Oslo, Norway

Derive real Business Value from Extreme Analytics on massive volumes of data?

Data volumes are growing by 40-50 percent per year, but are you really taking advantage of using these large volumes in your business analyses?

Today, social media, web portals, e-commerce, ERP-, CRM- and Content Management systems all generate massive volumes of data, structured as well as unstructured — a potential treasure throve of valuable informationabout customer behavior and business operations. However, this data has not always been readily accessible or integrated in enterprise data warehouses and business intelligence applications.

Until now. Oracle offers a complete portfolio of products that enable you to acquire, organize, and analyze Big Data alongside traditional enterprise data for immediate business value.

Join us at the Extreme Analytics and Big Data breakfast event and learn how you can uncover new business insight through analyzes of big data.

Agenda
8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Welcome
8:40 Big Data and Business Intelligence
With ever increasing amounts of data, structured and unstructured data – how will this affect current and future solutions for Business Intelligence? Thor-Arne Iversen, Technology and Solutions Manager, Affecto
9:00 The tools that make it possible to build the future of BI solutions
Oracle’s new BI tools and what opportunities they can provide. Christen Seeberg, Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle
9:20 And what is the relationship between these tools?
Look at how Oracle’s BI solutions in the best possible way can be used for different purposes and opportunities (BigData / Exadata / Exalytics, Obie / Endeca / Essbase ) Bjorn Runar Nes, Chief Architect, Affecto
9:40 How do things the “new” way? / Affecto see what the difference is between “traditional” and “new” way to implement Business Intelligence and Analysis in the organization, and how to get started quickly? Thor-Arne Iversen, Technology and Solutions Manager, Affecto
10:00 Specifying the value of analysis across unstructured and structured data / Using Endeca (Oracle Analytics) with structured data in Essbase. Can be important, repetitive discovery from unstructured data become part of structured data? Bjorn Runar Nes, Chief Architect, Affecto and Christen Seeberg, Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle
10:15 Questions and summary

Register for this FREE event. Don’t miss this chance to meet with Oracle experts and network with peers.

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Tech Data
Oslo, Norway

Learn everything you need to know about licensing Oracle products and technologies. These training sessions are organized by TechData, an Oracle Value Added Distributor in the Nordics.

This Oracle sales and licensing course will teach you all the practical aspects of buying and selling Oracle licenses, how to read the price list and to offer Oracle licenses for ASFU and FU. We will also affect the common questions about the sale and delivery of Oracle licenses, including examples of the most common licensing environments.

The courses will have the following agenda and content:
- The different database versions
- License Form Processor / Nup etc.
- Core factors
- Virtualization
- Special Partner Program (FU / ASFU / Remarketer)
- Support
- Discounts
- How to read and understand the price list
- End Customer Agreement
- How to order and what information you must provide

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Trondheim, Norway

The Renewable Energy Research Conference (RERC) is a biennial conference organized by the Centre for Renewable Energy. The 1st RERC took place in Trondheim in 2010, and gathered more than 400 participants from 21 different nations. The 2nd RERC will take place in Trondheim in 2012, and is organized in collaboration with Technoport.

During Technoport RERC 2012, scientists from all areas of environment-friendly energy research will have an opportunity to give an update and discuss recent technological and scientific achievements in 12 parallel sessions. The parallell sessions will include both oral and poster presentations. There will also be plenary sessions, organized as Technoport Talks.

The parallel sessions will cover the following topics:
- Sustainable built environment
- Solar energy
- Wind energy
- Marine energy
- Hydropower
- Bioenergy and fuels
- Hydrogen
- Energy systems – smart grids
- Innovation in transition to a green economy
- Sustainability assessment of energy technologies
- The role of technology and engineering in sustainable energy transitions: Social science perspectives
- Transition technologies

In addition, the following three themes will be addressed by all sessions:
- Transition strategies: This theme aims to shed light on approaches to implement emerging energy systems and technologies into the traditional systems; possibilities, material limitations, global potential and suitability, external conditions etc.
- Combating poverty with environment-friendly energy: How can the different energy systems and technologies contribute to “energy for all”?
- Compatibility: Interactions between traditional and renewable energy sources; technological solutions and systems thinking in global, regional and local perspectives.

Technological, societal, economical and environmental impacts of the transition to a green economy will be summarised from the parallel sessions and debated with politicians and industrialists during the Technoport Summit on the last day of the conference.

