tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57334644498192794122024-03-12T04:52:04.586+00:00Debra's thoughts on OracleWhat do I think or get up to as an Oracle Professional, UKOUG Volunteer, ACE Director?
These are my personal viewsDebra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.comBlogger730125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-11835737768678234292023-11-20T12:35:00.001+00:002023-11-20T13:11:53.570+00:00Apps Unlimited and UKOUG<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Last week I was at TVP (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Valley_Park" target="_blank">Thames Valley Park</a>), Oracle's biggest campus in the UK, for the first time in 3 years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The road from the city feeds into a roundabout, a motorway spur also ends. Always busy but an easy route, except when the city entrance to the roundabout is closed for roadworks and the detour is a good 20 mins, around the roundabout, up onto the motorway in the wrong direction, off at next junction, all the way around 2 more roundabouts and back onto the motorway to join the original roundabout several miles down the road! Apparently it was due to be finished before the biggest event held there since covid, but in true, sod you tradition, the workmen were delayed. Not fun, but all added to the joy of commuting, many of us have forgotten.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Tuesday was Apps Unlimited, an event I was originally going to miss, as I had a postponed from before C holiday in Jordan planned. However my airline have decided it is not a good destination currently so hopefully 3rd time lucky.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFR3LtSrX75g0yslSCBrXdZeBVERYyqUEeVVrevA0q0khEDboyP7E73OC_fwvpBd9RRw9J4QHgOOY49xB2VmwMbdkI3rlGV5xUOT2JBg1FC84Vn4JrthkqBbQzPUe6CmeiINcfhOO24nZuHcY7X5IS7qnCMXq_wF62R6xuMgDaldR-Lpe8HNTafnm_4Imc/s4032/IMG_6522.HEIC" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">My company do a lot in Apps Unlimited especially EBS and Hyperion, so we had a presence. For me it was important to listen to Cliff Godwin and Nadia on what's new in EBS, and then to hear a couple of customers tell us what they are unto. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-semple-96494162/" target="_blank">Richard Semple </a>from <a href="https://www.uksbs.co.uk/" target="_blank">UKSBS</a> talked about their mid term plans and I was really interested as I was part of the original implementation at Research Council. (Now that is based in Swindon and they have a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)" target="_blank">magic roundabout</a> that makes the detour move look simple)! This is the kind of work I am doing more and more off, planning for cloud but continuing to use and improve EBS in the short term.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">That evening was a ACE dinner. The ACEs had had an adventure that day in Oxford which I was unable to attend, but it was great to catch up with everyone at dinner.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="1074" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtY0dQLhE1YRULS5wfD6HTOElQCxl2WmjPBMo7RyVcDEad1HMW61iFFUq1UuQ4yorypwLXhf9bu6cfIc0NMXE-EOhsZMPj8XysMr6nX1vwppxTj4P8bKdFbQoezV2jyeU8T9dlftMiobkD78l6xh1IxqIWo_RClqhc6eSXarl1Lq3gH-CiWWSMOUNWST9/s320/Screenshot%202023-11-20%20at%2012.29.47.png" width="320" /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I also did a <a href="https://lnkd.in/gPBezDX4" target="_blank">guest blog</a> for the ACEs so not a lot more to say.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-duGIvRnMTMt6NHBifsMWTT3ZCSUr3yGZg86PgTiLrQpuWX0Io2THkZn81c3u35rjexdAflNS4jYVZf6c7muzsH5LK7CHqYQlunpZQ5dx31cUElPWjivmi6hJ82AFeAXmB64YGobWEtTvw8zXlmdvfTZzwLxtN2pmNdTPnxM5K04vJCo32M89rOPiZFi/s4032/IMG_6582.HEIC" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div><p></p><p><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-duGIvRnMTMt6NHBifsMWTT3ZCSUr3yGZg86PgTiLrQpuWX0Io2THkZn81c3u35rjexdAflNS4jYVZf6c7muzsH5LK7CHqYQlunpZQ5dx31cUElPWjivmi6hJ82AFeAXmB64YGobWEtTvw8zXlmdvfTZzwLxtN2pmNdTPnxM5K04vJCo32M89rOPiZFi/w150-h200/IMG_6582.HEIC" width="150" /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">UKOUG was hosted by Oracle in the campus. It was limited in number by the building and was technically sold out, but it was great to see so many people, old and new. UKOUG were celebrating 40 years of serving the community, and I had previously shared some of <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukoug/?miniCompanyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_company%3A109226&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_recent_activity_content_view%3BXmUF7mKtSqS1yOgPoICI0g%3D%3D" target="_blank">my stories</a>.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIPpcZPpyl7iHVMeA2jsTcubscsD3Mk4vGfVH3Tf_CAIUiX0Dw6nygTsN87FE1wAnD6NToAgAjVaAGV83c4VMpOfWNIaHClWzy-bM0Uvxn7LCmpXBK2n9XtNftwNM-X7Gd8jzMeb0RObBL4lr1a6xUVFmHJjiNoqyhlG6BYvGlNnLTJ7PDIDV1Qkg91lK/s4032/IMG_6592.HEIC" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIPpcZPpyl7iHVMeA2jsTcubscsD3Mk4vGfVH3Tf_CAIUiX0Dw6nygTsN87FE1wAnD6NToAgAjVaAGV83c4VMpOfWNIaHClWzy-bM0Uvxn7LCmpXBK2n9XtNftwNM-X7Gd8jzMeb0RObBL4lr1a6xUVFmHJjiNoqyhlG6BYvGlNnLTJ7PDIDV1Qkg91lK/w200-h150/IMG_6592.HEIC" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">Whilst I couldn't fly to Jordon, my fellow ACE Director <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/miaurman/" target="_blank">Mia Urman</a> couldn't travel from Israel so I delivered her presentation on RPA in EBS - I enjoyed the session, there was a good discussion around how we could improve EBS.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh8D0BE9IXpaLcVPykq6RgmRogOCnCgNnIELxu1ZOmjincImo7VrxnnGIMdntdI6uFJqYeEWkDGDcodXZaOziUKGqbb4mXh2WQEynxdF5gFG62aEVyj-vjYbExf4Zx9RD_s2UuFGcfs2C0BgYdFgN1FPtVXmto2TcueUMN9NuEueEfX_OiH5QerhqEJll-/s1600/5c1c7138-c462-4880-bcae-fd6b8356c386.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh8D0BE9IXpaLcVPykq6RgmRogOCnCgNnIELxu1ZOmjincImo7VrxnnGIMdntdI6uFJqYeEWkDGDcodXZaOziUKGqbb4mXh2WQEynxdF5gFG62aEVyj-vjYbExf4Zx9RD_s2UuFGcfs2C0BgYdFgN1FPtVXmto2TcueUMN9NuEueEfX_OiH5QerhqEJll-/w150-h200/5c1c7138-c462-4880-bcae-fd6b8356c386.JPG" width="150" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then later I presented my 'All You Need To Know About Oracle' session. This is a dynamic session that joins the dots for people new to Oracle.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">That evening there was a party to celebrate the 40 years and luckily I was staying at the party hotel so I did quite well with sleep.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My final session on the Thursday was on Extending Fusion SaaS inside and out - looking at My Experience and Visual Builder. Again a great crowd and good discussion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved being at UKOUG and Weldon to Richard, the board and the staff for a successful few days.</span></p><p><br /></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-83803052391819156562023-11-17T08:47:00.002+00:002023-11-17T08:47:28.654+00:00Four of a Kind - New ACE Associates<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Two years ago, the <a href="https://ace.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/ace_program/oracle-aces/home" target="_blank">ACE Program</a> was in doubt, COVID and successive changes within Oracle meant that the program had struggled for a while but thanks to Database Product Management recognising the value to Oracle, the ACE Program was not only saved, but revitalised. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uupQEdnUDsM" width="320" youtube-src-id="uupQEdnUDsM"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At its relaunch those in the program were asked to help grow the numbers especially in areas under-represented. I wrote LinkedIn posts to amplify these messages and asked especially those in the applications world to reach out if they were interested.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Many people did and sadly I told more people than I nominated, that currently they didn’t have the experience to make the program. The ACE Program is not simply about being an expert in your field. It is about sharing that knowledge with the community, as you and not just as your company. I hope those conversations lead to them doing that, writing articles, speaking at events, sharing tips in Oracle Customer Connect etc.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I did help 4 people with their nomination, listening to what they have done and helping them with their nominations. This week the 4th has been awarded ACE Associate. It was such a privilege to be part of their journey. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Three of the Four are like me – Fusion Applications and I'm also really impressed that all four are exciting women in IT, although I'm also <b>happy to mentor male advocates.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8s4y_56e4LB-XjXXqOiXXeBPTyBFzqFQMELZ_XIuJsI6aBCcYUDQeqhGe0tQAnRaD2C-baOJrQe79lhWf-D3NIRddyZkxMaoCpC5euX_-5sqRsUkCJfiz5NR2gXsQMvU7D3USZX-nehp8KJVvlf6re2p_YqA-t7WOZXJq7TemXtXwi9GhUzEZSvbxYfEQ/s278/Screenshot%202023-11-05%20at%2008.08.19.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="242" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8s4y_56e4LB-XjXXqOiXXeBPTyBFzqFQMELZ_XIuJsI6aBCcYUDQeqhGe0tQAnRaD2C-baOJrQe79lhWf-D3NIRddyZkxMaoCpC5euX_-5sqRsUkCJfiz5NR2gXsQMvU7D3USZX-nehp8KJVvlf6re2p_YqA-t7WOZXJq7TemXtXwi9GhUzEZSvbxYfEQ/w174-h200/Screenshot%202023-11-05%20at%2008.08.19.png" width="174" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/knskonsulting/" target="_blank">Karen Settembrino</a> – a payroll expert and long time volunteer with OHUG. What impressed me with Karen was her advocacy and knowledge sharing with her professional body, the American Payroll Association as much as within our Oracle world.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5YejI5eMj9HMJJK6MqlNc8lDR5LSwPbaP7dd4jWG1zQ9CBMrTGDzOnwtVE5fY1gyAL4JgvFyiCc724QeLwUPV5u-M31cMgXoK6NophnwP9eL4Uhn8yNfEI0M1ppUpylO_j1GoEpvfsd29Ij2i9BS2nAgIkz9NTvfaX28I09BR5Cinlf-WPLgaIiivkS8/s276/Screenshot%202023-11-05%20at%2008.08.32.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="243" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5YejI5eMj9HMJJK6MqlNc8lDR5LSwPbaP7dd4jWG1zQ9CBMrTGDzOnwtVE5fY1gyAL4JgvFyiCc724QeLwUPV5u-M31cMgXoK6NophnwP9eL4Uhn8yNfEI0M1ppUpylO_j1GoEpvfsd29Ij2i9BS2nAgIkz9NTvfaX28I09BR5Cinlf-WPLgaIiivkS8/w176-h200/Screenshot%202023-11-05%20at%2008.08.32.png" width="176" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-mitchell-3091a42b/" target="_blank">Jennifer Mitchell</a>, is a colleague and had worked with me and Oracle Development on a PoC for Oracle HCM My Experience. This giving feedback to Oracle is a key part of the ACE Program. She also assisted Oracle in Journeys sessions at Blueprint 4D.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyNBmd_0NMWMraKH8V9ZiCvPhBOgRZ5-cfFOvSz3afIpvZAEfW0h5mmRmIyJ70qoK4YRqfAiCab_9EjDp81jKJtvgJTNXERbo4lqkt7vVEaq3svU82EooZ24feZZNh5QVKIvs8mMmN3YzD8cCWVuMWUj3MjdErVI7eifmwg0Qsaja0_rtWAXB52UErCKz/s276/Screenshot%202023-11-05%20at%2008.02.52.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="245" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyNBmd_0NMWMraKH8V9ZiCvPhBOgRZ5-cfFOvSz3afIpvZAEfW0h5mmRmIyJ70qoK4YRqfAiCab_9EjDp81jKJtvgJTNXERbo4lqkt7vVEaq3svU82EooZ24feZZNh5QVKIvs8mMmN3YzD8cCWVuMWUj3MjdErVI7eifmwg0Qsaja0_rtWAXB52UErCKz/w178-h200/Screenshot%202023-11-05%20at%2008.02.52.png" width="178" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lydia-maksoud-32aa5775/" target="_blank">Lydia Maksoud</a> is an EPM expert. I met her through ODTUG where I am a board director and have seen her develop from a nervous co speaker in previous years to a confident sharer of knowledge. I also had the privileged of sitting with Lydia at her first ACE dinner during UKOUG this week.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-QFq0buD1HcJDU0VIOjJtWkkfGA96CEjg-c0uZ75MupNn3rDpUaBOmGerz4Uu0wQkrGNxzg2GYEWK0ad78ABz_NZh2kJw_nM7auZsRkz9ZWRhodC237rDh6uJpXEqWoQl_OL0G9cFdqijAbhNWk_hhdfdo_0EnnvF-2hMk4rglzv5i1VBe-b9aaU0dT1d/s277/Screenshot%202023-11-05%20at%2008.08.43.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="242" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-QFq0buD1HcJDU0VIOjJtWkkfGA96CEjg-c0uZ75MupNn3rDpUaBOmGerz4Uu0wQkrGNxzg2GYEWK0ad78ABz_NZh2kJw_nM7auZsRkz9ZWRhodC237rDh6uJpXEqWoQl_OL0G9cFdqijAbhNWk_hhdfdo_0EnnvF-2hMk4rglzv5i1VBe-b9aaU0dT1d/w175-h200/Screenshot%202023-11-05%20at%2008.08.43.png" width="175" /></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobhiyah-tobie-engel-4403886/" target="_blank">Tobie Engel</a>, is actually a customer of my company, and shares the many experiences of moving her organization from JDE to Oracle Cloud and all the different areas this touches. She is always learning and exploring what comes next and then being part of the conversation with Oracle and the community.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Although these ladies have all now achieved their ACE, it wasn't simple. Two had to rework their applications and do more to be successful. I like the way the program came back to me as the nominator and worked through their contribution and where necessary gave ideas to reach the standard rather than simply rejecting. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remember if it is easy it has no value.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Congratulations Girls – but don’t be complacent, obtaining inclusion in the Program is easier than maintaining it. Keep up the great work and enjoy your journey and the opportunities this will bring you.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><br /><p></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-9862460345178001242023-10-04T07:22:00.003+01:002023-10-04T07:46:52.798+01:00So just how busy was I at OCW 23?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just before Oracle <a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/" target="_blank">Cloud World</a>, OCW, I <a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2023/09/oracle-cloud-world-dance-card-and-my.html" target="_blank">blogged about how full my dance card was</a>, and several people commented that they'd actually tried looking at the fan to see what that meant so it's only right that this post tells you more about my trip. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I had three presentations at OCW, one on road mapping for apps unlimited customers and two on visual builder. As an <a href="https://ace.oracle.com/pls/apex/ace_program/r/oracle-aces/home" target="_blank">ACE Director</a> this meant I had program funding for the event generously topped up by my employer.
