Session - Time, Room, Track	2014 NorCal OAUG Presentation Abstracts Presentation Title, Presenter, Presentation Abstract
1.1 - 8:00-9:00 Pine Keynote	The Road Forward For EBS Customers With Cloud Tom Connors, VP of North America Solution Consulting, Oracle Presentation Not Yet Available Learn how Oracle EBS customers are continuing to grow their investment in EBS and leverage the Oracle Cloud for additional business agility. Oracle continues to bring industry leading capabilities to the EBS platform and organizations are gaining more value from this than ever before. Simultaneously organizations are gaining additional business agility by leveraging the Oracle Cloud, which offers the most comprehensive enterprise cloud functionality in the market place.
2.1 - 9:30-10:30 Pine R12	Seven Easy Steps to Configure Complex Rules in E-Business Tax Ashish Nagarkar, Sr. Principal Consultant, AST Corporation Download Presentation E-Business Tax is a single-point solution for managing transaction-based tax in Release 12 of Oracle E-Business Suite. E-Business Tax uniformly delivers tax services to all EBS business flows through one application interface. As a global system architecture, E-Business Tax is configurable and scalable for adding and maintaining country-specific tax content. The success of your EBS Tax implementation is dependent on the efficient development of tax rules. This presentation will walk through the steps for building complex rules using the guided rule functionality of E-Business Tax module. This presentation makes the complex rules look as easy as a cake walk.
2.2 - 9:30-10:30 Cedar R12	EBS R12 Extensions for Endeca Pandu Sadam, Principal, EDATA LABS INC Download Presentation EBS business users typically rely on IT-created reports or custom inquiry screens to identify operational problems and exceptions. Often, these reports reflect the prior days data and fail to reveal root causes at a real-time. EBS extensions for Endeca are a collection of applications aimed at solving the problem of what business users most critical challenges facing at a real-time. Leveraging Oracle Endeca Information Discovery technology, these extensions provide an information-driven approach to navigation that helps business users focus on the right information, at the right time, to make the right decisions. Through the information-driven approach, business users progressively advance to the most important issues to be addressed, all without predefined paths, structured queries, or operational/custom reports.
2.3 - 9:30-10:30 Fir Record to Report (EBS)	World-Class Planning and Budgeting with the Simplicity of the Cloud Paul Ingold, Principal Solutions Consultant, Oracle Download Presentation Oracle Enterprise Planning Cloud enables businesses of any size to rapidly adopt a world-class planning and budgeting solution that integrates with your existing Oracle ERP. Simplify and accelerate adoption of planning and forecasting across the enterprise, while leveraging first-in-class planning and forecasting functionality.
2.4 - 9:30-10:30 Oak Technical (EBS)	EBS Leveraging Oracle Identity Management for Provisioning and Single Sign On Abhay Kumar, , AST Corporation Download Presentation Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) is a provisioning solution that works with E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and other third-party systems, and provides the management activities, business processes, and technologies governing the creation, modification and deletion of user access rights and privileges across an organizations IT systems. By automating these activities, organizations gain better control over user access rights, enforce organizational security policies and ensure adherence to regulatory standards,Oracle Access Manager provides the Single Sign-On capabilities across E-Business Suite core module, iModules and BI and other integrated applications.In this presentation, we will discuss the functional, technical approach and architecture to integrate E-Business Suite with Oracle Identity Manager. We will share case-studies of E-Business Suite and Oracle Identity Management integration implementations.
2.5 - 9:30-10:30 Sierra Human Resources	Taleo and Oracle HCM together best of two worlds Timothy Walsh, Sr. Director, Client Services, PMO/HCM, Jade Global, Inc. Download Presentation Do you currently have Oracle HCM, and are considering adding recruitment, onboarding, or performance tool to increase your productivity? Join us for this session where we will look at using Taleo Business Edition integrated with Oracle HCM. We will explore the functionality of both products and identify the strengths of each product to meet your business needs. We will also review how both products work together, interface considerations, as well as discuss about the lessons learned when using a multi-product solution.
