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Focus On Modern Sales Experience: Sales and CPQ Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME TITLE LOCATION 9:00 am – 10:00 am Welcome & Introduction to the Modern Sales Experience Conference presented by Deloitte Digital and Oracle Palazzo L Scott Creighton, Vice President, Product Management, Oracle In this welcome session, you will hear from leading industry analysts about the latest trends, research and vision for customer experience along with panels featuring the perspectives and approaches from leading brands. You will also learn from a prestigious group of companies that will share their stories, perspectives as they meet the challenge of improving customer experience. Deloitte Digital will help kick off the conference by defining customer experience and modern sales, sharing their experiences and best practices as applied to customer implementations. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME TITLE LOCATION 10:00 am – 10:45 am Sales Keynote: Four Business-Critical Emerging Best Practices: Customer Experience for B2B Sales Organizations Tad Travis, Principal Analyst and Founder, Gartner Palazzo L Creating optimal customer experiences in B2B sales requires deep audience insight and continual engagement—capabilities that sales professionals are uniquely able to provide. Hear from our keynote presenter and analyst, Tad Travis, research director at Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. Learn how leading companies are delivering strong results and building enduring customer relationships by including sales in their customer experience programs. Subject to Change Page 1 Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME TITLE LOCATION 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Customer Panel: Modern Sales Experience Moderator: Michael Richter, Director, Product Management, Oracle Palazzo L Listen and learn from a select group of representatives from wellknown companies who have made a positive impact to meet today's customer experience challenges. These sales professionals will share their ideas on what goes into a modern sales strategy, how they approach customers, how they measure engagement and their sales teams' performance, and what technologies and philosophies help to craft a modern CX strategy. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME TITLE LOCATION 11:00 am – 12:15 pm BigMachines Becomes Oracle CPQ Cloud: A Global Phenomenon Moderator: Chris Shutts, Vice President, Development, Oracle Lando 4201A - 4021B Panelists: Craig Lunsford, Head of Americas Proposals & Contracts, Quintiles Jeanie Foster, Director, Fike John Buescher, Program Manager Worldwide Quoting Tools, Carestream Health Marty Nelson, VP IT, Fike Robert Dostie, Director, Carestream Health Stan Cherry, Director of Pricing Tools & Analytics, Quintiles Suzette Godwin Romer, Sr. Director Worldwide Sales Operations, ADP It's been a year since BigMachines became a member of the Oracle family. In this breakout, Chris Shutts, Co-Founder of BigMachines and VP of Oracle CPQ Cloud Development, shares his perspective on this inaugural year. This session will include a business update and feature customer successes, including a panel of top-name industry leaders who’ve used CPQ Cloud to drive their global sales expansions. Sell more, sell faster, sell anywhere! Subject to Change Page 2 Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm TITLE Sales General Session: The New Generation of Sales Analytics Mark Smith, CEO & Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research LOCATION Pallazo L Supercharge your sales team with analytics and insights to optimize outcomes. Sales is under continuous pressure to meet targets and deliver results. Accomplishing this will require insights derived from information and the ability to track progress and decide what changes to make. Mark Smith, who has 20 years of experience in the sales applications and technology segment—as well as experience actually selling toward a quota—provides a rare look at sales and what really matters to executives, managers, and operations when it comes to sales analytics. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME 1:15 pm – 1:45 pm TITLE CPQ Cloud Technical Track: Welcome & Kickoff Ellen Beres, Senior Product Manager, Oracle David Hatcher, Senior Product Manager, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4201A - 4201B This session kicks off the CPQ content we have for technical attendees and customer administrators. In 2014, Oracle doubled its investment in the R&D budget of CPQ Cloud/BigMachines. This resulted in a significant increase in feature velocity. Chris Haussler and David Hatcher will give an overview of the new use cases covered by the product and the functionalities that make them possible, so that you can decide which sessions you'll want to attend. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME TITLE LOCATION 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Sales General Session: Disrupting Digital Business: Digital Transformation In Customer Experience Lando L We’re standing at the dawn of a digital business revolution, but we barely realize it. As with the beginning of every revolution, those in Subject to Change Page 3 the midst of it can feel it, sense it, and realize that something big is happening. From how we interact with each other to how we engage with organizations, the shift is right in front of us. As we move from selling products and services to delivering on experiences and outcomes, join R “Ray” Wang as he shares how digital transformation allows you to use CX to disrupt instead of become one of the disrupted. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm TITLE BigMachines & BigMachines Express: Which Product is Right for You? Chris Haussler, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4201A – 4201B Oracle has the best CPQ products on the market, but which one is right for you? Please join two of our CPQ product experts, Josh Gray & Chris Haussler, to learn more about our mid-market & enterprise CPQ products and which is the right fit for your organization. During this session, you will learn the differences between BigMachines and BigMachines Express and see a side-by-side demo of each. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Subject to Change TITLE Solar Turbines: CPQ Manages Organizational Growth with Longterm Flexibility Solar Turbines, a division of Caterpillar, has been using BigMachines/CPQ Cloud to configure its sophisticated products and manage its complex sales process since 2008. Throughout that tenure, the team has learned that it must stay flexible; to quickly accommodate changing business requirements. In this session, we will outline how Solar updates and upgrades its CPQ environment across multiple organizations. Solar's CPQ architecture allows flexibility so business program managers can update and upgrade business configuration data in the CPQ with minimal or no IT support. IT releases are also utilized for major changes. LOCATION Lando 4202 Page 4 Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME TITLE LOCATION 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm CPQ How-to: End-to-end Mobile Optimization (2014 R2) Diane Kinker, Director, CRM Solutions, Batesville Casket Company TBD CPQ Cloud's 2014 R2 release in late December introduced layouts for tablet users in its Commerce screen. In this session, CPQ Cloud Product Management will share strategies for using the new layouts and device detection to give users a an optimal experience, no matter what form factor they bring to the application. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME TITLE LOCATION 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm Close Quickly: Strategies to Shorten Sales Cycles Kevin Dawson, Consulting Practice Manager, Oracle TBD CPQ Cloud reduces the quote life cycle. In this session, Oracle Consulting Services will discuss rapid configuration interface design, simplified pricing tracking & approval, and eSignature integration to move from opportunity to close in minutes. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME TITLE LOCATION 3:30 pm – 5:15 pm Engagement via Workshops Choose from a number of workshop sessions led and facilitated by experts while engaging with others who are exploring ways to meet the challenges of customer experience. Workshops include topics on Meaningful and Next Generation Analytics, User Adoption Tactics, Sales Strategies & Processes, Configure-Price-Quote and Big Data/Practical use of Data. These session highlights and findings will be presented in a general session on Day 3 of the conference and led by Constellation Research Analyst, R “Ray” Wang. Lando Rooms Subject to Change Workshop 1: Determine and Apply Meaningful Business Metrics for Your Business Page 5 Workshop 2: Invest Time and Resources for Optimal User Adoption Strategies Workshop 3: Optimize Your Sales Strategy and Processes for Effective Sales Engagement Workshop 4: Configure, Price, Quote: Sales' Window to Build Better Customer Experiences Workshop 5: Big Data Informing Smarter Sales Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm TITLE Enable Self-Service for Partners and Customers via CPQ Cloud Dave Farley, Consulting Practice Manager, Oracle Greg Swender, Senior Director, CX Sales Automation, Oracle LOCATION TBD Greg Swender, Sr. Director of CX Product Marketing, emcees a customer panel that will discuss enabling channel partners to selfserve via CPQ Cloud. Topics: tailoring the sales experience to each channel’s unique demands; dynamic interface customization; controlled user access to content; and strategies to maximize adoption across all sales channels. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm TITLE CPQ How-to: New Direct Integration Tools and Use Cases David Hatcher, Senior Product Manager, Oracle LOCATION TBD CPQ Cloud 2014 R2 (December) release provides a host of new integration and web services features. The result: among others, this enables a direct integration with Oracle's E-Business Suite for the first time. David Hatcher, Sr. Product Manager of CPQ Cloud, will demonstrate the new features and offer best practices and advice for using them to integrate CPQ Cloud with other applications. Subject to Change Page 6 Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm TITLE UNLV Lee Business School Panel: Future-Perspectives on Customer Experience from the Next Generation Moderator: Moderator: Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President, Nucleus Research LOCATION Pallazo L We have invited a select group of university students from UNLV Lee Business School university to come and chat with us about their ideas, their opinions, and their frank advice on how to accommodate the generation ascendant, and the generations still yet to come. Hosted by Rebecca Wettemann from Nucleus Research, this panel is dedicated to talking about the future with those who are already living for it and helping to shape it. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm TITLE AppDynamics Rocks the Market with Express CPQ (BMX) Brian Hoyt, Director of Business Information Systems, AppDynamics Jake Lewis, Business Analyst, AppDynamics Jonathan Jung, AppDynamics Megan Slater, Sr. Salesforce Business Analyst/Project Manager, AppDynamics LOCATION Lando 4201A – 4201B AppDynamics is a hyper growth software company trailblazing a new category called Application Intelligence and rapidly disrupting the multi-billion dollar APM (application performance monitoring) category with its Application Intelligence Platform. It is also a leader in Gartner's prestigious MQ (magic quadrant) for APM (application performance monitoring) for three years in a row. Please join us to learn how AppDynamics uses and succeeded with BigMachines Express. In this session, you’ll hear about the challenges they faced prior to implementing BigMachines Express CPQ, how they drove