BLUEPRINT 4D In-person Session Listing

This session will cover a little bit about what ACH is and provide a step-by-step setup in JDE including examples using CTX format. It will also cover how to trigger ACH file generation for upload and processing. This is presented by Lisa Tran who works for manufacturer Stoner, Inc. She has used and configured JDE for 20+ years. She has migrated from XE to 8.10 to 9.2. As a member of the IT support team, she works with all aspects of JDE including programming, support and user training as well as supporting all of Stoner’s manufacturing activities.

Discuss the challenges faced utilizing a Full Orchestration approach, a Hybrid Orchestration approach and our Final approach for getting 3rd party data into E1 automatically. The business process involves not just Orchestrations, but the use of Watchlists, Notifications, Cafe1, UDO Scheduler, Springboards and more. This presentation is suitable for both the Developer and the Functional Business Analyst.

Have you ever wanted to ask “that elite group” of developers – ANYTHING? Now’s your chance. Daniel Bohner (db) and a select panel of Sr. Developers (big names) will be at the front. Beware, we will “Candidly” answer almost any question.

We will see a ‘day in the life’ of a CNC. First, the JDE software provides a multitude of tools to take care of daily processes and issues as well as troubleshooting, upgrade tools. .A CNC must know how to communicate with Vendors, their own company community – their customers, so other corporate tools are also discussed.

The Financials SIG meets monthly, providing presentations from fellow users, Oracle, or business partners on topical subjects effecting the Financial modules. If you are not familiar with our SIG, please come and find out more. If you are already attend our meetings, please come to meet fellow SIG members and have an opportunity to ask fellow members how they resolve certain issues.

If you are new to Advanced Pricing or if you’ve been tasked with cleaning up a mess that someone else created, this session will get you started on the path to a clean, organized approach to Advanced Pricing.

The Homebuilder SIG will meet to discuss all things in the Oracle ecosystem related to Homebuilders. The focus will be on JDE World and EnterpriseOne, how customers are using the system, and new functionality and upgrades.

Any company running JDE E1 9.2 has choice over what updates to take and when to take them. Best practice is for customers to stay current by taking each new release. Doing so ensures they are able to take advantage of the new tools and functionality that Oracle is continually delivering.

Companies that have been using JDE for a few years want to initiate a complete review of their business processes to bring out productivity efficiencies and improve their customer’s experience.

The JDE E1 Technology Special Interest Group was formed to help technical people network and discuss the JD Edwards Enterprise One tools set. We only get to meet face to face at conferences. This meeting is to introduce our members, board, Oracle support and vendors and the Quest enhancement system that we use to request software changes with Oracle.

Onboarding employees can be cumbersome, expensive, and ineffective. Learn the science behind successful strategies and hear customer stories on how they have streamlined the process.

Brief Review of Our Need for the Service Management program –
Just last year, our users were utilizing handwritten, paper JRRs (Job Record Reports) to submit their service orders. Since then, we have implemented not only an electronic method of capturing this data, but also mobile capabilities with some orchestrations. This new process will help to better track our service orders as well as identify outliers that might have gone unnoticed prior to the addition of the JDE EnterpriseOne Service Management program.

We will have an open discussion on how Oracle can help us enhance their tools software which supports the Enterprise One applications. The tools software includes development, system administration, security and installation. The Technology SIG collects enhancement requests for the JDE Enterprise One Toolset and makes these available to Oracle when they are looking for changes to include in their releases.

Long Batch Wait times? Users pulling out the hair in frustration data slowly paints their screen? Discovery what the #1 bottleneck is for most JDE system and how to fix it fast (in many cases without spending anything additional infrastructure.) Once we’ve dealt with the main things the hit bottlenecks #2 and #3 for grins.

Although the JD Edwards Fixed Assets system provides a wide range of standard depreciation methods, there might be a need for specific depreciation algorithms other than those provided with the standard depreciation methods. For example, to help small businesses, owners can claim their first-year bonus depreciation in qualifying personal property used for business purposes. Using bonus depreciation, they can deduct a certain percentage of the cost of an asset in the first year it was purchased, and the remaining cost can be deducted over several years using regular depreciation.

The ABC’s of Cycle Counting Process Improvement: Learn how to better use the ABC Cycle Counting Method and Best Practices for improved Cycle Counting

Are you new to JDE E1 Security? Perhaps an auditor or analyst wanting a better understanding of JDE security? Or maybe you’re a seasoned JDE professional and just want a refresher course? Understanding JDE E1 security is a journey through a vast galaxy with many unknowns along the way. That’s why it’s important to be clear on the basic concepts that underpin the rules of the security galaxy! Join us for this session on JDE Security Fundamentals where we will provide you a foundation of JDE system and outline the individual elements that make-up security.?We will focus on the steps involved in planning, implementing, and maintaining JDE security from start to finish. Join the us for a journey through the E1 galaxy & beyond.

JD Edwards’ standard 2-phase pick process gives us the ability to verify material picked between warehouse and manufacturing. Warehouse scans phase 1 from warehouse location to virtual location. Manufacturing scans phase 2 from virtual location to manufacturing location. This gives manufacturing the ability to confirm the physical material brought to them has been moved in JD Edwards as well.

Sagent Pharma had to integrate the Sales portal with JDE using the Orchestrator.

Come join the UDO/Personalization SIG! The latest E1 releases have introduced numerous tools for customizing and personalizing the applications. With this new functionality, customers are working to integrate these features to improve usability and efficiency. This SIG will provide a meeting place to discuss and share ideas.

Are you the “last line of defense” in your E1 system? As a CNC, we are used to tackling technical, database, and performance issues. But we are often 2nd or 3rd level support for issues in E1. Sometimes, our technical perspective does not solve the problem. We have to build skills to look at the applications themselves. In this session, I will share my process and toolset for digging into application questions and issues.

As a JDE Fixed Asset user for over 25 years, I have accumulated a small notebook on how Fixed Assets are treated in certain situations, and have documented quirkiness in the programs. The topics will cover Depreciation (both book and tax), Transfers, Disposals, and Depreciation Projections.

Do you work for a small to medium size business running JDE Edwards? Then this SIG is for you! Smaller businesses tend to have a small in-house IT staff that wears a lot of hats and must be versed in many areas. We try to get the most out of what the company already owns by exploring the remote corners of functionality, designing creative but non-invasive modifications, and sharing free tools that help us get ahead. Our small business SIG wants to help you make your company better and your job easier. We may all be from different industries, but we all share similar problems. We have tools and tricks we have discovered to help us creatively and inexpensively deal with problems. Come check us out to learn from others as we shared valuable knowledge and experience.

Join this session to learn how Miller Electric Company energized their A/P operations. With the investment of capital and time into JDE over the last 15 years it made sense to leverage an A/P Automation tool embedded in E1. Having a single system translates into incredible time and cost savings during training, user adoption, use and maintenance. With A/P Automation within E1 the job costing is now done at the front of the transaction. In the business this means the AP dept. is less dependent on Project Managers to get costs into the system ASAP. PM’s are now simply approving the payment, not the costs. The speed at which this happens is second to none. Miller has minimized keying errors, delivered seamless efficiency and increased compliancy as auditors can evaluate any step in the process.

In an effort to be compliant with OSHA Covid requirements we elected to utilize Supplemental Data that allows flexibility in record design with validation to the Employee Master. Standardly the Supplemental Data application is connected to many of the existing applications throughout the HCM Module.

Our industry has a large volume of employees that process through the stages of employment very frequently. This resulted in multiple ways of collecting this information from different HCM Departments within our company. Since the data is needed across the company for real-time reporting a way to quickly create records in Supplemental Data was identified to be needed instead of entering one record at a time.

How to leverage PowerShell to interact with EnterpriseOne via webservice calls to Orchestrations and RESTful APIs.

Tredegar was in the difficult position of being spun off within a short window and a hard deadline. They needed to bring JD Edwards into Oracle’s cloud while reducing their costs associated with third-party products. They found a solution that leveraged Oracle’s Orchestration technology that saved them significant costs from their traditional Scanning vendor. Leveraging a strong team and partnership, Tredegar was able to convert 18 scripts to Orchestrations running on hand-held scanners with little impact on their end-user material handlers. Tredegar successfully hit all their dates and financial objectives from the divestiture with no impact on their customers or employees!

With the release of 9.2 and JDE Orchestrator, JDE has been espousing “getting to vanilla” in the JDE core system. This direction opens up a huge opportunity for companies to develop customized and value-driven custom solutions without breaking up or manipulating the JDE functional logic. So, how do you start? In this session, we’ll talk about what the state of play is in the application development space from open source to the latest foray of software providers and “Low Code” offerings. There are a ton of ways to move, learn how to choose the route which makes the best sense for your business. Whether you’re on 9.2 or not, you can still learn about the array of opportunities that exist in the application development space.

The Procurement and Requirements Planning modules of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne enable companies to manage their production lifecycle and are integral to economic success. This session will demonstrate some of the latest enhancements for Procurement and Requirements Planning and how these enhancements can enable increased productivity. Learn from real-world business use case how the latest Procurement and Requirements Planning capabilities were implemented and enabled improved business processes.

Weitz’s employees demanded remote, real-time access to their employment and benefits data in an effort to be self-sufficient. Learn how Weitz leveraged JD Edwards HCM to empower their employees. Now they review W2s, pay stubs, and even enroll in benefits on their mobile devices (phone or tablet) utilizing Oracle Orchestration technology. Weitz significantly reduced the time and effort of their back-office employees. Weitz increased their HCM staff’s productivity and employee satisfaction. With Mobility, they kept sensitive data secure in JDE, eliminated the need to export or expose employee data to a third-party application. Also, hear how Weitz and other companies are using Mobility for open enrollment, significantly reducing the time and labor of all employees through a simple, friendly, user interface.

Atlanta based Printpack, providing custom flexible and rigid packaging to the world’s largest CPG companies. This is about our journey to enable customers and vendor portal access.
Our JDE E1 9.2 is highly customized including order management and procurement.
When vetting portal vendors, there was a focus on being able to use standard E1 integrations and business functions.Functionality we will review are
1. Order management: Item catalogue, shopping carts, inquiries, and credit card payment
2. Vendor setup: New vendor, required document, vendor change

This session is based on an experience with a customer that used third party scanning tools to detect that several key WebLogic patches were not in place. Specifically the version they currently had installed was no longer supported by Oracle. This lack of support indicates that Oracle is not obligated to release new security patches. As a result, it is likely to contain security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious agents. The process to upgrade to the latest version of WebLogic will be discussed and clear documentation will be provided to help customers with this complex process. We will discuss making sure customers are on the latest version 12.2.1.3. This upgrade process is not well documented and includes information that may lack clarity. Attend to learn best practices and see a step by step explanation to avoid common pitfalls.

How much JD Edwards EnterpriseOne are you paying for that you haven’t used yet? Do you even know what you have? JD Edwards has evolved a great deal over the past several years: not just added core functionality within the applications, but numerous Tools Releases that have added UI features to help your users get more from what you already have. You’ve known Watchlists, Composed Pages, CAFEOne Pages, Form Personalization, and Orchestrations have existed for years. Have you gone there? What about the newest Tools features like full Web OMW? How about the sophisticated possibilities with EnterpriseOne Search?

This presentation will point out the lowest hanging fruit our Managed Services Team consistently finds to improve your users’ experience, how these fit well within a quick/agile deployment approach, and leverages what you already have to improve the ROI of your current investment. This will also include a demonstration of E1 Search to quickly build out a terrific inquiry application without any coding.

The latest Apps & Tools Release has a lot to offer for manufacturing and distribution customers who are looking to automate, optimize and transform their supply chain. Join this session to explore the latest automation, user experience, mobile and process-driven improvements.

If your environment has been through a few upgrades, had developers/consultants through the system, or technical employee turnover, the system probably has obsolete custom objects, unused versions, and OMW projects, personal UDOs & favorites for users that are long-gone. There may even be orphaned records in the security, user profile, work submitted jobs, and task tables. Let’s discuss how to find this data and what to do about it.

JDE EnterpriseOne meeting for current members, potential members, and guests of the JD Edwards Business Analyst Special Interest Group

Live Demo & Business Case Presentation by Steltix and MYR Group. MYR Group subsidiaries provide transmission and distribution (T&D) electrical construction services to customers throughout the United States and Canada. MYR Group turned to Steltix Digital Solutions turbocharge adoption and benefits of simplifying business processes, automation, mobility and modernising their users’ experience.

Steltix Digital Automation SaaS solutions have been designed and delivered by Steltix and offering over 250 apps that automate all business processes including warehouse, supply chain, manufacturing, human resource, procurement, finance, field services, CRM and more. The solution has minimize impact on IT & users because of the zero/low code development which operates natively in JDE leveraging JD Edwards tables, security, login and data.

By leveraging Steltix Digital Automation Solution and JD Edwards, MYR Group have modernised the user experience and rapidly delivered mobility to their field services teams and warehouse that would otherwise not be possible.

Experience a modern UI for mobile phones, tablets and scanning devices for:
-Field and local Maintenance Orders
-Field Services Work Order Time Entry
-Leave Approval
-Time Card Approval

Sales Orders, Purchasing, MRP, Manufacturing? Bring your list of questions to this session., Members of the EnterpriseOne Manufacturing and Distribution User Group will lead an interactive discussion to find solutions and give you ideas to take back to your organization.

Integrated processes in JD Edwards don’t anticipate the exceptions that occur in the real business world – managing these exceptions typically requires managing communication between multiple departments, updating related transactions in the system, and coordinating impacts with external partners. In this session we’ll look at how UX One tools and Orchestrations to improve the user experience and automate alerts when exceptions occur. We’ll be using the Direct Shipment process as our example, but the tools used are applicable to just about any integrated process.

Rules are made to be broken, as the saying goes, and even the most robust standard process needs to allow for special scenarios. Advanced Preferences are your key to adding flexibility to the Sales Order process, allowing alternate rule sets to be built based on customers, items and transportation criteria. This session will provide a high level overview of all of the Advanced Preferences available for Sales Order processing and Transportation, and will provide some specific examples of how preference rules can be applied to meet real world business scenarios.

The EnterpriseOne Manufacturing and Distribution User Group’s meeting at Blueprint 4D

This meeting will be an in-person HCM SIG meeting and take the place of the monthly phone call with the group.

Review in detail how and what your PDBAs can do for you.
Understand what each form does and how it all links together.

During this session you will learn about the new 2021 form extension and personalization enhancements in Release 22, which will further boost user productivity.
You will learn:
– Form extensibility
– Associate description to edit control on form
– UDO dependencies with orchestrator components
– Enhanced browser support for media objects
– Enhanced browser support for grid import/ export
– Logic extensibility
– Associate description in grid
– Form extension grid improvements-
– Make input fields as read only
– Ability to change number of rows in the grid
– Make the column editable on edit grids

If you are planning to implement Application Release 22, which requires Tools 9.2.6.X or greater, you may be faced with a large technology project. We’ll review some of the technology requirements and hassles.