The two visual builder sessions were unexpectedly full, the capacity of the room was over 200 and both sessions had very few spare seats. This is such a turnaround from last year when visual builder sessions were poorly attended, let's hope this is a corner turned on organizations understanding what visual builder brings to them for their fusion apps. Having said that the first question in both sessions was what about APEX? </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhic6eEy8BcKC5M0zCfmz2qH7_Ha9IGmPmo7b1Y1c6DmCIBDs5ZnwMn3FK5y7MpyS_SjYDQqmhTrnFmWR5gpBF23cb0pLDJodAVwCnddwBONTXX29IKTBOldOmKs8q6BgiWij8mmCM1klPKgF-qb9l_S-KK4DBnz7GBIgsUYFui5Zdr_37wX28ba9_AyAT-/s4032/IMG_6100.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhic6eEy8BcKC5M0zCfmz2qH7_Ha9IGmPmo7b1Y1c6DmCIBDs5ZnwMn3FK5y7MpyS_SjYDQqmhTrnFmWR5gpBF23cb0pLDJodAVwCnddwBONTXX29IKTBOldOmKs8q6BgiWij8mmCM1klPKgF-qb9l_S-KK4DBnz7GBIgsUYFui5Zdr_37wX28ba9_AyAT-/s320/IMG_6100.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first session was a panel where several organizations shared their experience in using visual builder with fusion. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/basheerkhan/" target="_blank">Basheer Khan</a> was immediately before me on the panel, and I knew he had a really big example to share where his company had rewritten a module they had previously written in ADF. This is a great example and demonstra</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">tes many of the features that are now open to all organizations. Basheer and his colleague </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggonza/" style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;" target="_blank">Gustavo</a><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"> along with myself make up the only three ACE Directors specializing in Fusion apps and technology. I talked about a few more modest extensions we had written for customers and to extend </span><a href="https://www.inoapps.com/insights/news/inoapps-a-winner-at-oracle-cloudworld#:~:text=Building%20on%20the%20Oracle%20ME,Engineering%20and%20Construction%20and%20Healthcare." style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;" target="_blank">My Contractor</a><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"> demo (I have another presentation that talks about extending inside and out which covers both Oracle My Experience and the embedded visual builder). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The second session was with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-price/" target="_blank">Jeff Price</a> the VP for visual builder for Fusion. Originally Jeff was going to talk about how visual builder is available, the different ways of using it and then I was going to follow with more end user examples, but on the two occasions Jeff and I talked about this in preparation it became more of a discussion and so we decided to just let the session flow. This is a great example of where two speakers have absolute trust in each other, understand the message they're trying to get across and instinctively know how to manage the time. It worked, Jeff would explain something, and I would give a practical example and we were able to convey everything that Jeff wanted to get over in this introduction to visual builder in Fusion presentation. We were the last session of the day and in fact free drinks in the exhibition started before our session finished and we were amazed that the room was full when we started and even more amazed that everybody stayed and in fact because there was no one on after us, our questions overran by about 20 minutes. People really are interested in what they can do of course we had a little bit of a discussion APEX versus visual builder, and as I say every time I'm asked, there is room for both because Oracle are invested in both of these technologies for different parts of their business, but both equally work with the Fusion environment. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgpm7mBBRRuazgGdMPGHiMkXchc56ul0zQkDpcdbYHWdj5mmn6hkEhura2SI_porRsVAr2JFOHnytSbF7NBvpR_dIF8YxINE3lx4EHu96VQGOGUnNuAT-AsLnReVmfPrP3X9VmgY5ybmw_tiAPZEpOHTy-W70bitlqPIWM3TLa0iSfsO6SEzKMB4FTWnC/s4032/IMG_6109.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgpm7mBBRRuazgGdMPGHiMkXchc56ul0zQkDpcdbYHWdj5mmn6hkEhura2SI_porRsVAr2JFOHnytSbF7NBvpR_dIF8YxINE3lx4EHu96VQGOGUnNuAT-AsLnReVmfPrP3X9VmgY5ybmw_tiAPZEpOHTy-W70bitlqPIWM3TLa0iSfsO6SEzKMB4FTWnC/s320/IMG_6109.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having been sponsored by the ACE program I also had ACE duties mainly this is around manning the ACE lounge where people come for a little bit of a sit down a discussion around the program to understand if they are a candidate and what to do and a swag booth where if people simply signed up to follow the ACE program we gave away gifts. I volunteered for the first session Tuesday and last two hours of the show on Thursday and I have to say the first one was like holding back lemmings from a cliff, so many people just wanted the swag . That isn’t a bad thing because now their social feed is going to include information about the ACE program and over time hopefully, they will see the value to themselves of being part of this great community. The last session included the now traditional ACE chocolate tasting where ACEs from around the world bring their local chocolates in and people get to try chocolates from everywhere; there was a lot of sugar consumed! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I also supported <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnicholson2/" target="_blank">Jen Nicholson</a> in her partner session about the ACE program, this was to explain to partners the value to their employees and themselves from the ACE program and it was great to just be able to constantly give different examples of the value that this brings to an organization. I am incredibly blessed that my company <a href="https://www.inoapps.com/" target="_blank">Inoapps</a> sees the value, supports me at every turn, and we have recently added to our ACE portfolio with recognition of <a href="https://ace.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/ace_program/oracle-aces/ace?ace_id=2457&clear=2" target="_blank">Jen Mitchell</a> as an ACE associate. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wasn't at OCW as a stand person for Inoapps however on the odd occasion that I had some free time I did go along and support them mainly because I used the stand as a meeting place for either customers or people who had reached out and wanted to talk to me or had been to one of my sessions and wanted to follow up questions. Inoapps had also sponsored the DJ booth which everybody walked through every time they came into the show floor it was a fantastic area. So many people commented on the DJ booth. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzWQWYjvJR-We81FJddXZEVPbCFSFooQKirEEZa3U2hH8-592WeN_8wlOQWc-9w5hliuLUczWf79De3yS9QHKrAcYym0PX6Ixc4rNuKYxAMZDoUamPz6QVWdweYMsdcxYwS9fHcKAZeL9suwofsIh7G4wQc3nSfKqNF8PgrUyCIZd357gIopIRL4lh_8k1/s4032/IMG_6059.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzWQWYjvJR-We81FJddXZEVPbCFSFooQKirEEZa3U2hH8-592WeN_8wlOQWc-9w5hliuLUczWf79De3yS9QHKrAcYym0PX6Ixc4rNuKYxAMZDoUamPz6QVWdweYMsdcxYwS9fHcKAZeL9suwofsIh7G4wQc3nSfKqNF8PgrUyCIZd357gIopIRL4lh_8k1/s320/IMG_6059.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the actual stand we had a headshot photographer, and the queue was always busy but whilst in the queue our team were able to talk to individuals and took fun photos. Several people who came to see me and I wasn't there had these photos taken and posted them to say how they'd miss me I told you my dance card is just too full. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgew2_nSqWj7Yw8vwJHw7OsL_t2vioZMQlQMzHTKrgva1jWKt_GhoExZ2t96q86jJAj0ICFMZ89e8mmb2apMhHpeyfqvKyeWf-P3LlhLtplh4zEs3Dd73XUlnt56xo4ERGYaPUYVq1Zbvl6aH-pzfDR5RfEoymUB14eP9EiQHjGEKOvZvBqUbfvqzft6eS3/s1600/617142f0-6d63-4f1d-8601-68d58f773d66%202.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgew2_nSqWj7Yw8vwJHw7OsL_t2vioZMQlQMzHTKrgva1jWKt_GhoExZ2t96q86jJAj0ICFMZ89e8mmb2apMhHpeyfqvKyeWf-P3LlhLtplh4zEs3Dd73XUlnt56xo4ERGYaPUYVq1Zbvl6aH-pzfDR5RfEoymUB14eP9EiQHjGEKOvZvBqUbfvqzft6eS3/s320/617142f0-6d63-4f1d-8601-68d58f773d66%202.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I arrived late Friday, and on Saturday morning a colleague and I started the day with a Denny’s breakfast. Anywhere other than the hotel which was simply too expensive! The new <a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/after-mgm-and-caesars-hacks-cybersecurity-experts-warn-anybody-is-vulnerable" target="_blank">Las Vegas was experiencing cybercrime</a> with big problems in some of the hotels and casinos but luckily not the Venetian where OCW was held. After breakfast we walked around the strip and stopped for a drink at the Bellagio only to discover their slot machines were down and they couldn't take credit card payments. I absolutely hate gambling and therefore do not enjoy Vegas as a destination but the impact to these organizations was simply horrendous. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My great friend Sue Shaw who was once president of the Quest user group was also in town and on Saturday evening, we went to see <a href="https://www.vegas.com/shows/production/menopause-the-musical-las-vegas/" target="_blank">Menopause the Musical</a>. I'm not sure what I was expecting perhaps something more cynical but actually it was excellent the songs were all songs we know with the words to, simply changed and it was a very humorous look at a very serious issue, after all if we can't laugh at ourselves, we're doomed. I was also impressed at how many men were in the audience also enjoying the show. We also had our annual <a href="https://www.in-n-out.com/" target="_blank">In-n-Out burger</a>. This is Sue's husband's favorite fast-food restaurant we don't have them in Europe so once a year isn't a bad thing even if it did follow Denny's for breakfast. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I work for a partner Inoapps and Monday before the conference begins his partner day and on the Sunday evening there was a partner welcome reception where we were honored to receive <a href="https://www.inoapps.com/insights/news/success-for-inoapps-managed-services-at-the-2023-oracle-partner-awards" target="_blank">an award</a> for UK and Ireland, business impact. This is around our managed services offering and continuously bringing the innovation that Oracle delivers to our joint customers and this marks the big change in Oracle. Whilst they recognize managed services is a big revenue stream for partners normally it's not something they recognize with awards. This took place this took on a rooftop bar in the old Fremont Street which is the only time I got to experience the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Strip" target="_blank">old Las Vegas</a>. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The partner event on Monday was about getting heads up on some of the messages that would be made at the conference. I also had meetings along with colleagues with some of the product managers for SaaS. This is one of the best advantages of being in the ACE program is the relationships that you have with product management. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-leone-8792b6/" target="_blank">Chris Leone</a> has added SCM to his HCM portfolio and I look forward to seeing more development in this area using the visual builder framework and the generative AI that was the star in the center of the whole show. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">One of the customers that I am exec sponsor for is a global construction company with one part going live in February. They had quite a big contingent and so we took them to dinner on the Monday night it, was lovely to be able to talk to them all face to face and virtual working is so much better when it's on a foundation of knowing the people. We were able to talk about challenges and plans for the future. The restaurant had a signature dessert which obviously we had to try. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S7x-jANxu0I" width="320" youtube-src-id="S7x-jANxu0I"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tuesday started really early whilst OCW is very busy, the world goes on back at the ranch and my organization was involved in a demo to a customer in Europe which meant I was online at 5:00 AM Vegas time. I don't mind too much, this is my job but I don't suffer from jet lag so this was a case of me setting the alarm and not simply being up anyway.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tuesday was also my two visual builder events presentations and I also met with a couple of other partners in niche areas that we are considering working together with.
