Vendor Product Awareness Sessions

The OAUG offers a unique educational opportunity to Oracle Applications users through its Vendor Product Awareness (VPA) sessions. These free sessions are provided on Mondays and Wednesdays by OAUG Associate members seeking to showcase their complementary products and services.

If your company is an OAUG Associate member interested in hosting a VPA session, the OAUG is now accepting applications for 2009 sessions and they are expected to fill quickly. Please refer to the VPA provider information page for details.

Upcoming OAUG Vendor Product Awareness Sessions

Convert Data to R12 without Reinventing the Wheel

A Webcast Hosted by IT Convergence

June 29, 2009
11:00 a.m. EDT / 8:00 a.m. PDT / 15:00 UTC

Presented by Marcelo Albajari

Oracle Release 12 is the Future of E-Business. The incentives to upgrade are becoming more and more evident, but before you can successfully upgrade, you need to convert your data. Data conversion sounds like a mundane detail, until you consider that 64 percent of data conversion projects do not finish on time. Worse yet, 37 percent finish over budget. This Webcast reveals how you can avoid those pitfalls to achieve quality, cost-effective data conversion. And best of all, you can accomplish this without reinventing the wheel!

Consider Managed Services Options in a Tough Economy

A Webcast hosted by Solix Technologies

July 1, 2009
2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT /18:00 UTC

Presented by Mark Lee, Sr. Vice President - Services, Solix Technologies

Businesses are struggling to keep their IT budgets in check given today’s challenging economic conditions. Managed Services for Enterprise Data Management, rather than acquiring perpetual license for such software, is an option to consider.

With Solix Managed Services’ offering for Database Archiving, Test Data Management and Data Masking, customers will improve cost savings, free up limited IT resources for other business priorities and speed up the service deployment process.

In this Webinar for DBA Managers and IT Directors, you will learn how Solix Managed Services’ offering is designed to:

Provide easy access to a range of integrated solutions from industry’s most comprehensive enterprise data management solutions portfolio provider.
Improve IT economics with pay-as-you-go subscription models, and thereby greatly reduce the organization’s infrastructure needs.
Pick between flexible agreement options, which can be based on usage (On-Demand) or service level (Managed Services).
Get credits for future migration to perpetual license.
Streamline data management needs to operate more efficiently and effectively based on On-Demand and Managed Service offerings.
Free up limited IT resources for other business priorities.

Leveraging Integrated HRO Synergies to Gain Competitive Edge

A Webcast Hosted by Hexaware Technologies

July 8, 2009
12:00 p.m. EDT / 9:00 a.m. PDT / 16:00 UTC

Presented by Sridhar Rangachari

Hexaware Technologies will share its experience of synchronizing the IT services with the BPO powered by Oracle services to revitalize the HR operations of a Logistics Major. Hear from the expert on:

The current challenges in managing huge HR data.
Efficiencies from global HR data repository — the consolidation strategy to bring disparate HR systems under a centralized Oracle instance.
Value-add and focus in core domain area through automation of labor-intensive processes such as data entry, collecting employee information through People-Find, global data cleansing and People Direct — BPO support.
Support your HR functions through maintenance mode for People-Find, new hire/termination, appraisal help desk: performance management, HR module and manual compliance report.

Finance: Spend More Time Managing and Analyzing

A Webcast Hosted by Excel4Apps

July 15, 2009
1:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 a.m. PDT / 17:00 UTC

Presented by Kathy Engler, Finance Lead, Tetra Tech Inc. and Scott Stollwerk, Regional Sales Manager, Excel4apps

Moderated by Chris Meyer, Managing Director Excel4apps, Americas

GL Wand from Excel4apps offers an easy Excel interface to Oracle GL, enabling highly efficient finance reporting, shorter month ends and fast refreshes. In this Webinar, Kathy Engler from Tetra Tech Inc. will share her organization’s experience of how to empower the finance department to spend less time generating data and more time analyzing it!

Learning Objectives:

Learn how the finance team can spend less time extracting and manipulating data.
Learn how finance can optimize managing and analyzing information.
Learn how finance can create and customize reports independent of IT.
Learn how to reduce your intercompany reconciliation process from seven to one days.
See how to optimally leverage the power of Microsoft Excel.

Optimize Your Investment: Sustaining a Learning and Performance Strategy in your Organization

A Webcast Hosted by RWD Technologies

July 20, 2009
12:00 p.m. EDT / 9:00 a.m. PDT / 16:00 UTC

Presented by Mal Poulin, Enterprise Market Director

After enthusiasm over an implementation or upgrade passes, organizations often face critical and difficult challenges in building and maintaining needed infrastructure to sustain a new system and support skills — for implementing a new ERP landscape, upgrading to a new release or designing and implementing new business processes. Attend this session to learn how an effective sustainment strategy will result in lower cost of ownership; strong business and IT alignment; standard approaches and centralization across the enterprise; better customer support and satisfaction; and achievement of the expected business outcomes.

Get Dynamic Oracle Documentation with Tutor and UPK!

A Webcast Hosted by IT Convergence

July 22, 2009
11:00 a.m. EDT / 8:00 a.m. PDT / 15:00 UTC

Presented by Melissa English and Christina Dooley

Start your implementation out on the right foot. Begin documenting your business process documents for SOX, ISO and/or other regulatory requirements. Create your implementation test scripts. Transform all of the information into training material for a robust desk reference manual with interactive training solutions.

Discover how ITC’s solutions combine Oracle Tutor and Oracle’s User Productivity Kit (UPK) to document business processes and procedures while simultaneously creating reusable eLearning simulations and test scripts. You'll also learn differences and similarities between the two tools and understand how to use them together as complimentary tools.

Validate and Upload Manufacturing and Inventory Data into Oracle EBS Via Excel!

A Webcast Hosted by More4Apps

July 24, 2009
3:00 p.m. EDT / 12:00 p.m. PDT / 19:00 UTC

Presented by David Wright and Sarah Conzemius

This session will focus on validating, updating and uploading data including Items, Bills of Materials, Routings, Material Transactions and Inventory data into Oracle E-Business Suite through an Excel interface using More4Apps Wizards. Users will learn how to load data into Oracle Applications quickly and easily through an Excel interface. The Wizards provide data validation, and any errors will be returned to the spreadsheet for the user to resolve before loading into Oracle. More4Apps Data loading Wizards are available for Financials, Project Accounting, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and more! This session will go through Item Wizard, BOM Wizard, Routing Wizard and Material Transaction Wizard.

Enhancing Your Oracle® E-Business Suite Spreadsheet Experience with Microsoft® Excel-Based Automation Tools

A Webcast Hosted by Global Software, Inc.

August 19, 2009
2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT / 18:00 UTC

Presented by Sherri Barham, Vice President, Product Management

How many hours did you spend today trying to manage your Microsoft® Excel-based spreadsheet environment?

The use of spreadsheets is an integral part of the decision-making framework of an organization. The inability to gain access to mission-critical information dynamically from within Microsoft Excel, when and how it is needed, can be debilitating to even the most efficiently run organizations. Global Software, Inc., the number one provider for spreadsheet automation tools in the Oracle® marketplace, will introduce a variety of concepts and best practices through the Business Excelligence (BE) platform within the Microsoft Excel and Oracle environments that will enhance the overall Oracle application experience.