2.6 - 9:30-10:30 Cascade Plan to Build (EBS)	Securing IP using Advanced Agile PLM Capabilities Sharad Udyawar, IT Analyst, Coherent Download Presentation Items and Changes in Agile contain sensitive Intellectual Property (IP). Some IP is subject to multiple legal restrictions (ITAR, EAR, etc.). IP must be controlled, yet allow appropriate collaboration between different business units and with suppliers. The security solution must enable users to manage their own IP security allow granular security with minimal data entry and at the same time must be scalable and maintainable There are advanced features available in Agile PLM like Dynamic Lists, $USERGROUP variable, Event Framework and Groovy Scripting. Using these a security model can be crafted to address all these considerations.
2.7 - 9:30-10:30 Siskiyou Hyperion	Essbase Primer: The Basics of a Well-Designed Application Bill Reddy, Director BI/EPM Practice, Analysis Team, Inc. Download Presentation Oracle Essbase is a powerful and highly customizable analysis, reporting and planning tool that can deliver tremendous benefits if designed and deployed properly. But if youre new to Essbase or about to launch your first implementation project, it may seem like a daunting black box of complexity. The objective of this overview presentation is to de-mystify Essbase and help prepare you to embark upon a successful and collaborative design effort. The intended audience is everyone who needs a basic understanding of how Essbase works the business user, IT analyst, and manager. Well cover the fundamentals of Essbases architecture and key features (such as dimensions and hierarchies, loading data, drill to detail, calculation capabilities, reporting, etc.) and how the components come together for an effective solution design.
2.8 - 9:30-10:30 Donner Technical (E-Business Suite)	Fusion Cloud Applications: Customized Engineering to Suit Your Unique Business Needs Anil Kemisetti, Solution Architect €“ Fusion Middleware, Jade Global Download Presentation How many times you have heard these €“ rapid implementation, no customization, standard process, Really? Fusion Applications are great but your business needs are unique. You need to customize your applications to maintain your competitive edge. You will be happy to know that you CAN customize your Fusion Cloud implementation without incurring heavy cost and sacrificing your delivery schedule. Join us for this session where Jade Global€™s Fusion Middleware Architect will help you understand some interesting features of customizations and extensions available in Fusion Cloud. You will also learn some of the best practices of implementing these customizations. In this session we will discuss: - Customization Lifecycle and the concept of Sandbox - Customizing pages using page composer - Using Flexfields -- Setup and Maintenance - Using Application Composer - Using Business Composer - Reporting
3.1 - 11:00-12:00 Pine R12	Efective international implementation w/ Localizations & Multi-country solutions Hans Kolbe, Principal, Celantra Systems Download Presentation Dan and Hans both have been leaders of the multi-national SIG Group for many years. They will be sharing experiences and lessons learnt of many years in international and global implementations. This session will review the Oracle localization functionality, updates in R12 and where to find the relevant information. We will explain how to identify the relevant information and how we analyzed and integrated the localizations into standardized configurations which follow a single configurable template. Using a standardized concept we have achieved a number of very rapid roll-outs with minimum manpower and user disruptions. We will cover key European and other countries. In this process we had to answer detailed questions such as how do I produce the Libro Giornale and gapless sequencing for Italy? What happened to the AX Global Accounting Engine? How do I manage French statutory accounting and local COA requirements? And how do I best support my shared service centers? This session is meant for organizations starting out in international locations as well as for seasoned IT groups looking to review and improve their implementation strategy. Presenters: Dan Chaffer, Qualcomm, San Diego Hans Kolbe, Celantra Systems, San Francisco
3.2 - 11:00-12:00 Cedar R12	Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) - Best Practices and Lessons Learned Philip Shontz, Principal Consultant, AST Corporation Download Presentation We have all spent considerable sums training end users on how best to use Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) helps us dramatically improve the quality of that training and the efficiency by which meaningful training is created. This presentation will help you leverage UPK and result in increased value for your training investment. You will discover best practices and lessons learned from an Oracle UPK 11 Certified Implementation Specialist with over 20 years of real world systems implementation experience.
