Oracle Customer Café SuccessCasts

Volvo Boosts Sales, Customer Intimacy and Dealer Performance with Siebel Automotive CRM

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:30:00 -0800

In an effort to lift its commercial truck sales, increase customer relationship capital and maximize dealer performance, Volvo decided to launch a sales-to-order initiative. By leveraging Oracle's automotive industry specific solutions - Siebel CRM, Siebel PRM, Call Center, MDM and OBIEE - Volvo is able to better qualify customers, reinforce its brand, and enable its dealers to interact more intelligently with customers to sell more trucks.

Business Intelligence Innovation at Gallup

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Gallup is in the "intelligence" business - their survey's and consulting services deliver relevant, timely, and visionary research on what people around the world think and feel. Ironically one of their internal challenges was gaining "intelligence" and insights into their own financial and production performance. Gallup has deployed Oracle's OBIEE Plus suite, Oracle BI Publisher which along with several best practice implementation efforts has provided Gallup a new reporting and business analysis platform.

Loomis Gains Real-time Visibility into Customer Data through an End-to-End Process - From Sales through Fulfillment, to Customer Service

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0800

Wayne Sadin, CIO, Loomis, discusses how he uses key solutions, Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle Contact Center, to gain real time information and complete visibility into customer data. Leveraging an On Demand deployment option of Oracle's integrated solution, Loomis can look across their enterprise by product line, by customer, by branch, by geography, and understand how they're doing against their contracted objectives. Wayne Sadin further explains how with Oracle Application Integration Architecture they will gain greater business efficiencies with an end to end integration across multiple applications and visibility over their entire order to cash business process. Loomis can greater business efficiencies, increased business agility, all at a lower sustained total cost of ownership.

Corning Inc., Improves Administrative Management

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0800

Cory Scot,Director,Corporate Manager, Exec Compensation, HR Information Management will discuss the implementation of Corning's PeopleSoft ePerformance Management Application.

BloomNet Uses Oracle CRM On Demand

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:00:00 -0800

Bloomnet uses Oracle CRM On Demand to manage an international sales force.

The California State University System Improves Administrative Management

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:00:00 -0800

Carrie Medders,Director, Administrative Applications, Administration and Finance Division will discuss the implementation of California Sate Universities PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management, and PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions.

Oracle Process Manufacturing Solutions at Simmons Foods

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:00:00 -0800

Simmons Foods will discuss their investment in the Oracle Process Manufacturing Solutions.

A day in the life of an Oracle Database Administrator

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:00:00 -0800

Matt Glover, an IT professional with the Sarasota County Government, Planning and Development Services, in Sarasota, Florida discusses his experience leveraging My Oracle Support Communities.

Georgian College upgrades to Oracle Database 11g and Real Application Clusters

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:30:00 -0800

After experiencing unacceptable performance issues during registration periods, Georgian College upgraded their Peoplesoft applications to Linux servers in conjunction with Oracle Database 11g and RAC and ASM technologies. The result was an immediate performance boost along with the high availability and scalability needed to manage a growing student body. Join us to hear from their CIO.Senior DBA.

Arcturus Realty Corporation Achieves ROI in Two Months with Oracle WebCenter 11g

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0800

Learn how Arcturus Realty leverages Oracle WebCenter 11g to replace a long-time real estate industry reporting process with an automated, scalable solution, reducing the total report cycle by 40% and achieving return on investment (ROI) in just two months.

Johns Hopkins University APL Reduces Its Environmental Impact, One "Green" Person at a Time

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0800

Tune into this Oracle Enterprise Manager podcast series to hear how the IT staff at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory uses the latest Oracle technologies to lower their environmental impact through IT automation.

Vertis Communication leverages Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System to deliver a world class planning and reporting

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0800

Learn how Vertis Communications uses the Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System for planning and forecasting across 7 different divisions and how they consolidate this information and make available for financial reporting and analysis in just a few days.

Maryland Institute College of Art Automates Processes and Ensures Scalability to Support Future Growth

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:01 -0800

Ted Simpson, Director of Administrative Systems, explains the origins of the world's most popular embedded database and why database application developers should care.

MetroPower Inc., Success with Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Primavera Contract Management

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:00:00 -0800

Listen to Eddie West, Branch Manager for MetroPower, discuss the key business challenges one of North America's largest Electrical Contractor's faced, and how they overcame these. Discover why MetroPower now standardizes on Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Primavera Contract Management to manage and integrate all their project work and generate added business value.

EMC Saves $3 Million by Consolidating on Oracle Database 11g

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:00:00 -0800

Cost efficiency is of paramount concern to EMC. Oracle Database 11g enabled EMC to optimize energy efficiency as well as data center resources, which have translated to $3 million in savings to date. Join us to hear how they have been able to do this and what’s next for EMC.

Making CRM Work For You - An End-to-End Automated Business Solution

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0800

Dave Lyons, IT Director, explains how Baptist General Convention of Texas utilized one system, Siebel CRM, across its organization to address all of its business needs.

Waldo's Dolar Mart Mexico and its strategies to integrate disparate Applications with SOA Suite and BPM Suite (Spanish Language)

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:00:00 -0800

Waldo's Dolar Mart Mexico utilizes Oracle SOA Suite and BPM to streamline the processes throughout a complex and heterogeneous environment.

Rapid, Profitable Delivery and Sophisticated Sales Capability: Living the Accelerate Lifestyle at Terillium

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:00:00 -0800

Dan Barford, who is the Accelerate Solutions Manager at Terillium, shares how their Accelerate Solutions have given Terilliium an edge over their competitors by delivering shorter implementations and tangible cost savings results.

Tweddle Group Optimizes Demand Scheduling Execution with Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:00:00 -0800

Hear Gerry Chapman, Vice President IT, discuss how JD Edwards EnterpriseOne helps Tweddle Group forecast and manage inventory for a diverse group of customers. By using the Demand Scheduling Execution solution, this printing company is able to quickly react to the changing needs of the automotive industry and deliver on-time shipments.

Legend Valve Relies on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to Stay Competitive in a Challenging Business Environment

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:00:00 -0800

Hear Walter Jan, Executive Vice President and Owner of Legend Hydronics, a division of Legend Valve, tell how JD Edwards EnterpriseOne gave Legend Valve the ability to model the application to work the way they want their business to operate. Learn what it’s like to look into the future of a growing company and plan for new and changing business processes knowing your software will scale to your needs.

Oracle Accelerate Podcast - David Petersen, Axline, Oracle Partner

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:00:00 -0800

Hear how Axline, an Oracle Accelerate Solutions Provider, has leveraged their industry expertise and implementation experience to deliver optimal customer value. By using Oracle Business Accelerators for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Axline has transformed their implementation approach to deploy rapid implementations.

V.ABC Paints Manufacturing (Shenzhen, China) Cuts Deployment Time by 50 Percent Using JDE Oracle Business Accelerators (Mandarin Chinese)

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:00:00 -0800

Hear how V.ABC Paints Manufacturing, a midsize company with over 300 employees, implemented Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne in three months. After replacing a legacy system with Oracle, V.ABC is reaping the benefits from using leading practice business processes for the chemical industry and leveraging key business information to make better management decisions.

The Advanced Group Automates Front to Back Office to Deliver Staffing Services

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0800

The Advanced Group of Companies, a US$60 million business services company, provides specialty consulting and staffing solutions to the medical industry. Hear Tim Jackson, Chief Operating Officer, discuss the company's business challenges and how it integrated the front and back office using PeopleSoft Enterprise to provide better services to clients.