07:00 AM - 08:00 AM
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“Things I’d Love to Say to Oracle But Am Afraid to Say” Roundtable Session
Do you find Oracle (sometimes) difficult to work with? Are you sweating the possibility of an audit? Struggling to discern fact from fiction as you consider your technology roadmap? Have questions or concerns you’d love to raise but don’t know where to take them or whether they’ll be well received? Join us for this roundtable session to connect with others who’ve “been there and done that” as well as those whose current challenges are similar to yours. Your hosts will ask the audience to share strategies that have worked well and will be ready to share some from their experience as well.
Location: Bristlecone 10
Speaker(s): Dianne DeNezza, University of Pittsburgh; Max Shlopak, Palisade Compliance
Moderator(s): Dianne DeNezza, University of Pittsburgh
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07:00 AM - 08:00 AM
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IT Director Roundtable Session
IT Directors, we're crowd-sourcing hot topics for this session right now. Tell us what you'd like to discuss, and then join us for breakfast and frank conversation about the issues that matter most to you. If you came to Ascend hoping to broaden your network of Oracle users to whom you can turn for ideas and advice when you need it, this sunrise session is a can't-miss opportunity for you!
Location: Bristlecone 9
Speaker(s): Mohan Dutt, Equinix; Biju George, Syntax
Moderator(s): Mohan Dutt, Equinix
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07:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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Registration & App Help Desk Open
Location: Aria Convention Center West, 1st Floor, Bluethorn Foyer
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07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
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Morning Coffee
All attendees are invited to the Brew Pub Hub for morning coffee.
Location: Partner Pavilion
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08:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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Cloud HCM Report Jam with Oracle
We are holding multiple 30 minute one-on-one sessions between 8am and 10am both Tuesday and Wednesday during Ascend for IN PERSON registered attendees. You can sign up for an available slot by emailing education@ohug.org. Participants will be scheduled based on first come, first served and preferred times will be accomodated as much as possible. Once the slots are full, you can be placed on a waitlist. You must report to Bluethorn 1 15 minutes prior to your scheduled time. This will allow us to offer any no show slots to those on the wait list.
Report Jam is an opportunity to sit down with a reporting expert from Oracle to solve your most difficult and perplexing reporting challenges. Bring your report(s) with you and your laptop so you can Zoom in with the experts. Many of our past attendees have really appreciated this session to get expert help with report design, writing, and troubleshooting. Don't miss this chance to solve those pesky reporting problems!
Location: Bluethorn 1
Speaker(s): Julian Challenger, Oracle; Raghavendra Raghunath, Oracle India
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Extending Enterprise Command Centers to Bring Key Performance Indicators to the Forefront of Users Daily Interactions
We will be sharing our experience in extending Enterprise Command Centers to make Key Performance Indicators the launching pad for daily decision making. Functional Administrators will learn how to add company specific performance indicators to the Enterprise Command Centers to bring them to the forefront of the users minds as they make decisions. We will dive into a specific use case and cover the details of what is required to extend the Enterprise Command Centers to meet the reporting needs from both data driven decision making and metrics driven analysis. Be prepared to uncover ideas of how Enterprise Command Centers can improve the use of E-business Suite for every user.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how to Extend Enterprise Command Centers to include company specific performance indicators.
Presentation Objective 2
Discover how to use data from E-business Suite and other sources to define metrics in Enterprise Command Centers.
Presentation Objective 3
Highlight how to make Enterprise Command Centers the first stop for users in E-Business Suite.
Location: Bristlecone 2
Speaker(s): Sheena Ekker, USANA Health Sciences, Inc.
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Five (5) MUSTs for Every APEX Application
While no two APEX applications are exactly alike, there are some things that should be included in every application you build from this point forward -without exception. Things like administrative reporting, instrumentation, enhanced messaging and error handling...these should be designed in from the start rather than included as a "time permitted" afterthought. Your users will appreciate the consistency across your entire suite of applications as they will require less training. You will also be able to more quickly diagnose any issues as they arise. Include these 5 MUSTs and be the hero of your office.
Presentation Objective 1
Introduce Oracle Application Express (APEX) and discuss the benefits of low code development
Presentation Objective 2
Demonstrate how these 5 MUSTs will help the end users increase productivity
Presentation Objective 3
Discuss how these 5 MUSTs will help the development team proactively address issues with the application.
Location: Bristlecone 1
Speaker(s): Monty Latiolais, Insum; Sylvain Martel, Insum
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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From Error to Patch: A Deep Dive into Oracle Database Patching
Have you ever heard from Oracle Support, "It will be fixed in 21c or 23c"? And wondered if you should upgrade now, and how you should upgrade when the release is not there yet? In this talk we will give rare insights into how Oracle Database Development works, how fixes are developed and patches delivered. We will explain why it takes more than a few minutes to complete a regression test suite, why you (usually) don't get one-off patches on Windows -and why you need a backport to have "this" issue fixed on 19.13.0. And why is it called a backport, anyway? We are fully aware that for this topic you may need a beverage of your choice relax -and that everybody has a story to tell. Our focus will be to shed some light on the black box that can sometimes be "Oracle Database Development"
Presentation Objective 1
Get you a better understanding why things work as they work
Presentation Objective 2
Why miracles may not happen every day but sometimes take longer to deliver
Presentation Objective 3
Shed some light on the black box that can sometimes be "Oracle Database Development"
Location: Bluethorn 2
Speaker(s): Roy Swonger, Oracle
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Future-Proof Your Oracle E-Business Suite by Moving to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a secure, scalable, and highly available platform that is fully certified to run Oracle E-Business Suite and customers’ entire ERP application ecosystems. In this session, Syntax and Oracle will explain how OCI and the E-Business Suite Cloud Manager can help customers gain significant advantages in availability, manageability, and scalability while simultaneously optimizing IT spend.
Oracle Development will provide an overview of the EBS Cloud Manager tool, the process of migrating E-Business Suite to OCI, and the features used to manage E-Business Suite once you are live on the platform. Syntax will then present a day in the life of a typical E-Business Suite applications manager, and how customers can use OCI to improve availability, manageability, scalability, and performance, all while reducing operating expense.
Presentation Objective 1
Understand the application technology roadmap for E-Business Suite
Presentation Objective 2
Understand how Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager can be used to migrate and manage your environment in OCI
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how OCI can improve your availability and scalability for minimum incremental cost
Location: Bristlecone 9
Speaker(s): Santiago Bastidas, Oracle; Marc Caruso, Syntax
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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How to Leverage Compensation and Benefits for the Hybrid Workforce to Both Retain and Attract New Talent
The pandemic has permanently changed how employees work with some back in the office, some now working remotely and some some doing a mixture of both. This session looks at how we can manage the workforce equitably, retain and continue to atract talent using Oracle Compensation and Benefits
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about the current capabilities In Oracle Compensation and Benefits and how to apply them to your organization
Presentation Objective 2
Hear how to manage the workforce equitably using Oracle Compensation and Benefits
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how to retain and continue to atract talent using Oracle Compensation and Benefits
Location: Pinyon 3
Speaker(s): Lynda Cowan-Tollefson, Oracle; David O'Meara, Oracle; Paolo Zulato, Oracle
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Implementing PeopleSoft Talent Management Applications
WorkStrategy will provide attendees with an overview of key concepts and implementation tips for the Talent Management modules. Presenters will review configuration and integration best practices to achieve workforce development and process improvement objectives. The session will cover Profile Management, Talent Profiles, ePerformance, Succession Planning, Talent Pools, Career Planning, Employee Snapshot, My Team, Team Performance, Profile Search and Compare, Analytics, and recent Fluid enhancements.
Presentation Objective 1
Review new Talent Management suite functionality and understand recent Fluid enhancements
Presentation Objective 2
Review talent management configuration options
Presentation Objective 3
Review integration best practices
Location: Bluethorn 8
Speaker(s): Brian McIntyre, WorkStrategy, Inc.; Lisa Wells, WorkStrategy, Inc.
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Lead Within Your Space: Self Direction with a Purpose
Many have heard of "Extreme Ownership." One of those ideas is the idea of leading within one's sphere of influence. This is particularly true in the Enterprise Applications space. Enterprise Applications exist to support business operations. ERP teams may report to IT, Finance, or Operations. HCM teams may be included with ERP or report to HR or elsewhere depending on where Payroll is assigned. Each of these parent organizations has competing priorities. Often the needs of ERP/HCM teams do not rise to the top. The need to support business operations does not stop based on hierarchical priorities. Leading in one's own space whether a manager or team member can make all the difference between success and mediocracy.
Presentation Objective 1
Create a mission and vision with personal meaning in alignment with an organization's hierarchy
Presentation Objective 2
Execute duties in scope with this vision
Presentation Objective 3
Continually review and adjust as you grow and change
Location: bristlecone 4
Speaker(s): Lee Edwards, National Oilwell Varco; Richard Stevens III, Independent
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Managing Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Having a Diversity and Inclusion program is one of the key drivers of success for organizations. Join Ingentis as we discuss the importance of having and supporting diversity across the entire workforce. Learn more about the positive impacts of DEI programs and industry benchmarks and discover how Ingentis org.manager with its various org charting and visualization options helps organizations measure and monitor their DEI initiatives to really make them a success.
Presentation Objective 1
Understand the potential risks and negative impact to organizations that do not pursue a DEI strategy for the workplace.
Presentation Objective 2
Learn a methodolgy to effectively measure DEI in the workplace along with proper goal setting.
