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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Download Presentation Applicable to All Product Lines 30890: Facilitation and Presentation Skills for Collaborate Presenters     Summary Elizabeth Schriefer, Titan Technologies Want to become a better facilitator? A new Collaborate presenter? This interactive class will give you the basic skills of a successful facilitator and cover many ways to improve your presentation skills. Topics such as presentation techniques, Q&A techniques and communication styles will be discussed along with tips and techniques that you can incorporate to improve your public speaking abilities. Students will understand basic facilitation skills and how to use them to be successful in a variety Students will gain knowledge of basic presentation principals along with tips and techniques that wi Monday, 4/14/08  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 504 Download Presentation JDE EnterpriseOne 30910: Technical Clean-Up    Summary Teri Fall, ManageForce Corporation Fight the dust bunny brigade and clean all the technical areas in your system. Get under the couch, dust the plant shelf, and make your system sparkle and shine. Technical Purges. Preform technical purge. Preform system sanity check. Preform mini audit. Thursday, 4/17/08  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 601 Applicable to All Product Lines 30930: Soft Skills; Often Forgotten but Never Forgotten    Summary Michael Abbey, Ntirety Michael Corey, Ntirety Doug McCarthy, WWE Many of the most skilled techies possess an abysmal set of soft skills, that can easily derail the most promising career. At the end of the day, it''s how you do and say things that leave a legacy on your colleagues. Remind one''s self of the importance of soft skills Learn ways to wade through technical mumbo-jumbo Tuesday, 4/15/08  3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Room: 605 Download Presentation PeopleSoft 30940: nVision Report Distribution at Capella Univ    Summary Dan Ossmann, Capella University This presentation will demonstrate how a functional user can use delivered PeopleSoft functionality to distribute nVision reports. The technique uses nVision Scope and special distribution Tree Structure delivered thru Report Manager or e-mail. configure PeopleSoft without technical support maximize report distribution automation Tuesday, 4/15/08  1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Room: 503 Download Presentation PeopleSoft 30940: nVision Report Distribution at Capella Univ    Summary Dan Ossmann, Capella University This presentation will demonstrate how a functional user can use delivered PeopleSoft functionality to distribute nVision reports. The technique uses nVision Scope and special distribution Tree Structure delivered thru Report Manager or e-mail. configure PeopleSoft without technical support maximize report distribution automation Tuesday, 4/15/08  1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Room: 503 Download Presentation Applicable to All Product Lines 30950: Virtualization of Enterprise Applications    Summary John Esler, Unisys Look at Architectural possibilities of using virtualization to create flexible environments. Explore best practices based on testing of Oracle applications. Question our experts on how to use virtualization to consolidate your applications. Best Practices for Virtualization of Oracle Applications See results from real testing of various architectures Learn how to create dymanically flexible applications Wednesday, 4/16/08  1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room: 607 Download Presentation Applicable to All Product Lines 31050: How to Choose a Vendor: An RFP Process That Works    Summary Christopher Pesola, Learning Care Group, Inc. Topics will include: -Gathering potential vendors - variety is good -Writing the RFP - getting buy-in -The RFP Q&A cycle - timing is everything -A simple scoring matrix - democracy wins -The first 10 days -Project finalization and review Be able to gather and write informative, repeatable RFPs. Be able to run a smooth RFP process. Utilize the process through to project completion. Tuesday, 4/15/08  4:45 PM - 5:45 PM Room: 607 PeopleSoft 31100: Fast Track Upgrade Analyzer for PeopleSoft     Summary Sudhir Kumar, Astute Business Solutions Astute is focused on PeopleSoft Enterprise and Fusion. With multiple upgrades to V9.0 under our belt, we have seen the upgrade challenges in real-time and designed solutions to mitigate risks and make your upgrade successful. PeopleSoft Upgrade Assessment Tool upgrade challenges, designed solutions mitigate risks during Upgrade Wednesday, 4/16/08  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 506 Download Presentation JDE World 31130: A/P Cost Distribution Report When Using Purchasing Module    Summary John C. Dickey, White-Rodgers, division of Emerson Electric Explains how White-Rodgers, which uses the Purchasing module, has developed an A/P Cost Distribution report. Discusses the possible issues may run into when develop this reporting process. Learn how to find Costs for Accounts Payable Vouchers. Learn how receipts, item ledger and