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By credit card via our secure online payment system through paypalPeriod | MEOUG MAJLIS 2017 ANNUAL USER CONFERENCE - Day 1 - Wednesday, March 22, 2017 |
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08:00 AM - 06:00 PM |
Registration Open Main Room |
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08:00 AM - 09:00 AM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE Networking and Collaboration |
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09:00 AM - 09:15 AM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE Welcome Address Sebastian T Samuel, President, MEOUG & CIO - AW Rostamani |
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09:15 AM - 10:15 AM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE Key Note: Oracle E-Business Suite: Update, Strategy, and Roadmap Speaker: Cliff Godwin, Senior Vice President, Applications Development, Oracle Corporation |
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10:15 AM - 11:00 AM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE Customer Keynote - Dubai World Trade Centre CIO Farid Farouq Moderator: Sebastian T Samuel, CIO - AW Rostamani |
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Break / Sponsors Showcase |
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Atlantis Ballroom CDE Extend Cloud HCM with PaaS (Platform as a Service) Chandra Gour, Head of Manpower Planning & HRD Systems, Dubai Airport |
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12:00 PM - 12:45 PM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE Running Your E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud (IaaS + PaaS) - Why, What and How? PART#1 Speaker: Nadia Bendjedou, Senior Director – Product Strategy, Applications Development, Oracle Corporation |
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12:45 PM - 01:45 PM |
Lunch / Sponsors Showcase |
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Atlantis Ballroom CDE MEOUG Address Thameem Rizvon, Founder & Chairman, MEOUG |
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02:00 PM - 02:15 PM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE Address by Arun Khehar - Senior Vice President - ORACLE ECEMEA - Oracle Corporation |
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End of day 1 - MEOUG MAJLIS 2017 |
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Period | MEOUG MAJLIS 2017 ANNUAL USER CONFERENCE - Day 2 - Thursday, March 23, 2017 |
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08:00 AM - 04:00 PM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE Registration Open |
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08:00 AM - 09:00 AM |
Sponsors Showcase / Registration Area |
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09:00 AM - 09:15 AM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE MAJLIS Day 2 Opening - Hussein Hamza, Vice President, Oracle |
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09:15 AM - 10:00 AM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE KEYNOTE - Oracle Cloud Platform (PaaS & IaaS) Strategy Speaker: Lionel Dubreuill, Director, Oracle Cloud Platform BDM for EMEA, Oracle Corporation Moderator: Sebastian T Samuel, CIO, AW Rostamani, UAE |
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE CIO Panel on Digital and Innovation Sebastian T Samuel, Chief Information Officer, AW Rostamani, UAE - Sreedhar Reddy, IT Director, ALDAR - Ajay Rathi, IT Director, MERAAS Holding - Ali Katkhada, Group CIO, Depa Group, Dubai, UAE Moderator: Rajesh Krishnaswamy, CX Business Dev & Strategy Leader, Oracle |
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10:45 AM - 11:00 AM |
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11:00 AM - 11:40 AM |
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11:40 AM - 12:20 PM |
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12:20 PM - 01:00 PM |
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03:30 PM - 04:00 PM |
Atlantis Ballroom CDE Close of MEOUG MAJLIS 2017 Rahul Misra - Vice President, Oracle & President MEOUG |
Cliff Godwin Senior Vice President, Applications Development Oracle Corporation Cliff Godwin is the Senior Vice President of Applications Development at Oracle Corporation. Mr. Godwin is responsible for the Oracle E-Business Suite business. Mr. Godwin has been a member of the senior management team of Oracle's Applications business for most of his 24 years at Oracle. Prior to his current role, Mr. Godwin led the Applications Technology Group which is responsible for ensuring that the Oracle E-Business Suite effectively leverages Oracle’s systems technologies, and for building the common objects and services used throughout the Oracle E-Business Suite. Mr. Godwin holds M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Operations Research from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. |
Presentation Title Oracle E-Business Suite: Update, Strategy, and Roadmap Abstract In this session, hear from Oracle E-Business Suite General Manager Cliff Godwin as he delivers an update on the Oracle E-Business Suite product line. Cliff will also discuss how many of the industry trends such as Subscription Economy, Industry 4.0, Big Data, IoT, Mobile and the Oracle Cloud are being adopted by E-Business Suite today and the future. You will come away with an understanding of the value Oracle E-Business Suite applications deliver now and in the future. |