adoption among their sales reps, and the results they are seeing. Subject to Change Page 7 Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME TITLE LOCATION 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm CPQ How-To: New Best-of-Breed Sales Cloud (R9) - CPQ Cloud Integration Ellen Beres, Senior Product Manager, Oracle Lando 4202 CPQ Cloud's 2014 R1 release gave the first robust integration between Oracle Sales Cloud and Oracle CPQ Cloud. Ellen Beres, Sr. Product Manager of CPQ Cloud, will share the details of the integration from both the user side and the administration set-up, provide tips & tricks, and preview enhancements to the integration that are being planned for future releases. Wednesday April 1, 2015 TIME 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm TITLE CPQ How-To: New Best-of-Breed Sales Cloud (R9) - CPQ Cloud Integration LOCATION Lando 4203 As the nucleus of the sales process, CPQ Cloud is an essential element to any SFA. In 2014, Oracle demonstrated its continuing commitment to serving Salesforce.com customers by releasing a brand-new integration package with the popular CRM application, In this session, Oracle CPQ Cloud Development will share the new features available in the package, their benefits, and upgrade best practices Subject to Change Page 8 Thursday, April 2, 2015 Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 9:00 am - 10:15 am TITLE Workshop Presentation Wrap-Ups: Analytics, Adoption, Partner Relationship Management, and CPQ R "Ray" Wang, Principal Analyst and Founder, Constellation Research LOCATION Pallazo L In this morning kickoff session, R "Ray" Wang from Constellation Research is back to facilitate discussion around the results and findings from the 5 Workshops from Wednesday. Workshops topics discussed will be Meaningful and Next Generation Analytics, User Adoption Tactics, Sales Strategies & Processes, Configure-PriceQuote and Big Data/Practical use of Data. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 9:00 am - 10:15 am TITLE CPQ Cloud Roadmap: Take It to the Next Level Mark Lewis, Director, CPQ Product Management, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4201A – 4201B The Oracle CPQ Cloud Dev team continues to produce features that improve user adoption, reduce admin effort, and generate new revenue streams. A twist on the usual roadmap presentation, this session will feature three components: 1.) Hear from current customer, who utilized recent functionality to overhaul their front office; 2.) Review the current roadmap with Mark Lewis, Director of CPQ Product Management; 3.) Participate in a CPQ brainstorm and prioritization workshop with CPQ Product Management to get your voice heard! Express CPQ (BMX) Roadmap: Take It to the Next Level Ben Gabrielson, Senior Product Manager, Oracle Josh Gray, Vice President, Development, Oracle Oracle Express CPQ (formerly known as BigMachines Express) founded the DIY CPQ category on the Salesforce.com platform. Come join Express product manager, Ben Gabrielson and Express Subject to Change Page 9 General Manager, Josh Gray, as they lay out the bold path for this category-defining product in the coming months and years. This is your opportunity to get your voice heard! After sharing their vision, Ben and Josh will lead an interactive session organized to solicit the best and brightest ideas from you, our customers. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 11:00 am – 11:45 am TITLE Beyond the Acronym: What CPQ Means to the 21st Century Sales Professional: Peter Ostrow, Vice President, Group Director- Sales Effectiveness & Strategy, Aberdeen LOCATION Pallazo L The unpredictability of professional sales creates stress for even the best performers, especially near the end of the selling period. In fact, 24 percent of “sure thing” deals—the ones guaranteed by reps to close by month-end—end up slipping into subsequent sales cycles. Join Aberdeen’s Peter Ostrow in this session to learn how best-inclass companies leverage CPQ, proposal automation, and sales workflow techniques to seal their deals faster and more often. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm TITLE The Dark Cockpit: The Future of Sales Productivity Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President, Research, Nucleus Research LOCATION Pallazo L The ultimate goal of any sales force automation project is increasing sales productivity – and real results. Building on the Nucleus Dark Cockpit concept, Rebecca Wettemann will share the latest research and best practices on applying the concept to guide and improve sales outcomes. Using real-world case examples and Nucleus’s extensive experience in measuring the ROI of SFA efforts, this session will cover the top areas of application innovation companies can leverage, and most importantly, how to communicate and champion changes in the use of sales force automation technology in your organization to overcome barriers to adoption and achieve measurable results. Subject to Change Page 10 Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm TITLE CPQ Cloud: Meet the Experts Chris Shutts, Director, Software Development, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4201A, 4201B CPQ Cloud has evolved over 14 years. This is your opportunity to meet the experts that have guided its development over that time-and get your questions answered. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm TITLE Using Oracle CX Apps with Salesforce.com in the Mid-Market Scott Fehr, Sales Consulting Senior Director, Oracle Josh Gray, Vice President, Development, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4202 Oracle invests heavily each year to seamlessly integrate our worldclass CX applications with customers who have chosen Salesforce.com for their cloud CRM solution. Please join us to see what a day in the life of a sales rep looks like using Oracle CX apps with Salesforce.com. During this session, you’ll see how much better life is for a sales rep when they use three products – Marketing Cloud, Express CPQ Cloud, and Sales Performance Management – with Salesforce.com. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm TITLE Centralize Pricing in CPQ Cloud Benjamyn Johnson, Managing Principal Consultant, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4203 Consolidate complex, multi-step pricing and costing systems into unified sales and administrative interfaces with CPQ Cloud. This session will walk through how to combine pricing influences from product selections (e.g. volume or tiered pricing), account information (e.g. regional pricing), other influences, (e.g. promotions), and external systems (e.g. tax systems) to create a streamlined pricing user experience Subject to Change Page 11 Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm TITLE Beckman Coulter Re-imagines the CPQ Implementation: A Customer Journey Garry Gorgei, Beckman Coulter Minh Diep, Staff CRM IT Applications Architect, Beckman Coulter LOCATION Lando 4204 After many successful years in production, Beckman Coulter overhauled its CPQ Cloud site to achieve new efficiencies and value. This is a rare opportunity for attendees to learn from a fellow customer that took the best of its first implementation and reengineered the rest with the latest features and best practices. They will also discuss how CPQ has improved quote/order turnaround time; utilizing dynamic data for live quote reporting (profitability and product usage) to drive the business; making complex configuration and pricing easy; rollout and end user training; issue tracking and bug fixes; and maintenance and enhancements. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm TITLE Aligning Sales and Marketing to Improve Sales Effectiveness Krishna Mulukutla, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4201 A – 4201 B What should you consider when aligning sales and marketing? This session outlines how the complete Oracle Customer Experience solution for integrated sales and marketing provides the ability to deliver high-fidelity brand experiences across channels (social, web, mobile), and provides personalized and relevant marketing and offers to consumers, while improving sales effectiveness through highly qualified leads and consumer insights. Subject to Change Page 12 Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm TITLE Drive Business Growth with Sales' Visibility into Customer Service Chris Haven, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4202 Customer service and IT leaders are rethinking the role of customer service in response to increasing customer expectations and the rising demand for improved customer service experiences. This session provides an overview of the complete Oracle Service Cloud solution and how it helps businesses solve customer service challenges across web, contact center, and knowledge initiatives to become modern customer service organizations. Learn how integration with sales can add more value to the customer experience and sales process. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm TITLE New Opportunities Arise when Configure, Price, Quote is Combined With Commerce David Hatcher, Managing Principal Consultant, Development, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4203 Sales, CPQ and Commerce when integrated bring new opportunities. With Oracle's recent acquisitions of ATG, Endeca, and BigMachines, this session will review how an ecosystem can complement and complete your commerce solution. Product Managers will show where and how Oracle is investing in the commerce ecosystem and what the vision is for the future. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm TITLE Practical Ways of Using Data to Inform Smarter Sales Niraj Deo, Sr. Director, Product Management, Data Services, Oracle LOCATION Lando 4204 This session outlines all the practical ways in which data can be used within the context of Oracle Sales Cloud to qualify customers and to connect with key decision makers. We will cover the various types of account and profile data, including social attributes, that will help inform smarter sales activity and centralized customer profiling across marketing, sales and service. Subject to Change Page 13 Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm TITLE CPQ Cloud Streamlines Engineer-to-Order Processes Baylee Miller, Consulting Solution Lead, Oracle LOCATION TBD CPQ Cloud cut its teeth in the E2O space in the early 2000s, and has been helping sales teams configure customized, complex products with great success ever since. In this session, learn about how CPQ Cloud facilitates customization of configured products by engineers and specialists inside the sales process. This solution combines simplified workflow tools for collaboration and robust interfaces for controlled customization, resulting in a structured but flexible engineer to order environment. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm TITLE NextGen's Path to Large-Scale Sales Efficiency with CPQ Cloud Julia Kriner, CPQ Application Manager, NextGen Healthcare LOCATION TBD Nextgen Healthcare is a product of innovation and acquisition. Come learn how Nextgen uses CPQ Cloud to overcome the silos and behaviors that often accompany acquired products and sales teams. In addition, you'll hear Nextgen managers' perspectives on how they use CPQ Cloud data to build optimal forecasts to make timely business decisions. Thursday April 2, 2015 TIME 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm TITLE Sales/CPQ General Session - It's a Wrap! LOCATION Pallazo L Attend this wrap-up session to enjoy seeing and hearing about some of the highlights of the week. Hear Oracle executives share the input and feedback they heard from customers during the week. Learn how Oracle will take that feedback and use it to continue to build solutions that are complete, best-in-class, integrated, and cloudenabled to support your customer experience initiatives and goals. Subject to Change Page 14