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4 Glatfelter Insurance Group Finds Fast ROI and Improved Productivity with GL Wand Reporting Tool by Chris Meyer, Director Americas, Excel4apps

6 The Road to Fusion Architecture by Floyd Teter and Michael Rulf, OAUG Fusion Council Co-Chairs

8 Upgrade vs. Implementation: Ten Reasons Why the Game Has Changed by Helene Abrams, CEO, eprentise

10 Top 10 Ways to Make the Most of Your OAUG Membership

12 Seven Years on E-Business Suite: It Is Time to Change by Helene Abrams, CEO, eprentise

14 Thinking Inside the Box Delivers Rapid Project Management Improvements A Case Study by Kimberly McDonald Baker and Robert D. Anderson, CPA, Project Partners LLC

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16 Product Families

18 Services

20 Solution Areas

22 Company Listings

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Glatfelter Insurance Group Finds Fast ROI andImproved Productivity with GL Wand Reporting Tool

by Chris Meyer, Director Americas, Excel4appsExcel4apps is a provider of best-in-class Excel based reporting and budgeting software for Oracle users. Its award

winning GL Wand and Budget Wand products help Oracle financial professionals save time by delivering accurate

and secure information in the familiar Excel environment. More information is available at www.excel4apps.com.

Established more than 50 years ago, Glatfelter Insurance Group (www.glatfelters.com) has grown into a multi-faceted insurance services business that provides both retail and wholesale insurance products to organizations and individuals across the United States. Through its 500 employees and 4,500 independent insurance brokers, the York, Pennsylvania-based company serves specialized entities like municipalities, schools, emergency services and hospice providers.

With ten years experience using Oracle and a system upgrade in progress, Glatfelter formed a senior level team to search for ways to improve productivity and simplify the reporting process. Employees were re-entering Oracle data into Microsoft Excel to create financial reports, and stacks of paper were generated on a monthly basis. The team sought a software solution that could help manage reporting costs while maximizing benefits from the company’s upgraded Oracle system.

Time consuming reports impact employee efficiencyTo generate the numerous detailed reports from Oracle required for its financial analysis process, Glatfelter employees had to re-key seemingly countless pages of data into Excel. For example, as part of its tax preparation process, Glatfelter must create up to ten balance sheets and income statements for each of its many business units. Also, back-up paper files and staff assistance were frequently needed to drill down into the detailed data required by executives.

Because detailed financial reports were generated monthly, Glatfelter’s accounting department wanted a way to directly distribute information to its many recipients without overuse of paper. In addition, financial users wanted more analytical power at their desktops and less reliance on information technology (IT) staff when creating reports.

Staff members also wanted the ability to easily generate attractive reports that allowed linkage of parent and child values for company cost center and account codes, while eliminating fields with no activity. With business growth and an upgrade to Oracle R12 in progress, Glatfelter had an opportunity to provide products designed specifically to meet its functional needs.

GL Wand provided the fastest ROI Glatfelter has everhad on a software investment.

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Selection team chooses GL Wand for faster, more detailed reportsGlatfelter staff members participate in the Oracle Americas Users Group and had seen vendor software tools that were designed specifically for Oracle users. After a product search, vendor interviews and trials of two products, the Glatfelter team selected GL Wand from Excel4apps.

GL Wand is an Excel based Oracle GL reporting tool designed for finance departments using Oracle 11i or R12. Because it is Excel based, users can easily create, edit and publish finance reports without IT assistance and with very little training. Reports are refreshable on demand and preserve all formatting and Excel formulas. Developed exclusively for Oracle Financials, GL Wand is tightly integrated and easy to install and maintain. It follows Oracle security rules, meaning no back door for accessing unpermitted data.

In trialing GL Wand, the Glatfelter selection team was significantly impressed by the ability to click on the parent value in a report and see all child ranges underneath. This function is unique to GL Wand and was a major factor in its selection. The team also appreciated that GL Wand was solely an Oracle product and that support personnel were intimately familiar with all aspects of Oracle.

GL Wand’s user friendliness enabled rapid deployment and adoption of the new tool at Glatfelter. Employees in Finance and IT found the product easy to use with minimal training and a fast installation.

GL Wand saves “countless hours” of data entryOnce Glatfelter created and filled its templates in GL Wand, projects that previously took hours, days or even weeks to compile were accomplished in just minutes or even instantaneously. For example, year-end balance sheets that previously took as many as three weeks can be completed in only ten minutes.