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Nadia Bendjedou Senior Director – Product Strategy, Applications Development Oracle Corporation Nadia is a Senior Director of Applications Development at Oracle Corporation, with cross suite responsibility; go to market initiatives, and customer success activities. Nadia joined Oracle 23 years ago and her main objective is to help customers understand the value that each release of the Oracle E-Business Suite brings to them, to help customers understand the value that the technology brings to the Enterprise Applications in general and to the Oracle E-Business Suite in particular. In this role, Nadia spends lots of time working with the Oracle User Groups such as OAUG and covering events (i.e. Oracle OpenWorld, Collaborate, OAUG Connection Points worldwide etc…). Nadia also gives lots of advice on how Oracle E-Business Suite customers can prepare their upgrade to the next releases with some best practices learnt internally as well as externally from our Applications ecosystem. Nadia is a three-time recipient of the Oracle Applications User Group 'Ambassador of the Year' Award (2007, 2009, 2010), and received the Oracle Applications User Group Lifetime Service Award in 2011. Nadia has also received the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) Inspiring Speaker Award (for UKOUG 2011 Conference). Nadia is the holder of a PhD in Computer Science from England. |
Presentation Title Running Your E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud (IaaS + PaaS) - Why, What and How? Abstract Oracle E-Business Suite is a powerful, complete suite of applications that can deliver tremendous value to organizations around the world. That value can be greatly extended when coupling it with Oracle Cloud offerings delivered by Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The purpose of this session is to understand the value proposition, the solutions offered and the use cases for Oracle E-Business Suite customers to deploy their environments on Oracle Cloud (IaaS and PaaS). |
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Ali Katkhada Group CIO Depa Group Mr. Katkada has more than fifteen years of experience in IT strategy, IT governance & compliance, IT security, business transformation & process automation, IT infrastructure & operations along with a multitude of successful ERP implementations under his belt. |
Presentation Title Enterprise Risk Management in Construction Industry Abstract A lot of uniqueness, huge flexibility, and many interfaces are some of many characteristics of Contracting international Business. Being among the very few companies in our industry which successfully moved to Oracle ERP and faced a lot of challenges to fulfill the endless business requirements while maintaining fit for a purpose solution. Sharing our experience in adding value to the business bottom line by putting the treasures of information in practice to generate trends of success or faultier patrons that used on selecting any future leads. After of implementations and roll out of EBS OBIEE and decade of stabilization. A big question Pop-up: How we can make our organization learn from its own legacy and historical mistakes? How we can put the data from the ERP and BI in use to know which leads are going to be converted into profitable projects, which client, supplier, subcontractor, region or contract type, are going to be favorable based on our trends from our data? We would like to share with you how we answered this question |
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Omer Salam ERP HCM Aldar Properties Omer Salam Has worked for Aldar Properties for the last 11 years. He is a Techno- Functional Expert in the Oracle HCM domain. Implemented and managed modules like Core HR, Payroll, I recruitment, Self Service, Talent Management, Learning/ Management, Succession Planning, Compensation Workbench. On the cloud platform he has successfully implemented Taleo Recruitment/ On-boarding, Taleo Learn and Fusion HCM. Oracle Certified Fusion Talent Management Specialist. Oracle Certified Fusion Global Human Resources Specialist |
Presentation Title Fusion Talent in an Academic Environment Abstract Aldar Academies is Abu Dhabi’s largest education provider delivering the highest standards of education. From one 247-student facility in 2007, they have grown into a highly sought after institution supporting over 5,000 pupils across six academies in Abu Dhabi and one in Al Ain. It recently acquired Fusion Talent management as part of an effort to streamline its Performance Management Process |
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Jawed Akhtar Chief Information Officer (CIO) Ebrahim K Kanoo B.S.C. (EKK) Jawed has over 28+ years of IT industry experience in IT Management, ERP Project Management, IT Consulting, ERP implementations, and application design. He has sphere headed the entire ERP project since its inception till completion. He has successfully conceptualized the custom BI and Employee portal projects and executed with internal consultants. |
