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& Associated Downloads
 

Membership (click here to go to Membership page) is absolutely FREE and optional -- Subscribing/Enrolling as a MEMBER is DIFFERENT than Registering/RSVPing for an individual event or meeting (below).  Our Totally PRIVATE e-mail list is not sold or leased to anyone.  While membership is not required in order to attend or participate in NATCAP-OUG events, Oracle Corp (due to enhanced building security since "9/11") does ask that you RSVP/Register for each event.

è One of the many benefits of membership is that you will receive a couple of invitational messages explaining the main topic(s) of each event, overall agenda, meeting location, and Registration/RSVP links.  Our "usual meeting place" is at the Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) building at 8283 Greensboro Drive, McLean, VA  22102 -- less than a mile from the highway and right next to Tysons II Galleria Mall.  Parking is FREE, and DINNER is generally FREE as well.  And in this new facility, EVERYONE is welcome to come -- no more restrictions on non-citizens :-).  Meetings/Events are generally held on the second or third Wednesday or Thursday of the month.  But see meeting details below for more current info on the next meeting/event.  NATCAP has hosted in Maryland also -- and we have moved our regular meeting location to be closer to Maryland and Washington, DC folks (above).  We also plan to continue holding occasional events in MD/WDC proper.
 

SCHEDULE, REGISTRATION, & DIRECTIONS
FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS/EVENTS
 

  NOTE:   If you are looking for the Oracle SOA Special Interest Group (SOA SIG),
                a chapter of NATCAP-OUG focusing on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA),
                then  Click Here (www.natcapOSOA.org).  Otherwise, keep reading below...

 

 

   EVENTS LISTING
   (Event #s subject to change)


    To receive future meeting notifications by Totally Private Email, SUBSCRIBE:  Visit our Membership page (100% FREE and PRIVATE).

 

    >>> GREAT NEWS:  No More Restrictions on Non-US-Citizens.
            EVERYONE is now welcome to attend our new facility sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton !!! <<< 

 

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1)  BIG DATA ANALYTICS:  Oracle, EMC Greenplum, Hadoop, and Other Products

Thur March 29, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm -- CONCRETE Date
(OK to Arrive LATE or Leave EARLY + People-network before/after session and during brief dinner break.)

Live Demos + Related Topics Covered in this Presentation:
Session 1 (6:30pm to 7:35pm):
 - Overview of Databases and Data Warehousing.
 - MPP Architecture.
 - Data Appliances -- Legacy and Today.
 - Oracle Big Data vs Greenplum and Other Big Data Products.
 - Great Things about ORACLE.
 - Outstanding Greenplum Features and Benefits.
 - EMC and Greenplum:  Virtualization, Backup, and Replication.
 - BIG DATA:  Generic MapReduce Technology + Hadoop as Flagship Technology.
 - Hardware Offerings including VM.

 Dinner & Optional People Networking (7:35pm to 7:50pm + Drinks All Night)

 Session 2 (7:50pm to 9pm):
  - Business Intelligence (BI), Analytics, Reporting, and ETL Tools + Integration.
 - Query Plans.
 - Integration with Oracle, SQL Server, and Other Tools and Third Party Products.
 - Data Quality, Correlation, and Clustering.
 - Data Mining and Predictive Analytics.
 - Estimation and Prediction.
 - Categorization and Predictive Models.
 - MORE DEMOS and DISCUSSION.

FREE DINNER + FREE PARKING :-)

 SPEAKERS:
 - Marshall Presser (former Oracle Corp Lead Technologist 10+ years), joined EMC late 2011.
 - Srinivasa Meka, EMC Lead Technologist.
DATE  & LOCATION  (Concrete):

 - Thur, March 29, 2012 -- Main Session from 6:30pm to 8:45 or 9pm (Q&A til 9pm).
   People can start arriving at 6pm for some people networking time. Dinner around 7:30pm.
   Okay to Arrive Late or Leave Early :-)
   Location is Booz Allen Hamilton building in McLean/Tysons, VA:
   Less than a mile off the highway and right next to Tysons II Galleria Mall.

   Address:

      8283 Greensboro Drive, McLean, VA  22102
     ===> At Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) Building -- See Specific Room# on Registration page below
      ***FREE PARKING*** (Use Visitor Parking)

   >>>  CLICK HERE for REGISTRATION Form with Event Address, Room#, and MAP.
   >>>  For More Information See "Registration & Agenda" further BELOW.

  - For Technology Details before the meeting, visit http://AskTom.oracle.com .
 - Presentation softcopy/materials available for meeting attendees to DOWNLOAD after the meeting.

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES:
> FREE RAFFLE AT END OF EVENING (at this meeting we have a couple of Free BOOKS to give away).

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2)  ALSO See our SOA Special Interest Group Events (SOA SIG):
>>> EVENT DETAILS & REGISTRATION at our SOA SIG Website.
NOTE:  SOA SIG is a Special Interest Group under NatCap-OUG.
            See Details and Registration info at www.natcapOSOA.org.
            The site (a sub-site of THIS site) is currently Under Construction,
            but the events are REAL.  Please come and enjoy -- for Free :-).
   > FREE Events + FREE Food (typically Pizza) & Beverages.
   > Presentation softcopy/materials available for meeting attendees to DOWNLOAD after the meeting.

