Oracle

Infosys is an exclusive sponsor of this industry general session. The session showcases best practices and examples from leading high-tech enterprises that successfully navigated through rough economic climate using innovative solutions from Oracle and Infosys.

Speakers: Sanjay Jalona, Infosys Technologies
Jonathan Oomrigar, Oracle Corporation

Business transformation through Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise solutions is considered an expense rather than a strategic business investment. Companies track programs to ensure that they are completed on time and on budget. But in the process there is a struggle to quantify their business value.

Infosys' approach to a PeopleSoft-enabled business transformation is designed to achieve measurable, tangible value by driving defined improvement in business process performance. Measurable business value is defined and tracked at the onset of the program and is the guiding force to keep the program on track and ensure value delivery. Infosys' Value Realization Framework ensures on-time, on-budget, and on-value delivery of large programs. Learn more in this session.

Speaker: Mukesh Nakra, Infosys Technologies

This session introduces Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM). For its next generation of HCM applications, Oracle has rethought the business of HR by focusing on providing value for key roles within the organization. It has reframed HR challenges within business contexts and opened up new avenues to maximize productivity and business performance.

You will get a glimpse into the making of Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management as well as an overview of the key design elements demonstrated in different products. Come explore how Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management can add value to your organization.

Speakers: Piyush Kapoor, Infosys Technologies
Gretchen Alarcon, Oracle Corporation
Clive Swan, Oracle Corporation

In this session, learn how Oracle Fusion Financials transforms process automation and information access to improve productivity, accelerate business decisions, and simplify controls. Get a detailed overview of key product differentiators, and understand the value that Oracle Fusion can bring to your organization. Watch a brief product demonstration to see how Oracle Fusion Financials puts your information to work.

Speakers: Sajit Vijaykumar, Infosys Technologies
Terrance Wampler, Oracle Corporation
Rondy Ng, Oracle Corporation

In this panel discussion, learn the answers to the top questions customers ask about Oracle Fusion Procurement. Panelists will give detailed answers to questions about procurement applications, contracts management, spending analytics, and their deployment in shared-services organizations. You will learn the answers to questions such as:

How can Oracle Fusion Procurement coexist with my current applications?

What are the advantages of the Oracle Fusion technology stack?

What are my deployment options?

How should I migrate from existing applications to Oracle Fusion?

Speakers: Subir Ghosh, Infosys Technologies
Marc Cagigas, Oracle Corporation
Michael Webb, Oracle Corporation
Meg Lloyd, Oracle Corporation
Suman Guha, Oracle Corporation

This session introduces the fundamentals of Oracle Fusion Applications' functional architecture. It gives an understanding of what drives the architecture, the process for arriving at the functional footprint, and the architectural priorities for the applications. The overview covers

• How the business process model is now suffused into the application
• How disparate application features have been brought together in a coherent whole
• How some features had to be torn down to let others emerge
• A taste of what Oracle has done in the security space with Oracle Fusion Applications

Speakers: Rajesh Dubey, Infosys Technologies
Nigel King, Oracle Corporation
Amy Andrews, Oracle Corporation

Citibank has one of Oracle's largest procure-to-pay implementations. The application is currently live in 37 countries and 15 languages with more than 300,000 end-users. It is undergoing a complete system overhaul comprising an upgrade from Release 11i (11.5.10.2) to Release 12, single sign-on/ Oracle Identity Management and portal upgrade, datacenter migration, disaster recovery setup, and middle-tier operating system platform migration.

This session highlights:

• Upgrade planning and strategizing
• Ideas evolved
• Solutions adopted
• Challenges faced
• Lessons learnt
• Methods adopted to reduce downtimes
• Pitfalls to be avoided during build execution

Speaker: Anil Mannava, Citigroup
Raghavendra Soma, Infosys Technologies

A legal entity is a juristic person that can enter into contracts, own assets, pay debts, file returns, and perform statutory reporting. Oracle E-Business Suite 12 architecture brings forward the significant role of legal entities in the organizational structure and provides enhanced features for security, flexibility, reporting, compliance, accounting, and control.

