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Take the Oracle Financials Product Strategy Survey

August 12, 2010 on 7:07 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

Oracle Financials Product Strategy is conducting a survey to gain insight into how customers are using Oracle Payments solution. This survey targets payments professionals (payment administrators, payables analysts, payables managers, cash managers, etc.) and explores payment processing in customers’ organizations.

Payment processing in the context of this survey means initiating a request to pay supplier invoices, payroll expenses and other external and internal financial obligations by check, ACH, WIRE and other electronic or traditional forms of payment — all the way through to the payment execution by your financial institution. The survey takes approximately 25-30 minutes to complete. The results of this survey will be used for determining which business functions are most critical for payments and where Oracle can consider improvements to the existing solutions.

Please complete the survey or forward it to the appropriate people in your organization to complete and submit no later than August 13, 2010. If you require assistance in accessing the survey, please contact julia.baeva@oracle.com.

Call for Presentations for COLLABORATE 08 in Denver

October 10, 2007 on 8:10 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press, Worth Noting | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

In case you missed it, here is an announcement from the OAUG about the COLLABORATE 08 presentation deadlines.

Share your ideas, innovations and solutions during the COLLABORATE 08 conference. The call for presentations for the OAUG Forum is open and the deadline for submission is October 28, 2007, at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

All presenters submitting papers by the October 28, 2007, submission deadline will be entered into the Presenter Incentive Program drawing to win round-trip air travel to Denver, Colorado and accommodations in a deluxe hotel suite during COLLABORATE 08. Second and third place prizes will also be awarded.

Grand Prize:

• Round-trip air travel to Denver, Colorado, for one, coach, continental US only
• Accommodations in a deluxe hotel suite during COLLABORATE 08, five nights

Second Prize:

• Accommodations in a deluxe hotel suite during COLLABORATE 08, five nights

Third Prize:

• Round-trip air travel to Denver, Colorado, for one, coach, continental US only

The OAUG is seeking your knowledge and experiences on all Oracle Applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Hyperion, Oracle Retail, Oracle Communications and MetaSolv Software, as well as applications technology. Please consider sharing your knowledge with others; submit your presentation today!

For more information about COLLABORATE 08 - OAUG Forum tracks, specific industry- or product-related areas of emphasis, presenter requirements and the presentation submission process, please refer to the call for presentations on the COLLABORATE 08 OAUG conference Web site.

Important Paper Submission Dates and Deadlines

• October 28, 2007, 11:59 p.m. EDT: Presentation abstracts due.
• January 14, 2008: Accepted presenters notified by the OAUG.
• February 29, 2007: All presentation materials including white paper and PowerPoint presentations are due.

See you in Denver!

Did You Take The OAUG Community Assessment Survey?

July 20, 2007 on 6:55 am | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) is asking for your help to help its members maximize their investment in the growing family of Oracle Applications. Please take a few minutes to participate in an online survey. Your participation will help the OAUG determine:

• its five- and 10-year strategic direction;
• the value of the services currently offered;
• the value of potential future offerings; and
• overall member and community satisfaction with the user group.

This is your chance to let the OAUG know what direction it should take in the months and years to come, and to provide feedback on how the OAUG is meeting your needs. The OAUG exists to serve the Oracle Applications community, and they need to hear from you to know how they are doing.

You may access the survey online. Thank you in advance for your time and participation.

Oracle Published Release Content Documents for eBusiness Suite Release 12

January 16, 2007 on 10:01 am | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press, Worth Noting | 4 Comments |  Print |  Email

Hooray, the wait is finally over all users and implementors waiting to see what is new in Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12. Read about the new R12 features in the the content documents available in the Metalink Note 404152.1 [Click on the note link and login to Metalink first to access these links]:

• Advanced Planning

• Apps Technology

• Customer Data Management

• Customer Relationship Management

• Customer Service

• Discrete Manufacturing

• E-Business Suite

• Financials

• HRMS

• Intelligence
  

• Logistics

• Maintenance Management

• Marketing and Sales

• Order Management

• Process Manufacturing

• Procurement

• Product Lifecycle Management

• Projects

• Property Manager

• Service Execution

• Supply Chain Management

• Student Systems

Oracle Applications Unlimited Events

January 15, 2007 on 8:00 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press, Worth Noting | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

In case you missed it, here is an invitation to the launch five new releases of Oracle applications products.

Join Oracle representatives for an “unprecedented event in the history of business software”. On January 31 and February 1, 2007, Oracle will launch five new releases of our applications products around the world. You’ll learn how to take advantage of your current investments while preparing for the next generation of business.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
10:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. EventHudson Theater
145 West 44th Street
New York, NY

Hosted by Charles Phillips, Oracle President, and John Wookey, Oracle Senior Vice President, Applications Development. These events aim to highlight how Oracle applications can help you work globally, think globally, and manage your business globally—so you can make better business decisions, based on better information, with better results. You can get more information here.

New Features in Oracle HRMS Release 12

December 15, 2006 on 9:11 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press | 7 Comments |  Print |  Email

The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remain at the sole discretion of Oracle. For more information, refer to the Metalink Note: 400061.1.

R12 will deliver a new user interface, which translates to a standard process flow, standard fonts, colors, and user-modifiable skins, and consistent navigation across all product families. R12 will also use Oracle’s 10g technology.

New User Experience

• iRecruitment - Completely re-designed Candidate Registration
• Absence Management - Updated business flows and entire look-and-feel
• Salary Administration - Vastly improved UX for Salary Information, including high-interactivity embedded analytics
• Competency Profile - Completely re-designed user experience

Oracle’s Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Release 12

• Supports HR Best Practices
• Reduces Administrative Costs
• Improves Productivity
• Key New Features/Functions
• Extended Maintenance & Support

The following are few selected new features that are planned for HCM in R12.

