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Moscone West

Stop by the Oracle Applications and Industries Lounges on the 2nd floor (overlooks) at Moscone West and meet Oracle application and technology product experts and key executives from Oracle's development and strategy teams. In a casual, comfortable environment you'll have the opportunity to provide feedback about your experiences using Oracle products, learn more about current and upcoming product releases, get consulting tips and ask detailed questions about how to maximize your use of Oracle products.

Monday, November 12
Overlook 1 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 5:30 pm Siebel Applications
The Siebel Meet The Experts Lounge is an opportunity to get specific answers to product questions from the Siebel development and product management team. Experts will be available throughout the day for Siebel's CRM product line including our call center, service, field service, self-service, and enterprise marketing solutions. We look forward to seeing you there!
Overlook 2 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 1:00 pm AppsLab and Web 2.0
Oracle AppsLab is a think-tank developed to drive adoption of new web patterns and technologies across Oracle's business and products. Come to Overlook 2 and meet the Oracle 2.0 experts.
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Financial Services
Stop by the Oracle Applications and Industries Lounges on the 2nd floor Overlook of Moscone West on Monday afternoon to chat with executives from our Financial Services Global Business Unit. Get your questions answered directly, and hear first hand about our exciting plans and innovations for this important industry.
Overlook 3 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Oracle E-Business Suite: Logistics
Meet key experts from Oracle Development and Product Strategy for Oracle Logistics Applications including Oracle Transportation Management, Warehouse Management, Mobile Supply Chain Applications, Inventory and RFID and ask them about current and future releases. Bring your functional questions and requirements.
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Oracle E-Business Suite: Fulfillment
Meet key experts from Oracle Development and Product Strategy for Oracle Order Fulfillment Applications including Oracle Order Management, Pricing, Configurator and Contracts and ask them about current and future releases. Bring your functional questions and requirements.
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Oracle E-Business Suite: Tools and Technology
Technology Stack and Advanced Configuration: discuss with the experts a variety of advanced deployment options and architecture for the E-Business Suite. Don't miss this opportunity
SOA-Enablement of E-Business Suite: Learn about implementing solutions for service enablement and SOA based integration with Oracle E-Business Suite. Come and meet the minds behind the story of service enablement for Oracle E-Business Suite.
Managing and Maintaining the Oracle E-Business Suite: Talk to the experts about management and maintenance of the E-Business Suite.
User Interface Migration to Oracle Fusion Toolset: Talk to the Experts about ways to migrate your UI (Forms and OAF) to ADF, the Fusion development framework that is available today.
Upgrading to Release 12: Tips and Hints- Talk to the Experts about migrating to R12 and related topics.
Applications DBA for Oracle E-Business Suite: Talk to the Experts about administering the Oracle E-Business Suite from a DBA perspective.
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Oracle E-Business Suite: Advanced Procurement
This year's OpenWorld procurement experience has been created to help customers understand how to drive procurement best practices in their Organizations using applications. The "Meet The Experts" lounge provides customers with unique opportunity to work one-on-one with Oracle's top procurement executives from the Product Development and Product Strategy organizations. Please join us and take advantage of the opportunity to ask questions, network with peers, and make invaluable contacts.

Oracle E-Business Suite: CRM
Come meet the Product Development experts for Oracle EBS CRM. Get all your Sales, Marketing, Service, and CDH questions answered.
Tuesday, November 13
Overlook 1 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 4:30 pm PeopleSoft Enterprise
The PeopleSoft Meet The Experts lounge is an opportunity to get answers to your PeopleSoft questions from the PeopleSoft development team. Throughout the day product experts from all PeopleSoft pillars (including PeopleTools) will be available to customers for discussion and question answering.
Overlook 2 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Oracle E-Business Suite: Supply Chain
Take advantage of this informal opportunity to meet with leaders in the strategy and development organizations. These experts are available to answer questions and talk about current features and future product directions.

Oracle E-Business Suite: HR
Learn more about the current and upcoming product releases and meet the key experts from Oracle Development and Strategy. We encourage you to come and ask questions, provide feedback and chat with customers and staff from Oracle E-Business Suite Human Capital Management Solutions.
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Oracle E-Business Suite: Manufacturing
Take advantage of this informal opportunity to meet with leaders in the strategy and development organizations. These experts are available to answer questions and talk about current features and future product directions.
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Retail
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Taking Complexity out of Workforce Scheduling: Discussion leader, Derek Morgan

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Optimizing Science for Better Retail Decisions: Discussion leader, Ellen Mitchell

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Managing Retail Real Estate with Ease: Discussion leader, John Murphy

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Improving Customer Service at the Point-of-Service with Customer Insight: Discussion leader, Jeff Grossman

Oracle E-Business Release 12 Upgrade
Come talk to experts from Oracle Development and Strategy about upgrading to the latest release.
Overlook 3 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 2:00 pm Natural Resources
Meet with Oracle Natural Resource experts in the consulting and Industry Business Unit organizations. These experts are available to answer questions and talk about current product and implementation news.
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Oracle On Demand in Latin America
Come learn the unique business drivers propelling Oracle's fast growing On Demand business in Latin America. Ask successful LAD customers, Oracle service and delivery experts and your peers: How did they partner to enable business transformation, achieved operational excellence and optimize the value of their investment in IT. This highly interactive, Spanish language opportunity to Meet the Experts is an open discussion designed for you to get the complete picture about Oracle On Demand in Latin America.

