Rhapsody Technologies Blog

Season’s Greetings

Mani Kumar Manda — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:58:42 +0000

Wishing you and your family a Joyous Holiday Season and a New Year of Love, Peace and Joy.

From all of us at Rhapsody Technologies, Inc.

Master Data Management (MDM) Boot Camp Webinar Series starting from 13th October, 2010

Mani Kumar Manda — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:32:01 +0000

Rhapsody and OAUG Customer Data Management SIG invites you to attend this webinar series. The webinar series is sponsored by Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG). REGISTRATION IS FREE.

Here are details of the MDM Boot Camp–> http://www.rhaptech.com/doc/MDM_Boot_Camp_101_2010.pdf

The Sessions are:
1. 13 Oct 2010: Master Data Management (MDM) Primer and Oracle’s MDM Foot Print
Register for this session at http://tinyurl.com/2frosux

2. 20 Oct 2010: Oracle Customer Data Hub and Trading Community Architecture 101 with guest Q&A speaker Haidong Song from Oracle
Register for this session at http://tinyurl.com/26tq78g

3. 03 Nov 2010: Oracle Supplier Data Hub and Supplier Lie Cycle Management 101 with Introduction by Jason Busch from SpendMatters.com
Register for this session at http://tinyurl.com/24z6ch3

4. 17 Nov 2010: Oracle Product Hub (Product Information Management) 101
Register for this session at http://tinyurl.com/2cwrn8m

5. 01 Dec 2010: Oracle Site Hub 101 with guest speaker Dhiman Bhattacharjee form Oracle
Register for this session at http://tinyurl.com/34t5kg4

6. 08 Dec 2010: Master Data Management (MDM) Best Practices
Register for this session at http://tinyurl.com/37g49es

7. 15 Dec 2010: To Be Successful with MDM, Start with Data Governance
Register for this session at http://tinyurl.com/32vnqfd

Any interest in attending an informal meeting of PIM users at Oracle Open World?

Mani Kumar Manda — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:07:01 +0000

The PIM SIG didn’t have any formal meeting scheduled at next week’s Oracle Open World on SIG Sunday, the 19th September, 2010 in San Franciso. I will try to schedule a meeting if there is enough interest? Post your comments to this blog. I will post the meeting information to this blog if one is scheduled.

OAUG Customer Data Management (CDM) SIG meeting at Oracle Open World 2010

Mani Kumar Manda — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:57:01 +0000

Please join OAUG Customer Data Management SIG meeting at Oracle Open World at 4:00 PM on Sunday the 19^th September 2010. Here are the details:

Session ID S318371

Title OAUG Customer Data Management SIG

Session Type SIG Meeting

Date 19^th September, 2010

Time 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Location Moscone West, Level 3, Room# 3000

The Agenda for the meeting includes discussions about:

Fusion Customer Data Management

Future Directions, Issues and Challenges

Q&A

This is your first opportunity to hear something about Fusion Customer Data Hub at Oracle Open World. Also you can network with other users who are in the same boat as you with regard to implementing Oracle Customer Data Hub and Trading Community Architecture.

The attendance at Open World is rumored to be huge so you might want to enroll ASAP to avoid being sent away for lack of space.

Also, an easy reference that you can print and take with you to the Open World conference that lists key sessions related to MDM Track which you might consider attending is posted at http://www.slideshare.net/RhapsodyTechnologies/mdm-sessions-at-oracle-open-world-2010-rhapsody-5202720 . The majority of the sessions are in Moscone West in Room# 3000 and in Room# 3003.

Oracle PLM and PIM 101

Mani Kumar Manda — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:05:16 +0000

This presentation focuses on the basic concepts of Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) and Product Information Management (Oracle PIM), a.k.a., Oracle Product Data Hub (Oracle PDH) applications from Oracle. Often times the key question that gets asked is what is the difference between PLM and PIM and why do we need both?

This presentation will also answers questions such as Why do we need PLM and PIM?, What business problems are being solved using these products?, and at the basic level questions like What is PLM?, What is PIM?, When do we need to use What?, etc., type of questions during the session. The session also answers the connection between PIM and Master Data Management (MDM).

Here is a presentation given at North Central Oracle Applications Users Group (NCOAUG). No problem, if you didn’t attend their training day conference in August 2010. The session has been recored and posted at SlideShare site along with embedded audio ofcourse.

This is a 101 type of session that benefits all regardless of their backgrounds (Strategy vs. Functional vs. Technical, etc.) with regard to Oracle Applications.

Here is the Link:

http://www.slideshare.net/RhapsodyTechnologies/ncoaug-oracle-plm-and-pim-101

While at it, you may also want to join a LinkedIn group created especially for users interested in Oracle Product Data Qualiety Server. Here is the link:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3350438

Supercharging Supply chain processes with Oracle Supplier Data Hub (SDH) and Supplier Life Cycle Management Produts (SLM)

Mani Kumar Manda — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:40:21 +0000

Traditional E-Business suite of applications from Oracle often fall short when it comes to on-boarding of Suppliers in terms of evaluating and managing suppliers across trading life cycle thus often times resulting in less optimized supply chain processes. These challenges are often compounded with the sub-optimal supplier data resulting in users to deal with duplicate suppliers and some times even the supplier data that may be incomplete and incorrect.

Often times it is very challenging to answer questions such as

1) Did we follow through all processes in on-boarding a specific Supplier?

2) Is this Supplier compliant with regulations?

3) Is this Supplier ethically compliant with policies established by your firm?

4) When was the last time Supplier facilities were inspected?

5) Is the Supplier data correct?

6) Which Supplier information is the correct one when duplicates exist?

WELL NOT ANY MORE.

With the introduction of both Supplier Life Cycle Management and Supplier Hub (Master Data Management aka MDM) applications, the whole Supply Chain processes can be super charged by not only managing the Supplier data across its trading life cycle, but also provide a single and 360 degree view of the Supplier across the enterprise using Supplier Hub capabilities. Best of all the Supplier Hub functionality leverages the TCA framework that many of you are already familiar with.

This presentation focuses on the features and functionality of both Supplier Life Cycle Management and the Supplier Hub products from Oracle and how they can help you answer questions like the ones above and solve many of the supplier data challenges that users face on a day to day basis.

Here is a link to the SlideCast:

http://www.slideshare.net/RhapsodyTechnologies/ncoaug-supercharging-supplier-data-management-with-supplier-life-cycle-management-slm-and-supplier-data-hub-sdh-5155775

http://tinyurl.com/27kwabc

While at it, you may also want to join a LinkedIn group created especially for users interested in Oracle’s Supplier Data Hub and Suppliers Life Cycle Management products. Here is the link:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3363004

Master Data Management (MDM) session list at Oracle Open World (OOW) 2010

Mani Kumar Manda — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:11:00 +0000

Here is a document that lists all of the MDM activities (SIG meetings, Panel Discussions, Demos, Sessions, etc.) you might consider in your session planning for MDM Track at the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco. This document can be downloaded from http://www.slideshare.net/RhapsodyTechnologies/mdm-sessions-at-oracle-open-world-2010-rhapsody-5202720 or at http://tinurl.com/23t3dry. The Oracle Open World conference is held in San Francisco, California at Moscone Convention Center from 19th September 2010 to 23rd September 2010.