“The product has saved us countless hours of keying data and freed us to focus more on the analysis of the data,” said Jennifer S. Raffensberger, corporate controller for Glatfelter Insurance Group. “This has to be the quickest ROI we’ve had on any software investment.”

In addition, purchasing, payables, general ledger and expense reports are now quickly generated

and delivered electronically. Month-end reports changed from a time consuming two-day process to a ten minute process with a date change inside GL Wand. In addition, ad-hoc analysis is much faster using GL Wand, resulting in a significant time savings from account inquiry to drill down.

“We’ve only been using GL Wand for a few months and have already found it to be the best financial reporting package we have,” Raffensberger described. “The more we use the software, the more applications we find for it.”

The Get Balance function creates a link to the Oracle General Ledgerthat allows rapid report generation.

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The Road to Fusion Architecture

by Floyd Teter and Michael Rulf, OAUG Fusion Council Co-Chairs

As Chair and Co-Chair of the Fusion Council for the Oracle Applications Users Group, we’re frequently asked by Oracle Applications users about how to best prepare for Oracle’s Fusion Architecture. There is significant variety in the background of the users asking this question. Some of these users are E-Business Suite customers; others use PeopleSoft or JD Edwards, while some are on another product under the Applications Unlimited umbrella. Some users plan to upgrade to Fusion Applications, while others want to extend their current applications with Fusion Middleware, and yet others are considering the benefits of the Lifecycle Management products. The permutations of configurations and plans seem endless. Despite the varied situations, our answer always includes four basic elements.

Know What You Have On HandTake the time to understand and inventory your current system configuration. What operating system are you running on each tier? What hardware are you using? How much storage capacity do you have and how quickly are you consuming that capacity? Which applications do you use and what version of each are you running?

Get CurrentIf you’re not patched up to the latest supported versions of your operating system, applications server, applications suite, browser, etc., then get there. It’s important to baseline your system to a supported level before attempting any type of upgrade, modification or wholesale change.

Catalog Your CustomizationsEver notice that most of the hiccups in upgrading any part of a business system configuration are rooted in customizations? We all seem to need them to some degree, but the more we have, the higher the cost of maintaining and upgrading. So what do we do with them? Catalog your customizations, using the following steps as a minimal guideline to reduce the number:

1. List all your customizations (often easier said than done).

2. Record the business reason for each customization and determine if that reason still exists. If not, plan to decommission that customization.

3. Try comparing the customization to “vanilla” functionality in the Oracle Applications you already own. With the all the functionality added in recent updates and releases, you may find similar functionality is available out-of-the-box. If so, plan to decommission that customization.

4. If, after working through steps 1 through 3, you still need the customization, make note of the platform technology for the customization. If your customization is based on “sunsetting” technology, such as Mod PL/SQL, you’ll likely have to consider migrating or redeveloping the customization as part of your plan going forward.

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5. Finalize your catalog by including your plan for each customization. Will it be decommissioned, migrated as is, or redeveloped?

Move to Fusion Architecture In Bite-Sized ChunksOracle’s Fusion Architecture includes a wide array of products and possibilities. While the first release of Fusion Applications is sometime in the future, Fusion Middleware is available today. The Fusion Middleware family includes products such as the SOA Suite for process-based integration, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) for converting data into information, BI Publisher for delivering a single report in multiple ways, Web Center for providing a unified user interface, Lifecycle Management Products like Enterprise Manager and Configuration Support Manager, Applications Development Framework and JDeveloper development tools . . . there is much more than I can cover here. In addition, Oracle is now offering ecosystem products: ways to gain Fusion functionality by integrating without requiring significant upgrading. With all the potential variations, how do you start?

An edict like “we’re moving to Oracle Fusion by the end of the fiscal year” is probably a poor choice. It’s like trying to eat an entire triple-decker chocolate cake in one bite-tempting though all that chocolate may be, the end result won’t be good. The learning curve, the volume of products and choices, and the complexities of making it all work together are too much for most enterprises in a single project. A better approach may be to move toward Fusion Architecture in small increments, letting your business needs determine what gets done first. Try the products out in bite-sized chunks. Consider your business needs and pick a low-risk, quick turnaround project that will provide some value to your organization. Some examples:

• BuildasetofreportsinBIPublisher.• ComeuponEnterpriseManagerwiththeApplicationPacks.• RolloutasetofdashboardswithOBIEE.

