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Adoption of Oracle SOA 11g as Middleware Platform
Know the benefits of adopting Oracle SOA 11g and the successes and key challenges faced by a large organization while adopting Oracle SOA 11g.
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Content-Enabling Enterprise Processes with Oracle WebCenter
Organizations grapple with issues like unstructured and paper-based transactions. Oracle WebCenter makes processes structured and seamless.
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Migration to Oracle WebCenter Imaging 11g
Understand how migrating to Oracle WebCenter Imaging 11g can be a smooth process. Learn the challenges, best practices etc.
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Integrated Solution for Fleet and Driver Management for Shippers with own fleet
Read KPIT Cummins' experience in implementing OTM and specifically Fleet Management module to manage fleet and driver requirements in an integrated environment viz. tight coupling with EBS R12 and hand-held terminals. This presentation describes the challenges faced due to local laws and specific requirements and how they were overcome.
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Container Management using OTM
Know more on how we delve on "Container management in OTM" and explain about the operational planning and execution of an ocean export container from its empty pickup to empty return back to the liner yard as configured in OTM 6.2 for a recent implementation.
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Migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
This paper provides an overview of the SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 migration and highlights the KPIT - SYSTIME migration approach. The document encompasses various migration activities, challenges and user adoption for SharePoint 2010. Organizations can leverage SharePoint 2010 capabilities to improve their productivity, reduce the risk, reduce the cost, and improve business efficiency by defining a proper migration strategy. KPIT SYSTIME methodology can help organizations deliver these benefits by migrating to SharePoint 2010.
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Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform: Technology Partner selection Guide
This white paper provides detailed guidance to decision makers in the areas of selecting a technology partner for Microsoft Windows Azure – Cloud computing platform. The white paper also talks about some key points that need to be taken into consideration before deciding upon a technology partner.
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Minimizing Production Delays in a JD Edwards environment

Work orders released without an assessment of available materials, can lead to costly delays. Under such circumstances, Shop floor supervisors are forced to be reactive, scheduling overtime to meet requirements. Through this podcast series we talk to you about a solution which easily resolves this problem, leading to easy workflow and improved customer satisfaction.
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Understanding the problem  |  Resolving the problem  |  The SYSTIME solution

Best practices while migrating from World to EnterpriseOne

Migrating from JD Edwards World to EnterpriseOne can seem like a daunting journey. With so much to consider and plan, and significant differences between the two platforms, it can be challenging to map the right strategy. Through this podcast series, we discuss the best practices to chart out a detailed and effective planning exercise helping you minimize the project's overall timelines, cost and complexities.
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Prepare  |  Execute |  Assess

Defining the Best Practices for your World to EnterpriseOne Migration

Migrating from JD Edwards World to EnterpriseOne can seem like a daunting journey. With so much to consider and plan, and significant differences between the two platforms, it can be challenging to map the right strategy.

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4 Steps to a Successful JD Edwards Upgrade

The CTO's imperatives are far too many and critical when it comes to getting an upgrade done. Every new upgrade brings with it a whole new potential of functionalities and capabilities.

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Mobile BI - extending BI beyond consumers' desk
Presenter: Sanjeev Gupta, Solutions Director - SYSTIME

Unprecedented advancement and adoption of smart phones have brought about tremendous business opportunities and have provided a new medium for presenting information to the business users.

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Leveraging Oracle GoldenGate to Improve JD Edwards Migration
Presenter: Sanjeev Gupta, Solutions Director - SYSTIME

Enterprises are often concerned about the enormous efforts involved in migrating a JD Edwards production to a upgraded version.

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Instance Consolidation

Many organizations over time will have implemented many instances of their JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system. Running multiple instances of an ERP software product like JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, within business units or divisions of your organization eliminates many of the benefits of having ERP, especially, when those instances are at various release levels. Corporations are discovering that consolidation onto one instance of JD Edwards software eliminates a multitude of support inefficiencies and redundancies, significantly reduces operating costs, and simplifies management of day-to-day operations. We discuss tips and tricks to that help you consolidate your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne instances and streamline your business operations.
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Building the case for instance consolidation  |  Understanding challenges to eliminate them
Approach through a single global instance  | Approach by prioritizing geographical proximity
SYSTIME's Pre Rollout assessment pack helps you plan

JD Edwards Upgrades - The Imperatives

There are many considerations in a product upgrade. All upgrades start with the basic, but most important question - 'Do we need to upgrade?'. Do the benefits of the upgrade outweigh the costs?
Every upgrade brings with it new functionality and capabilities. To ensure a successful upgrade, it is essential to have a deep understanding of the product and perform a thorough analysis of the benefits of the upgrade. In this 4 part series, SYSTIME discusses an assessment approach that helps you conduct a comprehensive cost benefit analysis on different approaches for an upgrade.