Presentation Objective 3
Watch a live demonstration of how DEI can be properly measured in the workplace and how to identify areas that can be improved through DEI program
Location: Bluethorn 6
Speaker(s): John Kranz, Ingentis
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Maximize Your Cloud Investment with Fast, Flexible, and Secure Excel-Based Reporting
As Controller at Merchants Distributors (MDI), I found my team struggling with inefficient processes to create their financial reporting from Oracle ERP Cloud. Although the finance team had some native Cloud ERP reporting, the reports weren't flexible enough to meet our needs, and the steps necessary to perform drilldowns were manual and painful. MDI is a provider for grocery wholesaling, retail support, and logistics support to over 650 stores worldwide. The amount of data we collect and report on is tremendous. I found the performance and efficiency of insightsoftware's solution for Oracle ERP Cloud reporting made the tool a perfect fit for the team, and MDI has benefitted from productivity gains and more flexible reports that meet the needs of their business.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how you can get fast, general ledger reporting for Oracle ERP Cloud directly in Excel
Presentation Objective 2
Explore ways you can cut reporting delays by empowering your team to create the flexible, accurate reports that decision makers need
Presentation Objective 3
Understand how you can simplify reporting across multiple accounts and drill down to subledger details to quickly access the data you need
Location: Bristlecone 8
Speaker(s): James Lamb, Merchants Distributors; Tim Miller, insightsoftware
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Mobile Apps for Enterprises SIG Meetup
Mobile Apps for Enterprises for SIG focus expands to mobility, chatbot platform and RPA (Robotic Process Automation) along with Mobile Applications for Enterprises. This meetup will be a combination of panel discussion, presentation and updates on Mobile Applications with an open and comprehensive platform integrating with Oracle EBS or databases, RPA, Chatbot etc with participants.
Presentation Objective 1
Customers will get to understand the updates and roadmap of Mobile Applications on Oracle EBS. Open panel discussion on Mobility or Mobile Apps.
Presentation Objective 2
Session will also focus on options to develop Mobile applications using APEX platform integrating with Oracle EBS
Presentation Objective 3
Session will also focus on discussing topics related to RPA, Chatbot etc.
Location: Bristlecone 7
Speaker(s): Manjula Ganapathi, Johns Hopkins Univ. - Applied Physics Laboratory; Gustavo Gonzalez, IT Convergence
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Oracle Cloud Talent Management: The Latest
Engaging your people, growing your talent, identifying future leaders. Having the right tools to manage your talent and providing a superior employee experience is vital. Oracle is continuously listening to our customers and investing in the Talent Management functionality and user experience that meets the demands of today's modern workforce. In this session we will take a look at some highlights of our Talent Management suite and discuss our investment priorities as we continue to support our customers moving forward.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about the current capabilities within Oracle Cloud HCM Talent Management and how to apply them to your organization
Presentation Objective 2
Learn about our future investment priorities for Talent Management.
Presentation Objective 3
Gain an understanding of trends within Talent Management
Location: Pinyon 2
Speaker(s): Christine Yokoi, Oracle
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Positioning for Oracle EBS Continuous Innovation
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is likely to continue to leverage Oracle EBS for its ERP needs for the next few years to several years. In positioning relative to Oracle's EBS roadmap and JPL's Enterprise 2.0 business transformation initiative, JPL undertook a massive upgrade project to best position ourselves that included EBS upgrade to R12.2.10, RDBMS upgrade to 19c, and migration to Linux. This presentation focuses on planning, management, and preparing the Laboratory for this major technical endeavor for JPL's coming years ahead.
Presentation Objective 1
Share and inform the audience on key components of a successful project with executive buy-in for funding and resources needed for the overall scope.
Presentation Objective 2
Share and inform the audience on key components of a successful project through effective team and project management.
Presentation Objective 3
Share and inform the audience on key components of a successful project based on focused communication and change management.
Location: Bristlecone 3
Speaker(s): Peter Rinde, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Rolling Rolling Rolling with Continuous New Features & UI
Presenters will explain how they leveraged the benefits of Oracle Cloud technology while designing 6 Talent modules for two different organizations across healthcare and utilities. During the design and testing phases of both implementations, they focused on absorbing new features and the responsive UI quickly. As a result, immediate impactful benefits were achieved, such as many requirements moving from "Gaps" to "Fits" and increased stakeholder buy-in. Presenters will share their innovative approach to operationalize this practice, including detailed planning far in advance for each quarterly update. They quickly introduced the business to the concept of rolling updates and helped them to understand the multitude of benefits, especially from the new responsive UI pages.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how to unlock the benefits of the new responsive UI
Presentation Objective 2
Learn about the upgrade management strategy for two different complex organizations
Presentation Objective 3
Learn new ideas for how your company could quickly absorb and leverage new features
Location: Pinyon 1
Speaker(s): Gabrielle Mancusi Ungaro, PwC; Samantha Mroczynski, PwC; Chase Wolfle, PwC
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Simplify Digital Invoicing and Digital Payments for Global Businesses on Oracle Receivables
The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital invoicing and digital payments in both B2B and B2C businesses. Learn how you can setup digital invoicing and digital payments across multiple countries for your global business.
Presentation Objective 1
What are the latest trends in digital invoicing and digital payments? Why CFOs and IT Applications team should have this a top priority in Finance 2022?
Presentation Objective 2
Learn about the solution architecture of Oracle Receivables and Emagia Digital Invoicing & Digital Payments
Presentation Objective 3
Planning and implementation of digital invoicing and digital payments initiative for Oracle Receivables
Location: Bristlecone 10
Speaker(s): Veena Gundavelli, Emagia
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
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Time Entry Details Report
This is a seeded report, but not used by any business user due to a profile option data issue. With minor changes at profile option values, this report can be used by business users to retrieve time entry details at an employee level
Presentation Objective 1
The target users will be Time entry admin users.
Presentation Objective 2
This report generates multiple entries across pay periods, including retro entries.
Presentation Objective 3
Useful for Department heads, HR liaisons, Timekeepers and employees.
Location: Bluethorn 7
Speaker(s): Ajith Vijayan, Loudoun County Government
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09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
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DevOps for Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Cloud
Companies that are looking to shift their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) implementation from on-premises to run on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) will be bringing customizations and extensions along for the ride. Whether you are running on-prem, on Oracle Cloud, Oracle SaaS or on another cloud or hosting provider, you can automate the deployment and release processes of EBS, leverage existing investments in middleware, and optimize the overall solution by adopting PaaS such as Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). Learn how Cloud and Oracle EBS can not only "play nicely," but how Oracle Cloud can complement and advance your Oracle EBS and Cloud implementations, and how the FlexDeploy DevOps platform provides automation every step of the way.
Presentation Objective 1
How to ease the transition from on-prem to the cloud including options for running Oracle EBS on the Cloud Infrastructure
Presentation Objective 2
How to automate CEMLI migrations, make post-clone refresh more effective, and streamline your data fix processes on-prem and in the Cloud
Presentation Objective 3
How to control and govern your release processes and gain visibility across environments
Location: Partner Pavilion Theater
Speaker(s): Dan Goerdt, Flexagon
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09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Brew Pub Hub
Enjoy our custom coffee bar while you visit the experts in the Partner Pavilion.
Location: Partner Pavilion
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09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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Meet the Oracle Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Logistics
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle Logistics (WMS, Inventory) experts — the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.
Location: Oracle Demo Grounds, Partner Pavilion
Speaker(s): Bill Reilly, Oracle
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09:30 AM - 04:00 PM
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Partner Pavilion (Exhibit Hall) Open
Location: Partner Pavilion
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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A Methodology for Successful Supplier and Customer Automation for Oracle EBS
Failing to manage manual, transaction-based processes can be a money-losing proposition for an organization – and it’s avoidable.
Automating your Accounts Payables and Sales Order entry functions can address common problems such as data entry errors, late payments, missed customer SLAs, duplications, misplaced files, processing errors, and other issues. You need a solution that fits the way you work, not the other way around.
Learn how IntelliChief can unlock the full potential of end-to-end automation in your organization. In this session you will learn:
· Why automating your processes – Accounts Payable and Sales Order entry matters
· What to expect when you can boost management visibility and make improvements by capturing key documents –connected to Oracle E-Business Suite
· How real-time integration with Oracle EBS streamlines processing, validation, and approvals
· To avoid bottlenecks and redundancies by empowering the way you work
· Verify the accuracy of your transactions within Oracle EBS and automate your approvals
· Demonstrate the savings you can gain from automating any document-based processes
· Unlock any hidden secrets behind a successful implementation
Gain the tools you need to unlock the potential of automation and get on a successful financial path.
Presentation Objective 1
Empower workflows to eliminate redundancies that cause bottlenecks in production
Presentation Objective 2
Gain a better understanding of the end-to-end use cases for process automation in various areas of your organization, including Accounts Payable, Sales Orders, Human Resources, etc.
Presentation Objective 3
Understand how to leverage real-time Oracle EBS integration to help streamline processes such as touchless invoice processing, validate line items with the corresponding purchase order, invoices, receipts, and more
Location: Bristlecone 9
Speaker(s): Leif Peters, IntelliChief
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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APEX Tips and Tricks from the EBS-APEX Dude!
So many Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) organizations are using Oracle APEX to satisfy their business needs of extending specific business processes. With the "Continuous Innovation on Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2" release model, EBS 12.2 Premier Support is extended through at least 2032, which is a long-term commitment you can rely on. Oracle APEX being Oracle's strategic low-code development platform of choice, it is obvious that your investment in APEX development extending EBS will be used for years to come! Whether you are interested in adding more cool features, or making your users more efficient, I have gathered a series of tips and tricks that I've learned and used in my years developing APEX application in the context of EBS, and I want to share them with you!
Presentation Objective 1
Understand the supported EBS-APEX configuration
Presentation Objective 2
Learn some EBS-APEX tips and tricks
Presentation Objective 3
Learn advanced APEX features useful for EBS
Location: Bristlecone 1
Speaker(s): Monty Latiolais, Insum; Sylvain Martel, Insum
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Be Prepared: Key Hiring Compliance & Legal Challenges
The legal landscape related to background screening and drug testing laws continues to evolve at an incredibly fast pace. This presentation will detail key impacts to employers and Human Resources professionals, in addition to providing practical tips. Topics include: >Are pre-hire background checks conducted through the Oracle platform enough in this era of expanded screenings? >How will 2022 transform the marijuana landscape? >What new litigation and regulatory threats exist for employers? >How will COVID-19 continue to affect hiring processes? >What barriers today impact access to criminal history?