Tuesday evening was our Inoapps drinks reception. Last year I had a problem with my hip and left early as I simply couldn’t stand any longer, but this year we had a slightly different area of the same bar, and there were seats and my hip pain has gone thanks to acupuncture (ask me about this). </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For me, most of Wednesday was attending keynotes meeting Oracle product managers and listening to colleagues speak. Even though the event it's in just one location there is still an awful lot of walking, and my step count was really high, moving between meetings which inevitably are never close together and requires a lot of logistical planning. My favorite meeting of the day was with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadiabendjedou/" target="_blank">Nadia Bendjedou</a> and Cliff Godwin talking about e-Business suite. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I also had my theatre slot on Wednesday, just 20 minutes to look at the options for apps unlimited customers which is based on my road mapping flow chart. I had a really good turnout of people; all the seats were taken, and people were stood at the back. It's quite a weird experience for the speaker, it sounds like you're talking into a tin can but apparently the audience can hear. I kept checking that they were OK and I would get nods and I could see that people were engaged with me and then all of a sudden everyone looked up I didn't know what the problem was but afterwards I discovered that it was the sound of rain on the ceiling. It didn't affect me, but it did affect my audience. Later <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-loaiza-8a676171/" target="_blank">Juan Loaiza</a> told us that it happened in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irtZOznG1Z8" target="_blank">his keynote</a> that would have been far more off putting than it was for me. But the session was really successful, and I had loads of people come and ask me questions afterwards which to me is always the best feedback. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wednesday evening is traditionally party night or customer appreciation event last year I went and didn't really enjoy it and this year I decided not to go which is a pity because it turns out it was really good and far more my era of music than last year. However the evening started fantastically with the ACE program dinner where I got to celebrate OCW with all my peers and the ACE program and this was fantastically supported by Juan, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtsaismith/" target="_blank">Jenny Tsai</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-mendelsohn-7755a410/" target="_blank">Andy Mendelsohn</a> from the database whose sponsor the ACE program.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWVWmC6uceKQYnEv54gBPTiDLzVn5VC5r9fqVAbrBi2URra1J9BieJgIklFuVGB_36nkFZ5LgGkS75iltBIMoE0QP752Q_GUZICLf6iDOfeDcEOxkD2Dc7VjvljMP-r9Tmlw1eW-Y2wgBPwt0JQ1wssnrqDS2HjpVlPtuM8pg9HJlbsleE92yoeQso3WI/s4032/IMG_6179.jpeg" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWVWmC6uceKQYnEv54gBPTiDLzVn5VC5r9fqVAbrBi2URra1J9BieJgIklFuVGB_36nkFZ5LgGkS75iltBIMoE0QP752Q_GUZICLf6iDOfeDcEOxkD2Dc7VjvljMP-r9Tmlw1eW-Y2wgBPwt0JQ1wssnrqDS2HjpVlPtuM8pg9HJlbsleE92yoeQso3WI/s320/IMG_6179.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">No speaking for me Thursday which meant I didn't have to lug my laptop around the show. I've already said that I did my last ACE duty for the ACE lounge and the chocolate tasting session but it was also about catching up with all those people I've been trying to talk to all week, I had lots of messages saying meet me here at this time and on the whole I did manage to catch up with people who'd come to the stand asking for me and of course I just wasn't there. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thursday evening, I had the pleasure of dinner with Jen Nicholson and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-mcdonald-australia/" target="_blank">Connor McDonald</a> and a few other ACEs, it was very quiet and relaxed and away from the conference and it felt good however we all left early as we had our ACE adventure on Friday. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I broke my shoulder six months ago and it's only just usable in fact I'm writing this blog from Lanzarote where today after a medical I hope to do my first scuba diving since February so when the ACE program announced that the ACE adventure for OCW would be <a href="https://www.evolutionexpeditions.com/" target="_blank">kayaking</a>, I was a bit nervous. I thought I had a great excuse my flight meant that I wouldn't be able to get back from the kayaking quick enough and then Jen said what if we started an hour earlier at that point I realized I wasn't going to be able to get out of this easily I didn't think I could kayak so then the next thing to do was to find someone who would kayak a double canoe on their own. Karen Cannell stood up to do this although several other people also volunteered. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So just before 7:00 AM on the Friday morning we all met together and were driven to Lake Mead where we were shown our kayaks and what we were doing. Lake Mead is behind the Hoover Dam and therefore there are no rapids, it's very calm and the easiest kayaking you probably will do. It was such fun, absolutely hysterical, they gave us water squirters and there was plenty of fun fights between people. We looked at caves, we played games shouting at cliffs to get echoes - it was brilliant and for me and I was probably able to do about 40% of the kayaking ,which is way more than I ever expected. I was also lucky enough to wear a GoPro and record the day. Alex Nujiten also used his physio therapist skills to get an old lady up out of a kayak. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pOaPQi5RoTI" width="320" youtube-src-id="pOaPQi5RoTI"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I can't thank the ACE program enough for what was just such a fantastic morning away from Vegas. Lake Mead has made me enjoy my week in Vegas.
So as I said before my dance card was very full, but as ever it was a great week with lots of things achieved with those different hats that I had on and thank you to everyone who made it possible for me.</span></span></div>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-16497076587696577622023-09-15T09:02:00.002+01:002023-09-15T09:02:28.609+01:00Oracle Cloud World Dance Card and my Best Practice for OCW<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I attended my first Oracle Open World many years ago, and attended every one since, and every year I blog about how busy I will be and every year it gets busier. This is my 18th consecutive event.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0tdsVgZ-05TT3CLdFdDvE_rSKp9-VXo9xG-JU6zB4sC8G74tKdUkx87QbG4V0xQj-b386TrS-JIKCPJxAixknCJ0JwELtz5GFMv7ZO7CHjDpKPmKEg_uVnWV_LTAqaHTBVRFaoyK9xBV6tkPqcZRt-UEofsEx5aHQjgFRCRcj0RLvco8wgZkYIrNDya5p/s410/Dance_card00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="410" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0tdsVgZ-05TT3CLdFdDvE_rSKp9-VXo9xG-JU6zB4sC8G74tKdUkx87QbG4V0xQj-b386TrS-JIKCPJxAixknCJ0JwELtz5GFMv7ZO7CHjDpKPmKEg_uVnWV_LTAqaHTBVRFaoyK9xBV6tkPqcZRt-UEofsEx5aHQjgFRCRcj0RLvco8wgZkYIrNDya5p/s320/Dance_card00.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">At this point in the run up to the event, I am trying to sift through sessions, meetings, off piste activities and colour code them with priorities. I love mobile apps but I want one that will update my calendar so that the two are in sync, <b>if you have worked it out please tell me</b>! Not that it matters much, if I manage to attend the sessions I am delivering I will have done well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I have 3 sessions. Very Exciting. Two on the use of Visual Builder and a theatre session on the showfloor for Apps Unlimited </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigM_u86mZz8cfhCxFINSbPGYl8lJbv0_6GYV_FmBZQJ2NI6uhJQBB1eEL8MxWgDD-eQC8U-n9OZHcR3zbkRkR6-DIGb2z0Dqr5_6VU86D4G_04Db29cux8I7oWUUehP_nbGjJa0iazlfy04oS22rciGVO_M6THaRntexnLvg-Gk2YBeqhp0o01C_zQVDvJ/s1600/ace-ocw23-speaker.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1600" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigM_u86mZz8cfhCxFINSbPGYl8lJbv0_6GYV_FmBZQJ2NI6uhJQBB1eEL8MxWgDD-eQC8U-n9OZHcR3zbkRkR6-DIGb2z0Dqr5_6VU86D4G_04Db29cux8I7oWUUehP_nbGjJa0iazlfy04oS22rciGVO_M6THaRntexnLvg-Gk2YBeqhp0o01C_zQVDvJ/s320/ace-ocw23-speaker.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: 600;">Extending Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps—What We Learned </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">[PAN1434] Tuesday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">2:00 PM - 2:45 PM a panel session of experts helped out by me</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: 600;">An Introduction to Extending Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">[LRN3050] Tuesday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">5:00 PM - 5:45 PM assisting Jeff Price</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: 600;">Applications Unlimited Customers—Put an End to Cloud Confusion [THR1383] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">wednesday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">3:20 PM - 3:40 PM</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I will be doing my bit as an Oracle ACE Director and be at their lounge Tuesday & Thursday over lunch time, come by if you are interested in the program.</span></span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">With my company I have customers to meet up with, Oracle executives to meet and share information, and colleagues sessions to support. We also have a stand (#25). </span></h4><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Las Vegas is a city that never stop and that is what my dance card thinks - I have breakfast meetings and pre breakfast meetings and there are receptions every day</span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So my tips for managing your time:</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Colour code your calendar with MUST, WANT, CATCH UP ON DEMAND, INTERESTED </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Don't delete any of the above as your time will be dynamic, if that MUST meeting is cancelled or moved what is your next priority.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If you are non US, don't forget adapters and small bills for tips </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For presenters - there is a whole Know Before You Go document but my #1 is make sure you have a backup</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If there is a session you want to attend and it is free, perhaps hover, many people book a session they want to go to and don't make it for just as many reasons, so there may be a space</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And most important:</span></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If you see me and say hallo and I look lost, tell me your name and make an old lady very happy</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></li></ul><p></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-21837753914972767782023-07-07T16:44:00.003+01:002023-07-07T16:46:58.963+01:00Reflecting on KScope 23 <p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">So <a href="https://kscope23.odtug.com/" target="_blank">Kscope23</a> was the last of the three global user groups in the summer season in the US and as I said in my <a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2023/06/user-group-conferences.html" target="_blank">last blog</a> my favorite, although I may be biased as I am on the <a href="https://www.odtug.com/odtug-board" target="_blank">board of directors</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Kscope is the <a href="https://www.odtug.com" target="_blank">ODTUG</a> flagship event, ODTUG stands for Oracle Development and Technology User Group, and this is the event where people come to learn from the best.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">This year Kscope was held near Denver in the <a href="https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/dengr-gaylord-rockies-resort-and-convention-center/overview/" target="_blank">Gaylord Rockies</a>. This resort hotel had plenty to do outside but I only managed once before the conference and once after; it was a very busy week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQr5SCT1cpBdGpXtyg4qDafiseglj11_9mIS_kyIuZDfD1GIecsyJdOj4YT_vDrKHactPrQ1ns86vaTSgdQ7TKWIIcv9XJZ30reedSYNqArL-84y9a3KEjpHyHIgEZolUMOBrr1B-ZVG-TkJRW2n2W8oM00HWELcuZ8wuqmpzVTyiOyJrn8fLSvIQt9m4s/s4032/IMG_5395.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQr5SCT1cpBdGpXtyg4qDafiseglj11_9mIS_kyIuZDfD1GIecsyJdOj4YT_vDrKHactPrQ1ns86vaTSgdQ7TKWIIcv9XJZ30reedSYNqArL-84y9a3KEjpHyHIgEZolUMOBrr1B-ZVG-TkJRW2n2W8oM00HWELcuZ8wuqmpzVTyiOyJrn8fLSvIQt9m4s/s320/IMG_5395.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5IqYG8MOLLPVmdNnImMpxtb-Ziy319XKIAr-9hRdZqXTIOCoORd8Kdqr14ph3cVObxp6PU_dUwyhzGNg7gzZow08cY3nnuuIbWye5xbai44XsweuNqmroZcdEe2UciC-zltppHKxNCtBwwLla_Gx6hp5dVJyZ-OqE0kGzSxqyez1nZ1Ey2--MRkxDP4LR/s4032/IMG_5502.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5IqYG8MOLLPVmdNnImMpxtb-Ziy319XKIAr-9hRdZqXTIOCoORd8Kdqr14ph3cVObxp6PU_dUwyhzGNg7gzZow08cY3nnuuIbWye5xbai44XsweuNqmroZcdEe2UciC-zltppHKxNCtBwwLla_Gx6hp5dVJyZ-OqE0kGzSxqyez1nZ1Ey2--MRkxDP4LR/s320/IMG_5502.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">As a board member we had meetings before the event, so I threw flew out on the Thursday for those. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">At ODTUG we pride ourselves on how close we work with Oracle development bringing new technology and functionality to users direct from the people responsible. The user group has four main communities APEX, EPM, Analytics and Database and we are constantly revising to ensure that we meet the requirements of the user group and that the members are served.