Oracle

Keynote

Infosys CEO and Managing Director S. Gopalakrishnan will present a keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld 2009.

In his keynote on 'Seven Game Changing Trends', Kris will discuss the dominant forces in the macro-environment and strategies to increase competitiveness. He will focus on:

• The foundation for corporate governance, values and transparency
• The shift to emerging economies
• Sustainability and climate change
• Redefining customer relationships with digital consumers and networked communities
• The challenge of making money from structured and unstructured information
• Pervasive computing
• Corporate performance management

 

The keynote address will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Date:	Wednesday, October 14
Time:	2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. PST
Venue:	Moscone North, Hall D

S. Gopalakrishnan
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies

Gopalakrishnan (Kris to his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership in the industry.

On June 22, 2007, Kris took over from Nandan M. Nilekani as the CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included customer services, technology, investments and acquisitions.

Kris' initial responsibilities at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the U.S. Between 1987 and 1994, he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, U.S.) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company.

Kris is currently the Chairman of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka. Kris is the Vice Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Southern Regional Council. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

Kris holds a master's degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Solutions

Experience Infosys’ innovative solutions designed to cater to your business needs. Visit us at Booth No. 411, Moscone South. Find out how global companies are leveraging Infosys’ solutions to transform their business.

Hi-Tech and Discrete Manufacturing

Price Protection Solution

Infosys’ Price Protection solution is a joint solution with Oracle Corporation that leverages our extensive domain expertise in the High-Tech industry. Our solution provides critical out-of-the-box functionality for High Technology companies. It enables distributors... to better manage the impact of price changes across the entire value chain. Our solution connects vendors and customers with internal systems to seamlessly automate complex transactions. It realizes benefits and plugs revenue leakage.

Infosys Transformation Order Management Solution

Infosys Transformation Order Management solution (ITOM) offers companies a competitive advantage by reducing order processing costs, maximizing revenue and profitability in the order management cycle while enhancing customer and partner... satisfaction. ITOM is enabled by the combination of benchmarking against leading practices and metrics, flexible technology deployment that leverages existing IT investments and outsourcing

Inventory Visibility and Control Solution

Infosys’ Inventory Visibility and Control solution offers companies a competitive advantage for extended supply chains through increased supply chain execution responsiveness and reduction in inventory levels. Our solution improves collaboration during... manufacturing execution by enhancing the company’s ability to view, control and balance inventory across supply, manufacturing and distribution networks. The solution leverages Oracle applications and technologies to provide a collaborative monitoring and exception resolution platform. It can be fine-tuned to meet the diverse requirements of globally distributed supply chains. Banking and Capital Markets

Customer Data Integration Solution

Infosys’ Customer Data Integration (CDI) solution enables wealth management and retail banking service providers to enhance the customer experience, operations and services by leveraging enterprise-wide customer information. The solution is based... on Infosys' domain and technical knowledge, CDI best practices and Oracle’s Siebel UCM technology platform.

Siebel Business Process Test Automation Solution

Infosys’ Business Process Testing (BPT) solution for Oracle’s Siebel eFinance applications is an out-of-the box testing automation platform that reduces testing cycle investments. Using Infosys’ process mapping tool (InFlux) and HP’s Business Process... Testing tool, our solution ensures that Siebel applications are business-ready through multiple iterations of business processes testing.

Enterprise Banking Analytics Solution

Infosys’ Enterprise Banking Analytics for financial service providers is a modular solution based on Oracle’s Siebel CRM and BI. Based on industry best practices, our solution offers an end-to-end pre-built framework to integrate CRM, sales, pipeline, billing... and profitability information from diverse source applications into consolidated business intelligence. Communications

Oracle Telco Lab Solution

Infosys’ Oracle Telco lab offers a standards-based pre-integrated suite of solutions that leverage Oracle’s comprehensive offerings for the telecom industry. Our solution responds proactively to real-time business challenges faced by CMEs and adapts quickly... to changing industry trends. Our solution leverages Oracle’s AIA framework to enable various cases such as customer self provisioning, integrated lead-to-cash, integrated concept-to-market, converged billing, unified self care, real-time decisions using business intelligence and customer product co-creation.

