Emma Yu, Director of EPM Product Marketing at Oracle, interviewed Rich Wilkie, Vice President of EPM Product Management at Oracle, about four must-have attributes of a complete financial consolidation solution.

A recent Oracle blog, written by Frank Nimphius, explored how to integrate frequently asked questions (FAQs) with Q&A intents and framework in Oracle Digital Assistant. Creating a bot to provide answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) is a popular first chatbot project. The expectation is that the chatbot will reduce the number of calls needing to be handled by a human and that it will increase the number of service requests that can be processed within a given time. Chatbots that answer questions certainly live up to that expectation, but they are not very engaging and certainly could do more.

Juana Bordenave, Director of HCM Cloud Global HR Product Strategy, recently presented an updated Oracle HCM Cloud roadmap and strategy.

The Ohio Regional User Group (ORUG), previously known as the PeopleSoft ORUG, has expanded to include Oracle Cloud, and we are ready to hit the ground running at the upcoming Spring conference on March 19, 2020. The conference includes both PeopleSoft and Oracle Cloud content geared toward functional and technical users with informative sessions, roadmaps, roundtables, customer stories, panel discussions, and networking. 

In a recent Oracle video, Sherri Bartles, Director of Product Strategy for Oracle HCM Cloud, spoke about what makes Oracle Cloud Absence Management unique and different from other solutions on the market. 

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. 

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. 

Rudy Lukez, Director of ERP Product Marketing at Oracle, wrote an article about seven reasons to consider an ERP Cloud solution for your organization. 

As part of Quest Experience Week (QXW) 2019, Anita Paye, Director of Finance Compass Support at Emory University, spoke about how the university handled change management to ensure the success of its new ERP system implementation in 2014 after a failed attempt in 2009. She covered four change management pillars, the reasons people resist change, and practical ways to help them move forward.