Vendor Awareness Sessions

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

If your company is an OAUG Associate member interested in hosting a VAS, the OAUG is now accepting applications for 2010 sessions and they are expected to fill quickly. Please refer to the VAS provider information page for details.

Upcoming OAUG Vendor Product Awareness Sessions

Six Steps to Application Retirement

A Webcast Hosted by Informatica

February 24, 2010
1:00 p.m. EST / 10:00 a.m. PST / 18:00 UTC

Presented by Paul Capobianco, Product Specialist, Informatica

We’re all familiar with those legacy applications that no longer add value, but still absorb significant costs.

Informatica, the leader in application information lifecycle management, offers the most cost-effective legacy application retirement solution. In this Webinar, you will learn the six steps to safely retire legacy applications:

Create a cross functional team
Understand the legacy application and the data that needs to be retired
Preserve the business context of the application data
Ensure access to retired data
Secure retired data
Set retention policies on retired data

Maximize PM Productivity with Oracle EBS Projects

A Webcast Hosted by Project Partners, LLC

March 3, 2010
12:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. PST / 17:00 UTC

Presented by Peter Budelov, Associate Vice President

Project Managers (PMs) need tools that are fast and easy to use, yet provide accurate, timely insight to project metrics and status based upon the rich repository of data in Oracle E-Business Suite Projects. In many industries, PMs spend considerable time travelling and therefore need to work with project data such as status reports, forecasts and staffing plans without being logged in to their corporate network. Learn how your PMs can maximize their productivity by using Project Partners’ industry-specific spreadsheet user interface to manage projects and view robust role-based reporting while on-the-go.

Validate and Upload AP and AR Invoices and Allocate Cash Receipts into Oracle EBS Using Excel!

A Webcast Hosted by More4Apps

March 10, 2010
3:00 p.m. EST / 12:00 p.m. PST / 20:00 UTC

Presented by Sarah Conzemius and John O’Keeffe

This session will focus on validating, updating and uploading Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable invoices and allocating cash receipts into Oracle E-Business Suite through an Excel interface using More4Apps Wizards. More4Apps offers a range of MS Excel-based products that help users load data into Oracle Applications quickly, easily and accurately through an Excel interface. The Wizards provide data validation and any errors will be returned to the spreadsheet for the user to resolve before loading into Oracle. Data loading Wizards are available for Financials, Project Accounting, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, HR and more!

Moving to BI Publisher — Now What? Automatically Deliver EBS Documents via E-mail, Fax and Print

A Webcast Hosted by STR Software

March 17, 2010
2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT / 18:00 UTC

Presented by Ted Chappell, Senior Systems Engineer

Having already moved or just beginning the process of moving to BI Publisher you have undoubtedly thought about how BI Publisher documents might be delivered to their intended recipients. In this session you will learn how to automate the delivery of e-mail, fax and printed BI Publisher output with direct integration into Oracle E-Business Suite. Functionality includes:

Deliver any document, any volume
Bursting and batch delivery
Document attachments (multiple formats)
User interface embedded within EBS
Purchasing workflow integration
Delivery acknowledgement within EBS
Out-of-the-box solution, no customizations required

Validate and Upload Projects and Budgets Data into Oracle EBS from Excel!

A Webcast Hosted by More4Apps

March 17, 2010
3:00 p.m. EDT / 12:00 p.m. PDT / 19:00 UTC

Presented by Bruce Doig and Sarah Conzemius

This session will focus on validating, updating and uploading Project Accounting data including Projects, Budgets, Transactions, Events and more into Oracle E-Business Suite through an Excel interface using More4Apps Wizards. More4Apps offers a range of MS Excel-based products that help users load data into Oracle Applications quickly, easily and accurately through an Excel interface. The Wizards provide data validation and any errors will be returned to the spreadsheet for the user to resolve before loading into Oracle. Data loading Wizards are available for Financials, Project Accounting, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, HR and more!

Replacing Discoverer — Is OBIEE Your Only Option?

A Webcast Hosted by EiS Technologies

March 24, 2010
2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT / 18:00 UTC

Presented by Andy Donovan

Is there reporting after Discoverer and what is it?

Is OBIEE really there for strategic reporting only?

Can my existing Discoverer reports be converted?

In this session you will learn what options are out there that can replace Discoverer, see how you can use OBIEE for detailed transactional reporting and see how EiS can convert your existing Discoverer reports automatically!