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FUTURE)  Additional Events by NATCAP-OUG
       and SOA SIG (Service-Oriented Architecture):

      > FREE Events + (usually) FREE Dinner.
     > Visit www.NatCapOUG.org and www.NatCapOSOA.org for Details.
         - Click on Meeting Schedule/Registration under NatCapOUG.
        - For SOA SIG, all events are shown on the main SIG page.
           (SOA SIG is our Service-Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group.)

     > DOWNLOADS (e.g. Presentations, Scripts, Etc) also available on same
         page (Meeting Schedule/Registration/DOWNLOADS).

     > More Meetings in the works for 2012-2013 and beyond.  Planned topics include
        Design & Development Tools, Deployment Automation/Provisioning,
        Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence, Data Integration, SOA,
        Information Security, Oracle Applications / Financials, DBA Tools,
        Project Lifecycle Management, Methodologies, etc.

     > Subscribe to receive future meeting notifications.
        Visit www.NatCapOUG.com and click on Membership.
        Subscribing to our PRIVATE list is DIFFERENT than just Registering
         for a particular meeting.  See Membership benefits on that page.

     > Call Jeff Bertman (703-405-5432) if you want to contribute any
        other topic ideas -- or you may want to be a speaker :-). 
 

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   REGISTRATION & AGENDA FOR EVENT #1 (above)
   on Thur March 29, 2012  (Early Evening)
  

  • >>> PRESENTATION INFO & WEB LINKS shown above <<<
     

  • REGISTER HERE for the Next NATCAP-OUG Meeting (CLICK HERE):


         Building Security strongly prefers you to register at least 24 hours before the meeting/event -- although if you bring a Legal Photo ID (e.g. Driver's License), they generally let people register at the door.  The registration process is totally PRIVATE.  We do not sell or lease the list to anyone.
    EVERYONE CAN COME -- NO MORE SECURITY RESTRICTIONS :-)
    Our new facility sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) does not restrict non-US-citizens from coming!!!
    Since the building is used for government work, Security simply needs to keep a log of ALL visitors, and
    distinguish those folks who are non-citizens.  So the Registration form simply asks if you are a US Citizen.
    EVERYONE is equally welcome to our events, this is simply a building security policy.

     

  • MEETING DETAILS for EVENT #1 (FREE):
     

     LOCATION:   Booz Allen Hamilton building in McLean/Tysons, VA
                              Less than a mile off the highway and right next to Tysons II Galleria Mall    .
    ***FREE PARKING*** (Security/Valet will direct you to Visitor Parking)

    Address:             8283 Greensboro Drive, McLean, VA  22102
                              See Specific Room# on Registration page below

                              >>> CLICK HERE for REGISTRATION Form with Event Address, Room#, and Map.
       
    DATE/TIME:   Thur 3/29/2012, 6 or 6:30pm to 9pm (OKAY to arrive LATE or leave EARLY)
                              Main topics start at 6:30pm after some people networking time.
                              FREE DINNER around 7:30pm.
                                See TOPIC DETAILS in the "Events Listing" for Event #1 above.
    NOTE:  Your email invitation (if you received one) may indicate a NEWER event than the one shown here.
                RSVPing/Registering above or by email will register you for the NEWER (more recent) event.

     AGENDA
    First 30 Minutes + Later During 20 Minute Dinner Break from 7:30 to 7:45pm: 
                             - People Networking Sessions
                             - Beverages available All Night (+ Dinner around 7:30pm)
                             - Opportunity Announcements
                             - Groups of People with Common Tech or Business Interests/Knowledge
                             - SPECIAL ACTIVITIES -- See EVENT LISTING near top of this page if applicable
                               (e.g. sometimes we have FREE RAFFLES of books, products, shirts, mugs, etc).

    MAIN TOPIC:  As described above.

    ALSO INCLUDES:
      ØØØ  Presentation Downloads available to meeting attendees.
      ØØØ  LOTS OF Q&A.


       ØØØ  People are also encouraged to SHARE experiences (Problems and Success Stories).


       ØØØ  FREE EVENT + FREE FOOD

     
     

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REGISTRATION & AGENDA FOR OTHER / FUTURE EVENTS:


Events are posted here and sent via email to SUBSCRIBED Members.
Subscribing to NATCAP-OUG is different than just registering to participate
in a single event.  Our mail list is totally PRIVATE (not sold or leased to
anyone).  For member subscription info...
click here or visit www.natcapOUG.org and click on Membership.
Registering at NatCap-OUG will allow you to receive full benefits for
both NatCap-OUG and our Special Interest Groups such as the SOA SIG.
Or if you are interested ONLY in SOA technologies, visit www.natcapOSOA.org
so you will not receive messages about other NatCap-OUG events.
 

