Education Tracks and Hot Topics at BLUEPRINT 4D

JD Edwards

Education Tracks

• Financials: Dive into Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Advanced Cost Accounting, Expense Management, Fixed Asset Accounting, General Ledgers, OneView Reporting and more to help extend your company’s ROI.
• Human Capital Management: Leverage Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Human Capital Management solution to take advantage of a suite of integrated, collaborative applications designed to help streamline HR operations by reducing time-intensive administrative tasks and lowering costs by deploying self-service applications.
• Tools and Technology: Learn how infrastructure tools help easily install, update, manage and get the most from JD Edwards applications. Leverage newly released features and functionality to optimize JDE.
• Manufacturing and Distribution: Learn about synchronizing end-to-end processes including demand and supply management, shop floor and inventory operations, and quality, logistics and customer service.
• Capital Asset Management (EAM): Acquire knowledge to maximize profitability and get the best out of your investments. Learn how to manage equipment maintenance applications and discover new ways to make work easier.
• JD Edwards Other: Sometimes it’s hard to put a topic in a box. Explore this track with topics that don’t fit into one specific JD Edwards pillar. Topics range from project management, real estate, agribusiness, security to Oracle Guided Learning. The possibilities are endless!

Hot Topics

• Enterprise Automation: Use JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to automate your business processes to increase efficiency.
• Digital Platform: Utilizing JD Edwards delivered products such as Orchestrator, Workflow Studios, Notification &Extensibility Frameworks, and JDE Update Manager allows customers to automate daily task, eliminate customizations, adopt and integrate with Cloud applications, and lower total cost of ownership.
• System Administration: Explore solutions that allow customers to simplify and automate system administration and security, improve package build and deploy, improve system health checks, provision and deploy hardware, use server manager to monitor and automate system tasks, and adopt Autonomous Database.
• Extending JDE with Cloud Apps (Hybrid Cloud): Utilizing a Hybrid Cloud deployment allows customers to maximize their JD Edwards ERP investment by also taking advantage of Oracle Cloud app capabilities.
• Orchestrations: Learn how you can create orchestrations to help your organization eliminate time consuming and error prone manual processes as well as learn how Orchestrator Studio enables business analysts to create, test, and deploy orchestrations without having to understand the complexity of the underlying code required for processing orchestrations.
• Mobile: Learn how to build better mobile apps faster! Leverage Orchestrator Studio, develop and publish mobile apps via your browser, and harness visual design builders.
• UX One: UX One is designed to deliver a user experience that is easier for customers to adopt, configure and personalize.
• Personalization / Extensibility: Leverage JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and the latest features within to enhance your user experience through automated processes, innovative user interfaces, and more! With personalization options, you can create your own experience to meet the user interface business requirements, without any customizations, and with extensibility, you can optimize your JD Edwards features without adding heavy customizations.
• Low-code/No-code Tools: Learn how low-code/no-code platforms and tools empower developers and business analysts to build line of business and departmental apps.
• Continuous Adoption: Frequent enhancements, adoptions and more to get the most out of your JD Edwards without having the costly major upgrades. These changes come in a shorter time frame and easier to implement.
• Release 24: Release 24 is the next Digital ERP release, delivering innovation that automates, optimizes, and transforms business processes and represents Oracle’s continued investment that furthers customer’s digital transformation.
• Security: Learn the latest in data protection, access control, secure configuration, and monitoring, blocking and auditing.
• JDE on OCI: Maintain choice and control with your own unique configuration of JD Edwards applications, customizations, and data. Let Oracle handle the hardware and storage. Enjoy the benefits of an agile, automated cloud deployment while keeping control of your deployment options to meet unique business needs.

PeopleSoft

Education Tracks

• PeopleTools: Utilize the newest features and functionality in PeopleTools 8.60 to reduce operating costs, automate manual work, improve user experience, and more!
• Human Capital Management: Transform your traditional administrative HR functions into opportunities to drive engagement, productivity, and business value. PeopleSoft HCM can help organizations increase hiring speed, source and recruit top candidates, retain and nurture talent, provide learning and growth opportunities, and increase bench strength by proactively planning for succession.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Learn how to reduce costs, connect suppliers and customers, increase efficiency, streamline processes, and more with PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning. Optimize your Financial and Supply Chain operations within your PeopleSoft ERP by following best practices, leveraging newly delivered features and functionality, and taking advantage of automation.
• PeopleSoft Other: Sometimes it’s hard to put a topic in a box. Explore this track with topics that don’t fit into one specific PeopleSoft pillar. Topics range from PeopleSoft Test Framework, upgrades, to Oracle Guided Learning. The possibilities are endless!