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">This year the APEX community held an APEX boot camp where those with little or no experience in APEX came to learn the basics from the very best. I joined the start of this boot camp and was really impressed at both the students’ enthusiasm and the Oracle syllabus put together for the event and by the end of the week this group were whizzing through hands on labs and excited to go back to their organizations to use their newfound skills. This is something we will be repeating.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Another new venture was my own stream for extending Oracle SaaS Applications, for a long time these applications were locked with no way to extend apart from complex coexistence, this is all changed and there is a lot for SaaS practitioners to learn and ODTUG makes a great home for these people ,so we had sessions around when you should extend, how you should extend, how to actually use Oracle Visual Builder and how does this compare to APEX which has been more traditionally used for extending. We had two customers Elizabeth Ferrell from Kroger and the State of North Carolina who shared what they were doing to extend their Oracle SaaS investments. Luc Bors, Bashir Khan, Gustavo Gonzalez and Peter Koletzke shared their experiences and had just how far Oracle have come in this discipline. We will be following up this event with web casts starting with Lynn Mussenger on the Redwood platform later this fall. Numbers were small, but this is a new community and to be honest drew people curious from other streams but we hope to build on this community so that next year we can be even more successful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">In this stream I spoke on what technology does for Oracle Applications to set the scene for the week and then finished with the discussion on Oracle Visual Builder and APEX, this last session was very well attended and a very interesting discussion around skills and use cases.The panel was Blaine Carter from Oracle Visual Builder product development, Karen Cannell and Gustavo Gonzalez. I'm currently contributing to an Ace Program book where my chapter is on this very very topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAhcJa4Js4Q14i5MFJ3iVEiEr4D08Kueue6NjiY0JH3M7CdeWS4egjGRx1xd9_KJEJwhHRq3thv4AIlTzjpWALAOMDVDkGgQm2dFXg69JWYll479e8Oo8lC6oDdJpl_u1cesjndIMQui5j5iKfsEiNkVMTlG5ffvfMBRz2FmtVsG_rCdsrMAnB28v-vHzZ/s2420/vbcs2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="2420" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAhcJa4Js4Q14i5MFJ3iVEiEr4D08Kueue6NjiY0JH3M7CdeWS4egjGRx1xd9_KJEJwhHRq3thv4AIlTzjpWALAOMDVDkGgQm2dFXg69JWYll479e8Oo8lC6oDdJpl_u1cesjndIMQui5j5iKfsEiNkVMTlG5ffvfMBRz2FmtVsG_rCdsrMAnB28v-vHzZ/s320/vbcs2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, Blaine, Karen & Gustavo - APEX - VB Panel</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">As a member of the Ace Program, I also had the opportunity to take part in some of their Content. There was a database panel session facilitated by Cary Millsap were I was able to contribute far more than I expected. I love it when I can talk about the value technology brings to the applications. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">I also managed to do several videotapes sessions with Lauren Cohn </span>who will create amazing videos I just don't know what for yet. I spent time with her at Oracle cloud world just answering general questions and she made two great videos one on my perspective of the ace program and <a href="<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Listen to Oracle ACE Director ♠️ <a href="https://twitter.com/debralilley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@debralilley</a> talk about what it meant to her to take the role to represent Oracle User Groups. 👉 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OracleACE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OracleACE</a> <a href="https://t.co/QA3rCVAaQK">pic.twitter.com/QA3rCVAaQK</a></p>&mdash; Oracle ACE Program (@oracleace) <a href="https://twitter.com/oracleace/status/1671148519019671552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>" target="_blank">one on the benefits it has given my career</a> thank you</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S5gm7bTnRqE" width="320" youtube-src-id="S5gm7bTnRqE"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">I was also videoed by Connor McDonald for his 60 seconds with series which was very weird as on the first take I couldn't think of any answers this second take there's not much better from my perspective but as ever a great video from Connor check out the other aces he managed to talk to at the conference on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DatabaseDude/about" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1qjz2lgdfUA" width="320" youtube-src-id="1qjz2lgdfUA"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">As with any conference there needs to be more than just educational content at the general session we said good bye to Tim German and Karen Cannell who are stepping down from the board this year having completed their term limits, there were videos to say goodbye to them which were very emotional but highlighted all they had done for the community over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">The keynote speaker was a deviation from external speakers and actually talked about sports analytics from Carrie Nielsen and Dr Abby Giles-Haigh, their presentation was entertaining and educational. Abby as well as being a data scientist and ace director is also a soccer coach and uses the is analytics not just for customers but also for her team. Carrie talked about how Oracle analytics are making such a difference in many sports most notably Formula One and brought along an F1 simulator for the Oracle stand which proved very popular. Having recently had the opportunity to visit Oracle Red Bull at their MK7 headquarters in Milton Keynes I really appreciate how the analytics are being used.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Kscope always kicks off with community service on the Saturday before the main event starts this year we helped at a community centre for the temporarily homeless teams did deep cleaning and weeding although with my broken shoulder I was a bit limited and just fed people pizza this is a great tradition where ODTUGers give back to the city that's welcoming us for our event<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">The ace dinner was a great place to catch up with Jen Nicholson who runs the program and all the old and new members of the program.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5XVpw_SqEsmYum-WeyIGH9zbvaA9fThNqfZ-lhSLtSJWZYkRYiYTIcxFpnXa87DqBCmdfXzBPznd78YzsQgAG1-zmWLNPtjcRjSe4nEjRPsDB8oohKNXpueK4pTO8lLobzIB5_OJ_S66ZWWoyZGigeuoNYsbLJlL_k1WuFa57kUh6uuQdl-EH1jzahFpX/s2340/Screenshot%202023-07-07%20at%2008.27.52.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="2340" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5XVpw_SqEsmYum-WeyIGH9zbvaA9fThNqfZ-lhSLtSJWZYkRYiYTIcxFpnXa87DqBCmdfXzBPznd78YzsQgAG1-zmWLNPtjcRjSe4nEjRPsDB8oohKNXpueK4pTO8lLobzIB5_OJ_S66ZWWoyZGigeuoNYsbLJlL_k1WuFa57kUh6uuQdl-EH1jzahFpX/w467-h190/Screenshot%202023-07-07%20at%2008.27.52.png" width="467" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">photo again from Lauren<br /></span><br /><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The special event was at Denver aquarium, and the dress up theme (I love a dress up) was rockabilly.</span></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzJTnj_JIR-9Zrf58FkfQ6pkO9pDUTwwaXmyiB94J18gF9lcdO1yrQMcvreCupYl7ZTfMs75CBpfw8v-bYa-RnpW7K3OKVac0o5dBh6paGHZgihVaBXKuMYkiLfbDv6yySWyfxJkBWYPe4Risx6ENLKio2_4q4N4W02enCJksWLq02l3Oaib-JRpUVxr_/s2000/Screenshot%202023-07-07%20at%2016.38.38.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="2000" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzJTnj_JIR-9Zrf58FkfQ6pkO9pDUTwwaXmyiB94J18gF9lcdO1yrQMcvreCupYl7ZTfMs75CBpfw8v-bYa-RnpW7K3OKVac0o5dBh6paGHZgihVaBXKuMYkiLfbDv6yySWyfxJkBWYPe4Risx6ENLKio2_4q4N4W02enCJksWLq02l3Oaib-JRpUVxr_/s320/Screenshot%202023-07-07%20at%2016.38.38.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 ODTUG Board</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Back in February when we were onsite planning KScope I had the opportunity to actually go in the tank with the sharks. As a keen scuba diver I loved it, but I didn't know then it would be my last dive for a while, breaking my shoulder just a few weeks later (I am hoping to be back in the water October.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyG8usS2txW1AXt6k_9BztUwkhtZXie34zP7G-5wKWydsng-KbvLXjVMWYS70LJu6Klzy1qlSrxs7QtLIIWnw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thursday finished with Hands on Labs and Blaine did an Oracle Visual Builder with Redwood - it was great to see people from other steams come and have a go. SO I was pleased with my stream, the overall conference and we are already thinking about 2024 in Nashville.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">See you there</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span><p></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-57986346109713204032023-06-25T17:44:00.000+01:002023-06-25T17:44:46.804+01:00User Group Conferences<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I think of April, May, and June as the US Oracle conference season. We have <a href="https://questoraclecommunity.org/learn/blogs/blueprint-4d-2023-the-oracle-customer-event-of-the-year/">Blueprint 4D</a>, <a href="https://ascendusersconference.com" target="_blank">Ascend</a> and <a href="https://kscope23.odtug.com" target="_blank">KSCOPE</a>, and I'm lucky enough to speak at all three.</span></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">KSCOPE starts this weekend and as I am on the board of the <a href="https://www.odtug.com" target="_blank">ODTUG</a> usergroup, I'm obviously biased that this is the best. And what makes KSCOPE so special is the in-depth learning and amazing feelings of belonging.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">But before that starts let's have a quick look back at Blueprint 4D and Ascend. These are my personal thoughts based on how I see it as an outsider, and I am sure there are things that I am not aware of.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">I presented at both events, learnt more myself and loved the user interaction, but whilst it may be a little controversial have the following observations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Prior to COVID there was Collaborate, this was a conference that had been running for over a decade and comprised of three separate user groups:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 38.45pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://questoraclecommunity.org" target="_blank">QUEST</a> who services JD Edwards and PeopleSoft<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.45pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">OAUG (now</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.oatug.org/home" target="_blank">OATUG</a>) who serviced traditionally E-Business Suite, some PeopleSoft. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 38.45pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://questoraclecommunity.org/better-together/ioug/" target="_blank">IOUG</a> whose serviced technology especially the database communities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Collaborate events were successful but there was little overlap between the communities to start with but with the introduction of cloud applications this started to change. At the same time IOUG found a home within the QUEST organization itself and then the decision was made that these two organizations would return to separate events.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">COVID was a bit of a false start and whilst modest events happened in 2021 it would be unfair to judge the new way on that year. 2022 saw both events back-to-back in Vegas the biggest advantage and or disadvantage of this was for vendors who found themselves at 2 trade shows and no opportunity to follow up on leads from the first one before the second one started. Although most vendors preferred only having Collaborate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">This year they were a few weeks apart Blueprint 4D being in Dallas in May and Ascend being in Florida just last week. This was much better for exhibitors and for speakers who may be attending both, but conferences are not just about exhibitors and speakers it's all about the delegate experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">If you were a JDE, EBS or any other Apps Unlimited organization happy where you are, looking to be platformed on Oracle cloud or even moving to cloud applications, these events are perfect, you can find other organizations who have been there and sharing their story, their tips and tricks, but I can't help wondering that if you're already a cloud applications customer, would you not benefit from more organizations who are there the combined populations of these two events. The benefit may have been diluted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Let me explain that further, after the Collaborate separation, OAUG now called OATUG, joined forces with OHUG for the new Ascend conference series. OHUG services all Oracle HCM users whether they be on premise or in the cloud. This is the direct overlap of OATUG who have Oracle e-business suite and some PeopleSoft HCM and cloud HCM, so by joining forces they are enlarging the populations of each of those constituents rather than diluting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">In the same way KSCOPE covers technology and database and is the now much smaller IOUG also suffering from the same dilution of communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">In person events have been dwindling for many years, not a COVID specific phenomenon and should user groups be working tog to find a new model</span><o:p></o:p></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-74676035207870383362022-12-30T10:29:00.002+00:002022-12-30T10:40:00.855+00:00Ladies That Lunch<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well a different title than Women in IT. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I want more women to have a voice, I want to encourage them in and into our industry but I am not about quotas. So when I was asked to take part in an <a href="https://andouc.org/" target="_blank">ANDOUC</a> <span color="var(--h5_typography-color)" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.36); font-size: var(--h5_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h5_typography-font-weight);"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6416669766753/WN_iN_0zh94QJea7gUeVb4AMQ" target="_blank">Innovation by Women with Oracle Technology</a> techcast </span>panel in early December, my first thought was <i>are they were struggling to find enough women in their own community?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">ANDOUC is the Analytics and Data Oracle User Community, which I am very aware of but not my bailiwick, but as I was asked by the host and dear friend, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekammermann/" target="_blank">Edelweiss Kammermann</a> to take part, and I would never say no.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLc9JtTYtlyQgw-KvjjbagOsrcOMAzrsHhG75vwLFLWAFMY500Dgae1MdqHg3ieKlLSLqcusKbF72itybjjrMizB4YNGhs3klHv5Vu2Fl4s5P2YxSJDgUeerl038Vnn0tjOAlMdDA554QRBPgGfSvjrsZvwVSzaFHS0VdLzcY16GJwbmQ-1cikPHn9QQ/s557/Screenshot%202022-12-30%20at%2010.16.48.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="557" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLc9JtTYtlyQgw-KvjjbagOsrcOMAzrsHhG75vwLFLWAFMY500Dgae1MdqHg3ieKlLSLqcusKbF72itybjjrMizB4YNGhs3klHv5Vu2Fl4s5P2YxSJDgUeerl038Vnn0tjOAlMdDA554QRBPgGfSvjrsZvwVSzaFHS0VdLzcY16GJwbmQ-1cikPHn9QQ/s320/Screenshot%202022-12-30%20at%2010.16.48.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The idea was that the speakers, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariacolgan/" target="_blank">Maria Colgan</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanihm/" target="_blank">Jean Ihm</a> (who replaced <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/melliyal/" target="_blank">Melli Annamalai</a> at the last minute), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/helihelskyaho/" target="_blank">Heli Helskyaho</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigail-giles-haigh/" target="_blank">Abi Giles-Haigh</a> and myself would each talk about our Oracle highlight of the year. I didn't know Jean ior Melli before the techcast but I love the others and have spent lots of time with them over the years, and what a great time we would have together (including Jean and Melli), so have chosen to call this, <i>ladies that lunch</i>.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I spoke about how the applications benefit from the enhancements in the technology. You can see <a href="https://youtu.be/c3yL7vpVIMo" target="_blank">my portion here</a> or the full playlist, well worth the watch, <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHCEBhJ72m42rOfI2jB1sxgE02OEqHzOc" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was such fun to do, both the prep and the actual techcast. And if I am invited again, I won't think twice.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p></div>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-43729855349148598372022-12-17T12:37:00.003+00:002022-12-30T11:51:08.288+00:00Happy Holidays from The Family<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As in any household it is down to the mum to send out the holiday greetings. So here is the one from <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2017/10/update-on-family-tree.html" target="_blank">my Oracle Family.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It has been a better year, we have got out a lot more but haven't all managed to catch up with each other.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I saw my sister and father in law in January when I had the chance to visit San Francisco, it was still very much social distancing, so we had lunch out by the coast.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzffNLljAnFOxwqcJdsTcIzf6b-M7UY_prEIwOIhmnf4tgYbGHGrmsm2mTsLyjuhyamlWKpnGGGdPwnp8lOyUNy0v_g_LcjKR53Q0qdepzOL1USeTlP9cwZIEa8h-5_PYef14_j90_og9k_Ko2g0WT0Ex-LGndHClK4Vur3YpCEjcSZPtHB_tAzVd_hg/s612/Screenshot%202022-12-17%20at%2012.27.44.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="503" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzffNLljAnFOxwqcJdsTcIzf6b-M7UY_prEIwOIhmnf4tgYbGHGrmsm2mTsLyjuhyamlWKpnGGGdPwnp8lOyUNy0v_g_LcjKR53Q0qdepzOL1USeTlP9cwZIEa8h-5_PYef14_j90_og9k_Ko2g0WT0Ex-LGndHClK4Vur3YpCEjcSZPtHB_tAzVd_hg/s320/Screenshot%202022-12-17%20at%2012.27.44.png" width="263" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">At Oracle Cloud World I caught up Maria again, the children and many of our wider ACE family.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tim didn't appear out until the end of November, as the only person in the world who liked lock down, getting out was a challenge for him. He did join the ACEs for their evening at Breakthrough 22 but I wasn't there and neither of the children were either. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUlVl2kP03jiksWULR0NDQxlrVgu9ypyCFffRNfV9HpXkFUG-x3IrrUPE_3gIS2nhWCrBn4pcOlHYsWbQ_fliopLvm767umEOfSIvZfMhGt6izj3MnRB9LB1CiMKwsXSrm0SeOCx9aRbH_xPQ_ijJ1K4tq9lmD_64ZnuJLpbBVX8FJLK2CDa5AADBGIw/s1166/Screenshot%202022-12-17%20at%2012.40.13.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1166" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUlVl2kP03jiksWULR0NDQxlrVgu9ypyCFffRNfV9HpXkFUG-x3IrrUPE_3gIS2nhWCrBn4pcOlHYsWbQ_fliopLvm767umEOfSIvZfMhGt6izj3MnRB9LB1CiMKwsXSrm0SeOCx9aRbH_xPQ_ijJ1K4tq9lmD_64ZnuJLpbBVX8FJLK2CDa5AADBGIw/s320/Screenshot%202022-12-17%20at%2012.40.13.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He must of missed the rest of us as a week later we decided to extend the family, so welcome Amy. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf1Znsq_PkLK0aYzJsnf3UlDLHX8n9Ss0ubmaa_AALFMGBNNY4EZAofPducd4hDpqpjc-09kBvBd0FbzxcvMotsP_pbKKcFAY_bzdq90Y7U6WCkUCGg9kCGZXYtuCv0nI8o6O8KDJvxW_CFS_L3-WPtX42HF4j4Ccw9VdDL85IyIcWumW-6bcTP_Zl7A/s345/Screenshot%202022-12-17%20at%2012.31.31.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="345" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf1Znsq_PkLK0aYzJsnf3UlDLHX8n9Ss0ubmaa_AALFMGBNNY4EZAofPducd4hDpqpjc-09kBvBd0FbzxcvMotsP_pbKKcFAY_bzdq90Y7U6WCkUCGg9kCGZXYtuCv0nI8o6O8KDJvxW_CFS_L3-WPtX42HF4j4Ccw9VdDL85IyIcWumW-6bcTP_Zl7A/s320/Screenshot%202022-12-17%20at%2012.31.31.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think I was missing him and was feeling especially emotional towards him until he then posted this:<br /><br /><br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="354" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2s2kgHCFlJRJsLDDMhWc0sBftZajORCMRRQoqKaYeXBCBcUu0Ps_K3TxsTPBVnYwwFz2EeZPKlvVFdhb3wyGBEZbvUA7wXRdUkoHXW2kfuKHwKJrBDwAW-vD5TD2dhDIM1zFAcoOHJt1qCvoXlptYF7IMIvhBg-Dcj1OBJibwUPx6pJcIoH9U3us0_g/s320/Screenshot%202022-12-17%20at%2012.31.48.png" width="320" /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrujc9Uwbe-y_e3-Rw_Me8e1dX9ITnBhHlSNeFajgDEys9aVKUrX5tB93afmCgGkvxaCcae6Tk4sVBRPuAmp21Rq6u1mEN2vapjC-DMT8u-rkDCKKPg9KeBcII5lxC_cHp4VTnoHrajnqS_MwZJJSzpex_nAgMqQItWbqvUWUzM0tLxINEWYY4GU6yg/s544/Screenshot%202022-12-17%20at%2012.32.06.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="544" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrujc9Uwbe-y_e3-Rw_Me8e1dX9ITnBhHlSNeFajgDEys9aVKUrX5tB93afmCgGkvxaCcae6Tk4sVBRPuAmp21Rq6u1mEN2vapjC-DMT8u-rkDCKKPg9KeBcII5lxC_cHp4VTnoHrajnqS_MwZJJSzpex_nAgMqQItWbqvUWUzM0tLxINEWYY4GU6yg/s320/Screenshot%202022-12-17%20at%2012.32.06.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I won't see him for a while so hopefully I will have forgiven him by then.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So from all of us, Happy Holidays.</span></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-23093773438352768492022-11-22T07:24:00.001+00:002022-11-22T07:24:18.642+00:00Imagine I was a Footballer (Soccer Player)<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As the Football World Cup kicks off, I want you to suspend your disbelief* and imagine I am a footballer.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2hvW378noR8LYjf6l5Pc6NKn9xANkn29eiBVHGCuq7Bq75ipllbDPIMFRM_0O5b2BwogCJKTd5kIZkxV4G0y8yV52ZwG-gbpexK6a4r3liYTQIjWkb-naPyv1vj1kku-tIRFDiuQUfjWWqLMhxX5aLLurUUAiKbyUiYBAGuTwheNdN6wcg8ZBvHF3_A/s225/fifa.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2hvW378noR8LYjf6l5Pc6NKn9xANkn29eiBVHGCuq7Bq75ipllbDPIMFRM_0O5b2BwogCJKTd5kIZkxV4G0y8yV52ZwG-gbpexK6a4r3liYTQIjWkb-naPyv1vj1kku-tIRFDiuQUfjWWqLMhxX5aLLurUUAiKbyUiYBAGuTwheNdN6wcg8ZBvHF3_A/w200-h200/fifa.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Imagine I am a footballer at the top of my game, my club have won everything this year, and I’ve been a big part of that.</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Like every other footballer, I dream of playing in the World Cup. I’ve played in many tournaments before and done really well so when I didn’t get called up for this World Cup I was devastated.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is said <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief" target="_blank">grief comes in five stages</a> and yes I've been through them all.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><b>denial</b> - </span>Oh why not? Surely it’s a mistake, I am at the top of my game!</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><b>anger </b>- yes </span>I got angry so very angry</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>bargaining</b> - I'm not beyond begging after all this is the world cup!</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>depression</b> - I feel so alone, everyone is talking about being part of the event</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>acceptance</b> - I can't change it</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The reason I’m so upset is my passion for the game and for this tournament, it hurts, it really hurts and I can’t watch my team without it hurting more. I can’t look at my social media and see them arriving, enjoying the local sites, the hotels and then there’s the matches themselves, so I’m switching off my social media and I’m going into self inflicted hibernation until it’s all over. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But underneath my hurt, I’m still passionate about the game and I want my country to do well and to succeed even if I can’t be part of it, so I wish them success.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">OK, I’m not a footballer, but I am a speaker, a successful speaker and <a href="https://ace.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/ace_program/oracle-aces/directory" target="_blank">ACED director</a> and recently had a very <a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/11/oracle-cloud-world-2022.html" target="_blank">successful Oracle Cloud World</a> so I was devastated not to be successful in getting a place or a session at <a href="https://ukoug.org/" target="_blank">UKOUG</a>'s <a href="https://ukoug.org/page/Breakthrough22" target="_blank">BREAKTHROUGH</a> event. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’ve been through my stages of grief, and I finally arrived at acceptance, but it STILL hurts and so on Saturday I’m going to indulge my other passion, taking myself away for a week diving to cushion the blow, (well hibernation is a bit boring).</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just like myself the footballer. I still wish for a successful UKOUG and that everyone who does attend has the most wonderful experience and for me there’s always next time.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg126LOMjrop-rpxBjEU5jtL9eVax5oktDGq6_e0L-gIQlrbsdzML0bqNlZIPLLRQWTZY9_bc3fmPNZfzWL4UBqzlGd37N5Y8M2oPAdyOO08sGiU1y1Zf82cQ1n6Q0qxTjDNHCDZi1vrE42-TV7iCZ2FaYzflndi1WRBTpecKAZKT5E62gTbLrTj2IBOg/s1288/Screenshot%202022-11-22%20at%2007.19.16.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1288" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg126LOMjrop-rpxBjEU5jtL9eVax5oktDGq6_e0L-gIQlrbsdzML0bqNlZIPLLRQWTZY9_bc3fmPNZfzWL4UBqzlGd37N5Y8M2oPAdyOO08sGiU1y1Zf82cQ1n6Q0qxTjDNHCDZi1vrE42-TV7iCZ2FaYzflndi1WRBTpecKAZKT5E62gTbLrTj2IBOg/s320/Screenshot%202022-11-22%20at%2007.19.16.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">*The footballer analogy came to me as the World Cup is everywhere I look, but if you attended the recent ERP Today Awards you know this is possibly an analogy too far. </span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-73934009753639233042022-11-06T09:35:00.001+00:002022-11-06T21:47:43.947+00:0022 EMEA Community Tour 2022 - Norway - A Tale of Three Talks<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A bit late on this post, but I do have a reason...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Oracle User Group in Norway is one of my favourites - they have a good applications community and their <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2019/03/ougn10-not-that-norwegian-cruise.html" target="_blank">annual conference was traditionally on a boat</a> and I love it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In fact, that conference was my first Covid casualty, when cancelled just a few weeks out in March 2020.