My Sessions at the COLLABORATE-15 Conference

COLLABORATE-15 My OAUG Forum Sessions in Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas from April 12th through 16th 2015:

 

Session 1:

10084: OAUG Oracle Business Intelligence-Big Data Special Interest Group (OBI-BD SIG)

Sun. April 12| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Room Jasmine C

I will be doing a quick demo on BIMAD for Fusion Applications in the SIG meeting. 

Don’t go Mad, use BI MAD

Lakshmi Sampath, ERP Cloud Evangelist, Global Sales Engineering, Oracle

Mobile App Designer is an amazing application that enables anyone to create beautiful multi-touch information-driven applications with rich interaction, rich visualization, and rich media, for mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android phone and tablet, Windows, and more.  Lakshmi will present a brief overview and demonstrate the power of BI MAD’s rapid mobile report creation and deployment capabilities in a quick demo to demonstrate the power of Oracle’s rich BI framework that has become the BI fabric behind all Oracle Cloud solutions.

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Session 2:

I will be doing a quick demo on Fusion Financials Close Monitor and Period Close towards the end of this presentation.

10158: Finance Close: Get your time back.

Sun. April 12| 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Room South Seas J

Pankaj Chaukade, DELL and Lakshmi Sampath, ORACLE

This paper will highlight issues encountered while closing books. Most of the folks are well aware of the pain of closing the finance books each month and quarter. This paper will shed the light on how to make your month end close smoother without any pain but by gaining a lot of expertise after following an end to end process implemented at Dell. Dell is one of the largest Oracle application implementers in the world and we use almost all flavors of the various modules to meet the business desired goals. We will also cover those challenges encountered and lessons learned during such processes.

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Session 3:

10063: OAUG Cloud ERP SIG

Tue. April 14| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Room Reef E

Agenda:

1. Introduction to the SIG (Padam Bansal and Shince Francis, PWC)
2. Upcoming Webinar Presentations on Cloud ERP
3. Don’t Administer: Innovate.. with Oracle ERP Cloud (Brent Grech & Lakshmi Sampath, Oracle)
4. Open Questions

If you are an Oracle EBS Customer or interested in knowing about the latest and the greatest in Fusion Applications, you don’t want to miss our SIG Meeting.
You will not only become a part of the future direction for ERP Cloud, but also an information repository for your customer in assisting them help the product for the future direction.

Don’t Administer: Innovate…with the Oracle ERP Cloud

Brent Grech, VP, Fusion Applications & Lakshmi Sampath, ERP Cloud Evangelist, Oracle

Imagine how many projects you could get done if you only didn’t have to worry about hardware upgrades and failures, database and application patching, integration failures and the other painful pitfalls experienced when managing your own enterprise software implementation. How many projects has your organization put to the side, heavily reduced scope or have simply failed due to resources getting pulled away to manage your internal systems?

Oracle’s ERP Cloud provides a completely integrated suite of the ERP Applications to run your business. These applications are also natively integrated with Oracle Sales and HCM cloud services which helps eliminates the integration overhead of synchronizing employees, sales data and more. Oracle ERP Cloud is extensible through the Oracle Platform as a Service, allowing our customers to build Java and Database applications rapidly that enables our customers to innovate and leverage the information in Oracle Cloud Applications, Customer on Premise Solutions. Brent Grech, Vice President, Fusion Applications and Cloud demonstration services and Lakshmi Sampath, ERP Cloud evangelist will present a brief overview of the Oracle Cloud and available services, followed by an overview of each ERP Cloud application, and supported by a brief demonstration to give you a sense of the important themes of the Oracle ERP Cloud, Social, Integrated and Insightful.

Session 4:

10096: Central States OAUG

Tue. April 14| 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Room Breakers C

We will be doing a brief presentation on On-premise vs Cloud differences, Oracle ERP Cloud/HCM Cloud/CRM Cloud Integrated demo flow, talk about the BI strategy in Fusion Applications and so on.

Session 5: Full One hour session on ERP Cloud (Come learn about Fusion Financials, Fusion Procurement, Fusion Supply Chain, Fusion PPM and co-existence strategies)

10595: Leave the Crowd: Join the Cloud

Thu. April 16| 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Room Jasmine C

Lakshmi Sampath, ERP Cloud Evangelist and Brent Grech, VP, Fusion Apps, Oracle

This paper will talk about all the latest features and functionality in Oracle ERP Cloud (a.k.a.) Fusion Applications –Fusion Financials, Fusion Projects Portfolio Management (PPM), Fusion Procurement and Fusion Supply Chain Management (SCM). This presentation will also enlighten about the co-existence strategy available for EBS with Fusion Applications - Fusion Revenue Management, Fusion Accounting Hub, Fusion Reporting Cloud and Fusion DOO. Also, the enhancements, value proposition of ERP Cloud will be covered in Detail. A brief Demo of the various co-existence scenarios of Fusion Applications with EBS will be covered.