During Quest Forum Digital Event: Cloud Week, Tom McDonough, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Supply Chain Planning, Collaboration, and Visibility at Oracle, presented Integrated Business Planning and Execution (IBPX) as a key component for digital transformation. He discussed views on the present day’s market for enterprise planning, responses to the market through connected enterprise planning, and an Integrated Business Planning and Execution (IBPX) overview. Additionally, McDonough communicated Oracle’s approach to emerging tech, customer journeys to the cloud, and customer success stories. 

During Quest Forum Digital Event: Cloud Week, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Manager of Application Architecture Information Technology at ATCO, shared the story of ATCO's EPM Cloud implementation and deployment of Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Grant Kieckhaefer, EPR EPM Product Marketing, Oracle, recently walked through the benefits of strategically connect finance and HR in the Cloud. Ask yourself, how well do your finance and HR teams work together? If you’re like most organizations, you recognize how important it is for finance and HR to collaborate closely. But all too often, silos get in the way—whether technical or organizational. As the world struggles to come to grips with new ways of working in today’s economic climate, breaking down these silos is more urgent than ever.

Emma Yu, Director of EPM Product Marketing at Oracle, interviewed Rich Wilkie, Vice President of EPM Product Management at Oracle, about four must-have attributes of a complete financial consolidation solution.

As part of Quest Experience Week (QXW) 2019, Manish Somani, Senior Director of Product Development at Oracle, and David Scott, Director of Product Strategy at Oracle, presented an overview of the plans for a solution to help companies manage their joint ventures in Oracle Cloud. The pair shared an overview of the Oracle Fusion Joint Venture Management Cloud and the planned features and benefits throughout the lifecycle of a joint venture. 

As part of Quest's 2019 Cloud Webinar Series, Phil Newman, Product Manager for OCI Platform, presented five ways to help control Cloud costs on an ongoing basis.

When running a high-stakes project, IT leaders know that they will need a lot of sign-offs before going live. When the City of Atlanta was about to go live with its new all-Cloud ERP strategy, it had to get a blessing from a surprising source - the National Football League. Atlanta was hosting the Super Bowl in February 2019, and the city wanted to go live with its Cloud project before then in order to help the city through the demands of that event, which draws hundreds of thousands of people to the city. 

A recent Oracle blog talked through the reasons to tackle your ERP/EPM and HCM systems together to create an integrated Cloud solution. It starts with a scenario: Imagine that you’re getting a promotion to a management position, which would impact your purchasing authority, approval workflows, travel allowances, and pay structure. On top of that, you’re moving to North America to Europe, where your company operates under a different legal entity. How long will it take before your new role is reflected in your company’s Human Resources system, you start getting paid at your new rate, and your new team can start submitting expenses to your for approval?