Here are some things to consider:
– You must move from 32-bit to 64-bit
– Windows Servers need to be upgraded to 2019
– The database server for Oracle requires an uptick to 19C. Even if you are on SQL Server, your deployment server is still Oracle. All clients need to be upgraded too. This involves removing any 32-bit clients
– WebLogic may need to be upgraded to 12.2.1.4.0 or 14.1.1.0
– All Java programs must be upgraded to a 64-bit version

Pierce Manufacturing, a leading US manufacturer of fire and emergency equipment, recently accelerated to EnterpriseOne 9.2 by using an integrated team, a new learning model, and the power of E1 9.2 features. Pierce’s upgrade comes after over 20 years on coexistent JDE OneWorld and JDE World. Leveraging the new tools and features made for an exciting roll-out organized with a blended team of external support, core team business members, and expert SMEs. End user success was enabled first by strong business ownership with the right combination of in person training, live web-based learning, training aids, and online options delivered through the TTS Performance Suite. Join us to hear the many wins and the best practices for this upgrade success.

Today, many companies enjoy a competitive advantage by leveraging JD Edwards Digital Platform to drive innovation that automates, optimizes and transforms business processes. The focus now shifts toward the future and the evolution of ERP. Gary Grieshaber and Paul Houtkooper will review how Digital ERP has help customers transform their business and will share their vision for the intelligent future of ERP.

Release 22 delivers on JD Edwards promise of digital ERP. Join Jeff Erickson and Keith Sholes of a review of Release 22 and the innovative solutions that help you optimize your JD Edwards applications, enable those applications to be the core of your digital initiatives, and simplify and automate everything to do with managing your JD Edwards instances. We will also touch on some of the more interesting innovations we are currently working on as we move toward intelligent ERP.

This session encourages executives and decision makers to direct their hard hitting questions to the Oracle JD Edwards executive panel.

Throughout its decades as a venerable and veteran ERP system, JD Edwards has seen—and has ignited—many disruptive and evolving paradigms. That trend never ceases as technology continuously advances and JD Edwards continuously innovates. We have long conquered the paradigm of traditional, transactional ERP. Today we are firmly established in the paradigm of digital ERP with Release 22 and the JD Edwards digital platform. And now we are on the crest of the next wave: intelligent ERP. What does this future of ERP hold for us? We will analyze the data we already have for deeper insights. We will leverage the intelligence of external systems. We will not simply react, but predict, the best course of action. Your JD Edwards system will act as a business partner and trusted advisor as humans and machines cooperate toward nimble, agile, and inventive business processes. The wave is coming, and JD Edwards is making waves.

Great news! The JD Edwards data visualization applications such as Joint Venture Hierarchy, Property Map for Real Estate, Employee Organization Chart, Visual Bill of Material, Work Center Load Review Calendar, and others are all new and improved with release 22. The Release 22 versions of these graphical applications leverage the latest Oracle technology and are easier to implement and simple to adopt. Attend this session for a walk-through to see how they will simplify and improve user experience.

You came to BLUEPRINT 4D to study architecture and learn what you can build for yourself. What better way than to learn from the success of others. Attend this session to hear from a panel of customers who have built upon the JD Edwards digital platform.

Did you think you were all caught up with the latest enhancements to Orchestrator and the JD Edwards digital platform? Think again. The JD Edwards product development team has been at it again with more of your enhancement requests and a few enhancements you probably didn’t even know you needed. Prepare for another rapid-fire survey of recent enhancements, examples of how to put them to good use, and demos, demos, demos.

Establishing a code-current strategy keeps JD Edwards customers updated with the latest and greatest innovations in our product. This session introduces our improvements in update manager that simplifies the update process and eliminates manual efforts in staying code current.

As JD Edwards has move to continuous delivery of innovation, are you struggling with how to stay current and leverage the latest innovation? It is possible to stay current with JD Edwards! Come to this session to learn how other customers are stay current on JD Edwards while driving business innovation.

The seamless package deployment options allows customers to have Zero Downtime JD Edwards systems. This session will take you through the innovations that we brought in for having lock-free package deployments for ensuring uninterrupted business processes.

The recent innovations in JD Edwards have transformed our systems into self-monitoring, self-healing and secure systems that can simplify and automate the system admin tasks. This session will cover the value that it brings to our system with our recent improvements in the area of kernel reconnections, server manager, and security tracking.

JD Edwards 64-bit computing gives you the choice and control over how you run your business. This session will discuss in detail on how you want to be able to adopt future technology and take advantage of future innovations with 64-bit adoption.

Getting to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Release 9.2 is easier than ever. Come to this session to understand how the improved upgrade process reduces the time and effort to upgrade to 9.2. You will be amazed at how quickly you can get to 9.2!

The Ford Meter Box Company is a prominent manufacturer of products for the waterworks industry. Attend this session to see how they have leveraged JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Orchestrator as their smart factory platform to integrate critical factory equipment, automate shop floor data collection, and develop their own fit-for-purpose mobile applications resulting in reduced data entry time and errors, improved quality, and increased capacity and profits.

There are many significant enhancements in 9.2 that you can easily take advantage of to improve your requirements planning process. Attend this session for a review of all these features along with the Planning Summary and Console recently delivered in Release 22.

Attend this session to learn about the new capabilities delivered in 9.2 that you can easily take advantage of to take more control of your production processes. This includes Activity Rules and Ledger, Completion Quantity Restrictions, and Bill of Material and Routing Type Default Selection.

JD Edwards has invested heavily in the Orchestrator as a way to connect external applications and interfaces with JDE business data and logic. Mobile application interfaces are a great use case for this model. Customers and partners can now leverage their front-end development tool of choice, such as Oracle Visual Builder, to create a mobile user interface that connects to JD Edwards business data and logic through orchestrations. Come join us for a panel discussion featuring JD Edwards partners and customers sharing their real-life experiences of creating mobile applications.

Come join us to learn about the new functional enhancements for Warehouse Management including expanded license plate commitment swap flexibility and support for costing at the lot/location level. These enhancements along with License Plate Picking Optimization help to improve capacity utilization, warehouse efficiency, and reduce labor costs. As an added bonus, ERP Suites will show how they helped Dayton Lamina replace their bolt-on WMS and Scanning infrastructure. Dayton Lamina was able to reduce errors in shipping, increase material handler productivity, and reduce the cost of supporting multiple systems. Their success story is built around maximizing JD Edwards native functionality and an Orchestration based scanning solution.

Plain text is so…plain. But a well-designed, richly formatted message, including fonts, tables, and embedded graphics, carries a sense of professionalism, branding, and readability for the recipient. Attend this session to see what’s possible with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Release 22 and how to use Orchestrator and notifications to get your message out with a bit of style and panache.

Join us to discover how easy it is to extend the power of your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system using its digital platform and extensibility frameworks. Some features have been around for a while; others are brand new with Release 22. They are all available to help you solve problems and adapt to rapid change. See demos and hear case studies of customers who have used the rich set of low-code/no-code frameworks to eliminate customizations and perform business processes more efficiently.

Release 22 is your Digital ERP release, delivering innovation that automates, optimizes, and transforms business processes but it is also your release for protection against security threats. While digital transformation helps create a competitive advantage, Release 22 is equally important as it contains the most current security patches for JD Edwards and certified platforms. Attend this session to learn about the latest JD Edwards innovation that will power your digital transformation while providing you protection against the latest security threats.

Have your plans to modernize been accelerated? JD Edwards customers should begin to understand and explore their cloud options. Navigating the many Oracle Cloud solutions can be overwhelming at first. With this session, learn more about the solutions offered, how they complement and extend your JD Edwards solution, and which solutions are best suited for your organization. This session will emphasize SaaS solutions and the solutions JD Edwards customers are frequently taking advantage of.

There are a number of enhancements in 9.2 that you can leverage to speed up your financial close. Learn about a whole new suite of online integrities that you can run all month long to stay on top of anomalies, together with UX One components and other improvements.

Join this session for an interactive discussion of the current and future state of the user experience within JD Edwards. Bring your business use case requirements for visualization, UX One, mobile, chat bots and self-service portlet applications.

Grant Thornton will share their experiences, guidance and accelerated methodology for adopting JDE Lease Accounting functionality. Focus of the discussion will include sharing insights from previous projects, highlighting key take-aways, and providing a clear understanding of the most important and critical path activities for implementing in a timely manner. Oracle will share the newest developments in the lease accounting module, including a new report which shows current vs. non-current lease liability and ROUA balances.

Oracle will share new features in the JD Edwards Real Estate module, including the new, intuitive visual application, Property Map. You have probably heard about some amazing use cases for JD Edwards Orchestrator, but how can these be applied to leasing, property accounting and commercial real estate? Grant Thornton will demonstrate an orchestration that can be utilized by nearly every Lessor to help automate a manual process. We will review the Orchestrator studio components utilized to support the orchestration and provide an “under the hood” look at what these orchestrations are composed of. We will also discuss a number of use cases your organization can achieve with Orchestrator, including process automation, enhanced integrations, process workflow and notifications.

Some pay situations are extremely complex to enter and process correctly. See how Timecard Automation can help with these difficult situations. We will illustrate the systems’ flexibility using real-world examples, such as the multiple rules regarding overtime in California.

The Joint Venture Management solution for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne enables you to manage the key functionality of a joint venture including defining the legal aspects of the joint venture, managing the division of interest for each joint venture, and tracking and managing budgets. This session will explore a real life implementation example of the JDE JVM module, showing how the module has simplified the joint venture process to calculate cost and revenue using predefined rules for the joint venture and its partners. JVM is a new module, but there are even newer enhancements! We will also discuss the newest improvements that make processing more efficient, expand the functionality and improve the user experience.

Join this session to learn how JDE Homebuilder can be rapidly implemented for the Build To Rent (BTR) and Build To Sell (BTS) markets. In 9 months, AH4R with Oracle CSP KS2 Technologies, implemented JDE Homebuilder/Purchasing/Financials, fully integrated with: Hyphen BuildPro/SupplyPro, Yardi, Azure AD, PingID, and Palo Alto – ALL running in Oracle Cloud Infra (OCI), Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) with API’s by AIS/Orchestrator.

This session will cover the benefits of migrating JD Edwards to Oracle cloud Infrastructure. It will also provide an overview of the latest capabilities introduced that leverage native Oracle cloud services and support for Autonomous Database.

Digital evolution is a land of opportunities in terms of cost efficiency, improving customer experiences, offering differentiation and will be essential for continued success. Come join this session to learn how JD Edwards can enable you to achieve digitalization in your organization.

The amounts an organization can save from supplier discounts can be significant. JD Edwards has delivered significant enhancements that make it easier for companies to take capture supplier offered discounts. The focus of these enhancements has been to simplify and automate the processes, provide flexibility through configuration and improve user experience. Join this session to learn more about how these enhancements help in realizing supplier discount automation in Procurement.

Workflow has been an integral part of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne product for decades, transforming formerly tedious, paper-based, manual tasks into automated electronic processes. But things change, and it’s time to take a fresh look at what’s new and what’s now possible. This session introduces the next-generation workflow capabilities in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. These new enhancements empower business analysts to design and deploy automated business processes without deep developer skills or complex customizations. Orchestrations, notifications, messages with action links, and a new Workflow Studio are all at your fingertips and built right into EnterpriseOne Release 22.

Discover in this session the right tools for making successful projects in Latin America.
Systems automation, localization, tax integrations, all you need for simplifying projects in this region.

Learn why clients trust Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for their mission-critical business applications. Discover how to improve performance and security, while reducing costs for your enterprise and performance-intensive applications with help from Oracle and IBM Services. Mohinder Mahal and Mohanakrishnan Ramamoorthy are going to discuss what’s possible and how to get there.

They will discuss how OCI represents the best option for moving data and all workloads (not just Oracle apps) to cloud & how IBM can implement and manage every aspect of the migration by using IBM built Assets and Accelerators. Better understand how the benefits of the modernization are quantifiable and include improved application management, reduced costs for maintenance & operations, enhanced security & scalability, and unlock opportunities to innovate.

Building a high-performance infrastructure is challenging, but organizations don’t need to face the risks of a cloud migration by themselves. In fact, a recent Gartner analysis revealed that by 2025, 85 percent of large organizations will have engaged external services providers to migrate applications to the cloud, up from 43 percent in 2019. IBM has been an Oracle partner for more than 30 years and a prominent managed services provider for over 20 years. These decades of experience have generated market-leading processes, knowledge and unparalleled insight into the design, build and deployment of cloud solutions. We’re committed to creating world-class solutions for organizations looking to upgrade their infrastructure with Oracle Cloud Solutions. “Combining expert professional services from IBM and Oracle helps our joint clients improve performance and security, while significantly reducing costs to run their enterprise applications. With Oracle’s Gen 2Cloud Infrastructure, implemented and managed by IBM Services, customers are able to shift their spend from maintenance and focus their own people on digitally-driven innovation.”

Discover in this session the right tools for making successful projects in Latin America.
Systems automation, localization, tax integrations, all you need for simplifying projects in this region.
Objectives:
•Know how global JDE customers simplify and automate their Mexico installations: tax compliance, voucher entry automation, and others. Customer stories.
•Discover how to automate non-standard bank payments integration (typical in Mexico and Latin America)
•Understand the localization complexity in the different countries for planning properly. Electronic invoice: using just one integration tool for solving this requirement in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and others, even EMEA countries.
•Applying the newest JDE orchestrator 9.2.6 feature for data integrity checking in Financials/Distribution: learn how this new feature can builds a CSV file as the output of the orchestration and save dozens of reports!

A common challenge for companies trying to manage their Procure-to-Pay business process is encountered when trying to implement the segregation of duties & other controls mandated for Sarbanes-Oxley and Audit compliance. Whereas materials & parts procurement have JDE applications that easily support the 3-way match of Purchase Order – Receipt – Payment Voucher, companies procuring Services from Contractors are frequently faced with the dilemma of how to perform a Receipt of Services? All too often, companies arrive at a hodge-podge of process and JDE usage, ranging from flip-flopping the quantity and extended price fields on the PO, forwarding invoices via mail to the original requestor of services procurement for a “manual approval to pay,” and external software systems managing “A/P approvers.”
With the new Contractor Services Module for EnterpriseOne, managing Contractor Services procurement has never been easier. In this Session you will see how this EnterpriseOne native module allows your company to overcome the challenges that plague your Procurement, Operations, and Accounts Payables groups.
Objectives:
•Need to create a $1M “Standing” Purchase Order to a Contractor for providing services over the next year, but ensure the PO# referenced on the Vendor Invoices remains consistent throughout the duration of the drawdown of available funds?…no problem.
•Planning Contractor Services on a Work Order, or having a Contractor submit Time/Expense/Rental Equipment against WO’s that were simply delegated to them?…no problem.
•Positive Receipt of Services inside JDE which enables Voucher Matching up to the amount of the received Services?…again, no problem.