Once you’ve gotten a quick win, then wash – rinse – repeat. You can take on bigger projects, such as SOA-based integration or upgrading to Fusion Applications (once they’re generally available) after you’ve built some momentum and critical skill sets.

So there you have it . . . four steps to get you on the road to Oracle Fusion Architecture.

Michael Rulf is the Executive Director - Product Development, AT&T Hosting and Application Services (H&AS).

Floyd M. Teter is the Chair of the OAUG Fusion Council, an Oracle ACE Director and a Systems Engineer for Institutional Business Systems at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Upgrade vs. Implementation:Ten Reasons Why the Game Has Changed

by Helene Abrams, CEO, eprentise

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 11i customers who pair eprentise Transformation software with Oracle’s Upgrade software change the game and redefine the R12 goal. Here are definitions, an Upgrade graphic, and ten reasons to Upgrade.

Definitions:• REIMPLEMENTATION–CustomerimplementationofOracleEBSR12instance,configuredwithprior 11i plus new business setups, coupled with selection, extract, and transformation of 11i data, which is loaded via public interfaces and custom scripts into R12.• UPGRADE–Transformationtoupgradable11iinstancethatreflectscurrentandfuturebusiness,plus standard Oracle upgrade to R12. Potential post-upgrade R12 transformation for objects without an 11i precursor. • EPRENTISESOFTWARE–includesREORGANIZATION,CONSOLIDATION,DATAQUALITYAND FLEXFIELD software products.

• Business process changes• Business structure changes, incl. OUs• COA changes• Clean data, compliant with standards• Shared service centers

• Instance you always wished for, AND it’s upgradable• Use it as long as you want, until you need the value-added R12 features

Upgrade enables R12 Features• Centralized accounting architecture• Global tax engine• New ledger and ledger set architecture• Multi-org access control features• Centralized banking model• Advanced global intercompany system

eprentise Transformation + Oracle UpgradePath from one or more EBS 11i instances toa single global R12 instance

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Ten Reasons to Upgrade:1. Reduced schedule and technical risk. UPGRADE relies on commercial EBS conversion software fromOracleandeprentise,ratherthanREIMPLEMENTATION’Stechnicalanalystsanddata conversion programmers.

2. You can change your Chart of Accounts. UPGRADE uses FLEXFIELD to change one or more COA’s segments and values so you can adopt a single global COA. 3. YoutestnewEBSsetupsinfamiliar11i.UPGRADEusesEPRENTISEREORGANIZATIONtochangeany fundamental EBS setup you have postponed until reimplementation. The setups Oracle says are “not easily changed” include: Legal Entities, Sets Of Books (Ledgers), Operating Units, Key Flexfields, Calendars, Costing Methods, Inventory Organizations, and Asset Categories.

4. Transactiondatawillbechanged,too.UPGRADEusesEPRENTISESOFTWAREtoconvertall11idatato reflectallCOAandfundamentalsetupchanges.

5. Your history matters. UPGRADE uses Oracle Upgrade to convert all 11i data to R12. Business users are happier with all EBS history and current data in a single R12 instance, rather than distributed between legacy and active instances.

6. Avoidcustomdataconversion.WithREIMPLEMENTATION,youareonyourowntoconvertand migrate your 11i data into R12. Unless you load everything, compromises lead to complexity, delays, and continuing expense.

7. True single instance for past and future data. With UPGRADE the result is a single R12 instance, whereaswithREIMPLEMENTATIONyouwillhavetwo:R12plusthelegacy11iinstanceinread-only mode as a reference to history and the prior business structures.

8. Avoid multiple custom conversions and legacy instances. For multi-national organizations with multiple EBS11iinstances,REIMPLEMENTATIONrequiresdatamigrationsfromeachlegacy11iinstanceintothe single R12 instance. You will also retain all legacy 11i read-only instances.

9. Upgrade offers the most direct path and shortest time to single instance R12 business value. The most powerful UPGRADE advantage for multi-nationals is consolidation to a single global instance with standard business processes and all history data prior to the Oracle Upgrade to R12.

10. Upgrades cost less. EBS customers pay for Oracle Upgrade software even if they select REIMPLEMENTATION.Whyleavemoneyonthetableandpayextratodoityourself? If you use EBS 11i, visit www.eprentise.comtolearnhowtouseEPRENTISESOFTWAREtodeployR12faster, better, and cheaper.

