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.

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?

Sue Shaw, Director of IT Operations for ATCO Group, spoke at COLLABORATE 19 about how to manage change after you’ve made the move to the Cloud. Sue discussed the scope of ATCO’s Cirrus Cloud Project, the types of changes companies may face during Cloud projects, and tools that are available to help with Cloud implementation change management.

Tansy Brook, Director of Product Marketing at Oracle, shared the financial management success story of SRAM, a Chicago-based global manufacturer of high-end bicycle components. After many years of using Hyperion, SRAM decided to make the move to Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud (FCCS)—part of the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud suite.

Los Angeles Lakers Controller, A.J. Harris, shared how the Lakers utilized Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud to support the organization during a period when they were facing significant growth. The LA Lakers decided to use Oracle ERP Cloud shortly after Harris joined the team. They realized that their legacy system couldn’t support them through the growth phase that they were in. They knew that it was time to move to a Cloud platform that had Financials, Fixed Assets, and a BI tool in the EPM system that could assist them in building out their departments—including the basketball team.