general ledger work together. Wednesday, 4/16/08  8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room: 705 Download Presentation JDE EnterpriseOne 31150: Improve ERP Office Processes With Lean-Six Sigma Methods    Summary Dell de Fabry, MASYC Group, Inc. Integrate Lean-Six Sigma process improvement methods with JDE-ERP functionality to create changes that will improve office process speed, quality and cost. Identify and measure areas of waste (time quality and cost) in the office. Learn the methods to determine the causes of waste in the office. Learn tools to create change to office processes that will reduce waste and improve performance. Thursday, 4/17/08  8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room: 711 Download Presentation PeopleSoft 31170: You're Smarter than a Database!    Summary Bobby Durrett, US Foodservice Have you ever had a query take forever even though everything you know says it should run in no time? Oracle runs some queries badly because it can''t figure out how many rows the SQLs return. Come find out how to work around these limitations. Understand how Oracle calculates cardinality - number of rows Why the optimizer gets the cardinality wrong Three approaches to fixing cardinality errors Wednesday, 4/16/08  9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room: 507 JDE EnterpriseOne 31190: Customizing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Without Customizing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - Note: This session is full. You may wish to schedule other sessions as possible replacement sessions.    Summary Kyle T. Cobb, Jr., Sciele Pharma, Inc. How do you get more automation out of E1 without modifying core JDE? With the use of custom shell apps that call core JDE apps/UBEs. We will examine two test models: a simple shell app to call UBEs and a more complex shell app to manage work order. Learn to increase JD Edwards EnterpriseOne functionality without changing core code. Learn to protect UBE data selection from errors. Learn to make reports easier for end users. Wednesday, 4/16/08  9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room: 709 JDE EnterpriseOne 31200: Drowning in the 404 Upgrade Seas    Summary Kyle T. Cobb, Jr., Sciele Pharma, Inc. This class will help get your upgrade done while meeting 404 needs. We will take a look at assembling a 404 project plan, test methods and execution plan to succeed during the audit. We will use the UPK into a 404 doc tool while creating user docs. Use Oracle UPK as a 404 tool while creating documentation. Create a testing methodology the auditors accept. Get your upgrade to pass 404. Tuesday, 4/15/08  3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Room: 711 Download Presentation PeopleSoft 31430: PeopleSoft Enterprise Apps on SQL Server 2005    Summary Burzin Patel, Microsoft Corporation This session will cover enhancements, platform support and performance tuning methodologies for PeopleSoft Enterprise apps running on SQL Server 2005. You will also get insights into some of the common performance issues our customers run into. Learn performance monitoring and tuning SQL Server 2005 in a PeopleSoft Enterprise apps environment. Get an overview of key new features in PeopleTools 8.48 and how they help performance. View demos. Thursday, 4/17/08  8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room: 505 Download Presentation JDE EnterpriseOne 31530: Performance Tuning your iSeries for E1    Summary Tom Davidson, RS Infocon C/S appls require a different approach to performance tuning than GS applications. We will cover theory and the 'How To' of tuning for performance. Topics: E1 units of work; Segregation of work; Available tools; Caching; Settings/thresholds; SQL. Communicate the concepts of performance tuning on the System i Communicate how the concepts relate to the E1 environment Provide actual 'How To' information so attendees can implement when they get home. Thursday, 4/17/08  9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Room: 603 JDE EnterpriseOne 31550: Expose JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Media Objects in Crystal    Summary Manoj Patel, Unity Solutions This session is a “must see” for anyone that uses Xe/E1 media objects or RTF objects. Unity will lift the lid on the mystery behind how users can gain access to media objects for everyday use. Will show how you can easily access JD Edwards EnterpriseOne media and text objects. Expose JD Edwards EnterpriseOne media and text objects using just Crystal Reports. Monday, 4/14/08  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 711 Download Presentation PeopleSoft 31560: Seven Steps to Achieving Self Service Success    Summary Stephen Bentz, BTRG, Inc This presentation will provide seven measurable objectives for organizations to incorporate into planning, designing and implementing successful Manager and Employee Self Service initiatives, allowing you to achieve your HCM goals. Avoid common risks and pitfalls associated with self service implementation failure. Incorporate seven steps into the design of Self Service solutions to achieve HCM goals. Tuesday, 4/15/08  1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Room: 506