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Top 10 Ways to Make the Most of Your OAUG Membership:

1. Share the Wealth: Your OAUG membership allows for an unlimited number of contacts. Make sure everyone on your team has created a membership profile and is taking advantage of all the valuable education, networking and advocacy opportunities the OAUG has to offer.

2. Equip your entire team with knowledge and skills. Tap into a wealth of knowledge and experience via user-driven conferences, specialized boot camps, convenient eLearning presentations, vendor awareness sessions, and more.

3. Attend a local Geo meeting in your area. Come together to network with other users and experts to discuss and share ideas covering many diverse topics. A list of Geo groups and upcoming meetings can be found on the OAUG Web site.

4. Share knowledge. Submit a white paper and speak at one of our conferences. Join the conversations via the OAUG Knowledge Factory, to discuss and share what is going in on in the world of Oracle Applications. Or, share your expertise as a panelist at a Geo or SIG meeting. Whatever your interest, we have an outlet!

5. Volunteer. There are lots of great ways to get involved in the OAUG through different committees, tasks forces and councils. We rely on volunteers to contribute their talents and make the OAUG what it is today!

6. Log In. The OAUG Web site is filled with great tools, tips and techniques, insight from other users, shortcuts to success, how-to guides and much more. Take advantage of this 24/7 access to information.

7. Showcase your company’s products and build your brand. Associate Members can list their company in the OAUG Buyer’s Guide ― the industry’s comprehensive index of proven business tools, revolutionary approaches, emerging ideas and expert-delivered services. Many sponsorship opportunities are available throughout the year! Whatever you choose, it not only offers a great opportunity for exposure, but a way for company reps to network with industry professionals.

8. Put yourself in front of Oracle Leadership. Have a great idea about an Application enhancement, product development or usability? Let us know! With the support and strength of the unified OAUG community, your voice will be heard by Oracle.

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9. Get recognized. If you would like an opportunity to recognize your company or a client, here’s an idea: submit a nomination for one of the OAUG’s yearly awards: Member of the Year and Innovator of the Year. An award is always a great form of acknowledgement for a job well done!

10. Search for talent. Needtofillaposition?PostajobontheOAUGJobBoardtofindgreattalentthatwillfillyour existing needs! It’s also simple for job seekers to post resumes.

With an OAUG membership, you can have all this and more! Join the OAUG’s global community of hands on users, project managers, C level executives, third-party solution providers and subject matter experts who have increased their productivity and maximized their return on their investment in Oracle Applications. For one low cost, you and an unlimited number of your employees can get started today. Question? contact Katie Truex, OAUG Member Services Coordinator, at [email protected] or 404.760.2876. Or visit the OAUG website www.oaug.org/membership.

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Seven Years on E-Business Suite: It Is Time to Change

by Helene Abrams, CEO, eprentise

Cochlear™ has approximately 70% of the world’s market share in the development, manufacture, and marketing of implantable hearing devices that help those who are severely to profoundly hearing impaired. The company employs over 1800 employees in three regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, including more than 200 employees focused on research and development. The company’s products are exported to more than 90 countries, where 1000+ clinics are available to help tens of thousands of those in need. Cochlear has significantly grown in size and geographic scope over the past seven years since implementing Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS).

Cochlear runs EBS 11i financials, sales, service, manufacturing, supply chain, and human resources. With eprentise software they have been able to make necessary changes that are not possible or practical using standard EBS functionality.

Wayne Ceely, Manager of Finance Systems, and FrancisNocom,ApplicationsManager,neededto update Oracle EBS to accommodate growth and global operations, and to support a major 2010 Business Intelligence initiative.

The Finance Department determined that within the Chart Of Accounts (COA) the Balance Sheet accounts had issues due to the company’s rapid growth and geographic expansion. Ceely knew that EBS did not providesetups,tools,orutilitiestochangeaCOA.NocomrealizedthatifFinancechangedtheCOAinGL,anumber of other changes to interfaces and reports would be needed, and the transactions in the subledgers would not align with the new COA.

NocomlearnedthatFlexFieldsoftwarecanchangetheCOAinOracleE-BusinessSuite.Helikedseveralaspects of the software:

• TheFinanceDepartmentcoulduseFlexFieldtomaptheoldCOAvaluestothenew,validatethe changes, and execute multiple test cycles using FlexField’s workbench-like interface. They would require minimal IT technical support.• ThatwouldfreeupITforimpactanalysisandanypost-COA-changeadjustmentstothereports or interfaces.• SinceFlexFieldchangeseverythingintheEBSwhereoldCOAvaluesareused,everythingbalances.• AfterrunningFlexField,itwouldlooklikethenewCOAvalueshadbeenusedsincethe initial implementation.• FlexFieldmakesallthechangesefficiently,andafterthedataconversion,therewouldbenoadd-on software or translation tables in the EBS environment.

