Panel Sessions
- Application Integration
- Business Intelligence/Corporate Performance Management
- Financials (CPE credit available)
- Human Resources (CPE credit available)
- Idea Exchange
- Manufacturing, Distribution
- Oracle Fusion
- Technical and System Administration
Application Integration
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Web Services Panel
Basheer Khan, Innowave Technology
The panel members will share their knowledge, experiences, tips and techniques in using Web Services in an Oracle environment. Participate in an educational discussion by a panel of industry experts who will discuss unique and innovative approaches to using Web Services with E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications. Learn about Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Fusion Middleware, Project Fusion and more.
Business Intelligence / Corporate Performance Management
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Overview of Daily Business Intelligence and Oracle Balanced Scorecard
Karthik Chakkarapani, American Hospital Association
Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) is an out-of-the-box reporting and analysis framework that enables senior management to see relevant, accurate and timely information using dashboards and drill-to reports. DBI is embedded into Oracle E-Business Suite applications and are easy to implement with minimal setup time and resources. DBI uses a radically simplified architecture that maintains summaries and transactions within the same data model, which dramatically reduces the costs. Oracle Balanced Scorecard aligns management actions with corporate strategy by providing tools to deploy customized corporate performance management solutions. Oracle Balance Scorecard delivers custom graphical scorecards, performance results, drill-down reports and lets users click on any indicator to perform more cause and effect analysis. Oracle Balance Scorecard is tightly integrated with Oracle DBI. This panel will give an overview of DBI and Oracle Balanced Scorecard to include: architecture; key benefits; extensibility and customization; quick and easy deployment; cost effectiveness; end-user features; and administrator features. Also provided will be an overview of financial intelligence, HR intelligence and how DBI fits into Oracle’s next generation Oracle Fusion architecture.
Financials
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Delivery of XML Publisher Formatted Reports
Kris Gazula, Sirvisetti Systems
Course Level: Intermediate
Oracle XML Publisher (XMLP) provides yet another option to format reports for the Oracle end users. What options do Oracle customers have to deliver the XMLP formatted reports? Does XMLP work for businesses of all sizes? Does it solve all formatting problems? This panel will discuss challenges and what is ahead.
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Web ADI and Report Manager
Josh Scheumann, INRANGE Consulting
Marsha Edgell, Biztech
Robert Trego, CIBER
John Belanger, Whitbread TechnologyCourse Level: Basic
Learn the capabilities of Web ADI for financial reporting and the integration with General Ledger. Not only handle your Journal Entry uploads as you did with Client ADI, but now with Report Manager, also publish your financial statements to HTML, PDF and Excel via the Report Manager tie-ins.
Human Resources
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The Road Ahead for Oracle and PeopleSoft HCM Users
Tim Stofka, Titan Technology Partners
Course Level: Intermediate
As users of Oracle’s or PeopleSoft’s Human Capital Management Solutions, now is the time to reflect on the similarities and the differences between the two solutions and what the future holds for your company. This panel will discuss their experiences, your options and what to expect with Fusion.
Idea Exchange
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Procure to Pay
Terri Dunn, Heidrick, Basheer Khan, Innowave Technology
Looking to connect with your peers on a specific topic, but don’t know how to find people with your interests? Why not try one of the Idea Exchange sessions, where we hold an audience-driven discussion about a specific topic. We provide the facilitator, you bring the ideas, issues and tips to exchange.
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Order to Cash Flow Process
Becky Tipton, Blood Systems, Inc.
Looking to connect with your peers on a specific topic, but don’t know how to find people with your interests? Why not try one of the Idea Exchange sessions, where we hold an audience-driven discussion about a specific topic. We provide the facilitator, you bring the ideas, issues and tips to exchange.
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Carol Kummer, American Hospital Association
Scott Elequin, DCC ServicesLooking to connect with your peers on a specific topic, but don’t know how to find people with your interests? Why not try one of the Idea Exchange sessions, where we hold an audience-driven discussion about a specific topic. We provide the facilitator, you bring the ideas, issues and tips to exchange.
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Reporting: XML
Faun deHenry, FMT Systems
Lisa Palermo, People ROA, Inc.Looking to connect with your peers on a specific topic, but don’t know how to find people with your interests? Why not try one of the Idea Exchange sessions, where we hold an audience-driven discussion about a specific topic. We provide the facilitator, you bring the ideas, issues and tips to exchange.
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Reporting: FSG, Discoverer, Business Intelligence
Lisa Palermo, People ROA, Inc.
