Oracle's AppCast

How Oracle Leveraged Fusion User Experience Patterns in E-Business Suite Release 12.1

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0800

Join us to understand how we leveraged common user interface design patterns in Fusion User Experience to build new usability enhancements for E-Business Suite. We will share how we built Fusion User Experience Design Patterns and applied them in creating new enhancements for existing products. You will learn how common patterns drive consistency across all Oracle applications.

Centralizing Chart of Accounts Management Across Oracle ERP and EPM Applications with Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0800

Most enterprises today have multiple GL/ERP systems - each with their own set of accounts, structures and systems for financial and management reporting. Mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations inject constant change into the process - through new accounts, entities, and locations. Accommodating an organization's unique view of the business while still maintaining accurate collection, measurement and reporting at the corporate level makes synchronization of chart of accounts across multiple systems a challenge. In this podcast, you'll hear about how Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management allows you centralize and align different financial perspectives into your corporate reporting standards. This end-user oriented, technology agnostic hierarchy management solution enables organizations to coordinate the management of chart of accounts across the enterprise and save a significant amount of time and effort.

Best Practices for Integrating EBS Projects to Primavera P6

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:00:00 -0800

Join us to learn recommended best practices for integrating Oracle EBS Projects with Primavera P6 to support progress reporting, customer billing, forecasting and earned value reporting.

Oracle Fusion Applications with Noel Coloe

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:00:00 -0800

Gaye Hudson, VP Corporate Communications, EMEA talks to Noel Coloe, Head of Western Europe Applications Sales Development about Oracle Fusion Applications, a new paradigm in Enterprise applications.

Integrating PeopleSoft Projects to Primavera P6

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:00:00 PST

Listen in to hear why the integration of PeopleSoft Projects with Primavera P6 positions customers to break down the barriers between project managers and program finance staff and achieve true enterprise project portfolio management.

The Opportunity For E-Commerce Today And What The Future May Look Like

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Michael Hylton, Director of eCommerce Product Marketing for Oracle CRM, to learn about new commerce capabilities that provide opportunities for organizations to drive more revenue. You will also learn how the complete commerce experience begins well before engaging customers at your website and how the ever-changing social and mobile environments impact commerce.

Overview of Oracle's Agile PLM for Process for the Consumer Goods Industries

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:00:00 PST

Wes Frierson, Oracle's Director of PLM for Process Strategy, sits down for an interview with Kerrie Foy, Oracle's Manager of PLM Product Marketing. Listen to Wes as he answers questions about Oracle's rich legacy of leadership in the consumer goods industry, challenges facing the industry, how Oracle's Agile PLM for Process helps organizations, and specific customer results.

John Hitchcock of Pace Describes the Oracle Agile PLM Customer Experience

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:00:00 PST

John Hitchcock, Senior Manager of Configuration Management at Pace (formerly 2Wire, Inc.), sat down for an interview during Oracle's Innovation Summit with Kerrie Foy, Manager of PLM Product Marketing at Oracle. Learn why his organization upgraded to the latest version of Agile and expanded the footprint to achieve impressive savings and productivity gains across the global, networked product value-chain.

An Interview with Oracle's Cindy Reese on the Sun Value Chain Transformation

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:00:00 PST

Maha Muzumdar, VP of Supply Chain Marketing, sat down with Cindy Reese, SVP Worldwide System Operations, to discuss how implementing Oracle's latest, best-in-class supply chain management (SCM), product lifecycle management (Agile PLM), and ERP solutions transformed Sun's value chain. Hear how Sun reinvented itself to slash costs, improve flexibility, and achieve remarkable ROI.

Continuing Cloud Innovation: CRM On Demand Release 19

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:00:00 -0800

Tune into this conversation with Charlie Knapp, Director of Product Marketing for Oracle CRM, to learn about new mobility and cloud capabilities that provide opportunities for sales organizations to drive more revenue and save time. You will also learn what is Oracle CRM On Demand, what makes it different from other CRM systems, and what makes it valuable for customers.

How Fusion Middleware Built the Fusion User Experience

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:00:00 PST

See how you can leverage the entire Fusion Middleware stack to create a compelling user experience, just like Oracle's Applications User Experience team did during the design of Fusion Applications. Learn about key Fusion Middleware components that comprise Oracle's new end-to-end user experience platform in Fusion Applications. Hear about the role of components such as Application Development Framework (ADF), WebCenter, Metadata Services (MDS), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and design patterns.

