Product Manager at Microsoft

Hi,

I am grateful for all of your support while I was at Oracle. I am now a Product Manager at Microsoft for Windows Essential Business Server (EBS), formerly code named "Centro". EBS is scheduled to be released later this year. EBS is a server solution for mid-size businesses, 25-300 clients. Please check out my blog for EBS: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/essential/default.mspx.

Cheers,

Chris

Location Data Hub: TCA and User Defined Attributes

Oracle Site Hub is a loction data hub. Site Hub leverages Oracle's Trading Community Architecture (TCA), e.g. location, parties, party-to-party relationships, legal entities, contacts, etc. While some of the TCA entities, e.g. location, are created in the Site Hub user interface, TCA entity data is stored in TCA since other Oracle Applications are already integrated and leveraging those entities in TCA. Therefore, the source of truth for those entities remains in TCA, i.e. no change to your TCA data model. Site Hub also leverages user-defined attributes from our PIM hub, allowing the user to define custome attributes to be stored at the site level in Site Hub.

You can define your custom attributes to be stored for each site (or location) and attach any files to that site, e.g. contracts, service agreements, engineering drawings, equipment manuals, etc.

Site Hub Leveraging Google Maps and Oracle Spatial

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Site Hub Benefits

•Golden Record for all aspects of sites
----•Consistent information
•Prospective sites can be evaluated with other sites, including competitors and trade areas
----•Improves timeline and efficiency of site selection process
•Provide site information throughout site lifecycle
•Reduce costs & integration headaches
----•Web services and Google Maps lowers integration effort of third party applications.
•Create and manage sites efficiently
----•Site Hub significantly increases productivity by leveraging templates or downloading/uploading files.

Site Hub Product Overview

•Single HTML interface
----•Create, manage, search and map sites
----•Create and group user-defined attributes
----•Assign sites to hierarchies, clusters, maintenance orgs and inventory orgs
----•Create parties and relationships, e.g. competitors and partners, in Trading Community Architecture (TCA)
----•Create a property in Property Manager
----•Create an inventory organization from an existing inventory organization
----•Create maintainable assets based on a site asset template in a maintenance organization (eAM)
•Google Maps and web services
•Leveraging Oracle Database, Oracle Spatial, and Oracle Trading Community Architecture

The Authoritative Source for all Sites: A competitive weapon for site driven business

•Key challenges
--•Site selection and market & product placement
--•Alignment/productivity of dependant processes
----•Advertising, market planning & service
----•Corporate governance risk & revenue recognition per site
--•Integration cost

•Site Hub provides
--•A complete repository for all sites
--•Entire site lifecycle management from prospection, competition analysis, selection & opening to closure
--•Integration with Oracle EBS
--•Site view through Google maps