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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 JDE World 43840: Where In The World Are We?    Summary Dave Hyzy, Benderson Development Company Explore the current state of W in the family of O apps, as the "F Age"approaches. The goal is explore the ways that c are integrating O and non-O apps to enhance their environments and to discuss ways they are preparing for future technol A discussion of the effect of JDE's current and proposed enhancements for World Software A discussion of ways that customers are integrating World with other Oracle and non-Oracle apps A discussion of what steps World customers are taking to prepare for future technology Thursday, 7/17/08  10:40 AM - 11:40 AM Room: Celebrity G JDE EnterpriseOne 43890: Getting Payback From Your AP Process: Invoice Processing for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne    Summary Dave Leonard, Bottomline Technologies Forward-thinking companies are using enhanced invoice capture and workflow solutions to accelerate approval cycles and reduce costs. This session will explore how JDE EnterpriseOne users can maximize the benefits of advanced invoice processes. Gain an understanding of common invoice workflow inefficiencies and bottlenecks Learn to optimize invoice workflow within JDE for both licensed and unlicensed users Wednesday, 7/16/08  3:20 PM - 4:20 PM Room: Celebrity F Applicable to All Product Lines 44060: Don’t Let a Data Meltdown Ruin Your Latest Merger or Acquisition    Summary Eric Offenberg, IBM While mergers and acquisitions (M&As) represent business growth, they can also increase the size of the IT infrastructure that must be managed and maintained. Join us as we explore EDM best practices to ease your post merger/acquisition projects. Learn how an effective EDM strategy and early IT involvement can help reduce integration challenges Identify the IT integration issues you should consider and how EDM can support integration projects Learn to determine the benefits that EDM can deliver, as well as what to look for in an EDM solution Wednesday, 7/16/08  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Room: Celebrity I Applicable to All Product Lines 44080: Understanding PCI Regulations and Applying Strategies to Ensure Cardholder Privacy    Summary Eric Offenberg, IBM The PCI DSS is the most specific privacy regulation in place today. To fully comply, companies must implement strategies to ensure that privacy safeguards are in place. This interactive panel will share stories of success and failure Understand how safeguarding customer data protects your company’s bottom line Discover how PCI compliance can be leveraged to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency Overcoming the fears associated with implementing technologies to become/remain compliant with PCI Friday, 7/18/08  10:50 AM - 11:50 AM Room: Celebrity I PeopleSoft 44700: Leveraging Low-Cost Solutions to Provide Business Intelligence    Summary David Downey, CherryRoad Technologies, Inc. Newark Public schools leverages simple, low-cost solutions to provide BI to their recruiting program. Discuss simple tools and techniques to jumpstart BI intitiatives and develop resulting dashboards. Learn how to develop meaningful, effective metrics See examples of the business impact of having effective metrics Thursday, 7/17/08  10:40 AM - 11:40 AM Room: Celebrity H PeopleSoft 44730: Application Classes - A bridge to Fusion Tools    Summary Al Kannayiram, ING Clarion (Client) The presentation will compare Application Class features to Java programming and provide ideas to start using them to get used to OO thinking & to get a head start on the learning curve to Fusion Tools. To highlight Object Oriented features of Application Class To show examples of how Applications Classes are used in eProcurement and TAM/CG To emphasize reusable and extensible coding techniques of Application Class Wednesday, 7/16/08  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Room: Celebrity G PeopleSoft 44790: More Advanced Reporting Tips and Techniques for PeopleSoft Enterprise    Summary Laurence Grey, Grey Sparling Solutions Get more from your PeopleSoft products with the technology you already own. This demo-intensive session will cover drilling to and from queries/reports, notifing consumers using IM and RSS technologies, and XML publisher development techniques. Learn how to get more ROI from their existing PeopleSoft products Learn new development techniques for extending your PeopleSoft environment Friday, 7/18/08  10:50 AM - 11:50 AM Room: Red Carpet B PeopleSoft 44820: Operational Excellence with PeopleSoft Verison Control    Summary Chris Heller, Grey Sparling Solutions This session, a repeat from OpenWorld 2007, focuses on using the most popular (and freely available) version control tool, Subversion, PeopleSoft systems. We'll cover managing tools objects, reports, and code distribution to process schedulers. Learn how to manage your PeopleSoft code without purchasing new software. Learn how to automatically distribute Reports and SQRs to your process scheduler servers. Thursday, 7/17/08  4:40 PM - 5:40 PM Room: Celebrity J JDE World & EnterpriseOne 44910: Upgrade or Reimplement?     Summary Kim Miller, Oracle Corporation Product Strategy Representative, Oracle JD Edwards Practice Representative, Oracle Please join in a discussion of the pros and cons of Upgrade versus Reimplement. Address the pros and cons of an upgrade vs. a reimplementation. Provide thought providing concepts related to stepping up to a new release. Overview of preparing your company for a new release. Wednesday, 7/16/08  3:20 PM - 4:20 PM Room: Celebrity G JDE World & EnterpriseOne 45010: Conducting a Best Practices Recovery and Security Assessment of Your JD Edwards Implementation     Summary Richard Dolewski, WTS, Inc. Is Your JD Edwards Recoverable? Learn about best practices for disaster recovery preparedness including change management, backup and recovery validation, security, testing, and corporate compliance. Don't take shortcuts in your recovery planning. Best practices in disaster recovery Backup and recovery assessment steps Testing and corporate compliance Thursday, 7/17/08  1:10 PM - 2:10 PM Room: Celebrity H Applicable to All Product Lines 45020: End User Experiences Field Tested Results     