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Oracle OpenWorld 2009 Conference

OAUG Fusion Strategy Council: A Next Generation Applications User Experience Overview

Jeremy Ashley	Katie Candland

Presenters: Floyd Teter, Project Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Jeremy Ashley, Vice President Applications User Experience, Oracle; Katie Candland, Director Applications User Experience, Oracle

Oracle’s next-generation applications provide a substantial commitment to end user productivity. By working in-depth with customers to observe how end users did their work, and leveraging the best practices of our Applications Unlimited products, Oracle identified key “Next-Generation User Experience Fundamentals” necessary to drive next-generation productivity. Join us and learn more about these exciting new user experience innovations built on Fusion Middleware 11gR1 technologies.

Session Date: Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009
Time: 2:00 -3:00 p.m.
Location: Moscone West 3001

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How Customer Collaboration Improves the User Experience

Anna Wichansky

Presenters: Chuck Abell, Livermore National Laboratory; Sarah Gatenby, Santa Clara University; Carrie Medders, California State University-East Bay; Kim Murphy, Emerson; Anna Wichansky, Oracle

Members of the Oracle Usability Advisory Board offer their perspectives on the work that the Oracle Applications User Experience group conducts with customers. The group has conducted thousands of hours of joint activities with customers to improve product usability, drawing from a database of more than 5,000 users and including working with more than 1,000 customers for usability testing; ethnographic research with more than 60 customers in eight countries; customer feedback sessions with 250 users per year; and an active, engaged customer advisory board with more than 40 members who are dedicated to taking enterprise software usability to the next level. Find out what’s it like to influence Oracle products and how you can participate.

Session Date: Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Location: Moscone West L2, Room 2024

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User Experience Innovations

Jeremy Ashley	Patañjali Venkatacharya

Presenters: Jeremy Ashley, Oracle; and Patanjali Venkatacharya, Oracle

Oracle has been at the forefront of developing next-generation user experiences. In this user-oriented session, you will get to experience not only the end results of the company's work, but also the actual novel processes it uses to design and develop customer-centered user experience innovations. The presentation also introduces Oracle's groundbreaking enterprise design patterns, which are helping Oracle customers achieve higher levels of productivity.

Session Date: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Moscone West L3, Room 3022
Preview on : User Experience Innovations

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Secure Enterprise Search Technology Overview in Oracle Fusion Middleware

Sherry Mead

Presenters: Jon Huang, Oracle; DJ Ursal, Oracle; Jacques Vigeant, Oracle; Jinyu Wang, Oracle; Sherry Mead, Oracle

Enterprise search helps enrich and improve our work experience and efficiency. Attend this session to hear from organizations within Oracle about how their enterprise search implementations have provided real business value. Meet a panel of experts who talk about cases in which search solutions were designed for a particular audience. Find out what's new and how to get better results, whether you're using Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite, or Oracle Fusion Applications. The session also highlights the core technologies in Oracle's enterprise crawl and search framework and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search engine.

Session Date: Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Moscone South, Room 309
Preview on : Secure Enterprise Search

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Agile PLM 9.3: Next-Generation Platform Driving Usability and Productivity Improvements

Presenters: John Kelley, Oracle; Devendra Singh, Oracle; Shane Moorhead, Oracle

This session provides a deep dive review of Oracle’s new Agile product lifecycle management (PLM) 9.3 release, the next generation of the Agile PLM solution. Release 9.3 of Agile PLM focuses on four major areas of innovation—user experience, analytics/business intelligence, platform, and integration—providing significant improvements in usability, productivity, decision support, extensibility, and integration. The session reviews each of these four innovation areas in detail, providing an overview and demonstration of features, capabilities, and benefits.

Session Date: Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Moscone West L3, Room 3009

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PeopleSoft PeopleTools Road Map

Presenters: Dennis Mesler, Boise, Inc; Jeff Robbins, Oracle

Applications are complex and costly to maintain—and the technology landscape changes constantly. SOA, Web 2.0, lifecycle management, and application security have all become crucial. In this session, you will learn how Oracle’s PeopleSoft PeopleTools strategic road map will help you leverage these technologies. Topics covered include the PeopleSoft PeopleTools release timeline and the plans for integration and Web 2.0. As a special plus, the presentation includes the latest ideas for the PeopleSoft look-and-feel.

Session Date: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Moscone West L2, Room2002/2004

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Oracle Desktop Widgets for the Enterprise

Adrien Lazzaro

Presenters: Adrien Lazzaro, Oracle; and Mandeep Bhullar, Oracle

Get a glimpse of Oracle desktop widgets that bridge the gap on the user desktop, putting key business tasks at your fingertips, allowing you to take action quickly and customizing your content – which boosts productivity for enterprise users. We’ll also tell you how you can securely embed these widgets on a portal page. For more on this Oracle OpenWorld Unconference event, visit http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+Desktop+Widgets+for+the+Enterprise at the official Oracle wiki.

Session Date: Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: Moscone West 3rd Floor Overlooks

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Onsite Product Usability Testing
Conducted by Oracle’s User Experience Team; Private Event (by invitation only)

Ever wonder about “the real'’ story behind how products become easy to use? The secret: lots of usability testing. Oracle is building lots of new applications and invites YOU to become part of the process.     

Session objectives:

• Introduce you to Oracle's pioneering User-Centered Design process
• Illustrate the Fusion Applications usability testing process
• Explain how you can participate through Oracle’s Customer Participation Program

Session Date: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009; and Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
Time: This event is by invitation only – sign up here.
Location: Laurel Hill and Cathedral Hill, Intercontinental Hotel

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Oracle Headquarters Usability Lab Tours

Whether you are local to the Bay Area, traveling to Oracle HQ, or will be attending the OpenWorld conference, you are invited to tour our Usability Labs from October 5th to 23rd.  Want a first-hand look at how the User Experience team conducts usability activities and research on Oracle products and services, using the latest technologies? Sign up now!

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