Oracle Gold partner credentials and events schedule for 2012: MDM, Data Quality and Data Governance Specialist

1. Rhapsody Technologies, Inc.
Capabilities and 2012 Conference Schedule
31 January 2012
Eugene Breger
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2. About Rhapsody Technologies, Inc.
•Founded in 1998
•Managed by a team of technology industry veterans with over a century of collective experience
•Oracle Gold Partner
•Thought leader in Master Data Management, Data Governance and Data Quality Programs
Implementation Services Packaged Services Assessment, Training and
related Services
•Implementations/Upgrades •Oracle Data Quality (DQ) •Master Data Health Check
•Oracle Customer Hub – CDH Discovery •MDM Readiness Assessment
•Siebel Customer Hub – UCM •MDM Implementation Health Check
•Fusion Customer Hub •Oracle DQ Search Optimization •Data Governance Initiatives:
•Oracle Product Hub Frameworks, Business Cases,
•Fusion Product Hub Roadmaps, Design and Deploy, etc.
•Oracle Trading Community
•Oracle Supplier Hub
•Oracle Site Hub Architecture (TCA) Functional •MDM Boot Camp (1- 5 Days)
•Oracle Supplier Life Cycle Support •Executive MDM Seminars
Management •Customer Data Stewardship
•Hyperion DRM - COA •Design, build and deploy Training
•Oracle Enterprise Data Quality - Semantic Customer Models •Customer Data Workshops
EDQ (Party & Product) •Oracle Customer Data Management
Functional Fundamentals
Customers (Partial List)
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3. Thought Leadership and Community Involvement
1. Founder and Chair for an international Special Interest Group with
OAUG affiliation
Being renamed as the “OAUG Master Data Management (MDM) and
Data Governance SIG (MDM-DG SIG)”
2. Manage 3 LinkedIn Groups related to MDM and Oracle’s Data
Quality Products
Oracle Product Data Quality SIG (membership approaching 100)
Oracle Supplier Data Hub and Supplier Life Cycle Management SIG
MDM Jobs Group
3. MDM Boot Camp sessions
o The most recent boot camp reviewed the entire suite of Oracle MDM products
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4. Thought Leadership and Community Involvement - 2
4. Over 85 presentations and panel discussions at leading tech industry
events including Apps World, Open World, COLLABORATE and
Connection Point, CDI Summit, CDI/MDM Summit, DAMA,
NCOAUG, NorCal and Michigan OAUGs, etc.
First to publicly present on Fusion Applications
First to publicly present on Fusion Customer Hub and Fusion Product
Hub
5. Many private presentations about Oracle MDM and DQ products
for companies across diverse industries
6. Published MDM focused Posters, white papers and slide shows
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5. What has Rhapsody done for clients?
8. Inventor of Semantic Customer Model approach – A proprietary
methodology that increases success of MDM implementations for
the customer domain many fold
Starter model for Healthcare Industry (Accelerator)
9. First to launch a comprehensive training course that combines
MDM concepts, best practices and product features and
functionality (Oracle Customer Data Hub Functional Fundamentals)
10. Only SI (systems integrator) to launch a comprehensive remote TCA
(Trading Community Architecture) Functional Support service that
allows Oracle shops - operational and MDM - to leverage features
and functionality tied to TCA
11. Only SI to launch both a fixed fee Data Quality Discovery service as
well as a DQM search optimization service
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6. Our relationship with Oracle
1. Oracle recognizes Rhapsody as a thought leader and key
partner in the MDM space.
2. Rhapsody has been awarded Oracle’s “Gold Partner”
status as specialized in implementing MDM solutions.
3. We work closely with Oracle Product Development
teams to enhance all of their MDM Product Hubs
including Oracle’s Fusion Hubs.
4. We advise Oracles Sales teams in addressing complex
client scenarios using MDM Hubs and Enterprise Data
Quality (EDQ) tools
5. Rhapsody promotes Oracle’s MDM Hubs through joint
marketing initiatives with field marketing managers
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7. Why partner with Rhapsody?
We are a boutique services firm
1. FOCUS - Data Governance, Data Quality and Master Data
Management domains are our only concentration areas.
2. EXPERIENCE - consultants average 13+ years in their
respective knowledge sets and our firm is 14 years old.
3. BENCH - as deep as any other firm in the industry
4. METHODOLOGY - designed for flexibility with client needs
5. COMMITMENT TO YOUR SUCCESS - we perform
knowledge transfer and support of change management to
ensure general adoption occurs
6. REFERENCES – successful clients and Oracle all endorse us
7. DOMESTIC – based in the Chicago suburbs
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8. Upcoming Events – OAUG Collaborate 2012
Rhapsody is conducting the following sessions at the Mandalay Bay
Convention Center, Las Vegas, from 22nd April thru 26th April, 2012:
Title Time Location
10715 – Master Data Management (MDM) Overview Boot Camp Sunday, April 22, 2012 Granite D – THE Hotel
09:00 AM – 05:00 PM
9941 – Master Data Management and Data Governance Q&A Panel Monday, April 23, 2012 South Seas G
Discussion
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
715 – Fusion Applications: A Primer and Implementation Monday, April 23, 2012 Room 9
Approaches
05:00 PM – 06:00 PM
10248 – Master Data Management (MDM): Is it a Philosophy? Is it a Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Breakers D
Technology? What is it anyway?
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
10545 – OAUG Customer Data Management Special Interest Group Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Breakers B
11:00 PM – 12:00 PM
10262 – Fusion Applications: A Primer and Implementation Thursday, April 26, 2012 Jasmine A
Approaches
11:00 PM – 12:00 PM
10325 – Supercharging Procurement Processes with Oracle Supplier Thursday, April 26, 2012 Breakers F
Life Cycle Management
12:15 PM – 01:15 PM
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9. Eugene Breger Mani Kumar Manda
Sales Director – Americas Founder & President
Email: EBreger@RhapTech.com Email: MManda@RhapTech.com
Phone: 630-487-5801 x118 Phone: 630-487-5801 x101
Direct: 847-331-5554 Direct: 630-717-1809
MDM Resources:
http://www.rhaptech.com/resources.html
Special Interest Groups:
Customer Data Management SIG
http://cdmsig.oaug.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cdmsig
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ucmsig
Product Data Quality SIG
http://tinyurl.com/29xocwv
Supplier Life Cycle Management (SLM) & Supplier Data Hub (SDH) SIG
http://tinyurl.com/2v2yyct
Oracle Fusion Applications
http://tinyurl.com/3232emw
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