While the official Oracle OpenWorld sessions start on a Monday, the Sunday prior is dedicated to user group sessions. Usually people arrive on Sunday and the sessions are in the afternoon. But this year the Oracle Primavera SIG was at 9am - and that was not even the earliest session!
After OPSIG I did not have anything specific planned, so attended a few of the talks on the roster.
The first one was about - Trek Bicycles! A subject dear to me as I certainly wished I had been out riding my Trek on this lovely fall Sunday. It was quite interesting, given by Bryan Turner of Trek, and Viral Doshi of KPIT. Trek recently set up sensors at their plant in Wisconsin to track their supply of decals. The decals go under the outer coating of clear paint on a bike, and are specially ordered from suppliers as needed. If they don't have the decals, they can't finish their bikes - which is bad for the bottom line. And since the decals and suppliers were known quantities, this was an excellent situation to try out using sensors to automatically re-order the decals when needed. This system is simply a set of sensors which measure the height of the stacks of decals in inventory. When inventory gets low, the sensor communicates to JD Edwards, which then generates and sends out a Purchase Order. Pretty simple, but a great way to save time at Trek and ensure that they don't have to halt a bike shipment due to decal shortage.
It also turns out that Trek was involved in the B-Cycle project in Denver/Boulder! Another project dear to my heart.
The next talk was from Jon Wakefield of Velocity, a consulting company based on North Carolina. They are specialists in Peopleoft, Fusion HCM, and Taleo. Taleo is yet another company acquired by Oracle, back in 2012. It is a product for recruiting and managing talent. But the goals of the project are something I am very familiar with - integrating data between different systems. The project for Velocity actually involved more than just integration, it started with helping the client migrate from PeopleSoft to Fusion HCM, no small task by itself. Once the migration was done, Velocity set up systems for extracting data and importing data using a combination of batch scripts, file transfers, and imports. We also learned about the HCM Data Loader, and other technologies that help with migrating and integrating data with Fusion HCM.
San Francisco, CA
Oct 2015
The sessions started at 8am and continued to 4:30. There were about 20 to 25 sessions going on at any given hour, for 8 hours. That's a lot of people and a lot of info! So what are all of these talks?
A SIG is a Special Interest Group, organized by OAUG, IOUG, and Quest. There are many such groups, dedicated to many interests. There are ones about technology such as BI Piblisher and Fusion Middleware. There are regional ones such as Latin America and Central States. There are sector specific ones such as Higher Education and Cost Management. And of course application specific like Primavera.
The OPSIG meeting was run by John Hartman of CH2M Hill. At that meeting I learned that P6 Analytics is being renamed to Primavera Analytics, in anticipation that future versions will provide analysis of more than just P6, such as Unifier and Instantis. We also learned about the activities of the SIG, most importantly that the deadline for Collaborate 16 abstracts is less than two weeks away!
After OPSIG I did not have anything specific planned, so attended a few of the talks on the roster.
The first one was about - Trek Bicycles! A subject dear to me as I certainly wished I had been out riding my Trek on this lovely fall Sunday. It was quite interesting, given by Bryan Turner of Trek, and Viral Doshi of KPIT. Trek recently set up sensors at their plant in Wisconsin to track their supply of decals. The decals go under the outer coating of clear paint on a bike, and are specially ordered from suppliers as needed. If they don't have the decals, they can't finish their bikes - which is bad for the bottom line. And since the decals and suppliers were known quantities, this was an excellent situation to try out using sensors to automatically re-order the decals when needed. This system is simply a set of sensors which measure the height of the stacks of decals in inventory. When inventory gets low, the sensor communicates to JD Edwards, which then generates and sends out a Purchase Order. Pretty simple, but a great way to save time at Trek and ensure that they don't have to halt a bike shipment due to decal shortage.
It also turns out that Trek was involved in the B-Cycle project in Denver/Boulder! Another project dear to my heart.
The next talk was from Jon Wakefield of Velocity, a consulting company based on North Carolina. They are specialists in Peopleoft, Fusion HCM, and Taleo. Taleo is yet another company acquired by Oracle, back in 2012. It is a product for recruiting and managing talent. But the goals of the project are something I am very familiar with - integrating data between different systems. The project for Velocity actually involved more than just integration, it started with helping the client migrate from PeopleSoft to Fusion HCM, no small task by itself. Once the migration was done, Velocity set up systems for extracting data and importing data using a combination of batch scripts, file transfers, and imports. We also learned about the HCM Data Loader, and other technologies that help with migrating and integrating data with Fusion HCM.
The last session I attended was Integration in the Cloud, by S&P, a company based in Mexico City. This also was a talk about integrating Taleo, but this time with PeopeSoft. The speakers, Arturo Viveros and Rolando Carraso, are Oracle ACE's in the integration space, and heavily involved in the Latin American user community. They also have a blog called SoaMythBusters, which discusses the happenings around Oracle's various integration technologies. One of the most interesting things I learned about at this talk was the existence of Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS). This is a hosted service which can be used to integrate your data between cloud-cloud systems, or a mix of cloud and on-premise systems. This is a very important part of Oracle's overall strategy of not just selling licenses anymore, but of being a provider of cloud services. If you look at their pricing these days, the cloud license costs are comparatively cheaper than their on-site licenses. But traditionally, cloud-hosted solutions can be difficult to integrate. I have much more to learn about ICS, and am looking forward to doing so during the rest of OpenWorld 2015.
San Francisco, CA
Oct 2015
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