Oracle OpenWorld Presentations Available Online

If you missed any of the OpenWorld presentations or simply want to take another look at them, you can do so now: all our presentations are available for download in PDF.

Keynote
	Thomas Kurian’s Keynote Enterprise 2.0, business intelligence, content management, and enterprise portal technologies are revolutionizing the way we find and share information at work. These powerful new technologies can make your organization more innovative, your employees more productive, and your executives better informed. In his keynote, Start in the Middle: The Integration Point, Thomas Kurian showcases how you can gain a competitive edge by using a number of new Oracle products.
Presentations
	Oracle WebCenter and Beyond: Oracle’s Vision, Strategy, and Road Map for User Interaction (S299317) The road map of Oracle WebCenter promises breakthrough capabilities and services for achieving higher levels of personal and team productivity throughout your enterprise. Topics covered in this presentation include using Oracle WebCenter to integrate new composite UIs into your service-oriented architecture. Attend this session to learn how your developers and knowledge workers can work together to create and evolve more-effective social networks.
	Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0 (S297844) From enterprise content management to composite applications, to content-enabled vertical applications (CEVAs), the promise and challenge of Web 2.0 abound. This presentation explores the possibilities and best practices for incorporating the Web 2.0 technology and working style into your strategic enterprise systems.
	Oracle Applications Unlimited and Web 2.0: You Can Have It Now (S299323) End users familiar with Web 2.0 phenomena like blogs, wikis, and social networks are asking when enterprise-ready versions of these features will become part of core business processes. Oracle is already integrating Web 2.0 into its next generation of applications, but in the interim, you can deploy this technology by using Oracle WebCenter. In this session, see how Oracle WebCenter can integrate enterprise-class Web 2.0 capabilities into existing enterprise applications today.
	Web 2.0 in the Enterprise: Balancing Participation and Security (S299325) Today’s enterprise applications built with Web 2.0 technologies and services are highly collaborative and enable a rich set of interactions among users, processes, and content. Due to their eagerness to deploy such applications, architects may tend to overlook critical security considerations. This session discusses the security framework leveraged by Oracle WebCenter to address these issues and explains how the architecture facilitates a balance between participation and security.
	Build Composite Applications Your End Users Will Actually Use (S299480) Oracle WebCenter’s application framework takes user interaction to the next level, and Oracle SOA Suite binds Enterprise 2.0 applications. Both are being driven and refined by real-world needs of Oracle Fusion Applications. This session explains the best practices for orchestrating Oracle WebCenter’s framework and SOA together to present the most compelling user interaction experience possible and ensure quick and willing adoption by your business users.
	Build an Enterprise 2.0 Social Network with Oracle WebCenter (S299489) Today’s organizations seek to maximize the productivity of individuals as well as teams. To that end, enterprises are seeking an integrated, collaborative Enterprise 2.0 environment that exploits the creativity and intellect of every user and group. Oracle WebCenter supports the development of virtual workspaces in which people work together in social networks, supported by a set of intuitive services that enable a wide range of users to come together and share information and interactions.
	Oracle Composer Puts Your Users in the Driver’s Seat with Multilayered Customizations (S299506) How can a unified platform for user interaction be finely tailored to meet your company’s diverse needs? Can one platform be simple enough that your users can personalize their own dashboards and your project managers can customize their own task flows and still allow developers to customize complex business processes? In this session, learn how Oracle Composer, part of Oracle WebCenter, meets both these requirements, using an XML metadata-based, multilayered, extensible approach.
	Increase Business Agility: Give Your Users the Web 2.0 Services They Need Now (S299510) Web 2.0 adoption in the enterprise is being driven by the need for increased business agility and is being limited by the need for integration with existing content stores and information sources. To be widely adopted in a modern enterprise, Web 2.0 services need to support the systems and standards that constitute the existing IT infrastructure. This session showcases how to add Web 2.0 services to your enterprise IT systems by use of Oracle’s standards-based developer framework, Oracle WebCenter.