Faun deHenry, FMT SystemsLooking to connect with your peers on a specific topic, but don’t know how to find people with your interests? Why not try one of the Idea Exchange sessions, where we hold an audience-driven discussion about a specific topic. We provide the facilitator, you bring the ideas, issues and tips to exchange.
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Database
Sandra Vucinic, VLAD Group, Inc.
Looking to connect with your peers on a specific topic, but don’t know how to find people with your interests? Why not try one of the Idea Exchange sessions, where we hold an audience-driven discussion about a specific topic. We provide the facilitator, you bring the ideas, issues and tips to exchange.
Manufacturing, Distribution
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Lessons Learned in Implementing Oracle Applications in an Engineer-to- Order/Project-Manufacturing Environment
James Martin, Lucidity Consulting Group LP
Please join executives and users from several ETO, CTO and project manufacturing companies, including Butler Manufacturing (ETO), MAC Equipment (ETO/Proj. Mfg.), American Leather (CTO) and Powell Industries (ETO/Proj. Mfg.), to discuss issues encountered and lessons learned in implementing Oracle Applications. Every ETO, CTO and project manufacturing entity faces their own unique set of business requirements and obstacles. Common challenges include: how to structure BOM’s; tracking and managing costs incurred through the entire life cycle of the project; configuring orders; maintaining flexibility in the engineering change-order process; and quoting. Each of the panel members have been through the implementation process and will share the obstacles they encountered, how they negotiated these obstacles and lessons learned.
Oracle Fusion
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Fusion Panel
John Stouffer, Solution Beacon, LLC
Don’t miss the Oracle Applications Fusion Council panel! We will have the most recent updates on the status of the Fusion Middleware and the Oracle Fusion Applications followed by Q&A with industry panel Council participants from multiple industries, representing multiple user groups. The Council is your user group feedback mechanism for features and enhancements in the new Fusion Applications and Middleware.
Technical and System Administration
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Optimization Panel
Mark Farnham, Rightsizing
The Panel will be a question and answer format focusing on performance challenges of Oracle Databases serving the Oracle Enterprise Applications. The session will start with quick tips from experienced database pros, followed by attempts to answer questions from the audience.
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Best Practices for Securing the Oracle E-Business Suite
Randy Giefer, Solution Beacon, LLC
Authentication, authorization and audit. Least privileged access. Role-Based Access Control. Networks, firewalls and proxy servers. Why do you care? What is important? What really works and what doesn’t? These topics, as well as many others, will be addressed by the security panel experts.
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11i Upgrade Panel
Chad Nester, Terillium, Inc.
The 11i Upgrade Panel will be answering pre-submitted questions from OAUG Net and then taking questions from the audience. Audience participation and questions are encouraged. This is a great opportunity to get your questions and concerns addressed by a group of experts with a vast array of experiences. Various short topics may also be presented.
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Middleware Implementation and Performance Panel
Elke Phelps, Humana, Inc.
The Middleware SIG is conducting a panel discussion to answer your questions regarding implementation and performance of the Middleware components. Join the Middleware SIG leadership team, as well as our Oracle liaisons for this session and some insight regarding the path to Fusion.
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11i Cloning Panel
Sandra Vucinic, VLAD Group
This panel will discuss differences between available 11i cloning methods — “adclone” and “rapid clone.” Advantages and disadvantages of each cloning method will be discussed in depth. This panel of experienced database administrators will lead a discussion focusing various issues, such as which cloning method is best to use in your particular environment, what cloning methods are available on a Unix or NT platform, which cloning method is best to use for my version of applications and what cloning methods are available with Oracle 10g and 9i database. Also addressed will be how to clone RAC system and Shared File System. Attendees will gain practical knowledge, tips and tricks to assist with cloning of applications 11i environments with a focus on version 11.5.10 and 9i database.
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Migrations to Linux Panel
Sandra Vucinic, VLAD Group
This panel will discuss necessary steps and tasks to migrate the Oracle database and the Oracle 11i E-Business Suite from any platform to a Linux platform. This panel of experienced database administrators will share with the audience real-world experiences, tips and Linux migration techniques. Further, the panel will review a new tool introduced by the Oracle Linux Platform Migration utility that allows customers to move existing Oracle Applications to Linux OS. Pros and cons of using this tool will also be discussed. Attendees will gain practical knowledge of what it takes, including resource requirements, project steps and a timeline to successfully migrate and run the Oracle E-Business Suite and database on a Linux platform.