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  • Agile PLM
    In this track, Agile experts, partners and customers will reveal how Product Lifecycle Management can connect all the stakeholders across a global product network; provide vital decision support, communication and collaboration; and address today's top business issues—innovation, time to market, compliance, quality and cost. Highlighted industries include automotive, consumer packaged goods, electronics and high tech, industrial, life sciences, and semiconductors.
  • Application Integration Architecture
    In a fast-paced, competitive marketplace, today's companies must quickly adapt to changing business needs. The Oracle Application Integration Architecture helps you gain greater business agility by uniting the applications you have today through service-oriented architecture-based composite business processes.
  • Applications Strategy
    Learn more about the direction of Oracle's current and future applications strategies. You'll hear discussions on Oracle's development and support commitment for all Applications Unlimited product lines, as well as Oracle Fusion Applications. You'll hear from Oracle's senior executives as they explain strategic applications initiatives, including Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand, Oracle Application Integration Architecture, Oracle Business Process Outsourcing, and Oracle's user experience. And you'll learn about Oracle's firsthand experience using our own applications.
  • Applications Tools and Technology
    This comprehensive track is for new or existing customers with responsibilities in IT management, development, and operations. Learn about the latest releases, future directions, and best practices in Oracle Applications including Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards and Siebel, and others. Sessions include a wide variety of subjects, such as the evolution path to Oracle Fusion Applications, how to prepare for Oracle Fusion, and case studies of customers who have already embarked on the path to Oracle Fusion by adopting Oracle Fusion Architecture and Oracle Fusion technology. This track includes tools and utilities that help you quickly create the critical documentation, training, and support materials your organization needs to drive project team and user productivity throughout the lifecycle of your software.
  • Business Intelligence and Analytic Applications
    With the acquisition of Hyperion, Oracle offers the industry's most complete business intelligence product line for our customers. In this track, you'll learn how Hyperion's enteprise performance management software, coupled with Oracle's business intelligence tools and analytic applications, forms an end-to-end performance management system that includes planning, budgeting, consolidation, prebuilt operational analytics, and compliance reporting. Find out what's new and how to get better results with business intelligence and analytic applications from Oracle.
  • Siebel CRM On Demand
    Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand provides organizations with the industry's most comprehensive hosted CRM application. Learn from Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand customers as they tell you how they have dramatically accelerated sales, increased ROI on marketing campaigns, and built unparalleled customer loyalty—all with little or no IT intervention.
  • Governance, Risk, and Compliance
    Oracle is the global leader in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) applications; middleware; and infrastructure. In these sessions, you'll learn how Oracle's comprehensive and integrated GRC offerings help organizations around the world. Hear how Oracle customers are automating processes, lowering costs, strengthening corporate governance, and managing their enterprise risk with Oracle GRC. Discover how to consistently reduce the cost and complexity of multiple GRC requirements; safeguard your business with protected, reliable information; and improve risk management across your enterprise. Our lineup of expert speakers includes Oracle GRC product strategy and development managers, leading consultants, experienced partners, and advanced customers.
  • Master Data Management
    There has been a significant change in the global business climate, not the least of which is a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications and financial industries. Political uncertainty and social issues have put significant pressure on government entities to provide increased and improved levels of service. The demand for innovation has put downward pressure on product lifecycles and resulted in an increased need to bring new products to market faster, better and cheaper.

    Oracle is the only vendor in the market today to offer a complete Master Data Management (MDM) solution, whether it is to meet industry specific needs (for example, in financial services, telecommunications, high tech, or public sector) or to address specific requirements for managing product, customer, supplier or financial master data. Having helped more than 450 organizations from multiple industries deploy Oracle MDM solutions, Oracle offers unrivaled consulting experience, methodology, and best practices. Learn how Oracle and Acxiom have partnered to provide unrivalled DQ with Acxiom Knowledge Base and Prospect Mastering. Learn about mastering financial entities with Oracle Data Relationship Management.

