OAUG Upgrade SIG News

April 2009
Greetings!
 
Get ready for Collaborate 09, to be held May 3rd - 7th in Orlando, Florida! The OAUG Upgrade SIG will be meeting at the conference, and is accepting nominations for upcoming elections now. If you are attending Collaborate, please be sure to join the SIG.

John Stouffer
Chair, OAUG Upgrade SIG

Collaborate 09 OAUG Upgrade SIG Meeting
The OAUG Upgrade SIG will hold a meeting at Collaborate 09 on Sunday, May 3, 2009 from 3:30-4:30pm in Room W305B.

We will host a panel with the following panelists:
  • John Stouffer - Moderator, Independent Consultant
  • Dennis Horton - Sr. Practice Director - EBS System Performance & Architecture, Oracle Corporation
  • Deep Ram - Technical Director - EBS System Performance & Architecture, Oracle Corporation
  • Michael Rulf - Executive Director - Product Development AT&T Hosting and Application Services, USi
  • Kaberi Nayak - DBA, Mitre Corporation
  • Sandra Vucinic - President, VLAD Group, Inc.
  • Karen Brownfield - Solution Architect, Solution Beacon
OAUG Upgrade SIG Elections
We are accepting nominations for the Co-Chair, Treasurer and Secretary of the Upgrade SIG. Click here to fill out the nomination form. Nominations will be accepted until Saturday, May 9th.

We will email a voting form to all registered Upgrade SIG members on May 10th. Voting will be from May 10th-May 31st. Register for the Upgrade SIG here.

The new Upgrade SIG volunteers will be notified by the Chair of the Upgrade SIG. On another note, for continuity's sake, the current Chair, John Stouffer, will serve as the Chair of the Upgrade SIG through 2009, when the Co-Chair will take over his duties as the Chair.
Share Your Knowledge
If you've written a paper or presentation that describes your E-Business Suite Upgrade, please let us share it with our members. Just send your pdf to Barb Matthews at barb@oncalldba.com

Papers/Presentations on Upgrading at Collaborate 09:

These are some of the papers/presentations on upgrading that we spotted on the Collaborate 09 Agenda:

1220 - Stuck on 11i10? You can still leverage R12 Advanced Planning
Kevin Creel (Inspirage LLC)

2084 - Upgrade Path to R12 with OPM
Josh Whitmer (USANA Health Sciences)

3094 - Planning for Release 12
Alyssa Johnson (Solution Beacon, LLC)

1581 - What's in it for my Agency? R12 Federal Features and Value-Added Benefits of Upgrading.
Larry Baugh (Capital City Technologies)

3095 - Your Company, Your Options, Simplifying the Release 12 Decision
Goetz Schmitz (Solution Beacon, LLC)

1868 - Secrets of Successful Database 11g Upgrades in an E-Business Suite Environment
Michael Brown (Colibri Limited Company)

2835 - Anatomy of a Successful Release 12 Upgrade Based on Field Experience
Deep Ram (Oracle)

1441 - R12 Upgrade from a DBA's Perspective
Thiru Sadagopan (Sierra Atlantic)

320 - Successful Upgrades Start With A Good (Explain) Plan
Patty Charlebois (Green Shield Canada)

1650 - Managing a Successful R12 eBusiness Suite Upgrade: A Repeatable Methodology to Help Ensure Success
Art Dowd (O2Works)

2140 - Data Base Migrations in an E-Business Suite Environment
Joseph Imbimbo (Carnegie Mellon University)

2769 - Lessons Learned Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Release 12: Oracle's Internal Upgrade
Nayyar Siddique (Oracle)

2567 - Transitioning from Account Generators to the R12 Subledger Accounting Engine
Alyssa Johnson (Solution Beacon, LLC)

329 - CSI DBA: Anatomy of a Database Upgrade
Maria Anderson (Petro-Canada)

2571 - Rapid Migrations to Release 11.5.10 and 12.1
Kevin Dahl (Solution Beacon, LLC)

1832 - Success Story: E-Business Release 12 Process Manufacturing Upgrade Success Story
Michael Pearson (Optimum Solutions)

1386 - Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 � Architecture and Tools Overview
Sandra Vucinic (VLAD Group, Inc.)

3027 - Wizarding your Way to Release 12
Brian Bent

1685 - Understanding the use and configuration of Subledger Accounting for Project Related Transactions
Phil Miller (Signet Enterprises)

3044 - High-definition Transformation Software Solutions for E-Business Suite from FlexField and eprentise
Helene Abrams (Flexfield Express)

349 - Migrating to 11g - Step-Ordered Approach
April Sims (Southern Utah University)

2910 - Are you Release 12 bound? An E*Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade Map: Road to a successful implementation.
Aldrin Fernandes (EPCOR)

2794 - Accelerate your Implementation/Upgrade with Oracle UPK, Oracle Tutor and Prebuilt Content
Kathryn Lustenberger (Oracle)

1720 - R12 takes on the Iron Chef, who will be victorious?
Michael Barone (oatc, inc.)

2861 - R12 Best Practices, Diagnostics and Upgrades
Phillip Tate (Oracle)

1197 - What Does it Take to Have a Successfull CRM Implementation - Executive Panel Session
Nimish Shah (IEEE)

3167 - Upgrades Q&A
Joseph Imbimbo (Carnegie Mellon University)

1627 - One Year After Upgrading Our Oracle e-Business Suite from 11.5.9 to R12 - An Update
Kimberly A. Sowers (Rochester Institute of Technology)

1828 - Upgrading from E-Business Discrete Manufacturing 11.5.x to Release 12 : Advantages, Strategy and Execution
Glenn Hoormann

2730 - Tuning All Layers of the Oracle E-Business Suite System to Get Optimum Performance
Isam Alyousfi (Oracle)

1311 - The Twelve Steps to a Release 12 Upgrade
Jeff Vold (HAZELDEN)

2677 - Receivables and Payables Netting in R12 and 11i
Venu Reddy (Glorant)

1694 - Mission Possible: Upgrade to Financials, HRMS, CRM, and Project R12 on 3 Continents in 6 Months
Gustavo Gonzalez Figueroa (IT Convergence (Buenos Aires))

2189 - Oracle Incentive/Sales Compensation - A Journey to Release 12  
Lisa Barthel-Daluge (Creative Consulting Solutions, Inc.)

1836 - Lessons Learned in Upgrading E-Business Suite to Release 12 in a Public Sector Environment.
Mahesh Saraswat (City of Burbank)

2932 - R12 Upgrade Discussion Panel
Chris Warticki (Oracle Corporation)
John Stouffer
Chair, OAUG Upgrade SIG
john.w.stouffer@gmail.com