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Justifying the need for an upgrade |   Defining key metrics & success drivers
Charting out the upgrade blueprint |   Building Post Go Live support

Minimizing Production Delays using JD Edwards

At present, JD Edwards does not support intelligent production decision making. This essentially means that when work orders are released without an assessment of available materials, the incomplete information may lead to costly delays.
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JD Edwards Instance Consolidation Assessment Pack

Multiple instances of JD Edwards translate to higher maintenance costs, disparate business processes, and duplication.
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Leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware to Extend JD Edwards

JD Edwards users can draw on Oracle Fusion Middleware to tackle several key IT and business challenges. The role of the ERP has evolved from its traditional focus on increasing efficiency in back-office processes to directly supporting the front lines of business - and reaching beyond, to support suppliers, customers and employees.
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Enterprise Planning Best Practices and Challenges

Leading Enterprises address planning obstacles and improve processes. This presentation provides an overview which helps enterprises to take the first step toward improved budgeting, planning and forecasting approach.
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Get more out of your JD Edwards investments by using Oracle Fusion Middleware
Presenter: Advait Waghmare - SYSTIME

Oracle JD Edwards (JDE) has over the last many years enabled customers to make better decisions, be more competitive, lower costs, and improve performance.
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Putting the Business in Business Intelligence
This Whitepaper series will explore the evolution in the business use of BI, its current state, its direction and its potential. It will provide frameworks for success and present Quest’s customer and vendor communities with a foundation for continued dialogue.
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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CNC Managed Services - Part 1: How an On-demand Model can maximize your CNC investment
This white paper is a two part article presenting decision making considerations for EnterpriseOne customers that are evaluating a move to an on-demand CNC Model or (“CNC Managed Services” model as it is known).
Published in the Issue 27 Special Edition of UK Oracle User Group Journal - 'Oracle Scene' magazine.
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Understand new CRM functionality and approaches to ensure a well-planned and successful CRM implementation
This white paper provides an overview of the CRM implementation process with implementation tips and techniques to assist a company when planning an EnterpriseOne CRM implementation. In addition an overview of the new CRM functionality within EnterpriseOne is provided.
Published in the Issue 26 Summer Edition of UK Oracle User Group Journal - 'Oracle Scene' magazine.
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JD Edwards Post Implementation Systems Assessment (PISA)
This white paper examines how a typical Post Implementation Systems Assessment (PISA) can optimize the system from a technology perspective and how the processes and functionalities can derive maximum utilization.
Published in the Issue 25 Spring Edition of UK Oracle User Group Journal - 'Oracle Scene' magazine.
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Upgrading to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on a Downsized Budget
This white paper highlights some of the key ways, areas and considerations to keep costs at bay during an EnterpriseOne Upgrade project.
Published in the Issue 24 Winter Edition of UK Oracle User Group Journal - 'Oracle Scene' magazine.
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Migration from Create!Form to Oracle BI Publisher

Presenter: Kuldeep Yadav - SYSTIME

In this session, we present a real life case study on 'why' and' how' a client chose BI Publisher over Create!Form in pursuit of high quality and user friendly document automation. This enabled the client to use additional features like rich in images, charts, multi-fonts output, multi-language, label printing. This choice has resulted in ease of maintenance of and lower costs.

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Upgrade to JD Edwards World A9.2 (technical) in 10 days!

Presenter: David Denney - SYSTIME

Looking to upgrade your JD Edwards World implementation! Learn how a remote upgrade to WorldSoft A9.2 can help you save cost and time, while ensuring minimal disruptions to your operations. The session explains how complete customization and retrofitting done remotely results in an aggressive upgrade schedule leading to significant savings over a traditional offshore upgrade approach.