Oracle E-Business Suite

  • Applications Strategy
    Customers of all sizes across all industries are successfully running their businesses using Oracle E-Business Suite applications. Oracle E-Business Suite provides businesses the functional best practices and industry-specific capabilities they need to adapt to change and compete more effectively. In this track, you'll get updates on the Oracle E-Business Suite applications strategy and road map, as well as insight into the value customers are seeing with the latest releases.
  • Applications Tools and Technology
    This comprehensive track is for new or existing customers with responsibilities in IT management, development, and operations. Learn about the latest releases, future directions, and best practices in Oracle E-Business Suite. Sessions cover architecture and technology stack, the integration of Oracle Fusion Middleware, performance tuning, service-oriented extensibility, customization, systems management, and application reporting.
  • Asset Lifecycle Management
    As companies look to leverage existing capital investment, shareholders gauging enterprise performance are focusing on improving asset utilization, reliability, and return on assets. Asset lifecycle management receives greater scrutiny because of: restrictions on capital spending, competing investments, operating efficiency, potential for cross-utilization, and life span extension. Gone are the days when it was easy to acquire new pieces of complex equipment with little budget concern. In these sessions, you'll hear success stories from several successful firms using Oracle ALM solutions to improve their critical success factors. You'll also learn about best practices, new capabilities, and successful implementations in several industry segments for improved equipment performance.
  • Business Intelligence and Analytic Applications
    For Oracle E-Business Suite users, Oracle offers the industry's most complete business intelligence product line. In this track, you'll learn about Oracle's solutions for planning, budgeting, consolidation, prebuilt operational analytics, and compliance reporting across your enterprise. Find out how acquisitions and new product developments will extend your current investments and help you get better results.
  • Customer Relationship Management
    The most successful companies recognize that customers are their best asset—this simple principle has sparked many companies to align their entire organization around the customer. In this track, you'll learn how Oracle's market-leading customer relationship management (CRM) applications help companies achieve excellence in sales, marketing, and customer service. Gain insight and guidance from Oracle customers who are setting the standard for customer-centric business transformations. Also, learn about Oracle CRM in your industry during special sessions for public sector, financial services, manufacturing, and communications.
  • Financial Management
    No matter what the size of your organization, you work to have a highly effective finance function. Standardizing processes, implementing best practices and controls, and simplifying finance systems are all key to achieving excellence. Oracle E-Business Suite Financials is a proven platform for achieving that excellence. In this track, you will get a firsthand look at Oracle's latest releases and how they enhance financial performance through best-in-class business processes, more efficient global accounting and reporting, and currently available Fusion technologies.
  • Fulfillment
    Spanning the entire supply chain process, fulfillment is a critical piece of every organization's overall strategy. Traditonally, order fulfillment solutions linked only to order, enterprise and warehouse management systems. Today, to cost effectively and profitably execute an order, the fulfillment process must also consider supply and demand signals. These signals are often managed and/or influenced by transportation management systems, visibility solutions, demand management applications and CRM products. Oracle offers solutions across all these areas and is changing the way the fulfillment process is viewed and managed at progressive organizations.