Oracle E-Business Release 12 Upgrade
Come talk to experts from Oracle Development and Strategy about upgrading to the latest release.
Wednesday, November 14
Overlook 1 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 1:00 pm CRM On Demand
Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand delivers a comprehensive, strategic solution for sales, marketing and service, along with powerful analytics and embedded virtual call center capabilities. Built from the ground up for ease of use and administration by business users, Siebel CRM On Demand delivers rapid time to business value. And because it's from Oracle, the #1 provider of CRM, organizations are assured of receiving the services, expertise, and commitment they need for CRM success. Come talk to experts from the CRM On Demand team.
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm User Experience
Come meet Jeremy Ashley, Vice President Apps UX, and his senior team to discuss enterprise-class user experiences. Jeremy drives user experience across the E-Business Suite, Fusion, PeopleSoft, and Agile product lines. Originally coming from Apple, he has built an impressive user-centric design organization and staffed it with industry-leading professionals. Oracle's Applications UX team has a broad charter to deliver innovation and productivity across the many enterprise experience paradigms: transactions, intelligence, collaboration, desktop, mobile, and web 2.0. Come and get your questions answered!
Overlook 2 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 1:00 pm Business Process and Information Technology Outsourcing
Are you looking to transform your business? Globalize? Rapidly scale to meet demand? Drive operational excellence? Business leaders and IT professionals alike consider Business Process Outsourcing and Information Technology Outsourcing enablers of strategic change. When it comes to BPO and ITO, Oracle has the insight, products, services and relationships to make your strategic change successful! Come talk to the Oracle outsourcing experts.
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm All Applications: Tools and Technology
Topics: Things You Can Do Today To Be Ready for Fusion Applications, Managing Your Oracle Applications Better with Oracle Enterprise Manager, Promote User Adoption through Effective Implementation Training with Oracle SimBuilder, Applications Lifecycle Management Strategy. 2:30 - 4:00: Oracle UPK with Oracle Tutor, Latest on BI Publisher for Oracle Applications.
4:00 - 5:30: Oracle Tutor with Oracle UPK, Migrating Automatically to BI Publisher.
Overlook 3 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Oracle E-Business Suite: Financials
Learn more about the current and upcoming product releases and meet the key experts from Oracle Development and Strategy to ask questions about E-Business Suite Financials solutions and provide feedback.
2:30 pm - 5:30 p.m Oracle E-Business Suite: Projects
See why E-Business Suite Projects is the engine that is rapidly driving business value for thousands of global organizations. Join Oracle's senior E-Business Suite Projects business, strategy, and development leaders for an open and honest dialogue on current and upcoming Project and Portfolio Management releases. This unique session allows for EBS Projects customers to ask the tough questions, offer constructive feedback, receive one-on-one advice and guidance, and most importantly, foster a stronger relationship with the entire EBS Projects team.

Manufacturing Assembly Flow Demonstration
Asset Lifecycle Management-Maintenance

This hands-on demonstration highlights a Lean Manufacturing Enterprise utilizing the Configure to Order business process and Flow Manufacturing. The demonstration begins with a customer ordering a configured-to-order product over the Web. The web order is then sent to Order Management, reviewed and released to manufacturing where a Flow schedule is created. Shop floor execution shows two balanced line operations using the HTML Flow Execution Workstation that demonstrate both simple attached documents and audio for assembly instructions. Bar code scanning and RFID from Warehouse Management System are used in this complete manufacturing process demonstration. Although this demonstration is provided at an executive level, all business process information will be available to allow the audience members to dive deeper into specific features. Come marvel at our use of a forklift in the demo!

Asset Lifecycle Management-Maintenance
Thursday, November 15
Overlook 1 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 1:00 pm Oracle E-Business Release 12 Upgrade
Come talk to experts from Oracle Development and Strategy about upgrading to the latest release.
12:00 am - 2:00 pm Utilities
Meet the Oracle experts in Utilities who can answer all your questions Oracle team representatives from strategy, marketing and development will be available.
Overlook 2 - Moscone West
10:00 am - 1:00 pm Hyperion Essbase: Extend Your Business Intelligence
The Hyperion Essbase "Meet the Experts" Lounge is an opportunity to get answers to product questions from the Hyperion Essbase team. Learn how to extend your BI infrastructure with the most powerful business analysis server technology. Hyperion Essbase provides an environment for rapidly developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications (EPM). Experts from the Essbase development, product strategy, and product management teams will be available to answer your questions. Please join us and come see the future of analytic applications.
Overlook 3 - Moscone West
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