Brian R. Bouchard is a passionate person who enjoys helping others understand the complexities of Oracle Financials applications. He was introduced to Oracle applications back in the '90s when he served as the fixed assets manager at Motorola. Playing an integral role in the implementation and rollout of the application, he decided to change career paths from accountant to consultant. In his consulting career, he has designed, developed, and implemented over 50 full life cycles of Oracle EBS Applications ranging from Release 9 to Release 12.1.3. He has always strived to help others, to find the most efficient ways to perform tasks and utilize the system; these characteristics lead him to develop bolt-on products for Oracle Assets and he opened the doors of his own company in 2006. As President and CEO of Chi-Star Technology SM, he strives to improve the utilization of Oracle Assets and streamline manual efforts by automating some of the most tedious processes of Oracle Assets. Due to his passion to educate people on the complexities of Oracle applications, he has conducted well over 200 training sessions on various applications and releases. In the summer of 2009, he founded the CST Education Network, which was started to offer low-cost education on Oracle Applications via webinars and video training.
He realized the areas of opportunity in Oracle Assets—Asset Transfers and Reconciliation. In April 2006, the introduction of AssetCross® came to the market as a solution to the manual asset transfer procedure. The AssetCross® software will transfer single or multiple assets between corporate depreciation books, transfer full or partial (cost or units) assets, translate transferred amounts to the receiving depreciation book's currency, and maintain an audit trail with the original asset. In June 2008, the introduction of AssetTie® came to the market as a solution to the reconciling Oracle Assets procedure. The AssetTie® software will capture balances from Oracle General Leger and compare them to balances in Oracle Assets and identify variances. The same technology is used to compare the transactions copied from corporate books to the associated tax books. Within seconds of posting a journal entry from Oracle Assets, the user can determine if there are any reconciling differences.
The introduction of AssetCross® and AssetTie® to the business world has revolutionized the asset transfer and reconciling processes. Fortune 500 corporations, as well as mid-sized family-owned companies, can all benefit from this software.
Visit Chi-Star Technology at http://www.chistartech.com to learn more about the bolt-on products and the education sessions/training offered.
Wei Chung, Low is the chief data officer of one of the most remarkable big data programs in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is also a member of PMI, and has held a PMP certification since 2007. Since then, he has been an MCT Alumni, where he started teaching the Microsoft .NET, SharePoint, SQL Server, and BizTalk technologies.
In the last few years, he has been very focused on platform data integration, big data, mobile development, and cloud hosting. He strongly believes that great system implementation delivers precious value to businesses, and that the integration of various systems across different platforms shall always be a part of it, just like people from different cultures are used to living together nowadays in most major cities, with respect and in harmony.
Hendrik Voges is a seasoned professional with more than 35 years of experience in business and industry to build on. He has gathered a vast amount of experience in business management, management consulting, information systems implementation, human resources management, and development, as well as project management.
In the field of Oracle HRMS, he has a successful track record of project management and as a subject matter expert consulting a number of major Oracle HRMS implementations for large international corporations. In addition to this, he has extensive client-facing experience with other smaller ERP and HRMS applications, some with a client base of over 400 active clients.
His areas of expertise further include organization and people development initiatives and transformation consulting, labor relations negotiations and conflict resolution, project management, and human resources information systems implementation.
He was a key player in a wide range of engagements focusing on organization restructuring, business function transformation, organization redesign and organization strategic planning, and information systems implementation. He has consulted for clients in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Mozambique, Kenya, Namibia, Sudan, South Africa, Egypt, and India.
His industry sector experience includes manufacturing, public sector, utilities, finance and investment, banking, life insurance, building and construction, agriculture, healthcare, oil and gas exploration, automotive, telecommunications, and defense industries.
Paul Graeme Wilkinson, born in New Zealand, is a chartered accountant. He is a former employee of Price Waterhouse, The Hertz Corporation, and Oracle Corporation. In 1999, he became an independent Oracle consultant specializing in the training manager and delivery roles. He is currently employed at the Ricoh Corporation Plc. as the UPK administrator, configuring the UPK Professional LCMS across 14 European OpCo's and assisting with the creation of over 1,200 e-learning topics across the APRO, Click, Cognos, Dashboard, Docuware, Esparto, Hyperion, Oracle, and Siebel applications. This includes translation into Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, and Russian.
He has thoroughly enjoyed reviewing this book. The market needs a book of this nature to link processes to the application.
Mitchell Wrobel is an Oracle certified master DBA and developer. Over his 20-year career as a consultant, he has developed thousands of objects within the many modules that comprise the Oracle E-Business Suite.
Through his company, Application Everything, Inc., he provides one solid solution after another for top companies, governments, and universities across the globe.