3.3 - 11:00-12:00 Fir R12	Leveraging our Oracle Footprint with Application Express (APEX) Tiffany Smith, Enterprise Manager, BI and Project Management, McGrath RentCorp Download Presentation We are a business-to-business rental company with 4 different divisions. We will cover why we chose to use Application Express as a reporting tool and application extension within our current Oracle EBS R12.1.3 footprint. This solution is being used to support all divisions and moving one of those divisions into an Oracle only solution. We currently are using OBIEE and will compare and contrast how both tools can be leveraged to serve different needs. The presentation includes a demonstrations of the reporting tools functions as well as the custom application that was created to leverage inventory management and custom rental billing. This is from an end user and IT management point of view it is not a technical presentation.
3.4 - 11:00-12:00 Oak Technical (EBS)	Migrated 13 TB EBS Production to 5 node 11gR2 RAC on vSphere - A Deep Dive Charlene Huang, , Download Presentation Operating large Oracle RAC clusters on vSphere reduces the Data Center footprint, increases agility, efficiency, and scalability to support VMwares rapid growth. Virtualizing Oracle RAC on vSphere is step closer to Cloud readiness and also simplifies DR solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager. VMware IT has successfully migrated their mission critical 13TB Oracle EBS production physical RAC database to a 5 node Oracle RAC running on vSphere 5 with similar hardware and achieved comparable performance. This session will dive into detailed architecture design and its components, performance, migration approach with minimal downtime, DR Failover testing, backup solution and QA. We also will share our learning experience for supporting large Oracle RAC on vSphere.
3.5 - 11:00-12:00 Sierra Procure to Pay (EBS)	R12 Payables Upgrade: Like for Like and Then Some Debbie Woble, Practice Director, Infosemantics Download Presentation Faced with Extended Support deadlines, E-Business Suite 11i users are seeking a quick Release 12 upgrade. Many companies are choosing a like for like� approach wherein uptake of new functionality is postponed until after the upgrade. However R12 introduces new functionality for payments, taxes, Invoice entry, and supplier management that must be incorporated. This presentation addresses this required new functionality with hints on configuration thus meeting the upgrade objectives.
3.6 - 11:00-12:00 Cascade Plan to Build (EBS)	Oracle WMS or MSCA - choosing the right fit for your business Karun Jain, Managing Partner, Value Chain Execution, Gaea Global Technologies, Inc Download Presentation Customers who are interested in reducing costs, increasing inventory accuracy and productivity by implementing a real time, barcode driven inventory and manufacturing system are often uncertain as to what features Oracle's Mobile Supply Chain Application (MSCA) and Warehouse Management System (WMS) products offer. This presentation educates customers on the capabilities of each product and help them to decide on what is right for them. They will learn about: Oracle's integrated WMS and MSCA solutions How to choose between Oracle WMS and MSCA The labeling and infrastructure requirements and capabilities for WMS and MSCA How to get started on the path to automation
3.7 - 11:00-12:00 Siskiyou Hyperion	Hyperion Essbase and Planning Automation-Work Smarter not Harder Deanna Sunde, Director, EPM Planning and Essbase Practice, The Hackett Group Download Presentation Download Supporting File Do you wish you could automate your repetitive tasks? Learn how to automate loading metadata, application deployment, running calculation scripts and business rules, performing data exports and loads, performing Essbase and LCM backups and defragmenting your databases. In this presentation we will explore how to automate these tasks using Windows and shell scripting. We will cover batch script basics, parametizing scripts, logging and error handling, ODI, the EPMA batch client and password encryption.
