Real-time analysis and visualization of data is enabling enterprises worldwide to make quick and effective business decisions — not just in response to trends, but by predicting them before they become obvious. Attendees can learn more about both on-premises and cloud technologies supporting Big Data, BI, and Oracle’s Analytics. Learn from Experts in managing the tools and technologies to create data integrations and governance standards bringing the skills of data science to your organization.

Today’s customers have high expectations. The need to deliver a seamless, personalized and immediate customer experience has never been more important. Creating profitable, loyal customers is the goal of Cloud Customer Experience applications — customers who will continue to buy from you when a competitive alternative exists. Gain insight and guidance from your peers who are setting the standard for customer-centric business transformations.

The relational database continues to evolve to include more new features, and as a result, has become even more complicated. On top of all the daily challenges of maintaining a high-performance database, now you must be sure the data are available 24/7 and compatible with other systems. This track is designed to provide DBAs of every experience level and industry with the tools to productively and creatively administer your data on-premises or in the cloud.

Cloud Database provide different considerations for the DBAs and Developers. This track focuses on the nuances of Databases in the cloud, whether it is Database as a Service or running the database on IaaS, this track will prepare you maximize database in the Cloud.

Working on database and/or application development means learning multiple languages and performing a balancing act between Web-based, wireless and client/server applications. What will give you the edge to create successful applications? Do you use the Oracle suite of tools, or do you need to look for something that you can integrate? And how will your applications be used? With wireless technology? Through a portal? Will your forms and reports be used on an intranet or on the internet? This track covers the topics that surround the development and deployment of your applications.

Oracle E-Business Suite was designed to help businesses improve decision making, reduce costs and increase corporate performance. E-Business Suite contains application modules that support different aspects of CRM, ERP and SCM operations, including Asset Life Cycle, Financials, Human Capital Management, Projects, Procurement, Order Management/Logistics, and Manufacturing/Planning. Oracle also has pre-integrated its business intelligence applications with E-Business Suite to provide EBS users with BI and analytics capabilities.

Every day there’s another news story about IoT, Blockchain, AI, Machine Learning — a whole host of new opportunities and new challenges. If you’re wondering what these technologies mean to your day, you’re not alone. In these sessions, we’ll help to dig through the buzzwords and get to a real definition of how these technologies work, and how they’re changing your day and your business.

Developing a forecast, budget or plan or closing the books is necessary to an organization’s financial well-being but isn’t sufficient to allow decision makers to function more efficiently and to make better decisions. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions provide an architecture that supports financial planning, budgeting and forecasting; consolidation and close; profitability and cost analysis; strategic modeling; and reporting and analysis. This track examines how cloud EPM solutions help improve decision making.

You’ve made the decision to modernize your financial and operational processes in the cloud. Streamline your enterprise business processes with ERP Cloud. With ERP Cloud, you can increase productivity, lower costs, and improve controls. ERP is a very broad area, covering many back-office processes that are critical to the success of your business.

As HCM technology evolves faster than ever, HR leaders increasingly seek solutions to try to figure out ways to align more strategically with the latest technologies. One recent trend is to migrate systems to a single, global HR solution to help better manage a wide-ranging workforce. Learn how your solution could be Oracle HCM Cloud which will enable innovation and growth while keeping employees engaged and informed to adapt quickly to an agile business environment.

Oracle’s JD Edwards software meets the demands for a modern and simplified user experience. Our purpose-built applications are aligned to how your users work. Integrated with digital technologies, our innovative approach increases productivity enabling your company to work smarter, faster, and ultimately achieve more.

Solutions using software that lies between an operating system and the applications running on it. Essentially functioning as hidden translation layer, middleware enables communication and data management for distributed applications. It connects two applications together so data and databases can be easily passed between the “pipe.”

Developing a forecast, budget or plan or closing the books is necessary to an organization’s financial well-being but isn’t sufficient to allow decision makers to function more efficiently and to make better decisions. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions provide an architecture that supports financial planning, budgeting and forecasting; consolidation and close; profitability and cost analysis; strategic modeling; and reporting and analysis. This track examines how on-premises EPM solutions help improve decision making.

Oracle’s PeopleSoft is an industry leading, proven and powerful suite of integrated applications for financials, human capital management, supply chain, procurement, and technology. These applications are designed to address your most complex business requirements and enable your organization to effectively execute, adapt, and gain agility.

It’s not enough these days to just know how to use technology. You need to have all the skills to stand out in the sea of IT professionals and to move ahead. Skills like risk analysis, project management, determining return on investment, resolving conflicts and team building are just as valuable in the workplace. This focus area highlights the other professional and personal skills you need to get ahead and to advance your career.

Discover how Oracle’s Supply Chain Management Cloud delivers the visibility, insights, and capabilities you need to create your own intelligent supply chain, including product innovation, strategic material sourcing, outsourced manufacturing, integrated logistics, omni-channel fulfillment, and integrated demand and supply planning.