New Trends in Supply Chain Planning and How to Use Them for Advantage

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Roger Goossens, Vice President, Development for Oracle Value Chain Planning Solutions to learn about how Oracle Value Chain Planning products take advantage of new trends and technologies to improve the timeliness, accuracy and effectiveness of supply chain planning, and ultimately the profitability of enterprise operations.

Why PGA Chose Fusion Financials to Take Them to the Next Level!

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Kathleen Kelly, Financial Systems Manager of Professional Golf Association (PGA) of America. Learn why PGA chose to be an early adopter of Fusion Financials, Oracle's next generation financial solution. Kathleen will describe some of the innovations in Fusion Financials that led PGA to move from E-Business Suite Financials Release 11.5.10 to Fusion Financials.

Tired of paper invoices? Time to go electronic and go green!

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:00:00 PST

Learn how Transcepta's Procure to Pay Supplier Network and Oracle's Financial Management Applications help you electronically connect your suppliers directly into your Oracle Applications. Both Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise customers can realize significant benefits in leveraging this unique P2P and electronic invoicing.

Filing the XBRL version of Oracle's 2011 10K with the SEC using Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:00:00 PST

Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management is designed to "demystify" the creation of XBRL documents. Featuring deep integration with existing Oracle financial reporting tools, it is the easiest and most straightforward approach to XBRL reporting for Oracle's enterprise performance management and enterprise resource planning customers. In this podcast hear how Oracle itself has improved its SEC XBRL submission process through the implementation of Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management.

What's New in Fusion CRM

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Scott Eggleston, Director of Product Strategy for Oracle Fusion CRM, to learn what is Fusion CRM, what makes it different from other CRM systems, and what makes it valuable for customers.

Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies Podcast

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:00:00 PST

Recently, Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President of Research at Nucleus Research, published a report on Oracle Business Accelerators. In this podcast, Rebecca discusses the findings of this report with Jim Lein, Marketing Director with the Oracle Accelerate Program Office. When Nucleus analyzed the actual experiences of customers using Accelerators, analysts found all customers reduced the time to deploy Oracle E-Business Suite, many by more than 50 percent of the time an implementation without Accelerators would have taken.

PeopleSoft ESA Successes with Cardinal Point Solutions

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Bill Gibbard, Managing Director at Cardinal Point Solutions to hear about noted PeopleSoft Enterprise Services Automation customer stories and what makes Cardinal Point Solutions a unique and complementary partner in helping with implementation success.

Oracle Project Analytics: Turning Project Data into Insight

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Manuel Puyana, Principal Product Strategy Manager for Oracle's Business Intelligence Applications to learn about analytics in project management. We will use the time to discuss how customers on Oracle's E-Business Suite Projects application can leverage the power of business intelligence and turn their project data into actionable project insight.

Easily Tailor Your Applications Without IT Using Fusion Middleware

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:00:00 PST

Your business is unique so how do you get your best-in class applicaitons to meet your unique needs? With Oracle's family of Composers, you can easily tailor your applications to meet your unique business requirements using business user tools without relying on heavy coding or IT. What's more these changes are kep upgrade-friendly and can be used anywhere - on the Cloud, on Premise or in a hybrid model.

Upgrading to Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Version 11.1.2

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00:00 -0800

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Version 11.1.2 offers many great new features for customers upgrading from previous versions of their Hyperion applications. This webcast discusses the benefits of these new features plus the best way to go about planning and implementing the upgrade. AMOSCA, an Oracle Platinum Partner has already completed 15 Oracle EPM upgrades to Version 11.1.x with its customers. Noel Gorvett, Managing Director of AMOSCA shares their experiences of these upgrades to help customers currently considering upgrading to make the best decisions when planning and implementing their upgrade.

Leveraging Existing ERP Systems to Support Environmental Accounting and Reporting

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:00:00 -0800

Organizations globally are faced with a complex set of emissions reporting requirements. Driven by country-specific regulatory mandates as well as stakeholder requests for voluntary reporting, companies are under pressure to provide consistent, transparent and accurate collection, measurement and reporting of energy usage and emissions data. In this podcast, you'll year about how the new Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting solution extends the capabilities of Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards Financials to enable organizations to track their greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental data against reduction targets, and to obtain accurate, repeatable and verifiable methodologies for greenhouse gas calculation in accordance with global standards and for both voluntary and legislated emissions reporting schemes.

