Presentation Topic Wish Lists

Want to know what your paper selection team is looking for in your track? Many of the COLLABORATE 10 track managers have composed a “wish list” for presentation topics they would like to see submitted and selected at this year’s conference.

Fusion Applications

• Timeline
• Application Families and Modules
• Functionality and Features
• Upgrade Options
• Pillar Options (with existing installations)
• Licensing
• Hands-on Training and Demos

Manufacturing/Supply Chain

• Topics on all Manufacturing and Supply Chain pillars are welcomed, including Configurator, Asset Management, Order Management and Quality.
• Sharing experiences and lessons learned during recent upgrades or new module implementations.
• Exploring new functionality that has been incorporated into recent releases
• Sharing a success story where E-Business Suite Manufacturing and Supply Chain applications were able to help solve difficult business issues.
• Topics that address the Consumer Goods industry.

Supply Chain

• Discrete and Process Manufacturing SIG
  • Stories of users upgrading to R12
• Advance Planning & Collaboration SIG
  • Inventory Optimization
  • Collaborative Planning
  • Production Scheduling
  • Demand Signal Repository
  • Global Order Promising
  • SNO (Strategic Network Optimization)
  • Forecasting
  • Service Parts Planning
  • Sales & Operations Planning
• Logistics/WMS SIG
  • WMS with Process Manufacturing — what’s new for R12
  • Distributed WMS
  • Replenishment
  • Mobile UI Personalization
  • Voice Data Collection with Oracle WMS
• OTM SIG
  • OTM Performance
  • New v6.0 / v6.1 features
  • v5.5 to v6.x upgrades
  • FTI (Fusion Transportation Intelligence)
  • Integration with EBS and other Oracle apps
  • General functional — how to setup OTM.
• Demantra SIG
  • Sales & Operational Planning - integration touch points and planning cycles
  • Demantra Implementation - pain points and lessons learned
  • Demantra workflow - case studies and capability
  • Reporting in Demantra / BLE
  • Forecast tuning and causal factors
  • Future enhancements
  • Hyperion integrations

Master Data Management (MDM) Wish List

• Standards and Processes
  • MDM for Customer Data
  • MDM for Product Data
  • SOA / Integration / Middleware
  • Data Quality
  • Third Party Enrichment
  • Data Governance and Stewardship
  • Managing Hierarchies, Taxonomies and Metadata
  • Global Issues/Challenges and Best Practices
  • Overall Best Practices
  • Political Aspects of MDM and Data Governance
  • Business Case and ROI Analysis
  • Future Directions
• Current Oracle MDM Products
  • Customer Data Hub
  • Universal Customer Master
  • PIM Data Hub
  • Site Hub
• Future Oracle MDM Products (potentially launched/announced at OOW-2009)
  • Supplier Hub
  • Fusion MDM Hub
• Panels
  • Q&A Panels
• SIG Meetings

PeopleSoft

• Topics on all PeopleSoft pillars are welcomed, including HCM, Financials, SCM, CRM, ESA, Higher Ed, and Public Sector.
• Sharing experiences and lessons learned during recent upgrades or new module implementations.
• Exploring new functionality that has been incorporated into recent releases
• Sharing a success stories where PeopleSoft applications were able to help solve difficult business issues
• Integrating PeopleSoft with other Oracle applications or third party products
• PeopleTools topics including Performance Tuning, Reporting Tools, Security, and Development Techniques

Technical Room Hot Topics List

• Detailed Areas
  • Performance Tuning
  • New Features
    • Database (as certified for use with application products)
    • Fusion Applications
    • SOA Suite 11g
  • Administration
  • Monitoring
  • Certification and Desupport Dates
  • Technology Roadmap
    • Including changes to the EBS tech stack both to 12.x and Fusion
  • Upgrades
  • Patching
    • ATG RUPs
    • CPUs and PSUs
  • Virtualization
  • Cloning
  • Platform Migrations
• Fusion Applications
  • Timeline
  • Application Families and Modules
  • Pillar Options with existing installations
  • Licensing
  • Hands On Demo and Training
• SOA Suite 11g
  • Oracle Service Bus
  • Weblogic Architecture
    • Basics
    • High Availability
  • Scalability and Reliability
  • Cloud Computing

BI/Data Warehousing/EPM/Hyperion

• What does statistical analysis mean really?
• Migration of Discoverer to OBIEE
• BI Publisher (case study?)
• BI Applications pre-built dashboards (case study)
• Customer case study about using third-party “bolt-on” BI product (customer only)
• Entry level presentation — Functional perspective of BI for technical people
• How do you start BI?
• Series for BI from Assessment to BI Program
• BI Panel — Tools
• BI Panel — Functional
• Connecting BPM with BI (Process Metrics and Intelligence)
• What Are the Requirements for the Hardware?
• What is the big picture of BI?
• I am using BI — case study?

Projects

• Managing change with EBS Projects
• Strategies for deploying HTML functionality in Projects
• Configuring Projects
• Best practices for managing projects within EBS Projects
• Managing a portfolio of projects
• Deploying Performance Reporting
• Deploying MS Projects integration with Oracle Projects
• In depth look at projects security
• New features in 12.1
• Project Analytics and Reporting beyond Family Pack M
• Primavera and Oracle Projects roadmap

Financials

• GL
  • How to prepare for R12
  • New Features
  • Implementing R12
  • R12 upgrade/impl case study*
  • E-business tax
  • Financial reporting tools - Hyperion, OBIEE
  • FSG
  • Report Manager and Web ADI
  • XBRL - Extensive Business Reporting Language
  • Consolidated Financial reporting from JD, People Soft, Oracle in general
  • Subledger Accounting R12
  • Ledgers
• FA
  • Anything Assets - last 2 conferences no topics included
  • Taxes
  • Subledger Accounting R12 - other ways to use (for determine values to prepare mass additions)
  • Enterprise Asset Management integration with FA
  • Data flow from one app into FA
  • Intercompany transfers within FA
  • Setup considerations from other modules that impact FA
  • R12 New Features
• Financial Services
  • Financial Industry in general
  • Foreclosures
  • 401K impact
  • Financial Reporting
• Multi-National / Multi-Org (Rm with GL and E-Business Tax)
  • When and How to upgrade to release 12 for global companies
    • Business case
  • Shared Service in new MOAC Model
  • Subledger Accounting
  • E-Business Tax
    • Making it simple
    • Complex implementation considerations
  • Intercompany Transactions (AGIS and INV Internal Supply and Drop Ship)
  • Global project management
    • Language, time zone, single instance
    • Single project, big-bang upgrade
    • Multiple ERP system integration
• Receivables
  • Deferred Revenue/Deferred COGS
• Projects
  • Managing change with EBS Projects
  • Strategies for deploying HTML functionality in Projects
  • Configuring Projects
  • Best practices for managing projects within EBS Projects
  • Managing a portfolio of projects
  • Deploying Performance Reporting
  • Deploying MS Projects integration with Oracle Projects
  • In depth look at projects security
  • New features in 12.1
  • Project Analytics and Reporting beyond Family Pack M
  • Primavera and Oracle Projects roadmap