Upcoming Meeting - July 13 - **Click Here to RSVP**

Please reserve the date of Friday, July 13th, 2007 for another great SROAUG Oracle Applications Conference to be held at:

Radisson - Newport Beach

4545 MacArthur Blvd

Newport Beach, CA 92660

(949) 833-0570

This full-day conference sponsored by:

Oracle Corporation

Our conference features both Functional and Technical Tracks running concurrently provided by many great solution providers.

Lunch will be graciously sponsored by:

Cisco Systems

Meeting Agenda:

As always, admission is complimentary to all interested parties, but we do request your RSVP to ensure sufficient meals and seating.

We appreciate your attendance and support of the Southwest US Regional Oracle Applications Users Group (SROAUG). 

We hope you find your association with the SROAUG of outstanding professional value in your on-going use and support of Oracle's E-Business Suite Applications.

Abstracts:

SOA - The Future of Applications - Bill Giovinazzo, Oracle Corp. bill.gio@oracle.com

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implements business processes through the abstraction of the implementation applications. Oracle provides an SOA solution that spans both applications and technology. This presentation will discuss how this integrated solution enables organizations to realize substantive benefits through SOA from their existing applications architecture as well as expand that architecture to incorporate the next generation of products

Siebel CRM On-Demand as Part of Your Integrated EBS Solution - Dave Ronson, Oracle Corp. dave.ronson@oracle.com

Siebel CRM On Demand offers comprehensive sales, marketing, and service automation capabilities as a hosted offering. This presentation will include analytics, pre-built data warehouse, telephony capabilities and integration with Oracle EBS and Microsoft products

New R12 Functionality - the GRC Module (Governance, Risk and Compliance) - Dave O'Connor, Oracle Corp. david.oconnor@oracle.com

This presentation will introduce Oracle’s new comprehensive GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) platform that works across heterogeneous environments. Oracle GRC provides a common foundation for managing risk and compliance documentation, assessment, analysis, and certification, so your organization can reduce costs without compromising compliance. This is a standards-based, service-oriented GRC platform that works across diverse applications and system environments (including non-oracle systems). The speaker will present new functionality and improvements, compared with the ICM Internal Controls Manager.

What's New in E-Business Suite R12 Lifecycle Management?    (a.k.a. What's new in OAM, AD Utilities, iSetup, Application Management Pack for EBS) - Chung Wu, Oracle Corp chung.wu@oracle.com

Oracle E-Business Suite R12 is the latest release of Oracle's industry leading business application suite. Besides hundreds of functional improvements in various application modules, R12 also sports an updated technology stack using the latest generation of Oracle Fusion Middleware, an improved collection of lifecycle management tools, and tighter integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager.

This session will cover improvements made to Oracle E-Business Suite management tools and present a high level overview of the newly introduced Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite.

Employee 2.0: New Ways of Accelerating Engagement - Sherri Bartels, Oracle Corp. sherri.bartels@oracle.com

Blogs, wikis, tags, and podcasts ... what are they? How can your organization harness the new world of web 2.0 to drive engagement and innovation? Join Sherri Bartels, Director of Oracle Workforce Management Fusion strategy to learn about the new tools of engagement, what they are, and how you can benefit from them within a talent management and workforce management context. Sherri will also discuss case studies from leading companies who successfully deploy web 2.0 tools to drive engagement within their enterprise.

Chart of Accounts Restructuring - Eric Brounstein, Zensar e.brounstein@usa.zensar.com

"Chart of Accounts Restructuring on Live Instance without Loosing History - Business reasons require change in Chart of Accounts Structure after go-Live - How to change the Structure of Chart of Accounts in a live instance - How to establish a roadmap between Old COA Structure and New COA Structure - How to convert historical data in the instance to make it compatible with new structure of Chart of Accounts - How to convert Custom Objects to make compatible with new COA - Summary - Renew COA structure without incurring cost of Re-implementation and without loosing history"

Case Study- Extending Oracle Applications with Oracle Integration B2B and BPEL PM - Brian P Rogan, Sierra Atlantic brian.rogan@sierraatlantic.com

Oracle Integration B2B is an enterprise-strength gateway for the exchange of information, electronically, between enterprises. This presentation will provide details on Order-to-Cash business process integrating trading partners with Oracle E-Business suite using Oracle Integration B2B and Oracle BPEL Process Manager. This presentation is a case study of the implementation methodology and the lessons learned by that experience.