CRM at the Oracle OpenWorld Conference

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:00:00 -0800

Learn some of the highlights of our extensive OpenWorld program, including our Focus on eCommerce, ATG, Fusion CRM, Oracle CRM On Demand, and Siebel CRM.

Oracle Fusion Procurement: Coexistence Strategies

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:00:00 -0800

Oracle Fusion Procurement is setting the new standard in supply management. But what does that mean for organizations using Oracle E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft procurement applications? This AppsCast explores potential adoption strategies by explaining how Fusion can complement existing procurement applications.

Fusion PPM: A New Standard for Project Driven Enterprises

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:00:00 -0800

Oracle Fusion Project Portfolio Management represents a dynamic new way for organizations to run their project-driven business. This AppCast highlights the Fusion PPM solution, providing the key areas of capabilities, benefit, differentiation and value for customers.We also devote time to the adoption strategies customers can consider.

Oracle EPM Planning & Reporting at Irish Life

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:00:00 -0800

Using Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System on top of Oracle transactional systems Irish Life has made significant improvements in the productivity of it finance function and changed the way it reports and forecasts today.

The Latest on Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:00:00 -0800

Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance is a 100 percent open, standards-based platform that provides an agile approach for achieving regulatory compliance, risk management, and automated controls monitoring and enforcement. This AppCast highlights advances in key areas of Fusion GRC capability, differentiation and value for customers.

What's New in the latest release of Oracle User Productivity Kit 11.0

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:00:00 -0800

Enterprises are always looking to reduce overall project timelines, optimize business processes, and increase acceptance of their enterprise applications to ensure maximum ROI. The latest release of Oracle User Productivity Kit helps customers streamline the workflow process for the creation of content and offers conceptual-based assessment options to increase user adoption. Discover what is great and innovative about the latest release of Oracle UPK and UPK Professional. Learn about the integration of the UPK Developer and the Knowledge Center, which provides developers with a centralized, web-based platform for content deployment, tracking, and reporting.

Maximize Investments and Reduce Costs with PeopleSoft Cash Management

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Listen in to hear how PeopleSoft Cash Management helps you maximize your investments and reduce spending. We will talk about how you can automatically reconcile your bank.

Improve Cash position and Reduce Costs with PeopleSoft eBill Payment

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Join PeopleSoft strategy to hear how Oracle's PeopleSoft eBill Payment can give your customers the convenience of paying their bills online. We will discuss how eBill Payment can help.

PeopleSoft Reduces Payables Costs &Improves Supplier Relationships

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Join PeopleSoft strategy to hear how PeopleSoft eSettlements can reduce payables costs and improve supplier relationships. We will discuss how an Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment solution can help your organization to reduce operational costs through automation of the invoice process and improve supplier relationship thought online collaboration.

Leverage New PeopleSoft Enhancements in Your 9.1 Environment

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Join PeopleSoft strategy to hear about leveraging new enhancements in your 9.1 release. We will discuss the concept of feature packs and what it means for new & upgrading customers.

Fusion Product Hub for Supply Chain Management

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Oracle Fusion Product Hub is a key component of Oracle's Supply Chain and Master Data Management strategy. Using a revolutionary approach to managing product master data management processes, Product Hub delivers: 1) A unified and accurate product definition that is harmonized within and across the enterprise value chain 2) Flexible and robust Data Governance workflows and policies to govern product master data 3) Product Dashboard and Embedded Analytics to enable informed and quick decisions

Oracle Global Trade Management

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:00:00 PST

Oracle Global Trade Management is a relatively new application in the Oracle Supply Chain suite of solutions but has already delivered substantial benefits to customers. Tune into this appcast to hear how!

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management: Managing the Business of Projects

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:00:00 PST

Tune into this provocative Appcast to learn more about why an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management framework for managing corporate programs and initiatives is a must for project-driven firms.

Oracle Sets New Premier Support Timeline and releases Six year Roadmap for the Latest Releases of Oracle's JD Edwards

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:00:00 PST

To help customers accelerate the value of their Oracle solutions, Oracle announced that it has updated the start date of Oracle Premier Support for the latest releases. Also discussed will be the six year planned Roadmap for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle's JD Edwards World.

