| | | October 30, 2009 - The Grandover Resort & Conference Center - Greensboro NCREQUEST PRESENTATIONS| TIME | DESCRIPTION | LOCATION | | 7:30am | Conference Check-In/Breakfast
Vendor Showcase Opens
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| | 8:30am | Conference Kick-Off
Introductory Remarks: Les Herod, VP of Client Services, brij Image & Information
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| | 8:45am | General Session Keynote (EnterpriseOne & World Users) - Denise Grills, Sr. Director of JD Edwards, Oracle Corporation
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| | 9:30am | Accounting Intelligence for JD Edwards "Optimize Your Financial Management Processes" (EnterpriseOne & World Users): Learn how to reduce your costs and improve your productivity in your financial management process. The Inquiry Suite from InsightSoftware.com can help you optimize your financial management process by increasing your understanding of cost and variance drivers, reducing your month-end close cycle, and providing better insight into your financial data. Julie Holmes, InsightSoftware.com | Grandview B
| | 10:00am | Networking Break
Vendor Showcase | Grandview A
| | | ALL DAY JD Edwards World & EnterpriseOne Playday™ Opens | Beaumont | | 10:15am | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 1
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| EnterpriseOne 9.0 Update (EnterpriseOne Users): This presentation will cover some of the current news about JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, take a look at the product Roadmap, look at Oracle’s Edge products strategy, and cover a little about what’s coming from a technology standpoint. Richard Garraputa, VP of Sales & Marketing, brij Image & Information
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| World Roundtable Discussion (World Users)
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| Spotting the Monster in your Supply Chain (EnterpriseOne & World Users): From the receipt of raw materials, through the warehouse and out into the field, there are “monsters” that eat productivity, accuracy and profitability. Learn where these “monsters” live and how to exterminate them with real-time visibility and data validation. Michael Edwards, Director of Sales-Southeast, ICS, Inc. & Chris Wright, ICS, Inc.
| Riviera | | 11:15am | Networking Break
Vendor Showcase | Grandview A
| | 11:30am | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 2
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| Maximize Your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Investment with Tools & Technology (EnterpriseOne Users): Are you currently taking advantage of the latest innovations in Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne tools and technologies? Are you interested in more efficiently running your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and improving your end-user satisfaction? Come to this session to hear about how you can gain real business value from the latest tools releases. You'll also hear breaking news and information about a new tools release for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. The session will help you get the most out of your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne investment and prepare for your technology future. Jeff Blankenship, Senior Solutions Consultant, brij Image & Information
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| Are you utilizing your data effectively? (EnterpriseOne & World Users): Find out how you are performing relative to companies using analytics as a source of competitive advantage. Hundreds of JD Edwards customers have turned to MicroStrategy for all of their reporting requirements. Learn how you can consolidate your reporting and analysis capability on a single BI and Reporting platform – providing you a greater source of competitive advantage. Mike Lutito, Director VAR Programs, Microstrategy, Inc.
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| Estimate the ROI on an Upgrade with a tool developed specifically for JDE customers (EnterpriseOne & World Users): Using an automated tool developed to show the business case justification specifically for JD Edwards upgrade projects, CSS will guide you through a simple process for estimating the business value, upgrade costs and hard dollar business returns of an upgrade—addressing both application improvements as well as hardware technology advancements. Jim Miller, CSS International, Inc. | Riviera
| | 12:30pm | Lunch
Presentation from John Schiff, VP Oracle Applications Unlimited, General Manager JD Edwards World, and Lyle Ekdahl, General Manager JD Edwards EnterpriseOne | Grandview A
| | 1:30pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 3
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| BI Publisher for JD Edwards (EnterpriseOne & World Users): Learn to set up existing and/or new JD Edwards reports to integrate with BI Publisher, the report formatting and distribution tool now bundled with EnterpriseOne and World. Go through an example of how to leverage the benefits of BI Publisher to create graphically intensive reports in less than 1 hour. The workshop will review the technical setup and the actual layout of a report using BI Publisher for EnterpriseOne. This presentation is applicable to both technical and business users. Jeff Blankenship, Sr. Solutions Consultant, brij Image & Information | Grandview B
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| Multiple Roles - How to reduce 250,000 Security Records to 13,000 - Case Study (EnterpriseOne & World Users): Implementing Multiple Role based security is an amazingly effective way to reduce the number of security records, simplify security management and eliminate mistakes. Presentation is a case study of a roles based project at Par Pharmaceutical where security records were reduced from 250,000 to 13,000. Also covered will be ways to enable multiple roles in Xe, ERP8 and JDE World. Jeff Wuchich, Sr. Executive Consultant, All Out Security | Riviera