Hot Topics

• Analytics (includes Kibana): Kibana is a powerful, open-source analytic tool that provides rich analytics and visualization, improved understanding of your data, and enables better decision-making. Learn about how Kibana has evolved since its initial release in PeopleTools 8.57 and what use cases benefit most from Kibana vs. other PeopleSoft analytics.
• Configuration: Learn how to personalize the user experience using PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface and understand how related content and simplified analytics allow you to get the specific information you need. Also hear about new PeopleSoft tools and frameworks such as Page Composer, Page and Field Configurator, and Activity Guide Composer that enable updates without costly customizations.
• Digital Assistant (includes Chatbots & PICASO): Provide employees with an improved user experience, better insights, and easy access to information with the help of digital assistant.
• Oracle Guided Learning: Oracle Guided Learning helps accelerate implementation and adoption of your Oracle applications. In-application guidance allows your team to realize instant productivity, reduce training, and support costs and provide a smooth and simple experience for employees. Incorporate company-specific and local HR policies and process needs across multiple locations.
• Lifecycle Management: Taking a strategic approach to efforts to keep PeopleSoft up to date is important for organizations as they manage their PeopleSoft lifecycle by applying fixes, new features, updates and upgrades and the strategic approach behind efforts to stay current
• User Experience & Search (includes Fluid Navigation): User Experience gives users a modern interface and the flexibility to use PeopleSoft applications on any device. Learn to create fluid pages and components and make them available to end users and understand and use the technology to enable user flexibility.
• New to PeopleSoft: Whether you’ve recently moved into a new role or are just starting your career, New to PeopleSoft sessions help users gain a basic understanding of PeopleSoft as well as how to best connect with members of the PeopleSoft community and leverage resources to optimize your PeopleSoft experience.
• Campus Solutions: Oracle’s Campus Solutions suite provides higher education users with a student system for a global campus. Functionality includes admissions, records, student financials and financial aid.
• PeopleSoft on OCI: Moving your PeopleSoft application to the cloud enables you to build and run a wide range of applications in a scalable, secure, highly available, and high-performance environment. Learn more about how you can automate processes, reduce costs, enhance performance, and continuously innovate with PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Cloud ERP

Education Tracks

• Financials: Oracle Financials gives you a complete view of your financial position and results so you can respond quickly to an ever-changing business environment. Explore reporting and analytics, revenue management, expense management, joint venture management, and more.
• EPM: Learn how to plan, budget, forecast, and report on business performance as well as consolidate and finalize financial results.
• SCM/Procurement: Streamline and integrate source-to-pay with an intuitive user experience, built-in analytics, and collaboration that simplifies supplier management, enables best supplier selection, enforces compliant spending, and improves profitability. Learn more about logistics, maintenance, manufacturing, order management, product lifecycle management, and inventory management.
• ERP Reporting & Analytics: Expand the value of your data with pre-built and customizable analytics to quickly monitor, align, and act on critical workforce insights.
• Cloud ERP/EPM/SCM Other: With Oracle Cloud, there’s still much to learn outside of each specific module, and platform optimization is important. Learn how configuration, release management, Autonomous Cloud, Oracle Guided Learning, Redwood/Visual Builder and more can help you get the most out of Oracle Cloud ERP, EPM & SCM.

Hot Topics

• Extensions and Security: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Security helps organizations reduce the risk of security threats for cloud workloads. With simple, prescriptive, and integrated security capabilities built into the OCI platform, Oracle helps customers easily adopt and secure their cloud infrastructure, data, and applications.
• Release management: Learn how to manage new product development and release cycles from start to finish.
• Project Management: The Cloud ERP Project Management application helps connect the right resources to the right projects with clear views of goals, financial performance, and project requirements.
• Integrations: Learn how to use integrations to eliminate slow, manual steps preventing your business from shortening requisition time, PO creation, and invoice validation processes. Ensure compliance and reduce risk by automating exception handling, approvals, and end-to-end process visibility across applications.
• Configuration: Cloud applications are focused on configuration rather than customization. Learn how to configure data structures and hierarchies, organizations, and user roles and responsibilities.
• Oracle Guided Learning: Oracle Guided Learning helps accelerate implementation and adoption of your Cloud applications. In-application guidance allows your team to realize instant productivity, reduce training, and support costs and provide a smooth and simple experience for employees. Incorporate company-specific and local HR policies and process needs across multiple locations.
• Redwood/Visual Builder: Redwood is Oracle Cloud’s new theme and next generation design system.
• Cloud Staffing & Org Structure: If you’ve recently moved from an on-prem solution to the Oracle Cloud, learn tips for best practices to organizing your staff for optimal Cloud success.
• Project Management