AutoVue 20.1 Product Update

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:00:00 PST

AutoVue solutions deliver a visualization platform capable of addressing all technical and business document visualization needs within an organization. Join Thierry Bonfante, Senior Director of AutoVue Product Mangement/Strategy, as we dicuss what is new in the latest major release of AutoVue Visualization solutions.

Fusion HCM Technical Overview

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:00:00 PST

Tune into this Appcast to learn more about Fusion HCM's technical architecture.

The Role of Business Intelligence in Oracle Fusions Applications

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:00:00 PST

Oracle's Fusion Applications provide integrated business intelligence when you need it, how you need it, and where you need it. Learn how you can leverage Oracle's BI Foundation and BI Applications with your Fusion Applications, as well as with your E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Seibel, and other applications.

How Fusion HCM coexists with PSFT, EBS, and JDE HCM

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:00:00 PST

Fusion HCM was designed to coexist with your PeopleSoft, E-Business Suite and JD Edwards HCM applications. Tune into this Appcast to understand how Fusion HCM can extend the value of your existing application investments.

Improving Strategic Financial Planning at Wyndham Worldwide

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:00:00 PST

Timothy Koropsak, Manager of Corporate Financial Planning at $3B hospitality company Wyndham Worldwide, talks with Nigel Youell, Product Marketing Director for Enterprise Performance Management at Oracle about their implementation of Hyperion solutions and how this has helped them improve their strategic financial planning processes. Tim highlights how they now have Operating and Treasury forecasts on one common platform and can produce fully integrated financial statements with GAAP accounting integrity and ensures that the strategic plans consolidating from their three business units are reliable and accurate.

Solve the Work Order Printing Challenge in EBS eAM

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:00:00 PST

Oracle partner, Estuate has built an integration between Oracle's AutoVue Document Print Service and EBS Enterprise Asset Management which delivers robust printing within eAM. This highly-anticipated capability allows maintenance planners to create and print work order packets, including related attachments, improving maintenance productivity.

Introduction to Oracle Landed Cost Management

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 12 May 2011 10:00:00 PST

Oracle Landed Cost Management gives organizations financial visibility into their supply chain costs, including transportation, handling, insurance, duties, and taxes. Since these charges comprise upwards of 40 percent of an item's cost, it is critical to accurately account for them when creating financial plans and tracking operational performance.

Replacement of Outlooksoft (SAP BPC) with Oracle EPM at Brady Corporation

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:00:00 PST

Nigel Youell, Product Marketing Director, Enterprise Performance Management Applications at Oracle discusses with Joe Bittorf, Project Manager at Brady Corporation why and how they embarked on this major project to replace SAP BPC with Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management Solution. Joe covers the outstanding improvements they have achieved in their financial close process, how they worked with Oracle Partner Emerging Solutions and the current project to further improve their planning and budgeting processes.

Fusion Human Capital Management - Work As a Team

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Aaron Green, Director of Product Strategy, to learn how Oracle Fusion HCM enables you to collaborate with enterprise social tools, connect with peers and experts across functions and geographies and make the right decisions about talent with a unique solution, Fusion Talent Review - allowing you to work as a team.

Fusion Human Capital Management - Enterprise Grade Software As a Service

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Anand Subbaraman, Senior Director of Product Strategy for Fusion HCM and Technology, to learn how Oracle is delivering offer a complete HCM SaaS application with single-vendor accountability. Unlike other vendors, which rely on other partners to complete their solutions, Oracle Fusion HCM includes integrated modules for HR, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Performance, along with industry-firsts such as Workforce Predictions, Network at Work, and Talent Review - all available on the Cloud.

Fusion Human Capital Management - Do Things Your Way

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Humair Ghauri, Senior Director Global Applications Strategy to learn how Oracle Fusion HCM delivers a user experience like no other - completely built around user roles, key processes, and business-led configurability. We've completely turned the way you've traditionally thought about HCM on its head - giving business users the power to easily mold and re-shape the system - so you can always do things your way.

Fusion Human Capital Management - Know Your People Better

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:00:00 PST

Tune into this conversation with Brian Gaspar, Product Strategy Director for Oracle Fusion HCM analytics to learn how Fusion HCM puts information right at your fingertips, uses predictive analytics to uncover potential workforce problems, and easily turns that insight into action. All together, allowing you to know your people better, and succeed.

