Forward-looking CFOs today have to know not only "What happened?" but also "What would happen next?" This is where an EPM system comes in; consolidating data from a variety of sources, such as your ERP system, front/ back-office applications, and external data sources and analyzing this data to deliver actionable insights. Join this session to explore the benefits of adopting an EPM solution to increase profitability, cut costs and streamline and optimize business processes across your organization.

There is only one Major League Baseball! Learn how MLB migrated off multiple instances of JD Edwards and consolidated their unique organizations to Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning. Discover how they overcame challenges, completed their ERP solution, and transformed their internal business operations by leveraging Financials, Procurement, and EBPCS to complete a major initiative they call “One Baseball.”

Flexibility to target and load specific setup is key in any Cloud implementation, roll out, release cycle, patch cycle etc. The ability to then readily confirm settings are consistent across multiple Cloud environments is paramount. Basic implementation tools are provided but do not consider practical usage, lack clarity of reporting or consistency checking and require numerous loading mechanisms / user interfaces.

Your Organization has been live on Oracle Cloud for a while and it’s going okay, but are you leveraging the power and potential of your application? By taking a simple approach to review your current application and available features, your organization can gain “quick wins” to ease business pain points, as well as build a path forward to gain more value from Oracle Cloud. This session will detail tools and techniques for evaluating your current Oracle Cloud processes, easily reviewing available features including Quarterly patches, and making a plan for applying expanded functionality for your users. We’ll also review a case study of an Oracle Cloud customer who performed an analysis to identify additional modules, delivered reports, and features that they hadn’t been utilizing that supported their business goals.

Starting the cloud journey by investing in Oracle Cloud ERP for your global operations is even more challenging if you're running operations across the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Meeting legal and statutory requirements running Cloud ERP Globally requires many technical components worth learning before planning your implementation from a budget and a resource perspective. This session will cover which aspects you'd need third-party companies and how you can integrate them with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), also as what patching needs to be applied in Oracle Cloud SaaS, OIC, and creating an Oracle Autonomous Database, including some developments provided in VBCS that extend Oracle SaaS.

When it comes to implementing e-invoicing, businesses have no time to waste! Manual billing and invoice processing are outdated, error-prone and ineffective, costing companies significant resources every day. Additionally, there's another threat on the horizon - the mandating of e-invoicing by tax authorities. E-invoicing will soon become a tax compliance requirement, if it isn't already. Usage of e-invoicing processes and platforms is mandated by law in an increasing number of countries. As it stands, businesses have a choice - adopt e-invoicing or risk non-compliance and the inability to send invoices to customers. This seems daunting and leaves us feeling as if we have no reason to rejoice.

- Within Continuous Innovation , the message for Oracle Fusion Cloud App users is clear: adopt the new application enhancements to simplify and transform your business processes, eliminate customizations and take advantage of new business opportunities. Projects that deliver innovation however are not risk-free. To mitigate risk and to support a program of projects, extra emphasis must be placed on the importance of automated functional/regression testing.

Join Oracle Product Management in this session for a review of the core features that so many customers are taking advantage of, not only across their balance sheet reconciliations but for off balance sheet operational requirements as well. We’ll also review best practices when planning your implementation, and tips & tricks for getting up and running quickly. EPM Account Reconciliation is ERP agnostic so anyone can use it whether you have a single or multiple ERPs across your company’s landscape. This session will include live demonstration.

Many of the world's largest organizations rely on Oracle Financial Close solutions to meet their complex and ever-changing financial and non-financial reporting requirements. But did you know that Oracle can also help lower the cost of compliance, shorten cycle times, improve data quality, and help bring together all departments for topical relevant connected reporting? This session explores how Oracle Cloud EPM can help you reimagine your close process to achieve better faster, more-accurate results.

In this session we will discuss the often asked question: What do you wish you had known? The ride from On-Premise to Cloud is always hectic and full of learning. But, that learning does not stop at Go-Live. Given the ever-changing and evolving nature of the Cloud Applications there is always more. Let’s spend some time discussing lessons learned and lessons ongoing.