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Ceely arranged discussions with FlexField customers. The Finance team became comfortable that they could indeed change the COA and better accommodate the growth and company globalization.

Linda Shepherd, Global Cost & Inventory Manager, had a more pressing financial problem to solve for Cochlear. There was no consistency in the way inventory valuation accounts were applied across regions and sometimes even within an inventory organization. At times the same account was used for all the costing accounts (material handling, overhead processing, material overhead, outside processing, and expense) and at other times that same account was used only for one of the costs. Shepherd planned to standardize global use of the valuation accounts and correct the prior inconsistencies.

Oracle states on Metalink that it is not possible to alter a sub inventory account that contains stock. Shepherd’s organization would have had to remove reserved items from sales orders and manufacturing jobs, then from the sub inventory, change the sub inventory account, and then reverse the process. Other considerations contributed to her decision to look for a different solution:

• Theregionsreliedoninventoryag»»ingreportstomanageolderitems,butthevaluationaccount change procedure would erase the aging data.• Changeswouldhavetobecoordinatedacrossregions,withanumberofpeopleinvolvedovera significant time. It would be a big effort.• Mistakescould“impactourabilitytosupplycustomerswhenrequired.”

She asked if FlexField could help her correct the sub inventory valuations, but it only changes the COA in EBS. However, the eprentise Reorganization software was able to make the changes Shepherd required. Using eprentise, Cochlear made the account changes at one time, updated the costing batches in the General Ledger, and made the changes everywhere in the EBS database. All the

balancestiedout,agingdatawasunaffected,andtheentireprocesswascompletedinjustafewweeks.Nocomcoordinated both projects without re-implementing Oracle or draining IT’s resources:

• Adoptglobalsubinventoryvaluationstandardsforconsistentinventorymanagementwithoutdisrupting customer sales orders.• ChangetheCOAtobettersupportgrowth,globaloperations,andtheBIproject.

Ceely said “Enterprises now have a lot more options to fine tune E-Business Suite.”

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Thinking Inside the Box Delivers RapidProject Management ImprovementsA Case Study

by Kimberly McDonald Baker and Robert D. Anderson, CPA, Project Partners LLC

Today’s RealityIn today’s increasingly competitive market, project-centric firms need more visibility into work execution while C-level executives are pressuring IT teams to deliver expanded capabilities at a reduced price point and faster. The need for operational improvement is stronger than ever, but delivering that on an ever-tightening budget is a challenge. Justify the InvestmentSeveral independent studies clearly indicate improved Project Portfolio Management (PPM) practices directly result in improved financial performance. Project-intensive organizations are hard pressed to find a better area in which to invest limited resources. On the Project Partners website you will find the whitepapers and presentations used by our customers to justify further investment in their PPM environment. With the business case clearly made, the focus turns to obtaining the best return on the limited funds available.

Look Inside the Box Several of our customers asked us to “think inside the box” or in this case, inside their company, to determine how to use what they already had to address the challenges they face. You can follow the same approach we took.

Using Oracle Applications and Oracle Projects to capture transaction information, they also had the most widely used tool among project teams: Microsoft® Excel. What they didn’t have was a way to leverage these existing tools in a more meaningful way. Project Partners provided the shortcut to success.

Identify the SolutionThe Oracle Project Management module uses existing transaction information, combining a forward looking perspective with historical cost and billing data. It was easy to make a business case to implement Oracle Project Management (PJT) to improve our customers’ project management maturity levels and deliver the competitive advantages that improvement offers.

PJT allows Project Managers (PMs) to manage all their project information from one place; however, its HTML user interface usually requires a significant investment in training before users feel comfortable with it. The HTML based interface also requires a connection to the office to access the project data, and PMs frequently travel to client sites in order to perform their jobs.

Project personnel use Microsoft Excel as their primary tool for maintaining project data, ranging across work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, status reports, forecasts, issues and change orders. They prefer to see their reporting data in spreadsheets, allowing them to perform any type of analysis they desire. Having access to project data “on the go” in a disconnected mode meets the needs of end users working at client sites. So our customers use Project Partners User Interface Applications (UI-Apps) to pull Oracle data into Excel, working in either connected or disconnected mode.