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about the ever-evolving landscape as it relates to background screening and drug testing.
Presentation Objective 2
Explore potential pitfalls and impacts to your business from a litigation and regulatory enforcement perspective.
Presentation Objective 3
Gain practical tips to evaluate and improve upon your hiring and screening practices.
Location: Pinyon 2
Speaker(s): Kelly Uebel, Asurint
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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CANCELLED: Cloud Migration - Oracle on OCI/AWS/Azure
With the current trend being "Cloud migrations"--understanding the steps and details of planning and designing a successful is very highly sought after . What are the key steps to follow for successfully migrating oracle from on-prem to the cloud ( OCI/AWS/AZURE) Presentation will illustrate the tasks to follow while planning a migration of an Oracle database to the cloud. Based on each provider there are differences in what can and can not be done. What are the Do's and Don't based on the cloud provider to ensure the migration is successful? How do we ensure we have a cloud-based database that is performing at its optimal irrespective of the provider?
Presentation Objective 1
Details on requirements to be gathered, technical steps to be planned and analyzed, all of these are beneficial to the DBAs planning a cloud migration
Presentation Objective 2
Differences between the cloud providers -nuances to pay attention to help implement Oracle database migration successfully on OCI/AWS & AZURE
Presentation Objective 3
. Common issues, shortcomings that need attention so as to avoid pitfalls.
Location: Bluethorn 2
Speaker(s): Valli Ramanathan, National Oilwell Varco
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Connected Financial Close with Cloud EPM
Many of the world's largest organizations rely on Oracle Financial Close solutions to meet their complex and ever-changing financial and non-financial reporting requirements. But did you know that Oracle can also help lower the cost of compliance, shorten cycle times, improve data quality, and help bring together all departments for topical relevant connected reporting? This session explores how Oracle Cloud EPM can help you reimagine your close process to achieve better faster, more-accurate results.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how Oracle Cloud EPM can support your organization with best practices and pre-built content for rapid deployments.
Presentation Objective 2
Learn about the delivered business processes that Oracle Cloud EPM Financial Close solutions offer.
Presentation Objective 3
Hear about various use cases and customer success stories.
Location: Bristlecone 7
Speaker(s): Al Marciante, Oracle; Rich Wilkie, Oracle
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Custom Roles, Data Security Policies, Privileges, Oh My! Let Me Help You Put the Puzzle Pieces Together
You've decided to customize security roles to provide specific access to your users, but there is the security console, job roles, duty roles, privileges, data security policies, aggregate privileges, so much to know and understand, where do you start? Have they given you a thousand-piece puzzle with no picture to look at for help? After creating a few roles, things just don't work quite the way you expected, how can you find the missing piece? This presentation will go over the Security Console and how to review the seeded roles to understand where to start. It will give you a bigger picture to help you put your puzzle together with a few tips and tricks from lessons learned.
Presentation Objective 1
Review the Security Console, what's all there and how you can use it to your benefit
Presentation Objective 2
Provide an overview of Data Security Policies and how they work
Presentation Objective 3
Lessons learned in role design -things they don't tell you that you need to know
Location: Bristlecone 8
Speaker(s): Donna Curtis, ERP Risk Advisors
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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E-Business Suite 12.2 Performance Monitoring Screens (Accurate and Easy) -Cloud and On-Premise
E-Business Suite 12.2 Performance Monitoring Screens (Accurate and Easy) -Cloud and On-Premise E-Business suite Oracle Application Manager (OAM) powers-up the SYSADMIN and the DBA with great insight and visibility into the Database Performance and Application activities: Database Sessions User Connections Concurrent-Managers Concurrent-Requests RunAway Concurrent Requests LongRunning Tasks Database Contention and Locked-Objects RAC and NonRAC Single-Node/Multi-Node Connections And RAC Diagnostics and Tools Navigate from the Users Sessions to the executing Database SQL-Statements. Turn-On Database Session/SQL Tracing and even Terminate the Users-Session. . . . and much more.
Presentation Objective 1
E-Business Suite 12.2 Performance Monitoring Seeded-Screens: Live Demonstration and Quick-Navigational-Aids: DashBoards and Drill-Downs.
Presentation Objective 2
E-Business Suite 12.2 Performance Monitoring Seeded-Screens: Database Sessions and User-Connections can be Traced and Terminated.
Presentation Objective 3
E-Business Suite 12.2 Performance Monitoring Seeded-Screens: Database RAC (Real Application Cluster) and Non-RAC Sessions: identified and terminated.
Location: Bristlecone 2
Speaker(s): Michael Barone, OATC; Ken Carpenter, OATC
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Enterprise Command Centers: Empowering the Oracle E-Business Suite User Experience: Data Discovery and Visualization
Enterprise Command Center (ECC) is the central technology component in bringing information discovery and visualization to Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). ECC democratizes data analysis and puts advanced data relationships and data discovery in the hands of every day business users. New business dashboards expose first party business data from EBS and provides new insights and advanced interactions with data. ECC is embedded in EBS with modern, mobile-ready, interactive visualization and guided discovery.
Presentation Objective 1
See live demos of EBS business flows taking advantage of ECC framework and its capabilities
Presentation Objective 2
Understand how the new functionality is delivered and how it improves user productivity and access to data
Presentation Objective 3
Understand V8 features and what's coming next in timeline
Location: Bristlecone 4
Speaker(s): Muhannad Obeidat, Oracle
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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ODI -The Catch All Tool: Ways to Use it Beyond Just Data Loading
Oracle Data Integrator is a powerful tool capable of many tasks outside of data integration. In addition to ETL tasks we use Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) in several ways including data validation, data conversion for acquisitions, file manipulation, and emailing large report files. Within this presentation we will cover how we have accomplished these tasks and the issues faced while completing them.
Presentation Objective 1
Minimizing end user downtime -This load is taking forever! How can we minimize end user impacts yet get the performance that is required?
Presentation Objective 2
Data Validation -The load completes, now what? Is the data accurate? We will cover the different ways that we validate the ODI load using ODI.
Presentation Objective 3
Large Scheduled Reports -The business has large reports that are too big to email. We will cover how we used ODI to shrink attachment sizes.
Location: Bluethorn 3
Speaker(s): Travis Fuller, HDR; Anthony Sjuts, HDR
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Oracle E-Business Suite Discrete Manufacturing: Strategy and Updates
In this session, you will learn about the new features in Discrete manufacturing, Cost management, Quality, Outsourced manufacturing and Project Manufacturing. These include new capabilities like material reservation to a work order, Internal sales order returns, Internal toll manufacturing and Enterprise command centers for these products released in EBS Suite Discrete Manufacturing applications to improve operational efficiencies and user experience. This session also covers roadmap & strategy of capabilities planned for future releases.
Presentation Objective 1
To understand the recent investments in E-Business Suite Discrete Manufacturing applications
Presentation Objective 2
To plan for future upgrades based on roadmap for E-Business Suite Discrete Manufacturing applications
Presentation Objective 3
To understand new command Center capabilities in Discrete Manufacturing Applications
Location: Bristlecone 3
Speaker(s): Usha Arora, Oracle; Nikhil Tungare, Oracle
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Oracle Guided Learning to the Rescue! Problem: Internal Candidate Applying Externally -Solution: An Effective and Creative W
When implementing a state-of-the-art recruiting and applicant tracking system like Oracle HCM Recruiting Cloud a company goes to great lengths to provide a seamless application solution for internal employees. Unfortunately, many employees end up leveraging the External Job Portals and mechanisms to apply to available positions. All the communication in the world pre and post go-live does not have the necessary impact to curb this all too frequent scenario. This leads to confusion in the recruitment process and headaches during automated hiring processes causing manual updates and corrections. Oracle Guided Learning is the answer through facilitating a creative and effective workaround to communicate to Internal Candidate as they are applying and educate them on how and where to apply as a
Presentation Objective 1
Understand the issues caused by employees applying externally.
Presentation Objective 2
Learn the functional design requirements for implementing a workaround leveraging Oracle Guided Learning to identify the internal candidate applying e
Presentation Objective 3
Understand the benefits of alleviating this consistent issue occurrence from the recruiting and hiring processes.
Location: Pinyon 3
Speaker(s): Kelly Soos Fell, Acuity Cloud Solutions
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Reaching for the Cloud to Correct HCM Data
Finance has had a Cloud Fusion ERP system for the past 2 years and finally, Cloud HCM gets to start the implementation of their new system. The SI starts design sessions and everyone is so excited and the first time the SI log into the system, they have a moment. The ERP team did not use real employee data. They used random data, everyone had the same hire date (the ERP go-live date), there were fake date of birth, and the assignment data was totally wrong. How are we going to move forward? We all know that you just can't change the dates or the employee number. You can't just delete the employees and start over as there is data tied to those employees. Having a separate HCM pod is not the answer either. What do you do? Can the HCM team be successful? The answer is YES!
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how to correct the HCM Data already loaded.
Presentation Objective 2
Watch a demo on how to load the new data to the existing record.
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how to prevent it henceforth for new implementation.
Location: Pinyon 1
Speaker(s): Hillary Brotman, Huron Consulting Group; Vijaybabu Kathari Vimalakumar, Huron Consulting Group
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Service Re-Imagined, A Discussion with Angelique Cole, Director HRIS, Trinity Industries, Inc.
A guided discussion through managed support relationships, expertise, and making your support partner a seamless extension of your operations.
Objective 1:
Learn how managed support enhances your business.
Objective 2:
Learn what a seasoned support partner should know.
Objective 3:
Learn when you should engage a support partner.
Location: Bluethorn 6
Speaker(s): Angelique Cole, Trinity Industries; Crystal Fernandez, eVerge Group LLC
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Take Advantage of Latest 9.2 Features to Optimize User Experience
PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 delivers MyTeam, Guided Self-Service, Fluid Approvals, and other extremely valuable frameworks -powerful features that can drive greater productivity and usability for your organization's front-line managers and department users. How can you deploy these delivered options to complete real-world transactions, and customize the experience without modifying delivered PeopleSoft? We'll take you on a guided tour of these latest features in HCM 9.2, and explore options to seamlessly extend those with configuration-based self-service eForms to maximize the power of your PeopleSoft system!