Telecom Order and Offer Management Solution

Infosys’ Telecom Order and Offer Management solution is an end-to-end order management solution providing out-of-the-box functionality for critical features such as single-click enablement, bulk ordering, etc. Our solution reduces the cost of new product... launch and optimizes sales process. The solution uses Siebel application components including RTD to provide a complete order management package for Communication Service Providers.

Energy, Utilities and Services

Indirect Procurement Solution

Infosys’ Indirect Procurement solution helps companies improve their bottom-line through cost reductions in their indirect procurement and management spend, with special emphasis on services procurement. We achieve quick results by combining... strategic sourcing, technology implementation, process transformation and business process outsourcing into a flexible, end-to-end offering.

Oil Field Services Solution

Infosys' Oil Field Services solution is a pre-configured solution that reduces production time to implement an end-to-end ERP solution.

 

Airlines

Real-Time Route Profitability Solution

Infosys’ Real-Time Route Profitability solution leverages Oracle’s OBIEE and Oracle ERP to create a dashboard for airlines for monitoring and controlling actual cash costs, net revenues and cash contribution of flights from geographically spread... locations. Our solution provides real-time monitoring of key route profitability indicators such as revenues, cost-per-flight, cash operating margin and yield per ASM. Our solution empowers airlines to take timely, strategic (for example, capacity) as well as tactical (pricing) decisions.

Healthcare

Electronic Health Record/Personal Health Record Solution

Infosys’ Clinical Transformation Electronic Health Record (EHR)/Personal Health Record (PHR) solution is an HL7 Healthcare standards-based solution. Built on Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB), our solution offers semantic interoperability across... disparate systems. It enables providers and Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) to reduce errors and enhance patient safety. Our solution provides a cost-effective means to implement a single system to maintain and use EHR/PHR data with built-in flexibility and scalability.

Retail

Rapid Store Opening Solution

Infosys’ Rapid Store Opening solution provides real-time visibility into store opening expenditure and accelerates the activities involved in the phases of retail store conceptualization through commissioning. Our solution involves minimal customization. It is... an innovative utilization of the existing features of Oracle Application modules such as project costing, bill-of-material, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Payables and fixed assets.

Other Solutions

Infosys offers solutions across industries:

Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Solution

Infosys’ Oracle E-Business Upgrade solution enables organizations to extract maximum value from their investments in Oracle applications and technologies. With its unique de-risking approach, our solution helps companies take appropriate upgrade decisions... using Infosys’ pioneering Global Delivery Model along with pre-built accelerators and methodologies.

Over 2 Oracle (O2O) - Oracle Fusion Middleware Migration Solution

Infosys’ O2O solution helps companies realize the potential of Oracle Fusion Middleware while facilitating seamless migration from other middleware products to Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW). Our solution addresses your challenges, minimizes cost and... saves substantial investment. It provides an assessment tool that enables early identification of issues and challenges and provides a mitigation plan. Pre-built components for shared services framework, guidelines and templates accelerate the migration process and provide robust infrastructure for migration.

Forecast-To-Plan Solution

Infosys’ Forecast-To-Plan solution provides a single, demand prioritization platform and a unified reporting platform to extract planning-related information. High technology, consumer goods, utilities, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and apparel industries can... leverage our solution for a single view of data for better forecast accuracy and efficient decision making.

Integrated Business! - Integration Competency Center Solution

Infosys’ Integrated Business! is an integration competency center establishment solution to help companies extract maximum business value from integration investments. It establishes capabilities to manage integration needs within the organization by... streamlining and standardizing application integration activities. Our solution provides an enterprise-wide view of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) while ensuring faster time-to-market and lower total cost of operations.