  • Human Capital Management
    Oracle E-Business Suite Human Capital Management unlocks the full value of your organization's workforce, enabling you to put the right people in the right jobs, develop and reward top performers, retain key talent for the long term, and increase efficiency and operating performance throughout your organization. In this track, you'll find out how our customers are using Oracle E-Business Suite Human Capital Management products to streamline HR operations, strengthen workforce governance, and boost organizational performance through a more effective workforce. It will cover foundational applications for core HR, payroll, time and labor, and benefits, as well as more strategic talent management products to enhance recruiting and development, performance management, learning management, compensation, workforce productivity, and planning.
  • Manufacturing
    Learn how today's leading manufacturing companies are dealing with the pressures of globalization, increasing supply chain complexity, and increasing customer expectations. Hear industry leaders describe how they are building responsive and Lean manufacturing organizations and gaining competitive advantage.
  • Master Data Management
  • PIM Data Hub and PLM
    Many companies store product information in numerous fragmented applications, resulting in data duplication, version inaccuracy, and sourcing difficulties. In this track, you'll find out how you can consolidate your product information into a central repository based on a single, extensible data model. You'll learn how to improve item accuracy and standardize information so items are easy to find and manage. And you'll hear from customers, researchers, and Oracle executives about how to use Oracle Product Information Management Data Hub and Oracle Product Lifecycle Management to reduce development times and deliver better products while increasing margins.
  • Procurement
  • Project Management
    Across every market and industry segment, companies increasingly view their work in the context of a project or portfolio of projects. Whether implementing information technology, delivering professional services, constructing a bridge, launching a global advertising campaign, or driving operational efficiencies around innovation, project management is at the very core of most business operations. Oracle delivers solutions that help you leverage project management into a strategic advantage. In this track, we'll dive into Oracle Project Management best practices and hear from customers who have upgraded or implemented the latest solution releases.
  • Supply Chain Planning
    Oracle enables information-driven supply networks, allowing companies to build and operate world-class supply chains for profitable growth. With Oracle Supply Chain Planning and Oracle Logistics solutions, companies can sense, shape, and respond effectively to demand; make empowered decisions with intelligent analytics; and build optimized global supply networks for maximum resiliency. Oracle is a leader in Lean manufacturing and supply chain execution, and provides end-to-end global visibility and real-time exception management. In these sessions, you'll hear success stories from firms using Oracle Supply Chain Planning and Oracle Logistics applications to gain success in today's competitive world. Learn about best practices, capabilities, and leading implementations in supply chain planning, inventory optimization, sales and operations planning, global order promising, scheduling, transportation, and logistics.
  • Transportation
    Oracle Transportation Management allows you to gain control of your transportation and logistics operations while minimizing costs and eliminating inefficient and redundant procedures. A single, Web-architected application for all your transportation needs, Oracle Transportation Management combines broad logistics capabilities with deep transportation-management functionality. Whether your needs are for a single-mode business or geography or for a complex multi-mode, multi-business global network, Oracle Transportation Management is the solution.