3.8 - 11:00-12:00 Donner Quote to Cash (EBS)	Best Practices for Oracle Receivables Cathy Cakebread, Consultant, Consultant Download Presentation Whether you are just getting started using Oracle Receivables or have been using it for years, there may be better ways to take advantage of the available features. Based on my experience with over 70 clients, this paper includes my suggestions for ‚Best Practices‚� for optimally utilizing Oracle Receivables. I included tips for: setup, naming conventions, cash application, Lockbox processing, reconciliation, separation of duties and more. This paper is applicable no matter which release you are using.
4.1 - 1:00-2:00 Pine R12	R12 Upgrade Lessons learned and what you need to know to succeed. Art Dowd, Consulting Director, O2Works LLC Download Presentation There are still many companies that have not upgraded to R12 yet. The good news is that there are many valuable lessons that have been learned and shared, as well as some great sources of information about the R12 upgrade. Well discuss what to do to succeed, and where you can find the information. We will address the support dates, whether R12.2 makes sense for your company, what makes the R12 upgrade different, functional and project management tips, and what you need to know to succeed. This presentation is for anyone who will be involved in the R12 upgrade.
4.2 - 1:00-2:00 Cedar Record to Report (EBS)	How to Achieve Faster Month-End Closings and Reconciliations in R12 Zuly Cheng, FP&A Manager, Beats Electronics Presentation Not Yet Available Join Zuly Cheng, FPandA Manager, Beats Electronics, as she discusses how the company closes month end cycles faster and provides management with accurate, real-time data needed to make important business decisions. She will also discuss how Beats was able to reduce error prone and time consuming manual processes by automating financial reporting. Youll learn how to easily update and refresh your monthly financial close package, shaving days off close processes.
4.3 - 1:00-2:00 Fir R12	R12 Surprises in User Management, Function and Data Security Susan Behn, VP, Infosemantics Download Presentation Release 12 includes stronger controls across the application modules for limiting access to both functions and data. Additionally, this functionality is rapidly improving with each patch set. This presentation will discuss these controls and focus on how Oracle User Management (UMX) utilizes function and data security features to strengthen access controls within the E-Business Suite. The newest changes in releases 12.1.3 and 12.2 that may surprise you during your implementation or upgrade will be demonstrated. This presentation includes practical, detailed examples utilized at multiple clients.
4.4 - 1:00-2:00 Oak Technical (EBS)	BI Publisher Everything you need to know Grant Newcomer, Lead Applications Developer, Zenith Insurance Company Presentation Not Yet Available How to use Excel templates to create Excel Binary output. How to use rtf templates to output to Excel, PDF's, HTML, and Check formating. How to use BI Publisher data templates. How to generate XML output for BI Publisher form PL/SQL programs. Using Characters sets to process strange characters in the data. How to regenerate output. Output Post processor setups. The special things Payments is doing.
4.5 - 1:00-2:00 Sierra Human Resources	Stock Focal: Managing Stock Allocations using Oracle Compensation Workbench Timothy Walsh, Sr. Director, Client Services, PMO/HCM, Jade Global, Inc. Download Presentation Utilize the features of Oracles Compensation Workbench tool to manage and administer your Stock Focal process to enable managers to allocate and approve awards to their teams. Compensation Workbench can provide managers with current allocated options, both vested and unvested, new targets and target ranges, and estimated new options.
4.6 - 1:00-2:00 Cascade Plan to Build (EBS)	Keeping Operational Metrics under control amidst rapid businesschanges with APCC Adil Mujeeb, Managing Partner, Rapidflow Apps Inc Download Presentation This is a joint client case study presentation. Learn how Murad Inc., a specialized Cosmetics manufacturer is utilizing Oracle APCC module to keep their eye on Operational performance metrics in spite of the volatile business model inherent to the cosmetics industry. Oracle APCC enables Murad executives get real time visibility to operational metrics and to translate operational performance to financial targets and make insightful decisions regarding inventory policy, promotions and supply strategy. Supply Chain managers utilize APCC to quickly simulate the effect of proposed promotions and product changes while planners are able to rapidly identify planning exceptions and trace it back to forecast changes or supplier performance and execute planning changes seamlessly.