	Transform Your Siebel Data with Web 2.0: Use Oracle WebCenter to Create a True Next-Generation Interface (S299324) Your end users keep asking for Web 2.0 features when they interact with their data from Oracle’s Siebel data, but how can you make this happen? This session steps you through a simple process to blend the Siebel applications and Oracle WebCenter environment to provide your users a true next-generation interface. Now.
	A Web 2.0 Developer’s Dream Realized: Ultimate Component Reusability (S299492) The popularity of JavaServer Faces as a development framework can be attributed to its simplicity and ease of use. In this presentation, you will learn how Oracle Application Development Framework task flows elevate JavaServer Faces to the next level. The session discusses the pros and cons of portlets and task flows; the JavaServer Faces Portlet Bridge (JSR 301); and how to use task flows and portlets as building blocks to create rich, highly flexible Web 2.0 mashups.
	Guide to the Oracle Portal Road Map for Oracle WebLogic Portal Customers (S298501) This session provides Oracle WebLogic Portal customers with a future road map and information about product releases within the context of Oracle WebCenter Suite. It reviews the new features of the upcoming Oracle WebLogic Portal release and discusses interoperability with other Oracle products and technologies.
	Road Map and Future Directions for BEA AquaLogic User Interaction Customers (S298498) In this session, BEA AquaLogic User Interaction customers will learn about the product’s ongoing development and support and how components of BEA AquaLogic User Interaction (now known as Oracle WebCenter Interaction) are being integrated into Oracle WebCenter Suite. This session covers the planned road map and interoperability with other Oracle products.
	Deploying a Web-Oriented Architecture with Oracle WebCenter, Oracle WebLogic Portal, and Oracle WebCenter Interaction (S298499) Web-oriented architecture is a pattern for creating applications you can extend with lightweight techniques inside and outside a firewall. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon S3, and Google Search use WOA to attract third-party applications. Learn how to implement WOA applications, using Oracle technologies to expose your UI components and data services. This presentation covers the technologies (HTTP, REST, POX, and JSON) and techniques for consuming WOA applications in mashups (MS Popfly, Yahoo Pipes), widgets (Google Gadgets), and RIA (Ajax).
	No REST for the Weary: REST APIs and the Activity Stream (S298497) Activity streams provide a powerful way to tap in to what’s going on with people and processes across the enterprise. In this session, find out how easily you can provide your own activity streams. From simple command lines to scripting languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Java, and .NET, this session covers what you need to know to enrich your portlets and standalone applications with real-time feeds.
	Oracle WebLogic Portal: Using the WSRP Standard to Interoperate and Federate Content and User Interfaces (S298500) Achieving a standards-based, federated application architecture is the focus of this session. Oracle WebLogic Portal utilizes the WSRP standard to implement its federation technologies, which enable you to segment your application content and user interfaces in a federated mode. Come learn how to use WSRP to achieve a heterogeneous federated application architecture across various product technology stacks.
	The Art of the Mash: Oracle Ensemble and New Integration Patterns (S298495) REST is proliferating, more logic is being pushed to the browser, and users are assembling their own composite applications. What new integration patterns do these trends imply for the enterprise, and how can you benefit? This session explores the new integration patterns in the enterprise and shows how Oracle Ensemble enables them.
	Give Users What They Want: Web-Based Data Access and Rich Internet Applications (S298502) The same technologies that are used on the consumer Web for developing applications are infiltrating the enterprise. Web-based and RESTful data access APIs such as those found in Oracle WebLogic Portal make it easier to access disparate datasources, and when combined with RIA technologies (Ajax, JavaScript frameworks, Flex), these APIs can have a powerful impact on enterprise Web applications. This session discusses Web 2.0 technologies and shows how you can rationally use them to build the new-style Web applications today’s end users expect.
	Do-It-Yourself IT: Oracle WebCenter Powers the User-Driven Workplace (S298496) If you’re grappling with how best to help users discover, share, and organize information with colleagues to enhance team productivity, this is the session for you. It shows how end users can build collaborative Web applications, leverage social networks, and easily identify experts through new approaches to dynamic search and discovery, content tagging, Web page creation, mashups, and more.
	Enrich Your Portal with Enterprise 2.0 Services (S299482) In this session, learn how to enrich your standards-based portal deployment with preintegrated Web 2.0 services that are enterprise-ready. See how you can benefit from Oracle’s unique understanding of how to create Enterprise 2.0 services that reconcile the opposing needs of user-friendliness and industrial-strength security and scalability.

