ODTUG e-news, May 2015

It's Almost Time for Kscope15! Only six weeks left until Kscope15 – the Oracle user group event of the year! What better place to cram your brain with knowledge than the Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida? Combine business with pleasure while you learn from the best in one of the most beautiful locations in the world. Let the Caribbean blue water inspire you while learning from the top leaders all over the world In This Issue  Kscope15 Update Sponsored Blog Post: HTBase Upcoming Webinars Register Buy ODTUG Gear Check out the presentations and register now. Hotel rooms are available at the Beachwalk Resort, a short walk from the Diplomat. Sponsored Blog Post: HTBase Explores SDDC A few years back, HTBase launched in the market what still is the only Hyperion Essbase hot backup and clustering tool, named HTBackup, and quickly attracted the interest of many large organizations.   For a couple of years now, HTBase has focused on what the organization believes to be the next technology that will transform the way organizations manage their IT infrastructure: Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions. Organizations are looking to transform the way they plan and operate the IT infrastructure as a way to reduce cost and complexity. Improving the overall availability of their applications as an agile, reliable, and secure environment is an absolute necessity to support deployments. At the same time, Enterprise IT is under enormous pressure to deliver more value to the business. To meet the challenge, IT must embrace an environment free of traditionally complex and rigid infrastructure operations. Companies are looking for ways to get more web-scale infrastructure capabilities in their environment without needing a complete overhaul. They use standard server virtualization from companies such as VMware and run a host of common off-the-shelf applications. They have little to no control over how these applications are designed and don’t have a team in place to learn about new web-scale technologies. In response to that, HTBase created HTVCenter. This allows your organization to group any hardware you have and manage it at the resource level – independently and by memory, processor, and storage. Read more. (Editor's Note: This sponsored blog post is part of ODTUG's marketing opportunities.) World of Webinars ODTUG WEBINARS: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT The Case for Storing Multimedia in the Database Marcelle Kratochvil, Piction Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT Dodeca Does It! The Top 10 Things You Can Do in Dodeca That You Can’t Do in Smart View Tim Tow, Applied OLAP Tuesday, May 19, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT The Tie That Binds: An Introduction to ADF Bindings Peter Koletzke, Quovera Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT Achieve Agility and Alignment with Oracle's Data Relationship Management (DRM) Alex Ladd, MindStream Analytics Wednesday, May 27, 2015 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT Introduction to BI and EPM in the Cloud Nihar Parikh, EPM Intelligence Tuesday, June 2, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT An OBIEE Developer's Guide to Essbase Integration Tom Blakeley, Performance Architects Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT Oracle ADF and Java Team Development in the Cloud: Why and How Dana Singleterry, Oracle Corporation Thursday, July 9, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT OBIEE and Essbase: Planning for and Executing a Successful Integration Michael Bender and Tom Blakeley, Performance Architects Wednesday, August 26, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT Predictive Analytics: Bringing the Tools to the Data Alex Ladd, MindStream Analytics Register for Kscope15 by June 9 for the Advanced Rate and save $300! How do I become a member of ODTUG? Click here for details! Get your ODTUG Gear today! ODTUG now has an online store! We've got ODTUG hoodies, shirts, coffee mugs, aprons, iPhone cases, and more.