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PLUGGED IN NEWSLETTER APAC Edition February 2009

NEWS Gavin Parish's Blog: Beehive 1.4.3 Released Gavin is on the Oracle Consulting ERP Team. Get his inside take on the latest versions of Beehive Server and Beekeeper. Watch an introduction to Oracle Beehive Hot Book for 2009: Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0 The application of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise provides enormous opportunities for improving business decisions and cutting costs. Whether your approach is revolutionary or evolutionary, the new book Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0 should be on your reading list for 2009. More... Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16 Launched Drive unparalleled sales, marketing, and service success with Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16. The newest release of Oracle’s software-as-a-service CRM solution includes deeper core CRM capabilities, increased industry-specific functionality, enhanced customization and extensibility, and new ease-of-use features and language support. Organizations gain rapid time to value with an industry-leading SaaS CRM solution that meets their specific business requirements and ensures the highest levels of user adoption, resulting in measurable increases in business effectiveness. The release also includes eight new languages, for a total of 18, a move that will appeal to multinational companies. New additions are Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Thai and traditional Chinese. A number of additional on-demand CRM products will soon be available. They include offerings for self-service e-billing and price management, as well as an integration between Oracle CRM On Demand and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16 Data Sheet (PDF) Press Release View Webcast Replay Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16 Executive Briefing With Anthony Lye – India Only To register, please email oracle-crmod@mail.dnb.co.in, mentioning your full name, designation, company name, address, and contact numbers, or call us at 011 4160 8904. 16 March Bangalore Taj Residency 17 March Bangalore Intercontinental Eros 18 March Bangalore Hyatt Regency 19 March Bangalore Le Royal Meridien APAC CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES Health Bureau of Hebei Province Establishes Unified Medical and Healthcare Datacenter Birlasoft Gains Enterprisewide Insight with On-Demand CRM System Pou Chen Group Streamlines the Consolidation of Financial Data from 100 Subsidiaries Korea Housing Guarantee Company Limited Gains New Efficiency with Enterprise Portal Winstar Streamlines Product Development Processes and Improves Customer Satisfaction Indosat Meets SOX Compliance with Integrated Identity Management System Oriental Insurance Company Cuts Report Production Time by 30 Days With Integrated System BLOGOSPHERE Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer School's Out Legacy Judson Althoff, Group VP of Worldwide Alliances and Channels Momentum and Progress Investing During Tough Times Frank Buytendijk, VP of EPM Strategy James Bond Gadget Needed! Enterprise 2.0 Oracle Is #1 in Business Analytics... David Chappell, VP and Chief Technologist for SOA SOA ROI: Case Studies Across Industries SOA Still Alive and Well… Read all Oracle executive blogs. NEW PODCASTS Go Green with Oracle Document Management (8 min.) Siebel 8.1.1 for Communication (10 min.) See all Oracle podcasts. WEBCASTS AND SEMINARS "Survive or Thrive": New Webinar Series on Real-World Benefits of Oracle Content Management Oracle has launched a new series of Webinars that explores the ways real-world customers are using Oracle Content Management to achieve the kind of cost cutting and rapid return on investment critical in the current economic climate. More... Enforce Strong Internal Database Controls, Warns Forrester Research Controlling access to sensitive data is not only sound business practice, it's the law. Regulations such as PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and many others all require enterprises to implement preventive controls to protect data privacy and integrity. Forrester Research analyst Jonathan Penn explains the importance of implementing strong internal database controls, such as Oracle Database Vault, to enforce separation of duties and prevent unauthorized access to data by any user – including database administrators. More... USER GROUPS/EVENTS Largest Oracle Applications User Group Event Attention All Oracle Applications Users Register Now For Insync09 EARLY BIRD registrations save $200. InSync09 is the first combined user group conference in AustraliaFeaturing content for JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Fusion Middleware, and introducing a Fusion Readiness Track. 20, 21 April, 2009 at the Sydney Hilton Call for Papers Open. Visit Quest ANZ At Insync09 – Bringing Together Quest ANZ And AUSOUG/OAUG In One Oracle User Group Conference Join Quest ANZ at the Hilton Hotel Sydney, April 20 - 21, 2009 and benefit from the most comprehensive Oracle applications agenda outside the US. This conference will be bigger and better than previous Quest ANZ events, join like minded peers and share ideas, innovation and solutions. Highlighted streams include JDE EnterpriseOne JDE World HCM – E–Business Suite, PeopleSoft Financials – E–Business Suite, PeopleSoft Fusion Middleware Hyperion – Business Intelligence Hyperion – Enterprise Performance Management Supply Chain Applications for E–Bus and JD Edwards Siebel Be sure to register at the Early Bird rate to save! Early Bird Registration is now open! Click here to reserve your seat and SAVE. Quest ANZ & Asia Users Group Networking Schedule Both Quest ANZ & Asia are dynamic and growing user groups which provide one of a kind networking opportunities to the JD Edwards and PeopleSoft community. Quest ANZ periodically hosts Educational and Networking meetings throughout Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Wellington. Quest ANZ welcomes any non-member who may be interested in finding out more about Quest ANZ Users Group to attend these meetings for a firsthand look at what we are all about. Quest ANZ 2009 Local Users Group meetings will be announced shortly, until then, please note that LUG meetings will take place in the following regions: Quest New South Wales Users Group - Sydney Contact: Rebecca Lascelles at questanz@apcaust.com.au 1st Meeting, early March Quest South Australia Users Group - Adelaide Contact: Paul Turner, Chairman at turnp@cttg.sa.gov.au 1st Meeting, mid March Quest Queensland Users Group - Brisbane Contact: Rebecca Lascelles at questanz@apcaust.com.au 1st Meeting, mid March Quest Wellington Users Group - Wellington Contact: Rebecca Lascelles at questanz@apcaust.com.au Quest Western Australia Users Group - Perth Contact: Rebecca Lascelles at questanz@apcaust.com.au COLLABORATE 09 – IOUG Forum May 3-7, 2009 Orlando, Florida Register today for the premier training event of the year: COLLABORATE 09 – IOUG Forum. Featuring more than 375 education sessions presented by fellow Oracle customers and experts across seven tracks, countless networking opportunities, and hundreds of top IT solution providers all in one place, the IOUG Forum is your ticket to enhancing your Oracle knowledge. Register by April 2 to save $400 off the onsite rate. See all upcoming Oracle events. EDUCATION New How-to Tutorials on Middleware for Applications Check out three new in-depth Oracle By Example tutorials exploring the integration of Oracle Service Bus with your applications. Use the step-by-step guides to apply these hands-on integration tips to specific use cases. Integrating PeopleSoft Integration Broker and Oracle Service Bus Integrating JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle Service Bus Integrating Siebel CRM and Oracle Service Bus Oracle University eKits: A Dynamic New Way to Study and Learn Downloadable eKits for selected classroom courses are now available. Electronic student guides represent a dynamic new way to study and learn in the classroom. eKits are available online one week prior to the start of class so that students can outline key points, prepare questions, and print important concepts and procedures. For more details, see our Kit customer FAQ. See this month’s featured Oracle University courses.

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