Presentation Objective 1
Uncover which UX features have the greatest impact on process efficiency and user productivity
Presentation Objective 2
See what other organizations are doing to take advantage of available UX options
Presentation Objective 3
Understand what to do, what it takes and how to measure the benefits of adopting the latest/greatest PeopleSoft features
Location: Bluethorn 7
Speaker(s): Bill Gibbard, OHUG
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Take Tax to the Max -How to Select the Right Technology for Your Business
Innovate Tax is a leading global technology consultancy for all things indirect tax, from EU VAT, US Sales & Use Tax, to India GST (we've pretty much seen it all).
More and more, we're finding that many organizations are becoming bamboozled by the array of different technologies on the market, all claiming to be the best when it comes to determining, calculating and automating indirect tax for Oracle ERP.
Join us in this session to find out how to stack up your options, what you need to consider in a tech selection process, and get an awareness of the main tax engine solutions for different industries on the market today.
Presentation Objective 1
Back to basics - what is it you're trying to achieve from your tax setup?
Presentation Objective 2
Where to go - understand how to identify your options and whittle down the list of potential providers
Presentation Objective 3
Pressing the button - once you've got an idea of what you want in mind, how do you bring this to life? Discover your choices when it comes to implementing a solution.
Location: Bristlecone 10
Speaker(s): Sam Thomas, Innovate Tax Limited
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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What's New in Affordable Care Act Reporting for EBS Benefits?
Join this session to learn about updates and enhancements that have been made to the EBS Benefits product to assist our customers with remaining compliant with IRS and state Affordable Care Act / Individual Mandate reporting.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about updates and enhancements made to EBS Benefits to support the latest requirements in Affordable Care Act Employer electronic reporting.
Presentation Objective 2
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Presentation Objective 3
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Location: Bluethorn 8
Speaker(s): Diana Dmitrowich, Oracle; Justine Fitzsimmons, Oracle; Neil Thatcher, Oracle
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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Maximizing ROI on Your Biggest HCM Software Investments with Training as a Service
Tackling training on your own can become more time consuming and costly than planned. Slow onboarding and numerous support tickets mean a huge delay in reaping the benefits of your software investments. And what most companies don't know is that traditional training methods don't work on SaaS applications that update continuously.
We will provide a solution to the various training issues that you may encounter by providing fully customizable, constantly updated, hassle-free training. This presentation teaches you the most effective training strategies that help companies like yours get the best training and the best ROI on their software applications.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how having a readily available, updated library of training for all your enterprise software, reduces support tickets by 50%.
Presentation Objective 2
Find out how customized training that matches your unique software configuration can help improve user adoption.
Presentation Objective 3
Discover the benefits of a live in-app digital adaption platform (DAP) and how it can be used to train multiple employees on multiple of their daily tasks at the same time.
Location: Partner Pavilion Theater
Speaker(s): Joey Hart, Maverick Solutions
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Building a Global Job Architecture Structure Utilizing Oracle Cloud HCM Functionality
In today's business environment, it is more important than ever to effectively manage labor costs while also driving internal equity across the workforce. This is no easy task, and to do so, over the last few months, Natus has developed a global job and salary framework in conjunction with newly released Oracle Cloud HCM functionality. This allows us to approach pay decisions more strategically and provides the capability to develop multi-year budget strategies based on carefully evaluated market data. Learn how we approached undertaking this from all sides, including design, configuration and what it took from a change management perspective.
Presentation Objective 1
Outline our Global Job Framework using : Job Functions Job Family
Presentation Objective 2
Outline our Global Job Framework using: Salary grades by country and zones
Presentation Objective 3
Outline our Global Job Framework using: Global Standard Job titles
Location: Pinyon 1
Speaker(s): Lisa Evou, Natus Medical; Christopher Maurio, NorthPoint Group
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Complete Your Financial Wellbeing Offering with Oracle Anytime Pay
What if you have a delivered Earned Wage Access Solution that is delivered with cloud payroll? What if: Robotic Process Automation is used to alleviate additional payroll process responsibility, Employees can request wages early with complete confidentiality , There is no cost for employers or employees, Payroll can control and configure rules to minimize organization risks. If this is interesting, join this session as we share information on Oracle Anytime Pay. We will share insight and information on how it can be used to increase your ability to attract and retain talent and diversify your financial wellbeing offering.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about Oracle Anytime Pay.
Presentation Objective 2
Understand how to increase your ability to attract and retain talent and diversify your financial wellbeing offering.
Presentation Objective 3
Learn about the current capabilities and how to apply them to your organization
Location: Pinyon 2
Speaker(s): Felicia Cheek, Oracle
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Connected Planning for the Enterprise with Cloud EPM
Oracle Enterprise Planning is the world's premier Cloud solution for Planning and Budgeting with the Cloud EPM . Many of the world's largest organizations rely on Oracle Enterprise Planning solutions to meet their complex and dynamic financial and non-financial planning and budgeting requirements. This session provides an overview of this solution and an update on new and planned functionality.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how inefficient and disconnect forecasting and planning solutions are a liability to your organization.
Presentation Objective 2
Hear how Oracle Cloud EPM can support integrated enterprise business planning.
Presentation Objective 3
Hear about successful customer stories and implementation use cases.
Location: Bristlecone 7
Speaker(s): Al Marciante, Oracle; Mark Rinaldi, Oracle
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Department of Energy's Journey to the Cloud!
With over 20 DOE sites and labs around the U.S. leveraging Oracle ERP and HCM applications, the move to Cloud has already occurred for a few and is imminent for others. However, unlike most of Corporate America, DOE sites have a significantly more stringent cyber-security posture (which varies from site to site) and have historically been hesitant to jump "into the cloud." This case study will highlight cloud success stories and future cloud initiatives for many DOE sites, as well as the obstacles many sites have overcome to start their journey to the cloud.
Presentation Objective 1
Understand the current ERP and HCM posture across DOE
Presentation Objective 2
Success stories and lessons learned from early adopters
Presentation Objective 3
Cloud initiatives in progress and starting in 2022
Location: bluethorn 3
Speaker(s): Matt Toomey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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E-Business Suite Modernization & User Interface Re-Design: Case Study
Session is a case study of our North American customer's journey to "Modernize" their E-Business Suite in early 2022 with a brand new User Interface, providing a modern and engaging application experience to their employee and supplier users. All achieved without customization! Session will provide live demonstration on how to leverage "Custom Look and Feel" Oracle technology to build a new User Interface design for E-Business Suite, and discuss the customer requirements and challenges faced to re-create the desired design and accessibility standards. We will also discuss how to make E-Business Suite "responsive" on mobile devices. Session is applicable for both Functional and Technical audience, and would be applicable to customers of all modules and all versions of E-Business Suite.
Presentation Objective 1
Modernizing E-Business Suite
Presentation Objective 2
Improving Accessibility of E-Business Suite
Presentation Objective 3
Enhancing Mobile Experience
Location: Bluethorn 7
Speaker(s): Michael West, Appsynx Limited
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Let's "git" E-Business Suite: How to Implement a CI/CD Process for Oracle E-Business Suite and APEX
Most users of Oracle E-Business Suite need to extend the applications with a multitude of technologies: From modern APEX applications over established UI technologies such as Oracle Application Framework (OAF)/Forms and reporting tools such as Oracle Reports or BI Publisher, down to Oracle Workflow customizations or plain PL/SQL or Java concurrent programs. Managing the source code and installing these customizations manually is quite challenging and often frustrating. With many "modern" development platforms, this process is typically facilitated nowadays by using automation through CI/CD and a DevOps platform. The session will look into these tools and show how they can be used combined with the E-Business Suite technology stack to make the entire procedure quicker and less error prone.
Presentation Objective 1
Understand how git and popular DevOps platforms such as GitLab, GitHub or Oracle Visual Builder Studio Cloud Service work.
Presentation Objective 2
Understand how such a CI/CD process can be integrated into an E-Business Suite Development process in a best practice manner.
Presentation Objective 3
Understand how custom database schemes and APEX can be handled as well using the Liquibase implementation built-in into SQLcl.
Location: Bluethorn 2
Speaker(s): Johannes Michler, PROMATIS software GmbH
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Oracle E-Business Suite Enterprise Asset Management Product: Strategy and Updates
Companies in asset-intensive industries know that enterprise asset management (EAM) is a cornerstone of operational excellence. Learn how Oracle Enterprise Asset Management provides an integrated approach that can help you progress from a reactive to a predictive organization while helping you achieve operational excellence. This session gives an overview of Oracle E-Business Suite EAM, its roadmap and presents the latest features.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about Enterprise Asset Management and the latest 12.2 functionality
Presentation Objective 2
Understand Asset Maintenance strategies
Presentation Objective 3
Hear about Mobile and Enterprise Command Centers for Maintenance
Location: Bristlecone 3
Speaker(s): Lenore Siegler, Oracle
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Oracle E-Business Suite Projects: Strategy and Updates
Attend this session to learn about the vision and direction for Oracle Projects. Get insights into our strategy for driving outcomes across your project organization. Discover what our latest release has to offer for increasing project throughput, reducing project investments, and increasing operational efficiency. Finally, hear about the product roadmap and our commitment to continuous innovation.
Presentation Objective 1
Product strategy and roadmap for Oracle E-Business Suite Projects
Presentation Objective 2
Learn how Oracle Projects helps increase throughput across your project organization
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how to Oracle Projects helps your organization drive outcomes across your projects
Location: Bristlecone 4
Speaker(s): Tim Hricko, Oracle
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Peoplesoft HCM, ELM, HR Help Desk Roadmap and Update
Attend this session to get an overall update on the continuous delivery of new features and functions for the HR, Workforce, Payroll, Learning, and HR Help Desk PeopleSoft applications. You will learn about features recently made available and the roadmap of planned features that you can look forward to over the next 12 -18 months. You will hear about enhancements that will help your organization comply to global and domestic regulatory changes, adapt to your employee's "new normal" with respect to the pandemic, and deploy emerging technologies like PICASO digital assistants and Kibana analytics to maximize your PeopleSoft HCM investment.
