Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Cloudworld Mumbai - 2015

 

Oracle recently held a CloudWorld session in Mumbai to further market and push their cloud services. Looks like they are very keen on getting enterprises to move to the Cloud for their operations, the days of on-premise installations are numbered.

Here are the slides presented at this session.

 

Oracle CloudWorld

Oracle CloudWorld
Mumbai- 7th April 2015

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Shailender Kumar, Managing Director, Oracle India
Oracle Keynote: Modern Business Modern Cloud
Shawn Price, Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud Go-to-Market and Product Business Groups, Oracle USA
Sponsor Keynote: Wipro
Sreenath AV, Vice President and Global Head - Oracle Practice, Wipro
Customer Leader Keynote
K. V. Srinivasan, Chief Executive Officer, Reliance Commercial Finance

TRANSFORM MARKETING

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The New Digital Dialogue
Abe Smith, VP Emerging Markets, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Oracle USA

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2015 Annual Outlook: What to Expect in Data Driven Marketing & Advertising
Shelly Singh, COO & Director, DMAi and Vatsal Asher CEO & Director, DMAi

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Simple steps to lead nurturing success; Gain maximum rewards for your business
Will Griffith, Senior Director Marketing Cloud, Oracle APAC

MODERNIZE SALES

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Modern Sales in the Cloud
Atul Tuli, Senior Director - CX, Oracle APAC

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Sales Performance Perfected
Caesar Peter, Senior Director - CX Applications, Oracle APAC

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Customer Showcase: Reliance Commercial Finance
Shashi Ravulapaty, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Reliance Commercial Finance

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Driving Higher Sales Productivity with Mobile Technology
Sanjiv Mahesh, Regional SC Director, Oracle India

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Close Bigger Deals Faster with CPQ Cloud
Virginia Lo, Senior Director - CX Applications, Oracle APAC

MODERNIZE CUSTOMER SERVICE

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The Path to Modern Customer Service
Brian Curran, Vice President Customer Experience Strategy and Design, Oracle USA

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How to Differentiate Your Brand with Modern Service
YS Lee, Director Service Cloud, Oracle APAC

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Modern Contact Centers with solution showcase
YS Lee, Director Service Cloud, Oracle APAC and Abhay Kacker, Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle India

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Outsmart the Competition with the Right Social Customer Service Strategy
Atul Tuli, Senior Director - CX, Oracle APAC

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Improving Service Engagements
Merlyn Gordon, Director Customer Experience Strategy and Design

MODERNIZE HR

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Modern HR in the Cloud with Customer Showcase
Anand Subbaraman, Vice President, HCM Product Strategy, Oracle USA and Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, CIO, Apollo Hospitals

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Why Building a Talent-Centric Strategy Is Critical for Your Business
Kristina Webb, Senior Director, HCM Transformation HCM Applications, Oracle APAC

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Is Your Organization Able to Make Data-Driven Decisions?
Neeraj Narang, Principal Solutions Consultant – HCM

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The Benefits of Bringing Social into Your Workplace
Kristina Webb, Senior Director, HCM Transformation HCM Applications, Oracle APAC

MODERNIZE THE BACK OFFICE

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Transform your Business with a modern ERP
Hirak Kayal, Product Management India and PPM/JAPAC, Oracle

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Accelerate Your Planning Process and Customer Showcase
Shridar Jayakumar, Program Director - EPM, BI & Exalytics, Oracle APAC

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Equip Finance with Insight and Efficiency
Rajesh Ramdas, Director Applications, Oracle India

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Empower Modern Project Management with Customer Showcase
Hirak Kayal, Product Management India and PPM/JAPAC, Oracle

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Improving Returns on Innovation
Rathinakumar Vaidyanathan, Director, Supply Chain Solutions Consulting, Oracle Asia Pacific

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Emerging Best Practices in Distribution and Logistics
Sunil Kumar, Solutions Director, Oracle India

INNOVATE MORE

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Innovate with Oracle's Public Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Services
Ravi Pinto, Director Product Management, Oracle India

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Rapidly Build and Deploy Rich Applications with Oracle Cloud PaaS
Sudershan Singh, Principal Product Manager, Oracle India