This session explains:

• Enhance legal entity concept
• Considerations in designing a legal entity structure
• Impact of legal entity structure on sub-ledgers, general ledgers, accounting, and security
• Leverage new architecture for country-specific validations
• Provide a thorough backing for shared-service implementation

Speakers: Renee Klemetsen, MoneyGram International Inc.
Sowmya Trikkur, Infosys Technologies

Efficient outage management is a critical aspect of operating the distribution system. Traditionally, Oracle Utilities Network Management System is implemented by configuring it to closely match legacy systems.

This session will cover:

• Alternative approach under which existing business processes are reviewed
• New to-be business processes designed to take full advantage of Oracle Utilities Network Management System

It also touches upon our experience with previous deployments and industry best practices.

Key highlights of the SCL implementation include the mapping of utilities and unique trouble center business process mapping with Oracle Utilities Network Management System.

Speakers: Tracye Cantrell, Seattle City Light
Roopak Manchanda, Infosys Technologies

Why do enterprises fail to generate adequate ROI from their ERP investments? More often than not, they lack an effective and efficient training program that sustains ERP implementations and upgrades throughout the entire ERP lifecycle.

This presentation looks at ways of creating a cost-effective training platform for Oracle's JD Edwards applications, based on efficient usage of the Oracle User Productivity Kit for JD Edwards.

Speakers: Shriranjan Gharpure, Infosys Technologies
Rishikesh Kanegaonkar, Infosys Technologies

Organizations are slowly evolving next-generation platforms and porting business processes to them. They build a common platform for all functional areas of their business and share it across various Lines of Business (LOBs) in the company/ group. This is to create a shared platform of business services of order-to-cash processes across various groups, leveraging standards and best practices of those applications and the platform. This shared platform spreads innovation, faster Go-to-Market (GTM) and greater efficiency.

This session details functional area-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) as fast emerging technology in business process transformations leveraging Oracle Application Integration Architecture and other applications.

Speakers: Darrin Pohlman, LexisNexis
M. K. Rizwan, Infosys Technologies

This Cisco initiative, in partnership with Infosys, provides an end-to-end solution, enabling logistics companies to ship any product from a node in the network that has shipping capability, save costs, energy, and carbon. The session focuses on Cisco's vision of global logistics transportation planning.

Leveraging Cisco-on-Cisco platform provides a robust solution that delivers high performance. Cisco's implementation approach and its strategy of enabling logistics through Oracle Transportation Management's out-of-the-box functionalities increase scalability and network flexibility, enhance customer experience, and reduce cost.

Speakers: Hal Bradford, Cisco Systems
Jigar Shah, Cisco Systems
Sapana Chordia, Cisco Systems
Sreekant Sundarrajan, Cisco Systems
Mohan Subramanian, Infosys Technologies

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is being adopted widely as a design paradigm in IT development cycles across organizations. However, large enterprise SOA rollouts are not successful in realizing full potential benefits. This is because the focus remains on siloed integration needs and services as a means of providing interoperability. Business services can provide a single enterprise service provisioning, delivery, discovery, and management platform to cater to the needs across various business verticals.

This session examines how to build foundation components of Oracle Fusion Middleware llg develop-and-deploy platform, which is pervasive, re-useable, builds agility, and promotes brutal standardization.

Speakers: Baz Khuti, Emerson Electric Corp.
M. K. Rizwan, Infosys Technologies

With increased global competition, shorter product lifecycles and outsourcing of business processes, enterprises are realizing that improved collaboration with their supply base is a necessity. Companies are examining how they can further reduce costs associated with supplier relationships. Suppliers, directly affect the financial performance and profitability of an enterprise owing to their influence over product development costs, inventory levels, manufacturing schedules, and delivery timelines of goods and services.

This session highlights five factors critical in implementing effective supply base management with Oracle Supplier Hub and Oracle Supplier Lifecycle Management.