Cloud apps and services are the latest and greatest ERP craze. But what are they exactly? How will they work with your particular JD Edwards system and all of its customizations? Are they even right for your organization?
The experts at Denovo are here to guide you through what the assessment and implementation process could look like for your organization to modernize your legacy JD Edwards instance into a powerhouse hybrid ERP model with Oracle Cloud Applications.
Hear from Denovo’s Susan Szymanski, Vice President & Oracle Practice Leader, about:
•Key considerations in whether or not adopting Oracle Cloud Apps is right for your organization
•Evaluate your functional requirements
•Evaluate your customizations
•Understanding the Oracle Cloud Applications software model
•How to adopt a stepping stone approach to incorporating Oracle Cloud Apps into your JD Edwards system

Perhaps you’ve already invested in your JDE security, or maybe you think that fraud is something that happens to other companies. However, as technology advances and the methods of malicious actors adapt and evolve, you can never afford to be complacent.
For example, are you confident that your security is right for your current and future business needs? How can you identify the problem areas and prioritize remediation? Can you exploit automation to improve efficiency and achieve tighter control with less resources?
What should you do about JDE security when moving to the Cloud? With data privacy regulations constantly expanding, how can you use adaptive security and Attribute-based Access control to protect sensitive data in different contexts, such as working from home, or out of hours?
Can Artificial Intelligence help in risk management and compliance? Is it possible to centralize GRC and achieve cross platform compliance?
Join Mike Ward as he discusses the challenges and opportunities facing JDE customers:
•Explore important security and audit-related developments that could impact your business
•Identify opportunities for improvements and efficiencies
•Learn about the Top 10 recommended actions to achieve best practice.

Attend this session to learn how your investment in JD Edwards’ Capital Asset Management can go to the next level. See a redesigned Work Order process with enhanced usability and role security. A simplified interface results in reduced clicks and easier navigation for end users. Landing pages provide a modern user interface with KPI metrics front and center. Understand the possibilities that a connected/disconnected, easy to use mobile experience brings to users out in the field or at the job site, ready and available for where it’s needed. And finally, learn how searching for inventory and managing commitments can be enhanced.
Objectives:
•Learn how your users’ experience with Capital Asset Management can be simplified and easier to use.
•Learn how your pain points with Capital Asset Management have been addressed and solutions are available today.
•Learn how a disconnect mobile experience can transform the effectiveness of your maintenance organization.

In this session Rudy Menke (Hillwood) and Joost Engel (fizor.) take you through the cradle-to-grave management of your vendors. Hillwood has streamlined the entire vendor management lifecycle with low-code solution, fully integrated with JD Edwards E1. From the initial vendor onboarding, supplier ledger creation through efficiently managing vendor invoices with JDE Accounts Payable Automation, managing vendor inquiries and exception handling, Hillwood implemented companywide best practices. Master Data Management spans across suppliers, customer, and articles. Not only improving master data quality, significantly impacting process efficiency by preventing errors down the chain due to faulty data. This session covers process efficiencies and cost optimizations across the management of vendors, ensuring optimized performance of your supply chain and effective relation management.

A modern, productive, and efficient warehouse is key to reducing costs, increasing profits and exceeding customer expectations. Join this session to explore data collection for warehouse operations, mobility extension for JD Edwards, end-to-end automation across the entire supply chain and more available solutions for digitizing, modernizing and transforming supply chain operations.

During this session learn how to protect your JD Edwards system from cyberattacks. Topics covered will include:
– A ransomware attack case walk through
– Protecting your perimeter
– Locking down ports
– Use of intrusion detection/prevention
– End point protection tools
– What to do if you determine you have been hit
– Create an incident response manual & template

Simplify, automate and digitize your JDE! Join this session to explore must-see JDE innovations for maximizing your E1 investment, including Smart Scheduler for batch job scheduling automation, Smart Build for package automation, ERPSign for integrated eSignature workflows, Smart Sense for E1 Server Monitoring and much more.

Ensuring that there are appropriate access controls within your E1 footprint can be a complex undertaking. But guess what – it doesn’t have to be a complicated process! Today’s Executive has responsibilities that span from financial regulations to data access compliance. The key question to ask yourself is, how do I manage emerging risk within my JDE system and processes.
An effective Enterprise Risk Management Strategy relies on people, processes, and tools. Join us to reveal a risk management toolset that empowers your people to identify risk exposure areas and facilitate the adoption of realistic processes. Learn how to gain visibility into high-risk areas of E1 as a part of your security, controls or compliance efforts. Whether you are a public, private or a governmental entity, you need to deliver appropriate access to confidential or critical information. There are no prerequisites for this educational opportunity, so whether you are an IT professional, a Business Analyst, a Finance Executive, or somewhere in between, you will learn how to bring transparency and understanding of E1 risk management to your organization.”
Objectives:
•Learn how to provide the necessary toolset for E1 compliance project objectives
•Identify opportunities for effective integration between IT and Financial controls
•Reveal resources that are easily incorporated into access reviews and to deliver best practices

Struggling with long planning cycles full of complex, manual tasks and spreadsheets? Manual tasks and siloed data prolong planning processes and increase margin of error, forcing teams to delay much-needed analysis in favor of completing critical planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
Take control of your planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes with the Bizview interface for JD Edwards. Bizview is a robust planning solution that leverages insightsoftware’s ERP Smarts, and the JDE Interface maps the data into Bizview simplifying processes to save you time, reduce complexity, and de-risk the integration process. In this session, learn about:
• How to use the Bizview interface
• How to gain a more flexible, connected budgeting and planning solution
• How to increase collaboration across your organization

Failing to manage manual, transaction-based processes can be a money-losing proposition for an organization – and it’s avoidable.
Automating your Accounts Payables and Sales Order entry functions can address common problems such as data entry errors, late payments, missed customer SLAs, duplications, misplaced files, processing errors, and other issues. You need a solution that fits the way you work, not the other way around.
Learn how IntelliChief can unlock the full potential of end-to-end automation in your organization.
In this session you will learn:
•Why automating your processes – Accounts Payable and Sales Order entry matters
•What to expect when you can boost management visibility and make improvements by capturing key documents –connected to JD Edwards
•How real-time integration with JD Edwards streamlines processing, validation, and approvals
•To avoid bottlenecks and redundancies by empowering the way you work
•Verify the accuracy of your transactions within JD Edwards and automate your approvals
•Demonstrate the savings you can gain from automating any document-based processes
•Unlock any hidden secrets behind a successful implementation
Gain the tools you need to unlock the potential of automation and get on a successful financial path. In this session, our expert will cover measurable KPIs for AP automation that can be impacted by real-time integration with your existing Oracle JD Edwards (JDE) ERP such as:
•Overall Cost Per Invoice Processed
•Number of Invoices Processed Straight-Through (Touchless) Per Day versus Manually Processed Invoices
•The average percent of invoice exceptions
•Average Time Per Invoice Processed
•Reduction in received not vouchered invoices
Doing more with less has become a new goal for business operations. By implementing AP automation tools, your overall operating costs can yield significant savings. Join us for Proven Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in AP Automation for Oracle EBS and you.

In order to truly gain insights from your JD Edwards data, you have to do more than simply report on what happened in the past. Recent advancements in cloud-based technologies allow customers to easily take advantage of machine learning (ML) capabilities to better forecast what will happen in the future, without having to invest capital in expensive software. Combining these accurate and robust forecasts with dashboards and KPIs from across the enterprise allows JD Edwards customers to improve their sales strategy while optimizing their supply chain. Come see how AWS Analytics can help create a new culture of innovation.
Objectives:
•Discuss how predictive analytics are easily accessible for JD Edwards customers
•Provide an overview and demonstration of Amazon QuickSight
•Provide an overview and discussion of use cases of Amazon Forecast

Live Demo & Business Case Presentation by Steltix and MYR Group. MYR Group subsidiaries provide transmission and distribution (T&D) electrical construction services to customers throughout the United States and Canada. MYR Group turned to Steltix Digital Solutions turbocharge adoption and benefits of simplifying business processes, automation, mobility and modernising their users’ experience.
Steltix Digital Automation SaaS solutions have been designed and delivered by Steltix and offering over 250 apps that automate all business processes including warehouse, supply chain, manufacturing, human resource, procurement, finance, field services, CRM and more. The solution has minimize impact on IT & users because of the zero/low code development which operates natively in JDE leveraging JD Edwards tables, security, login and data.
By leveraging Steltix Digital Automation Solution and JD Edwards, MYR Group have modernised the user experience and rapidly delivered mobility to their field services teams and warehouse that would otherwise not be possible.
Experience a modern UI for mobile phones, tablets and scanning devices for:
•Field and local Maintenance Orders
•Field Services Work Order Time Entry
•Leave Approval
•Time Card Approval

Join us to learn how Cloud Inventory® empowers organizations to extend the value of JD Edwards; with real-time inventory visibility at all points across the enterprise, whether on the shop floor, in the warehouse, in transit or out in the field; both on-line and disconnected. In this session, we will discuss how our low-code platform and mobile-first inventory solutions are used to increase productivity, optimize inventory, improve compliance, and drive more revenue – all while being the catalyst for digital transformation and high-resolution data capture. We will also show how Manufacturing Materials™, Warehouse Inventory™ and Field Inventory™ can enable high-fidelity inventory visibility increasing item accuracy, improving service levels, and decreasing material costs.

Tuff Shed transformed their accounts payable processes in response to challenges brought on by the global pandemic. Join this session to hear from David Pott their Controller on how they realized a complete AP automation solution that integrates near seamlessly with their JDE – all while improving auditing and relationships with suppliers, speeding up the pace of invoice processing and reducing supply chain issues that would impact delivery times for their customers.

During this session, we will demonstrate 5 quick win orchestrator use cases that were implemented at JD Edwards customers. We’ll deep dive into the following use cases plus more.
•Automate the Updating of Exchange Rates
•Create Sales Orders from a CSV (Order Entry
•How to Onboard Customers Quickly
•Duplicate Branch Plant Records across Branches
•Calculating Cost of Living Increases
With costs being under the microscope, everyone is looking for the quick wins with JD Edwards that will provide immediate benefits, without taking on a major project.
Learn how orchestrations can help your organization minimize business process complexities by automating tasks and streamlining business operations.
There will be a 15-minute Q&A at the end of the session.

What lies ahead in the future for JDE customers? During this session, we will discuss the various options to ensure the ongoing success of your organization.
1.It’s all about the business requirements!
2.Should I go SaaS or stay on-prem?
3.What are my SaaS options (NetSuite, Oracle Cloud ERP and more)
4.If I stay with JDE, what are my deployments options (On-prem, managed services, private, public, etc.)
5.3rd party expansion of JDE footprint (buy vs. build)
We’ll dive deep into these topics plus more! There will be a 15-minute Q&A at the end of the session.

Using PeopleSoft SOAP Component Interface, ServiceNow and Azure Logic Apps to create Vendors in PeopleSoft

This popular session has been updated to reflect recent enhancements to integrate PeopleSoft Expenses with Google Maps at Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH). HMH expanded its suite of integrated PeopleSoft products by implementing the PeopleSoft Expenses, replacing a legacy Expensibles product. Upon final rollout, up to 30,000 team members will be able to create pre-travel authorizations, enter expense reports, and submit/approve via mobile devices. HMH implemented native mobile functionality designed specifically for its expense capture and approval demands. Written in pure Fluid architecture, PeopleSoft allows easy configuration of mobile content, with an extensible framework to accommodate unique processes and configurations. Working tightly with systems integrator SpearMC, the solution implemented simplifies HMH expense reporting, helping team members stay on top of receipts and submit timely expense reports, while also helping accounting tighten its expense cycles.

Kaiser Permanente has been successful in implementing Fluid and keeping up with PUM updates. Come take a deep dive into the latest Grants enhancements, learn KP‘s approach to keeping current, and lessons learned during roll out.

Your organization needs a clear picture of what you have planned for your PeopleSoft Applications Lifecyle. Through the use of a PeopleSoft Roadmap, you will assess your current application state and provide recommendations to senior leadership through a best-in-class plan to get the full benefit out of your Oracle licenses. This plan will allow you to visualize an ROI through the reduction of PeopleSoft boundary applications and by fully leveraging the software functionality that’s already available for you.

Conversational Interfaces have been around for a long time. With PeopleSoft Chatbots, organizations can now take an internal support function and automate it through a Chatbot. We’ll look at how chatbots work, the delivered Oracle chatbots, how to build your own, pricing, and Oracle use cases.

The State of Kansas conducted its first-ever archive of PeopleSoft Financials data across 14 modules. We leveraged the delivered PeopleSoft Data Archive Manager while also developing custom processes to address gaps. We balanced many considerations including state record retention requirements, system performance and storage costs. We developed a complex schedule to archive data in the appropriate order to ensure no transactions were left incomplete/orphaned and to execute the archive processes during off-hours to not interfere with the end user experience.

.With an ever growing telework presence across a large geographic area, The Kentucky Community and Technical College System recognized the need to streamline the paper process utilized to approve faculty overloads and submit them to payroll for payment. In a joint effort the Technology Solutions, Human Resources and Payroll departments worked cooperatively to develop a robust electronic form within the existing ERP system PeopleSoft. The new electronic form allows for a restricted group of end users to submit request electronically and then the request flows through a series of required and custom electronic approvers. The form has intelligence built in to help prevent errors and allows for payroll to upload payments directly into the payroll system. The new electronic form has decreased time required for approval and data processing, it has increased accuracy and improved reporting capabilities.

Oracle Guided Learning (OGL), a real time learning and guided processing tool from Oracle, is now available for PeopleSoft. OGL, which will replace UPK, provides users with role-based contextual guidance and converged learning directly into the flow of their work, helping them to understand PeopleSoft processes from day 1. Embedded Analytics allow for real time feedback to Training Organizers on effectiveness of training scripts as well as opportunities for additional targeted training.

– See how Oracle Guided Learning provides embedded, real time training in PeopleSoft
– Understand how OGL scripts are built into the PeopleSoft framework.
– Understand how embedded Analytics can help provide insight into the effectiveness of training scripts.

Treasury and Cash Management is critical to financial management liquidity and reporting for the best use of an organization’s resources by introducing greater efficiencies, automation, controls, transparency, and reporting capabilities for cash, liquidity, payables, receivables, and general ledger. This session will review core PeopleSoft Cash Management capabilities, provide a short demo, and open a discussion on best practice uses for the product, innovative solutions, and customer use cases.

The State of Oklahoma recently took on a significant project to move their PeopleSoft Financial and Supply Chain environment to OCI and updated their PUM image. While that was a big step, it was only first part of a well-planned roadmap to continue to improve and enhance how the State manages their State’s financial systems using PeopleSoft as the foundation. In this session hear from Oklahoma’s Director of Financial Enterprise Applications as she discusses their journey to OCI and what’s next for the State. We will share an overview of the State’s path to OCI and discuss plans for additional PeopleSoft usage, complementary tools and products and their plans to maintain that environment long-term.