Making the Move to PeopleSoft Projects (ESA) 9.1

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:00:00 PST

The PeopleSoft Projects (ESA) 9.1 release is built to enable the successful selection and execution of projects. With distinct attention to both user and IT productivity, PeopleSoft Projects 9.1 unveils a new Web 2.0 user interface, facilities to enable rapid business process re-configuration, and tools to strengthen project governance. Join us to hear more about these topics and the industry-specific functionality that are compelling customers to make the move to PeopleSoft Projects 9.1.

Vattenfall Accelerates Projects and Cuts Costs with AutoVue Document Visualization

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:00:00 PST

Ringhals, a Swedish nuclear power plant, part of the Vattenfall Group, produces 20 percent of the country's electricity and is the largest power station in the Nordic region. Ringhals has standardized on AutoVue for most of their engineering and asset document visualization requirements throughout their plant maintenance, design and engineering operations. As a result, they have cut IT maintenance costs, increased productivity, and improved maintenance operations.

Improving Sustainability Reporting at DONG Energy

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:00:00 PST

Nigel Youell discusses with Niels Peulicke-Andersen, Senior Advisor for Dong Energy how they are using Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System to consolidate and report financial and sustainability information for both internal management reporting and external stakeholder reporting.

LinkShare - A Customer Case of Highly Scalable BI and Analytics for E-Commerce Marketing

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:00:00 PST

LinkShare is one of the largest users of BI and Analytics for its innovative, E-commerce, Affiliate Marketing and Pay-per-Action services. It use OBIEE to gain insights into its own performance but also offers vast amounts of data and analytics to its customers on the performance of their marketing programs and campaigns. This session will highlight how creative firms can use BI to transform the products and services they provide to their customers and use BI as a competitive differentiator.

Improving Finance Department Productivity at BorgWarner

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:00:00 PST

Nigel Youell, Product Marketing Director, Enterprise Performance Management Applications at Oracle discusses with Mark Smith, Manager, Financial Reporting Systems at BorgWarner how using Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System on top of SAP transactional systems at BorgWarner has made significant improvements in the productivity of it finance function and halved the time it takes for to close its books.

Managing the Transition to IFRS

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:00:00 PST

As countries around the world announce and begin their move to adopting IFRS what can companies learn from those that have already travelled this path? Nigel Youell, Product Marketing Director for Performance Management Applications at Oracle talks to David Jones, Director at PWC, who has worked with multi-national companies across Europe helping them to make this transition and to improve their financial reporting in the process. This podcast offers those who have not yet started, or are currently undertaking, the IFRS journey the chance to learn from David's considerable experience on how to make IFRS an opportunity for improvement rather than just an enforced change.

Regulatory Reporting using XBRL - The SEC Viewpoint

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:00:00 PST

Nigel Youell interviews Jeff Naumann, Assistant Director in the Office of Interactive Disclosure at the SEC, about XBRL. This podcast is a must for all public companies who will need to publish filings in XBRL over the next few years. Get the SEC viewpoint of the current requirements and some insight into what the future might hold.

XBRL and Regulatory Reporting: Past, Present and Future

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:00:00 PST

Charlie Hoffman, the recognized "father of XBRL" talks to Oracle's Performance Management Applications - Product Marketing Director, Nigel Youell and gives his perspective on the current state of XBRL and XBRL technologies for regulatory reporting.

Planning for Recovery

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:00:00 PST

Uncertainty sets the tone of business planning these days and past precedents, 'rules of thumb' and trading history provide little comfort when assessing future prospects. After 18 years of constant growth in GDP, planning is no longer about extrapolating past performance and adjusting for growth. It is now about constantly testing the temperature of the water, formulating scenarios, assessing risk and assigning probabilities. So how does one plan for recovery and improve forecast accuracy in such a volatile environment?

Oracle HR Analytics: Driving Return on Human Capital Investment

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:00:00 -0800

In this podcast, you'll hear from Lexy Martin, the director of Research and Analytics for CedarCrestone, and the author of a recent, in-depth Oracle white paper on HR Analytics, as she talks about current trends in HR and how firms are using analytics to gain insights on their HR operations and performance.