Instead of using 20 Oracle HTML screens, our customers use a single Excel worksheet, while retaining the same functionality as working on line with Oracle Project Management.

• AnEngineeringandConstructionorganizationthatusesUI-AppswasabletodeployOracleProject Management functions to their 900 project managers using just four hours of training.• AProfessionalServicesorganizationenabledtheirmobileprojectmanagerstoreviewandupdate periodic revenue forecasts in 1/6th the time their experienced Oracle Project Management Users took using purely HTML access. • AnotherglobalconsultingfirmseesinvaluablebenefitofUI-Appsdisconnectedmodeofworkingfor their remote users who do not have reliable Internet Access for long periods of connectivity. This allows the PMs to concentrate on their primary job while knowing they have the information they need on their laptops without waiting for a connection to their office intranet.

Quick DeliveryOur customers decided the least expensive approach was to have skilled guides quickly deliver their solution. Project Partners offers a fixed price accelerated implementation of Oracle Project Management and Project Partners User Interface Applications that will get you started using planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities in seven weeks, at a very attractive price.

The solution outlined above minimizes training and deployment costs and quickly delivers many major productivity improvements within a neatly packaged box.

About Project PartnersProject Partners, LLC provides expert Project Portfolio Management services and software that extend Oracle and Primavera applications to meet the needs of project-driven firms. An Oracle Certified Partner,

Primavera Technology Partner, Microsoft Partner and @Task Gold Partner, Project Partners has executed global implementations for clients who manage tens of thousands of projects, thousands of users, multiple languages and currencies. More information about Project Partners can be found at www.ProjectP.com.

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170 SystemsSales Contact: Kevin Ostrander36 Crosby Drive Bedford, MA 01730 [email protected]

170 Systems, an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner, provides complete proven solutions for AP process automation, including the 170 MarkView Financial Suite; 170 MarkView Advisor, a real-time AP visibility and performance management application and SupplierExpress, a self-service AP portal.

AquireSales Contact: Marc Ramos5215NorthO’ConnorBlvd.|Suite300Irving, Texas 75039 [email protected]

Selected by more than 2,700 customers across the globe, the OrgPublisher solutions suite provides functionality that rapidly enables users to chart, view, model and analyze organizational hierarchies and human capital information contained within Oracle®, PeopleSoft® and JD Edwards®

Bottomline TechnologiesSales Contact: Rick Bell325 Corporate Drive Portsmouth,[email protected]

Bottomline Technologies provides collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions to corporations and financial institutions around the world. Our solutions are used to streamline and manage processes involving payments, global cash management, transactional documents and invoice approval. Headquartered in the United States, Bottomline also maintains offices in Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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Colibri Limited CompanySales Contact: Jimmy Jones419ECrossvilleRd|Suite102Roswell, GA 30173 [email protected] ext 106www.colibrilimited.com

We assist clients in fully leveraging Oracle Applications functionality and improving their Database operations. We specialize in managing and delivering Oracle e-Business Suite solutions as well as remote and on-site DBA and development services. Our consultants average 12 years of Oracle and 17 years of industry experience. We provide seasoned resources with skills in Program and Project Management; Application Implementation; Process Improvement; Application and Database Upgrades, Training, Managed Services and Hosting; Database Recovery and Tuning; and Regulatory Compliance.

eprentiseSales Contact: Helene Abrams8815ConroyWindermereRd.|Suite302Orlando, FL 32835 USA [email protected]

eprentise provides Transformation Software for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). eprentise software generates all the code to perform instance consolidations or reorganizations, merge inventories or ledgers, move legal entities, and change calendars. eprentise has helped EBS customers increasedatavisibility, increasedataquality,andavoid re-implementing.Thecompany’sflagshipproduct,FlexField®, changes the segments, values, or code combinations in an EBS Chart of Accounts without re-implementation or manual conversions.

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Excel4appsSales Contact: Scott Stollwerk8384SixForksRoad|Suite201RaleighNC,[email protected]

Excel4apps is a provider of best-in-class Excel based reporting and budgeting software for Oracle users. Its award winning GL Wand and Budget Wand products help Oracle financial professionals save time by delivering accurate and secure information in the familiar Excel environment. All products are available for immediate download and free trial, installing in minutes with no data warehouse and no additional hardware, setup or security configuration needed. Excel4apps maintains offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, UAE and South Africa.