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Streamline Collaboration Across Your Organization with Oracle Documents
Praveen Balakrishnan, Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle India

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Unlocking the Power of Business Analytics in Oracle Cloud
Shridar Jayakumar, Program Director - EPM, BI & Exalytics, Oracle APAC

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Deliver World-Class Smartphone and Tablet Applications with Oracle Mobile
Ravi Pinto, Director Product Management, Oracle India

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Tame the Cloud Integration Beast
Krishnaprem Bhatia, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle India

Friday, April 10, 2015

TCC: Changing Entity Tree Depth

 

While working with the Taleo Connect Client, sometimes you will need to work with complex hierarchy levels in the Entity tree. I am talking of this tree structure on the right side of your TCC Designer:           Cleartext.blogspot.com

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If you start opening up the levels in the entity, you can go down to four levels. That is the default setting after installation. To go further down, you will need to increase the depth of this entity tree. This is done via Window-> Preferences   Cleartext.blogspot.com

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Try increasing the value of Depth , under the Client -> Design option. And restart the TCC exe. But do be careful, entering large values can cause your TCC client to crash.  When I entered a value of 10 and restarted, the exe would not open up. And it started throwing java heap related errors. The change you make is global , and will reflect in all the products in the Installation Pack.

This article first appeared on Cleartext.blogspot.com

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

TCC - Exporting Attachments

 

This is something I struggled a lot with, and I am posting this in the hope that the next person struggling with this will find it helpful.

Taleo Enterprise Edition has a complex data model, and this becomes a problem when it comes to mass updates/exports. They provide a windows tool called the Taleo Connect Client (TCC) for this purpose. But the tool does not provide any out-of-box option to export/import files and attachments. For this purpose, consultants were using a custom library called TCCCustomSteps. But there is very little documentation around the subject area, and automating it requires bat files.

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1:First, download the TCCCustomSteps library. This used to be hosted on Taleo's knowledge exchange forum, but the links no longer work. You can download a copy from here.

2:Extract the jar files into the \extensions\exernaljars\ folder under your TCC installation.

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3. There is a product defect in current releases of TCC, you will get jar files when you try to use the TCCCustomsteps library. The fix is to replace commons-lang-2.0.jar with commons-lang-2.6.jar [TCC installation folder]\lib\endorsed.

4. Restart your TCC client.

5. Set up your TCC export and configuration files. Choose XML as the output type in both the files, CSV won't do. In the Projections tab of the export file, map the filename and file contents fields.

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6. Create your TCC config file now, you can choose to create it from the  export file created in the previous step. In the projections tab, remove the StripSoap step, and add an XSL transformation step. cleartext.blogspot.com

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The XSL step is to filter out only the tags required for the ExtractFile step. Here is the contents of the XSL file:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
    xmlns:xsl="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:to="http://www.taleo.com/ws/integration/toolkit/2005/07"
    xmlns:util="http://www.mavixconsulting.com/2013/XSL/transform"
    exclude-result-prefixes="to util">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="to:record">
<xsl:element name="file">
    <xsl:attribute name="path">
        <xsl:value-of select="./to:field[@name='FirstName']"/><xsl:value-of select="./to:field[@name='LastName']"/>_<xsl:value-of select="./to:field[@name='AttachedFiles,FileName']"/>
    </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:element name="content">
        <xsl:value-of select="./to:field[@name='AttachedFiles,FileContent']"/>
    </xsl:element>
</xsl:element>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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Here is the content of the XML file: cleartext.blogspot.com

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<files>
[RECORD_OUTPUT]
</files>

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7. Add the TCCCustom Step in the config file. For this, add one more "Custom Step" in the "Post-Processing" tab, and select Custom step and "Default custom step" as options.

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8. For Java Class, enter "com.taleo.integration.client.customstep.xml.ExtractAttachedFilePostStep". Add the remaining values are below:

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9. Save the config file and run it. The first time you run the export, you might want to change the filter to select a single record and text the export. When the run completes, the file attached will be exported into the output folder.

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And that is all. There are other classes in the JAR which can be used to change filters , convert to PDF, and further manipulate the xml file.

 

This article first appeared on cleartext.blogspot.com