4.7 - 1:00-2:00 Siskiyou Hyperion	Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting Implementation at UC Berkeley Mehmet Sevinc, Hyperion Planning Administrator, University of California, Berkeley Download Presentation University of California, Berkeley purchased Oracle Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting (PSPB) to implement Employee/Position Budgeting which uses Oracle Hyperion Planning as the foundation. It provided out-of-the-box configurable position and employee models. The University has the capability to budget by position and/or employee, associating them to existing or new positions. This includes managing the allocation of various funding sources to position level budgets and efficiently managing future dated changes.
4.8 - 1:00-2:00 Donner Fusion	Oracle Cloud and User Experience Highlights Greg Prevost , Regional Solutions Consulting Manager, Oracle Download Presentation This presentation will cover Oracle's user experience strategy and highlight Oracle Cloud applications user experience to improve productivity and streamline operations across your enterprise. It will also touch on how Oracle E-Business Suite is leveraging the same designs to achieve the same business goals.
5.1 - 2:30-3:30 Pine R12	Single Operating Unit Breaking through the Multi-Org barrier w/ EBS R12 & Fusion Hans Kolbe, Principal, Celantra Systems Download Presentation Oracles E-Business Suite Release 12 has opened the door to a new world of flexibility in your ERP configuration. Our presentation will show how FB has taken advantage of the R12-Fusion concepts of Legal Entity, Business Unit, E-Bus Tax, and Secondary Ledgers. Instead of being restricted by the contradictory demands of legal compliance on one hand and operational efficiency on the other we have built a single operational space and business unit across multiple legal entities and countries. No more duplication of setups for each legal entity! No more 2-5 months setup and testing time for small international subsidiaries! Learn the new functionality and take advantage of Oracles direction with EBS 12 and Fusion apps. Presented by Mrunal Potdar and Rajesh Yalavarthy of FB with Hans Kolbe, Celantra Systems, Chair of the Multi-National SIG
5.2 - 2:30-3:30 Cedar Procure to Pay (E-Business Suite)	Simplify, Streamline, and Automate Your Procure-to-Pay Process with ERP Cloud Paul Ingold, Principal Solutions Consultant, Oracle Presentation Not Yet Available Whether its employees quickly creating expenses reports on a mobile device, or an AP specialist reviewing payables invoices that have been converted from a scanned image, Oracle ERP Cloud can help you simplify, streamline, and automate the Pay in your Procure-to-Pay process. Learn how automation is now available to organizations of all sizes in a secure cloud service.
5.3 - 2:30-3:30 Fir Human Resources	The Big Trend: How EBS Customers are Modernizing HR with the Oracle HCM Cloud Indy Bains, Regional Solutions Consulting Manager, Oracle Presentation Not Yet Available Learn how the Oracle HCM Cloud is changing the HCM industry and bringing new possibilities and options to existing EBS customers. Oracle HCM Cloud is the only Cloud solution to offer complete Core HR and Talent Management capabilities from one unified cloud solution.
5.4 - 2:30-3:30 Oak Technical (EBS)	R12.2 Development and Deployment of Customizations John Peters, Principal Consultant, JRPJR, Inc Download Presentation With 12.2 OnLine Patching and EBR the world of the EBS Developer has grown far more complicated. This presentation will introduce some of the concepts that must be followed for 12.2 custom development. EBR (Edition Based Redefinition) will be described in detail. I will go through some of the standards that must be followed for custom development to work properly in an OnLine Patched Environment. I will also cover areas not yet covered even by the ATG group, like how to handle custom APEX Development.
5.5 - 2:30-3:30 Sierra Quote to Cash (EBS)	Rev Up your Revenue Recognition with EBS R12 Debbie Woble, Practice Dircector, Infosemantics Download Presentation 11i supported revenue recognition through accounting rules which support defined schedules, but for many companies additional functionality is required. 12.1.3 / 12.2.2 introduces event and contingency based recognition. This presentation explains the old and new methods with examples.
