control information;
• Protect documents;
• Audit the users;
• Revoke access;
• Control timeframe

Universal Records Management

• Forms, communications, insurance policies and licences are examples;
• Policies and processes to govern the process of retaining and destroying content;
• Apply records management policies to technology;
• Meet federal and state privacy requirements;
• Retain records long enough to meet regulatory and business requirements;
• Pause records according to policy;
• Meet regulatory obligations (HIPAA);
• Don’t retain more content than is necessary;
• Apply policies consistently and universally;
• Enable the right people to design the policies (get IT out of the business of making retention policies);
• Part of Content Server

Architecture

• Records manager
• Physical manager
• Notification manager
• Central policy engine (retention policies, legal holds, business processes)Adapter services / API

Conclusion

• Ensure compliance with federal rules of civil procedure
• e-Discovery
• Better control on sensitive documents

NYCMetro Oracle User Group Annual Meeting

Today was the New-York city Metro Area Oracle Users Group day where I did a presentation on how we have used Fusion Middleware to build Rich Internet Applications based on SOA.

First, here is a picture of the registration desk (near 300 attendees as assisted to this event this year)

Of course, you can’t come into New-York without taking a little tour of the main attractions. For your eyes only, here are some shots I took during the last two days:

here’s the Madison Square Garden...




then, the famous Empire State building...


a view of the “downtown” area of New-York city from the Empire State building...

a view of the “uptown” area of New-York city taken again from the Empire State building...

here’s the NewYorker Hotel where the event has been held...

the well known Nasdaq building...

I couldn't pass by Times Square of course !

The biggest Macys of the United States...

What would be New-York without its many taxis ?

Wanna see one of the famous Trump’s towers ?

A beautiful view of the Times Warner towers from Central Park (that is amazing by the way – a big park located in the middle of the biggest city I ever saw)...

Of course, here’s what looks like Ground Zero today...

let see now the Brooklin bridge...

and the uptown seen from the sea...

of course, the Statue of Liberty...

and finally, the World Trade Center as it looks like today (you can see the new tallest ever building under construction (supposed to be 1776 foots high))...

Now let’s get back to the event...

The general session begun with the actual president of NYC Metro User Group that gave some details about that event and the New-York users group :

• this is the fifth meeting;
• NYOUG was founded in 1984;
• it has the following SIGs : DBA, Web, Data Warehouse and UCM (Universal Content Management);
• Wim Coekaertx, Kim Marie Mancusi and Bryan Christie from Oracle are here today to give presentations

Then Wim Coekaerts, VP of inux Engineering at Oracle, also known as “Mr. Linux” did a small presentation about Oracle’s Linux strategy.

After that session, I attended the technical session titled “Enterprise Content Management” gave by Bryan Christie from Oracle – session that was very interesting by the way (notes taken to follow on a separate post). Then, I saw the technical session "Made from the Same Mold: Templating Approaches for Fusion Applications" from Peter Koletzke that teached the different ways of creating and using templates in JDeveloper.

After that, this was lunch time where everybody eaten at the same place.

Finally, I did my session titled “Building Rich Internet Applications based on SOA using Oracle tools” in front of a little more than 30 persons. I got very good comments and questions about my session and drove back to the airport after that session to be sure I can get back on time home. This was an interesting event with interesting persons in the biggest city I saw until today !