Update on Customer Connection retiring discussion...

Just a quick follow-up from Craig Timmer from Oracle regarding the retiring of Customer Connection:

Hey John and Tim -
During Ross Brown's Quest presentation today he made a comment about Customer Connection going away on June 1. Then he pinged me for a comment and the net was that I said I would follow up. So here's my follow up!

Customer Connection is NOT going away on June 1. Customers will continue to use Customer Connection to enter their cases as they are today. When (and if) we determine a 'decommission date' for Customer Connection, we will be sure to notify the customers.

If you could pass that along to the meeting attendees, we would appreciate it.

Thanks -
Craig Timmer

Thank you for a good meeting...

Just a quick thank you to everyone. I think we had a respectable turnout and our hopes are to increase that turnout and participation by continuing to improve our agenda and tapping our fellow customers to share their experiences. Remember our next meeting for the Indy group is June 15 and we will be working on that agenda shortly. If you have any great topic suggestions just let us know.

Thanks again,

Tim Johnson and John Bray

Indiana PeopleSoft JDE RUG March 16th Meeting Agenda

Okay...here is the latest agenda for our Indiana PS/JDE RUG meeting...

PeopleSoft Indy Regional Users Group
Meeting Agenda: March 16, 2006
NCAA Headquarters, 700 W Washington St, Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 917-6222

8:00 - 9:00 Registration – Continental Breakfast & Sponsor Preview
9:00 - 9:30 Opening Session

• Welcome – From The Board, Board Changes And New Members Or Openings, Quest Affiliation, Quest Website With Socious, Future Meeting Dates
• Agenda Updates and/or Changes
• Introduction of Sponsors

9:30 - 10:00 Full Audience Session: Oracle Update – Craig Timmer – Sales Consulting Director
10:00 - 10:45 Full Audience Session: Ross Brown - Quest International Introduction and Update – The Indiana PeopleSoft/JDE RUG has elected to affiliate with Quest in order to take advantage of their services, resources and voice/influence with Oracle and future product releases.
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Information Swaps – Round Table Session Breakouts

• Enterprise HCM
• Enterprise Financials
• Enterprise Tools
• EnterpriseOne/World

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Vendor/Customer Breakout Sessions:

• Enterprise HCM – St. Vincent Health (Marcie Boyer and Amy Pictor Bio Attached Below – Director of HRIS and HRIS Administrator) – “Candidate Gateway 8.9 - Do you really understand electronic recruiting and are your company recruiters ready?” Abstract Attached Below
• Enterprise Financials – Oracle (Craig Timmer Bio Attached Below – Sales Consulting Director) – “What's new in Financials 8.9” Abstract Attached Below
• Enterprise PeopleTools - Deloitte Consulting (Srini Subramaniam Bio Attached Below –Principal) – “Deloitte Consulting’s Point of View (POV) on Fusion” Abstract Attached Below
• EnterpriseOne/World – AllOut Security (Richard Belton Bio Attached Below – Security Consultant) – “Application Security and Segregation of Duties reporting in JDE World” Abstract Attached Below

2:15 - 3:00 Wrap-up

• Vendor door prizes drawings

3:00 - 4:00 Executive Board Meeting

Updates to this document will be posted on Customer Connection at: Indiana RUG Home Page on Customer Connection. Sessions are subject to last minute changes due to presenter conflicts.

PS/JDE RUG Meeting SponsorSt. Vincent Health - Candidate Gateway 8.9 - Do you really understand electronic recruiting and are your company recruiters ready? : St. Vincent Health has been working through the implementation of electronic recruiting with PeopleSoft for three years. We recently installed Candidate Gateway 8.9 as a separate database and upgrading 8.8. Come hear about our setup methodology, experiences and what strategies and prep work you should consider before implementing electronic recruiting. We will also dabble in the product and discuss current enhancements with this version as well as some of our struggles.

Marcie Boyer, Director of HRIS - Marcie has been working in the HRIS field for over twenty years in a variety of industries and HRIS platforms. She has been working in PeopleSoft for 6 years as a functional business analyst.

Amy Pictor, HRIS Administrator - Amy has been working in the HRIS field for over twenty years and spent the last 15 working at St. Vincent Health in PeopleSoft. She has been involved in the implementation of PeopleSoft recruiting for the past 3 years and has been the project lead over the most recent implementation.