Background – The United States Senate is comprised of multiple organizations. Not only are there Senator offices, but also committee and other administrative entities to support the functions of the Senate. The Bart/MIPRO team first worked with the Senate Disbursing (Payroll) group to go live on Oracle PeopleSoft HCM and North American Payroll. Years later, our team helped expand HCM/HRIS functionality to the Senate Sergeant at Arms (SAA) HR organization to include SMART HR processing, Position Management, Workcenters, Leave and Person Profile modules. Bart/MIPRO designed specific SMART HR functionality to allow SAA HR to electronically submit Department, Jobcode, and Pay Changes to Disbursing, which owns Job Data at the US Senate. Senate rules, policy, and procedures make processing large numbers of pay-related transactions very time consuming. Bart/MIPRO Solution – To reduce SAA HR’s semi-monthly and semi-annual burdens of creating and submitting large numbers of pay-related transactions (corrections, retros, merits, bonuses), Bart/MIPRO designed and constructed a custom Rapid Pay solution using advanced PeopleTool App Designer techniques. This unique design incorporates existing SMART HR functionality and a new front end to provide for spreadsheet upload and rapid pay transaction entry. Users now can key in pay specific transactions either to spreadsheet or to online page without having to do directly into their custom HRIS Job Information page that requires additional non-pay data entry and edits. This new bulk-processing solution has reduced SAA HR Pay transaction system processing by an estimated 50-75%. The solution uses App Package, App Engine, Component Interface, BI Publisher, Approvals, Worklists to bolster the existing HRIS design without discounting the Senate’s previous HRIS investment.

With new features added regularly, PeopleTools gets better every release. In this session, developers will learn tips and techniques to be more productive with PeopleTools. Using technologies such as PeopleCode, Fluid, Integration Broker, Java, JavaScript, and CSS, developers will learn how to leverage the entire PeopleTools stack to build better solutions for their users.

This presentation will provide insight into How a DBA can help Tune the PeopleSoft (PSoft) Applications of PeopleTools, HCM & CRM. There are rather unique opportunities how PSoft works, and how the Oracle RDBMS may impact performance. The DBA team leveraged their expertise in SQl*Plus, Sql*Developer, OEM & Diagnostic Performance Tuning to provide tuning assistance to the PSoft Application Team, and their long running processes (SQL).

This session targets PeopleSoft Financial users, where we will share and discuss hot topics in the PeopleSoft financial community. This is an opportunity to network with your peers, ask questions, and share your ideas.

The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) recently transitioned to a Payroll Shared Services (PSS) environment by taking advantage of key functionality within Payroll for North America in PeopleSoft HCM 9.2. The PSS staff provides all payroll administration in one central unit for 16 different Community and Technical colleges across the state of Kentucky. Work and leave time is collected and administrated electronically through PeopleSoft Time and Labor, which helps to ensure critical compliance with both regulatory agencies and policy and procedures. Taxes are managed centrally by utilizing tax location codes within the job data screen. PeopleSoft Fluid Employee Self Service is configured to allow employees a dashboard view of key payroll, leave, tax, and direct deposit information. Several PeopleSoft audits have been put in place to ensure accuracy of data and allows for the central payroll staff to focus on critical exceptions. Additional efficiencies have been gained by developing electronic forms and processes for overloads and additional payments. Multi-factor Authentication has also been enabled to allow for direct deposit self-service changes.

There are three distinct aspects that can help clients when implementing Cash Management and Treasury in the current market environment. The first enhances reconciliation, cash positioning, forecasting, and global firm liquidity transparency entirely online. The second focuses on providing a central payment hub (Financial Gateway) to automate and increase security while also providing a clear picture of firm payments (AP, AR, TR), account balances, and impacts to Corporate Business Units/Cost Centers. The third provides a central payment hub that is incorporated into a Cash Position and Forecast. All of these drive real time data, automation, security, ease of use, and reporting providing clear advantages to any Treasury contingency planning. This session will provide a clear and concise rational for licensing and implementing Cash Management providing advantages for existing modules, followed by why such an implementation can give Treasury greater control and degree of operating leverage and efficiencies.

Please join to Learn Kaiser Permanente’s End of Term lease process that helps business users manage their EOT lease decisions. We would like to share the requirements for this customization, supplier portal, EOT workbench, exhibit and voucher creation, approval workflow and automated notifications. You will learn about of our upcoming enhancements to this process, one of which includes automated PO creation.

PeopleSoft Position Management offers powerful and flexible features to track and maintain accurate, historical, and real-time views of talent and the overall organizational structure regardless of who is in a position. With valuable position-based data at their fingertips, HR can partner with finance, operations, and business unit leaders to plan for future talent needs, identify current talent gaps, and budget effectively to meet business needs. Recent enhancements such as Fluid UI, Self-Service, Primary Incumbents have made Position Management even more appealing. Join us in this session to learn all about Position Management and how to get the best out of it. – Fundamentals of Position Management and the Organization structure best suited for deployment – Pros and Cons of Full vs Partial Position Management – Relation between Job code, Positions and Employee Job Data – Recent enhancements to Position Management – Best Practices in implementing and managing Position Data

Upgrades to major new releases of PeopleTools have typically been challenging projects for Hays Specialist Recruitment. The upgrades have a lot of manual steps, take time to apply non-vanilla customisations and configuration files and involve a lot of manual IT and end user testing and of course involve change freezes which limit the team’s ability to deliver value add solutions. This presentation will showcase how Hays used a PeopleTools 8.59 upgrade to drive: ? automation of the deployment steps, ? revert to vanilla configuration, ? deliver new end user value through tools such as such as an enhanced user interface, improvements to activity guides and analytics. ? use of PeopleTools Test Framework to automate elements of the testing burden. The project has resulted in Hays being able to take a different approach to spot releases of PeopleTools and deploy these rapidly as part of the monthly technical release cycle.

With a population of over 1.2 million residents, Hennepin County implemented PeopleSoft’s eBilling for online payment of invoices for existing invoices and just in time invoicing. This session will describe how they implemented eBilling across multiple business areas including the Service Center for DMV transactions as well as areas like Public Works and more.

Learn how to quickly leverage delivered functionality to make PeopleSoft efficient, modern and more engaging for users. PeopleSoft has delivered so many shiny new features, are you taking advantage of them to improve your users’ experience?

Come to this session to hear how your organization can benefit from the latest developments in the PeopleSoft User Interface. We’ll show you how you can take advantage of:
– Fluid UI
– Home Pages, Dashboards, Tiles
– Activity Guides, WorkCenters
– Fluid Approvals, Notifications, Alerts
– Related Actions
– Elastic Search
– Kibana
– Chatbots

In this presentation and demonstration, understand the features, capabilities and value of enabling your supply chain suppliers the ability of self service. Self service includes updating supplier contact information, participating in on line sourcing bids, collaborative contract negotiations, invoice updates/creation and analytics.

Elire Expert, Devin Tobin, will provide an exciting session exploring new features for PeopleSoft Expenses. We’ll cover Fluid and Mobile expenses and delivered functionality, as well as mobile approvals with notifications and approvals via email. We’ll explore time-saving functionality such as Batch Processing Integration with all Oracle Modules including AP for all payments without having to create vendors/suppliers. Mr. Tobin will showcase Cash Advances/Travel Authorization application and Payments application to Expenses including tracking of open balances. Attendees will also get insight into My Wallet features that integrate with file uploads, Twilio, and third-party credit card processing. Whether you’re considering PeopleSoft Expenses or looking to get move value out of your current Expenses module – you won’t want to miss this session!

Hennepin County, MN implemented Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in October 2021. This successful project included implementing Online Payment Customer Portal, redesign of Supplier Portal infrastructure, and a new secure access for these portals. We will describe our project management approach, the use of a partner, new technologies implemented, and ultimately the lessons learned.

A panel of PeopleSoft customers will share their favorite features, functions or modules of PeopleSoft and what makes them so great. This will be a wide open discussion which could expose attendees to features, functions or business benefits they may not have previously considered. We will allow for questions and feedback from the audience.

In the past 10 years, working from home has become more and more common. When employees only worked in a few specific locations, it was easy to setup those locations in PeopleSoft with its core features (including its tax requirements) and maintain that location for all the employee’s that worked there. But in the new remote working world (especially with COVID), employees are now working most of their hours from home, which may be in other states and with new tax localities. State tax revenue offices have become more aware of this trend and have been more aggressive about getting those employees or employers to pony up any work location taxes in addition to any resident taxes the employee should be paying. But this can be a maintenance and compliance nightmare for a payroll and tax department. Especially for states like Ohio & Pennsylvania, which have work tax codes in the thousands. Ensuring that the correct codes are assigned to an employee’s work and resident location(s) is challenging.

Learn how PeopleSoft customers have streamlined their W-4 process using Federal, State & Local W-4 Employee Self-service without PDF. Empowering employees to update their own W-4 elections for all states and even automating assignment of localities. Automate the entire tax process for US based payroll, no paper required as well as integrate with USPS for address validation.

The Oracle Public Sector Special Interest Group (OPS) advocates for improvements in Oracle systems such as PeopleSoft ERP Financials and HCM. The OPS membership is comprised of public sector and other institutional users and we are partners with Quest. Please join us for an open forum session to discuss current challenges and hot topics in the public sector realm. This is a great opportunity to meet and connect with others that face the same challenges as you, and to share our successes! Other OPS Board members will be in attendance for us to discuss our accomplishments and our goals for the future.

Attend this session to get an overall update on the continuous delivery of new features and functions for the HR, Workforce, Payroll, Learning, and HR Help Desk PeopleSoft applications. You will learn about features recently made available and the roadmap of planned features that you can look forward to over the next 12 – 18 months. You will learn about features that will help your organization comply to global and domestic regulatory changes, adapt to your employee’s “new normal” with respect to the pandemic, and deploy emerging technologies like PICASO digital assistants and Kibana analytics to maximize your PeopleSoft HCM investment.

Oracle’s strategy is to continue to extend the value of your PeopleSoft investment by continuing to invest in PeopleTools technology. Attend this session to learn about some of the key features delivered in PeopleTools 8.59. Topics covered will be PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface, Oracle’s full suite of cloud-ready lifecycle management tools (including PeopleSoft Cloud Manager), analytics, emerging technologies, and more.

Attend this session to get an update of continuous innovations within PeopleSoft ERP that support collaboration between business and financial operations and leverage new technologies, expanded visibility, and automated business flows. This session will showcase new technologies such as Kibana Analytics, PICASO chat interface, and the overall roadmap for PeopleSoft ERP planned through the delivery of PeopleSoft update images to support the collaboration and productivity needed for your organization’s cost reductions and growth.

Join Paco Aubrejuan, Senior Vice President at Oracle, as he announces the latest investments in PeopleSoft. See demonstrations of the most important features recently delivered and coming soon across the HCM and ERP applications. Learn what’s in the new PeopleTools 8.60 release and how you can capitalize on platform-wide enhancements to drive more value with your PeopleSoft applications. And find out how customers are running PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to cut operating costs and provide intelligent, autonomous management of their PeopleSoft environments. There’s a lot happening with PeopleSoft in 2022 – don’t miss this update on the investment strategy and overall product line.

Don’t leave the event with unanswered questions. The PeopleSoft Management team is here to answer your top-of-mind questions about PeopleSoft in this candid, conversational session. Hear directly from the leaders setting the product roadmaps and driving the PeopleSoft investment strategy. Find out what’s next and why. Wondering how your organization can get more value, reduce costs, and respond more rapidly to change with PeopleSoft? Need input on how to explore your cloud options? Bring your burning questions and join us.

There’s so much going on with PeopleSoft, we know it can be hard to keep up! With 12+ releases a year, hundreds of new capabilities, brand new PeopleTools releases, new cloud and lifecycle management options, Kibana analytics, role-based Digital Assistants, new and improved configuration frameworks, and more, there’s an awful lot to learn and keep track of. So how can you make the most of the Blueprint 4D event? Join Rebekah Jackson for an in-person, event guide experience to make the most of the conference – and the rest of 2022. This is your chance to hear how to get everything you need from the event and keep up after it, whether you’re attending in-person or virtually.

Attend this session to learn about the new Remote Worker feature. Employee, Manager, and Administrator roles provide you the ability to track who, where and when employees are remote working and includes approval and document upload features as well. Analytic Dashboards for the Administrator and Manager provide additional insight into this important information for effective management of your most valuable resource – your employees.

Attend this session if you run PeopleSoft Payroll for North America or Global Payroll to learn about the latest updates in these applications and what is on the roadmap. You will see demonstrations of features such as Payroll Quick Calculation, Payroll Component Lockdown, enhancements to the direct deposit employee options, Pay Me Now feature to support your future gig economy employees, remote worker tax location functionality, and the paid family leave framework.

Conversational interfaces are becoming more and more commonplace to help your employees manage their daily tasks. PeopleSoft introduced PICASO, the PeopleSoft Intelligent Chat Assistant for Oracle to help you with this. Attend this session to learn how you can deploy a chat interface for PeopleSoft leveraging Oracle Digital Assistant in your environment.

PeopleSoft recently introduced PeopleSoft Automated Update and PeopleSoft Automated Merge to help simplify and automate your lifecycle processes. Attend this session to learn what you need to do to take advantage of this new automation functionality.

Policy Manager was introduced into PeopleSoft Cloud Manager in Image 12 to support basic administrative tasks like starting/stopping and backing up environments. Attend this session to learn what else Policy Manager can do including automatically managing production resources to scale the application both up and down. You will also learn how Cloud Manager with OCI has advanced past a simple administrative tool and now begins to shape an Autonomous PeopleSoft environment.

Attend this session to learn how PeopleSoft’s Comprehensive Supplier Portal simplifies the Bidder/Supplier user experience. You will see first hand how PeopleSoft’s Digital Assistant (PICASO) can answer Bidder/Supplier commonly asked questions, direct bidders/suppliers to bid opportunities, and much more. You will also see the new response pages to bid opportunities that were specifically designed for novice users.

Are you tired of manually creating Procurement Contracts? Attend this session to see the advancements planned for automating the creation and updates to Procurement Contracts. You will learn how your organization can control the user experience of Procurement Contracts without customizations. You will also see recent enhancements to Supplier Contract Management that augments the business process.

Attend this session to learn about the different delivered tools which will assist your application administrators managing PeopleSoft such as: PeopleSoft Health Center, PeopleSoft Performance Monitor, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Enterprise Manager with the PeopleSoft Application Management Suite, Oracle Management Cloud, and Oracle Observability and Management Suite.