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Integrate your 3PL with JD Edwards using Oracle Fusion Middleware

Presenter: Wayne Stanhope - Christie Digital Systems
                    Advait Waghmare & Ravi Reddy - SYSTIME

Lecture on how a large manufacturing company reduced costs, concentrated on core competences, provided higher customer service and optimized their supply chain by integrating with a third party logistic (3PL) provider (KWE) with no process changes in JD Edwards. Join us to travel the path from a detail assessment to the business challenges & requirements and eventual recommendations for using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Developed with the Oracle B2B and BPEL Process Manager as the middleware layer, the integration solution also leveraged Business Services on Red-stack (Oracle Application Server) to establish interoperability with JD Edwards, laying the foundation for future integrations to any 3rd party logistic provider.

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JD Edwards on iPad: The new way to enhance productivity

Presenter: Mangesh Umbrajkar - SYSTIME

Organizations have been looking for technology solutions to improve sales force productivity. Mobile devices have long promised enhanced productivity, but have done little to advance the cause of usability. Devices like the Apple iPad with their large form factor significantly enhance usability, while providing all the advantages of the previous generation of mobile devices. This opens up new vistas for organizations looking to enhance the productivity of their executives. Join this session to find out how a company is growing their revenue faster by extending their JD Edwards ERP using the iPad.

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Frustrated about the lack of integration from the retail side of your business to your JD Edwards Back Office

Presenter: Mangesh Umbrajkar - SYSTIME

Learn how a major gas station chain seamlessly integrated their Head office functions with their in-store and forecourt operations at their retail locations. Join this session to hear the customer case study of how the client had rolled out over 100 stores and integrated a POS system. The client had multiple platforms, formats and applications, and was faced with the daily challenge of maintaining different systems. The new system has streamlined operations and offered a bottom-line benefit.

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Reduce invoice processing costs and cycle time with document capture and imaging for JD Edwards

Presenters: Keith Sholes & Stephen Schleifer - Oracle, Mangesh Umbrajkar - SYSTIME

Customers today continually strive to automate business processes, reduce costs and improve efficiency. The accounts payable process (AP) is an ideal place to start because it is often distributed in nature, requires many approvals and generates huge volumes of paper invoices that are difficult to manage and store. In this session, learn how Oracle and SYSTIME have partnered together to offer an integrated document capture and imaging solution for JD Edwards Financial Management. You'll hear how our end-to-end solution eliminates paper, automates data entry to minimize human error, and leverages exception handling workflows to provide fast and easy access to invoices to users both within and outside the JD Edwards environment.

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The Quest for Supply Chain Excellence Accomplished with SOA
Presenter: Scott Beck & Advait Waghmare - SYSTIME
  • Supply Chain - Aspiring for Supply Chain Excellence
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware & JD Edwards
  • Case Study - How a JD Edwards Customer Achieved Strategic Excellence
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Unleash the Power of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0
This session delves on how you can make your business better and maximize your IT investments with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0. Know more on how the enhanced functionality of this latest version delivers value to companies of all sizes.
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Oracle Enterprise 2.0
Presenter: Ashish Mehta - Oracle

Oracle E2.0 brings together the best in portals, enterprise social computing and related user experience technologies from a large portfolio of products. Oracle WebLogic Portal, Oracle WebCenter Interaction and Oracle Portal customers can leverage their existing investments by enhancing their current portals with modern user experience advances and social computing services. Customers looking to develop and deploy new portals, websites, communities and composite applications can do so quickly using the most comprehensive user experience platform complemented by the most flexible choice in development tools.
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Enhancing Enterprise Productivity with Enterprise 2.0 Solutions for Oracle Apps
Presenter: Tapan Panchal - SYSTIME

Extend your "Secondary Supply Chain Automation" to improve business efficiency and agility and get most from your Oracle applications investments through alignment of Oracle applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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Shake up your EnterpriseOne Blend Module in the Spirits and Wine industry!
Presenter: Nilay Sinha - SYSTIME

Oracle's JD Edwards E1 Blend Management provides an integrated web-based solution to manage all aspects of blended products in association with robust, one-database, ERP software. With JD Edwards E1 Blend Management you can integrate all aspects of your food & beverage production across small or large, local or global organization to encompass your needs for purchase order, sales order, A/P, A/R & a financial general ledger with a common address book and item master. Even though JD Edwards E1 Blend Management has its roots in the global wine industry, the module is applicable in any business operation that involves blended liquids for human consumption such as Juice & Distilled spirits.
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Jackson Family Enterprises creates another Vintage – Instant Gratification with their 24x7 CNC Support Model
Presenter: John Rosebaugh - Jackson Family Enterprises (Kendall-Jackson)