5.6 - 2:30-3:30 Cascade Plan to Build (EBS)	R12.2 Upgrade: The Business Value for Project-Centric Orgs Neeraj Garg, Vice President, Project Partners LLC Download Presentation Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Applications Release 12.2 provides significant enhancements across the integrated suite of business applications spanning enterprise resource planning, project performance management, and supply chain management. Attend this session to understand the various approaches in upgrading to R12.2. Additionally, receive a baseline for measuring the potential value in driving cost savings and improvements to cash flow with new features specific to project centric industries including, but not limited to project supply chain planning, planning by cost breakdown, subcontractor management, and mobile project management.
5.7 - 2:30-3:30 Siskiyou Hyperion	Enterprise-wide Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting: The Cloud Option Praveen Kumar, Practice Manager, AST Corporation Download Presentation Planning, budgeting and forecasting is manual and time intensive involving multitude of spreadsheet scattered across departments, each with own sets of assumptions and version of facts. In todays business environment reliance on spreadsheets and disjointed planning and forecasting is not just inadequate but present great risk to organizations performance and profitability. Some of these challenges can be overcome by adopting an enterprise grade EPM solution. However many organizations are unwilling to commit large upfront investment. Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services provide opportunities to organization of all sizes across industries to deploy an enterprise grade solution. This presentation will discuss followings: Key component of cloud solution Hyperion Planning deployment options Key business benefits Implementation challenges
5.8 - 2:30-3:30 Donner Business Intelligence	Discover Hidden Factors Diving Your Business with Endeca Information Discovery Philip Sable, Manager, Planning and Analysis Practice, Mindstream Analytics Download Presentation Empower your business with Self-Service discovery while maintaining IT governance to ensure actionable decisions the business can trust. Discover the insights embedded in qualitative, unstructured data, both within and external to the enterprise including customer sentiment, social media, external websites and more. Easily explore the data relevant to your business without having to invest in complex modeling. Bring those findings back to achieve a complete view of the factors driving your business.
6.1 - 4:00-5:00 Pine R12	How Facebook Shared Oracle Apps on Their Employees Mobile Phones Harikrishnan Pudusseri, IT Manager, Facebook Download Presentation Description: Facebook is implementing enterprise mobile applications for their employees, extending their Oracle Applications ERP R12.1.3, including Inventory receiving and approvals of multiple transactions like purchase requisitions, invoices, access requests and others. This presentation provides an overview of the technical architecture and implementation methodology followed to implement the corporate mobile apps. OSB was used to publish web-services and mobile apps were built consuming the web-services. Objectives: Review and discuss architecture for mobile-enabling Oracle Applications at facebook Demo Oracle approval apps for multiple transactions built on mobile platforms Discuss example of building receiving app for Android and selection of enterprise-grade tablet Discuss design for building off-line capability to ensure usability of mobile apps Presenters: Primary presenter: Hari Pudusseri, IT Manager, facebook Secondary Presenter: Rajesh Padinjaremadam, CEO, RapidValue Solutions
6.2 - 4:00-5:00 Cedar R12	Ten More Forms and OAF Personalization Examples - Version 3... Updated for R12.2 Susan Behn, VP, Infosemantics Download Presentation This is the third version of this personalization presentation with ten new examples highlighting the newest R12 features. As part of your R12 upgrade, use Form and OAF Personalizations to replace many of your customizations. Also use personalizations to streamline your business processes through improved control of validations, defaults, terminology and other requirements.
6.3 - 4:00-5:00 Fir Quote to Cash (EBS)	Endeca-Get unprecedented visibility, control of Warehouse Operations in tablet Vishnuvarth Subramanian, Lead Consultant, Jade Global, Inc. Download Presentation Are you facing challenges in fulfilling orders due to bottlenecks which you cannot see immediately and take action against it? Do you have trouble identifing high priority orders and orders for your critical customers and strategize your action to fulfill those orders? Do you face difficulty in monitoring and taking action to improve labor and resource utilization? Do you like to review and analyze data using key Performance Indicators (KPIs), performance evaluation metrics? In this presentation we will talk about how you can address those challenges and much more with Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS) Extensions for Endeca.