 

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MAP & DRIVING DIRECTIONS

Click for Map and Details about our Usual meeting place:

          ==> See REGISTRATION & AGENDA above for Specific Building Name/# and Room #
                   *or* Ask Main Building Security Staff for "NatCap-OUG".
                  Booz Allen Hamilton campus in McLean/Tysons, VA
                  8283 Greensboro Drive, McLean, VA  22102
                  Less than a mile off the highway and right next to Tysons II Galleria Mall.

 è FREE PARKING -- Security/Vale will direct you to Visitor Parking.

  è VERIFY the location of a specific event/meeting by reading the "EVENTS LISTING" above OR see your email invitation (if you received one). 

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FYI, PAST PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS
(--- Some of these may have associated DOWNLOADS further below ---)

  • Tom Kyte, Oracle Corp popular book/magazine Author presented
    Things you Didn't Probably Didn't Know about SQL and PL/SQL.
     (Tom is Author of Oracle Magazine's well known ASK TOM column + Author of popular Oracle Press Books)
     ==> DOWNLOAD Presentation AND related SQL scripts:
     - CLICK HERE to Navigate Directly to AskTom Site
       or Visit http://asktom.oracle.com --- Click FILES at top, scroll to "NatCap meeting January 2012".

  • Greg Palmer, Engineering Principal, CLOUDERA -- formerly with Composite Software
    Presented Big Data and Composite Applications in the Cloud + Private Networks.

    ==> DOWNLOAD Presentation + Visit Relevant Sites:
      - CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD Presentation
      - Joint event with our SOA Special Interest Group (www.natcapOSOA.org).
     - Composite Software:  www.CompositeSW.com
     - OGSystems, LLC:     www.OGSystems.com
    ==> HIGHLIGHTS:
      - Heterogeneous environments with MapReduce technologies (e.g.Hadoop and Hive) and Oracle RDBMS.
     - Data Integration / Virtualization / Federation
     - Technical Integration into Data Services, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehouse Infrastructures

  • Mark McCormack, Managing Partner of Omnion Consulting (official Oracle partner)
    Presented Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), focusing on iProcurement and the Configurator.
    ==> Visit the following links for more information:
      - www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/procurement/index.html
     - www.oracle.com/applications/procurement/iProcurement.html
     -     www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/054357.pdf
     - www.omnionconsulting.com

  •  Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner of ZapThink, presented SOA Futures and the "Long Tail":
    - Transition your Organization to SOA Technologies
    - Advance your SOA Career
    ==> See Presentation in Downloads & Links section below.
    ==> Visit www.ZapThink.com for more information.
     

  • Oracle Corp Pat Shepherd presented Fusion Middleware and SOA Suite Newest Releases.
     

  • Oracle Corp Marshall Presser presented Oracle TIMES TEN and Oracle COHERENCE:
    "When Milliseconds Matter -- Solutions for EXTREME Transaction Processing (XTP)"
    (for Real Time, ULTRA-Fast environments).
     

  • Oracle Corp Marshall Presser ALSO presented Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Tech Details & Best Practices
      + techie details on High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Scalability.
     

  • Jeffrey Bertman, Chief Engineer, DataBase Intelligence Group (DBIG) presented on the topic of
     Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence (DW/BI), and introduced a new AGILE BI methodology
    known as the Agile Business Intelligence Lifecycle (ABIL) and an underlying approach called
    the Agile Dimensional Methodology (ADIM).
    ==> Per popular request, see PAPER in Downloads & Links section below.
    ==> See website:  www.ABILmanifesto.org  Under Construction.  Over time
           will contain many more TEMPLATES and updated versions of the paper.
     

  • Tom Kyte, Oracle Corp popular book/magazine Author presented Oracle 11gR2 New Features
    and overall Oracle strategy.
     (Tom is Author of Oracle Magazine's well known ASK TOM column + Author of popular Oracle Press Books)
     ==> DOWNLOAD Presentation AND related SQL scripts:
     - CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD .ZIP File (11gR2.zip)
       or Visit http://asktom.oracle.com --- Click FILES at top, scroll to "NatCap meeting November 2010".

  • Oracle Corp Adilson Jardim presented on the generic topic of
     Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) accompanied by Oracle SOA Suite products.
     

  • Computer Associate’s Senior Director Ken Stewart presented on the generic topic of
     Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) accompanied by CA products.
     

  • Sentrigo VP of Research & Development Slavik Markovich provided both
    an in-depth presentation on general database security/vulnerability, as well as live
    demos of their groundbreaking technology product line -- Sentrigo's Hedgehog for
    Real Time Database Security products (monitoring, auditing, breach prevention, etc).
    See www.sentrigo.com for more information.  Their "Standard" edition product is FREE.
    >>> See details and links to their presentation download under "Downloads & Links" further below.
     

  • S. Jayaraman, Lead DBA for MARRIOTT, presented on Oracle Performance Optimization
    for PeopleSoft and other LARGE SCALE Oracle environments.
     

  • Oracle Corp Wendy Delmolino presented 9i/10g REPLICATION using both New
     Oracle STREAMS technology AND regular Advanced+Basic Replication methods.
     

 

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DOWNLOADS & LINKS  (Selected Past Presentations and Related Files/Links)


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