Jackson Family Enterprises is known for their high-quality wines for the past 3 decades. In pursuit of achieving similar high-quality with their IT systems, JFE designed a very efficient solution for their CNC support requirements to address rapid responses to issues, as well as handle mundane tasks such as Package Management and regular system administration .... all at a low cost. In this session, JFE shares the 24x7 CNC support model used to achieve a consistent, sustainable and accountable framework to support their day-to-day operations and multiple CAPEX projects using the same team. Learn how resource and schedule optimization can add to the bottom line, along with sample metrics, derived from this model that helps further fine-tune the overall deployment.
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Kryptonite to Diamonds - A CNC Support Success Story
Presenter: Tim Finley - Lafarge North America

CNC Support challenges have always been an Achilles' heel for most JD Edwards EnterpriseOne companies. In this groundbreaking session, learn how Lafarge North America mitigated their CNC Support challenges to create a successful and sustainable 24x7 CNC support model to address day-to-day operations and strategic projects for their large EnterpriseOne instance with 20,000 users, to realize overall cost savings. The presenters will showcase how they went about building, executing and managing this model and share the checklists and lessons learned during this endeavor.
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Implement Web Storefront For JD Edwards on a "Light" Budget
Presenter: Joohyun Ro - Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.

Lutron Electronics -a pioneer in lighting products & technology - implemented a state-of-the-art web storefront with seamless integration to JDE World in 4 months on a minimal budget. Built using a proven onsite-offshore delivery model & development framework, the web storefront features a versatile product catalog & shopping cart w/ online tax, freight, address validation, payment processing & more. This session shares the implementation methodology & key factors for the project's success. It also highlights the integration of the web storefront & JDE with ready & configurable integration processes for item master/price book, customer/address book, sales/return order fulfillment & status.
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Flexible promotions with Flexible pricing - Win more business
Presenter: Hemant Khetade - SYSTIME

In today's highly competitive world, the end customer is driven by growing, complex and diverse pricing needs. The JD Edwards Advanced Pricing module provides one of the finest solutions among the major ERP's. The components of the functionality vary from providing simple line level discounts based on the product and customer to the complexities of the order level discounts of Enhanced baskets. With ERP 9.0, there has been a significant functionality addition to the module, which has distinguished the JD Edwards Advanced Pricing module as one of the most useful and specialized.
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The 5 ION's for Global Roll-outs - Organization, Globalization, Localization, Customization & Standardization
Presenter: Ajay Mirani - SYSTIME

What does it take for Global organizations operating across geographical boundaries to Roll-out JD Edwards? This session will cover the challenges associated with rolling out JD Edwards globally. Every country has localization and customization requirements, which can be difficult to standardize across the board within your organization. Learn how you can manage standardization and restrict customization, while addressing statutory requirements, taxation, language barriers, and currency consolidation. Just name your country!
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The Monk can now buy-back his Ferrari, his upgrade was completed under $200K
Presenter: Everett L. Mosher - Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P

During an era of downsized budgets, learn how Iroquois, a seasoned JDE E1 user, performed a successful upgrade from OneWorld Xe to E1 8.12 for the Financial and Distribution modules for 120+ users at 6 locations, which included retrofitting of 100+ modifications, an upgrade of their underlying platform (HW, OS, DB) and selection of the Web layer...within $200K (consulting dollars), in a fixed cost model including cost of consultant expenses. This session shares the project strategy, approach, detail activities & lessons learned during the upgrade & outlines how Iroquois leveraged in-house skills & external consultants to achieve optimal synergy for project success, within the minimal budget.
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Tredegar Film Products Transforms Its JD Edwards EnterpriseOne CNC Support Operations into an ROI Generator
Presenter: Lalit Ranka/Ashish Kalawadia - SYSTIME

Come and discover how Tredegar has created a 24x5 CNC support solution. Learn how they leverage various time zones to support their production environments assuring high up-times and support the development and prototype environments & ascertain how they cost effectively support their single instance Global organization and their roll-outs to various countries.
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SYSTIME Goes Live On Time & Within Budget at Transoma
Presenter: Phil St.Ores - Transoma and Chacko Thomas - SYSTIME