Deloitte Consulting – Deloitte Consulting’s Point of View (POV) on Fusion : Oracle's numerous acquisitions, including PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel, have positioned the company to be the leading ERP vendor in North America. Yet, this strategy has also left those operating on the acquired platforms wondering: "What does the future hold for me?" Oracle has announced that the answer lies in Project Fusion, which serves as the cornerstone of its product roadmap and support strategy. To assist clients understand what Fusion means for their organization, Deloitte has developed a Point of View on Fusion that gives you key messages regarding our thoughts on Oracle Fusion, including:

Our Initial Conclusions
Background: Oracle's Product Roadmap and Support Strategy Fusion SWOT Analysis Our Understanding of the Fusion Application Strategy Considerations for Our Clients in Making Decisions Moving Forward Implications to New Oracle Customers Suggestions on What Our Clients Can Do to Prepare Information on What Deloitte Can Do to Help

Srini Subramaniam, Principal - Srini Subramaniam is a Principal with Deloitte Consulting. Srini leads Deloitte's development of strategy services around Oracle Fusion. Srini has over twenty years of experience in ERP implementations, including Oracle and JD Edwards. Srini has also led a number of IT strategy and development projects, and managed large-scale IT applications, infrastructure and engineering teams, mainly in the manufacturing, electronics and insurance industries.

Oracle – What's new in Financials 8.9 : Features highlights of the 8.9 release…

Craig Timmer, Sales Consulting Director - Craig has been working with the PeopleSoft applications for the past 10 years; mainly focused on the Financials suite. His current role with Oracle is managing the Pre-Sales/Sales Consulting team for the North Central area focused on the PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials, Supply Chain and Customer Relationship Management solutions.

Richard Belton - Application Security and Segregation of Duties reporting in JDE World – Application security has transformed security implementation in EnterpriseOne and it’s availability from third-party solution provider ALL Out Security now means you can implement the same rigorous security regime in JDE World. Learn how application security can be used to lock every program and version so you need not worry about menu security and “back-door” access thru function keys and hidden selections. Also see how it transforms your reporting by providing 100% accurate “Who has access to what?” type reports and segregation of duties reports.

Richard Belton Speaker BIO – JDE World security and SOX: Richard has worked with JDE security (both World and EnterpriseOne) and been a security consultant since 1998. Prior to that he was with IBM in the Middle East and South Africa. His first exposure to JD Edwards was in 1988 when he was the MIS Controller at Steamships Trading when they selected this product to run the internal IS systems.
All Out Security: The ALL Out for World product was conceived mid 2004 and the company established in November 2004 to address the shortcomings in JDE security that make obtaining SOX compliance so difficult. The end result is a security solution for World that is of tremendous value even if the customer does not have to be SOX compliant. ALL Out is a UK company with an office facility in Denver. Even though we are in the UK we have a full development, support and administration team available to support our USA customers. We signed up our first customer in May 2005 and as at December 2005 we have 16 customers, 13 in North America and 3 in Europe. Customers include Genuine Parts, Metaldyne, Blockbuster and J&J.

The New and Improved Indy PeopleSoft/JDE Regional User Group

Welcome to the blogg for the "New and Improved Indiana PeopleSoft/JDE RUG". The board for the Indiana PS/JDE RUG has been working hard to improve the content and resources available to our PeopleSoft and JDE customers. Our goal is to provide a forum where we can all exchange ideas and frustrations, find support and resources, and inspire and motivate. We currently plan to have up to four meetings a year. We have four main tracks that we will focus on including PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM, PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials, PeopleSoft PeopleTools, and JDE World/EnterpriseOne. We hope to expand on these as the interest and participation grows.

Our first meeting this year is going to be held on the 16th of March, a Thursday, and will introduce our new format and agenda structure.

• We begin the meeting with a couple general sessions designed to give everyone a high level update from Oracle and another topic, for this meeting it will be a Quest Update, of interest to all members.
• Then we move into the morning session which will be what we call a "round table discussion" broken out by tracks (as mentioned above). A round table is an opportunity to find others that might have suggestions on how to resolve any issues you are facing. Each person attending will introduce themselves, describe their application and database environments (as best they can) and then mention a recent success followed up with a current dilemma or issue. This gives the others attending the chance to respond with tips or suggestions.
• Next we break off for lunch and that will ideally give each person who attended the round table sessions a chance to network a bit with those people you might have assistance or questions for.
• The afternoon bring a single session focused again on a specific track and is usually presented by a customer or a vendor, either Oracle or one of our sponsors, and ideally includes a customer.
• Finally, we wrap up with any comments, questions, and (most importantly) door prizes.

Remember, our goal is to provide a resource and forum for customers to share and gain experiences. Please let us know if you are ever interested in sharing your story.

See you at the next meeting!!