QRP International presents the First European Masterclass, 5 days session, 2 dates available, from the 20th to the 24th of June 2011 and from 12th to 16th of September 2011, settled on Como lake shores, Italy. There is increasing demand for learning the practical application of the well known Best Practices in Project & Programme Management. Learning how to apply and tailor a method often goes beyond the skills required to pass an examination. Therefore it is QRP’s aim to bring international professionals together for an intensive session in a great location in order to have an extraordinary learning experience.

The European Masterclass combines 3 different methods, PRINCE2, MSP and P3O, Best Practices in Europe for Project, Programme and Portfolio Management.
“Senior Project Managers, Programme managers, and Senior Project managers aspiring being Programme managers will find this Masterclass, focused on practice, an in depth, concise and smart way to understand how to use and implement methods success oriented” declares Jacobus Groot, QRP International Managing Director.
Three QRP lead trainers will hold participants with the support of two of the major international experts in Best Practices, Emanuele Matteazzi-Manager Strategy & Planning PM DHL and Henny Portman-Head of Global Project Management ING Insurance, that affirms “It will be an opportunity for participants to learn how to apply PRINCE2, MSP and P3O in an international environment and, not less important, in a great location!”.

For further information about QRP European Masterclass contact by email or by phone:

Francesca De Feudis – francesca.defeudis@qrpinternational.com – Tel : +39 031 4310045
About QRP International
QRP International, grown significantly year-on-year from its foundation in 2000, is specialising in PRINCE2-Project Management, MSP-Programme Management, P3O Project, Programme, Portfolio Offices Guidance and ITIL- IT Service Management. The Company has performed its training, certification and consultancy services worldwide in more than 34 countries, in 8 languages, and certified over 10.000 people, through the support of 9 offices worldwide.
www.qrpinternational.com
PRINCE2® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries
MSP® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries
P3O® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries

Attendance cost: 2950,00 Euro

Event organizer: QRP International

Project and Programme Management Masterclass 2011

Oracle and Intel ® have Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: sign up for this exclusive event

Meet the revolutionary new Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and discover how to transform the way they provide services to your company in times of rapid setup, ease of updates and lower cost.
Exalogic know what it is and how it works. You can find out why Oracle WebLogic on Exalogic is the optimal choice for extreme performance, reliability and scalability.

You will also see how the latest Intel® technologies ensure the highest level of safety, efficiency and scalability of the implementation of a private cloud.

Join this free event, you will know:
- How to speed up installation time and reduce risk through hardware and software designed to work together;
- How to get a huge scale elastic running mission-critical workloads;
- How can we build a few dozen to several thousand applications in a single platform easy to manage;
- How to obtain the best possible performance, reliability and manageability of your application server.

Do not miss out: sign up now and discover how the world’s number one application server, Oracle WebLogic, you ensure the best infrastructure for your Cloud.

Event Agenda
9:00 to 9:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:30 to 9:40 Welcome and introduction / Stefano Bucci, Director of Technology Sales Consulting, Oracle Italy
9:40 to 10:20 Extreme Performance with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud / Owen Hughes, Director of Core Technology, Oracle EMEA
10:20 to 10:40 Intel ® technology for Oracle advatages Exalogic and Private Cloud
10:40 to 11:30 Exalogic Elastic Cloud: Revolutionizing the Data Center through Applications Consolidation and Extreme Performance / Matteo Gerosa, Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle Italy
11:30 to 11:50 Coffee Break
11:50 to 12:40 High Performance Applications with Oracle WebLogic and Oracle Coherence / Paul Ramasso, Master Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle Italy
12:40 to 13:00 Three Use Cases showing the benefits of Oracle Applications and Consolidation with Exalogic Weblogic / Stefano Bucci, Director of Technology Sales Consulting, Oracle Italy
13:00 Lunch and networking

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Oracle has recently launched a new program aimed at Specialized Oracle Partner Network. This program is strongly centered on the theme of a specialization that is becoming more distinctive and qualifying to increase their market competitiveness.
To help in the path of specialization we decided to organize a seminar on Oracle Service Oriented Architecture at the end of the day where you can make the test Assessment in online classroom directly with our support.

