Vendor Product Awareness Sessions

The OAUG offers a unique educational opportunity to Oracle Applications users through its Vendor Product Awareness (VPA) sessions. These free sessions are provided on Mondays and Wednesdays by OAUG Associate members seeking to showcase their complementary products and services.

If your company is an OAUG Associate member interested in hosting a VPA session, the OAUG is now accepting applications for 2007 sessions and they are expected to fill quickly. Please refer to the VPA provider information page for details.

Upcoming OAUG Vendor Product Awareness Sessions

Quicker — Cleaner — Surer: Benefits of Workload Automation

UC4 Workload Automation Suite Can Dramatically Increase the Speed, Flexibility and Accuracy of Period Closing and Project Accounting

A Webcast Hosted by UC4 Software, Inc.

July 14, 2008
12:00 p.m. EDT / 9:00 a.m. PDT / 16:00 UTC

Presented by David Bumi, IT Manager, AECOM Technology Corporation, and Grant Chen, Oracle Solutions Director, UC4 Software

You’re in business to make money, but manual processes that add headcount, contribute to risk, latency and lack of scalability all increase the cost of business. Learn how UC4 automation solutions can reduce your period close by 50 percent or more and help deliver reliable reporting to business management, sooner. Learn too, how to better manage your project business with optimized project accounting that delivers visibility and control from a central location. AECOM will share the details of their workload automation implementation and the incredible value derived from economies of scale, when managing project accounting across 19 business units.

Register now! Once the host approves your request, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with instructions for joining the Webinar. More information about our company and solutions can be found on the UC4 Web site.

Revolutionizing Spreadsheet Automation: Enhance Your Oracle^® Application Using Global Software, Inc.’s Microsoft^® Excel-based Automation Tools Spreadsheet Server and Executive DASH™

A Webcast Hosted by Global Software

July 16, 2008
2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT / 18:00 UTC

Presented by Sherri Barham, Vice President, Product Management

Today, any amount of downtime can mean lost productivity, lost revenue, lost customers and lost opportunities. The use of spreadsheets is an integral part of the decision-making framework of an organization. The inability to gain access to mission-critical information dynamically from within Microsoft Excel, when and how it is needed, can be debilitating to even the most efficiently run organizations.

Global Software, the number one provider for spreadsheet automation tools in the Oracle marketplace, will introduce a variety of concepts and best practices within the Microsoft Excel and Oracle environments that will enhance the overall Oracle application experience.

Automated E-mail and Fax Document Distribution from Oracle E-Business Suite with XML Publisher Integration

A Webcast hosted by STR Software

July 16, 2008
2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT / 18:00 UTC

Presented by Ted Chappell, Senior Systems Engineer

Automate e-mail and fax delivery of any document in any format with direct integration into Oracle E-Business Suite. Advanced functionality includes:

XML Publisher output
Delivery status within Oracle Applications
Document attachments
Batch or interactive delivery
Purchasing workflow integration

Real World Oracle E-Business Suite Archiving

A Webcast Hosted by Solix Technologies

July 21, 2008
2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT / 18:00 UTC

Presented by the operations and infrastructure director of a large surgical care company and Julie Lockner, VP Sales Operations, Solix Technologies

A pre-eminent infection prevention, decontamination and critical and surgical care company implemented enterprise data archiving to manage data growth within their Oracle E-Business Suite environment. Hear how the company's director of operations and infrastructure approached the database archiving project and achieved tangible benefits for the organization.

Hear directly from your peer in IT about how database archiving can:

Increase application performance
Save storage costs
Manage data growth within the E-Business Suite environment

Managing Revenue Recognition in Concert with Oracle Financials

A Webcast Hosted by Softrax Corporation

July 23, 2008
1:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 a.m. PDT / 17:00 UTC

Presented by Dr. Richard Moore, Director of Revenue Solutions

Revenue Management has slipped through the cracks of the financial infrastructure at nearly every company. According to research from RevenueRecognition.com and IDC, 92 percent of public companies still use spreadsheets for one or more critical revenue recognition tasks.

Join us for this Webinar to learn how you can enhance Oracle Financials with advanced revenue recognition capabilities.

Support complex revenue management processes without slowing down your existing order-to-cash process.
Fully implement, monitor and manage your revenue recognition policy on an enterprise-wide basis.
Control all critical revenue processes including revenue allocation, scheduling, recognition, compliance and reporting, and prevent badly-timed and misstated revenue.
Analyze and forecast revenue recognition more accurately to enhance strategic decisions.

Accelerate Your Oracle R12 Upgrade

A Webcast Hosted by Hexaware Technologies Limited

August 6, 2008
11:00 a.m. EDT / 8:00 a.m. PDT / 15:00 UTC

Presented by Kaushal Mehta, Senior Consultant, Oracle EBS Practice and Pramod B. Dhore, Senior Technical Architect, Oracle EBS Practice

Accelerate your Oracle R12 upgrade and have:

Up to 50 percent reduction in down time.
Up to 40 percent reduction in hardware cost and 15 percent reduction in overall upgrade cost.
Up to 20 percent increase in post-upgrade performance.
Optimal architecture design.
Upto 30 percent cost reduction by onsite-offshore model.

Join Kaushal and Pramod as they explain how a proprietary methodology from the Oracle EBS Centre of Excellence at Hexaware Technologies will accelerate your R12 upgrade through:

A well defined three step process.
Hex-Accelerators and Oracle Tools.
Experts backed services.

Hexaware has a focused Oracle E-Business Suite practice and is an Oracle Accelerate Partner for Industrial manufacturing.

Hexaware’s Oracle E-Business Suite services include:

Implementation and roll out
Upgrade and migration
Customization and enhancement
DBA support
Testing and integration