FLEXform SoftwareSales Contact: Randy Safier2610 Bond StreetRochester Hills, Michigan 48309 [email protected]

FLEXform is a document generation solution that works directly with applications. FLEXform is easy-to-use, produces laser or electronic documents and includes tools to cut costs by recruiting document recipients to go paperless and software to develop/maintain your own document formats.

FulcrumWaySales Contact: Jane Jones15950NorthDallasParkway|Suite400Dallas, TX 75248 [email protected] (3852786)www.fulcrumway.com

FulcrumWay is a leading global provider of Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions that help organizations rapidly assess enterprise risks, reliably execute business processes and easily monitor internal controls. FulcrumWay’s proven risk and controls management expertise and software services enable companies to leverage investments in information technology and turn GRC challenges into improved performance. FulcrumWay is a CertifiedOracle Systems Integrator andmember of theOracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)http://solutions.oracle.com/partners/fulcrumway.

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KBACE Technologies, Inc.Sales Contact: Keith Burr6 Trafalgar Square Nashua,[email protected]

KBACE has five lines of business dedicated to Oracle EBS: Professional Services, Advanced Technology, Education, Support Services, and Analytics. Representing some of Oracle’s best success stories, KBACE utilizes its professional talent to provide clients with value that makes a difference.

Loftware, Inc.Sales Contact: [email protected] Corporate Drive Portsmouth,[email protected]

Loftware is the foremost authority and market software leader in delivering innovative business solutions for meeting a company’s global labeling requirements. Loftware’s enterprise output label and print management software suite enables organizations running Oracle® and other major ERP, supply chain and warehouse management applications to quickly develop and deploy complex barcode label and RFID smart label tags. Loftware offers a full range of direct consultative and implementation services.

Margaret Coleman ConsultingSales Contact: Maggie ColemanPO Box 620238 Woodside, CA 94062 [email protected]

We have specialized in implementation and upgrade of Oracle E-Business Suite applications since 1989. We are experts in Manufacturing, Order Management, Shipping, Supply Chain Planning including APS, Purchasing, and Warehouse Management. We offer a broad range of services including full long term implementations, project planning and management, training, user requirements definition, organization architecture design and setup, phone support, design of reports, customizations, interfaces and conversion processes, testing support, and short-term expert consulting on design problems.

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Mercury Technology GroupSales Contact: Brian Day111PacificaAvenue|Suite100Irvine, CA 92618 [email protected] x300www.mercurytechnology.com

Oracle E-Business Suite hosting solutions that minimize cost (up to 50% less than OOD), maximize QOS (performance, reliability), and give you piece of mind (SAS70, DR). MTG frees you to focus on improving your business instead of maintaining your systems.

More4AppsSales Contact: Sarah Conzemius11400W.OlympicBlvd.|Suite200Los Angeles, CA 90064 [email protected]

Our product suite is a range of MS Excel-based products that help you load data into Oracle Applications more quickly and accurately, enabling you to slash data entry costs, improve the accuracy and currency of reporting information. More4Apps are experienced Oracle professionals, and our tools have been designed and developed with input from our customers.

Noetix CorporationSales Contact: [email protected]|Suite100Redmond, WA 98052 [email protected](663849)or425.372.2699www.noetix.com

Noetix provides software for instant operational and ad hoc reporting from Oracle E-Business Suite,PeopleSoft Enterprise, and Siebel CRM. Our patented, metadata-driven technology and lean architecture deliver immediate access to data, resulting in the lowest-cost BI solution to acquire, implement, and maintain. Noetixusesaward-winningsoftwaretoquicklyeliminatethecostly,manualmappingrequiredtosetupanenterprisereportingenvironment.Morethan1,400customersworldwideuseNoetixeverydaytorapidlygainbusiness intelligence insight into their organizations.

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OneNeck IT ServicesSales Contact: Joseph Hanna5301NPimaRd|Suite100Scottsdale,[email protected]

OneNeck IT Services is a premierOracle hosting andmanaged servicesprovider.As anOracleCertifiedPartner,OneNeckprovidesacompletesuiteofOracleoutsourcingservicesincludingapplication,databaseand infrastructure management, coupled with 24/7 functional and technical support.