Attend this session to get an early reveal of the new and modernized Performance Management (ePerformance) application. You will see the redesigned performance process that is much easier to complete for employees, managers peer reviewers, and administrators. The process has been expanded to allow for quick, frequent updates throughout the year to align better with how organizations handle performance reviews today. Since Profile Management is integrated with Performance Management, this session will also cover all the major enhancements made to PeopleSoft Profiles that help you build an inventory of your employee’s skills and competencies.

PeopleSoft Onboarding activity guide functionality has provided customers the ability to track tasks from day one for an employee. Hear how our customers have deployed on boarding and off boarding to ensure a consistent experience rather in person or remote. Hear what is planned as we start the development of pre-onboarding and what you can do to prepare as pre-boarding is the next iteration of our on boarding activity guide enhancements. Attend this session to learn about the new pre-boarding functionality that is coming.

Kibana is the best way to get the most insight into your PeopleSoft data for executives, administrators, and managers. Attend this session to learn how to get started with deploying HCM Kibana analytics throughout your organization. You will see a demonstration of a cross-section of delivered HCM Kibana analytics including: HR Position Data, HR Job Data, Benefits Enrollment, Onboarding, and HR Help Desk Cases.

Do you know how your employees are managing their Travel and Expenses spend? Do your employees tend to submit Time Sheets, Travel Authorizations and Expense Reports late? Attend this session to discover how PeopleSoft Travel & Expenses continues to evolve by leveraging new tools and frameworks to support the needs of globally diverse organizations. You will see new streamlined data entry pages that include modernized self-service experience through redesigned Time Reports and Travel Authorizations. You will gain insights into enhanced analytic content to identify violations to Travel and Expense Policies and what we now provide in a world of “Emerging Technologies” with the Expenses PICASO Digital Assistant.

One of the most popular features customers are leveraging to eliminate common customizations is Page and Field Configurator (PFC). Attend this session to learn how to hide fields on pages, change labels, make a field required, or disable entries — all without creating a customization. You will learn how to establish criteria for your changes based on fields entered by the user, role or system variables such as current date. Some use cases for advanced PFC users will also be covered.

And the beat goes on! PeopleTools 8.60 is right around the corner and will bring a number of enhancements to the PeopleTools infrastructure – will you be ready for it? Attend this session to learn what you need to do to be prepared for this release such as: make sure your environment has the supported levels of operating systems, databases, browsers and other components and your Search Server and Visual COBOL plan is secured. You will also learn about the benefits of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and why so many PeopleSoft customers are making the transition from on premise to OCI. This is a session you should not miss!

Attend this session to learn about new and little known features in PeopleTools 8.59 that can help your organization maximize its investment in PeopleSoft. You will see demonstrations of features that drive usability, lifecycle management, search, Kibana, PeopleCode, and much more. No matter what area of responsibility you have with PeopleTools, we will cover something for everyone.

Attend this session to learn first hand from a PeopleSoft customer the benefits of deploying Kibana in your organization. You will learn about the decision making process for which analytics to deploy and to which role(s) within the organization. You will also learn what worked well and where potential hurdles exist. If you are considering deploying Kibana in your organization this year, you should attend this session.

Attend this session to see demos of all the latest PeopleSoft eProcurement enhancements and learn about the exciting new features on the roadmap. You will see how the new enhancements allow you to: make sure your requesters order from your preferred suppliers, create a more transparent and seamless shopping experience your casual users, provide all the advanced functionality your power users need, and deploy a consumer-grade user experience regardless of device used.

Attend this session to learn about the new features planned for PeopleSoft Benefits. You will see demonstrations of a newly designed comparison feature that allows your employees to compare benefits plans side-by-side before making their elections. Additionally, you will see Kibana analytics for the Benefits Administrator that provides insights into overall employee benefit plan enrollment.

Attend this session to learn about the new features planned for Absence Management and Time & Labor customers. You will see a preview of early designs of the new and improved time-off request Fluid self service pages. This session will also provide updates being made to the Fluid self service calendars in Absence and Time & Labor and a review of the roadmap for both applications.

Join the Campus Solutions Strategy team to hear about Oracle’s investments in Campus Solutions. This session will highlight new capabilities for Campus Solutions, including the Digital Assistant and planned Kibana analytic prototypes. We’ll also make sure you’re caught up on the latest features released in recent PUM images. You may have heard about Oracle’s new US Financial Aid solution, but perhaps as an institution using Campus Solutions, you assume that’s not in your future. In fact, Student Financial Planning (SFP) is a great option for your US Financial Aid solution while you continue with Campus Solutions! We’re confident you’ll hear about at least one innovation in Campus Solutions that you didn’t know was available to your institution!

Join Oracle’s Student Strategy team as they discuss what colleges and universities need to consider as they prepare for their journey to the Oracle Student Cloud. After providing an overview to what makes Student Cloud unique, we’ll cover options institutions have for embracing cloud technology and applications and focus on the key impacts that must be considered as you’re developing a path forward. Leveraging the expertise of Oracle’s product and industry knowledge, we expect this session will help prepare you for a more thorough analysis of your journey to the cloud.

PeopleSoft Support will take you through current trends in the product covering a variety of topics including PeopleSoft on OCI, Security Best Practices, as well as other areas of the Application and Toolset. This session will cover emerging technology trends observed in support as well as share tips and tricks to make your My Oracle Support experience a positive one.

Learn why clients trust Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for their mission-critical business applications. Discover how to improve performance and security, while reducing costs for your enterprise and performance-intensive applications with help from Oracle and IBM Services. Mohinder Mahal and Mohanakrishnan Ramamoorthy are going to discuss what’s possible and how to get there.

They will discuss how OCI represents the best option for moving data and all workloads (not just Oracle apps) to cloud & how IBM can implement and manage every aspect of the migration by using IBM built Assets and Accelerators. Better understand how the benefits of the modernization are quantifiable and include improved application management, reduced costs for maintenance & operations, enhanced security & scalability, and unlock opportunities to innovate.

Building a high-performance infrastructure is challenging, but organizations don’t need to face the risks of a cloud migration by themselves. In fact, a recent Gartner analysis revealed that by 2025, 85 percent of large organizations will have engaged external services providers to migrate applications to the cloud, up from 43 percent in 2019. IBM has been an Oracle partner for more than 30 years and a prominent managed services provider for over 20 years. These decades of experience have generated market-leading processes, knowledge and unparalleled insight into the design, build and deployment of cloud solutions. We’re committed to creating world-class solutions for organizations looking to upgrade their infrastructure with Oracle Cloud Solutions. “Combining expert professional services from IBM and Oracle helps our joint clients improve performance and security, while significantly reducing costs to run their enterprise applications. With Oracle’s Gen 2Cloud Infrastructure, implemented and managed by IBM Services, customers are able to shift their spend from maintenance and focus their own people on digitally-driven innovation.”

The role of the finance department is changing. Business leaders expect their finance function to be a partner in uncovering and executing strategic initiatives for growing revenues, profitability, and market share. To fulfill these expectations, finance departments will need new technologies, tools, and skills. Now is the time to rethink the way your finance department operates and its underlying cost structure. Join us for this session and learn how to build the finance department of the future.
What you will learn:
•The changing role of finance and the new expectations on finance leaders
•The limitations of traditional approaches to finance functions such as accounts payable, order and contract management
•The technologies, tools, and skills that are increasingly important in finance
•The role that data will play in the finance department of the future
•An action plan for building a future-proof finance department

Cloud migration is often considered the domain of IT, but Ann Bushnell, Business Systems Manager at CorVel, was the sponsor of their cloud migration. In this session, Ann will share the reasons behind deciding that cloud migration was the right choice for CorVel, why she championed AWS as the cloud provider, her experience driving the migration as a business leader instead of IT, and how she partnered with the CorVel IT team to manage this project. Co-presenting is Eric Novak, the VP of Sales, Mountain West, at ERPA, CorVel’s PeopleSoft managed services partner and AWS migration partner.

We recognize that every organization is different with a unique set of business and strategic requirements for your PeopleSoft (or any other on-premise platform). The future of your PeopleSoft (or any other on-premise platform) has more options than ever on how best to improve your systems, efficiencies, and costs to meet your continually changing business requirements, whether it’s related to application functionality or your infrastructure and platform.
Come join us to take a closer look at the details behind 4 strategic flight plans that you can take on your journey to the Cloud. You control the flight schedules and destinations. We will also share customer case studies for each of the strategic flight plans discussed.
Flight Plan 1: Maximize Your Current Investment. Learn how to continue to maximize and leverage your PeopleSoft investment today, along with best practices and tools used.
Flight Plan 2: Hybrid Infrastructure Cloud. Learn about options on how to begin moving your infrastructure to the Cloud. We will review lifting and shifting your PeopleSoft to a Cloud infrastructure while keep your PeopleSoft applications and customizations intact. Or how to use Cloud Manager to be able to better manage your infrastructure usage and environments.
Flight Plan 3: Cloud at the Edges. Learn about options on how to extend your PeopleSoft with Cloud solutions and the increase in functionality you can gain with this strategy. We will review some of the common Cloud applications used with your PeopleSoft.
Flight Plan 4: Go all the way with a journey to Oracle Cloud. We will review case studies of customers who have taken this flight plan and completed their trip.

Chatbots, eForms, RPA. There is no better return on investment in enterprise software than automation. Not cloud, not SaaS, not upgrades. The single biggest cost to enterprise software is the people needed to run it. Automation at all levels will drive efficiency and save your organization money.
Automation can be applied to various pillars, but the three most common are (1) automating work your backend users perform, (2) automating work your self-service users are asked to do, and (3) automating the work to support all of your users. For PeopleSoft customers, all three of these automation opportunities are available today! Join us for a crash course on the tenets of automation ROI and see how you can maximize the value, productivity, and performance of your PeopleSoft system. We’ll show you how you can automate user tasks and support with world-class digital assistants; automate business processes with Fluid eForms; and automate heavy backend work in PeopleSoft with RPA technology.
Eliminate clicks, simplify processes, increase visibility, and accelerate transactions. You will spend far less than on a new SaaS and have much greater returns. If you’re looking for more productivity, more efficiency, and more value, we will show you how to unlock that today from your HCM / FSCM / Campus Solutions systems.

Organizations are managing a daunting task to safeguard access to PeopleSoft with a constant flow of requests for user on-boarding, off-boarding, and users changing roles. Properly provisioning user access can be manual, time-consuming, and resource-draining.
To ensure productivity, it is critical to have efficient methods for analyzing and continuously monitoring Segregation of Duties (SoD) conflicts in Permission Lists, Roles, and User Role Assignments.
Join Greg Wendt as he discusses how automating PeopleSoft identity and governance strategies can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your business processes.

Discover how UiPath, the industry leader in both UI and API automation, can quickly integrate with major Oracle cloud and on-premises products such as EBS, OIC and PeopleSoft. See how organizations streamline their Oracle automation design experience by combing both UI and API automation capabilities–within a single UX–and within a single workflow. Using UiPath Integration Service, robots can more easily reduce routine and needlessly repetitive work. Users gain efficiencies by automating critical business processes, not only built on Oracle applications, but other LOB systems.

In this session we will discuss the often asked question: What do you wish you had known? The ride from On-Premise to Cloud is always hectic and full of learning. But, that learning does not stop at Go-Live. Given the ever-changing and evolving nature of the Cloud Applications there is always more. Let’s spend some time discussing lessons learned.

Quest’s ERP Cloud SIG is hosting a networking session at COLLABORATE 19 for attendees to discuss any and all topics related to ERP Cloud. All attendees are encouraged to participate no matter where they are in their Cloud journey. Discussions will cover those considering migrating as well as best practices and tips for those already running ERP Cloud including streamlining business processes, lowering costs and improving controls. This is a unique opportunity to ask questions, share your story and learn from others. Build relationships that you can take with you after the conference and continue the conversation through Quest’s ERP Cloud SIG, which meets virtually throughout the year. Modules covered in the ERP Cloud SIG include: – Financials Cloud – Accounting Hub Cloud – Project Financial Management Cloud – Procurement Cloud – Risk Management Cloud

Journeys is the evolving functionality which gives your HR teams the power to create great experiences for employees. How does this HR teams the ability to innovate and deliver a more human-centered experience for users. – how Journeys enables Inoapps (an Oracle-only partner using Oracle Cloud for their internal systems) to provide a tailored learning programme with content varying across the UK and APAC regions as they execute on their aggressive growth strategy, and also how their US teams and US customers can leverage Journeys functionality to adapt to the new vaccine mandate.

Whether adding new functionality that needs loaded values, or maintaining upload processes, this session will help remove the mystery of HSDL. We will look at loading values to support talent profile and loading journeys for employee as examples of how to understand and support HSDL activity. We will also look at updating setup tables via HSDL. This is focused on functional team usage of the tool rather than a technical team.

During this session we will cover:
1. How to manage updating the recruiting team in OR after the user is no longer with the company and has been terminated in Core HR.
2. How to manage duplicate check after an offer.
3. Setting up security roles by starting the design discussions early in the process.

After typical contract execution there are several deliverables that need to be tracked throughout a contract lifecycle. Remove the guess work from managing external contract deliverables by leveraging the supplier portal. During this session we’ll discuss how to use this standard functionality to help ensure that both parties are accountable for their respective deliverables. We’ll demonstrate the various usages available in the supplier portal for deliverable management by exploring a couple of potential use cases.

DENSO Corporation is transforming its business to be the leading supplier of advanced automotive technology, systems, and components for major automakers as part of its One DENSO initiative. As part of this effort DENSO Products and Services Americas (DPAM), DENSO NAs aftermarket affiliate, is optimizing business process leveraging Oracle solutions as an enabler. This session explores how DENSO is identifying and deploying the business justifications to simplify business processes, modernize architecture, and optimize spend via the use hybrid Oracle Cloud solutions for future digital transformation and growth.

Are you getting the most out of your Oracle implementation? Is the adoption rate high or low? How have things improved/changed post implementation? If you are curious and have the same or similar questions, attend this session and hear directly from leaders at organizations who are actively using the Oracle HCM Suite. This moderated panel will focus on the Oracle product suite, its value to business, improved/enhanced technology efficiencies and overall application usage, adoption and performance.

AXA Equitable is tranforming the way they work an many of their talent management practice. Objectives include:
– Frequent, transparent and forward-looking performance and development conversations to set and review goals aligned to team, department and company priorities
– Train managers to coach employees to improve their performance, providing advice and sponsorship to the next step in their career
– Establish skills as the new currency of talent at AXA Equitable with a strong connection to learning and internal mobility opportunities This transformation is enabled by Talent Profile, Career Development, Goal Setting, Performance (Feedback & Check-Ins), Talent Review, Learning and Recruiting modules within the Oracle HCM Cloud suite.

Couple remote workforces, with systems, business, and markets changing faster than ever, training needs to move from the keyboard to the organization. Deploying an Active Trainer model is more than a one-time training event. It’s a learning and documentation program that will support the needs of the users. Producing an onboarding approach to end-user training resulting in long-term sustainability and repeatability. Based upon many years of implementation experience and a proven methodology, this session will present a comprehensive, systematic, and straightforward model for Cloud and On-Prem system implementations. Using both sequential and iterative processes, participants will receive a blueprint to effectively onboard users to acceptance and proficiency – before making the actual change, and long after go-live.

