Lynne Sampson, Oracle’s managing editor of The Modern Finance Leader, wrote about how a century-old company is leveraging Oracle ERP Cloud to build its digital future. This leading multi-industry company looked to the Cloud for innovation and growth as it approached its 100th anniversary and looked forward to the next century.

The University of California San Diego, one of the country’s top research institutions, decided to replace its legacy financial management system with Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud. The decision to use Oracle Cloud for finance enabled UC San Diego to increase its overall productivity, bolster decision making with real-time business insights, and easily incorporate emerging technologies.

David Werner wrote a recent Oracle blog that explained why artificial intelligence (AI) is the future of Project Management and how customers can begin leveraging the benefits of AI for project management today.

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.

Sara Lipowsky, Solution Engineer at Oracle, gave a demonstration of a digital assistant that pulls live data from several sources. The chatbot in this example was built for the internal finance team at an insurance company, so put yourself in the shoes of a busy finance director. You’re in and out of meetings all day and making influential decisions. Luckily, those decisions are based mostly on data. However, when your data is located on multiple dashboards on dispersed systems, accessing the numbers you need can be tedious. You could have all of these dashboards open on multiple windows and tabs, but that can often be overwhelming. What if you’re on the go or in a meeting and need access to your data right then and there? These are some of the pains that today’s finance directors face. The solution is Oracle’s digital assistant.