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| Accounts Payable Imaging and Process Optimization for Oracle ERP Applications (EnterpriseOne & World Users): Within AP departments, paper continues to be stubbornly entrenched. Over 85% of all incoming invoices continue to be paper based. Learn how the integration of your ECM content, including invoices, purchase orders and receivers with your Oracle ERP application (E-Business, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) and Oracle Fusion Middleware streamlines the entire receipt-to-pay cycle to help: Maximize liquidity and cash flow; Improve visibility into spending; Lower costs through automation and headcount reduction; Improve invoice auditing; Integrate purchasing, treasury and finance. Leverage Fusion Middleware to extend the value of your Oracle ERP investments. Oracle ERP systems can be integrated with unstructured content (invoices, reports, supplier information, shipment data, contacts, e-mail, etc.) that may exist in a variety of repositories and other applications that to provide a 360 degree view of business transaction. The presentation will discuss case based examples of various integration scenarios with related benefits realized. Chad Malley, Open Text | Renoir
| | 2:30pm | Networking Break
Vendor Showcase | Grandview A
| | 2:45:pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 4
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| What's New with JD Edwards World A9.2 Manufacturing & Distribution (World Users): This session illustrates the business benefits of new enhancements that support functional improvements in your ever-changing supply chain. Streamline order-to-ship processes with new batch ship confirm, reverse ship confirm, and other user-driven improvements in distribution. For manufacturing, learn about several enhancements in the areas of forecasting and shop floor control to help users achieve greater accuracy. In addition, learn how to reduce time and costs associated with the administration of internal work orders with the new orderless processing functionality. The session is appropriate for all industries but of particular interest for manufacturing and distribution. Tim Lyons, Solutions Consultant, brij Image & Information
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| EnterpriseOne Roundtable Discussion (EnterpriseOne Users) | Grandview B
| | 3:45pm | Closing Remarks
Raffles & Prizes
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March 20, 2009 - Market Pavilion Hotel - Charleston SC
| TIME | DESCRIPTION | | 7:00-8:30am | Conference Check-In/Breakfast
Vendor Showcase Opens
| | 8:30am | Conference Kick-Off and Introductory Remarks, Pete Ballou, CSS International, Inc. |
| Meet Your New Co-Workers - Team Building Initiative | | 9:00am | Vendor Presentation: Enterprise Backup & Recovery Techniques JDE Customers in the 21st Century, Backup and Recovery program design is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Safeguarding your data and enhancing backup solutions are of primary concern. Now organizations can choose from a host of technologies to incrementally improve or completely transform their backup, secure their corporate data, and enhance availability requirements for all hardware platforms. Data protection techniques have made great strides in addressing today’s business challenges as it relates to both the i5 and other open system platforms. | | 10:15am | Networking Break & Vendor Showcase
| | 10:30am | Vendor Presentation: MicroStrategy, Groovy Reporting and Nifty BI, presented by Dan Stern, Microstrategy. Knowledge is power. Data should create knowledge. With JDE-specific solutions and industry-leading tools, MicroStrategy provides powerful insight from your data. Come take a look at what the leading independent BI company is offering for JDE customers, and see how your JD Edwards peers are leveraging MicroStrategy. | | 11:30am | Product Strategy JDE - Lyle Ekdahl Unplugged, VP Product Direction, JDE, Oracle Corporation | | 12:30pm | LUNCH With Your Co-Workers and COLLABORATE Promo |
| INDUSTRTY LUNCH: CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES: Sandra Benson, Industry Business Unit - Construction; Construction Company attendees are invited to attend this lunch and discuss the latest and greatest with JDE for the Construction industry. The lunch hour will include a presentation, Q&A and open forum discussion/audience-lead topics. | | 1:30pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 1
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| Increasing the Value of your JDE software in a Down Economy, presented by Bill Franklin and Jason Andrews, CSS International, Inc. |
| Unlock the Value of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Software You Already Own: The Distribution module in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne holds some often overlooked functionality that can improve the efficiency of your processes and lighten your workload. This session presents some tips and tricks for using some not-so-hidden features of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order and Purchase Order processing to produce real value quickly, with minimal implementation and licensing costs. Presented by Jeff Blankenship, brij |
| Customer Presentation - PRINTPACK, Inc. Best Practices (Without being Planned To Death) for JDE Deployment - Hear Printpack's Story and What's Coming in 2009-2010, presented by Steve Cavanaugh, CIO, Printpack, and Cristel Sundin, Project Manager, Printpack, Inc. |
| Tax Challenges and Opportunities when upgrading from World to EnterpriseOne
With such a wide variety of paths and options, customers not only have an interest in understanding the current setup of their tax connection points, but also have an interest in understanding and planning a successful upgrade, and how these existing connection points are affected. This presentation will provide a review of the interaction and connections between JD Edwards and Vertex L series, Vertex Q series, and Vertex O series. An upgrade scenario from a JDE World user perspective will be used to demonstrate a path to Vertex Q series and Vertex O series. | | 2:30pm | Networking Break & Vendor Showcase