To be able to better support is important to note that the training is geared to people with technical and is recommended to follow the training online and try to run the test a few days before the site of the Competency Center.

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What is a B-tree index, what is a Bitmap index and why is it so different? How does Oracle build indexes? How many different ways can Oracle take advantage of an index.

When will Oracle use an index to accelerate a query? The popular and potentially damaging misconceptions about indexes. How to identify the optimum set of indexes for your application? How do you identify redundant indexes?

For more details on the event please check out the event’s webpage: http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getCourseDesc?dc=D70365_928835&p_org_id=32&lang=I

Attendance cost: € 600

Event Organizer: Oracle University

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This tutorial has two targets:

* First: how do you improve the performance of a production system by attacking inefficient SQL.
* Secondly: how do you design a system so that you can get data into and out of it efficiently.

For more details on the event please check out the event’s webpage: http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getCourseDesc?dc=D70365_932893&p_org_id=32〈=I

Attendance cost: € 600

Event Organizer: Oracle University

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Following up on the sold-out event in 2009, we are proud to announce the 6th Annual Project & Portfolio Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry conference,that will take place in September 2010 in Milan, ITALY!

FIND OUT THE MOST EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE THE INNOVATION & STRONG PORTFOLIOS IN A CURRENT PAYER-DRIVEN & LIMITED RESOURCES ENVIRONMENT AT OUR CONFERENCE IN MILAN!

After 5 successful annuals and the industry feedback, we are bringing a well-balanced program full of real life case studies on major achievements in Project & Portfolio Management Approaches established across leading Pharma companies.

Testimonials:

“Good balance of speakers, great learning experience and excellent chairman!”
Director Research Project Management, MedImmune, UK

“Very high-quality & influential speakers.”
Portfolio Director, AstraZeneca, UK

“Very practical, inspiring and high-level agenda. Very good conclusions from the chairman. ”
Senior Portfolio Manager, GlaxoSmithKline, Belgium

Expert Advisors:
Head of Discovery Research, Roche, Switzerland
Vice President Portfolio Management, Strategic Planning, Bayer Schering Pharma, Germany
Vice President Project Management R&D, Amgen, USA
Scientific Vice President, Novo Nordisk, Denmark
Head R&D Portfolio Management, UCB, UK
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer, Ipsen, France
Executive Vice President Research & Development, Nycomed, Germany

Key speakers:

Vice President Special Operations, Worldwide Research Centers of Emphasis, Pfizer, UK
Global Head Portfolio Management & Reporting, Sanofi Aventis, France
Head Global Project Management, Abbott, Germany
Global Head of Portfolio Management & Interfaces Discovery Research and Oncology, MerckSerono, Switzerland
Head Portfolio Management, Bayer Schering Pharma, Germany
Vice President Research, Lundbeck, Denmark
Senior Project Leader Cancer Immunotherapeutics, GSK Biologicals, Belgium
Key topics:

* Explore the ways how leading Pharma companies develop their portfolios to add value to key stakeholders
* Trends in portfolio offerings – more for physicians, payers or patients?
* The impact of current payer-driven environment and cost-containment initiatives on managing R&D projects
* Achieving a balanced, rich & varied portfolio in a competitive and limited resources environment
* Innovative approaches to managing Discovery Projects
* Project Management in Late stage Development Projects
* Prioritization and decision analysis tools –decision making on innovation
* Balancing the risks in Project & Portfolio Management – Risk Management in PPM
* Enhancing the innovation & strong portfolios through R&D collaborations and M&A – the role of alliance management & business development

Event Organizer: Jacob Fleming

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Recently, behaviors of pharmaceutical marketing landscape, which includes health care providers, patients, and consumers are changing. Pharma companies are now favoring marketing through new media technologies like mobile-Web integration and online interactivity.