Presentation Objective 1
You will learn about features recently made available and the roadmap of planned features that you can look forward to over the next 12 -18 months.
Presentation Objective 2
You will hear about enhancements that will help your organization comply to global and domestic regulatory changes, adapt to your employee's "new norm
Presentation Objective 3
Attend this session to get an overall update on the continuous delivery of new features and functions for the HR, Workforce, Payroll, Learning, and HR
Location: Pinyon 3
Speaker(s): Robbin Velayedam, Oracle
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Prepare to be Amazed by the EBS Payroll Command Center!
At last year's Ascend conference we showed our EBS customers a sneak peek of the new EBS Payroll Command Center. Now the Payroll Command Center is available to all EBS US Payroll customers on Release 12.2.4 and later. In this session we will cover tips and tricks available in the new Payroll Dashboard and US Tax Dashboard that make up the Payroll Command Center! We are sure this session will delight!
Presentation Objective 1
Become familiar with Payroll Command Center and its underlying ECC architecture
Presentation Objective 2
Deep dive into Payroll Command Center and its 2 dashboards: Payroll Dashboard and US Tax Dashboard
Presentation Objective 3
Learn tips and tricks with regard to implementing and using the Payroll Command Center
Location: Bluethorn 8
Speaker(s): Jatin Goswami, Oracle
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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RFSUNY Journey to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
The Research Foundation for State University of New York (RFSUNY) initiated a transformative project to modernize our data center and E-Business Suite (EBS) application. We had to plan and execute the migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Infrastructure as A Service and EBS Upgrade from R12.1.3 to R12.2.9. The migration consisted of 20 Development, 9 Test and 12 Production environments and included converting from AIX to Linux operating system on 115 Compute Instances. The project also included integration to/from third party applications, enterprise-wide tester engagement, and during COVID-19 so almost the entire project was delivered remotely and via many, many Zoom meetings. RFSUNY will be able to realize savings in hardware costs through modernization of OCI
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how to realize savings in hardware costs through modernization of infrastructure in OCI, improved performance and productivity through.
Presentation Objective 2
Learn about the project approach which consisted of using a CRP Method of testing iterations, migrations and upgrades.
Presentation Objective 3
Discuss the Pros and Cons of OCI approach, sizing, and overall improvements
Location: Bristlecone 1
Speaker(s): Bill Dunham, OATC; Matt Mullin, The Research Foundation of SUNY
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Telecom Equipment Company Undertakes Complete Digital Transformation with Oracle ERP Cloud Platform – 52 Modules!
A global networking and communications equipment public company with revenue over $600M is executing a full digital transformation program, saying goodbye to its legacy systems which have been in use and upgraded for the last 21 years. The organization will be one of the first in the nation to implement an updated and modern ERP Cloud platform foundation using Oracle’s complete suite of cloud-native applications and secure network infrastructure solutions, to evolve their network setup, get deeper business insights and grow revenue.
As important as the selection of the software solution, is the choice of implementation and support partner. Organization chose SkyBridge Global Inc, a Datavail company, as it wanted to build innovation into its operating model driving faster and higher quality speed-to-market and aligning their old/new product development with its sustainability and growth objectives.
Join us to learn about their Cloud Transformation Journey (Current State to Future State):
• Financials and revenue management with Oracle ERP Cloud, to provide real-time results
• Oracle SCM cloud (order management, cost management, manufacturing, procurement, warehouse management, transportation management), enabling active streamlining of end-to-end supply network connection and business activities
• Sales automation, commerce, CPQ, subscription and partner relationship management with Oracle Sales Cloud
• Oracle HCM cloud for a complete solution connecting every human resource process from hire to retire
Presentation Objective 1
How Oracle Cloud Financials and Revenue Management provide real-time results -
Companies can eliminate errors with invoice imaging, optical character recognition (OCR), and intelligent document recognition capabilities, reducing manual expense entry.
Presentation Objective 2
How unified end-to-end business processes can help oragnizations considering the changing supply chain needs of modern enterprises
Presentation Objective 3
How a global popular telecom communications company used Oracle HCM suite to effectively manage their global workforce - HR processes, Recruiting, Talent management,time and labor, workforce health and planning, strategic workforce planning, employee payroll
Location: Bristlecone 10
Speaker(s): Gurmeet Bhatia, Datavail; Ray Harris, AdTran
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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The Zero-Day, No-Patch Scramble
The Zero Day Log4j vulnerability with CVSS rating 10/10 had companies scrambling for an entire weekend to understand if their systems could be compromised and how to prevent it. Apache Log4j is free, open source of software, and developers had readily included it in their code for years. As a result, the CVE announcement sent vendors rushing to determine if their developers had included this code in their applications and if a patch was needed. This session will identify practical steps if followed could reduce your system risks to zero-day vulnerabilities like Log4j. We will discuss the benefits and disadvantages that applying patches to address these high-profile vulnerabilities. Finally, we will cover foundational concepts that can be incorporated into a company's zero-day action plan.
Presentation Objective 1
Attenders will come away with an understanding of core actions that can be used to reduce system risk to zero-day vulnerabilities.
Presentation Objective 2
Attain a firm knowledge of the benefits and disadvantages patches present in addressing zero-day vulnerabilities.
Presentation Objective 3
Understand some foundational steps you can build on for a zero-day action plan.
Location: Bristlecone 2
Speaker(s): Timothy Boles, Spinnaker Support
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Tired of Babysitting Slow DataLoads in Oracle? Are You Spending Too Much Time in Oracle Forms?
Are your resources spending valuable time with daily data entry and validations? Are you struggling to manage mass changes to Master Data? Are you looking for a scalable customizable solution to solve your data standardization, cleansing and migration solution? Oracle customers are tired of using multiple tools and spending so much time and effort to get business data in and out of Oracle E-Business Suite and Cloud Apps (Fusion). The typical data entry options business users are often presented with are slow and time consuming, prone to manual data entry errors, require babysitting and often require IT assistance. In this presentation we will discuss your data entry options in Oracle E-Business Suite and Cloud Apps (Fusion) and how they compare. We will review the business issues our customers have faced and how they overcame these challenges. We will also discuss the benefits and ROI they experienced. API Wizard’s Excel based tool is faster and easier to use than WebADI, Dataloader, Oracle Forms & other one-off tools and can be tailored to meet your specific requirements. API Wizard greatly speeds data uploading & reporting in every Oracle module while increasing data accuracy, benefitting both business users and IT. Business users gain more control over the data entry, data validation, error identification, data correction and data upload process all within Excel, resulting in accurate data being uploaded into Oracle more efficiently and accurately, saving the business hundreds of hours.
Presentation Objective 1
Compare and contrast various Oracle data entry and reporting options and the challenges they present
Presentation Objective 2
Discuss customer case examples; the challenges they faced and how they overcame them and ended up saving tremendous time and resources
Presentation Objective 3
Demonstrate how you can upload data into any Oracle process more efficiently and accurately
Location: Bristlecone 9
Speaker(s): Sarah Conzemius, Conzemius; richard volpitta, API-Wizard
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Twenty-Two Habits of Highly Effective Oracle User Group Members: Catalysts Powering Your Success in 2022 and Beyond
The power of habit has potential of transform individuals and help them lead a successful and fulfilling professional and personal life. Extending Steven Covey's masterpiece "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", the presenters discuss twenty-two habits that make Oracle user group members very effective and successful. The presentation discusses daily exercises that turn effective leadership behaviors into ingrained habits and how the Japanese art of Kaizen can be used to transform yourself through habits. It is time to clear psychological blocks and permanently change your behavior. Attend this session to develop high performance habits and motivate yourself to reach higher levels. Audience members prize giveaway will be one of the eleven books researched for this captivating session.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about twenty-two habits of highly effective Oracle user group members
Presentation Objective 2
Learn how to follow Kaizen or "good change" and do daily exercises for self-improvement
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how to change your behavior and develop high performance habits
Location: bristlecone 8
Speaker(s): Mohan Dutt, Equinix; Mike Jones, OATUG; Richard Stevens III, Independent
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
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Workforce Management Transformation: City of Roseville, California’s Journey to Oracle HCM & the WorkForce Software Suite
The success of your organization and your employees go hand in hand. The ability of employees to efficiently and effectively manage their responsibilities with modern technology as easy to use as their personal app can significantly impact not only their work experience, but also the operational performance of your organization. Transitioning from legacy HR systems to a modern workforce management platform like Oracle HCM and The WorkForce Suite is both a commitment and a rewarding journey. Join Kristi Corral, Assistant Finance Director at the City of Roseville, to hear how they adopted a solution to automate payroll processes, enforce policies, maintain labor and union compliance, streamline workflows, and save the city in labor processing costs.
Location: Bluethorn 6
Speaker(s): Kristi Corral, City of Roseville; Kevin Haus, WorkForce Software
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11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
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Meet the Oracle Experts: Oracle Enterprise Command Centers
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle E-Business Suite Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) experts - the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.
Location: Oracle Demo Grounds, Partner Pavilion
Speaker(s): Muhannad Obeidat, Oracle
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12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
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Networking Lunch
Attend this lunch and find designated tables to either learn more about how you can get plugged into a new community or you can discover what that community has to offer you and meet other professionals who are also involved with similar interests. This is an opportunity to share tips and tricks about your career and industry that is going well as well as asking questions to help propel you through any current challenges you may be facing.