Summary Barry Flink, TransAmerica Training Management We will cover a number of aspects of end user training readiness & introduce new technologies to facilitate user experiences. Topics include: training project plans, enhancements & customization to UPK output & strategies to build the use Field tested tips & tricks are revealed on how to customize end user training content Teaches the participants how to address the topic of end-user training readiness in general. Shows how to stretch your investment for end using training. Thursday, 7/17/08  4:40 PM - 5:40 PM Room: Celebrity H PeopleSoft 45120: Using bolt-on applications to improve Employee Self Service and Employee satisfaction    Summary Gary Reuter, LBi Software Engineering Robert Boylan, LBi Software Engineering Scott Tiedemann, LBi Software Engineering Presentation will provide details on how to effectively and efficiently integrate 3rd party applications with PeopleSoft Bolt-on solutions that will leverage existing PeopleSoft investment and reduce costs Avoid risk and pitfalls that commonly cause self service initiatives to fail Demonstrate robust bolt-on's that can easily access valuable HCM data Wednesday, 7/16/08  2:10 PM - 3:10 PM Room: Red Carpet B PeopleSoft 45150: Upgrading from PeopleSoft Recruiting Solutions 8.8 to 9.0 – Global Financial Services Company Case Study    Summary Brian McIntyre, WorkStrategy, Inc. Melinda Broome, WorkStrategy Recruiting Solutions 9.0 project planning, applicant navigation and usability, Recruiter Dashboard deployment, Verity searching, detailed configuration steps, and Integration Broker setup will be discussed. Review Recruiting Solutions Upgrade Steps See how to turn on the Recruiter Dashboard Learn how to improve your business process & educate your staffing team Thursday, 7/17/08  2:20 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Premier BLRM G Hyperion 45200: Hyperion System 9 SQR Features    Summary Steve Stein, BearingPoint, Inc. SQR latest features: new templates, Sharepoint, BEA & other portals, new datasources Teradata and Progress ODBC, XML and Microsoft Access. Role-based security, bursting, ETL, pixel-perfect reporting. For managers, developers and functional lea Decision of when to use this powerful programming tool Explore the capabilities of the SQR language that has over 35,000 developers worldswide See the value of upgrading to the most recent version of SQR Thursday, 7/17/08  4:40 PM - 5:40 PM Room: Celebrity G JDE EnterpriseOne 45290: Purge and Archive for EnterpriseOne - A Case Study    Summary David Shea, DCSoftware, Inc. Ryan Dumas, Westcon Review the implementation of ARCTOOLS/EM at an EnterpriseOne customer site – the tools selection process, project team structure, purge rules setup and run, purge results and performance improvements. Review lessons learned and tips for success. Review the reasons for and benefits of purging and archiving. Learn current ‘best practices’ for purging and archiving JDE data without a major in-house dev Thursday, 7/17/08  4:40 PM - 5:40 PM Room: Premier BLRM H PeopleSoft 45320: Supply Chain and Financials Upgrade    Summary Kara Marado, Zanett Commercial Solutions Attendees gain insight into the upgrade process and our experiences, specifically providing recommendations and lessons learned. This will be suitable for those interested in upgrades in general or those specifically focused on SCM and Financials. Major structural and application changes in Order Management and Inventory starting in v8.9 Impact of Customizations Taking advantage of functionality delivered with the new version to improve business processes Friday, 7/18/08  10:50 AM - 11:50 AM Room: Red Carpet A JDE EnterpriseOne 45430: Sideways and Upwards     Summary Jim Oldham , Corning Data Services, Inc. Anna Gargan-Caerbert, Sterling Resource Funding Corp How one customer (Sterling Resource Funding Corp) brought their outsourced E1 system back in-house and upgraded to e8.12 at the same time Demonstrate how the company migrated to a new in-house packaged solution Show how to upgraded company to the latest version while working with limited in-house resources Show how to go live without interrupting operations & overcoming challenges with acquiring hoste Thursday, 7/17/08  1:10 PM - 2:10 PM Room: Celebrity K PeopleSoft 45450: Tips on Improving the Performance of nVision Reporting    Summary Scott Martin, MartinWood Group, LLC Stuart Wood, MartinWood Group, LLC Your data is growing by the day and the finance community wants more reporting, available sooner than ever before! Here are ten real world aspects of your nVision reporting environment you can examine for performance enhancing opportunities. Detail ten areas to examine for improving nVision performance. Provide steps on how to execute in each of those areas to achieve measurable results. Offer an overview on the future of nVision in a Fusion world. Friday, 7/18/08  8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Room: Celebrity D PeopleSoft 45480: A Strategy for Customer Life-Cycle Management    Summary Cecil Cadwallader, Enterprise Solutions Group Peter Morse/Dan Bucci, ESG/Active International It's vital that today’s companies: generate prospects; finalize contracts; streamline processes; manage deal profitability. PSFT’s CRM/FIN flexibility allows development of SFA strategies, contract definition, order capture, fulfillment & analysis High level architecture of a system to address prospecting to cash & customer/contract profitabi Benefits of using a single software platform to meet requirements of the entire customer life-cycle Flexibility of PSFT to meet complex order reqs - integrate to invoicing, fulfill, contract mgmt, AP Thursday, 7/17/08  2:20 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Celebrity E JDE EnterpriseOne 45490: Sensible CNC Outsourcing Options    Summary DAVID MCILMOYL, WESTLAKE CONSULTING INC. RAY PAGE, ELMET TECHNOLOGIES Join us to explore how CNC outsourcing makes sense for many organizations. We discuss how and where effectively utilize external CNC resources, while controlling cost. Project tasks as well as emergency support options are also discussed. Understand the various options for CNC outsourcing. Identify the factors to determine if CNC outsourcing makes sense for your company. Thursday, 7/17/08  1:10 PM - 2:10 PM Room: Premier BLRM H 1 2 3 4 5 6 7