This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

Cash forecasting is traditionally one of the most manual and error-prone processes in Finance, relying heavily on spreadsheets, subjective judgment, and inconsistent assumptions across departments. With Oracle EPM Cloud’s new Predictive Cash Forecasting capability, organizations can now elevate cash planning from reactive guesswork to an automated, data-driven process powered by embedded machine learning. This session provides a comprehensive walkthrough of how Predictive Cash Forecasting identifies trends, analyzes historical inflows and outflows, detects seasonality, applies statistical models, and produces highly accurate cash projections with confidence intervals and risk indicators. We’ll explore how the tool integrates seamlessly with Fusion Cloud ERP, how to configure prediction drivers and forecast intervals, and how finance teams can compare scenarios, tune models, and manage governance around AI-assisted forecasting. Attendees will learn practical use cases for Treasury, FP&A, and Finance leadership—including optimizing liquidity, improving working capital decisions, and strengthening short-term and long-term cash planning. This session is ideal for EPM administrators, financial analysts, and decision-makers looking to bring modern predictive intelligence into their organization’s planning processes.


This session is eligible for the following CPE Credit: NASBA

Speaker: Abhi Raina, Denovo

This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

Join the Cloud SCM community for their in-person meetup to address a topic that many SCM customers are currently facing: Oracle’s Redwood UX isn't just a facelift—it’s the new mandate for Supply Chain Management. For SCM leaders, the challenge is clear: How do you modernize without any disruptions of operations? This session provides a prescriptive Redwood Migration Blueprint designed to help you transition Procurement, Inventory, and Manufacturing workflows with precision and zero downtime. Attendees will leave with a practical plan to accelerate their Redwood journey and improve user adoption, accuracy, and operational speed across the supply chain. What We’ll Cover: The Assessment Framework: Learn to identify high-value "Redwood-ready" areas and map critical functional dependencies. Structured Execution: A deep dive into migration waves, change management strategies, and risk-mitigation checklists. The RAAP Advantage: How to leverage the Oracle Redwood Accelerated Adoption Program to gain direct access to Oracle Product Development for faster issue resolution and feature requests.

Speaker: Aswanth Vaidiswaran, Docusign

This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

JD Edwards (JDE) environments are evolving rapidly, and organizations are looking for smarter, more intuitive ways to optimize operations. This session introduces how Agentic AI, combined with autonomous process automation, is reshaping JDE workflows by enabling intelligent, collaborative systems that work alongside users to enhance efficiency and decision-making. Leveraging generative AI, natural language interactions, and task-oriented agents, JDE processes can be transformed from static, traditional ERP activities into dynamic, AI-driven operational flows. The session showcases how advanced AI agents can interpret functional and technical queries, automate repetitive tasks, coordinate multi-step processes across JDE modules, and integrate seamlessly with surrounding enterprise applications. With the support of Oracle AI services—including sentiment analysis, data classification, and language intelligence—these agents introduce contextual understanding and autonomous execution capabilities that elevate ERP performance. Real-world scenarios illustrate how organizations are deploying agentic systems to boost user productivity, streamline operations, strengthen governance, and achieve greater business agility in a modern, digital-first landscape.


This session is eligible for the following CPE Credit: NASBA

Speaker: Kn Kasibhatla, Kenai Technologies

This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

"The enterprise systems market has been in the SaaS phase for ten years now, and expectations have shifted as the market has matured. Gone are the days when organizations expected to save money right away with a SaaS move; the idea that just implementing a SaaS platform would automatically make business easier is also fading. Are there any sacred SaaS cows left? In this session we will take a hard look at the SaaS move, considering what hundreds of customers have experienced over the past ten years. What can you really expect? How do you mitigate risk and manage expectations? And how can you avoid becoming an industry horror story?