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Oslo, Norway

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to network with international researchers and practitioners and discuss the latest research findings and trends in Body Area Networks at BodyNets 2012, an event connected to the European innovation community through EAI endorsement.

IMPROTANT DATES:
Deadline for workshops, special sessions, and tutorials proposals: February 15, 2012
Paper submission deadline (short papers, work-in-progress papers, poster papers, student papers):
April 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2012
Camera-Ready submission deadline: August 1, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
The advancement in sensing, embedded computing, and wireless communication has accelerated the progress of adopting sensor networks to form Body Area Networks (BodyNets). BodyNets integrate and deploy wireless sensors, RFID tags, and other pervasive devices within and around human bodies for constructing diverse and practical systems for physiological monitoring, human computer interaction, and provision of entertainment. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying BodyNets. In this regard, the conference aims to establish a forum to exchange ideas, discuss practices, raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers and practitioners in the field of computer science, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, medicine, and other disciplines in both academia and industry. This conference also allows authors to present new and emerging trends to address the technical, social, system and application issues related to BodyNets.
The Seventh International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets 2012) will be held in Oslo, Norway in September, 2012. The Conference continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of results on cutting-edge research in BodyNets. While the mission of the conference is to share novel basic research ideas as well as experimental applications in the BodyNets area in addition to identifying new directions for future research and development the new scientific topics such as nano communication networks, bio-inspired networks, molecular networks, etc. will be considered. BodyNets 2012 will give researchers a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects from molecular to micro level communication to novel applications from medicine to automobile industry. The conference consists of four symposia that cover a broad range of research aspects. In addition, the program will include three outstanding keynote speakers from academia and industry. A panel session on “Nano communications networks: from theory to practical applications” and an industrial track will surely provoke thoughtful discussions. There will also be two tutorials given free of charge to all BodyNets 2012 attendees. We hope that the conference proceedings will serve as a valuable reference to researchers and developers in the area.
TOPICS
The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Network management:
In-body, on-body, and around body networks
Scalable, flexible network architectures & deployments
Advanced propagation and channel model for BodyNets
Fault-tolerance and reliability of BodyNets
2. Embedded Medical Devices:
Wearable system design issues
Integrating BodyNets into the healthcare system
High-Confidence Medical Devices
Medical Device Plug-and-Play
Assistive technologies for independent aging
Interactive Arts
3. Privacy and Security:
Lightweight security solutions for BodyNets
Privacy issues of BodyNets
Authentication and Trustworthiness
Attacks and Countermeasures
4. System and Application:
System design and modeling
Emerging self-powered BodyNets
Pervasive health care and patient monitoring
Entertainment and lifestyle applications
Novel closed-loop applications of BodyNets
Case studies and system deployment
New medical diagnostics and treatments
Ambient assisted living
Smart transportations
Smart homes
Virtual hospitals
5. Networking and Communication
Communication techniques and protocols for BodyNets
Networking and security issues for BodyNets
Advanced propagation and channel model for BodyNets
Novel wireless communication technologies
Cognitive networks for medical bands
6. Nano Communication Networks and Systems
THz communication systems
Molecular communications
Channel modeling
Nano devices
PUBLICATIONS
BodyNets 2012 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings, made available in the ACM Digital Library, as well as in the ICST’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Aimed at business intelligence developers, power users and project managers, this new two-day seminar by Mark Rittman takes delegates through the architecture and thinking behind Enterprise Business Intelligence and shows how the combination of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Fusion Middleware can be used to built integrated, standard-based and enterprise-level business intelligence applications.

Using tools such as Oracle BI Server, Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle Interactive Dashboards, Oracle Answers and Oracle SOA Suite, this seminar shows delegates how to build a next-generation BI architecture from the ground-up.

Find more details and how to register here: http://bit.ly/Mark_Rittman_banner_NO_Feb2011

Attendance cost: NOK 11874

Event Organizer: Oracle University

Register for Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Masterclass

Want to build next generation business Applications? Want to be a Fusion Developer but don’t think you know enough (or anything) about Java?

Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) is at the heart of Oracle’s Fusion Development. But you’ve heard that Fusion Development means drowning in a sea of acronyms and complicated Java coding, Right? Wrong.

This Masterclass takes you through the complete lifecycle of building a Fusion Application, from building your business services, adding validation logic, building templates, creating rich web pages, reusable UI components, templates, drag and drop, popup screens, shopping carts and pie charts; with the focus on rapidly building applications through the declarative features of the products, not on low level coding.