Oracle Cloud Inventory Management offers a complete materials management and costing solution that has several inventory planning methods to improve your inventory management processes. Cloud Inventory Management offers multiple advantages:
– Complete inventory visibility across multiple warehouses / locations
– Intuitive dashboards to monitor inventory levels, replenishment tasks, and inbound receipts
– Material movement that includes stock issues, receipts, counts and transfers of materials within and between facilities
– Robust min-max planning capabilities that enable replenishment of stocks from both internal and external sources
Cloud Inventory Management fully integrates with other Oracle Cloud applications:
– Use inventory management to automate the replenishment of your shop floor locations within Supply Chain Execution.
– Inventory management integrates with Oracle Procurement to drive stock replenishments directly from suppliers

Companies frequently struggle to keep track of asset leases and their associated amortization schedules in a clear concise way. Often these lease details are tracked outside financial systems, in spreadsheets, and require a lot of manual time and analysis in order to accurately account for costs associated to such assets, and to report on such costs as the end of month. This session will review standard out-of-the-box functionality for managing leased assets within the fixed assets module.

More Suppliers are choosing to send invoices to Accounts Payable electronically via email. Cloud ERP offers Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) that combines optical character recognition (OCR) with machine learning to extract information from the emailed documents and create invoice records directly into Accounts Payable. IDR offers adaptive intelligence to learn a more invoices come through the system from suppliers. IDR leverages the Document Viewer to highlight a selected field from the invoice and extract the information into the system. The next time an invoice of that supplier comes in, the system will recognize that the field had been identified from the Adaptive learning feature previously.

Come learn how to enable your procurement organization to enhance the user shopping experience through robust self-service procurement. The session will cover using all the features available in setting up categories, catalogs, smart forms, and content zones. The session will help you understand alternatives to not having an item master but still controlling what your users can request.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is not an IT system. It’s a way of doing integrated business. ERP can obtain your ROI with the right scheme. Now you have it! Whether you’ve had ERP for years, are implementing, upgrading, or optimizing it, Grant Thornton has the schema for success. Based on a comprehensive study of over 40 customer ERP programs, Grant Thornton has authored the “The ERP Scheme” that will be shared during the session. ERP pitfalls, critical success factors, best practices, and case studies will be shared in thoughtful and humorous ways. Based on the Grant Thornton thought leadership white paper “The ERP Scheme”, this insightful and interactive seminar will provide details around how to initiate, update, and sustain healthy ERP programs. Specific approaches and methods will be shared leveraging humorous quotes from the best comedy movies of all time. In addition to having fun and sharing a few laughs, the audience will be able to learn how to go forward and finally achieve their ERP return on investment.

StoneX selected Oracle Planning Cloud as the centralized platform to support global financial planning processes. While the initial scope was to use it for specific entities that were already on a common platform, the efficiencies gained by adopting Oracle Planning everywhere became readily apparent. In a span of few months, StoneX successfully pivoted to onboarding the budget process for all their global business entities into Planning, while also providing budgeting and reporting capabilities that were never readily available before across the enterprise. With the help of Oracle Planning, StoneX was effectively able to create an enterprise standard for preparing, reviewing and presenting corporate budget in around 3 months’ time, across global entities, while using multiple currencies. This included providing an enterprise wide process to input and perform a timely review of workforce, financial and capex budgets using a centralized platform, use driver-based allocations to budget for some accounts/entities and deliver timely financial reports using SmartView for Office, as well as for executive presentations.

In this Deep Dive session, we will review the successful deployment of Oracle Cloud ERP Financials to remove the need of paying out unnecessary intercompany transactions between different organizations. Learn how users, armed with Netting Agreement setup, can remove the requirement of paying/creating receipts for extra Intercompany Invoices while saving processing time. We will demonstrate how to configure the basic Intercompany Setup to ensure all transactions will be created to the proper supplier/customer relationship. We will also show how to configure the Intercompany Netting setup, all the way from Bank Accounts to Netting Agreement. We will also show how to process the Netting Settlements based on 2 organizations that will be conducting intercompany payables and receivables transactions with one another.

In this Deep Dive session, we will review the successful deployment of Oracle Cloud ERP Financials to fast track AP Invoice entry and GL Coding across multiple continents, countries, and currencies. Learn how users, armed with Project Info (I.e. POET), can quickly enter an AP invoice and let the system derive the proper GL Coding. We will demonstrate how to configure Subledger Accounting to populate all GL Coding on AP Invoices based on Projects Attributes. We will also show how to choregraph AP invoice coding and approval workflows to catch errors while increasing throughput. We will also show how to default Projects Attributes on AP Invoices with the user defined Descriptive FlexFields. Attendees will also see how my client included Invoice Images in this solution.

Clayton Homes Inc. is transitioning from an iSeries premises system to Oracle SCM Cloud. In this session, learn how multiple organizations and business units can have a single point to manage internal orders and margins throughout the sales process. We will walk through best practices for SCM setup that leverage the Internal Material Transfer Order with available OM capabilities such as reservations, pick and ship process, etc.

Project-based organizations face various unique and specific challenges. While budgeting and forecasting have critical roles in a successful project, one of the most common issues faced by project managers is how to accurately and efficiently manage and track costs for a project throughout its changing timeline. This requires a solid understanding of the plan vs. budget vs. forecast for costs in order to deliver cost-effective results for your projects. Oracle Project Financial Management is a key resource and intelligent tool which allows organizations to see the big picture and track every project. This solution prepares the business executives, project managers, and their project team members to achieve full financial control over their projects and allows them to utilize their time on other important goals, instead of burdening them with administrative tasks such as managing multiple spreadsheets and disconnected tools. Join this session to see how enterprise software can integrate core financial data into a project financial management solution to transform and streamline your process.

Oracle Digital Assistant is an AI service that offers prebuilt skills and templates to create conversational experiences for your business applications and customers through text, chat, and voice interfaces. Users can utilize natural language processing to interpret requests and perform business tasks specific to your organization. Attendees will gain insight into key use cases for AI, including utilizing Oracle’s Best Candidate capability to rank candidate automatically based on multiple criteria and Autocomplete enablement to intelligently default values and validate data entered in real time. Elire’s experts will leave you with an overview of Oracle’s provided personalization capability like ODA, Best Candidates, and Design Studio Autocomplete to get the most out of your Talent Management and Recruiting Implementation.

Understanding the new Oracle Cloud User Interface can be challenging, particularly in variances across modules and utilization by employee type. This session will explore the changes to the Cloud UI, and tips for utilizing responsive pages as they become more prevalent across the user experience.

As simplified as Financial Transformation may sound, successful transformation is rare. In this session, we will review critical concepts and talk through solutions to resolve the common downfalls organizations make when trying to implement a successful Financial Transformation. The key is not only knowing the Lessons Learned but how to overcome them, enabling a genuinely successful Financial Transformation.

– Lessons Learned
– What to do now
– Internal Resource Allocations
– Change Management’s changing role
– How the Cloud Journey has evolved
– Success Factors enabling for an on time, on budget project

It doesn’t matter if your Company is $5M or $500B; each of these topics will affect the ultimate success of your Financial Transformation. Prepare your Company for a successful Financial Transformation to the Cloud; begin now.

In the past one decade the financial reporting has experienced many changes. CFO’s are facing tremendous pressure to decrease close timeline, mitigate new standards and accounting rules, compliance processes and increase data accuracy. Changes in the technology landscape is forcing every CxO to think about Cloud adoption. Please join us for the session to learn (a) Typical financial close process within the context of other finance operations (b) factors contributing to cloud decision (c) how Oracle helps Cloud adoption and helps business to focus on their core competency.(d)Fix the puzzle of ledger close, Consolidation and reporting with EPM cloud

Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) helps you model and plan across finance, HR, supply chain, and sales, streamline the financial close process, and drive better decisions. A number of pre-built integrations are available to import data from Oracle Cloud Applications. However, import data from non-Oracle systems is typically achieved by uploading files using the EPM Automate utility. The approach is rather cumbersome, requiring some technical skills to invoke this utility from a command prompt or a terminal window. In this presentation, Oracle ACE Director Basheer Khan, will demonstrate a unique solution that enables business users to import data from non-Oracle accounting systems as well as third-party payroll providers.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are here to stay and they can help you supply chain. We will go over AI and ML, how they work, what tools you can leverage RIGHT NOW to help with supply chain management.

Join Yvette Cameron as she discusses some of our latest innovations for Oracle Cloud HCM and speaks to the value they will provide for customers. As the workplace has evolved and will continue to evolve, organizations of the future must blend the power of technology with the brainpower of humans. Business require Human Capital Management applications which improve employee engagement, leverage the latest in technologies, and deliver real decision-making insights. Join Yvette Cameron, Senior Vice President, Global HCM Strategy and Development for Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud, for a look at where we are now and where we’re headed within Oracle HCM Cloud. Hear firsthand as she shares the latest cool innovations and investments to better support you and your organization.

Global workforce administration is evolving. The support of workers around the world is not only due to expanded operations but it can also include increased workplace flexibility. As these organizations expand their global footprint, organizations require the ability to build, manage and optimize their workforce, often in locations in which they have not operated before. This session will focus on key considerations for global deployments and how to design the employee experience required for this new world of work.

Automated, personal, relevant guidance is necessary especially today where people are busy with work and life. Your employees want to know that you know who they are and what challenges they have and expect the organization to give them trusted guidance and relevant support to help them with their job, career as well as personal growth. In this session, learn how Oracle Cloud HCM can support your enterprise employee experience initiatives in the future of work.

Oracle Cloud HCM combines best in class HCM business processes with best in class technology enabling customers to achieve new levels of HR performance. This session provides a tour of industry leading technology embedded in the Oracle Cloud HCM solution. From AI to process automation, digital assistants to data warehouses, Oracle Cloud delivers engaging employee experiences, reduces costs, and always provides access to new, innovative solutions as part of the Cloud HCM service. Following this session, attendees will be familiar with the main technology platform components Oracle leverages to deliver Fusion Applications as well as insights to the near and long term direction for the cloud technology platform.

Staff shortages, remote workforce, new technology and work all result in higher expectations of HR and the Service Center. In this session, learn how Oracle Cloud HR Help Desk can support the optimization of your global service center and how you can provide the level of service your workers deserve.

The need to access global cloud applications from anywhere, while ensuring HR personal data privacy and security along with fraud detection are mission critical priorities for HR. HRIT departments need the right tools to monitor, investigate and control risks and vulnerabilities. Sherri Bartels, Product Strategy Director for Oracle Cloud HCM will share how HR & HRIT/HRIS can take a holistic approach to tackling cyber security, data privacy, fraud prevention, separation of duties, and auditing by embracing adaptive Intelligence to create a cybersecurity super team.

Fostering a better employee experience has taken center stage as a key focus for HR. How you address this for salaried knowledge workers differs from how you do so for hourly deskless workers. Hourly deskless workers’ work happens on the hospital floor, in the storefront, on the production line, at the construction site, in the warehouse, or inside a truck. Their connection to “the back-office” is often through their mobile device(s). They are time bound with a focus on meeting demand with on time and on budget delivery and with high quality. Their expectations of their employer to meet their needs differs greatly because of this as well as socio-economic factors. Sherri Bartels, Product Strategy Director for Oracle Cloud HCM will share 5 key capabilities you can deploy now in Oracle Cloud HCM to engage and empower your hourly workforce and to be seen as an employer of choice to retain the talent you have and attract more during this time of unprecedented labor shortage.

You know that Continuous Innovation with regular updates is a good thing. But it also means more regular regression testing for business continuity. With each update, are you asking these questions … Am I testing well, testing too much or not enough… Is my testing ‘efficient’… Am I utilizing the release readiness information that Oracle provides … What could I do differently to help me consume New Features on a regular basis? If these questions are familiar then join us in this session where we’ll share some ideas on best practices we’re seeing for testing, including Test Automation.

How well are you doing with your Time to Hire … Are you using the latest AI features available in the product … Have you streamlined your process flows … Are you using automation effectively… Are you using features like Fast Formula to help with processing candidates … ? There are many advanced features available ‘out-of-the-box’ with Oracle Recruiting. Join us in this session to find out more about these features and how you could use them to improve your recruiting processes.

A successful on-time and on-budget on-premises software to cloud applications enterprise project is not impossible. In this session explore in-detail five key steps every JD Edwards and PeopleSoft customer can follow to deliver a successful migration project. Based on many interviews with on-premises and cloud customers throughout the past decade, this session is focused on practical ideas and resource information applicable to small and large on-premises to cloud projects.

According to an Oracle commissioned case study by Nucleus Research in 2020, cloud technology deployments deliver 4.01 times the ROI as on-premises deployments. This session will explore this trend more deeply by showcasing Oracle conducted ROI studies on ERP customers that represent a range of small-to-large enterprise sizes as well as industries. You will see the value cloud deployment had for these customers and come away with metrics you can use as you consider your business case for change.

Undertaking an on-premises software to cloud applications migration requires partner resources for many if not all project tasks. Learn how your organization can leverage Oracle Financing to convert upfront project costs (usually classified as capital expenses) from your SI partners into post-go live operational expenses added to your monthly Oracle Cloud subscription. Plus, learn more about the value of your current on-premises licenses and how some of their value can be monetized through Oracle’s Customer to Cloud (C2C) program for current JD Edwards and PeopleSoft customers.

Join Gary Grieshaber, Vice President of Oracle Application Product Strategy and Development, to learn how Oracle Cloud Applications are delivering finance and operations transformation in companies across the globe. Hear about the value that Oracle Cloud ERP can deliver to your organization, along with highlights of important new product features. Imagine your business using modern, innovative cloud applications that deliver low TCO, high ROI, deep enterprise insight through data analytics, and process automation using next-generation technologies like AI and machine learning. Join us to understand why nearly ten thousand companies run their businesses with Oracle Cloud ERP and how Oracle is supporting your business transformation and the evolution from on-premises to Cloud applications.

The session explains the steps of moving legacy ERP s / non-ERP workload to Oracle cloud with an automated and structured approach. The automated process starts with ‘Discovery of a legacy platform’ and travels through an automated and controlled path to Post Migration optimization and stabilization. There are 28 software assets built on multiple technologies that work in a seamless arrangement to automate this journey to cloud.

The solution is further enhanced with Cloud native tools and Kubernetes and works across multiple source platforms / database to port the legacy workload to any major hyper-scaler like OCI. The solution delivers value through accuracy, speed, and flexibility to accommodate any additional project like upgrade, archiving etc. while migrating the workload to cloud. Considering the trend of emerging technologies, the solution is built with scalable and resilient features for future extensions.

The solution has been validated through multiple executions across global projects across geographies, industries, and hyper-scalers.