Improving the Extended Financial Close and Reporting Process

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:00:00 -0800

Coming out of the recession, many organizations need to build or re-build trust with key stakeholders by delivering more timely and accurate financial and operating results. In this podcast, hear about new capabilities Oracle is delivering through its Enterprise Performance Management products to help organizations coordinate and improve the extended financial close and reporting process, from closing the sub-ledgers to regulatory filings.

A New Approach to Profitability and Cost Management

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:00:00 -0800

Understanding profitability and cost is fundamental to improving performance. Learn how Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management drives business performance by discovering the drivers of cost and profitability, empowers users with visibility and flexibility, and improves resource alignment.

Vertis Communication leverages Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System to deliver a world class planning and reporting

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0800

Learn how Vertis Communications uses the Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System for planning and forecasting across 7 different divisions and how they consolidate this information and make available for financial reporting and analysis in just a few days.

The Convergence of Risk and Performance Management

Oracle Corporation — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:00:00 -0800

Historically, the market has viewed Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) as separate processes and solutions. But these two worlds are coming together - in fact industry analyst firms such as Gartner believe that risk management will be part of every EPM discussion. Tune into this conversation with John O'Rourke, VP of Product Marketing for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Solutions, and Karen dela Torre, Vice President of Product Marketing for Oracle ERP Applications to learn how EPM and GRC are converging, what the integration points are, and what Oracle is doing to help customers perform more effective risk and performance management.

Protect Your Brand with Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager in R12.1.3

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:00:00 -0800

The pharmaceutical industry is facing new challenges as counterfeit products enter the ethical drug supply chain. Companies need to better secure the movement of their branded products from manufacturing to distribution to the end customer to insure proper efficacy. Pharmaceuticals are of special targets to "knock-offs", non-authorized generics as pirated-products enter the market. Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager (OPSM) helps firms' better track and control their products through a unique monitoring process.

Lowering the Cost of Apps Infrastructure

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:00:00 -0800

Every enterprise application - your Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft and Oracle Siebel applications - require a fast, scalable, secure and reliable database that delivers on business users' quality of service expectations. But, the database used and how it is implemented can dramatically impact the cost of that infrastructure. In this podcast, we'll discuss how customers are optimizing Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Exadata to lower the cost of their application's infrastructure.

PLM Product Update

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:00:00 -0800

Oracle Agile PLM is a very compelling solution for companies interested in managing the process of innovation across a variety of industries. Join Ken Pulverman, Senior Director of PLM and MDM Product Marketing as we review what's new with Oracle PLM.

What's New in Tutor 14 - Integration with BPA/BPM Suite for a complete business process management solution.

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:00:00 -0800

Hear about the latest strategies for maximizing the value of your Oracle Applications using technologies in Oracle Fusion Middleware. Today's businesses recognize that to be more innovative with their business applications, they need to shorten their application implementations, eliminate brittle integrations and develop a simpler approach to securing and managing their applications. In this podcast we'll hear techniques for extending the reach of applications through improved user experience and collaboration, create application extensions that minimize the risk during upgrades, and make more informed decisions with integrated business intelligence. These approaches applied with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications can help lower TCO and provide rapid returns for your business.

Managing Your Project Portfolio: Why EBS Projects is the Right Choice

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:00:00 -0800

Project-driven enterprises are increasingly looking at their project and resource management processes in an effort to gain efficiencies and leverage. This session will highlight the strengths of Oracle's EBS Projects application in delivering the visibility, transparency, and operational control to streamline the project portfolio management lifecycle.

Enable Visual Guided Selling with Oracle EBS Configurator and AutoVue Visualization Solutions

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:00:00 -0800

Highly complex and customized products have multiple configuration options which present challenges to the vendors who sell and manufacture them, as well as the customers who buy them. Oracle Gold partner, Latis Technologies, has developed an integration between Oracle EBS Configurator and Oracle's AutoVue visualization solutions which enables EBS Configurator to dynamically generate views of products and easily display them based on a selected set of configuration options. The combined solution greatly enhances configure-to-order processes and delivers significant benefits, including reduced order lead time, improved order accuracy, faster customer approvals and an overall better buying experience.