For more details on the event please check out the event’s webpage: http://bit.ly/Grand_Ronald_NO_fe_October2010

Attendance costNOK 5937

Event Organizer: Oracle University

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This new seminar describes advanced techniques for managing Oracle Clusterware and its processes including configuration, diagnosibility and best practices.

The first session of the seminar describes the general function and the different layers within Oracle Clusterware like Cluster Synchronisation Services and Cluster Ready Services.
The second session will focus on the Oracle Clusterware processes, its integration with the operating system and will show which process is responsible for what. We discuss the OPROCD behavior as well as the Oracle Clusterware fencing method.
The third session investigates the difference between CSS and CRS and how they interact. Furthermore, we will address the nodeapps resources, what their functions are and how to change their default values.
The fourth session describes the best practice on Voting Disk and OCR configuration. It will discuss the use of Voting Disks in extended cluster configuration.
The fifth session investigates the network and disk timeout settings within Oracle Clusterware, their tunables and challenges. We address the network/switch redundancy topic.
The sixth session will describe all RACG executeables, the VIP and USERVIP integration as well as how this fits together with ONS and FAN.
The seventh session will focus on the vendor cluster integration with Oracle Clusterware.
In session eight we will discuss and show how simple it is to protect your own application using Oracle Clusterware. There will be a practical example shown on a real installation.
Session nine will focus on the troubleshooting, trace file location and debugging techniques for Oracle Clusterware. We will learn how to use crsctl and its modules to debug and trace Oracle Clusterware issues, and which information is important in order to open Service Requests with Oracle Support.

Topics

* Oracle Clusterware Administration
- init and process layout
- Which process is doing what
- Oprocd and its neighbours
* Oracle Cluster Synchronisation Daemon (CSS)
versus Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS)
* Voting and OCR
- Best practice on Voting
- Voting in an extended cluster
* Network and Disk Heartbeat
- Misscount and its consequences
- Disktimeout and more
* RACHA and his components
- The VIP
- ONS / FAN
- Resources
- RACG
… who is protecting what …
* How is Vendor clusterware integrated
* 3rd party application protection and some examples
* Diag and Traces
- Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware

Event Organizer: Oracle University

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This two day Oracle 10g Performance Tuning seminar will teach attendees how to fully harness the powerful new performance tuning and diagnostic tools in Oracle 10g.
Attendees will learn techniques in order to gain the necessary skills and knowledge to finally conquer their database woes, thus allowing more time and freedom for you.

Topic 1: OEM 10g Performance Tuning Methodology
As a principle designer for OEM 10g performance monitoring pages, Kyle will explain in depth how to powerfully navigate, read and understand the data and graphs in OEM 10g to quickly identify analyze and solve performance bottlenecks.

Topic 2: “Average Active Sessions” (AAS)
Attendees will be taught how to find the values or calculate the value of AAS in OEM 10g, AWR, ASH report, and statspack and how to use this value to analyze database performance health and isolate and identify the causes for a performance problem, including calculating the value from statspack data.

Topic 3: Active Session History (ASH)
Attendees will be taught how to analyze ASH data with OEM 10g, ASH report as well as custom SQL scripts to directly mine ASH data for custom analysis of system so that the attendees will come out of the seminar with a toolkit to analyze and harness ASH data. ASH is a dense multidimensional data source and having a tool kit to analyze this data is crucial to harnessing its power.

Topic 4: Wait Events
In this session, we will discuss in detail the causes, explanation and solutions for all the major wait events including the internal structures responsible for the wait events.

Topic 5: Modern Techniques in SQL Tuning
The past few years have seen the emergence of novel SQL tuning techniques such Oracle’s 10g’s SQL profiles and extended execution statistics, Tuning by Cardinality Feedback, and Oracle 11g’s real-time SQL monitoring and plan stability. All these methods will be discussed as well as the newest method to come on the scene, Visual SQL Tuning (VST). VST is a way to visualize SQL statements graphically in order to quickly understand the major components of a query, the flow of the query and the best execution path for a query. Queries are becoming more and more complicated, to the point of being intractable for most humans, but VST makes is much easier to tune even the most complex queries. Find out how VST works and how it can improve your SQL tuning.

In this session, you will learn:

* How to identify problems in a query
* How to identify problems in schema that affect the query
* How to Identify candidates for optimal execution path

Event Organizer: Oracle University

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What products can you best combine to offer highly efficient, proven solutions for enabling a real-time enterprise?