Location: Bristlecone 5/6 - General Session Room
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12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
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Keynote Address - Orchestrating True Business Synchrony
The marketplace is rapidly evolving. Sustainable success requires innovative thinking, seamless end to end business processes and aligned modern technology. Digital transformation — or technology-centered improvement — is helping businesses across industries modernize their infrastructures to meet new demands and emerging opportunities. Most of this progress is being made one stack at a time, but it’s the integration of these critical systems (i.e., business system synchrony) that unlocks agility, delivers aligned data and insights, and supports true agility and enterprise performance management. To ensure technology platforms do not become siloed, leaders must commit to digital transformation programs that optimize technology platforms, align data, and ensure integrated end to end business processes.
To avoid being unprepared, disrupted or even immobilized by inevitable market fluctuations, businesses must synchronize their core systems — enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM), human capital management (HCM), and customer relationship (CRM). Aligning and synchronizing business systems positions organizations to make strategic decisions and successfully navigate market disruption.
Christopher Geers brings over 20 years’ experience consulting and leading digitization and financial transformation projects to the Ascend stage. Join him as he hosts an Oracle customer panel and hear first-hand from your peers how synchronized business systems are optimizing technology, data and processes.
This session is sponsored by Huron Consulting Group.
You'll find designated tables to connect with people who share your areas of interest or job function. Everyone is encouraged to use this lunch networking time to meet other professionals to share success stories and to seek help with challenges.
Location: Bristlecone 5/6 - General Session Room
Speaker(s): Christopher Geers, Huron Consulting Group
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01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
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Meet the Oracle Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Procurement and Projects
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle Procurement and Oracle Projects experts — the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.
Location: Oracle Demo Grounds, Partner Pavilion
Speaker(s): Tim Hricko, Oracle; Mark Peachey, Oracle
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Ask the Experts: Oracle EPM Cloud Edition
Bring your questions and your popcorn! This is a must-attend session for Oracle EPM Cloud for users, administrators, and developers. Listen to experts answer your burning questions related to anything Oracle Cloud EPM -including Planning & Budgeting (PBCS/EPBCS), Consolidation & Close (FCCS), Account Reconciliation (ARCS), Profitability and Cost Management (PCMCS) and Enterprise Data Management (EDM).
Presentation Objective 1
Attendees will be able to ask questions related to Oracle EPM.
Presentation Objective 2
Attendees will be able to listen to experts discuss features, functionality, and implementation tips related to Oracle EPM Cloud deployments.
Presentation Objective 3
Attendees can meet and discuss issues with their Oracle EPM Cloud deployments.
Location: Bristlecone 7
Speaker(s): Kate Helmer, Huron Consulting Group; Al Marciante, Oracle
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Business Analyst to Data Scientist -The Road Less Traveled
When you look at the team you need to assemble to get the most value from your Cloud Applications ecosystem, there has never been a more important time to have a real Data Scientist as an integral part of the team. Business Analyst have value and will certainly help along the path to sustained value in your Cloud Applications environment, however the Data Scientist expands the circle of knowledge and value out two or three layers in an optimized environment. In this session we will discuss what it takesto become a Data Scientist in an Oracle Cloud Applications ecosystem, how to see data as gold and your competitive advantage, and how to get data value from your Oracle Cloud Applications ecosystem. The working relationship between Business Analyst and Data Scientist can make or break it.
Presentation Objective 1
The current state of Oracle Cloud Applications team composure as it relates to data and what needs to change to get true business benefit.
Presentation Objective 2
Roles and Responsibilities of the Business Analyst and Data Scientist and how they work together for optimal results.
Presentation Objective 3
What has changed from Oracle E-Business Suite to Oracle Cloud Applications as it relates to access and usage of your data across your enterprise.
Location: Bluethorn 7
Speaker(s): John Faucher, SplashBI
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Driving Workforce Effectiveness with Fusion Analytics
Fusion Analytics Warehouse is proving that being able to measure something, improves your ability to improve it. Join Guy Waterman as he describes customers' journies to Fusion Analytics Warehouse for HCM amplifies the effectiveness of their workers everyday processes. Following this session, attendees will be understand how delivered analytics can immediately deliver results and create an environment for continual improvement.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how Fusion Analytics Warehouse for HCM amplifies the effectiveness of everyday processes
Presentation Objective 2
Understand how delivered analytics can immediately deliver results
Presentation Objective 3
Understand how foster an environment for continual improvement.
Location: Pinyon 3
Speaker(s): Guy Waterman, Oracle
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Effective Communication: The Link Between Listening and Speaking
Communication skills are very important in our personal and professional life. In this session, you will learn how to enhance communication by improving listening and speaking skills. Listening is key to all effective communication. The importance of listening may be easy to miss because it is a silent skill, but mastering it is fundamental for effective communication. In this session, we will conduct small workshop to measure our listening and speaking skills.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how to improve communication skills
Presentation Objective 2
Learn effective listening and speaking
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how to conduct productive meetings
Location: Bristlecone 8
Speaker(s): Raman Galla, Boardwalk Pipelines
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Enterprise Structure in Cloud ERP
There are multiple changes to the enterprise structure in the Cloud vis-a-vis EBS -join us in walking thru and understanding usage of these new constructs and how they might differ from your current EBS environment/implementation. Also understand the use of each component and how they help in driving your accounting, transactions and security, including access to data.
Presentation Objective 1
Understand an Overview of enterprise structure in Cloud
Presentation Objective 2
Learn how some of the new constructs in the Cloud can benefit or hinder your implementation
Presentation Objective 3
Review some of the usage of these in your implementation
Location: Bluethorn 2
Speaker(s): Mohan Iyer, FSCP Solutions Inc.; HANS KOLBE, Celantra Systems; Douglas Volz, Douglas Volz Consulting, Inc.
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Expand, Innovate and Automate New Oracle-based Business Processes
Discover how UiPath, the industry leader in both UI and API automation, can quickly integrate with major Oracle cloud and on-premises products such as EBS, OIC and PeopleSoft. See how organizations streamline their Oracle automation design experience by combing both UI and API automation capabilities--within a single UX--and within a single workflow. Using UiPath Integration Service, robots can more easily reduce routine and needlessly repetitive work. Users gain efficiencies by automating critical business processes, not only built on Oracle applications, but other LOB systems.
Location: Bluethorn 6
Speaker(s): Noopur Inani, UiPath
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Five Ways to Evaluate, Stabilize, and Realize More Value from Your Oracle Cloud Transformation Based on Recent Customer Examples
In this session, you will learn the FIVE easy-to-apply ways to evaluate your Cloud project, stabilize after go-live, and capture more business value from your Oracle investment. Engaging discussion using real-world customer case studies you can bring back to your company.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how to assess and measure your current Oracle Cloud implementation to ensure it is tracking to meet your business objectives
Presentation Objective 2
Learn methods to evaluate your outcomes post-implementation
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how to implement ongoing strategies to realize continuous improvements to advance the maturity of your business processes and operations
Location: Bristlecone 10
Speaker(s): Greg Pitstick, AXIA Consulting
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Good Bye Disconnected Systems - Time to Embrace HCM & ERP Cloud Synergies
People and finance functions are intimately entwined. Than why should HR & Finance system be disconnected ? Case Study to share how two back office functional areas can be connected to provide seamless experience for both the business groups. Think of the end-to-end business processes that are connected by changes in employee status, org structure, etc. Even routine changes can trigger downstream changes in access, approvals, privileges, business rules and more
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about Modern Best Practices for Connected Finance & HR systems
Presentation Objective 2
Deeper insights to the business connecting impact of talent on financial performance, budgeting and forecasting.
Presentation Objective 3
Get to know business process touchpoints points between HCM and ERP (Finance, Projects & Procurement) leveraged & benefits derived by a customer
Location: Pinyon 1
Speaker(s): Melody Benabou, NexInfo Solutions Inc.; Hemal Parikh, NexInfo Solutions Inc.
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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How Does It Work? Outcomes and Prerequisites in Oracle Learning
As a company or organization grows into their utilization of their LMS, they get to a point where they start to find value between consuming learning and what that can contribute to from a performance management perspective. Oracle Learning has been designed to connect learning with performance, but how? Join Paul Ingallinera, from Acuity Cloud Solutions, as he shows you how to configure Oracle Learning so employees can see what is completed in Learning can also contribute to Oracle Performance.
Presentation Objective 1
Understanding the learning and talent profile connection points
Presentation Objective 2
How to automate learning and talent management actions
Presentation Objective 3
Connecting Performance Management with Oracle Learning
Location: Pinyon 2
Speaker(s): Paul Ingallinera, Acuity Cloud Solutions
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Modernizing Your Approach to Indirect Tax and Compliance
With the recent shift toward digital engagement and sales, tax and finance teams have had to re-think their approach to tax determination processes and technology. To reduce risk and support business growth, organizations need to modernize their tax and financial systems. That is why, according to a recent report, more than 51% of organizations surveyed plan to upgrade to or purchase a new tax technology solution. Working together for more than 25 years, the tax and finance experts at Vertex and Oracle have been helping leading brands modernize and streamline their tax and financial processes. From integrating cloud-based tax solutions with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, to addressing regional and industry-specific tax solutions.
Join us for an interactive session where we will:
Presentation Objective 1
Review the current technical, regulatory, and business drivers for tax and finance transformation
Presentation Objective 2
Explore best practices for modernizing your approach tax determination and compliance
Presentation Objective 3
Share insights from the transformation projects of other leading organizations
Location: Bristlecone 9
Speaker(s): Brandon Albrecht, Vertex Inc.; William Flanigan, Vertex Inc.; Connie Tanner, Vertex Inc.