Maximizing the Value of Oracle Applications using Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:00:00 -0800

PeopleSoft Investment Strategy

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:00:00 -0800

Oracle has a concrete, long term investment strategy for PeopleSoft applications that is a cornerstone of Oracle's overall applications strategy. Tune into this conversation with Paco Aubrejuan, Group Vice President and General Manager of PeopleSoft to learn about current and planned PeopleSoft investments and how the PeopleSoft roadmap benefits PeopleSoft customers.

Human Capital Management: Current State

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:00:00 -0800

The Human Capital Management market is in a state of flux today. New technology trends have an impact on HR departments and also the products they use. In this podcast, Scott Ewart, HCM expert, discusses these changing dynamics and what is on the horizon for Oracle HCM customers.

Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:00:00 -0800

Oracle Unveils Comprehensive Capabilities for Pharmaceutical Drug Development with Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 9.3.1

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Oracle has invested nearly 10 years in designing a specific solution for the Pharma industry that will dramatically reduce costs, simplify the management of complex business networks, and speed solutions to market. Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) brings these capabilities to the Pharma industry.

Genworth Financial Talks about the Value they received from Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:00:00 -0800

Genworth Financial is a publicly traded global financial security company and has a presence in more than 25 countries. Genworth Financial is recognized in Standard & Poor's 500 Index of Leading U.S. companies and ranked in the Fortune 500. Genworth Financial is committed to helping people effectively protect and achieve the comfort of financial security. Genworth Financial upgraded to the latest version of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 to support the management of their employees with core HR, Employee Self-Service, Compensation Workbench, Oracle Learning Management Oracle's Time and Labor. Genworth Financial will share their reasons for upgrading, their lessons learned and the benefits they are receiving.

JD Edwards World Strategy and Roadmap and Applications Unlimited

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Customers, Partners, Friends of JD Edwards World - listen to this podcast to hear John Schiff, Vice President and General Manager, JD Edwards World give the annual update of what is new, innovative and still great about the JD Edwards World product. Applications Unlimited is reinvigorated with opportunities to "expand your World" with new enhancements, integrations and technology from JD Edwards.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Strategy and Roadmap and Applications Unlimited

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:00:00 -0800

Customers, Partners, Friends of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - listen to this podcast to hear Lyle Ekdahl, General Manager, JD Edwards give the annual update of what is new, innovative and still great about the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne product. Applications Unlimited is reinvigorated with new enhancements, integrations and technology from JD Edwards.

Lifecycle Technology Delivers AutoVue Visualization Integration for SAP

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:00:00 -0800

Lifecycle Technology is an Oracle development partner and has built a Connector for Oracle's AutoVue visualization solution and SAP. Their area of expertise lies in integrating AutoVue visualization and printing solutions with SAP business processes within Asset Lifecycle Management,Product Lifecycle Management,and Document Management Systems. Lifecycle visually enables a variety of SAP workflows and processes in manufacturing,plant maintenance,and production. Their solutions allow SAP enterprise customers to view technical or engineering documents in the appropriate business context and/or print them as required in their workflows, improving productivity and decision making.

Enterprise Planning - Part 2

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:00:00 -0800

Today's networked and fast-changing economy challenges traditional spreadsheets and department-oriented planning mechanisms. To be competitive, effective planning needs to connect the organizational value chain in an integrated manner. In this podcast hear about how Oracle's Enterprise Business Planning solutions are enabling organizations to link their strategic, financial, and operational plans to achieve both vertical and horizontal alignment.

Enterprise Planning - Part 1

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:00:00 -0800

Electronic Arts Talks about their Upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:00:00 -0800

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices and the Internet. EA uses many Oracle products such as E-Business Suite, Demantra, PeopleSoft, Hyperion, Fusion Middleware, etc . Last year, EA needed an ERP Transformation and wanted to move to one global single instance to manage their business better. They decided to migrate from E-Business Suite 11.5.9 to Release 12 to get the added functionality they needed.

MoneyGram Shares their Oracle E-Business Suite Release Upgrade Story from 11i to 12

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:00:00 -0800

MoneyGram International is a leading global provider of money transfer services. MoneyGram helps consumers send money around the world with funds arriving at available agent locations in as little as 10 minutes. Its global network is comprised of 203,000 agent locations in more than 190 countries and territories. With the help of Oracle Partner Infosys, MoneyGram was able to upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 in record time. As a result, MoneyGram has been able to reduce accounting errors and close their books more efficiently, ultimately saving time and money.

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