Do you have a strategy and where should you start?

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

As organizations modernize their enterprise systems, the shift from legacy ERPs like PeopleSoft and JD Edwards to Oracle Fusion Cloud represents a pivotal transformation in operational efficiency and strategic agility. This session explores real-world lessons from organizations that have successfully navigated this transition, highlighting the key drivers behind cloud adoption, common challenges encountered, and the strategies that enabled smoother implementation and user adoption. From change management and stakeholder alignment to data migration and process redesign, attendees will gain actionable insights into leading ERP transformations that deliver long-term value and resilience in a cloud-first world.

This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.

This presentation is for CIOs, IT leadership, project managers or product managers. When migrating your system to the cloud, you're likely going to engage the services of a vendor, systems integrator or implementation partner. This presentation will include best practices and lessons learned from the entire lifecycle of working with vendors to insure project success: negotiating SOWs, preparing your team, Project Management, identifying and mitigating risks, keeping things on track, go live and sustainment. We are in the process of migrating from Peoplesoft to Oracle (Fusion) Cloud Apps, but this presentation includes takeaways for any cloud implementation.