Presentation Title Implementing VAT in Oracle EBS Abstract Ebrahim K Kanoo B.S.C. (EKK), a sole automotive distributor of Toyota and Lexus has implemented Oracle e-Business Suite across all its business units. EKK also initiated a Business Intelligence project and went live with its first phase. With GCC decision to implement VAT across all the countries effective Jan 1, 2018, it is absolutely necessary to configure and tune your system to VAT before the due date, so that system calculates input and out taxes, keeps the record of tax paid and due with all allowed exceptions. In this session we will touch briefly about tax feature and its implementation. |
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Haseeb Qazi ERP Program Manager Al Qahtani Pipe Coating Industries A highly motivated ERP Program Manager, with over 16 years’ experience in BPR and automation of integrated business processes. Currently leading turn key program for digital transformation of multiple Oracle EBS instances to Oracle Fusion CLOUD inclusive of verticals for Manufacturing & Maintenance. |
Presentation Title Digital Transformation & Challenges Abstract Key Strokes: > Revisiting & Refining Business Processes > Setting Right Expectations > Clarity in Scope for SaaS, PaaS & Integrations > Early Identification of Challenges, Risks & Mitigations > Sustainable Engagement of Key Stakeholders > Executive Sponsorship for Change Management |
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Steve Tonas Vice President, EBS Development Oracle Corporation Steve Tonas has been working on E-Business Suite the past 15 years and is currently responsible for the Strategy and Development of Supply Chain and CRM products. He also manages the E-Business Suite Information Discovery product set. Steve started his career working in Oracle’s Database Development organization and has also worked at early stage startups. Steve has a BS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California. |
Presentation Title Oracle Internet of Things Applications and the age of Machine Learning Abstract Come and learn about the tremendous business value that the Internet of Things, big data, and machine learning can add to your Oracle E-Business Suite implementation. Asset monitoring, predictions and insights will enhance the user experience and further automate and digitize business processes. |
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Muhannad Obeidat Senior Director, EBS Development Oracle Corporation Muhannad Obeidat, Senior Director, Oracle Applications Development, Oracle Corporation Muhannad is a Senior Director of Applications Development at Oracle. Muhannad has been with Oracle E-Business Suite for the past 16 years, playing different roles in various product families and technology groups. Muhannad received internal and external awards for different accomplishments and outstanding customer support. Muhannad has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan. |
Presentation Title Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery: V7 Update, Strategy, and Roadmap Abstract Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery brings creative features to EBS by adding advanced search capabilities, showing data in modern visualizations and exposing business insights. Productivity increases by enabling users to take advantage of the accumulated wisdom in the system to make better decisions. This session covers innovations and new features of the latest release. It also covers feedback from customers, a simplified licensing update and Cloud support. |
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Dayan De Alwis ERP Sales, Leasing and CRM Aldar Properties An experienced professional with over 16 years of rich and insightful experience, including over 14 years of experience in the UAE; Expertise include Oracle ERP, Mobility, Cloud Implementations, Business applications, Business Intelligence, Consulting, IT integrations and software engineering; Strong leadership with Team management, Interpersonal Communication, analytical and project management skills. Dayan has worked across a wide spectrum of IT landscapes for property development, real estate, retail, and hospitality and aviation sectors. Major Implementations include Cloud Implementation for Oracle Service Cloud, Fusion Sales and Marketing (Eloqua) Cloud, Social, Oracle ERP (R11, R12), Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Sales & Leasing Portals, numerous in-house Business Process Automations and Cost Savings, Crew Applications, Catering, Duty Free, Departure control and Airport Services Applications, Mobility Solutions, Retail and GSM Solutions. During the career span, he has Led/Managed multiple Projects, involving development, integration and support of solutions for many clients, with strong experience in Project Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, Business/System Analysis, Pre-sales Support as well as Team Management. Dayan is PMP, CSM (Agile Project Management) qualified and a MBA (IT management) graduate from University of Leicester – UK and also holds a Bsc(Hons) in Information Systems from Manchester Metropolitan UK |