PeopleSoft Enterprise

  • Applications Strategy
    Oracle continues to see tremendous positive response to its PeopleSoft products across all industries. Driven by customer feedback, the latest technologies, and high standards for a superior ownership experience, Oracle continues to invest in these solutions. In this track, you'll hear updates on PeopleSoft solutions, strategies, and road maps, as well as new insight into the benefits customers are seeing in their upgrades to the latest releases.
  • Applications Tools and Technology
    The PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools platform provides a comprehensive toolset that supports the development, deployment, and execution of PeopleSoft Enterprise applications. The sessions in this track will highlight many of the key features and capabilities of PeopleTools and how evolving technologies are being introduced to our customers, as well as some of our customers' own experiences implementing and leveraging the latest releases.
  • Business Intelligence and Analytic Applications
    For PeopleSoft users, Oracle offers the industry's most complete business intelligence product line. In this track, you'll hear about Oracle's solutions for planning, budgeting, consolidation, prebuilt operational analytics, and compliance reporting across your enterprise. Find out how acquisitions and new product developments will extend your current investments and help you get better results.
  • Customer Relationship Management
    Progressive companies recognize that customers are their most important asset, and this simple business principle has sparked many companies to aggressively align their entire organization around the customer. PeopleSoft Customer Relationship Management delivers "CRM for You"—solutions tailored to fit your industry business processes, your customer strategies, and your success criteria. In this track, you'll hear how PeopleSoft Customer Relationship Management applications are enabling companies to achieve excellence in marketing, sales, and service.
  • Financial Management
    Highly effective finance organizations spend less time on administrative tasks and more time driving informed decision support. They standardize processes, practices, and controls; simplify finance systems; and focus on data quality so they can provide insight into business performance and risk. In this track, you'll hear how customers are achieving these goals by upgrading to the latest PeopleSoft Financial Management releases.
  • Human Capital Management
    PeopleSoft Human Capital Management unlocks the full value of your organization's workforce, enabling you to put the right people in the right jobs, develop and reward top performers, retain key talent for the long term, and increase efficiency and operating performance throughout your organization. In this track, you'll learn how customers are using PeopleSoft Human Capital Management products to streamline HR operations, strengthen workforce governance, and boost organizational performance through a more effective workforce. It will cover foundational applications for core HR, payroll, time and labor, and benefits, as well as more strategic talent management products to enhance recruiting and development, performance management, learning management, compensation, workforce productivity, and planning.
  • Supply Chain Management
    PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management provides a cohesive yet flexible solution for the synchronized supply chain, driving efficiencies in cost savings over your entire supply chain including your plan-to-produce and order-to-cash business processes. In this track, you will hear from Oracle experts and customers about effective ways to leverage specific capabilities in the PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management products to help you manage complexity, centralize information, reduce development time, deliver better products, optimize inventory, and increase margins.
  • Procurement: Technology Driven Best Practices
    This track will focus on how procurement suites from Oracle's eBusiness Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise can be used to drive procurement best practices. Oracle's customers, partners, and procurement leaders will share practical advice on how best to leverage technology and procurement strategy to drive business improvement. Customer speakers will present their own case studies and document the methods used to drive long-term success. Select sessions will take a multi-discipline approach in order to explore the opportunities available from involving related business functions like HR, finance, product engineering, and logistics.
  • Project Management
    Across every market segment and industry, companies increasingly view their work in the context of a project or portfolio of projects. Whether implementing information technology, delivering professional services, constructing a bridge, launching a global advertising campaign, or driving operational efficiencies around innovation, project management is at the very core. PeopleSoft's project management solution offering-PeopleSoft Enterprise Service Automation-helps you gain a true strategic advantage. In this customer-centric track, you'll dive into Oracle Project Management project management best practices and the benefits customers have realized as they've implemented or upgraded to the latest solution releases.