Cloud HCM

Education Tracks

• HR & Employee Experience: Learn how Oracle ME, part of Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, helps employers create supportive, tailored employee experiences that meet workers where they are and take them where they want to be.
• Recruiting & Talent Management: Take control of every stage of the talent lifecycle using Oracle Talent Management. Attract the best candidates, boost productivity, and improve decisions with end-to-end talent management. Source, recruit, onboard, manage performance, develop careers, and plan succession—all in one place.
• Workforce Management: Learn how to align business strategy, reduce compliance risk, and deploy the workforce with greater control through a fully integrated HR solution that links time, labor, and leave management with payroll, financial, and personnel data.
• Payroll: Support myriad requirements across organizations, workers, and industries to enable efficient, compliant, and configurable payroll across the globe—and leverage predefined integrations with your payroll providers, reducing complexity and cost.
• HCM Reporting & Analytics: Get ready-to-use workforce insights to improve their decisions related to workforce diversity, employee attrition and retention, talent acquisition, compensation, and more.
• Cloud HCM Other: With Oracle Cloud, there’s still much to learn outside of each specific module, and platform optimization is important. Learn how configuration, release management, Autonomous Cloud, Journeys, Oracle Guided Learning, Redwood/Visual Builder and more can help you get the most out of Oracle Cloud HCM.

Hot Topics

• Journeys: Learn how to use Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM to support employees through professional and personal workflows, such as onboarding, exploring career opportunities, transferring to a new role, starting a new project, getting married, or having a baby, all with one user experience.
• Oracle Guided Learning: Oracle Guided Learning helps accelerate implementation and adoption of your HCM Cloud applications. In-application guidance allows your team to realize instant productivity, reduce training, and support costs and provide a smooth and simple experience for employees. Incorporate company-specific and local HR policies and process needs across multiple locations.
• Integrations: Learn how Oracle Integration accelerates your ability to deliver seamless connectivity and end-to-end process automations across your cloud and on-premises applications.
• Configuration: Cloud applications are focused on configuration rather than customization. Learn how to configure data structures and hierarchies, organizations, and user roles and responsibilities.
• Release Management: Learn how to manage new product development and release cycles from start to finish.
• Redwood/Visual Builder: Redwood is Oracle Cloud’s new theme and next generation design system.
• Cloud Staffing & Org Structure: If you’ve recently moved from an on-prem solution to the Oracle Cloud, learn tips for best practices to organizing your staff for optimal Cloud success.
• Project Management

Move to the Cloud

Education Tracks

• Cloud Readiness: For organizations considering a move to Oracle Cloud Apps, it’s important to assess your organizations current state to examine what a potential cloud migration will mean for your business and how it will impact operations, cost, and resources.
• JD Edwards Cloud Migration: For customers who make the move to Oracle Cloud Apps, it’s important to know what to expect throughout all phases of the migration process. Hear what it’s like for JD Edwards customers in all phases of their migration for best practices on preparing, planning, migrating, and optimizing operations in the Cloud.
• PeopleSoft Cloud Migration: For customers who make the move to Oracle Cloud Apps, it’s important to know what to expect throughout all phases of the migration process. Hear what it’s like for PeopleSoft customers in all phases of their migration for best practices on preparing, planning, migrating, and optimizing operations in the Cloud.

Cross-application Technologies

Education Tracks

• AI Today (and Tomorrow): As the capabilities of AI continue to expand, organizations need to be ready. Learn about how to prepare your organization to best leverage AI, explore how business are handling governance, learn about Generative AI and how it works, and more.
• Strategic Tech: As new technology emerges, learn how your organization can leverage tools such as Robotic Process Automation, Data Analytics, IoT, Edge Computing, Natural Language Processing, Environment, Sustainability and Governance, Business Process Mining, and more! Explore what these emerging technologies can do for you and hear use cases and best practices.
• Oracle Database: Oracle Database is the world’s leading converged, multiple-model database management system. Whether you’re running an on-premises application or in the Cloud, learn about the possibilities of Oracle Database for your business to take your data to the next level.

People Development

Education Tracks

• Change Management: Explore tips, best practices, and tools to build for organizational success as your organization transforms. This track includes Change Leadership and goes well beyond the technology and focuses on setting up the people in your organization for success before, during, and after moving to the Cloud.
• Conscious Inclusion: As organizations take a strategic approach to value diversity within their organization by ensuring their policies and business practices promote inclusion, explore how to create an environment that also reflects this mindset to create a feeling of belonging and how this mindset can be integrated with the technology your company is already leveraging.
• Talent Management: As technology advances, organizations need to both elevate their current employees and hire new team members to ensure their organizations are future-ready. Find out how employers are retaining, reskilling, and redeploying their current employees to set themselves up for success.
• Business Analyst Professionals: Learn about the expanding role of the Business Analyst and why it is more crucial than ever. This track will explore the skills and techniques that make a successful BA and how this influential role can be developed internally.