Presentation Title Oracle Service Cloud Implementation – A case study on ALDAR Malls Abstract Aldar embarked on a journey to increase customer engagement and streamline customer related services. This would result in setting up service level agreements and key performance indicators that would raise the bar at Aldar and provide a unique offering to the customer. It would also increase service levels share and revenues across a portfolio of assets ranging from Property, Asset Management and Malls. In order to achieve this, it identified a need to extend and better exploit its customer facing channels and operational procedures by utilizing its diverse range of – previously unintegrated channels. There were several core considerations to factor into the project, so flexibility in the integration process was essential. First, a newly developed customer service strategy and recently mapped customer journeys placed specific demands on the way that this integration needed to happen. Second, unique challenges were presented by the breadth of channelsto be integrated;Integration with the ERP system was critical. Third the AS-IS and TO-BE business process engineering and automation. The case study evaluates the journey undertaken in implementing of Aldar’s Tenant Portal and Customer portal |
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Lionel Dubreuill Director, Oracle Cloud Platform BDM for EMEA Oracle Corporation Mr Lionel Dubreuil is Business Development Director of Oracle Cloud Platform (Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS & Platform as a Service - PaaS) for Oracle Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). In this role he supports business development activities and drives many initiatives to promote Oracle Cloud Platform across the region. He is also in direct interaction with Oracle's Product Development and Product Management teams. He's in the cloud platform business since the beginning, first in Product Management and now in Business Development. He has over 25 years of experience in consulting, software development, sales consulting, marketing and business development with 8 years in Product Management (Application Integration Architecture, SOA, BPM and PaaS & IaaS). Before joining product management, he was director in the Insight IT Strategy team, where his role was to work with prospects/customers in justifying the use of Oracle products (both Applications and Technology) to solve business problems. He started his Oracle career in 1991 where he occupied successively the functions of Consultant and Sales Consultant working on big projects for key customers on both Oracle Applications (such as E-Business Suite, Master Data Management) or Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
Presentation Title Oracle Cloud Platform (PaaS & IaaS) Strategy Abstract As the pace of cloud adoption accelerates, enterprises must leverage current IT investments and simultaneously innovate for the future. Join this session to see new capabilities of Oracle Cloud Platform: PaaS & IaaS. • Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) helps enterprise IT and independent software vendor (ISV) developers rapidly build and deploy rich applications - or extend Oracle Cloud SaaS apps - using an enterprise-grade cloud platform based on the industry's #1 database and application server. • Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers a comprehensive set of integrated, subscription-based infrastructure services that enable businesses to run any workload in an enterprise-grade cloud managed, hosted, and supported by Oracle. |
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Naveen Sharma Internal Audit Director Al Shirawi Group of Companies CA Naveen Sharma is working with Al Shirawi Group of Companies as Director - Internal Audit since the last 16 years. Presently he is Vice Chairman of ICAI UAE Dubai Chapter. He is not only a Chartered Accountant but a Company Secretary from ICSI, CPA and CIA from USA. |
Presentation Title Learning from GRC implementation - Our Case Study Abstract RC can be referred to the critical capabilities that must work together to achieve Principled Performance. GRC integrate the governance, management and assurance of performance, risk, and compliance activities. It covers the following departments - internal audit, compliance, risk, legal, finance, IT, HR as well as the lines of business, executive suite and the board itself. |
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Ivan Harding Co-founder Applaud Solutions Ivan is co-founder of Applaud Solutions and has over 15 year's experience working with Oracle HCM. Ivan joined the Oracle HR development team in 1997 as a software engineer. By 2005, he had reached the position of Development Director responsible for the Oracle Core HR product with teams reporting to him in the UK, US and India. After leaving Oracle in 2006, Ivan worked on a variety of client projects before co-founding Applaud Solutions in 2009. Ivan is a regular presenter at many Oracle HR events across the world including UK OUG, MEOUG and the global Oracle HR User Group conference in the US. |
Presentation Title Enhancing Oracle E-Business Suite User Experience Abstract Have user adoption challenges thwarted your efforts to realise your original business case for Oracle E-Business Suite? You're not alone. The #1 driver of change in HR systems comes from the need for a more compelling, consumer-like, experience for managers and employees. In this short presentation, Applaud will introduce you to their solutions that improve the usability of Oracle and are complimented by mobile apps which extend the reach of your system to outside the office. We will show you why implementing Applaud can be a quick win that can turn around your users' perception of Oracle within weeks. |