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Oracle Database Roadmap & Strategy
The Oracle Database is the world's leading database technology. Time over time Oracle Database has brought innovations to the data management space that have revolutionized the way how we store and manage data and how we derive value from it. Thousands of customers worldwide trust Oracle to run their businesses on, from the regular day-to-day data retrieval operations to some of the world's largest and most demanding workloads. With every release of the Oracle Database,
Presentation Objective 1
Gain insight to the Strategy for Oracle Database
Presentation Objective 2
Learn about Oracle investments in R&D for Database
Presentation Objective 3
See the roadmaps
Location: Bristlecone 2
Speaker(s): Roy Swonger, Oracle
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Oracle E-Business Suite Modern User Interface
Oracle E-Business Suite has rapidly transformed the user experience for desktop, laptop, and mobile interfaces. Join this session to learn about the latest features in Oracle Application Framework, including productivity enhancements, new search capabilities, the Personalization Workbench, and the ability to use themes to change the look and feel of your environment to match your corporate standard. Also learn about mobile apps for E-Business Suite.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about key productivity improvements and features
Presentation Objective 2
Learn how to define and apply Themes to easily adjust the look and feel Oracle E-Business Suite
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how to use Personalization Workbench features
Location: Bristlecone 3
Speaker(s): Maher Muhanna, Oracle
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Oracle E-Business Suite: Built-In Performance Monitoring and Analysis
Oracle Application Manager (OAM) – a functionality within the System Administrator responsibility provides a lot of functionalities. In this session I will present and demo the main built-in features. I’ll especially focus on the performance baselining options and the alerting functions! Ever wanted a feature to be alerted whenever a main business process runs longer than expected? – It is already there! Right in your OAM. Or looking for a feature to be alerted when a concurrent service is not up and running? – It is already there! Right in your OAM.
The Sessions will help to understand all monitoring features within the E-Business Suite OAM.
Presentation Objective 1
Highlight monitoring functionalities of the Oracle Applications Manager (OAM)
Presentation Objective 2
Illustrate alerting capabilities of the OAM
Presentation Objective 3
Demonstrate all OAM features in a live demo
Location: bristlecone 1
Speaker(s): Kai Glittenberg, Apps Associates, LLC
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Q&A with Cliff Godwin and His E-Business Suite Development Leadership Team
In this session, we offer you the opportunity to interact directly with Oracle EBS executive team. Cliff Godwin and several other members from the EBS development team are all yours for this conversation and Q&A. We hope you'll take advantage of this truly unique opportunity and high level of access!
Presentation Objective 1
To interact directly with EBS executives
Presentation Objective 2
To discuss your specific use case
Presentation Objective 3
To hear and learn from others
Location: Bristlecone 4
Speaker(s): Nadia Bendjedou, Oracle; Cliff Godwin, Oracle
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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The Art of War, The Godfather, Wall Street, Moneyball and The Art of Enterprise Master Data Management
Master Data Management is very critical to enterprise data as an asset to ensure single source of truth of data assets across business. Data driven culture is very crucial for enterprise transformation. Defining, managing, curating and governing data with the right tool is a mandatory requirement for successful MDM program. This paper shares some of the key considerations for tool selection, building and implementing Enterprise Master Data Management Program to manage enterprise data assets systemically along with key references list.
Presentation Objective 1
Understand the need and mandate for enterprise business data governance to manage data as enterprise asset.
Presentation Objective 2
Understand key features in MDM tools to manage enterprise data to achieve single source of truth.
Presentation Objective 3
Educate users, stakeholders and senior management on need for a robust business driven data governance process for overall transformation
Location: Bluethorn 3
Speaker(s): RAVIKANTH PRABHU, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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What's New for EBS US and Canada HRMS Customers?
Come learn about what product enhancements the Oracle EBS Americas HRMS Development and Product Management teams have been up to in the past 12 months to make our customers lives easier. Also find out the many changes that have been made to the US and Canada Payroll and HR product areas to ensure our customers remain legislatively compliant. Hint: certain states have kept us quite busy! A sneak peek of the upcoming product enhancements will also be provided.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about recent US and Canadian HCM and Payroll product enhancements.
Presentation Objective 2
Learn about the latest US and Canadian HCM and Payroll legislative updates.
Location: Bluethorn 8
Speaker(s): Karen Carter, Oracle; Justine Fitzsimmons, Oracle; Jatin Goswami, Oracle; Subbu Kuttetira, Oracle; Laura Loveless, Oracle; Jan Pierce, Oracle
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02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
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Meet the Oracle Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Enterprise Asset Management
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle E-Business Suite Enterprise Asset Management experts - the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.
Location: Oracle Demo Grounds, Partner Pavilion
Speaker(s): Lenore Siegler, Oracle
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03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
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Community Service Project
Let's do good together! Connect with friends and colleagues as we assemble welcome home packages for local veterans supported by the Kline Veterans Fund.
Location: Partner Pavilion
Speaker(s): Ragan Cohn, OATUG
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03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
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Plug-n-Play Data Migration from EBS/Peoplesoft to Oracle Cloud
So you have decided to migrate to Oracle cloud. Great! But how can you make this transition seamless, optimal, and beneficial for your organization?
Attend this session to understand how ConvertRite is designed to simplify data conversion from EBS/Peoplesoft to Oracle Cloud with zero coding, built-in adaptors, easy reconciliation, reduced timelines, and more.
Please join Krishna Bendapudi, CEO of Rite Software, for an insightful session that can help simplify your data journey.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how to automate data conversions from any source to Oracle cloud
Presentation Objective 2
Learn about template based conversions from source to cloud
Presentation Objective 3
Learn about pre-built data conversion adapter for EBS to cloud
Location: Partner Pavilion Theater
Speaker(s): Krishna Bendapudi, Rite Software; Kris Rangaraju, Rite Software
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03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
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Brew Pub Hub
Enjoy a cold beer while you continue the day's conversations with the many experts and solution providers in the Partner Pavilion!
Location: Partner Pavilion
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03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
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Implement an Automated Tax Solution that Works with Oracle ERP Cloud
In this session, you will discover cloud-born tax compliance solutions designed for multinational businesses operating in omnichannel environments with complex business processes. Learn how Oracle ERP Cloud seamlessly integrates with a powerful tax engine to improve customer experience, reduce development cycles, and implementation timelines and enable your digital transformation intiatives.
Presentation Objective 1
Identify key business considerations regarding Sales and Use Tax
Presentation Objective 2
Demonstrate reasons you may need to augment Oracle Fusion Tax with a separate Tax Engine
Presentation Objective 3
Explore Oracle Cloud ERP Integration to Avalara Tax Engine
Location: Partner Pavilion Theater
Speaker(s): Forrest Guest, Avalara
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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B2B Payments: First Steps in E-Invoicing, Electronic Payments and Auto Bank Reconciliations
B2B payments is so far behind in today's world of innovations. It is time to change and move your financial system to a modernized process and you can have that today. Imagine an ecosystem where the whole process of supplier invoices, (global) supplier payments and payment receipts is one tight circle and does not need human intervention. Join this session to learn how to modernize your payment ecosystem in combination with Oracle Financials Cloud.
Presentation Objective 1
How to start using electronic Invoicing for your business
Presentation Objective 2
How to connect Oracle Financials Cloud with banks globally
Presentation Objective 3
How to use information from your bank to automatically reconcile payments created.
Location: Bristlecone 10
Speaker(s): Wijnand Heinen, APRO Software Solutions; John Nagel, APRO Software Solutions
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Caesar's Entertainment Leverages Oracle Recruiting as Their ATS and CRM All-In-One
Companies keeping up with the evolving hiring market have Candidate Relationship Management at top of mind. They need a presence in the market to stay relevant and expand their reach with candidates; particularly in the age of social distancing, where in-person hiring events have declined. A good CRM has to provide a steady flow of talent into their pipeline, easy ways to identify candidate matches for job openings and present jobs to the right candidate's efficiently. Oracle Recruiting has a CRM, out-of-the-box, with no custom integrations or additional licenses needed to merge passive candidate pool data with active applicant data. Unfortunately, not all clients leverage it. Join us as we discuss how Caesar's uses Oracle's CRM features to maintain a presence in the marketplace.
Presentation Objective 1
Educate on Career Site best practices to create sites that are engaging and entice candidates to apply, while providing a simple application process.
Presentation Objective 2
Educate on effective usage of Oracle Recruiting's native CRM capabilities and features.
Presentation Objective 3
Discuss areas where customers may incorporate third-party software to supplement Oracle's CRM.
Location: Pinyon 1
Speaker(s): David Mansfield, ArcLight Consulting; Rachel Taculad, Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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CANCELLED - Go Hawks -From Spreadsheets to Enterprise Planning
Oracle EPM Planning Case Study -Atlanta Hawks moved from disconnected spreadsheets to a more controlled, robust system with strong planning and budgeting capabilities using Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM Planning With revenues of this size, the Hawks needed better insight and control over their financials. When it came to planning and budgeting, they wanted to reduce the budget process cycle time and costs. They lacked the ability to drill down to financial data and reports from spreadsheets, and they wanted to build a view of multiple charts of accounts and hierarchy structures for better reporting across the organization. Finally, the spreadsheets that the finance team relied on for planning and budgeting were cumbersome and difficult to use, and there was no integration with their ERP system.
Presentation Objective 1
disconnected spreadsheets to a more controlled, robust system with strong planning and budgeting capabilities
Presentation Objective 2
Case Study
Presentation Objective 3
Best Practices Potential Co-present if selected
Location: Bristlecone 7
Speaker(s): Gurmeet Bhatia, Datavail; Lester Jones, Atlanta Hawks
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Cloud HCM Configuration and Process Automation
Join Oracle HCM Product Strategy and COE as they discuss how customers use embedded platform capabilities to configure the behavior of their Cloud HCM systems. After completing this session, attendees will understand how other customers have leveraged provided extensibility tools to extend business functions and tailor experiences for their workforce.
Presentation Objective 1
Use of embedded platform capabilities to configure the behavior of their Cloud HCM systems
Presentation Objective 2
Learn how other customers have leveraged provided extensibility tools to extend business functions
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how other customers have tailored experiences for their workforce
Location: Pinyon 2
Speaker(s): Prabu Iyer, Oracle; Floyd Teter, Oracle
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Demystifying the Role of Oracle Data Infrastructure
Data is at the core of everything an organization does, from building modern applications and executing on cloud initiatives to meeting corporate sustainability objectives. Today’s businesses require a digital infrastructure that can accelerate their Oracle data to deliver high application performance while delivering operational efficiencies and protecting this data against ransomware attacks. This session will discuss why a modern Oracle data infrastructure matters to application owners. It will also cover strategies to achieve successful measurable outcomes.