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">With the relaunch of the <a href="https://ace.oracle.com/pls/apex/ace_program/r/oracle-aces/home" target="_blank">ACE Program</a> over the summer there was an opportunity to take part in <a href="http://ogbemea.com/?fbclid=IwAR2-n6UqKofGekD2LnMT0sPvzUeu0pTqC2dDSkk66EgCiSLloVmkGL-jxkc" target="_blank">EMEA Community Tour</a>. I submitted a few papers and was pleased to be accepted by <a href="https://ougn.no/information-in-english/" target="_blank">OUGN</a> and <a href="https://www.luxoug.org" target="_blank">LuxOUG</a>. Unfortunately the logistics of Luxembourg to Norway were complex and as I was really busy getting ready for Oracle Open World I accepted just OUGN as I felt I had a commitment to them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Those logistics were a challenge for many and in the main OUGN lost out as many speakers travelled direct to Croatia from Luxembourg, skipping the Norway leg, which made it more straightforward. I hope that one day I will get to LuxOUG but in the meantime happy to do a webcast anytime.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I had 2 papers accepted by OUGN and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-sofie-vikström-often-b730a724/" target="_blank">Ann Sofie</a> the Chair from OUGN asked if I would do a Q&A panel as well. I love answering questions, this is how I learn. However as we got closer to the event, there were not enough experts for a panel so I agreed to do three talks relevant to applications and make it a very interactive afternoon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I arrived the day before and Ann Sofie took me to the <a href="https://www.visitoslo.com/en/articles/national-museum/" target="_blank">new National Museum</a> which was amazing. I especially loved the clothes through the ages and looking at the quality of them, mainly and made.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6o4JGJijwSnp1dd8vwladzZebT61PNgGIokXKh5K98gYW5dxTuJJuUy8Mp6LkX4X__K47hsTSfrAJ8RsRDjcOaIeFeXua4HLisGnCgfuqRKKVj-yr325hjr97LmlNKRA8aZYi44Hne5SIGenEAOrSVhm9qEej4ha7JJ292sTGjPnlXFJnEDCp4KG6Dg/s1000/det-nye-nasjonalmuseet-i-oslo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1000" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6o4JGJijwSnp1dd8vwladzZebT61PNgGIokXKh5K98gYW5dxTuJJuUy8Mp6LkX4X__K47hsTSfrAJ8RsRDjcOaIeFeXua4HLisGnCgfuqRKKVj-yr325hjr97LmlNKRA8aZYi44Hne5SIGenEAOrSVhm9qEej4ha7JJ292sTGjPnlXFJnEDCp4KG6Dg/s320/det-nye-nasjonalmuseet-i-oslo.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The conference day started with a presentation from <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-dontcheff/" target="_blank">Julian Dontchef</a> on which was to be an early run of his Oracle Cloud World presentation, on What if you are considering leaving the Oracle Database. It was, as ever a great presentation from Julian, with well thought our arguments. As a post script poor Julian got Covid and missed OCW, although I am pleased to say it was a mild case.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My afternoon was fun, not the biggest audience but a good mix. The ever present discussion on which cloud, OCI or SaaS an EBS customer should take, and this is what I love, the discussion around real organisations and why the obvious 'it depends', depends on what they are trying to do. I recently wrote an <a href="https://www.inoapps.com/insights/news/why-did-inoapps-buy-an-apps-unlimited-service-partner" target="_blank">Inoapps blog</a> around this presentation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then we looked at Oracle HCM Journeys and My Experience, and finally extending SaaS. We talked a lot about APEX as those still on EBS are using APEX and that sets them up for when they do move to SaaS. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWK5zEcufkA-oDST7LUHYZA3Wtw3AsQHHGqlKe4kAXMa92Wvt2wy8cs3PE9THOeO-HwEEZ2zMJAayiNPuXrTCTrRoNPibhmS3G7hmEy8kCm_PQAgtKLEjuSTsNqmsejkdcGVnecBU2VecP7prF4XgqVBuwRy290emhuCknAqOMMMqH9TqREr-S9dWlA/s320/16B0E4A9-DB3C-45E4-8FBF-75EB5D889836_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWK5zEcufkA-oDST7LUHYZA3Wtw3AsQHHGqlKe4kAXMa92Wvt2wy8cs3PE9THOeO-HwEEZ2zMJAayiNPuXrTCTrRoNPibhmS3G7hmEy8kCm_PQAgtKLEjuSTsNqmsejkdcGVnecBU2VecP7prF4XgqVBuwRy290emhuCknAqOMMMqH9TqREr-S9dWlA/s1600/16B0E4A9-DB3C-45E4-8FBF-75EB5D889836_1_201_a.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I did tell everyone that the last 2 sessions would be expanded after OCW. I knew we had won the Oracle <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-inoapps-oracle-me-award.html" target="_blank">ME competition</a> and the announcements that would be made around <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-extending-oracle-cloud.html" target="_blank">extending</a>. But that is what makes this world so exciting, the innovation that cloud allows. And that is why the post was a bit late.I hope to present these updates at other user groups should they be accepted.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thank you Ann Sofie and OUGN for having me, and hopefully I can come again in the Spring.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thank you to the ACE Program for making this happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-9682222974502287932022-11-01T08:46:00.000+00:002022-11-01T08:46:07.345+00:00Oracle Cloud World 2022<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wasn't expecting to be a big fan of <a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/" target="_blank">Oracle Cloud World</a> but actually I am.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved Oracle Open World being in San Francisco and <a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2019/09/2019-oracle-open-world-san-francisco.html" target="_blank">2019 was my 16th consecutive</a> Open World.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just after 2019 OOW and way before Covid, Oracle had already announced that it was moving its annual event to Las Vegas. The later announced this was going to be Oracle Cloud World so a very different event.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I tried to approach Las Vegas with an open mind, trying not to compare it with OOW but to see it as the first of a new era. My biggest concern is that I don't really like Vegas, I hate gambling and all it stands for and I have seen some pretty sad things in Vegas, not my idea of fun.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That all said Oracle pulled it out of the bag and I loved the event, for many different reasons, there were less people but everyone had a real reason for being there and so conversations were focus, I loved seeing people and I loved the buzz. Oracle say there were</span><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">13,000 people in attendance, it felt more, but that may be down to the clever use of space.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xhV_Ocmi-iPqyp3Vxl7YPdCczy283GmscKbm2o9-9Cl_Vu7Kmc3diUaXY0lzzCu84GQiiZ8jJ1zM5qFMnJV0-mVziTHfvykDNLjCXwP-RxylE1HbCIo7PYTjwMnNfNjnc2--gZuiv0MVo-G7PEy-andrj38sn-4C8XJPfF4GbXONM3wbxRRyTL-3CA/s4032/IMG_2996.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xhV_Ocmi-iPqyp3Vxl7YPdCczy283GmscKbm2o9-9Cl_Vu7Kmc3diUaXY0lzzCu84GQiiZ8jJ1zM5qFMnJV0-mVziTHfvykDNLjCXwP-RxylE1HbCIo7PYTjwMnNfNjnc2--gZuiv0MVo-G7PEy-andrj38sn-4C8XJPfF4GbXONM3wbxRRyTL-3CA/s320/IMG_2996.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I did attend the main appreciation event, old enough to know who the Steve Millar Band are but I didn't stay long, too old to party all night!</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge05no656BgvWtH9pLNssDK3XNwPRUOHh4qf5yKZqVM73LS6-za3Y3UxNCu1jJjY9v0WLz3tVysHcrrkExaXAeMqBpJROgXLP2SC9G-UM_9Z26nnvGkvIp7_SX0JbGp7HLz3RU4zohQsNANHIHlghRpTl8zGGArvwPI1ADjRMoPZKuG7DPj7mGIvN87A/s4032/IMG_3035.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge05no656BgvWtH9pLNssDK3XNwPRUOHh4qf5yKZqVM73LS6-za3Y3UxNCu1jJjY9v0WLz3tVysHcrrkExaXAeMqBpJROgXLP2SC9G-UM_9Z26nnvGkvIp7_SX0JbGp7HLz3RU4zohQsNANHIHlghRpTl8zGGArvwPI1ADjRMoPZKuG7DPj7mGIvN87A/w110-h200/IMG_3035.HEIC" width="110" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are my main thoughts:</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-main-bold-messages.html" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank"><strike>Main</strike> BOLD Messages</a><br /><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-inoapps-on-tour.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Inoapps on Tour</span></a><br /><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/11/22-ocw-ace-program.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oracle ACE Program</span></a><br /><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/11/22-ocw-partner-program.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Partner Program</span></a><br /><a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-extending-oracle-cloud.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Extending Oracle Cloud Applications</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I</span><a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-inoapps-oracle-me-award.html" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">noapps Oracle ME Award</a><br /><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-even-travel.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Even the Travel</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><br /><p style="text-align: left;"></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-456888163053531832022-11-01T08:36:00.004+00:002022-11-01T08:54:00.763+00:0022 OCW Partner Program<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Before the main conference starts there is a dedicated Partner program, a bit of a heads up on the conference messages and how the program is changing to meet customer needs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For me the main takeaway was the increasing importance of certifications for partners but balanced with a recognition that delta exams may lessen the burden of keeping unto date.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And if you attended Oracle Cloud World don't forget the <a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/certification-offer/" target="_blank">certification offer</a> that came with your full pass.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4L7yRcnX9m_LYa9nuzU39iZ73EnH3Hupd7-99qC0pblrrSuUO0EW4RfMQ3rBaftjMqqQg7RJ2Isyi_LsweLvkFfbFdpWaeMoM5Krd50HiipXM7-ArOslUhZy6y0nweE-q10sYU_09fMQRta_hkaudBeQ0kDdd9ANmMXDJJTXp307cLFxiHrYaJOmZ-Q/s4000/42F8FD78-2468-42FE-AC8E-B2304732F855.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4L7yRcnX9m_LYa9nuzU39iZ73EnH3Hupd7-99qC0pblrrSuUO0EW4RfMQ3rBaftjMqqQg7RJ2Isyi_LsweLvkFfbFdpWaeMoM5Krd50HiipXM7-ArOslUhZy6y0nweE-q10sYU_09fMQRta_hkaudBeQ0kDdd9ANmMXDJJTXp307cLFxiHrYaJOmZ-Q/w200-h150/42F8FD78-2468-42FE-AC8E-B2304732F855.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">EMEA partners also had the opportunity to be together even earlier with a fantastic trip out to the Fire Valley National Park, an amazing place with a great guide to share so much with us. This finished with a lunch on The Strip.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ7cuaiaokTCkMpy23sq7U525BohVRpsnkgk3A-2-zVUfrw_hFysWlzzPWbaEN_s8Gcp-iF39o0CB9RYDWvfVM42tKK6N-YbsElgOJF__TN8uYvBP7ArfCQWqFWq7BqW8-V_L8Ut57vSZV5iMkd0s-QhyLACI2-fiJNXZjHqBRDqaClj5uTScINYILbw/s4000/0BE4C10E-F729-4F65-94E9-20FC46BDE4D1.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ7cuaiaokTCkMpy23sq7U525BohVRpsnkgk3A-2-zVUfrw_hFysWlzzPWbaEN_s8Gcp-iF39o0CB9RYDWvfVM42tKK6N-YbsElgOJF__TN8uYvBP7ArfCQWqFWq7BqW8-V_L8Ut57vSZV5iMkd0s-QhyLACI2-fiJNXZjHqBRDqaClj5uTScINYILbw/w200-h150/0BE4C10E-F729-4F65-94E9-20FC46BDE4D1.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>Later there was a welcome reception in the Fremont Area of Las Vegas and a chance to relax with other partners and Oracle Alliance leaders before the non stop of Cloud World itself.<br /></span><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/11/oracle-cloud-world-2022.html" target="_blank">Back to main post:</a></span></div><div><br /></div>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-37311834343092900612022-11-01T08:23:00.006+00:002022-11-01T08:54:14.316+00:0022 OCW ACE Program<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />After a couple of uncomfortable years when the <a href="https://ace.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/ace_program/oracle-aces/home" target="_blank">ACE Program</a> was under threat, it is back. Bigger and Better and Oracle Cloud World was a great time to celebrate that.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf0vqKldESMyTfbk9JMF4rG9xm6DwIUUZP2tEB1c6FWCY7e6MMOXIzLPRltDBaNhfuG1B2Z4lgxHK0i7z_Zn4PNksGGtTwzRbOf54rxrU71cUB7Q0iPcYJOgVKv4z_IsyUxt0n66Zdsrx_PIk6tpHZzVK0o1s4VYRBMSRTOk0bVFkcrtoQEDpwlpVBZg/s1384/Screenshot%202022-11-01%20at%2007.37.33.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1384" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf0vqKldESMyTfbk9JMF4rG9xm6DwIUUZP2tEB1c6FWCY7e6MMOXIzLPRltDBaNhfuG1B2Z4lgxHK0i7z_Zn4PNksGGtTwzRbOf54rxrU71cUB7Q0iPcYJOgVKv4z_IsyUxt0n66Zdsrx_PIk6tpHZzVK0o1s4VYRBMSRTOk0bVFkcrtoQEDpwlpVBZg/w200-h146/Screenshot%202022-11-01%20at%2007.37.33.png" width="200" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">First thank you to the ACE Program for confirming me as an ACE Director for another year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And thank you to the ACE Program for my Oracle Cloud World Pass.</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3P0sEWWiZwv1VDpB9v19rOaPcQkECQqAM6VSdWrRpbmrvkz_V5NnTS1_joo_fyJS1hTYnDOFo9EI_2yXaxWSjxdSc62IeqLa8WowHsejbgC_Dk55jkUDgFpIS6ssQ1zBXxyjgZxKue_YhVfaOftSZ5aOEVu-2GddnBCcWJWvBkGmT_EDZdAnsDmV64A/s4032/IMG_3005.HEIC" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3P0sEWWiZwv1VDpB9v19rOaPcQkECQqAM6VSdWrRpbmrvkz_V5NnTS1_joo_fyJS1hTYnDOFo9EI_2yXaxWSjxdSc62IeqLa8WowHsejbgC_Dk55jkUDgFpIS6ssQ1zBXxyjgZxKue_YhVfaOftSZ5aOEVu-2GddnBCcWJWvBkGmT_EDZdAnsDmV64A/w150-h200/IMG_3005.HEIC" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p>The ACE program had a lounge on the show floor and I did a couple of shifts manning it, this gave me the opportunity to answer questions about the program and encourage those who want to contribute. </p><p>It also gave me the opportunity to meet up with my fellow <a href="https://www.odtug.com/odtug-board" target="_blank">ODTUG Board Members </a>who were there. </p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I signed up to make some videos for the program, both as an individual and about the program itself, and I look forward to seeing the new material.