Perceptive Software, Inc.Sales Contact: Drew Gresco22701 West 68th TerraceShawnee, Kansas 66226 [email protected]

Perceptive Software is helping organizations worldwide make an immediate impact on productivity and the bottom line with its enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. Easily integrate Perceptive Software ECM with your existing Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World applications to fuel operational efficiency. With Perceptive Software’s innovative technology, you can capture, manage and store important business content, access precise information when needed, and preserve its integrity throughout the business lifecycle.

Project Partners LLCSales Contact: Michael Zwain520 Purissima StreetHalf Moon Bay, CA 94019 [email protected]

Project Partners provides expert Enterprise Project Portfolio Management services and software products that extend Oracle and Primavera applications to meet the needs of project-driven firms. An Oracle Certified Partner, Project Partners has executed global PPM projects for over 300 firms.

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ReadSoftSales Contact: Jeff Johnston3838N.CausewayBlvd.|Suite2400Metairie, LA 70002 USA [email protected] (73237638)www.readsoft.com

Boost Oracle E-Business Suite’s performance with better visibility of accounts payable processes and li-abilities, tighter controls, faster cycle time and substantial efficiency gains with ReadSoft’s data capture and Oracle-certifiedworkflowsolutionsforapprovalsanddiscrepancyresolution.

Rolta TUSCSales Contact: Barry Wiebe377EButterfieldRd|Suite100Lombard, IL 60148 [email protected] (8872)www.tusc.com

An Oracle Certified Advantage partner, Rolta TUSC provides expert functional and technical solutions in the areas of Oracle E-Business Suite Consulting, Enterprise Performance Management, Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing, Oracle and Open Systems Development (includes Fusion Middleware), Oracle DBA, Database, and Infrastructure Services, Managed Services for Remote DBA and E-Business Suite Support, Managed Hosting, Oracle Software Licensing, and Oracle Training & Mentoring.

Senryo TechnologiesSales Contact: Philip Phistry1300Iroquois|Suite155Naperville,[email protected]

Senryo is a full service Information Technology Solutions Company serving small, medium and Fortune 500 companies with special focus on Public Sector organizations. We provide business and technology strategy, systems design, applications implementation, systems integration and project management services. Our capabilities include end to end implementation of IT projects, Database Services and Support, Business Intelligence and Governance Risk and Compliance services. We provide several cost-cutting measures to save companies in their Information Technology and data management needs.

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Sierra AtlanticSales Contact: Rebecca McCormick6522 Kaiser Drive Fremont, CA 94555 USArebecca.mccormick@sierraatlantic.com510.742.4100www.sierraatlantic.com

Sierra Atlantic has had a long-standing relationship with Oracle since 1991 as a co-development partner. This extensive R&D relationship offers Sierra Atlantic a unique insight to deliver our broad level of Oracle services. Sierra Atlantic has the largest number of outsourced Oracle implementations, with projects and service engagements in over 40 countries.

SmartDog ServicesSales Contact: Bob Specchio7004 Bee Cave RdBuilding3|Suite100Austin, Texas 78746 USArspecchio@smartdogservices.com512.628.0044www.smartdogservices.com

SmartDog Services is the first on command services, support, and consulting company totally dedicated to customers who run the Oracle Technical Stack and core eBusiness Suite modules. Our unique business model provides our customers with access to the entire SmartDog Team and our broad range of Oracle experts who specialize in helping customers maximize their investment in Oracle.

Teradata CorporationSales Contact: Melonie Johns2835 Miami Village DriveMiamisburg, OH 45342 [email protected]

Teradata is an Oracle Certified Partner focused on OBI and ODI, and a leader in enterprise data warehousing. The combination of OBIEE Plus, OBI Applications, Essbase, and ODI with the EDW helps companies make better, faster decisions that drive growth.

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Unitask SoftwareSales Contact: Dale Royal11427 Reed Hartman Highway Cincinnati, OH 45241 [email protected](864.8275)www.unitask.com

Unitask is committed to helping organizations implement, manage and run their Oracle E-Business Suite. Unitask creates, sells and supports software products for print and migration management based on experience gained from over a decade of Oracle E-Business Suite implementation projects.

Vertex, Inc.Sales Contact: Dave Homiak1061 Old Cassatt Road Berwyn, PA 19312 [email protected]

As the leading provider of corporate enterprise tax solutions, Vertex offers innovative products and services to help companies worldwide streamline their tax compliance processes. With Vertex, you have a trusted partner for discovering new strategic tax savings across every major line of business tax including income, sales, consumer use, value added, communications, and payroll. To learn more visit Vertex at VertexInc.com

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