Presentation Objective 1
Strategies around automating data services to deliver the cloud as-a-Service experience
Presentation Objective 2
Data protection strategies against ransomware for their mission-critical Oracle landscape
Presentation Objective 3
Tips on consolidating their Oracle workloads and accelerating their application modernization initiatives
Location: Bristlecone 9
Speaker(s): thomas stutesman, Pure Storage
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Getting Onboard Oracle Cloud ERP Flight: From Takeoff to Cruising Altitude -Users and Experts Share Their Experiences
Please join a panel of Oracle Cloud ERP users and implementers as they share their journey migrating from Oracle EBS R12. This session will be an exclusive closed-door witness program type session with no recordings. The panel will engage with the audience in a no holds barred discussion focused on real-world challenges and triumphs. Why did these companies book their Cloud ERP flight instead of taking the bullet train to EBS R12.2.11 upgrade? How did these organizations prepare for the flight? How did they navigate the air pockets of issues and bugs before they reached a cruising altitude of system stability? What new skill sets did the flight crew have to manage the system including quarterly updates? Is the experience of end users any different from on Cloud ERP flight?
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about the decision criteria to decide on Oracle Cloud ERP instead of EBS R12.2.11 upgrade
Presentation Objective 2
Hear about Oracle Cloud ERP implementation challenges and success stories
Presentation Objective 3
Find out what are the major wins implementing Oracle Cloud ERP
Location: Bluethorn 2
Speaker(s): Mukesh Baldua, Equinix Inc; Bill Dunham, OATC; Mohan Dutt, Equinix; Gustavo Gonzalez, IT Convergence; Mohan Iyer, FSCP Solutions Inc.; James McBride, Voya Financial; RAVIKANTH PRABHU, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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How to Develop, Manage & Upgrade Custom Mobile Application Using Oracle MAF: A Case Study
Mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives. As organizations are embracing this mobile revolution, Enterprise Mobile Apps are becoming a critical component to organization's success. Developing, managing and upgrading custom Enterprise Mobile Apps can be challenging in this rapidly changing technology world. To boost user productivity and engagement, apps needs to have ease of use and modern User Interface (UI). In this presentation, learn via code snippets and real time business requirements, Oracle Mobile Application Framework's (MAF) simple and efficient tips and techniques to easily develop, deploy, manage and upgrade mobile-first powered custom enterprise mobile app.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn to develop responsive enterprise mobile app with minimalist approach.
Presentation Objective 2
Learn to manage and upgrade custom mobile apps using MAF.
Presentation Objective 3
Learn about various security considerations for securing enterprise mobile apps and how to use on-device features like Camera/GPS/Contacts.
Location: Bristlecone 1
Speaker(s): Nikunj Patel, Johns Hopkins Univ. - Applied Physics Laboratory
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Integrating in Near Real-Time with HCM Cloud Using ATOM Feeds
Oracle delivers a near real-time reading of changes to data in HCM Cloud with their ATOM feeds which deliver integration strategies of key HCM data for downstream applications, unique to other methods with Oracle SaaS. From new hires, rehires, transfers, and terminations, ATOM feeds deliver the capability to capture not only employee changes on an individual change basis but the supporting work structure data elements. We will look at the current feeds available and see the development steps that it takes to deliver effective business use cases with this innovative toolset.
Presentation Objective 1
Discover the fundamentals of ATOM feeds and why they can be the right tool for the right job vs HCM Extracts
Presentation Objective 2
Explore common uses for ATOM feeds with business use cases
Presentation Objective 3
Review sample real world uses of exporting data transactions from ATOM feeds for down stream system synchronization
Location: Bluethorn 6
Speaker(s): Keith Zielinski, The Hackett Group
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Is Your Company Struggling to Manage Benefits Documentation?
It's been a long time coming, the marriage between Document of Records functionality and Benefit Actions. In this presentation, the presenter will walk you through setting up action items in Cloud Benefits, and how to link them with Document of Records in a way that is intuitive for your employees and Benefits administrators. Attendees will also learn few tips and tricks from presenter's implementation experience so they can avoid common pitfalls.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn about Document of Records functionality in Oracle Cloud Benefits
Presentation Objective 2
Best Practices for Benefits Certifications
Presentation Objective 3
Tips and Tricks when learning while setting up Action Items
Location: Pinyon 3
Speaker(s): Gaurav Sehgal, SplashBI
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Navigating the Differences in Support from Oracle in the Cloud v On Prem -Hosted by the OATUG Customer Support Council
Are you new to Oracle Cloud applications or considering using Oracle Cloud to host your enterprise application? The customer support experience and tools are markedly different from those you used as an on prem application user --and those differences can be challenging to navigate if you don't understand them. Join us this hour as a veteran Cloud applications user and OATUG Customer Support Council chair --with special guests from Oracle customer support --demystify the differences between on prem and Cloud support.
Presentation Objective 1
Understand how to access and use Oracle Cloud support tools and platforms.
Presentation Objective 2
Learn how to access and leverage quarterly release information.
Presentation Objective 3
Identify ways to improve operations through effective use of Oracle Cloud support resources.
Location: Bristlecone 8
Speaker(s): Neal Alsup, Oracle; Brian Pellegrin, SCI Management L.P.
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Oracle Database Upgrade Internals
This technical deep dive gives a look under the hood at how AutoUpgrade handles the complexities inherent in upgrading databases of all shapes, sizes, and supported versions from one release to another. We'll talk about how a database upgrade handles components in a database, the ins and outs of parallelism within a database or across PDBs in a container, how to achieve the best upgrade performance, and maybe a bit about advanced options and use cases. If you are the type of DBA who wants to know not simply what command to run, but what actually happens when you run it, this session is sure to satisfy your technical curiosity.
Presentation Objective 1
See how Oracle's AutoUpgrade looks
Presentation Objective 2
Learn how database upgrade handles components in a database
Presentation Objective 3
Learn how to achieve the best upgrade performance
Location: bristlecone 2
Speaker(s): Roy Swonger, Oracle
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Maintenance and Online Patching
Join this Oracle Development session to hear about the operational and system management implications for minimizing maintenance downtimes when applying Oracle E-Business Suite patches using Online Patching. Learn tips and and techniques that applications DBAs can use to efficiently perform maintenance tasks. Leave with an understanding of how to define a maintenance strategy using the best tools for creating a plan to keep your environment healthy and up to date.
Presentation Objective 1
Learn how Oracle E-Business Suite administrators and users can take advantage of Online Patching
Presentation Objective 2
Understand the Online Patching Cycle in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2
Presentation Objective 3
Understand differences in maintenance between Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 and 12.1
Location: Bristlecone 3
Speaker(s): Kevin Hudson, Oracle
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Oracle E-Business Suite Logistics Family of Products: Strategy and Updates
This session showcases value of the latest enhancements to Oracle Warehouse Management, Oracle Inventory Management, and our Mobile Supply Chain Applications (MSCA). Recent releases continue the focus on intelligent warehousing and deliver improved decision support for better process optimization. Highlights include enhancements to labor management, space utilization and slotting, integrated returns for internal sales order, and more. We'll also take a look at our product roadmaps and explore some exciting new opportunities to enhance your competitive advantage.
Presentation Objective 1
Examine the latest features and the benefits they deliver.
Presentation Objective 2
Explore the product roadmaps to better understand what's coming.
Presentation Objective 3
Ask questions, make suggestions, and get to know your colleagues in the EBS Logistics Community.
Location: Bristlecone 4
Speaker(s): Bill Reilly, Oracle; Steve Tonas, Oracle
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Paid Time Off Accrual
A custom leave accrual report was created for Loudoun County payroll administrators to review the leave accrual balance for each payroll period and this report is very helpful for department heads for leave approvals.
Presentation Objective 1
To facilitate business users for creating a custom leave accrual report with multiple accrual plans.
Presentation Objective 2
This report is useful for department heads
Presentation Objective 3
Leave, PTO, and Benefit Analyst
Location: Bluethorn 7
Speaker(s): Ajith Vijayan, Loudoun County Government
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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Soar, Leap and Evolve Your Journey & Transformation to the Cloud with Oracle Consulting
Discover how Oracle Consulting can help you confidently move to the cloud and thrive. In this session you will hear real-world examples of how organizations chose Oracle Consulting as their guide to successfully move to the cloud. You will walk away with the foundation and knowledge to embark on your own journey.
Location: Bluethorn 8
Speaker(s): David Downey, Oracle
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04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
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The Intercompany Elimination "Purgatory" -How to Escape! Tools & Tricks to Avoid & Resolve Out-of-Balance Items & Improve
Do you know what it's like every quarter-or month-end? Some of you do ... the intercompany elimination "purgatory". Endless conference calls about missing or non-matching entries. Long evenings, no family weekend trips due to shipments not received, charges disputed, exchange rate divergences, timing, and time zone differences plus all possible problems in interfaces and transmission. We are living it every month. EBS customers will participate in the panel conversation and make this session important for both sides, the finance team as well as the IT-and application support group. We will walk through the challenges and identify effective ways, reporting tools, intercompany utilities, and process steps that can quickly identify where the issues are or avoid failures in the first place.
Presentation Objective 1
Help folk speed up the close by configuring Oracle & exploiting its intercompany features
Presentation Objective 2
Discuss intercompany elimination issues & causes
Presentation Objective 3
Denystify a crucial area for folk
Location: Bluethorn 3
Speaker(s): Andy Haack, Enginatics; HANS KOLBE, Celantra Systems; Seamus Moran, Celantra Systems
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06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
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Attendee Appreciation Event - JEWEL Nightclub, ARIA Resort
We’re wrapping up Ascend 2022 Vegas-style at the stunning JEWEL nightclub in the ARIA. Enjoy fabulous food, a DJ, and more!
Location: JEWEL Nightclub
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