Day 5 at OOW 2010 : Thanks and adieu !
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Oracle BI Applications are pre-built analytic applications compatible with any IT environment, consisting of prebuilt metadata for common industry analytics processing such as Sales, Service, Order Fulfillment, Supply Chain, Financial Analytics, Procurement and Spend and so on.
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It started off with a Keynote in the morning with Oracle's Chief Marketing Officer giving some interesting bits:
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The success rates of CRM implementation have been reported low traditionally. Various studies attribute the reason to various factors like user adoptability, system adaptability, high TCO etc. Should I take the liberty of saying that marketing and sales users (next to warehouse users) would be ranked first in discarding a system which is not easy to use and fit the requirements. So, Is Fusion ready for sales and marketing users? Let us have a look at the features which marketing and sales users would go gala about it.
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Competition that has conventionally been a stranger to the utilities has now great influence over the utilities business across the world. Although different geographies are into different phases of evolution, competition is only gaining more relevance across. Another significant positive change is the increasing adoption of information technology, more specifically the connect of typical operational systems such as SCADA, PMS, NMS etc with the enterprise wide IT systems such as asset management, billing and customer care. A whole new set of systems such as Automatic Metering Interface (AMI), Meter Data Management (MDM), Distribution Management System (DMS), Outage Management System (OMS) although still evolving, has played its role in achieving this connect. Continuing the change is clearly visible trend, a long journey ahead which takes the initiated utilities toward Smart meter, Smart grid and smart customers.
I was wondering how much credit goes to the competition for all this action that mark the state of the utilities today? Is it the competition that is driving the utilities towards newer and bigger initiatives ?
In reference to the note Global CIO: Larry Ellison's Top 10 Priorities At Oracle Open World (http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227400524&itc=ref-true), The most-compelling element of the entire 5-day mega-show of oracle open world will be the public comments of CEO Larry Ellison in his key note. While Ellison always draws a huge crowd and frequently enjoys playing to those crowds with some intentionally provocative comments, the showmanship angle of his presentations is vastly overstated.
Some of the Top 10 strategic issues that Ellison will focus on in is public comments at Oracle Open World
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The relevance of information is defined by the accuracy, timeliness and efficiency with which it can be leveraged. 'Change' is a constantly happening process that reflects the present and defines the future, overcoming the flaws of the past. A company's legacy applications and technology might be outdated and needs to be modernized to perform and deal with competition.
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For global enterprises, transportation management systems (TMS) are always viewed in a holistic perspective, integrated into an overall 'order to cash' supply chain. Logistics planners are thereby looking for a TMS that can provide end to end optimization solution with capability of shipping any product from any node in the supply chain network - supplier drop ship, warehouse to customer, customer returns etc.
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Infosys has developed an Integrated Risk and Performance Management (IRPM) Framework designed by SMEs in Financial Risk Management.
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In a traditional manufacturing enterprise, the supply chain works in a piecemeal way through multiple departments executing their own functions and tracking their own performance. Most package-based IT solutions also accordingly adopt a siloed view of the business and provide disparate modules/ applications for different business functions. Thus measurement of overall process performance becomes tedious as end-to-end Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are not defined, benchmarked and measured, leading to dilution of process-level accountability and view, leading to dissatisfied customers and suppliers.
As promised, I have come back with the second and final part of the scope of Social CRM series. In case, you have missed out on the earlier part, it can be accessed here.
As I said in the first part, the parameters provided were only a subset on which an organization could go for an assessment exercise. But the actual test for any organization is how to go about once the analysis is out. For this, I will put forward different scenarios assuming that only these are the set of parameters, thus strategy could focus on the following options based on the how did they fare on the various parameters.
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Have you ever wondered how you would manage your engineering changes in a single instance multi divisional environment? You are using Inventory, Bill of Material and Engineering and it has become a nightmare to maintain your master data. You have issues with data security due to the multi divisional environment.
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Over the years, transportation remains one of the top five expenditures for Hi-Tech manufacturers, Retailers and Distributors. As Hi-Tech manufacturers strive to be competitively responsive to the marketplace demands in order to leverage the economic growth, and be a step ahead of their competitors, gaining control over pace and the cost of the transportation activity becomes imperative. As per leading industry analyst firm "A 5% reduction in transportation cost has the same P&L impact as a 5-30% increase in sales".
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Apart from forecasting a tremendous growth of Social Media for Business and customer facing communities, Gartner's CRM predictions for 2010 have some key points to note
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High Tech manufacturing enterprises operate in a very competitive environment with a complex and long value chain. Value Chain Planning is the key differentiator and thrust area for these enterprises, as this lends them to better demand capture and fulfillment, better operational and financial efficiency. IT systems play a crucial role in enabling them to remain competitive. These IT systems acquired/built over a period of time, inevitably result in a complex integration landscape involving plethora of heterogeneous B2B (Business to Business), B2C (Business to Customer) and A2A (Application to Application) transactions. Even the reporting for running operations and management decision making is premised on multiple sources of truth.