OOUG Meeting Agenda February 2, 2006

Meeting Location

1111 Polaris Parkway
Columbus, Ohio 43240

From Interstate 71 north of Columbus, take the Polaris exit, heading west. Go to the traffic light with the Chase bank branch on the corner (past Sancus Blvd), and turn LEFT into the Chase Corporate Center.

There is only one entrance where people who do not work for Chase may enter the building. The visitor parking lot is closest to that entrance but fills up by 8:30 or so - please plan to arrive as early as you can. You may park in lots other than the visitor lot, but please obey the restrictions on handicapped and/or individually reserved parking. After entering the building, check in at the security desk and proceed to the Training Center.

Please RSVP by Monday, January 30^th, 2006 to membership@ooug.org
With the change in venue we must give a list of attendees to the Chase security team.  If you plan to attend, or think you might attend, please RSVP.

If you need overnight lodging, see the list of local hotels.

Meeting Cost:

• Free for 2006 OOUG members
• $20 for non-member attendees

The meeting includes presentations, breakfast, lunch and snacks. Gift giveaways will vary but usually include drawings for Oracle books.  All attendees are automatically registered in the OOUG gift drawings. 

Occasionally, vendor representatives will offer additional gift drawings that require attendees to register directly with the vendor in order to be eligible to win a prize.  Registration for vendor gift drawings is entirely at the option of the attendee and is not governed by the OOUG's privacy policy.

Meeting Schedule:

Presentation Abstracts:

Oracle XML Publisher (2-part)

Oracle XML Publisher reduces the high costs associated with the development, customization and maintenance of business documents; while increasing the efficiency of reports management. Utilizing a set of familiar desktop tools users can create and maintain their own report formats based on data extracts from diverse sources. It is now the standard enterprise reporting solution across the Oracle Applications suites and is also now available as a standalone reporting application.

This is great news for report consumers and developers alike, the reports users want provided by IT faster and more easily. This presentation will provide a brief introduction to XML Publisher followed by demonstrations on methods to extract XML from the database, how to build layout templates and move on to show how powerful these templates can be. Then we how these are deployed either to the E Business Suite or the XML Publisher Enterprise release and made available to end users.

Speaker Information:

Tim Dexter

Tim Dexter has been with Oracle for 8 years, prior to joining Oracle he worked in a hospital trust IT department in the UK. Starting in the Financial Applications for EMEA core development team in the UK and moving to its sister team at HQ after a year. Working on Oracle Forms and Reports, enhancing the EMEA offering from Financials. Became an Applications Architect working with a small team on various financials reporting strategy projects. Late 2003 Tim joined the XML Publisher team under the Applications Technology Group as the Product Manager helping to shape an Applications wide Reporting Strategy. The first XML Publisher release was in May 2004 and since then there have been three further releases. Since the Peoplesoft merger, Tim is now involved in the uptake of XMLP into the PS and JDE techstacks and oversees the standalone release of XML Publisher to the non-Apps market.