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| Features, Functionality and Leveraging World A9.1.2. Understand the value of the newest release and how it fits in with Oracle's acquisition strategy, integration and go-forward roadmap. Attendees will see highlights of the release for various industries and the latest greatest functionality JDE's flagship product offers customers today and what's planned for the future. |
| Features, Functionality and Leveraging E1 9 .0: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0, released in September, 2008, is packed full of industry-specific and cross industry functionality. This session will present on overview of new functionality in EnterpriseOne 9.0 including enhancements to GL, AP, AR, Expense Management, HR, Time & Labor, Sales Order Management, Configurator, Procurement & Contracts Management, Contracts & Service Billing, Project Costing and Real Estate Management. Presented by brij |
| Weathering the Storm by Increasing Your Sales Effectiveness: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World customers can take advantage of a world-class CRM solution that maximizes marketing, sales and service effectiveness with minimal capital investment. Imagine giving your sales force the tools they need in weeks at a cost that is typically 50% to70% less than you are spending today (and doesn’t require a JD Edwards upgrade!). Oracle’s CRM On Demand is the solution for CRM with JD Edwards, presented by Michelle Lane, Oracle Corporation |
| Customer Presentation by Rock-Tenn: Acquistions and Integration into the JDE Environment - High Points and Pitfalls of an acquistion strategy, Steve Riggan, CIO, Rock-Tenn, Inc. |
| Insight to Action: Learn how JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World customers are able to improve predictive analysis capabilities across all areas of the business with Essbase. Essbase helps organizations make quicker and better business decisions through what-if modeling, forecasting and business planning from any perspective. These tools are a must in today’s uncertain times, and can be utilized with any version of EnterpriseOne or World, presented by Rhonda Grate, Oracle Corporation | | 4:00pm | Closing Remarks
Raffles & Prizes
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November 6, 2008 - The Grandover Resort - Greensboro NC
| TIME | DESCRIPTION | | 7:30-8:30am | Conference Check-In/Breakfast
Vendor Showcase Opens
| | 8:30am | Conference Kick-Off/Introductory Remarks, Martin Green, President, brij, Les Herod, VP of Client Service, brij
| | 9:00am | Top 10 Things from OpenWorld, Denise Grills, Senior Director, Oracle Corporation
| | 10:15am | Networking Break & Vendor Showcase
| | 10:30am | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 1
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| How to Maximize Your World Features & Functionality, Jason Andrews, Senior Solutions Architect, CSS
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| Interactive Project Planning for EnterpriseOne Users, Richard Garraputa, VP of Sales & Marketing, brij
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| Jump Start Your JD Edwards Implementations & Upgrades with UPK, Bruce LaBrecque, Solutions Consultant, brij
| | 11:30am | Lunch & Presentation, Oracle Hyperion, Jason Little, Vice President, Analytic Vision
| | 1:00pm | Networking Break & Vendor Showcase
| | 1:15pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 2
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| Accountants Gone Wild!, Richard Crotty, GL Company
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| Best Practices for JD Edwards Spreadsheet Environment, Sherri Barham, VP Product Development, Global Software
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| Creating EnterpriseOne Reports Using BI Publisher, Jeff Blankenship, brij
| | 2:15pm | Networking Break & Vendor Showcase
| | 2:30pm | EnterpriseOne Rountable Discussion, Moderated by Marty Benshoff, Director of Business Development, brij
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| World Roundtable Discussion, Moderated by Denise Grills, Oracle Corporation
| | 3:30pm | Networking Break & Vendor Showcase
| | 3:45pm | Evaluations & Closing Remarks
Raffles & Prizes
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May 23, 2008 - Francis Marion Hotel - Charleston SC
| TIME | DESCRIPTION | | 7:30-8:30am | Conference Check-In/Breakfast
| | 8:30am | Conference Kick-Off, Introductory Remarks, Pete Ballou, CSS
| | 9:00am | JD Edwards: Where Are We Now?, Dan Stern, Product Strategy, Oracle Corporation
| | 10:15am | Networking Break & Vendor Showcase
| | 10:30am | What's Your Spreadsheet Forecast?, Global Software
| | 11:30am | Myths of the Bulletproof Disaster Recovery Plan, Quadrant Software, Brian Spiro
| | 12:30pm | Lunch & Presentation in Vendor Showcase Area, Tom Colbert, Director of Change Management, CSS
| | 1:30pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 1
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| Enterprise Learning Management: A solution that organizes, manages, and delivers the right learning to the right person at the right time, Duane Erautt, CSS
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| World's Roadmap: Strategy & Direction Beyond A9.1, Sue Brown, Director of World Product Strategy, Oracle Corporation
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| "I Didn't Know I Had That!": A JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Tour, Jeff Blankenship, brij
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| How & Why World Customers Justify Moving to EnterpriseOne, Dan Stern, Oracle Corporation
| | 2:30pm | Networking Break & Vendor Showcase
| | 3:00pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 2
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| Workbench Fixes Data Integration Problems Before They Happen!, David Ostrowski, Hill-Rom, Inc.