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the Wednesday evening we had an ACE Program dinner before the main appreciation party, this included our annual photograph and the chance to catch up with everyone including some of the Oracle Product Managers that support the program.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">After the conference we had an ACE Experience, those still in town had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon, walk on the Skywalk, enjoy the amazing views and then a quick stop at the Hoover Dam on the way back.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Afterwards <a href="https://twitter.com/jen_s_nicholson" target="_blank">Jen Nicholson</a> who runs the program, Ask Tom's <a href="https://twitter.com/connor_mc_d" target="_blank">Connor McDonald</a>, fellow ACE Director Director <a href="https://twitter.com/HeliFromFinland" target="_blank">Heli Helskyaho</a>, all great friends, and I, had a final dinner.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/11/oracle-cloud-world-2022.html" target="_blank">Back to main post:</a></span></div><div><br /></div><p><br /></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-12321573981313744572022-10-30T18:09:00.009+00:002022-11-01T08:54:44.123+00:0022 OCW Main or rather BOLD Messages<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazing to be back in person and everyone was full of energy. Both Safra and Larry talked about being BOLD and it was a very BOLD conference.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dhYB3cehC3PpQ5nBbUqKt9kJgrQ_ND0oTePqMf5aQxaCzVRmAL5Uu762i8fXdMEelWcnJOncb_pRFuPfF26wHxl31PUa18M3BjGD0qRH9JOZlbP7-Xoxm3KqFWkx1PI-M6Ri2xrrNWHPuAZsz0noEkZ-vYADmiFx9xgIpME9PJq6HF2EMx63fUNgNg/s171/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2018.00.10.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dhYB3cehC3PpQ5nBbUqKt9kJgrQ_ND0oTePqMf5aQxaCzVRmAL5Uu762i8fXdMEelWcnJOncb_pRFuPfF26wHxl31PUa18M3BjGD0qRH9JOZlbP7-Xoxm3KqFWkx1PI-M6Ri2xrrNWHPuAZsz0noEkZ-vYADmiFx9xgIpME9PJq6HF2EMx63fUNgNg/s171/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2018.00.10.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Larry had two main messages <a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/on-demand/?ytid=MDGyUe7UVeQ&autoplay=1" target="_blank">in his keynote</a>:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-7otj74HHHNyUiCh-KzMtOlFJutfD685oAquVFzXQgXqpfv4JCo4djMSqAY1Vrh1Z56QX3cgc8k-ejqNDk3EFGSp1dksDHE4gd-90D1vq-TkBKdDS1-T_dcTA4gjHqgzUnKC7c4ytTI5PUZ0AVAStFnFKh6uDJY5NV0ccrNBGH6OEKAv9KrVS_ZOpg/s170/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2017.59.52.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-7otj74HHHNyUiCh-KzMtOlFJutfD685oAquVFzXQgXqpfv4JCo4djMSqAY1Vrh1Z56QX3cgc8k-ejqNDk3EFGSp1dksDHE4gd-90D1vq-TkBKdDS1-T_dcTA4gjHqgzUnKC7c4ytTI5PUZ0AVAStFnFKh6uDJY5NV0ccrNBGH6OEKAv9KrVS_ZOpg/s16000/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2017.59.52.png" /></span></a></div><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Multi Clouds </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Industry albeit all about Healthcare.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Customers, now referred to as 'partners' use multiple cloud applications, so just by doing that have multiple infrastructure cloud. Oracle are making a multi cloud estate easy. They started a few years ago with Azure but this is widening all the time. His vision is the Internet of Clouds.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGopEOYk9sqARNOxxpvI0_it6VYzJTuKh_8wsUx7NnOgW4Ub1ECyoqhIkwYh7BahmEAsLE_JZ5TR93pns-XmO0fwpkRo0OWoisla0p7iVTpqGkbKwEkouwT75ce88iIgzE7145XfAv30pepE58GpyPESPw8M8OlpboGljhVDl4HUyLtZANCBi4F5qM6w/s173/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2017.59.44.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="158" data-original-width="173" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGopEOYk9sqARNOxxpvI0_it6VYzJTuKh_8wsUx7NnOgW4Ub1ECyoqhIkwYh7BahmEAsLE_JZ5TR93pns-XmO0fwpkRo0OWoisla0p7iVTpqGkbKwEkouwT75ce88iIgzE7145XfAv30pepE58GpyPESPw8M8OlpboGljhVDl4HUyLtZANCBi4F5qM6w/s1600/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2017.59.44.png" width="173" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Industries are changing and Oracle fuels that change. During the pandemic they partners with many organisations to accelerate the change needed to respond. The acquisition of Cerner gives then a foundation in Healthcare to build out the capability and more importantly scale across the world. </span><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Safra also <a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/on-demand/?ytid=1QQO5yZw0Zs&autoplay=1" target="_blank">talked about change</a> and had many of these 'partners' on stage including of course Red Bull and how Oracle fuels their success.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN-NP9Yi77_0OMBzWNUUaovslTOeFPc4K-G32xr8y0Eep8y5nKN82InizfWgp5U2EEobv05tjD2XfTgCVKDZ3Su8MApLNPNVS1pdknU4UzutLC2nICLpZ_z7dCPNEMAiNuypSxe3cCXdQSMzhZiKNiT04OBLEQFrgW627bpGOaUeM_2zuoLXqQRXiWJA/s168/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2018.00.00.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="168" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN-NP9Yi77_0OMBzWNUUaovslTOeFPc4K-G32xr8y0Eep8y5nKN82InizfWgp5U2EEobv05tjD2XfTgCVKDZ3Su8MApLNPNVS1pdknU4UzutLC2nICLpZ_z7dCPNEMAiNuypSxe3cCXdQSMzhZiKNiT04OBLEQFrgW627bpGOaUeM_2zuoLXqQRXiWJA/s1600/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2018.00.00.png" width="168" /></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the t<a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/on-demand/?ytid=SDKntRwAzrY&autoplay=1" target="_blank">echnology world</a>:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Multi Cloud as Larry said</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oracle Alloy which allows partners to provide Oracle Cloud independent of Oracle hosting,</span></li><li><p style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Even more consolidation and new features in OCI </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Intent to make more technologies available in OCI such as postgress and snowflake </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The release of 23c database, opening up beta testing to all, which is possible simply because it is cloud.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the Applications World Steve Miranda <a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/on-demand/?ytid=1wrU5HN6d2I&autoplay=1" target="_blank">had 3 messages</a>:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="171" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dhYB3cehC3PpQ5nBbUqKt9kJgrQ_ND0oTePqMf5aQxaCzVRmAL5Uu762i8fXdMEelWcnJOncb_pRFuPfF26wHxl31PUa18M3BjGD0qRH9JOZlbP7-Xoxm3KqFWkx1PI-M6Ri2xrrNWHPuAZsz0noEkZ-vYADmiFx9xgIpME9PJq6HF2EMx63fUNgNg/s1600/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2018.00.10.png" width="171" /></span><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The industry focus,again starting with Healthcare</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">B2B between Oracle 'partners' starting with JPMChase Finance and Fedex</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Extending Oracle Cloud Applications (<a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-extending-oracle-cloud.html" target="_blank">my post on this</a>)</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This only scratches the surface, and Oracle have <a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/" target="_blank">free access to many of the sessions for a month</a>. Take the time to watch a few.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Remember OCW is about a vendor sharing their vision and more details will appear over time as to when and how some of these features and functions will be available.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/11/oracle-cloud-world-2022.html" target="_blank">Back to main post:</a></span></div><div><br style="font-family: Times;" /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-20268459822335228692022-10-30T13:50:00.004+00:002022-11-01T08:54:57.077+00:0022 OCW Extending Oracle Cloud Applications<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oracle reached out to me in the summer and told me one of the highlights for OCW would be extending Cloud Applications or Fusion. They wanted me to get the news out that there would be something to hear.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I had a briefing with Jeff Price and Jenny Lam, <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">SVP UX Design Leadership</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">, Oracle</span> on the two areas they were going to talk about, Redwood Design and Applications Platform. Not completely new but not talked about enough. Then I had a further technical drill down with Jeff.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5NTf_LWRC7dtA1L_fniyd7Q0RKhErmo4vHBDiPPeghSzsbBilOo35eHouE401ALWZe6TTCmLfAXimzaVUX4-XjyfnA7GjTv1Obs4cAWCxplpBpFTYgsFgngfyS20OMC1Md-qdYarDq_J1U4H8TrPxvfMDbdaU09qZqxmQcLDlAfetgxQ8XW4bGVUVnw/s567/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2012.06.02.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="308" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5NTf_LWRC7dtA1L_fniyd7Q0RKhErmo4vHBDiPPeghSzsbBilOo35eHouE401ALWZe6TTCmLfAXimzaVUX4-XjyfnA7GjTv1Obs4cAWCxplpBpFTYgsFgngfyS20OMC1Md-qdYarDq_J1U4H8TrPxvfMDbdaU09qZqxmQcLDlAfetgxQ8XW4bGVUVnw/s320/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2012.06.02.png" width="174" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So I wrote a few posts on linkedin and twitter and suggested people join their sessions and although not the actual session you can see a shortened version on line.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jenny spoke with Hillel Cooperman, <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">SVP UX Design</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">, </span> and the man behind Redwood shared his thoughts on Designing Applications. I first met Hillel when he was new to Oracle. As a UX advocate and used to the UX team engaging fully with the ACE program, I was excited about what he may of been planning. Hillel met with me at HQ but told me there was a lot of work to do, it went beyond just the application and to be patient, when they had something to show us, he would. Well we got Redwood as a theme, and now there really is something to talk about.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hillel talked about his user experience ethos and how it starts with Design. They shared the Redwood.oracle.com site for design patterns.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you develop applications, in Oracle or anything else I recommend you watch Hillel's part for the session, <a href="https://reg.rf.oracle.com/flow/oracle/cloudworld/session-catalog/page/catalog/session/1654017041847001XSGf" target="_blank">available online for a few more weeks</a>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvOfIAhaI6nWxWYxHjygFRdJMO868ZaeDOjwr-6JSVrdl6gQlLYN6qIQuArWslDpT9NIw7LKaWQnHCwyFjHOosqbfFptraIcrmGJOIdiuO5LMYldc2sw02BMK_eagBxsRetfWMm0PthhE0e7hgd1kxaX4Lu1btUEKfHlM_Q6NXzz4CpR7-r8O-hYAAw/s1754/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2006.47.51.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1754" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvOfIAhaI6nWxWYxHjygFRdJMO868ZaeDOjwr-6JSVrdl6gQlLYN6qIQuArWslDpT9NIw7LKaWQnHCwyFjHOosqbfFptraIcrmGJOIdiuO5LMYldc2sw02BMK_eagBxsRetfWMm0PthhE0e7hgd1kxaX4Lu1btUEKfHlM_Q6NXzz4CpR7-r8O-hYAAw/s320/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2006.47.51.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jeff Little VP, Product Development then talked about Building your UX - this session (also available) is about Visual Builder. The tool has been around for a while and we know Oracle Cloud Applications are mainly VB and their tool of choice. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxFmbfJsmPmQq7z17x5tzLGAJG6mhQHYVcKMt12uv4aUHaWpmeeKuQvp6y_K-HkyFGnHSbIehxAZbpQlwzKx7xfUdEuvHLJY6QTO38gMD8zlsuP4XIDYb8DkHOC3YiShwffPEVa--yXW_4IqExYYfdXpS8wWZISWMZIBXag_vRRd21lrqvcPVals0PVA/s1764/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2007.14.56.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1764" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxFmbfJsmPmQq7z17x5tzLGAJG6mhQHYVcKMt12uv4aUHaWpmeeKuQvp6y_K-HkyFGnHSbIehxAZbpQlwzKx7xfUdEuvHLJY6QTO38gMD8zlsuP4XIDYb8DkHOC3YiShwffPEVa--yXW_4IqExYYfdXpS8wWZISWMZIBXag_vRRd21lrqvcPVals0PVA/s320/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2007.14.56.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Things that really resonated with me in this session is the inbuilt capability, Enterprise Search, Machine Learning.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiLFelz-QWrYomjf_WNrYDZnDO9pKLhY0Gec36iLRaxxzBG38TrsR31IDtwQlJ0GXSeMzYb4Wj0EZfB7U6enthagZeypCzI7oqW7W_CjWI1_t_DClrZke6TjqTPh12HfdKX99mhuqilg0MopEBfBndhaAMrGAo46cpQ4MIQFggxEJyStxChbnTGMHxPw/s1752/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2007.33.38.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1752" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiLFelz-QWrYomjf_WNrYDZnDO9pKLhY0Gec36iLRaxxzBG38TrsR31IDtwQlJ0GXSeMzYb4Wj0EZfB7U6enthagZeypCzI7oqW7W_CjWI1_t_DClrZke6TjqTPh12HfdKX99mhuqilg0MopEBfBndhaAMrGAo46cpQ4MIQFggxEJyStxChbnTGMHxPw/s320/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2007.33.38.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Not just new functionality in VB but also being part of THE platform and how Oracle is continuously making it easier for people to extend their applications. I know there is more to come and if you haven't looked at Visual Builder recently, then you must.