A Berkshire Hathaway company, CTB’s mission is to feed the world by developing innovative products that help farms and farmers across the globe. Like its customers, CTB works hard to get the most out of its resources and held on to its on-prem JDE ERP for decades: it was hard for them to let go. But a business case was made, a decision was made, and a move to the cloud was made. And CTB never has to let go again.
In this session you will learn how that case was made, and:
•The business need and risks driving change
•The reasons for selecting Oracle ERP Cloud
•The process/systems in scope for CTBs modernization
•How ArganoCSS is helping JDE customers develop the roadmaps needed to take a phased hybrid approach, while others are moving transformationally.

To get the most out of your technology investment and ensure a smooth migration to Oracle ERP Cloud, you’ll need to provide your finance teams with tools for success. Oracle’s native options may challenge your team with inflexible in-built reports, painful drill downs, manually intensive processes, and an over-reliance on IT. Without the right solution, you could be faced with longer reporting cycles, lower productivity, and less time to focus on critical analysis.
In this session, we’ll introduce you to purpose-built software that empowers your team with smooth, fast, flexible, Excel-based financial reporting. We’ll help solve your current and future reporting challenges and give you strategies to optimize and future-proof your investment of Oracle ERP Cloud with sustainable, powerful, finance-centric tools.
This session will cover:
• Oracle ERP Cloud native reporting options and why they don’t offer meaningful solutions for finance teams.
• Easing your migration to Oracle ERP Cloud by porting existing reports, simplifying and de-risking data validation, and providing continuity for your business processes.
• Satisfying your reporting needs by connecting Oracle ERP Cloud to Excel in near real time, giving your finance team control of reporting and empowering deeper analysis.
• Real customer stories and powerful lessons our clients learned on their journey to optimize financial reporting in Oracle ERP Cloud.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is not an IT system. It’s a way of doing integrated business. ERP can obtain your ROI with the right scheme. Now you have it! Whether you’ve had ERP for years, are implementing, upgrading, or optimizing it, Grant Thornton has the schema for success. Based on a comprehensive study of over 40 customer ERP programs, Grant Thornton has authored the “The ERP Scheme” that will be shared during the session. ERP pitfalls, critical success factors, best practices, and case studies will be shared in thoughtful and humorous ways. Based on the Grant Thornton thought leadership white paper “The ERP Scheme”, this insightful and interactive seminar will provide details around how to initiate, update, and sustain healthy ERP programs. Specific approaches and methods will be shared leveraging humorous quotes from the best comedy movies of all time. In addition to having fun and sharing a few laughs, the audience will be able to learn how to go forward and finally achieve their ERP return on investment.
Objectives:
•Learn and obtain the Grant Thornton ERP Scheme (and white paper), which will allow you to receive the ROI on your ERP investment. Gain an understanding the hard and soft dollar benefits that come with a well-structured ERP program.
•Learn more about: Cloud and IaaS, PaaS alternatives Implementation and upgrade methodologies and critical infractions to avoid ERP Operating Group structure (ERPOG) Data governance

This presentation will focus on the Oracle Database’s ability to manage different types of data efficiently. We also show how Converged DB plays a part in the Modern Data Platform (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, etc.). As we move into the future, the efficiency of Oracle in using InMemory, MachineLearning, Exadata, Documents, JSON, XML…etc. will be their main strength. Converged Database strategy makes it simple to satisfy these demands. Join ACE Directors Nitin Vengurlekar, Rich Niemiec and Jim Czuprynski as they explore the facets of Converged Database from the perspectives of CEO, CIO, and DBA, and what it means for your career’s future path.
Fortunately, Oracle’s Converged Database strategy makes it simple to satisfy these demands.

Oracle Autonomous Database has simplified the management of operational and analytical database workloads for a variety of different use cases. This presentation highlights some of the key innovations that continue to improve DBA, developer, analyst, and data scientist productivity.

Are you in an environment that has more than ten databases with multiple environments and technologies?
If not, you’re lucky. However, this session can help you along with the DBA with many and multiple databases and environments. This presentation will attempt to gap the usage of Oracle’s Free tool—APEX—with normal database operations to organize and gather information from your database and identify performance, backup, and utilization patterns. This won’t replace Oracle’s OEM and AWR warehouse but act as a first step to understand where to look in the OEM or other 3rd party tools.
This application can be used by DBAs or managers who want to understand the database resources that are currently used (total CPU, memory, etc.). Plus, it has multi-tier and department usage and can be set up by any level DBA.

Learn best practices to secure database estates while cutting manual effort for patching, and compliance using pre-built automation to address critical security vulnerabilities, minimize operational expenditure, and reduce maintenance window During this session, attendees will learn how to: – Use automation to stay current with software updates for your database fleet – Proactively patch and upgrade database environments to address critical security vulnerabilities – Identify vulnerable assets, prioritize vulnerability regression, and remediation management – Achieve CIS, STIG regulatory compliance and security business objectives for databases Are you a Security Administrator or Database Administrator? This session is for you, learn best practices to protect data and be compliant with enterprise policies.

Learn how to migrate on-premises Database with confidence to Autonomous, to DBCS (ExaCC, ExaCS, BM, or VM), and to Exadata on-premises. Use Enterprise Manager Migration Workbench to evaluate the readiness of database assets to securely migrate, efficient, and agile while reducing the risks of human error. Find out how the performance of the migrated databases is validated automatically Use Oracle Enterprise Manager Migration Workbench to: • Prepare: Evaluate database migration readiness, dependencies, shapes and pre-requisites • Migrate: Prepare databases for migration, use appropriate migration methods • Analyze: Validate results, compare performance and configuration to the source database If you are migrating databases within a data center or to the cloud, join this session for insight from Oracle experts. This session will include demonstrations and time to answer your questions.

Independently of the technologies you use, we are all in the same boat when it comes to security and compliances within IT. This session will take you through our journey and especially our challenges of our experience of our journey to achieve our PCI compliance, and could easily become your baseline towards any other types of security compliances available. It does not matter if you are an Architect, a DBA, a developer, a project manager or a member of your company management, the ideas, tips, and suggestions in this session would for sure help you always in your security journey. Join us on this exciting topic that for sure would be a huge plus on any IT professional belt.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) or 2-factor authentication (2FA) for database connections is frequently inquired about, but rarely implemented. Yet is surprisingly easy to implement in the Oracle Database.

This session covers how to implement MFA/2FA for your Oracle Databases via common MFA platforms including Cisco Duo. Including specifics of how to get started and test in your own DBA lab environment.

With Oracle Database 21c, one of the long-requested features for Data Guard will become possible: Data Guard per Pluggable Database or DGPDB in short. During this technical deep-dive session, we will explore this new technology in detail and answer most of the common questions from customers: Can we use Data Guard at the PDB level? How do we do a single PDB switchover? How does it work? What will be there in this release, and what will be missing? But also: Why did it take so long to implement this feature? In this step-by-step overview, we will also cover some less known technical aspects, with a glimpse of the roadmap towards the future.

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning is a robust, reliable, automated, and fleet-capable solution that orchestrates the install, patching, and upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Databases. How does it work? What are the building blocks? How does the communication between client and server happen? How are the software homes transferred and stored? How are databases patched? In this session, I will answer all these questions and give you a clear understanding of Fleet Patching and Provisioning architecture.

Oracle Database In-Memory is the industry-leading in-memory database technology. It seamlessly accelerates analytic queries as well as improving mixed workload applications on databases of any size without requiring any application changes. Join Oracle Product Management to learn how to get started with Database In-Memory, how to identify which objects to populate in memory, how to identify which indexes can be dropped, and details on how to integrate with other performance enhancing features of Oracle Database. This session will also describe how Database In-Memory works under the covers to speed up your analytic workload and will provide a step-by-step guide on how to configure Oracle Database to get the biggest performance benefits and help you avoid having to re-invent the wheel.

Join Oracle development for the latest updates on high availability (HA) best practices in this well-established technical deep-dive session. Learn how to optimize all aspects of Oracle Active Data Guard 21c. See how to use session draining, transparent application continuity, Oracle RAC, and Oracle GoldenGate to mask outages and planned maintenance from users and to accelerate time to repair for single database or your fleet of databases. Hear about the latest HA best practices with Oracle Multitenant and understand how the new sharded architecture can achieve even higher levels of HA and fault isolation for OLTP applications. Find out how everything you know about Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) on-premises can be deployed in the cloud.

Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is a managed service that includes self-service visualization, data preparation, and enterprise reporting. Although generally capable of meeting most customers’ needs, it does have limitations when compared to Oracle Analytics Server (OAS), the version of the product installed and managed by customers. In this session, we’ll deliver OAS as a managed service using Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) in the Oracle Cloud. We’ll consider use cases where a Kubernetes deployment improves upon the capabilities of OAC, including developer sandboxing, continuous delivery, and elastic scalability.

Learn about what’s new in Oracle Database 21c for Database development. Oracle Database 21c is packed with innovative new features from Blockchain Tables and Native JSON support, but have you heard about any of the SQL and PLSQL innovations? Attend this session to learn more about what you’re missing.

Data breaches and ransomware attacks continue to dominate the news, leaving managers to wonder what more they can do to protect their business-critical data from theft or loss. Oracle Data Safe is a cloud service that delivers essential security for your databases, whether they are running on-premises, in the cloud, or at [email protected] Data Safe provides a single pane of glass to assess configuration risk, evaluate database users, manage audit settings, report on database activity, discover sensitive data, and remove sensitive data from non-production copies of the database. Join this session for an overview of Data Safe, learn how it helps Oracle customers protect their data, and find out how you can begin using Data Safe today.

In the age of technology, information is everywhere. As the abundance of raw data continues to grow exponentially, the need for people to be able to interpret the data grows as well. Whether you’re collaborating with reporting experts or conducting the analysis yourself, everyone has a place in the analytical business world of today. This session will teach you how to dive deeper into analytical thinking.

You may have heard about Autoupgrade—how it can upgrade dozens or hundreds of databases, run unattended or scheduled upgrades, identify and automatically fix problems, and automate pre- and post-upgrade steps. You may have also heard: “Autoupgrade is only for large environments” “Configuring Autoupgrade is time-consuming and challenging.” “Only a limited set of upgrade paths are supported.” “It’s hard to use and slow.” “It can’t migrate non-container databases and forces you to migrate to pluggable databases.” “It’s still experimental.” In reality, Autoupgrade simplifies and streamlines upgrades for one or dozens of databases. It’s easy to use and configure, fast and flexible. If Autoupgrade encounters a problem it can’t fix automatically, the process of identifying, fixing, and resuming an upgrade is straightforward. This session draws from dozens of real-world upgrades to introduce Autoupgrade and offers practical, tested tips and advice to accelerate and improve your next upgrade. – Why Autoupgrade is the method of choice for upgrading to 12cR2, 18c, 19c, and beyond – Planning and preparing for an Autoupgrade – Preparing a configuration for a single database in under a minute – Autoupgrade capabilities demonstrated, from simple to complex – Dealing with the unexpected, fixing issues, resuming jobs, and recovering from a failed upgrade

Have you ever been asked a “top anything” question? Questions like, “Hey Craig, what is the top [insert stat here]…?” For instance, the DB Time SQL by hour, top hour with the most active session, top CPU consuming execution plan, top module for this SQL_ID, top SQL_ID when waiting on db file sequential reads, top IO activity day of the week, top hard parse hour, top hard parse day last June, top hard parse force matching signature, and the top row lock hour regardless of the date or the day. This list goes on and on. The SQL I’ll use to demonstrate how to answer all these questions is simple and only eight short lines. It aggressively uses ASH’s sample nature, SQL*Plus defines and your understanding of how Oracle works. The result is we can do deep analysis we normally would not think is possible…even with ASH. Truly, it’s the most important SQL statement I have ever written. Join me as we explore how to creatively and aggressively use raw ASH data to answer traditionally difficult but incredibly important Oracle and application performance questions.

This presentation will talk about common sense database security options DBAs can use: – Understanding roles /privileges – Password functions – SQL Injections – Security Patches – Auditing – Encryption options – DBSAT

Cloud bill could be an unwelcome surprise at the end of the month if you didn’t keep eyes on the resources and cost. We have some native tools and reports embedded into the cloud management layer, but it might not be sufficient if you want to analyze and predict the cost. One way is to use the Oracle cloud-free tier to create a data pipeline with Apex frontend for the custom billing and usage reporting interface. I will share my experience and challenges working with Oracle cloud API and usage reports and creating my Apex billing application.

With the ever-increasing volume, velocity, and variety of data generated by enterprise applications, it’s more important than ever for organizations to discover the critical hidden insights contained within their enterprise data and to leverage these insights in enterprise applications. Applying Machine Learning and advanced analytics with these enterprise data sources provides in-depth understanding of many essential aspects of business, such as financials and supply chain forecasting, patterns in customer behavior etc. This session will discuss how to build, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models natively on large enterprise data sets with Oracle In-database machine learning. We will discuss how Oracle In-database machine learning is provided in the Oracle Database, including Oracle Autonomous Database with scalability, simplicity, and high performance. We also will discuss the process of machine learning: how to analyze and prepare data sets; build, evaluate and apply machine learning models with Oracle machine Learning. New features in Oracle 21c, such as AutoML, and Oracle Machine Learning for Python, and newly added in-database machine learning algorithms, will also be discussed in the session.

Learn best practices for upgrading Oracle RAC and GI. We will cover known issues and workarounds for critical components like ASM, GI and Database

Get up-to-date with the latest Oracle Database news and updates directly from Oracle’s development team. This session will cover recent Oracle Database developments for on-premises, in-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

Business rules define the requirements that data needs to satisfy so that it is fully valid for the business. A PL/SQL Table API provides a centralized location for the code you write to represent those business rules. Regardless of your development environment — APEX, ADF, MAF, JET, MAX, VB/VB Studio, Java, JavaScript, or any other framework — using a Table API to implement business rules validations has many benefits including better performance, reduced cloud database costs, simplification of user interface code, and more secure applications.

This session explains the benefits of this kind of centralized code in more detail and gives advice about how to incorporate it into your development practices. It then focuses on the code components and strategies relevant to using a PL/SQL Table API. In addition, the session discusses several methods for calling Table API code. The presentation also describes and demonstrates methods for automatically generating a large part of the code and shows examples of generated code as well as code that calls the Table API.

This session describes the journey of migrating critical custom Java applications from Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Databases running in a private data center to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Along the way decisions had to be made at all tiers, from the web tier to the database layer. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services evaluated included Load Balancer, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Web Application Firewall, Oracle Java Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes, Oracle Database Cloud, and connectivity options. Hear about the cloud architecture and deployment patterns that were considered, the challenges overcome, the benefits, and how Oracle Cloud might apply to your use case.