Migrating From Oracle Demand Planning to DEMANTRA. What to Prepare For – Process & Organizational Changes - Arun Cavale, NexInfo Solutions arunc@nexinfosolutions.com and Tom Buechler, Turquoise Consulting tom.buechler@tcunltd.com

"We will present an overview of differences between Oracle Demand Planning (ODP) and Oracle Demantra modules. We will also highlight the additional functionality of the Demantra modules. We will list the differences in features, functionality and architecture and how they may impact your current organization and processes. The presentation will address many of the common questions that people on ODP have as they consider moving to DEMANTRA The questions include Functionality and process questions like: ..how do I create my stored and formula measures? ..what happened to my custom data streams? ..where is the drill down on my worksheets? .. how do I distribute to my planners?

Organization / infrastructure / technology questions like: ..changes to the organization structure (Business vs IT) set up for ODP? ..changes needed in the infrastructure ..UNIX vs WINDOWS

The presentation will provide all of the above and more information on migrating from Oracle Demand Planning to Oracle DEMANTRA.

Assessing BI Readiness in Your Organization - Faun deHenry, FMT Systems faun.dehenry@fmtsystems.com

Are your users complaining that they are constantly waiting on IT for reports or that report creation takes too long? Is your company using a variety of inconsistent tools today? Are employees complaining about how long it takes to get up to speed on a tool or that data is rarely available? How can an organization assess whether or not it is truly ready for business intelligence? This presentation discusses key skills, processes, and factors that affect the success (or failure) of a business intelligence initiative.

Get Ready for EBS Release 12! Tasks to Complete Now to Ease the R12 Upgrade Process - Sandra Vucinic, VLAD Group Inc. sandrav@vladgroup.com

Oracle has recently released EBS Release 12 and the first thing that comes to mind is “Oh no, we need to upgrade AGAIN”. As complex Oracle Applications upgrade projects have gotten there are tasks and steps you can complete today in order to get ready and better prepare your 11i environment for Release12 upgrade. Release 12 is the biggest and most complex applications release ever! Oracle has introduced major changes to database, tools and technology stack. As DBA, developer or architect what can you do today to slowly ease into a new Release 12 world? This presentation will review in detail tasks you can complete in your existing 11i environment to prepare for R12 upgrade in order to save time, reduce cost, decrease risk and resources needed, and eliminate complexity of R12 upgrade.

SNO (Strategic Network Optimization) and PS (Production Scheduling) - New Additions to the Oracle APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) Suite - Dante Maiorano, Oracle Corp. dante.maiorano@oracle.com

"Strategic Network Optimization provides an ability to design agile supply chains that minimize risk of global business changes by providing complete visibility of all demand scenarios, budgets, assets, production capacity, and sourcing. Oracle SNO considers all costs and constraints that can impact supply chain decisions. SNO will optimize your entire supply network by helping reduce costs through dynamic sourcing, increase profits through asset rationalization, increase revenue with customer or product segmentation, manage risk more effectively, and simulate changing business conditions.

Production Scheduling provides graphical scheduling tools to maximize throughput and increase resource utilization, improve shop floor performance, determine the best schedule, and comprehensively plan and schedule production. It suggests feasible schedules that respect manufacturing constraints, improves utilization and minimizes setup time, and improves schedule adherence and delivery performance.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition - An Implementer's Insight –  Solution Beacon

Complete overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition - Technology stack overview, Installation overview, Applications overview etc. includes a Demo of Answers, Dashboards and an overview of OBIEE Administrator.

Top-Down Application Management - Current Capabilities and Future Directions of Oracle Enterprise Manager as the Tool for Managing EBS - Chung Wu, Oracle Corp chung.wu@oracle.com

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control is Oracle's flagship product for enterprise management and a key enabler for delivering Superior Ownership Experience to Oracle application customers.

This session will cover the key functional capabilities of Enterprise Manager in managing application environments, and include a detailed discussion of Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite.

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