6.4 - 4:00-5:00 Oak Technical (EBS)	Upgrade Oracle EBS to Release 12.2 Sandra Vucinic, , VLAD Group Download Presentation This presentation will review Oracle EBS support timelines and available Release 12.2 upgrade paths. EBS Release 12.2 architecture will be looked over and questions such as R12.1 upgrade vs. R12.2 upgrade will be discussed. Further, tasks that need to be completed to upgrade EBS Release 11i to EBS Release 12.2 will be examined in detail. Finally, this presentation will review tasks you can complete in your existing EBS environment to prepare for EBS Release 12.2 upgrade in order to save time, reduce cost, decrease risk and resources needed, and eliminate complexity of Release 12.2 upgrade.
6.5 - 4:00-5:00 Sierra Quote to Cash (EBS)	Automating Revenue Recognition with Fusion Revenue Management Paul Ingold, Principal Solutions Consultant, Oracle Download Presentation Fusion Revenue Management is an integrated solution that enables E-Business Suite customers to manage revenue compliance, automate revenue re-allocation for multiple element arrangements based on fair market value, and configure and automate revenue scheduling for complex revenue recognition. By implementing Fusion Revenue Management, enterprises can maximize return on capital by automating the revenue compliance process, thus reducing errors and manual intervention.
6.6 - 4:00-5:00 Cascade Procure to Pay (EBS)	Is Your ERP Leaking Cash? Brian Amato, Client Services Director, FulcrumWay Download Presentation Learn how to Monitor PO and AP Transactions to Prevent Losses, Control Supplier Master Data Changes and Detect Misconfigurations in Oracle EBS R12 Payables and Purchasing Applications. As many Oracle customers upgrade or implement Oracle EBS R12 under tight timelines and budgets, certain configurations, approval workflows and exception reports are often excluded from the project scope. Consider attending this session, if the answer is NO to any of the following questions: Do you monitor users that can create suppliers, approve POs, and pay invoices? Can you detect duplicate payments through check / wire, split POs under approval limits, or missed discounts? Do you receive notifications when a key control such as 3-way match in Payables Options is changed? Can you prevent a user from updating a supplier bank account to match an employee or another supplier bank account? Are you able to easily find erroneous charges in AP invoices such as freight, insurance or special terms? While Oracle EBS R12 has a number of new capabilities to streamline your procure to pay cycle, in many cases, customers still utilize recovery auditors or manual audit procedures that don‚„¢t deliver results due to the complex data structures and data volumes. In this session, you will learn how leading companies are using advanced control analytics to improve the business bottom line by controlling expenses. Agenda: Introduction Top Procure to Pay challenges in EBS R12 Overview of Payable and Purchasing Controls Advanced Controls Analytics Case Study Q&A
6.7 - 4:00-5:00 Siskiyou Hyperion	It's Here: Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service Shane Schmitt, Director of EPM Consulting Services, Key Performance Ideas Download Presentation Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) is Oracles first EPM cloud-based application available to customers in a software as a service (SaaS) deployment model. It provides a flexible planning and budgeting application thats ready for the Cloud. PBCS includes all the world class budgeting and forecasting features, reporting, and data management capabilities that are used today in Hyperion Planning. Scott Costello, a 16-year Oracle veteran, will outline what PBCS provides, including a demonstration. He will also share insight on how to navigate with an agile deployment strategy and identify key action items that must be considered when assessing PBCS for your organization.
6.8 - 4:00-5:00 Donner Business Intelligence	Extending Oracle BI with Hyperion Planning and Annotations Mark West, Vice President, Redstack Analytics Download Presentation Hear about real-world customers who have integrated Hyperion Planning and Oracle BI Analytics to Analyze, Investigate, and Annotate. Learn how adding annotations and in-context collaboration to Oracle BI / Hyperion dashboards is being used for a faster close process, and to flag and collaborate on budget or operational variances.