The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) is the 3rd largest United States tribal government that supports its programs with multiple commercial enterprises as well as grant funding. CNO made a strategic decision and multi million dollar investment to pivot from JDE to Oracle cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Many factors were considered to enable this transformational change and we'll share our experiences from implementation to go-live. Learn the things we wish we would have known, what failed, how we survived, and how our system has grown since go-live. Join us in discussing our cloud-based journey including the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

In today’s market, organizations have options on whether/how/when to move to the Cloud. Some are reimplementing to new SaaS solutions; others are optimizing PeopleSoft and lifting their existing ERP/HCM to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; and others are choosing to integrate Cloud-based solutions with their on-premise PeopleSoft applications. Join us for a panel discussion on factors to consider in evaluating your options and how to get the most value from the direction you choose. We'll share insights to help you navigate the options and the marketplace. How do you engage Oracle? How do you evaluate providers for Cloud services and/or Cloud infrastructure? What are the benefits you should expect? What will your team be responsible for AFTER the migration? We’ll also share best practice on some of the smart things your organization can be doing TODAY so that you’re ready for TOMORROW: Designing Cloud-proofed business processes that can easily move PeopleSoft down either cloud path; Automating manual tasks to help your staff redefine the nature of “work”; Identifying opportunities to reduce and retire third-party systems. Bring your questions and join us for successful strategies that will help you ensure a smooth landing if and when your cloud migration comes, and allow you to keep innovating in the meantime.

In only FOUR months The Amherst Group went live on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Release 22. This includes Financials, Job Cost, Subcontract Management, Homebuilder Management, thousands of User Defined Objects (e.g. Orchestrations, Notifications, CafeOne's, Composite Pages, and Grid Formats) using The MASYC Group, Inc.'s Rapid Start program. Hear directly from The Amherst Group's product manager as to how the organization prepared for the project, chose the solution and partner, their experiences with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and how they have positioned themselves to grow into their EnterpriseOne solution including upgrading to Release 23.

Dollar Shave Club (DSC) is well known for their products and unique selling proposition to the market. They are a well-established market leader and have a support team and strategy that supports their market goals. The IT team made the decision to move JDE applications to a managed cloud services solution through Denovo to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In this session, DSC will share the reasons for their decision, what the project migration looked like, successes, and lessons learned from the run & maintain aspect of running JDE on OCI.

What happens when you are ready to leave JDE? What to expect from your project to move to Cloud Applications and what do you need to live in the Cloud. Hear Lyle Ekdahl and Debra Lilley talk about their experiences with customers.

We will walk through our current and ongoing change strategies and how we utilized Oracle Guided Learning to carry them out.

In this session, we will go deep explore the vision, roadmap, and investment strategies for our key innovations with respect to respect to learning, development, and growth. From LMS to LxP to growth in the flow of work and life, our most recent investments and innovations connect people with valuable, hyper-personalized insights, recommendations, and guidance on skill development for mastering their current roles, as well as their ongoing growth potential.

The move to the Cloud is filled with exuberance and challenges as your organization progresses along the Cloud Maturing Model. The wave of digital transformation brings disruptive changes to the organization as well as an opportunity to evaluate process and incorporate efficiency. True transformation succeeds when people themselves transform and adopt to change. This session will reveal what one of the largest fast foods icons had to contemplate as they started their journey and the maturation that ensued. Every role on the organization from technologists to leaders were required to embrace change for them to become “value creators”. What does your organization need to consider as it progresses along this maturity model? Has your organization considered the roles required as you progress from data center transformation to application stabilization, to supporting hybrid deployments before you modernize your applications?

Whether you are preparing to go to the Cloud in a year, five, or ten, this session will discuss ideas and actions to take today to streamline and re-organize your on prem solutions to act more cloud like in preparation for a one day move to cloud solutions. The main focus of topic will be Billing and Accounts Receivable and actions we are taking now to ready ourselves to make a future shift to cloud easier. How we are project by project taking our older style complex billing structure from the on prem solution and making it less complex to fit in a one size fits all world where customizations are not available.

There will be an end of presentation discussion session to allow others who have transitioned to cloud or are in the process of transitioning to provide ideas or tips and tricks they may have used to help or are helping them to transition to cloud.

Mcgrath has gone through a next generation re-imagination of their IT organization. This project has taken their ERP, infrastructure, security, governance, mdm and entire landscape into a state of change.