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Primavera P6 Analytics is a new product offering from Oracle which utilizes the Oracle BI product, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE Plus), to provide root-cause analysis, manage by exception and early-warning problem indicators from your P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management projects and portfolios. Out of the box reports and dashboards provide drill-down and drill-through insight to action where you can jump directly into the problem areas in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management to course-correct or implement best practices based on successful project implementations. A complete view into all of your projects histories provides the trends and analysis needed to identify the best course of action to take next.

Uncertainty sets the tone of business planning these days and past precedents, 'rules of thumb' and trading history provide little comfort when assessing future prospects. After 18 years of constant growth in GDP, planning is no longer about extrapolating past performance and adjusting for growth. It is now about constantly testing the temperature of the water, formulating scenarios, assessing risk and assigning probabilities. So how does one plan for recovery and improve forecast accuracy in such a volatile environment?

In this podcast, you'll hear from Lexy Martin, the director of Research and Analytics for CedarCrestone, and the author of a recent, in-depth Oracle white paper on HR Analytics, as she talks about current trends in HR and how firms are using analytics to gain insights on their HR operations and performance.

Coming out of the recession, many organizations need to build or re-build trust with key stakeholders by delivering more timely and accurate financial and operating results. In this podcast, hear about new capabilities Oracle is delivering through its Enterprise Performance Management products to help organizations coordinate and improve the extended financial close and reporting process, from closing the sub-ledgers to regulatory filings.

There is no one-size fits all way to effectively tap a firm's intellectual capital. Companies must focus on how knowledge on the core processes and activities that enable it to compete is captured, used, and disseminated to build critical capabilities they need in order to succeed. Learn how organizations can master this challenge with Oracle User Productivity Kit and also hear what's new in Oracle UPK 3.6.1 and Oracle UPK Professional 6.3.

Organizations can master the challenges of documenting business processes and capturing organizational knowledge with Oracle Tutor. They can also solve the documentation challenges they face during an implementation/upgrade and satisfy business process regulatory compliance initiatives. Oracle Tutor can help project teams lay the foundation for a successful application rollout or compliance audit by quickly and consistently creating and sustaining employee process documentation throughout the business lifecycle.

Understanding profitability and cost is fundamental to improving performance. Learn how Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management drives business performance by discovering the drivers of cost and profitability, empowers users with visibility and flexibility, and improves resource alignment.

Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.1 is one of the most robust and comprehensive releases in PeopleSoft's history. It includes 21 new solutions, 1,350 new features, more than 28,000 pages enhanced with Web 2.0 capabilities, 300 new Web services and 200 industry-specific enhancements. Specifically, the new enhancements in PeopleSoft Financials 9.1 helps organizations achieve world-class finance processes by dramatically improving the period close, maximizing cash and reducing liabilities, and further automating compliance and financial control.

Financial reporting requirements for publicly-held companies are changing and getting more complex. With the upcoming convergence of US GAAP and IFRS, demand for more detailed non-financial disclosures, and the SEC mandate for XBRL financial executives are under pressure to ensure they have the right systems in place to support current and future reporting requirements. Tune into this conversation with Rich Clayton, VP of Enterprise Performance Management and BI products for Oracle, and Annette Melatti, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Financial Applications to learn about the latest market requirements, what capabilities are provided by Oracle's General Ledgers, and how customers can extend their investment in Oracle General Ledger solutions with Oracle's market-leading financial close and reporting products.

Overview of the Business Intelligence suite of products. Part 2 of a 2 part series.

Overview of the Business Intelligence suite of products. Part 1 of a 2 part series.

Sandra Vucinic, president and founder of the VLAD Group, Inc. discusses the tasks and steps customers can complete today in order to get ready and better prepare the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i environment for a Release 12 upgrade, to save time, reduce cost, decrease the resources needed and risk. Sandra has over seventeen years of experience with Oracle database administration specifically supporting Oracle Applications environments including installation, implementations, administration, maintenance, upgrades and remote support.

Project teams are faced with tight deadlines for enterprise application implementations or upgrades. Learn how organizations can reduce their time to deployment by using pre-built content for Oracle User Productivity Kit. When organizations use this content for baseline system transaction flows early in a project, they can then simply modify and update the content as the application evolves to create user acceptance test scripts, transaction recordings, job aids, classroom training, online training, and support materials post-go-live. The value of pre-built content dramatically reduces time to deployment and overall implementation costs.

Historically, the market has viewed Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) as separate processes and solutions. But these two worlds are coming together - in fact industry analyst firms such as Gartner believe that risk management will be part of every EPM discussion. Tune into this conversation with John O'Rourke, VP of Product Marketing for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Solutions, and Karen dela Torre, Vice President of Product Marketing for Oracle ERP Applications to learn how EPM and GRC are converging, what the integration points are, and what Oracle is doing to help customers perform more effective risk and performance management.

Learn how Vertis Communications uses the Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System for planning and forecasting across 7 different divisions and how they consolidate this information and make available for financial reporting and analysis in just a few days.