WebCenter Demo Pod – Rock OnLine

One of the demo applications we show at the WebCenter demo pod at this year’s OpenWorld is a Web 2.0 rock band site. It features reviews, album information, tagging, search, runtime editing of pages, etc.

Come to demo pod A15 and see how it was built.

Portal Demo Pods at Oracle OpenWorld

Another unique opportunity at OOW is visiting the demo pods and talking directly to Oracle product managers and developers. This year we have 300(!) demo pods: if you spend 1 minute reading just the demo pod signs, it would take almost a day to visit each of them.

2% of the 300 stations cover portal products:

• A12 – Sharepoint and .NET integration
• A15 – WebCenter custom application development (this is where I’ll spend most of my time)
• A17 – WebLogic Portal
• A18 – Enterprise 2.0; WebCenter Spaces
• A19 – Oracle Portal
• A20 – WebCenter Interaction (fka: Aqualogic User Interaction)

And a “bonus” pod that our development team owns as well:

• A51 – Oracle Reports

Come and find us…

Build the Coolest WebCenter Application Ever – in 60 Minutes

Before Oracle OpenWorld 2008 kicks off in a week’s time in San Francisco, I plan to post a couple of highlights from the WebCenter space. This is the first one in the series.

At a conference of this size, one of the toughest challenges is how to best spend your time, what is really worth attending. My number 1 pick is hands down the WebCenter hands-on session. You get a chance to see and touch the product, experience it first hand, and last but not least get a chance to talk to people who build it: you can meet the WebCenter curriculum team.

When and Where?

Sunday, September 21, 2:30pm-3:30pm, Marriott, Golden Gate C1
Tuesday, September 23, 11:30am-12:30pm, Marriott, Golden Gate C1
Tuesday, September 23, 5:30pm-6:30pm, Marriott, Golden Gate C1

So – what is this year’s hands-on all about? It’s a brand new application built especially for the OOW WebCenter hands-on session that has one key objective: to impress you in less than an hour. The scenario is very original, quote from the hands-on document:

El Piju – Company Profile: Natural building is all about achieving sustainability through the use of minimally-processed, plentiful, and renewable resources as well as recycled or salvaged materials that produce healthy living environments. El Piju is your company for environmentally sensitive design and expert guidance on locating the resources you need to construct your sustainable home for the 21st century. What is your vision for your home or office? Let our team of ecologists, architects, and engineers help you make that vision a reality.
The El Piju application provides you with information about the company’s use of natural building materials and related projects. Once authenticated, you can select any of the construction materials used by El Piju, specifically, adobe, cob, cordwood, rammed earth, or straw bale, and access information about it. Search for articles, photographs, and other resources for that natural building material. Do you have a technical question or simply want to read what others have to say? El Piju’s site includes a discussion forum for each construction type. The application also includes a portlet that displays pictures with captions to provide visual examples of each building material. Browse through the pictures in the portlet by clicking the thumbnails.

How cool is this!

From a technical perspective, here are the topics covered in the hands-on session:

• Documents
• Discussions
• Tags
• Links
• Search
• Oracle Composer
• Portlets
• Inter-component communication

And last, but not least, the screen shot of the application.

And if you’re looking for a special mission, try to find out the story behind the company’s name.