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Prem Arumugam Senior Director, EBS HCM Development Oracle Corporation . |
Presentation Title Oracle E-Business Suite Human Capital Management: Update, Strategy and Roadmap Abstract In this session, representatives from Oracle E-Business Suite HCM Development Executive management will share their vision, key focus areas and roadmap for the product line. They will also highlight key new features and capabilities added to Release 12.2.6. |
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Asif Momen Principal Technology Consultant Oracle Corporation Asif Momen has been working with Oracle technologies for over 14 years and has expertise in Database Architecture, Performance Tuning, and High Availability. He has Master's degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani. Asif is honored by the prestigious Oracle ACE award from Oracle Technology Network. He has the following certifications: OCP 11g DBA, OCP 9i Forms Developer and is an Oracle Certified Expert in RAC 10g. Asif is a presenter for conferences like Oracle OpenWorld-2010-2012, All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG), MEOUG-2016, and Brain Surface. In addition, he is the Editor of "Oracle Connect"—the quarterly publication of AIOUG. His articles have also appeared in Oracle Support - Customer Knowledge Exchange . His particular interests are Database & SQL tuning, Oracle RAC and Backup & Recovery. He posts his ideas and opinions on “The Momen Blog” (http://momendba.blogspot.com). Asif can be reached at asif.momen@gmail.com. |
Presentation Title RMAN: Recovery Scenarios Abstract Session Abstract: A solid understanding of Backup and Recovery procedures is essential to every DBA but unfortunately these basics are often ignored. This presentation provides a comprehensive coverage of RMAN’s advanced recovery capabilities. This presentation walks through various advanced topics like: • From basic to advanced database recovery scenarios • Automatic Block Repair • Data Recovery Advisor For a novice and intermediate DBA this presentation will be a wealth of information and for an Advanced DBA it will be a walkthrough RMAN advanced features. Objective 1: Discuss RMAN advanced database recovery scenarios with the help of screenshots. Objective 2: Share RMAN advanced features with examples Objective 3: Make RMAN advanced recovery scenarios and advanced topics very simple subject to the attendees |
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Michael Bonito Territory Sales Manager Excel4apps Michael Bonito is the Territory Sales Manager for Middle East at Excel4apps, with extensive experience in managing sales cycles for IT software with 7 years’ experience in European and Middle Eastern markets. Motivated and pro-active Michael has detailed understanding of organisational reporting solutions and challenges that Oracle EBS users experience. Michael recently challenged the ‘status quo’ delivering an insightful presentation at MEOUG 2016 where he demonstrated a Real-time Excel-based reporting solution as an alternative to a complex, time-consuming and expensive BI implementation. Excel4apps is the Gartner-featured provider of Excel-based real-time reporting, analytics and data-loading software for use with the Oracle E-Business Suite. Excel4apps’ solutions empower 1000s of business professionals globally, expediting accurate and timely business decisions. Solutions include the award-winning GL Wand for financial reporting, Reports Wand for sub-ledger and operational reporting, Budget Wand for budget loading and Journal Wand for uploading actuals. For more information, visit www.excel4apps.com.” |
Presentation Title Continuous Accounting with Real-Time, Accurate & Secure Oracle EBS Reporting & Uploading directly in Microsoft Excel Abstract As the information age has progressed, individuals and organisations have become accustomed to having everything at their fingertips, easily and instantly. Financial and operational information from Oracle EBS currently lacks this immediacy, significantly hampered by legacy systems, processes and complex BI solutions with an inability to easily access vital information in the desired format and in a timely manner. The benefit of implementing solutions that provide this instant access are significant, with efficient and effective reporting, rapid decision making, and the establishment of an agile accounting function and broader organisational capability. Hear Michael Bonito from Excel4apps as he shares his thoughts and experiences from dealing with organisations who have successfully incorporated Continuous Accounting solutions and processes. |
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Parvez Achhwa Head of Application Meraas I am Parvez Achhwa working as a Head of Application in Meraas. I entered into IT way long back around 1989 out of which 15 years of strong experience in Oracle. Worked for a different industry viz. Healthcare, Hospitality, Government sectors, Finance, Consultancy etc. |
Presentation Title Application coexistence Abstract The presentation is to show case a use case to integrated PAAS, SAAS and On-Premise application |
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