8:00am – 8:30am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am – 9:30am

Introductions and Oracle Update – Joe Thomas, Oracle

9:30am –9:45am

Break/Networking

9:45am – 10:30am

Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers – Part 1

Speaker: Ashish Jain – Gallup

Room H – Black Hills

This is a two part presentation where we go through some of the top new features we like at Gallup. Come and learn about new developer features like Result Cache and Virtual Columns as well as DBA  features like  Adaptive Cursors and Database Replay . You will learn how these new features work via simple, actionable demonstration.

9:45am – 10:30am

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus Overview

Speaker: Joe Thomas – Oracle

Room B – Sand Hills Auditorium

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus is a comprehensive suite of enterprise BI products that delivers a full range of analysis and reporting capabilities. This session presents an overview of its unified, highly scalable, modern architecture and its common Enterprise Information Model, enabling an enterprise performance management system. Learn about its delivery channels, including dashboards, ad hoc and pixel-perfect reporting, proactive detection and alerts, disconnected analysis, and access from Microsoft Office.

9:45am – 10:30am

What’s new in EBS 12.1 (Financials) – Part 1

Speakers: Mike Stathes, Steve Ryan - Oracle

Room A – Nebraska Auditorium

· Centralized accounting through SLA, tax capabilities & payment processing

· Integration technologies specific to the finance organization (credit card, ach, lock box, pcard, etc.)

· Continuing on the discussion by Joe Thomas, a demonstration of the finance dashboard capabilities.

9:45am – 10:30am

Oracle CRM Round Table

Speaker: Saurabh Seth – Gallup

Room I – Pioneer

Round Table forum for users to discuss CRM.

10:30am –11:00am

Break/Networking - Snacks

11:00am- 11:45am

Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers – Part 2

Speaker: Ashish Jain – Gallup

Room H – Black Hills

This is a two part presentation where we go through some of the top new features we like at Gallup. Come and learn about new developer features like Result Cache and Virtual Columns as well as DBA  features like  Adaptive Cursors and Database Replay . You will learn how these new features work via simple, actionable demonstration.

11:00am- 11:45am

Oracle BI Applications Overview

Speaker: Joe Thomas – Oracle

Room B – Sand Hills Auditorium

The Oracle BI Applications are Oracle’s prebuilt suite of analytic applications and have recently been broadened and expanded to include new applications and significant enhancements. This session will profile the suite of applications, review the new products and enhancements, and discuss the strategy and roadmap. Learn how the Oracle BI Applications can help you convert insight into action to increase revenue, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction and retention. Understand why the Oracle BI Applications are an ideal solution for Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and JD Edwards customers who want to extract more value from their investments and increase visibility into business performance.

11:00am- 11:45am

Oracle Projects APIs: From Functional Requirements to Technical Solutions

Speaker: Ron Conaway – Gallup

Room I – Pioneer

Oracle Projects APIs provide programming tools to perform just about any function available with Oracle Projects.  Utilizing these tools however can range from an exercise in frustration to a near maddening experience.  This session will cover the steps taken during the design and implementation phases of Gallup’s new Project Management System.  Major topics will include how we gathered and organized the functional requirements, translated those requirements into a technical framework and leveraged the Oracle Projects APIs to support an enhanced user interface while maintaining full support for the application.  The session will also cover the challenges we faced and how those challenges were overcome. 

11:00am- 11:45am

What’s new in EBS 12.1 (Financials) – Part 2

Speakers: Mike Stathes, Steve Ryan – Oracle

Room A – Nebraska Auditorium

· Centralized accounting through SLA, tax capabilities & payment processing

· Integration technologies specific to the finance organization (credit card, ach, lock box, pcard, etc.)

· Continuing on the discussion by Joe Thomas, a demonstration of the finance dashboard capabilities.

11:45am –12:00pm

Break/Networking

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Productivity Enhancements for Shipping Execution in Oracle E-Business Suite

Speaker: Ajay Kapur – Apps Associates

Room J – Scottsbluff

This presentation demonstrates how to enhance productivity by streamlining shipping execution and related business processes in Oracle E-Business Suite. Benefits of streamlining include: Integrated shipping and tracking from Oracle E-Business Suite via UPS, FedEx and other freight carriers; Automatic application of freight charges to invoice; Automatic reconciliation of freight carrier invoices; Advance shipment notifications with tracking numbers to customers.

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Electronic Invoicing: Sending invoices electronically from Oracle Applications to customers

Speaker: Ajay Kapur – Apps Associates

Room J – Scottsbluff

Adopt green business practices by transitioning from paper-based invoicing to electronic invoicing. This case study demonstrates how we implemented a solution at Nuance to automatically send invoices from Oracle Applications to customers via email. The solution also incorporated automatic upload of invoices from Oracle Applications into a repository for quick and easy reprinting or retransmission of invoices. Benefits include lower postage costs, immediate delivery, increased efficiencies and better cash flow.

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Capitalizing through Customization: Oracle Identity Manager

Speaker: Ty Kirk – Zirous

Room I – Pioneer

Oracle’s industry leading provisioning software, Oracle Identity Manager (OIM), provides one place for your users to gain access to disparate systems within your organization and provides auditors with the information needed to ensure compliance.  One of the strengths of OIM is its ability to adapt to meet many different organizational needs.  In this demonstration, Zirous will show how the OIM User Interface can be adapted to match your organization’s requirements.  Zirous will demonstrate a completely customized workflow for requesting resource access.  Bring your questions and take advantage of Zirous’ expertise and experience in configuring and customizing Oracle Identity Manager.

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Best-in-class companies report 91% lower invoice processing costs… are you one of them?

Speaker: Deniz Kuypers & Cliff Autin – Readsoft

Room H – Black Hills

According to Gartner, AP invoice automation solutions can represent significant opportunities for organizations that want to improve their quality of service around AP, the analytics and visibility around AP management and want to reduce risk in finance processes. Over 6,500 companies use ReadSoft to lower their total cost-per-invoice and streamline financial document operations. Attend this session to learn how companies like Green Mountain Power, Sheridan Production and others utilize ReadSoft’s Oracle-certified solutions to increase AP efficiency, visibility, control and shorten cycle time. If AP invoice automation is a project your company is contemplating, this session is a must-see!

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Implementing Common Integration Styles Using Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Speaker: Elias Karthan – Zirous

Room B – Sand Hills Auditorium

SOA differs from previous integration paradigms due to its explicit use of standards.  Oracle SOA Suite technologies enables organizations to expose functionalities from systems as standards-based services that can be consumed by other applications or business processes.  For most organizations, integration can be divided into one of four different categories:

1.       Application Integration

2.       Process Automation/Integration

3.       Event Driven Integration

4.       Data Integration

In this session we will discuss each category and the Oracle products that can be used to implement solutions for each integration scenario.