Stratecast 2012 Survey of OSS/BSS Challenges in Asia Pacific

Join us for an exclusive event to learn how Oracle’s best-in-class supply chain planning solutions enable companies to improve supply chain efficiency, streamline and optimise maintenance operations by proactively managing supply chain events.

Don’t miss this chance to learn how you can:

• Improve predictability of unplanned maintenance
• Proactively plan for supply chain events
• Optimise maintenance planning process
• Orchestrate agile operations
• Reducing overall cost of asset maintenance operations

Register now to find out how you can improve supply chain efficiency in asset maintenance operations with Oracle supply chain planning solutions.

Doug Turner, CEO of Mantis Technology Group, talks about how his team built Pulse Analytics, a sentiment analysis solution using text analytics tool running on SAP HANA One. Hear how his team strengthened the capabilities of this solution while simplifying their data architecture by replacing 20 servers with only 1 SAP HANA One instance.

Doug Turner, CEO of Mantis Technology Group, talks about how his team built Pulse Analytics, a sentiment analysis solution using text analytics tool running on SAP HANA One. Hear how his team strengthened the capabilities of this solution while simplifying their data architecture by replacing 20 servers with only 1 SAP HANA One instance.

After implementing RFID, Macy’s has reduced its inventory accuracy deterioration to 3%-5% from 30%. American Apparel has cut the time it take associates to count items on the sales floor to 2 hours from 6 hours. “This is technology that has proven effective in our testing, and we believe now is the right time to roll out RFID aggressively," said Tom Cole, Chief Administrative Officer of Macy's, Inc. In this session, industry experts will discuss the fact that 2013 could be the year of the perfect storm of RFID implementations: technology costs have dropped significantly; and more companies are proving that RFID creates inventory efficiencies, improves loss prevention and saves money.

Big data has the potential to provide an incredible amount of insight into your business, infrastructure and customer behavior. But the issue is: how do you convince your CIO/CFO to fund a big data project? Are you sure it's worth the hype? What strategies should you employ to speak to your executives?

Join this panel of experts as they discuss all of these issues and more to convince your executive a big data project is worth the hype.

Big data has the potential to provide an incredible amount of insight into your business, infrastructure and customer behavior. But the issue is: how do you convince your CIO/CFO to fund a big data project? Are you sure it's worth the hype? What strategies should you employ to speak to your executives?

Join this panel of experts as they discuss all of these issues and more to convince your executive a big data project is worth the hype.

Join us on May 22 for a complimentary webcast on how Oracle Exalogic is the simple way to deploy and upgrade your business applications. Oracle Exalogic is hardware and software engineered together to provide extreme performance, reliability and scalability for your critical applications. Hyundai Motor Company saves more than US$1 Million per year with Exalogic and related Oracle products.

During this webcast you will hear how Oracle customers have used Exalogic to:

• Seize new market opportunities
• Lower business risk
• Reduce the cost of application deployments

“We chose Oracle Exalogic, Oracle Exadata, Oracle WebLogic Server, and Oracle WebCenter Content over their competitors as Oracle offers stable storage for petabytes of data and high processing speeds. We have cut the time spent each day on document-related work by around 85% and saved up to US$1.1 million in printing costs.” Kang Tae-jin, Manager, General Affairs Team

If you would like to contact Tom Smith directly for more information, his email address is tom.a.smith@oracle.com

In today’s digital world, it seems that the connected consumer wields all the power. But retailers hold the power of data — social,
local, mobile, POS, CRM. It all adds up to actionable insight. In this session led by Simon Thompson, Director, Commercial Solutions at Esri, find out how to make sense of it all, by:
· Leveraging your data to shift the balance of power;
· Creating a meaning context for big data;
· Extracting the value of your social, location-based, and mobile data; and
. Implementing a system that adds value to your organization.

We have the data, but do we know how to use it? This is a question on the minds of many retail executives, across business units, as they are inundated with an increasing volume of data from a variety of traditional and new channels. By effectively collecting, analyzing and distributing key customer information to members of the marketing, merchandising and store operations teams, retail companies can find new ways to entice new customers, delight current shoppers and create long-term loyalty. In this session, hear from industry experts who will share tips on how to create priorities and move forward with winning analytics strategies.

What would happen if CMOs had more budget for technology than CIOs? Join Malcolm Friedberg, the CEO at Left Brain DGA, as he discusses the choices facing marketing technology purchasers.