As a leader in data integration, Oracle offers a complete product platform that offers the fastest, scalable real-time data architecture for customers. By unifying superior capabilities in real time data movement, data transformations and higher data quality, companies can improve business intelligence in the enterprise while ensuring maximum performance, scalability and reducing TCO.

Oracle GoldenGate’s complementary, best-in-class solutions enable real-time data integration and continuous data availability by capturing and delivering updates of critical information as the changes occur and providing continuous data synchronization across heterogeneous environments. Companies are expected to gain improved business intelligence across the enterprise by using more accurate and timely data and increase uptime of their mission-critical systems.

This free half-day workshop provides attendees with detailed insights on:

* How to implement low-impact real-time data movement across distributed and heterogeneous systems, while managing continuous uptime – with the newly acquired Oracle GoldenGate
* How to revolutionize your approach to ETL, by improving efficiencies and reducing development costs – with Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition
* How to reduce risk by bringing trusted authoritative data to the enterprise – using Oracle Data Quality and Data Profiling

Attendees of this workshop will take home valuable information on how to boost and complement existing architectures, as well as how to easily implement new data integration projects that are designed to meet more stringent business requirements.

Plus, benefit from networking time during a complementary lunch.

Who Should Attend

- IT Directors and Managers
- Database Managers
- Data Architects
- Data Warehouse and Reporting Managers
- and Data Integration Personnel.

Event Agenda

08:30     Registration
09:00     Oracle welcome – Data Integration: Innovation for the Real-time Enterprise
09:45     Real-Time Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Oracle GoldenGate
10:15     Break
10:30     Using Oracle GoldenGate’s Data Replication for High Availability
11:00     Beyond ETL with Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition
11:45     Managing Information Quality using Oracle Data Quality and Profiling
12:30     Lunch and Networking
Closing Remarks and Adjourn

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In special market conditions today, each company is looking for its infrastructure equipment for cost efficiency and innovative solutions that generate a higher return on investment. These solutions must be capable of rapid and flexible for future growth.
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g offers an adaptable, cost-effective foundation for mission-critical applications that drive their business. This suite features today’s hottest topics of Cloud Computing.
Make your business – and business applications – more agile, intelligent and sensitive
See how Oracle’s cloud solution can maintain the governance and service quality
Ensure long-term flexibility in heterogeneous IT environments, with technologies like SOA, event-driven architecture, Enterprise 2.0 portals, and more
Take advantage of modern software and hardware architectures – delivering cost savings and innovation

Event Agenda

8:30      Registration
9:00     Welcome
Claes Watndahl, Fusion Middleware Sales Director, Oracle Norge
9:05     KEYNOTE 1: Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
Andrew Sutherland, Senior Vice President, EMEA Technology, Oracle Europe, Middle East, and Africa
9:50     KEYNOTE 2: Cloud Computing with Oracle Fusion Middleware
Lydia Pilkington, Senior Director, Technology Marketing, Oracle EMEA
10:35     Break
11:00     Customer presentation
11:30

Partner presentation: Asynchronous SOA in practice
Bluegarden provides HR and Salary services and systems to mid-size and large companies in the Nordic region.This session covers the experiences from building an event driven SOA solution which keeps involved applications updated close to realtime.

The presentation will cover architectural choices, lessons learned, automated testing and build/deploy strategies.

Tonny Gundersen, Senior Manager, Accenture
12:00     Main lunch
13:00     Breakout Sessions:

SOA & BPM
Attend this session and learn how integrated BPM and SOA with Oracle SOA Suite 11g simplifies the lifecycle of next generation business applications.
Bjarte Drivenes
Master Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle Norge
Web Logic
(Application Grid)
Discover how Oracle Application Grid addresses the need for standardization, consolidation and increased efficiency in running your datacenter.
Torleif Grasto
Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle Norge
13:50     Breakout Sessions:

Identity Management
In this fast growing and dynamic business landscape, building an intelligent security infrastructure is vital to ensure the protection and sustainability of an enterprise and its resources. Oracle Identity Management 11g provides a unique integrated system of security policies, processes and technologies that enable the enterprise to control access to critical resources.
Inge Os
Sales Consulting Manager, Oracle Norge
WebCenter
WebCenter Suite 11g creates a richer set of connections – among people, ideas, content, processes, systems and enterprise application. See how.
Rune Skaug
Senior Sales Consultant
14:40     Q&A and Wrap-up
Claes Watndahl, Fusion Middleware Sales Director, Oracle Norge

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