Monitoring Oracle database, WebLogic, and E-Business Suite has never been easier when deployed in Oracle’s next generation cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and when monitored by OCI’s APM Stack Monitoring. OCI is a set of complementary cloud services that enable you to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly available hosted environment. Discover Oracle database, WebLogic, and E-Business Suite effortlessly using APM Stack Monitoring’s entity discovery and promotion, both on-prem and in the cloud. Leverage the rich UI to quickly gain critical insight to performance through full application stack observability. Monitoring the full application stack has never been easier. Come join us and learn how!

This session explains how to setup Enterprise Manager 13.5 bridge and integrate with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) cloud services to easily utilize target-level data managed by Enterprise Manager and get a 360-degree insight into database and infrastructure resource utilization and capacity.
Database Administrators, DevOps, and IT executives can make critical decisions about their databases and infrastructure by leveraging Machine Learning for their Enterprise Manager data. Learn how you can:
– Analyze resource usage of databases/hosts across the enterprise
– Forecast future demand for resources based on historical trends
– Compare SQL Performance across databases and identify common patterns
– Identify SQL performance trends across enterprise-wide databases

Join us for our Oracle Database 19c Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting.

Amazon RDS Oracle Database service and Oracle Autonomous Database are DBaaS. They have similarities and differences. Come to this session to understand the features and contrasts of both services – not an attempt to show one is better than the other. Both have their use cases and advantages. Having a deep understanding of the capabilities and limitations will help you to understand the best and suitable service for your application.

Graphs are a different way of looking at data and a graph data model provides new insights based on the connections and relationships in data. Growing numbers of developers and data scientists want to access graph capabilities to find clusters, detect paths, and uncover unusual patterns in data. The graph feature of Oracle Database enables developers to create graphs from database tables, search for graph patterns, and apply graph algorithms to data. This session is a how-to for DBAs and developers to support their organizations in using the graph feature of Oracle Database. We will explain what the graph feature is, how it can be installed, what components are necessary, what tools are available, and how developers in a short time can get started with querying and analyzing graphs.

Tupperware has multiple JDE instances around the globe, making reporting in a consistent format using a common tool a challenge. Part of this opportunity is having the right tools, but a larger part is user adoption. This session will discuss the keys to Tupperware’s success in achieving a high rate of user adoption for a new, standard reporting tool across the organization.

The Oracle Database Upgrade has always had its risks, and at time cause amny organizations post upgrade pains. Load testing is hard, difficult to generate a real production load to ensure database performance post upgrade. In this presentation we will review the ability to pretest our real workloads repeatedly to identify any performance issues that are the result of a database version upgrade. Using existinge capabiities we will understand how we can repeat real workload testing with a database upgrade easilty and in less time then you think.

Too many of us have been taught that views are nothing more than stored SQL statements. The main goal of my presentation is to challenge this notion. Or, to be precise, to take you one step further – from technicalities to the huge role that well-designed views can play in the contemporary database solution.

Current views are very advanced. They can be built on the top of user-defined functions, they can have extremely complex INSTEAD-OF triggers (including composite ones), they can even have indexes! As a result, with all of this added functionality views can serve as a isolation level between UI-driven data representation (i.e. heavily denormalized and customized) and DBA-driven data representation (i.e. normalized with referential integrity constraints and foreign keys).

Contemporary IT solutions often take that transformation completely out of the database (usually in the middle-tier), but this presentation will show that keeping business logic IN the database provides you much higher level of flexibility, manageability and performance. Of course, there are some traps and pitfalls – but they are also avoidable. Real-life examples are provided to show that the role of views is seriously underestimated.

The Maximum Availability Architecture Special Interest Group (MAA SIG), formerly the RAC SIG, is a squad of volunteers dedicated to providing ultimate support to Oracle MAA users. Interact, learn, & join the global network of Oracle MAA users to upscale your technical knowledge of Oracle MAA technologies. At MAA SIG, we are focused on providing a great platform to educate and inform current Oracle MAA SIG users through virtual events, e-resources, webinars, visual presentations, conferences, and more. If you are using any of the Oracle MAA features, then this group is for you! Maximum Availability Architecture includes but is not limited to Real Application Clusters (RAC), Data Guard, Active Data Guard, GoldenGate, Sharding, Recovery Manager (RMAN), Flashback, ZDLRA, etc.

Self-service is empowering, but who wants to take over installation and configuration from IT? Autonomous Database is self-driving and comes bundled with a powerful suite of tools pre-deployed. Learn how you can get your job done fast, without sweating the IT.

In this session, Oracle’s Enterprise and Cloud Manageability leadership will discuss Oracle’s current offerings and future plans for providing manageability across hybrid estates leveraging the best of on-premises and cloud technology. Hear what’s new in EM and get a sneak preview of what’s coming up next in its roadmap. Also learn how the new Oracle Cloud Observability and Management platform provides comprehensive visibility and insights across all layers of the stack, deployed on any technology, anywhere. Learn about its roadmap on how it unifies all types of operational telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) with curated machine learning-based analysis, OCI’s Observability and Management platform make it easier to manage applications and improve their efficiency and performance. Lastly, hear how these solutions integrate and work together to solve new business problems.

As application demand grows every day, it’s one of the mail job responsibility for a DBA to keep the MySQL database instances up and running and available 24/7/365.

InnoDB Cluster (HA) helps with that requirement. We can create 3 node cluster with InnoDB and we can scale it as demand grows. We will cover the initial set/requirements to set up InnoDB Cluster in this presentation. We will cover MySQL Shell API tool that is used to set up Cluster nodes and Configuration parameters that needs to be set in my.cnf for cluster(HA) and source/target environments.

Source/Target MySQL server/Instance set up helps business to handle multiple targets from one source and can set up Disaster Recovery servers. This makes is simple and easy for a DBA to set up and provide Disaster Recovery environment using Source/Target set up. We will cover the concept and configurations in this presentation.

Applying Patches to meet with security concerns or upgrading MySQL database to keep up with latest features made simple when we use Source/Target or InnoDB HA environment. This helps business applications with less down time. We will cover the basics of patching/upgrade process in this presentation.

We will cover some of the challenges that DBA will run into during Cluster or Source/Target setup.

Come meet with your fellow Oracle ACE members, Oracle Product Managers and Jennifer Nicholson for networking and to hear updates on the Oracle ACE program.

Learn best practices for moving enterprise database workload which has workload characteristics of OLTP and data warehouse to Autonomous Database (ADB). In the study case we will focus on migrating PeopleSoft Application Database from ExaCS to Autonomous Database (ADB). Along with migration we will also talk about managing key aspects of Autonomous Database (ADB) like scalability, performance, using autonomous health framework and automating problem. Also, we will share how to use Oracle enterprise manager and Oracle management Cloud to maximize performance and rebalance workloads.
In second part of this session we will delve into consolidation of database instances on ExaCC platform. We will go through our real-world experience where we migrated around 150 TB of data to ExaCC platform which supported enterprise application like EBS and OBIEE. During this session, attendees will learn how to:
oUsing Move to Autonomous Database (MV2ADB) from ExaCS to ADB
oWorkload balancing on the ADB platform
oUse of TFA and automate problem resolution
oTools for monitoring Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB)
oUsing ExaCC feature to improve application performance

The objective of this presentation is to provide guidance to IBM® and Oracle customers on upgrading from Oracle Database 11gR2 to Oracle Database 19c and IBM Power8® to IBM Power10. For reasons of long-term support, cost of maintenance, security, and overall efficiency, it is important that customers proceed in planning their move to the most current long-term support version of the Oracle Database and IBM server.
To prepare this presentation the test team selected two workloads that are representative of the variety of workloads that customers may use. Initially each workload was run using 11gR2 on a Power8 processor-based server. Both the Oracle database and the Power8 processor-based server were configured as per best practices, including the application of current service to IBM AIX® and Oracle Database. The server was then upgraded to a Power10 and the Database to 19c.
In this session we will share the methods used, and experience gained, which are also relevant to those using JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, E-Business Suite, SAP, and other applications that leverage the Oracle DB.

Whether COVID-19 impacts subside from here or persist, 2020 served as a dramatic inflection point. Never before has the entire planet reconfigured its behavior simultaneously, participating in lockdowns, quarantines, and enforced social distancing. For businesses and governments, the implications have been extreme, with assumptions and plans radically altered. From Asia to the Americas, the status quo evaporated both within and across industries. The future is murkier than ever—yet presents both new opportunities and new risks.

– Learn insights on the themes and challenges that leaders are grappling with right now
– Understand the future of business and how key opportunities will help increase competitiveness in the aftermath of the pandemic
– Identify next steps towards finding your essential

To successfully lead a project or major change, we have to be proficient at facilitating discussions, guiding individuals/groups, and manage conflict. We hope things go smoothly, however, we will be faced with tough, unsettling discussions that are uncomfortable…there is no other way around it if we are going to be successful. Avoid the hard conversations and failure ensues. This session will provides an excellent framework that will help you prepare for and engage in the exchanges we wish weren’t necessary, yet are imperative to master. If you are in a leadership, change or management role, this is a must to attend.

– Learn how to have difficult conversations with colleagues, employees, and managers. Develop your communication skills to improve your relationships, teamwork, and business performance.
– This session will provide specific tools to thwart under promising and over-delivering, keeping a project on the right track, and improving morale and productivity.
– Creating a strong culture of feedback, effective teams and high-performing organizations.

ERP Training SIG Meeting – Our SIG is open to all Quest ERP users – JDE, PeopleSoft, EBS. Also invited are UPK users, and users of other online training tool development software

Everyone carries a personal learning style. The way they take in information, view things, orient themselves, and operate. To effectively work with others, drive a project, and increase learning, one must understanding these learning styles. Explore the four basic styles of learning/information comprehension; learn to “read” and “speak”another person’s style; ensuring faster and more effective communication. Learn techniques for facilitating learning in any person or group. This session is beneficial to all roles and levels within an organization, as well as personal-life applications.

– Understand and effectively identify built-in learning styles.
– The ability to identify another person’s learning style(s).
– Learn how to use learning styles to improve communications, team focus, and project success.
– Develop techniques for facilitating learning in others, as well as avoiding pitfalls and roadblocks within a work team or life of a project.

Historically, we’ve pursued specialization in everything from sports to careers. However, the highly competitive employment environment and rapidly evolving technology landscape is leaving companies with gaps in expertise and a shortage of labor overall. Cultivating a more versatile workforce can help address these issues and create organizations that are more adaptable and resilient in the face of change.

– Dive into specialization as a strategy—when it makes sense and when it ceases to serve organizations well.
– Showcase the benefits of a versatile workforce and why creating one is imperative for modern companies.
– Provide tangible tips for how to incorporate professional development initiatives and programs that increase employee versatility.

Are you deploying or have you deployed Digital Assistant (ChatBots) for your Oracle Applications deployment? Or considering deploying and wondering what the effort might be? Oracle Digital Assistant for Oracle Applications, such as the HCM ChatBots/Skills, hold the promises to make your users much more productive – promises that do require “care-and-feeding” like any AI technology. In this session, we will discuss best practices in deploying and maintaining your Digital Assistant for Oracle Applications, so iteratively it can become smarter over time and become more accurate in understanding end user utterances. We will go through the common “Care-and-Feeding” cycles, as well as case studies of live customers.

ChatBot or Digital Assistant capabilities are now available for virtually all key pillars of Oracle Applications. You can now ask Digital Assistant for vacation balance, file an expense report, and contact IT help desk, all from a single conversational user interface. In this session, we will discuss actual customer implementations – lessons learned, benefits, challenges, and more importantly, what your implementation experiences might be like!

Oracle software and services are often the lifeblood of corporate and government IT operations. While companies often optimize their Oracle deployments, these same companies almost always fail to optimize their Oracle licensing, contracting, and compliance position. These failures can lead to unexpected financial and relationship strains with Oracle. These strains can prevent the adoption of new Oracle technologies required for your business transformation.

In this session we will review best practices companies have employed to stay in compliance with their Oracle contracts while reducing their costs and virtually eliminating the Oracle audit risks. Companies that manage this successfully have the ability to focus their attention on their business goals and adopt the latest solutions from Oracle without worrying about Oracle audits.

Sometimes IT organizations struggle with driving change and continuous improvement—it seems like people are always pushing back! Without buy-in, you get a culture of confusion, mediocre results, and frustration—especially among top performers.

Join former CIO and best-selling author of People Before Things, Chris Laping, in this hands-on, skill-building experience. This session is focused on exploring effective tactics to build buy-in during your change cycles so you can bypass dysfunction and accomplish more.

Come join the Canadian Regional Users Group (CanRUG) at a reception at Quest’s BLUEPRINT 4D conference in Las Vegas! Find your fellow Canadians for an hour of networking, free drinks and sharing jokes that perhaps only Canadians will understand, eh?

The road to post-COVID recovery is long—and for many, the journey continues to be uphill. Global inflation is rising. The talent market is tightening. And supply chain disruption abounds. It’s not an ideal environment for growth. Yet, these challenges have introduced a host of opportunities for companies that are prepared to pivot. Where old business models have faltered, new ones are emerging. In this interactive session, we’ll examine how consumer, employee, and investor demands are shifting, what high-performing organizations are doing differently, and where organizations are making the biggest bets. Outlining how 2022 is shaping up and highlighting where the business landscape has been permanently altered.

Oracle software and services are often the lifeblood of corporate and government IT operations. While companies often optimize their Oracle deployments, these same companies almost always fail to optimize their Oracle licensing, contracting, and compliance position. These failures can lead to unexpected financial and relationship strains with Oracle. These strains can prevent the adoption of new Oracle technologies required for your business transformation.
In this session we will review best practices companies have employed to stay in compliance with their Oracle contracts while reducing their costs and virtually eliminating the Oracle audit risks. Companies that manage this successfully have the ability to focus their attention on their business goals and adopt the latest solutions from Oracle without worrying about Oracle audits.

Complex software in your business is a given, but how do you maximize your ROI and get your employees trained to use it quickly and painlessly?
Tackling training on your own can become more time-consuming and costly than planned. Slow onboarding and numerous support tickets mean a huge delay in reaping the benefits of your software investments. And what most companies don’t know is that traditional training methods don’t work on SaaS applications that update continuously.
Maverick provides a solution to the various training issues that you may encounter by providing fully customizable, constantly updated, hassle-free training. This presentation teaches you the most effective training strategies that help companies like yours get the best training and the best ROI on their software applications.

In this session, RST Solutions will explore the different types of process automation technologies available as well as discuss a variety of process automation use cases that will help you better understand how these technologies can be leveraged widely throughout your organization to solve your process standardization, streamlining, and optimization goals. Learn various opportunities of how you can incorporate these technologies into your strategic roadmap for growth.

In this session, we will discuss the approach of a successful Business process Automation initiative. The fine line of Do’s and Don’ts matter – as they define the difference between success and failure of a BPA initiative. There will be live demos on of the BPA that our customers have achieved and the related challenges they faced. Learn various opportunities of how you can incorporate these lessons learned into your strategic roadmap for BPA.