OTM In-a-Box Solution

Infosys’ OTM In-a-Box solution deploys transportation planning and execution with inbound and outbound freight logistics, freight rating and routing and financial payment for clients in a fixed timeframe and budget. Our solution covers point-to-point shipments, shipments... with multiple stops and multi-leg shipments across different modes of transport - land, water and air.

Pipeline Solution

Infosys’ JDE-based Pipeline solution provides out-of-the-box functionality to manage critical pipeline management functions including planning, scheduling and tracking batches. Our solution seamlessly integrates with JDE module, reducing manual... transactions and increasing accuracy and reporting.

Learn more about our offerings and solutions

Focus Area

Our focus areas help you address specific needs and challenges to transform business.

Focus Area # 1

Demand to deliver: The manufacturing differentiator

• Can you react quickly to supply chain disruptions?
• How do you minimize the impact of machine breakdown by prioritizing orders?
• How do you simulate your deals to beat competitive pricing and still retain the right margin?
• Do you face revenue leakage due to the lack of price integrity and visibility?
• How can you streamline your transportation processes to remain competitive?
• Do you have a consistent view of your customers and product profitability across your organization?
• Can you measure your price offering and ensure that it is neither too high nor too low?

Focus Area # 2

The AIA approach to SOA

• Is your organization using the ‘build first and integrate later‘ approach leading to heterogeneity and application silos?
• Do you perceive SOA as a benefit? Are you finding too many ways of SOA enablement?
• Do you spend most of your energy and time on deciding the right integration frameworks and standards?
• Did your previous SOA initiatives fail due to the lack of an effective governance model?
• Are you worried that SOA enablement would mean a lot of custom development?
• Do you find it difficult to integrate your Oracle applications with legacy systems?

Focus Area # 3

Reduce cost, increase profit: Get on Cloud No. 9

• Are you looking for economical computing styles that maximize entrepreneurial scalability?
• Do you want to reduce IT Infrastructure cost to maintain the Oracle application?
• Would you like to do complex computation, simulation and data analytics in an easier way?
• Are you looking for faster backup and recovery of application and database?
• Do you have trouble in maintaining many applications and software for computing and processing data?
• Do you want to quickly fulfill your ever changing demand for hardware and software?

Focus Area # 4

The MDM journey: See your vision come alive

• Do you lack a comprehensive view of customers leading to missed cross-sell and up-sell opportunities?
• Can you define an organization-wide data governance strategy for all master data?
• Do you leverage product information across your supply chain to optimize cost and increase sales?
• How do you achieve true business intelligence through integrated data use and management?
• Is accurate master data an integral part of your enterprise IT road map?

Focus Area # 5

Intelligence was never meant to be slow: The accelerated approach to BI

• Do you get actionable insights at the right time to respond to faster-to-market conditions and increase efficiency?
• Is your mobile workforce empowered to make decisions ‘on the go’ to pursue opportunities and accelerate closure of business deals?
• Can you enable self-service for business users or do they need to depend on IT/data teams for their information needs?
• Are longer deployment cycles for analytical capabilities impacting your decision-making capabilities?
• Can you seamlessly access enterprise-wide data to increase market share and operational efficiency while optimizing operational costs?

Focus Area # 6

Adopt business process management

• How can Oracle help me accelerate my BPM adoption journey?
• How do I identify the pilot processes/areas to implement BPM?
• Is there any framework that helps me understand my organization’s BPM maturity level?
• How can I have a planned governance model for the various BPM initiatives?
• How can I create awareness of BPM and its capabilities among our business users and technical teams?

Focus Area # 7

Platform-based offerings: Business-ready managed services like never before

• Does your existing Software-as-a-Service model guarantee quick time-to-value?
• Are you looking at multiplying value from efficiencies through pay-per-use?
• Can you achieve benchmarked performance on business efficiencies from technology levers?
• Are you able to minimize risks and cost from technology & business changes?
• Can you effectively integrate opportunities from the external environment and in-house applications in a seamless manner?