COLLABORATE 20 will be here before you know it! The event will take place April 19-23, 2020, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Created by users for users, COLLABORATE 20 brings IT strategists, users and developers together with Oracle teams and vendor experts to share inspiration, insights, and solutions. COLLABORATE 20 Quest education features sessions and networking opportunities for JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud Applications, and Database and Technology users.

Douglas Kehring wrote in Forbes about four lessons that Oracle has learned about business transformation, which was reflected on at Oracle OpenWorld 2019. The Oracle@Oracle Experience was debuted at OpenWorld 2019 and was made up of 75 sessions that were aimed at sharing Oracle's journey to the Cloud with conference attendees. The experience confirmed what Oracle has suspected all along - that customers are eager to hear about how Oracle is using Oracle Cloud to transform its own business as they begin similar journeys of their own. 

Sasha Banks-Louie, Oracle BRANDVOICE brand contributor, wrote in Forbes about how three very different companies all improved customer experience by leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The article looked at how Jio, GreenGo, and Adlib leveraged OCI to meet their customer experience needs. 

The Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2020 was released on January 14, 2020. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible.

Quest has secured a number of discount passes available only to our members for $995—which is a $1,000 savings off the onsite rate. Register with code QUEST. We’ll look for you near our booth at the MBX Hub.

Margaret Lindquist, Oracle BRANDVOICE contributor, wrote in Forbes about how the University of Adelaide is leveraging Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) to answer important attendance eligibility questions from potential students and, ultimately, substantially grow its student population within the next five years. Catherine Cherry, the school’s director of prospect management, is putting innovative technologies to work to help meet that goal.

As part of Quest Experience Week (QXW) 2019, Manish Somani, Senior Director of Product Development at Oracle, and David Scott, Director of Product Strategy at Oracle, presented an overview of the plans for a solution to help companies manage their joint ventures in Oracle Cloud. The pair shared an overview of the Oracle Fusion Joint Venture Management Cloud and the planned features and benefits throughout the lifecycle of a joint venture. 

Linda Peel, Industry Lead for Consumer Goods and Retail, spoke about Oracle capabilities that can help Consumer Goods companies generate and evaluate forecasts, provide a base volume that shows trend and seasonality impacts, and evaluate each element of the trade spend across price, merchandising, special store placement, consumer incentives, etc. 

Margaret Harrist, Oracle BRANDVOICE contributor, wrote an article in Forbes about how to leverage the power of analytics in finance.