Siebel

  • Applications Strategy
    Customers of all sizes across all industries are successfully transforming the way they interact with customers using Oracle's Siebel applications. Siebel applications provide organizations with the industry's leading sales, service, marketing, order management, self-service, call center, and master data management solutions. In this track, you'll learn about the Siebel applications strategy and roadmap, as well as insight into the value customers are seeing with the latest releases.
  • Applications Tools and Technology
  • Business Intelligence and Analytic Applications
    For Oracle's Siebel users, Oracle offers the most comprehensive prebuilt business intelligence (BI) solutions for delivering pervasive intelligence across your organization. In these sessions, you'll learn about Oracle BI Applications for sales, marketing, service, and the call center. Attend these sessions to discover how to extend the value of your CRM deployments to front-line operational users, senior management, and executives.
  • CRM On Demand
    Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand provides organizations with the industry's most comprehensive hosted CRM application. Learn from Siebel CRM On Demand customers as they tell you how they have dramatically accelerated sales, increased ROI on marketing campaigns, and built unparalleled customer loyalty—all with little or no IT intervention.
  • Customer Order Management
    Join us to learn how Oracle's Siebel Customer Order Management solutions can simplify the complex and often frustrating process of tracking thousands of products across multiple catalogs and systems and enable businesses to dynamically present targeted product bundles, offer intelligent cross-sell and up-sell opportunities, and achieve optimal prices for products and customer segments. This track will cover Siebel's solutions for dynamic product catalogs, pricing and configuration, and quote and order lifecycle management.
  • Customer Relationship Management Technology
    Puzzled by how Siebel core components work, why they were designed the way they were, and where they're going in the future? If you either? Whether you love Siebel technology or are frustrated by it, come along to the sessions in the CRM Technology track and tell us about it. In this track you'll hear about the framework used by all Siebel applications, with topics including configuration, deployment, diagnostics, and globalization techniques applicable to a wide range of business situations. We also talk about integrating your business processes across multiple IT systems, using BPEL, Outlook, or Sharepoint, or across multiple hardware devices, using laptops, PDA's, or mobile phones—so you can take your CRM application on the road, and around the world.
  • Customer Self-Service
    Join us to learn more about Oracle's Siebel Self-Service and eBilling offerings. They are the industry's only complete solution for allowing your customers to do business with you anytime, anywhere. This track will explore several key solution areas including eBilling, eCommerce and eService products and will provide insight on how to leverage the most proven solution and the most complete, multi-channel footprint, while realizing the highest return on your investment.
  • Enterprise Marketing and Loyalty
    Oracle's Siebel Enterprise Marketing is the comprehensive and integrated marketing suite that dramatically improves marketing effectiveness. The Siebel Enterprise Marketing suite is designed to meet marketing's most pressing needs including delivering sales growth, increasing marketing accountability, and becoming more responsive to customer needs. In this track, product experts and customer presenters will discuss best practices and review highlights for key solution areas including marketing resource management, campaign management, marketing analytics and loyalty management.
  • Master Data Management
    Do you have a single view of your customer? Learn how market-leading customers are overcoming the customer data integration challenge by leveraging Oracle's Siebel Customer Data Integration solutions. Learn how to create and maintain accurate customer information—and make it available to all your business systems—for fact based decision-making, higher customer satisfaction, reduced data management and integration costs, and enterprisewide data-quality business practices.
  • Sales and PRM
    Learn how Oracle's Siebel Sales and Siebel Partner Relationship Management solutions help you grow revenue quickly and profitably by focusing on the right deals at the right time, maximize channel revenue and profitability through stronger partner collaboration, and driving maximum sales results through sales alignment, collaboration, and pipeline visibility. Gain insight and guidance from Oracle customers who have successfully deployed and utilized Siebel SFA and PRM solutions, and view some demos of new functionality being developed.
  • Siebel Contact Center and Service Track
    Recognized by the foremost analyst firms as a market leader, Oracle's Siebel Contact Center and Service solutions help businesses deliver intelligent customer service—for quicker, better, and more efficient service leading to a more satisfied customer base. Join us and learn about Oracle's multichannel contact handling, optimal resource deployment, speedy issue resolution, one-and-done request handling, and powerful tracking and analytics capabilities. We'll also explore several key solution areas including contact center applications, multichannel contact center infrastructure, field service, help desk, and mobile applications.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World

  • JD Edwards Program
    JD Edwards World and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers should come to this year's two-day "conference within a conference" at the San Francisco Hilton to learn about Oracle's vision for its JD Edwards lines of business applications and how Oracle continues to deliver today with Applications Unlimited.

    This program, sponsored by Deloitte Consulting, offers more than 120 sessions organized by topics and delivered by JD Edwards product experts, customers, user groups, and partners, covering roadmaps, technology, product integration, and upgrade directions across JD Edwards applications and technologies. This year a mini-exhibit hall at the Hilton will feature select JD Edwards' partners.

Hyperion

  • Essbase and Business Intelligence Tools
    Oracle's Hyperion OLAP server (Essbase) and its business intelligence tools extend the capabilities of Oracle's comprehensive BI product line. In this track, you'll be introduced to Hyperion's online analytical processing, reporting, dashboard, and analysis tools, as well as data management and integration technologies. You'll also learn how Hyperion tools are being integrated with Oracle BI Applications. This track is for Hyperion customers and Oracle and PeopleSoft customers interested in learning about the Hyperion BI tools.
  • Financial Performance Management
    Oracle's Hyperion Financial Performance Management Applications are a key element of Oracle's enterprise performance management solutions. In this track, you'll get an introduction to and updates on Hyperion's financial consolidation, budgeting and planning, financial modeling, performance scorecarding, and profitability management applications. This track is for Hyperion customers as well as Oracle and PeopleSoft customers interested in learning about Hyperion applications.
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