Checklists

Some HR actions, such as employee hiring, transfer, or termination, require the completion of standard tasks, such as printing contracts, reassigning resources, and creating users. The checklist functionality in Oracle HRMS enables you to link the HR action to a life event and generate ‘to do’ lists or checklists when the life event is initiated.

Global Deployment

This has been a long-awaited feature. Oracle HRMS Global Deployments function controls the temporary or permanent transfer of an employee to a different business group by means of a deployment proposal. In the case of secondments, which is a temporary transfer from the home business group to the host business group, at the end of which the employee will return to the Home business group, the employee in the home BG is not terminated and he/she will continue to be an employee.

Workforce Performance Management

Combines objective setting and appraisal processes into a manageable plan to track. Allowing consistency enforcement via corporate objectives and eligibility criteria, tracking objectives with copying and duplicating objectives for multiple appraisals during a period.

Salary Administration

New UI with the ability to delete, allows for gaps, end dating, retroactive and future changes in salary proposals.Display current grade and step on assignment with FTE on salary proposal. Viewing salary history of terminated employees.

Compensation Workbench

Manage budget awards across multiple currencies, business groups and compensation types in a single worksheet with a new task oriented interface with worksheet that can be personalized. Integration points between Oracle Incentive Compensation and Compensation Workbench are established so that target amounts, actual amounts, and commissions can be displayed on the worksheet. You now have the ability to change a manager’s location, organization, and supervisor within Compensation Workbench.

Sub-Ledger Accounting (SLA)

Sub-ledger accounting is an intermediate step between the sub-ledger product (e.g., Payroll) and the Oracle General Ledger. It allows multiple accounting representations for a single business event, resolving conflicts between corporate and local fiscal accounting requirements. It retains the most granular level of details in the Subledger accounting model, with different summarization options in the General Ledger, allowing full audit ability and reconciliation.

Applications Unlimited For Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle’s plan to continue providing ongoing enhancements to current Oracle applications beyond the delivery of Oracle Fusion Applications

Fusion Appplications User Interface Previews

October 30, 2006 on 8:25 am | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

Steven Chan posted a nice compilation of the Fusion Applications Preview Screenshots demostrated by Jeremy Ashley during John Wookey’s keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld 2006.

You can still influence what will Fusion Applications look like. The Applications User Experience team at Oracle is currently seeking participants for Oracle’s Usability Program. Participants in the usability studies will work directly with the Applications User Experience team to provide input on developing innovative user interfaces (the “look and feel”) for Fusion applications. If you are interested, please complete the online enrollment form. If you fit the profile for an upcoming usability study, Oracle will contact you directly and all information will remain confidential.

Fusion Sessions at OpenWorld

October 14, 2006 on 4:02 pm | by Floyd Teter | In Oracle Press, Worth Noting | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

I’ve been working with my friends over at Solution Beacon to develop a list of Fusion-related sessions at OpenWorld. Although things can and will change even after OpenWorld begins, as of now that list looks like this:

So, to all of you wrapped up in all the fuss over Fusion…see you at the show!

OAUG Successfully Completed First Ever Enhancement Request Voting Cycle

September 7, 2006 on 8:11 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

The OAUG Enhancement Request System (ERS) completed its first ever full voting cycle. Users submitted enhancement requests for over 400 Oracle Applications products, including Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Oracle Retail. Ultimately, the system collected over 1,100 submissions for this voting cycle.When voting concluded at the end of July, over 6,200 total votes had been cast.

Thank you to those OAUG members who took the time to vote. The results are currently being compiled in preparation to being shared with SIG coordinators, specific Oracle representatives and the International Oracle User Council (IOUC). Any formal responses received from Oracle regarding individual enhancements will be loaded back into the ERS.

The OAUG is currently evaluating the input received from SIGs and OAUG members regarding the submission, evaluation and voting processes to identify opportunities for improvement. Once this input has been analyzed and feedback has been received from Oracle, the OAUG will work with the SIGs to develop a timeline for the next voting cycle.

If you missed this voting cycle and wish to submit enhancements for the next voting cycle, login to the Enhancement Request System to submit your enhancements. If you have any questions about the ERS or ideas for improving the process, please contact the OAUG by e-mailing at enhancements@oaug.org.

Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Pre-Release Product Demos

August 24, 2006 on 1:05 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press | 4 Comments |  Print |  Email

In late September, Oracle will be hosting a series of pre-release demonstrations of E-Business Suite R12 applications. Through this program, OAUG members will have the unique opportunity to preview new features and functionality of selected R12 applications before they are generally available. The demonstrations will be held remotely via Web conferencing, and will be conducted by members of the Oracle Applications development team who have a deep understanding of the products.

To participate in the demonstrations, user group members must sign the Oracle Confidential Disclosure Agreement (CDA), and must have licensed and implemented (or be in the process of implementing) a current version of the Oracle Applications product(s) being demonstrated. Oracle will use the customer contact information submitted via the online enrollment form to send the CDA and other pre-demo materials.

Participation is limited to OAUG members in good standing, and each session is limited to 50 dial-in ports, to be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. To enroll in the individual demonstrations, please complete the online enrollment form by Friday, September 8, 2006.

Oracle will be soliciting feedback from the program participants and may ask you to participate in marketing activities associated with the demonstrations, including providing customer quotations that may be used for R12 marketing purposes, such as presentations at Oracle OpenWorld 2006.

More information on the E-Business Suite R12 user group/special interest group demonstration program including detailed descriptions for each demo and a demo schedule, is available here.