Speaker: Rajeev Jain, Infosys Technologies

Herbalife has achieved impressive business results with My Oracle Support proactive capabilities, including health checks, patch advice and system dashboard.

This session describes the disciplined use of Oracle proactive support features that helped Herbalife maintain system availability, demonstrate SLA compliance, boost IT staff productivity, and gain greater value from its Oracle software stack. Gain knowledge of proactive support best practices that can be used in your business.

Speakers: Kapil Shukla, Herbalife
Tony Cavotta, Oracle Corporation
Shivaprasad Kambalimath, Infosys Technologies

The hi-tech manufacturing industry has seen innumerable challenges: high demand volatility, complex supply dynamics, shrinking margins, shortening product lifecycles, and increasing product complexity. Rapid globalization of enterprises, spurred by a spree of acquisitions, has resulted in a heterogeneous, localized, non-integrated IT landscape resembling a bowl of spaghetti.

A prime focus area of IT-led innovation is to create a single enterprise-wide digital nervous system. "Demand to deliver" and "rapid planning" solutions from Infosys Technologies provide a simplified, adaptive approach to hi-tech value chain planning and execution powered by an integrated IT platform, for leaner and smarter enterprises. Learn more in this session.

Speakers: Manoj Kurup, Infosys Technologies
Rajeev Ranjan, Infosys Technologies

Delayed fulfillment of a manually intensive order process leads to a negative customer experience. This session discusses how Oracle's Siebel Order Management was implemented to streamline order processing, which led to a 200 percent improvement in processing cycle time and resolution rates. The business process efficiency improvements resulted in cost savings of US$ 1.2 million and a notional increase of US$ 10 million in sales revenue.

Speakers: Marv Radliff, LexisNexis
Sunil Mehta, Infosys Technologies

This session demonstrates an Oracle customer, using Oracle Inventory, Oracle Bills of Material and Oracle Engineering, slowly migrates to Oracle Advanced Product Catalog. It is envisaged to be a one-stop shop for all design engineering needs of an organization, which have multiple divisions on a single global Oracle instance. All divisions buy and sell each other's products, which are highly customized and configurable.

The case study discusses the migration to Oracle Advanced Product Catalog from previous applications, resulting in higher productivity, greater data security and ease of use.

Speakers: Deb Bene, Emerson Electric Corp.
Somnath Majumdar, Infosys Technologies

Master Data Management (MDM) is a challenge for medium to large-scale enterprises, be it for providing a single source of truth, maintaining quality master data, or defining a unified model. In most implementations, there is a need for a unified common MDM language.

This presentation discusses best practices for MDM implementations and covers how Oracle MDM products and Oracle Application Integration Architecture can together provide a robust solution for enterprises.

Speaker: Vikas Khurana, Infosys Technologies

The most commonly used argument against the "Train the Trainer" (TTT) approach is that it does not work. This presentation explores reasons why even the best-planned TTT fails, and attempts to put this myth to rest. It is the "gotchas" that make what should be an excellent mode of training an ineffective one.

Speakers: Shriranjan Gharpure, Infosys Technologies
Rishikesh Kanegaonkar, Infosys Technologies

Purchasing organizations in the manufacturing and distribution sector are commonly faced with supplier communication problems. In organizations that deal with large volumes of parts with multiple vendors, this problem becomes more pronounced.

This presentation explores the possibilities of improving supply base management, automating routine purchasing transactions and streamlining supplier communication by leveraging supplier self-service processes of Oracle iSupplier Portal and Oracle Sourcing, together with new Oracle E-Business Suite 12 purchasing features.

Speaker: Kaushik Sivakumar, Infosys Technologies

This session provides an overview of different IT industry integration challenges: making application integration flexible, easy to plug-and-play, and possess the ability to accommodate changes with less risk, cost and complexity. The solution for all integration problems is Oracle Application Integration Architecture (Oracle AIA).

The session also explains how Oracle AIA can help create seamless integrations for various applications across the IT industry presented with case studies.

Speaker: Anu Samantha, Infosys Technologies