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Oracle Landed Cost Management gives organizations financial visibility into their supply chain costs, including transportation, handling, insurance, duties, and taxes. Since these charges comprise upwards of 40 percent of an item's cost, it is critical to accurately account for them when creating financial plans and tracking operational performance.

Tune into this conversation with Aaron Green, Director of Product Strategy, to learn how Oracle Fusion HCM enables you to collaborate with enterprise social tools, connect with peers and experts across functions and geographies and make the right decisions about talent with a unique solution, Fusion Talent Review - allowing you to work as a team.

Tune into this conversation with Anand Subbaraman, Senior Director of Product Strategy for Fusion HCM and Technology, to learn how Oracle is delivering offer a complete HCM SaaS application with single-vendor accountability. Unlike other vendors, which rely on other partners to complete their solutions, Oracle Fusion HCM includes integrated modules for HR, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Performance, along with industry-firsts such as Workforce Predictions, Network at Work, and Talent Review - all available on the Cloud.

Tune into this conversation with Humair Ghauri, Senior Director Global Applications Strategy to learn how Oracle Fusion HCM delivers a user experience like no other - completely built around user roles, key processes, and business-led configurability. We've completely turned the way you've traditionally thought about HCM on its head - giving business users the power to easily mold and re-shape the system - so you can always do things your way.

Tune into this conversation with Brian Gaspar, Product Strategy Director for Oracle Fusion HCM analytics to learn how Fusion HCM puts information right at your fingertips, uses predictive analytics to uncover potential workforce problems, and easily turns that insight into action. All together, allowing you to know your people better, and succeed.

The PeopleSoft Projects (ESA) 9.1 release is built to enable the successful selection and execution of projects. With distinct attention to both user and IT productivity, PeopleSoft Projects 9.1 unveils a new Web 2.0 user interface, facilities to enable rapid business process re-configuration, and tools to strengthen project governance. Join us to hear more about these topics and the industry-specific functionality that are compelling customers to make the move to PeopleSoft Projects 9.1.

Ringhals, a Swedish nuclear power plant, part of the Vattenfall Group, produces 20 percent of the country's electricity and is the largest power station in the Nordic region. Ringhals has standardized on AutoVue for most of their engineering and asset document visualization requirements throughout their plant maintenance, design and engineering operations. As a result, they have cut IT maintenance costs, increased productivity, and improved maintenance operations.

The pharmaceutical industry is facing new challenges as counterfeit products enter the ethical drug supply chain. Companies need to better secure the movement of their branded products from manufacturing to distribution to the end customer to insure proper efficacy. Pharmaceuticals are of special targets to "knock-offs", non-authorized generics as pirated-products enter the market. Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager (OPSM) helps firms' better track and control their products through a unique monitoring process.

Every enterprise application - your Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft and Oracle Siebel applications - require a fast, scalable, secure and reliable database that delivers on business users' quality of service expectations. But, the database used and how it is implemented can dramatically impact the cost of that infrastructure. In this podcast, we'll discuss how customers are optimizing Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Exadata to lower the cost of their application's infrastructure.

Nigel Youell, Product Marketing Director, Enterprise Performance Management Applications at Oracle discusses with Joe Bittorf, Project Manager at Brady Corporation why and how they embarked on this major project to replace SAP BPC with Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management Solution. Joe covers the outstanding improvements they have achieved in their financial close process, how they worked with Oracle Partner Emerging Solutions and the current project to further improve their planning and budgeting processes.

Oracle Agile PLM is a very compelling solution for companies interested in managing the process of innovation across a variety of industries. Join Ken Pulverman, Senior Director of PLM and MDM Product Marketing as we review what's new with Oracle PLM.

Hear about the latest strategies for maximizing the value of your Oracle Applications using technologies in Oracle Fusion Middleware. Today's businesses recognize that to be more innovative with their business applications, they need to shorten their application implementations, eliminate brittle integrations and develop a simpler approach to securing and managing their applications. In this podcast we'll hear techniques for extending the reach of applications through improved user experience and collaboration, create application extensions that minimize the risk during upgrades, and make more informed decisions with integrated business intelligence. These approaches applied with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications can help lower TCO and provide rapid returns for your business.

Project-driven enterprises are increasingly looking at their project and resource management processes in an effort to gain efficiencies and leverage. This session will highlight the strengths of Oracle's EBS Projects application in delivering the visibility, transparency, and operational control to streamline the project portfolio management lifecycle.

Highly complex and customized products have multiple configuration options which present challenges to the vendors who sell and manufacture them, as well as the customers who buy them. Oracle Gold partner, Latis Technologies, has developed an integration between Oracle EBS Configurator and Oracle's AutoVue visualization solutions which enables EBS Configurator to dynamically generate views of products and easily display them based on a selected set of configuration options. The combined solution greatly enhances configure-to-order processes and delivers significant benefits, including reduced order lead time, improved order accuracy, faster customer approvals and an overall better buying experience.

Hear about the latest strategies for maximizing the value of your Oracle Applications using technologies in Oracle Fusion Middleware. Today's businesses recognize that to be more innovative with their business applications, they need to shorten their application implementations, eliminate brittle integrations and develop a simpler approach to securing and managing their applications. In this podcast we'll hear techniques for extending the reach of applications through improved user experience and collaboration, create application extensions that minimize the risk during upgrades, and make more informed decisions with integrated business intelligence. These approaches applied with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications can help lower TCO and provide rapid returns for your business.