March Meeting of Philadelphia Oracle User Group

There will be two presentations, general discussion, refreshments and opportunities to meet and discuss Oracle technology with your peers.

Topics:

Managing in a sea of data - Actifio Inc.

One of the most frequent and resource consuming data management tasks is duplicating yet another database or data-set for some group within the enterprise. You make copies for development, copies for the analytics team, six copies for regression testing. If you have a large ERP system there are major andminor releases as well as patches to manage. We are swimming in data, and that's not even considering the explosion of "Big Data" . Then there are the historical considerations imposed by regulatory requirements. And who in the organization is best equipped and most likely to be responsible for managing all this data?

Oracle Licensing - John Kelly

Oracle licensing has long been a source of concern for organizations. As technology platforms like the Cloud and Exadata have rolled out organizations have needed to reassess their licensing to ensure compliance. Oracle's product acquisitions further complicate matters as use may imply additional license requirements not originally anticipated. How can organizations prepare for and deal with an audit. How can an organization mitigate risk as well as manage costs. The goal of this presentation is to provide clarity and help decision makers and DBAs better understand their options and Oracle's licensing requirements from a technical and business perspective.