Following five successful annuals, Jacob Fleming Group invites you to the 6th Annual Pharma Marketing & Branding Excellence. Yet again we have gathered worldwide Pharma marketing specialists who will share their knowledge with you. Hear them speak about the most powerful marketing strategies and network face-to-face.

At this conference, you will have the chance to meet true market leaders, top speakers and real experts from pharmaceutical industry. Do not miss the opportunity to gain new knowledge and join us at this event of the year.

Event Organizer: Jacob Fleming

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The current market dynamics have a strong impact on sales of products and require companies to review their internal processes to deeply optimize investments, reduce operating costs, increase margins, constantly improving quality and profitability of the Services.
Companies need to put more focus on process management support services, contributing to margins and customer loyalty: all contact with customers should be considered as an opportunity to increase business.

Customer Service is becoming a strategic area as it is to meet the expectations of the customer who decides where, when and how they interact with the company to suit your needs.

Customer Services must necessarily evolve into account in its innovative strategies for interaction with customers, the new social media like any other channel of contact for:

* Provide a superior customer experience – providing excellent service easily accessible, and personalized multi-channel
* Improving delivery and performance of Services – an organization dedicated to creating and supporting more efficient, effective and productive
* Having analytical tools and decision support – through a single view of customer data are transformed into knowledge in support of sales processes

The meeting will be an opportunity to share with companies the contribution made by the new media, used by clients (web, chat, email, mobile Internet, and all social networks), innovation processes that manage the Support Services to give concrete answers to the needs of alignment with business goals.

Are also presented case studies demonstrating how other organizations already use Oracle solutions to improve the level of customer service and profitability.

The event is reserved for corporate clients and companies who are planning to adopt or implement its CRM system.

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Please join  a full day when the morning following the event online for a virtual OPN Days kick off in the afternoon, in live mode, we will explore the theme of IT Cost Saving trying to understand the values of Oracle technology and marketing enablement tools put at your disposal, to increase the technical knowledge and increase demand generation activities in the market. 
Morning / OPN Days – Virtual Event / 9:30 to 13:00

Loïc Le Guisquet Executive Vice President, Oracle EMEA
Stein Surlien Senior Vice President, Alliances & Channels, Oracle EMEA
Dr. Andrew Sutherland, Senior Vice President, Middleware Business, Oracle EMEA
Andrew McAfee Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management

Afternoon / OPN Days – Executive Forum / 14:00 to 17:30

Paul Aimaretti Director Alliances & Channels, Oracle Italy
Enrico Proserpio Senior Director Sales Consulting, Oracle Italy
Roberto Zampese Business Development Manager – Oracle Core Technology, Oracle Italy
Luigi Cochetti Alliances & Channels Marketing Manager, Oracle Italy
Chiara Garrone OPN Program Manager, Oracle Italy

All contents of OPN Days – Virtual Event will be available in Italian.

NB: The participation at the event and free invitation.

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On the occasion of the European Roadshow Oracle Fusion Middleware Forum, dedicated to news of the new FMW 11g release, there will be a short meeting on the topic of Cloud Computing. Currently Cloud computing is one of the most debated topics. Promises related to a rapid deployment, virtually unlimited scalability and reduced costs, places him as an alternative non-negligible compared to the traditional IT solutions. However, the safety aspects and the complexity of many mission critical systems “may preclude their adoption. In these cases the best approach is to consider a Private Cloud procedure, which ensures the same efficiency and agility of a preserving Public Cloud governance systems and quality of services delivered to end users.

We are pleased to invite the evening of 9 November in Milan for an exclusive round table to give you the opportunity to come previewed on this issue with the guest speaker of the Fusion Middleware Forum in Milan:

* Ajay Patel, Vice President – Product Development
* Regis Louis, Strategy Senior Director – Product Development

Topics will be discussed:

* Characteristics of Cloud Computing.
* Why is a significant change in how technology supports the business today.
* How your organization can ‘begin to build and exploit a platform Cloud.

We are invite you to include this event on the agenda. The meeting will continue at dinner.

The invitation is personal and confidential, please therefore confirm its participation at the earliest call us on 02 006629555 or by writing to cloud_milano@pleon.com