This session is eligible for the following CPE Credit: NASBA

Speaker: Paul Taylor, Gideon Taylor

This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

Staying current with PeopleSoft PUM images and Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) is essential, but limited resources, too many environments, and too little time make it hard. Without a clear plan, updates can cause downtime, missed features, and risk. This session shares tactics to streamline your updates: manage change packages, structure testing, and safely minimize downtime. Drawing on years of experience across hundreds of environments—including complex efforts with a dozen+ PUMs—we’ll share a refined playbook that delivers updates as fast as 30 minutes, averaging about 4 hours. You’ll leave with an adaptable framework to reduce risk, shorten windows, and keep teams current without burnout—plus practical tools you can apply immediately, whether you’re handling quarterly updates or simply want a better process.


This session is eligible for the following CPE Credit: NASBA

Speaker: John Marcus, Gideon Taylor

This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

With tools 8.62, and the latest HCM and FSCM images, Oracle completely changed the homepage and dashboard structure. No longer is it siloed by process, but more by role. In this session we walk through how these new Dashboards can be set up for a completely redesigned and improved way for the user to get around PeopleSoft, as well as how one of our clients has set up Dashboards already as an early adopter to provide the best experience possible for the end users. We will demo setting up a dashboard and how to quickly personalize and get the most value from this configuration.


This session is eligible for the following CPE Credit: NASBA

Speaker: Bennett Walker, MIPRO Consulting

This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

At Martin Marietta, implementing Oracle Supplier Qualification Management (SQM) has streamlined supplier data and standardized evaluation processes, significantly reducing risks and delays. Enhanced transparency and improved supplier oversight have increased operational efficiency and strengthened supply chain reliability. Integrating Oracle SQM with Oracle Cloud via Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) has further reinforced security and governance frameworks. This initiative highlights the value of cloud-enabled supplier management in optimizing procurement operations.


This session is eligible for the following CPE Credit: NASBA

Speaker: Hari Bethanaboina, Martin Marietta

This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

In PeopleTools 8.62 it is possible to add and configure additional OpenSearch Plugins to OpenSearch delivered for PeopleSoft. Symantec Search can be configured using Neural Search and machine learning models. Semantic search employs Neural Search in order to determine the intention of the user’s query in the search context, thereby improving search relevance. Neural Search can use OpenSearch-provided pretrained models, your own custom models, or a foundation model hosted on an external platform. Conversational Search can be configured to use external AI LLM’s. Conversational Search uses large language models (LLMs) to read the top N documents and synthesizes those documents into a plaintext “answer” to your question. Additional Plug-Ins that can be configured are Anomaly Detection and Alerting. Anomaly detection automatically detects anomalies in your OpenSearch data in near real-time and the Alerting Plugin can notify you as soon as an anomaly is detected.


This session is eligible for the following CPE Credit: NASBA

Speaker: Kevin Feeley, University of California: Berkeley

This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

Modernizing PeopleSoft is an opportunity for leaders to strengthen operational resilience, improve agility, and deliver better employee and customer experiences. This track helps executives connect modernization efforts, such staying current with PUMs, adopting new features, optimizing processes, and integrating cloud capabilities, to meaningful business outcomes such as reduced risk, faster service delivery, and greater workforce efficiency. Leaders will gain practical strategies for communicating value, prioritizing investments, and demonstrating the long-term impact of a modern, forward-looking PeopleSoft environment.


This session is eligible for the following CPE Credit: NASBA

Speaker: Sangeetha Cheeraparambil, State of Oklahoma
Halie Smith, Rob Mowid, MIPRO Consulting

This session was presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2026.

This presentation will cover identifying system performance issues within the PeopleSoft applications, as well as provide suggestions for tuning. One-third of the class will focus on tuning the application stack (e.g. Web and App server), where the remaining two-thirds of the class will cover identifying slow running SQL, and how this can be tuned to run more efficiently by re-coding, adding indexes, or even making database level changes. The class will attempt to be database/system agnostic, but most examples will be done on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Target audience is system admins, developers, and DBAs of PeopleSoft systems.


This session is eligible for the following CPE Credit: NASBA

Speaker: Mike Doyle, New Resources Consulting: Inc.