8:30 AM to 9:00 Registration, Breakfast & Welcome 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM session 1 Real-time E-Business Suite Reporting in Excel Join Excel4apps in a presentation as we discuss several of our customer’s missions to improve their Oracle EBS financial reporting and inquiry capabilities. During our presentation, we’ll discuss customer success stories, such as Powell Industries, Taconic Farms and GFI, and outline each of the company’s previous Oracle EBS reporting processes and challenges. We’ll also discuss the factors that drove these companies to seek a simple reporting solution, GL Wand by Excel4apps that has certified integration with Oracle. You will learn about the installation and setup process from a user’s perspective, and gain access to a live, interactive demonstration of the solution that users of Oracle EBS work with every day. The capabilities of the GL Wand solution will cover: • Create, refresh, and drill to sub ledger with real time data • Mass distribution of reports and FSG conversion • Alternative to Client ADI & Oracle Report Manager • Follows existing Oracle security roles • One - hour installation Learn how to manage highly efficient and secure financial reporting, shorter month ends, and faster refreshes with GL Wand. 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM session 2 Measuring the "End-user Experience" of Your Enterprise Application: An APM Proof of Concept Performance and workload almost always ends up in the database. The speaker shows you how the performance issues found in AWR and DB monitoring were resolved by adjusting the application profile options, as well as how to use AWR/ASH information to identify and fix performance issues in EBS. Learn how to link the SQL from AWR to a concurrent request. Specific examples of performance improvement in Standard Costs, Item Import, Available to Promise (ATP), Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) are discussed. Tips on improving the concurrent manager performance. Discuss the periodic maintenance operations to keep the EBS instance healthy. Objectives • Using AWR to identify SQL and programs causing load on the database. • How to link session module name to concurrent request. • Profile Options and how they translate to system resources. • Tuning examples from the field – problem and applied solutions. • Maintenance operations to keep EBS instance healthy. • Using AWR to identify SQL and programs causing load on the database. • How to link session module name to concurrent request. • Profile Options and how they translate to system resources. • Tuning examples from the field – problem and applied solutions. • Maintenance operations to keep EBS instance healthy. 10:10 AM to 11:10 AM session 1 Shifting gears of procure-to-pay cycle with iSupplier Portal Organizations are adapting to efficient and robust features of iSupplier Portal in functional areas such as sourcing, two-way collaboration between buyer and seller, purchasing, payables, receiving, invoicing and collaborative planning. Join us to learn about the key features of rich internet-based iSupplier portal and understand how buying and selling organizations are reducing their operational costs and collaborating more efficiently. 10:10 AM to 11:10 AM session 2 Oracle Applications Upgrade Strategies and Considerations Oracle is currently offering several possible Upgrade paths for their E-Business Suite Applications. There are many factors to consider when establishing a strategy for applications long-term usage, as well as choosing the right types of upgrades to perform. This presentation will explain factors to consider when making decisions that impact your organization's use of Oracle Applications. Topics such as R12.X, Apps Unlimited, Fusion, and Co-Existence will be explained and explored. 11:20 AM to 12:20 PM Session 1 Migrate Oracle Discoverer to Oracle BIEE With Oracle BIEE emerging as a logical replacement for Oracle Discoverer, come learn the differences in functionality as it relates to Oracle Discoverer, the benefits of migrating to Oracle BIEE, discuss migration process and Oracle provided migration utility usage and its challenges in the session. 11:20 AM to 12:20 PM Session 2 Project Sponsors/Stakeholders: Hard Lessons Learned Our project executives, PMs, and teams have examined multiple projects and derived a series of lessons learned over several HCM implementations. Our goal is to assist you in avoiding or minimizing the pain points and pitfalls that we have had encountered as you work through your projects and implementations. Recognizing and facing these types of issues can and will lead to a smoother project. We will review business cases for several EBS, PeopleSoft, Fusion HCM Cloud, and Taleo installs or upgrades. We will discuss the risk mitigation that we undertook in order to address these assessment concerns. 12:20 PM -1:40 PM Lunch/Keynote 1:40 PM to 2:40 PM Session 1 Real time operational visibility with Oracle Outsourced Manufacturing for Discrete Industries Geographical expansion of business and operational outsourcing have increased the complexity of the supply chain setups. In order to build the world-class value chains with competitive edge in the market, real time visibility into operational data is vital. Join this session to learn how Oracle's Outsourced Manufacturing helps enterprises power information-driven value chains and achieve effective collaboration with their partners using Endeca presentation layer for discrete manufacturing companies 1:40 PM to 2:40 PM Session 2 Business Intelligence Optimization: Beyond Gross Margin - Determining Customer & Product Profitability A value-added Business Intelligence Methodology to more accurately assess customer and product profitability. Topics include the value & challenges of Customer/Product profit transparency, the identification & prioritization of key expense areas that erode profitability, an evaluation of Cost to Serve profiles & exceptions to the norm, the review of “directly attributable” costs & cost driver algorithms and the creation of Customer/Product P&L’s and Scorecards using Oracle Financial Analytics. 2:50 PM to 3:50 PM Session 1 Saas? Cloud? Exalytics? On-premise? Exploring Oracle EPM Deployment Options Today, many options are available to deploy Oracle’s EPM Solutions. More and more, Organizations are considering off-premise hosting and cloud solutions for enterprise solutions. Other Organizations have strict policies to ensure critical and sensitive corporate systems stay within internal walls. This paper explores what options are available for EPM solutions, including Oracle’s newly announced Planning and Budgeting on the Cloud Service. 2:50 PM to 3:50 PM Session2 Oracle EBS with Outsourced Integration Seamlessly moving transactional data between Oracle EBS and multiple trading partners just got easier. No hardware. No software. Just connect Oracle EBS to DiCentral's Ecosystem of partners and possibilities and start to leverage your investment. Whether you need to exchange EDI with customers, share proprietary data files securely with financial institutions, communicate with insurance providers or connect with your global supplier base, DiCentral has solutions to extend your investment in Oracle EBS. 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Session 1 If It's Not Apps or Database, it's "Middleware" Fusion Middlware is kind of like the catch all bucket for software products that aren't database or applications. The category spans application servers, integration, security and all things in between. We'll cover the core components that most IT environments will come across and the business benefit to customers. 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Session 2 ERP Governance: Living the Dream We believe that governance issues are the major reasons why Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) programs fail to meet their goals. ERP programs are much more than the software brands that run them, they can be the foundation of business success. We present four governance best practices that should not be ignored and will ultimately help any company get the most out of their ERP investment.