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| Unlocking The Information In Your JD Edwards Data with Native EnterpriseOne Analytics, Jeff Blankenship, brij
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| Discover Hidden Data with Discovery, Dave Rice, S&D Coffee
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| Your Employees Aren't Just The Cost of Doing Business - They Are The Business, Marie Scott, Oracle Corporation
| | 4:00pm | Conclusion - CSS & brij
Raffles & Prizes
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October 19, 2007 - Sheraton Hotel & Convention Center - Greensboro NC
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| DESCRIPTION | | 7:30am | Registration & Breakfast
Explore Vendor Showcase
| | 8:30am | Conference Kick-Off, Martin Green brij & Bruce Cavey, Hanson
| | 9:00am | JD Edwards: Incorporating Innovation & Investment to Drive Business Value Today & Tomorrow, Denise Grills, World Senior Product Director
| | 10:45am | Quick Break - Explore Vendor Showcase | | 11:00am | EnterpriseOne Roundtable Discussion
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| World Roundtable Discussion
| | 12:00pm | Lunch & Intro to Agile PLM, Pete Ballou, CSS, Ben Baldyga, Qlik Tech, John Liss, Oracle | | 1:30pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 1
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| Advanced Pricing, Jason Andrews, CSS
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| CRM for EnterpriseOne, Jeff Blankenship, brij
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| JD Edwards World Product Overview, Denise Grills, Oracle
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| Revolutionizing Spreadsheet Automation, Tonya Cannady, Global Software
| | 2:30pm | Quick Snack Break - Explore Vendor Showcase | | 2:45pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SET 2
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| ETO for EnterpriseOne, Jason Andrews, CSS
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| Crystal Reports for World & EnterpriseOne, Jeff Blankenship, brij
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| Case Study with Interstate Batteries, Lee Greer, GL Company
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| Mobilizing Your Troops, Tom Bosch, DSI
| | 4:00pm | What to Expect from JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Over the Next Five Years: Product Roadmap & OOW, Dan Stern, EnterpriseOne Product Strategy Director
| | 4:50pm | Closing & Raffle Giveaways!
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March 9, 2007 - The Charleston Place Hotel - Charleston SC
| TIME | DESCRIPTION | | 7:00-8:30am | Conference Check-In
Vendor Showcase
| | 8:30am | Conference Kick-Off and Introductory Remarks, Pete Ballou, CSS International, Inc. | | 9:00am | Applications Unlimited: 5 New Releases. 6 Continents. 24 Hours. Summary of the launch events for an unprecedented five new releases (2 JDE) Bob Florance, Oracle Corporation | | 10:15-10:30am | BREAK - VENDOR SHOWCASE and RAFFLE DRAWING #1 | | 10:30am | Vendor Presentation: CDI - ERP2Web eCommerce Storefront – Creating Value by Empowering Your Self-Service Customers | | 11:30am | Vendor Presentation: ICS -- Data Collection Metrics for Optimizing Distribution Efficiency, presented by George Gulliford, Director of PRoduct Management | | 12:30pm | LUNCH IN VENDOR SHOWCASE AREA and RAFFLE DRAWING #2 | | 1:30pm | BREAKOUTSESSION OPTION 1 - QlikTech - “Getting Information Out of JDE; A Revolutionary Way to Make Information Actionable”
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| BREAKOUT SESSION OPTION 2 – Order Management and Advance Pricing for E1, presented by brij |
| BREAKOUT SESSION OPTION 3 - UPK and Sarbanes Oxley Compliance |
| BREAKOUT SESSION OPTION 4 – Business Value in Upgrading, presented by Jason Andrews, CSS (JDE E1) | | 2:30-3:00pm | NETWORKING BREAK and BREAKOUT ROOM RE-SETS - VENDOR SHOWCASE AND RAFFLE DRAWING #3 | | 3:00pm | BREAKOUT SESSION OPTON 1 – JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Technical - A general discussion about Technical topics associated with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. |
| BREAKOUT SESSION OPTION 2 – World A.9.1 Technical session, presented by Jason Andrews, CSS |
| BREAKOUT SESSION OPTION 3 - Project Manager Dashboard, presented by brij |
| BREAKOUT SESSION OPTION 4 – Security Upgrade Xe to 8.10, presented by Michelle Sawko, AAA (JDE E1) | | 4:00pm | Closing Keynote
| | 5:00pm | Conclusion - CSS and brij AND RAFFLE DRAWING #4 |
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