Please come visit us at Alliance, March 10th - 13th. We are happy to announce that IntraSee will be a silver sponsor of the 2008 Alliance conference in Las Vegas, NV. Please visit our booth at location # 824. In addition to having two of our Top 10 presentations , we will also be co-presenting with Oracle. For a more detailed list of our sessions, take a look at the "IntraSee Events" section in this newsletter.

IntraSee to co-present with Oracle at Alliance (Session: 2540) Just as at Oracle Open World last year, IntraSee will again be co-presenting with Oracle on the new features in the upcoming Enterprise Portal 9.1, as well as demonstrating cutting edge solutions that are currently in production at various customer sites.

Stop by the IntraSee booth at Alliance to enter for a year's paid subscription to Netflix. We will give one away both conference days. Already have a Netflix account? Not to worry, you can apply the winnings to your current subscription.

IntraSee will also be exhibiting and presenting at the Collaborate Conference this April and at the HR Technology Conference this fall in Chicago. Stay tuned to future Newsletters for more details.

IntraSee Opens a new office in Austin, Texas!

To meet the rapidly expanding demand for our services in North America we have expanded our operations in the Southwest region and are very proud to open an office in Texas. Click here to see our Austin contact information.

Our presentation topics and times for Alliance are listed below:

Session 2540 (with Oracle):Improve Collaboration with Rich Community Features of the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal (Thursday 3/13/2008, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM)

The PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal provides a set of functionality distinctive among portals. We'll describe in depth, community features that enable your organization to collaborate more effectively, including such things as Collaborative Workspaces, Content Management, Group Calendars, Discussion Forums, and Shared Task Lists. We'll present real world implementations, demonstrating how these features are helping customers today.

Session 25809:Top 10 Ways to Use Web Services in PeopleSoft (Wednesday 3/12/2008, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM)

Operational flexibility and efficiency are imperatives for today's organization, hence the push toward SOA and Web Services. Enterprise applications are now seeing the benefits of exposing their core functionality via Web Services, allowing for more flexible integration between applications. You will be surprised at how many places web services serve a role in a traditional PeopleSoft implementation. We will also cover some common governance pitfalls to avoid during web service enablement.

Session 25810:Top 10 Tips For Adding Web 2.0 Features to PeopleSoft (Wednesday 3/12/2008, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM)

Check out Yahoo or Google and you will see that interactive Web 2.0 principles are now the standard, and that anything less is considered old fashioned and clunky. PeopleSoft often comes across as Web 1.0 to a user community that expects more. By using delivered tools, see how AJAX, DHTML, & XSLT can transform PeopleSoft into a Web 2.0-like application.

ERP applications, like PeopleSoft, can often look clunky and unintuitive compared to the top Internet sites like Yahoo.com. By adding AJAX and Web 2.0 techniques to your ERP suite you can completely transform the user experience into something they will be familiar and comfortable with. There are many ways you can do this without customizing your ERP software.

At IntraSee we can show you many examples of how we have extended PeopleSoft to look and feel like a modern and intuitive Internet site. The key is keeping pace with your audiences expectations of a website without alienating your change resistant users. Yahoo doesn't have to conduct training for users, and by implementing similar design techniques in your ERP software, you can introduce technology in a way that everyone can understand.

Here are some things to remember when designing your ERP interfaces:

• The controls need to make sense. In other words, use icons that users will recognize and descriptive labels.
• Design processes to mimic the interfaces of familiar applications
• Using alt tags to describe the function of the control can help to prevent user confusion
• Do not clutter the screen. Less is more, as long as it gets the point across.
• Consistency reinforces concepts. Whenever possible, use the same visual patterns to indicate the same controls throughout your application.

Most of all, remember that the goal of implementing anything into your enterprise application is to improve the user experience. Keeping the application familiar and simple while incorporating some of the cutting edge features used on the Internet can sometimes be tricky, but with the right implementation approach, you can successfully achieve the best of both worlds.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about how we can leverage your portal investment into the best return for your organization.