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.
• Real Estate: Learn about real estate management and lease management functionality that enables you to streamline financial and operation processes to cost-effectively manage your portfolio.
• 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.
• Security: Learn the latest in data protection, access control, secure configuration, and monitoring, blocking and auditing.

Hot Topics

• 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/ 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.
• Process Automation: Eliminate manual processes and human error by taking advantage of process automation with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
• 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.
• 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.

Hot Topics

• Student Cloud: Leverage PeopleSoft Student Cloud to quickly adapt to change in today’s dynamic global environment of higher education.
• 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.
• Digital Assistant/Chatbots: Provide employees with an improved user experience, better insights, and easy access to information with the help of digital assistant.
• Configuration (Eliminate/isolate customizations): 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.
• Search: Learn about the set of features that PeopleSoft application end users access to submit search requests against the Elasticsearch search server, including global search, search pages, facets, search groups, and search contexts.
• Fluid User Interface: 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.
• Updates: Stay in the know on the latest PeopleSoft updates and learn how to prepare for application maintenance using selective adoption.
• PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: 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 lifestyle 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.
• 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.

Hot Topics

• Release management: Learn how to manage new product development and release cycles from start to finish.
• Project Management: Oracle Project Management helps you plan and track your projects, assign the right talent, balance capacity against demand, and scale resources up or down quickly as needs change. Dive into resource management, task management, project billing and contracts, and more.
• 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.

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.

Hot Topics

• Release Management: Learn how to manage new product development and release cycles from start to finish.
• 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.
• 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.

Move to Cloud

Education Tracks

• Configuration: Cloud applications are focused on configuration rather than customization. Learn how to configure data structures and hierarchies, organizations, and user roles and responsibilities.
• Maintenance & Release Management: Learn how to manage new product development and release cycles from start to finish.
• 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.
• Security: Learn how Oracle Cloud can help your enterprise protect its infrastructure, apps, and data against cyberattacks, adhere to compliance mandates, and much more.
• Data Mapping & Migration: Maintain choice and control with your own unique configuration of 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 to Cloud

• Benefits of HCM Cloud for PeopleSoft customers: Moving to a cloud HCM solutions is the single best way to meet modern workforce demands and future-proof your organization. Dive into the benefits, including a modern user experience, business agility, operational efficiency, continuous innovation, and cost savings.
• Benefits of ERP Cloud for Peoplesoft: Leverage one comprehensive ERP solution, complete with a modern cloud platform, built-in intelligence, and powerful configuration and automation tools, allowing your team more time for strategic work.
• Key Focus Areas: Configuration vs Customization, Maintenance, and Integrations
• Prepare for Cloud: The best path to the cloud is the one that fits the unique needs, goals, and technology strategy of your organization. Learn what you need as you prepare to move to the cloud in the least disruptive and most efficient way possible.

JD Edwards to Cloud

• Benefits of ERP Cloud for JD Edwards customers: Leverage one comprehensive ERP solution, complete with a modern cloud platform, built-in intelligence, and powerful configuration and automation tools, allowing your team more time for strategic work.
• Benefits of HCM Cloud for JD Edwards customers: Support organizational transformation with more agility, faster innovation, transformative technologies, new functionality, increased productivity, improved data security, and easier integration.
• Key Focus Areas: Configuration vs Customization, Maintenance, and Integrations
• Prepare for Cloud: The best path to the cloud is the one that fits the unique needs, goals, and technology strategy of your organization. Learn what you need as you prepare to move to the cloud in the least disruptive and most efficient way possible.

Database & Technology

Education Tracks

• Oracle Database Innovations: Oracle remains the number one relational database platform and spent years innovating over its competitors. This is the place to find out about those innovations. Interested in internal performance tuning? Or the newest blockchain table feature? How about recovery features or upgrades? These speakers and sessions will cover all of this and more.
• Availability in a Cloud World: Your systems performance and uptime are critical. The business cannot run if applications go down for even a few moments. In the modern world of on-premises and cloud-based offerings how do you integrate technology to best reduce costs and maintain continuity? Looking to use RAC or Data Guard? Migration of systems without disruption? Reduce costs on disaster recovery? Achieve five 9’s of availability? These sessions will help prepare you for application growth and provide you with resilient system designs.
• Elastic Computing: Modern compute infrastructure can exist physically just about anywhere. Though the goals remain consistent, high performance, reduced costs, simple to manage, and secure easy access. How to migrate from on-premise to cloud? Here we will cover engineered systems, modern storage, cloud networking, IasS, and PasS in all variations.
• Security & Manageability: The world is a dangerous place. If you don’t have a solid posturing, your systems may be ripe for attack. How do you maintain confidentiality, integrity and availability on your modern applications? You can’t secure what you don’t know you have, so management of systems is critical. Inventory, patching, identity maintenance, hardening settings, and finally making system available is critical. These sessions will provide you with the real-world examples of keeping your systems shipshape.
• Data-driven Development: Your data is the most important, accessing, exposing, and utilizing data efficiently is critical. Looking for tips on rapid development or citizen developer? Using the latest techniques for efficient movement or analysis of data? Looking at a data lake house? Combining data from heterogeneous systems? Machine learning and artificial intelligence data analysis? Sessions in this area will help you see around the curve and into the next generation of development.

Hot Topics

• Oracle Database 23c: Learn about the latest version of the world’s leading converged database, supporting all data types, workloads, and development styles.
• OCI: The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Database service offers autonomous and co-managed Oracle Database systems in the cloud. Learn about how you can also manage Oracle Databases located outside the Oracle Cloud with OCI’s External Database service.
• Engineered Service: Oracle Engineered Systems are integrated, full-stack solutions that are developed together with Oracle Database and applications to run mission-critical customer workloads faster, at lower costs, and with greater security than multivendor, on-premises solutions.
• Database Upgrade: Looking to upgrade to the latest long-term release? Eyeballing new features in an innovation release? Learn about upgrade best practices and all of the new features in Oracle Database.
• Security and Zero Trust: Oracle’s database security solutions reduce the risk of data breaches and make it easier for customers to meet compliance requirements. Encryption, data masking, privileged user access controls, activity monitoring, and auditing enable IT teams to strongly secure Oracle Database environments and understand potential vulnerabilities.
• Ransomware: Discover how Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance’s unique real-time transaction-level database protection, recovery validation, and fast RTO enables you to protect and recover databases from any attacks, without data loss.
• Enterprise Manager 13.5: Learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager creates business value for IT by leveraging the built-in management capabilities of the Oracle stack for traditional and cloud environments, enabling customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency gains while dramatically increasing service levels.
• Machine Learning: Machine Learning in Oracle Database supports data exploration, preparation, and machine learning modeling at scale using SQL, R, Python, REST, AutoML, and no-code interfaces.