This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

The month-end close is a critical process for every finance team, yet it's often plagued by manual data entry, tedious reconciliations, and endless spreadsheet gymnastics. This reliance on outdated methods not only introduces risk and errors but also consumes valuable time that your team could be spending on strategic analysis. This session will showcase how finance professionals can leverage modern analytics in multiple ways to improve the month end close process providing key financial data to the right finance team members at the right time enabling them to create a streamlined, reliable, and faster close process with Power BI and Excel utilized in a governed way. In this session, you will learn how to: - Automate the consolidation of financial data from multiple ERPs or multiple instances of your ERP if required. - Reduce reliance on manual spreadsheets and eliminate the associated risk of errors. - Streamline the preparation of financial statements and management reports with a single source of truth. - Help your finance team raise the bar enabling them to focus on high-impact analysis and strategic initiatives.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Oracle’s July 2025 release for Financial Consolidation and Close (FCCS) introduces next-generation Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) capabilities that bring AI-driven intelligence directly into financial processes. This webinar will showcase how IPM transforms forecasting, anomaly detection, and decision-making for finance teams. What You’ll Learn: AI-Enhanced Decision Making – Leverage multidimensional financial data for faster, smarter insights. Automated Trend & Anomaly Detection – Spot outliers, hidden patterns, and missing or volatile data with ease. Forecast Accuracy & Bias Insights – Identify hidden forecast biases, calculate risk percentages, and strengthen predictability. Time-Saving Automation – Reduce manual effort by letting IPM surface correlations and insights from historical data. Confidence in Numbers – Ensure finance and consolidation teams work with trusted insights for critical decisions. Live Demonstration Highlights: Real-time walkthrough of IPM Insights in FCCS. How to configure and run IPM analyses. Reviewing Forecast Bias and Anomaly Detection dashboards in action. Why Attend? / Note for Reviewer This session aligns with Oracle’s vision of embedding AI and automation into EPM processes, giving you practical knowledge on how IPM can elevate accuracy, efficiency, and confidence in financial consolidation and planning. You’ll walk away with not just awareness of the features—but a clear view of how they deliver real-world business value.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Abstract Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is evolving beyond transactional systems into intelligent, adaptive platforms powered by Generative AI. This session explores the paradigm shift toward Generative ERP, where AI, machine learning, and automation converge to help organizations make smarter decisions, enhance productivity, and navigate disruption with agility. We will demystify the building blocks of Generative AI and show how these capabilities unlock new opportunities in finance, supply chain, customer experience, and procurement. Real-world examples and practical strategies will highlight how Generative AI transforms ERP implementations, data migration, and day-to-day operations. In addition, we will showcase how Oracle Generative AI and the Oracle AI Agent Studio extend ERP capabilities by embedding AI-driven agents directly into business processes—empowering enterprises to move from automation to adaptive intelligence. Objectives By the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Understand the fundamentals of Agentic AI and Oracle Generative AI in the enterprise context. 2. Explore Oracle AI Agent Studio and its role in building, deploying, and scaling AI agents across business functions. 3. Identify practical use cases in Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Customer Experience where Generative AI delivers measurable value. 4. Navigate the roadmap for implementing Generative AI, from pilot projects to full-scale enterprise adoption.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Oracle ERP systems are expected to provide the flexibility necessary to accommodate a wide variety of business process flows. Central to optimizing these processes is the ongoing improvisation and simplification of workflows, aiming to reduce the number of steps required and enable swift execution—all while preserving the system’s inherent adaptability. With the integration of artificial intelligence, business processes have become increasingly intuitive, leveraging heuristic models that streamline operations without sacrificing underlying flexibility. This evolution supports organizations in responding quickly to changing business needs while maintaining robust and efficient process management. Objectives: 1. Build Automation & reduce manual tasks with no value add. 2.Use Oracle Agents to automate tasks 3. Attendees will learn methods to streamline business processes and increase agility using AI in Oracle ERP Cloud.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Is implementing Oracle Cloud Grants on your roadmap or are you currently implementing? With any implementation, investing in data quality/clean up, change management, and integration planning can help reduce roadblocks for a successful go-live. However, the requirements and the business process for managing grants are especially complex. Therefore, we’ve put together a list of tips and tricks to help lay the foundation for an effective implementation, regardless of the system you are transitioning from.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

During this session we will discuss how to approach implementation and enhancement strategy as Cloud ERP continues to change at a rapid pace. We will review a variety of approaches that have been expressed by customers to handling items such as Redwood, AI Agents, and other ongoing features. Living in the world of Oracle Cloud ERP is a journey on constant change and course adjustments from release to release.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Imagine your Oracle Cloud environment as a fearsome dragon, spewing forth a torrent of documents – invoices, statements, and more – chaotically and unpredictably. Manual data entry, missed deadlines, and unreliable deliveries threaten to overwhelm your team. This session shares how Equinix, a flagship Oracle Cloud implementation, "tamed their dragon" through enhancements to their document delivery workflows. Discover how they streamlined attachment and extraction, automated email (and fax) delivery, and gained valuable insights through advanced reporting. Learn how to conquer document delivery challenges in Oracle Cloud and unleash the full potential of your business. What To Expect: 1: Understand the "dragons" of document delivery in the Oracle Cloud environment. 2: Learn to "train" your systems with automated workflows and streamlined processes. 3: Gain the power to "control the dragon" with advanced reporting and analytics.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

SaaS and Cloud ERP solutions offer agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency, making them attractive options for modern enterprises. However, many organizations still rely on significant on-premises infrastructure, creating a hybrid environment that demands thoughtful cloud strategy. This paper explores the challenges and opportunities of managing ERP systems in a hybrid setup, evaluates the strengths of leading cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Google Cloud), and provides a framework for selecting the best-fit cloud solution based on business needs, existing architecture, and long-term digital transformation goals.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

Oracle Fusion Cloud’s quarterly and annual upgrade cycles offer continuous innovation—but they also demand proactive planning to minimize disruption and maximize value. This session shares consulting best practices for navigating these updates with confidence. Learn how to assess release notes effectively, anticipate holistic business impacts, and structure testing cycles that include regression testing and stakeholder validation. Through practical tips and real-world examples, attendees will gain strategies to streamline upgrade readiness, reduce risk, and ensure seamless adoption of new features across ERP and HCM environments.