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St. Louis Fall 2006 Conference Breakout Sessions
Room	Time	Title	Presenter	Abstract
Starlight Room	9:30 - 10:15	Siebel Analytics	Oracle Corporation Will Hutchinson
Zodiac Room	9:30 - 10:15	Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) - Wave to the Future	Solution Beacon, LLC Paul Cyphers	Business processes have for a long time been an integral and important part of leveraging and managing ERP applications. All the major applications (Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and SAP) have spent a great deal of time mapping business processes to the software processes. During the later 1990s there was an extensive movement towards standardizing an execution language that could be deployed over multiple applications. Oracle utilizes BPEL in the execution of processes within and across multiple applications to meet business requirements. With the addition of JD Edwards and PeopleSoft applications to the Oracle product line, there is a need to understand how this impacts the integration of applications for the future. The presentation provides an overview of what BPEL is and what is currently does, along with an understanding of how this impacts the future regarding integration and Oracle's Fusion initiative.
Lindell Room A	9:30 - 10:15	HR	Lucidity Consulting Group LP	Human Resources Subject Matter
Lindell Room B	9:30 - 10:15	Oracle Business Intelligence 10g; Real-World Capabilities	Hitachi Consulting Charlotte Partridge	This presentation is an overview of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g components with implementation case studies that illustrate the real-world capabilities of the high-lighted components. These high-lighted components include diverse topics like packaged analytics, ad-hoc reporting and analytics, and data warehouse design and deployment using Oracle Warehouse Builder.
Starlight Room	2:45 - 3:30	Talent Management StrategyMap	Oracle Corporation George Held	Talent Management. What exactly is it, and why are so many customers struggling to make Talent Management purchase decisions? Often, it's because they don't have the time or expertise to develop a comprehensive Talent Management strategy. Learn how you can accelerate development of a talent management strategy, gain early buy-in from stakeholders for organizational and technology changes, and increase return on existing investments while successfully adding on new Talent Management products. More importantly, this session will help you accelerate the evaluation and decision-making processes, resurrect purchase decisions that have stalled due to lack of strategy, and create new opportunities from Talent Management shelfware.
Zodiac Room	2:45 - 3:30	Setting Up a Successful Reporting Solution with Oracle Discoverer & Other Tools	Noetix Corporation Julia Dane & Shannon Mayfield	Learn the key elements in setting up a successful reporting solution with Oracle Discoverer - leverage dashboards and Microsoft Excel, along with other familiar reporting tools to empower users to securely create and share their own reports. Make query and reporting tool setup automatic for Discoverer super users and allow business users and executives to get the fast answers they need to make important daily decisions.
Lindell Room A	2:45 - 3:30		LogicalApps
Lindell Room B	2:45 - 3:30	Implementing Oracle Discoverer 10g	Optimum Solutions Nick Roppolo	This presentation discusses the merits of implementing Oracle Discoverer 10g, the newest version of Oracle Discoverer. This is not just a version comparison, this also addresses where Oracle Discoverer 10g implementation fits in your timeline. This presentation covers in detail Discoverer, what it is and how it's evolved from 4i to 10g Release 2, how best to implement Discoverer in any environment, and also reviews specific benefits and issues related to implementing Discoverer 10g.
Waterman Romm	2:45 - 3:30	Budgeting and Planning in an Oracle environment	Ric Ratkowski	An introduction to Host Budget - an application integrated with Oracle General Ledger, PeopleSoft General Ledger and JD Edwards General Ledger. In this presentation, Ric Ratkowski, VP of Engineering for Host Analytics will discuss the challenges of creating an integrated budgeting and planning environment with existing ERP systems and how they are enabling their customers to simplify the integration process so they can quickly perform top down and bottom up budgeting while closing the gap between corporate planning and operational budgeting. You hear first-hand about the company's customers, their disparate environments and how Host Analytics has eased their integration crisis. Join us for this informative session where you will learn about the new world of Business Performance Management Software-as-a-Service and how this new way of offering software is becoming a hot trend in the marketplace.