This session covers a phenomenal story about how a medical device company successfully completed an end to end JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 implementation in just a few months. Learn how they were able to stay within budget and how the JD Edwards Rapid Start Implementation was the golden key to their go live date. A lesson to be learned!
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World A7.3 to A8.1cum 6 Upgrade
Presenter: Perry Mullinix - Gilead Sciences and Santosh Divekar - SYSTIME

JD Edwards Upgrade Strategy: Reduce your TCO by effectively integrating a hybrid service delivery model. Listen to Perry Mullinix, program manager for Gilead Sciences, describe in detail how the company successfully upgraded its systems from JD Edwards World A 7.3 to World A 8.1.
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Strategic Partnering: Increase Operational Efficiency without increasing your IT Spend
Presenter: Cathy Smith - Springs Global US, Inc. and Jigar Vakharia - SYSTIME

Come and discover how Springs Global created the support solution for JD Edwards, Business Intelligence, Warehousing, Open systems and Messaging applications. Learn how they were able to cut their support cost dramatically and enhance overall efficiency. Cathy Smith, Group Manager, Springs Global will share a real life success story.
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EnterpriseOne 8.11+ CRM Overview, Future and Implementation Tips
Presenter: Linda Pinion - Oracle and Jason Andrews - SYSTIME

Are you ready for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.11+ CRM? Ever wonder why CRM? And what sort of functionality does JD Edwards CRM bring? And how does a company assess that it is a right fit for CRM? This joint presentation by SYSTIME and Oracle provides an enlightening insight into EnterpriseOne 8.11+ CRM solution. The presentation focuses on the current functionality, future releases and key tips on how to assess your readiness for an E1 CRM implementation.
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EnterpriseOne 8.11 Upgrade: Challenges and Solutions
Presenter: Steve Johnston - Sierra Wireless and Jason Andrews - SYSTIME

This candid, straight-from-the-gut presentation highlights various obstacles faced by Sierra Wireless and the creative solutions required to overcome them. This presentation will share our upgrade assessment, work plan and go-live methodology. It will also discuss how we met or exceeded our upgrade expectations in less than optimal conditions. Additional topics highlight user acceptance, on-going support and web performance issues that became rude awakenings - and tips and tricks to get around them.
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How to Implement EnterpriseOne in 120 Days: A Success Story
Presenter: Jay Krishnamurthy - Crocs

Crocs is a leading footwear and fashion company that is growing at over 600% per year. This situation dictated that a leading ERP solution be selected and implemented rapidly and successfully at Crocs. Using SYSTIME's SYS-on-TIME tm methodology and the JD Edwards Process Modeler tool, Crocs was able to quickly understand the best practices built into the software and map it to their business requirements. Crocs now has real time visibility to their global supply chain and inventories, and is able to respond quickly to customer demand. Jay Krishnamurthy, Global ERP Manager, Crocs will share the real life success story.
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How to Secure JD Edwards EnterpriseOne using Lock-down Security
Presenter: Sharon Creaghan and Jigar Vakharia - SYSTIME

SOX Alert: Are you considering SOX compliance? Do you want to secure your JD Edwards ERP environment? This session will show how at Maverick Tube Corporation the Inclusive Row Security and the Lock-down Security were implemented, what were the key considerations and challenges faced. Discover how a unique approach was adopted in analyzing the requirements and implementing the solution.
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A Point Of Sale Solution Fully Integrated To JD Edwards!
Presenter: Mangesh Umbrajkar and Jason Andrews - SYSTIME

Have you been looking for a POS solution for your company and wondered if it integrated with JD Edwards? A solution that is in sync with your business requirements but also your JD Edwards system? When you think of a Point-of-Sale solution, do you imagine a prettied-up electronic cash register? Or do you imagine a system that actually enhances business processes by taking care of customer relationships, in-store inventory, etc.? Are you still trying to get your JD Edwards system to be a POS solution? If you answered YES to any of these questions, then come and discover VersaPOS - a versatile POS solution that is fully integrated with JD Edwards. This informative presentation discusses the common issues facing customers that seek or use POS systems and the advantages of being integrated with JD Edwards. Participants will learn that besides functionality, the integration with and knowledge of JD Edwards is critical for a POS to provide value and ROI to a company. The session also includes a live demonstration of VersaPOS.
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