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWj0QzZS-L0VY3P5pOq0hke3N7dkZRT1LLDi_wkZfg6zRUgARB7MC8_YHFAvLqcJebYxsIY9JkN3G7oCJ56a_7HpE_pJI8pa68n92tUnBpVzW45BQSVzXxI9ReGzeBOC6ywtrJH67Ok37rlmjqQk8faN1OZQBGEHmGnebHVbXCGdglA2lixnYDXHETJg/s1750/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2007.32.14.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="1750" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWj0QzZS-L0VY3P5pOq0hke3N7dkZRT1LLDi_wkZfg6zRUgARB7MC8_YHFAvLqcJebYxsIY9JkN3G7oCJ56a_7HpE_pJI8pa68n92tUnBpVzW45BQSVzXxI9ReGzeBOC6ywtrJH67Ok37rlmjqQk8faN1OZQBGEHmGnebHVbXCGdglA2lixnYDXHETJg/s320/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2007.32.14.png" width="320" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the past few years I have led a track at KSCOPE the ODTUG conference looking at Modern Application Development, but for me it is about <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;">Extending Oracle Cloud Applications and I am so pleased to announce that is the new title of this track. </span><a href="https://kscope23.odtug.com/page/kscope23-abstract-submission" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Call for papers</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;"> is now open so if this is your area please submit.</span><br /><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And what about APEX? Many people, including my own organisation have been using APEX to extend their applications. If an on premise customer asked me today what to use, I would shout APEX. If a net new customer to Oracle Cloud Applications asked me, and they had no Oracle skills I would say Visual Builder. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think Visual Builder has proved it isn't 'flash in the pan' and the commitment Oracle have to it proves it has a long life with much more to come. But APEX isn't going anywhere either. In Larry Ellison's keynote it was mentioned probably 100 times and has been the backbone to their commitment to Health, both during the pandemic and going forward with Cerner.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJD0BIIjpPh9JRhNlZfw9zYx_5M4E0hcfpj_uVTuoW7BWRccXKas2bPlwa-QGQ0UhSSL4odRWgAY-6-IgHBgR2oWUnn9LM381YiDqn9KzdiOWA8V2e6DIziHUuOYV_C48QBIv74T_CcxbJxrRtzjiRVbvP1t_X494_Z3VZ3_fPtM7q9w4u71xA7kFUQ/s1138/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2013.33.43.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="1138" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJD0BIIjpPh9JRhNlZfw9zYx_5M4E0hcfpj_uVTuoW7BWRccXKas2bPlwa-QGQ0UhSSL4odRWgAY-6-IgHBgR2oWUnn9LM381YiDqn9KzdiOWA8V2e6DIziHUuOYV_C48QBIv74T_CcxbJxrRtzjiRVbvP1t_X494_Z3VZ3_fPtM7q9w4u71xA7kFUQ/s320/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2013.33.43.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I asked Steve Miranda, before OCW the question and he was clear no need to replace APEX extensions or even stop using it. He mentioned APEX himself in his keynote. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So APEX and Visual Builder can live together, co-exisit. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The world of extending Oracle Cloud Applications, both <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-inoapps-oracle-me-award.html" target="_blank">within</a> and outside the application is a very exciting place to be, come join me.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/11/oracle-cloud-world-2022.html" target="_blank">Back to main post:</a></span></div><div><br /></div>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-28777390011419656812022-10-29T17:40:00.002+01:002022-10-30T13:52:06.610+00:0022 OCW Inoapps Oracle ME Award<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My highlight of OCW22 was presenting our award winning <a href="https://www.inoapps.com/uploads/tinymce/Inoapps%20My%20Contractor%20Experience.pdf">My Contractor</a>, a showcase of Oracle ME (My Experience).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Earlier this year Oracle launched <a href="https://www.oracle.com/human-capital-management/employee-experience/" target="_blank">Oracle ME</a>, <span style="background-color: white; color: #161513;">part of Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, helps employers create supportive, tailored employee experiences that meet workers where they are and take them where they want to be.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzE7D87v7YgHAKqUR0GVzkezVEQ3raB3L93Upb2ENXl_pkDv16ItSVBnFs2X0T6GEGDd6m4paZpLIwH2x00T7NaeEtofk2uv6N0rQJR6PFGYG6XZJa9zejnUxCZ6KLHH9sUKJ7dI_HsiDV9KX7EjX6Qcft5UzwQZ89h9uyT367h6mxHIxGrTuk3TUwQ/s494/Chris.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="Chris Leone Launches Oracle ME" border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="494" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzE7D87v7YgHAKqUR0GVzkezVEQ3raB3L93Upb2ENXl_pkDv16ItSVBnFs2X0T6GEGDd6m4paZpLIwH2x00T7NaeEtofk2uv6N0rQJR6PFGYG6XZJa9zejnUxCZ6KLHH9sUKJ7dI_HsiDV9KX7EjX6Qcft5UzwQZ89h9uyT367h6mxHIxGrTuk3TUwQ/w320-h238/Chris.png" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnzhmfmGFAc" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chris Leone launching Oracle ME</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The platform has <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-leone-8792b6_employeeexperience-hrtech-oraclehcm-activity-6975812712039690240-9-vt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop" target="_blank">won several industry awards</a> and Oracle are rightly proud of it and the difference it can make. If you missed the original launch you can<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnzhmfmGFAc" target="_blank"> see it here</a>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm not going to go into all the components, simply follow the Oracle link above, but I will comment on what I think it means for organisations using Oracle HCM.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKogUJcsIlBlvLA0uz6edNgh0qRg4VdSQhYw-VqFUtoN3wVBCdbDdp_TYB3BcgYCC5Gx_ZuofBc85LBnIfJlA-ER4A5YTDqPQZDZHUtQw7TtovlQlnQ6uoBbUwZ-S1lgqLZhLjvJq6xlXdrwpuDAfzDbbBCfOx1nYdXAQEc2nm3IWjbB4VHRFH2HlnQQ/s1940/ME.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1940" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKogUJcsIlBlvLA0uz6edNgh0qRg4VdSQhYw-VqFUtoN3wVBCdbDdp_TYB3BcgYCC5Gx_ZuofBc85LBnIfJlA-ER4A5YTDqPQZDZHUtQw7TtovlQlnQ6uoBbUwZ-S1lgqLZhLjvJq6xlXdrwpuDAfzDbbBCfOx1nYdXAQEc2nm3IWjbB4VHRFH2HlnQQ/s320/ME.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;">Cloud Applications cannot be customised, and originally we felt that meant beyond configuration and personalisation you had to leave it alone.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span>#PaaS4Saas introduced the ability to extend the applications, build alongside the application and co-exist. More about this in the <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/10/22-ocw-extending-oracle-cloud.html" target="_blank">next post</a>.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513; font-family: verdana;">Oracle ME allows </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513; font-family: verdana;">extensions</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"> for the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513; font-family: verdana;">application</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"> IN the application. It doesn't change the security, but the way in which the end user interacts. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513; font-family: verdana;">A part of Oracle ME is Journeys that had been introduced a year before. Oracle asked me if I wanted to do a session for partners and I jumped at the idea. This was followed by a session for Customer Connect and several usergroup sessions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #161513;">So when the full platform was announced back in April and our own HRD said she wanted now! (</span><a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-not-unexpected-but-under-estimated.html" target="_blank">Inoapps use Oracle SaaS</a><span style="color: #161513;">) I issued a note of caution and gave a presentation internally about the maturity of the components and my excitement to use it. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513;">I love what I call '</span><a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2017/09/mind-gap-marketing-to-adoption-its-fun.html" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">mind the Gap</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513;">' , identifying where innovation is behind the marketing and how quickly are customers adopting. In on-premise days this could be years but with Cloud things happen much more quickly. Digital Assistants (another component of Oracle ME) being one of the fastest I have seen.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCGw4OETrE6VVcWzJ4eRnAptsPnmCN9HORDqc59j3qwF_GWW_q60p6x4wG4ZgWe0uJJfuB2XZVDWE6XEEQZt5fXMzYmSaPFK8eJSjaML7S9skOXeiqv3Ua4qi_XqvdvAe1HgJIglD9AfoqWaCB8YeCglaYfZio4yMgoHGWUAiNYuEWiOQj_lb-Sma_w/s742/casandra.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="706" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCGw4OETrE6VVcWzJ4eRnAptsPnmCN9HORDqc59j3qwF_GWW_q60p6x4wG4ZgWe0uJJfuB2XZVDWE6XEEQZt5fXMzYmSaPFK8eJSjaML7S9skOXeiqv3Ua4qi_XqvdvAe1HgJIglD9AfoqWaCB8YeCglaYfZio4yMgoHGWUAiNYuEWiOQj_lb-Sma_w/s320/casandra.png" width="304" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #161513;"><span>So I started a proof of concept on Oracle ME and worked with our HCM practice especially Jen Mitchell who leads in the US on what we could do. We looked a few use cases and I presented at </span></span><a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/06/as-kscope-kicks-off-quick-look-back-at.html" style="color: #161513;" target="_blank">Breakthrough 4D</a><span style="color: #161513;"><span> and using the access to Product Development I have through the Oracle ACE program sat down and dug deep into the platform.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then Oracle launched a partner competition, where the best partner showcases of Oracle ME would be promoted and presented at Oracle Cloud World. I have worked with oracle for 27 years and never seen a competition like this and I was in.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span>Inoapps saw the value, we wanted to use the capability and no doubt our customers would too. Digital Assistant, Journeys and HR Helpdesk are often included in projects so bringing them together with new functionality to give us this platform for extending the experience is a great opportunity. We brain stormed for our submission and decided on the Contractor Experience. Could the platform enable us to address some of the challenges we see with many customers who have a high reliance on Contractors?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span>The competition was based on the Dragons Den or Shark Tank model. We had to pitch initial idea to HCM Development and then to HCM Strategy. I knew we were on the right track when my 45 minute appointment during Breakthrough 4D with Nancy and Yvonne in Oracle Strategy latest almost 3 hours, discussing the use case and approach. The connection with product development continued as we worked on some of the newer capabilities and slowly our solution came to life.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span>Now there was more to show we pitched to Oracle Field Sales group and then just six weeks before Cloud World we had a final pitch to a room full (or zoom screen full) of Oracle Execs across many disciplines. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span>Then a few weeks later we were told we were a winner but to keep it quiet. I was so excited, whilst I led the project, Jen and her team of experts did the work and our marketing team worked on the assets. this was a real team effort. Now all we had to do was get ready for the big event.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span>I needed a short video for our booth, plus a walked through demo, and a 15 minute presentation. That doesn't sound a long time but it is actually more difficult to condense your message into a short presentation and even shorter video. But who doesn't like a deadline? I was in my element.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;">Oracle decided on 3 winners and we were acknowledged in Chris Leone's HCM keynote and received a lovely glass award. I got to present with Nancy in her session with almost 200 in the room and streamed to an overflow room.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7LqG_L4qa6qRXeHSsDzr8_y2RVd8m4j79md8Zxm-1YRMZ66U3kC_VJIciOWHQqthSNljC1_zqsuWI_SbiBv_Ke3kNlGws5UzOFt9ykJZvVts5KD5XciHx7wlSVHCqKxSqblwrvcsehif08dzDkEpdzHV3542dvav9TI6TbDkhsgteIfYKTfoiFGul3Q/s2402/Screenshot%202022-10-25%20at%2010.04.17.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="2402" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7LqG_L4qa6qRXeHSsDzr8_y2RVd8m4j79md8Zxm-1YRMZ66U3kC_VJIciOWHQqthSNljC1_zqsuWI_SbiBv_Ke3kNlGws5UzOFt9ykJZvVts5KD5XciHx7wlSVHCqKxSqblwrvcsehif08dzDkEpdzHV3542dvav9TI6TbDkhsgteIfYKTfoiFGul3Q/s320/Screenshot%202022-10-25%20at%2010.04.17.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;">Our use case was to showcase our solution <a href="https://www.inoapps.com/uploads/tinymce/Inoapps%20My%20Contractor%20Experience.pdf" target="_blank">MyContractor</a> but also the possibilities of the Oracle ME platform.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span>Then after presenting I worked with the Oracle UX team giving feedback on my use of the platform and my thoughts on adoption. This was followed up with a longer session with them when I got home.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurB08LNIq15OaZA_Lp1zMIyujIDzdxn1JhFcrm3b2svxMKwGQM1CZl4mVgVYZSdj6Ams0AnEmM09iomufYyK991Z41CtQyDH0uRgTX8r9Y6tDUN3TZfpSyW_r7GLGFC8Gbx2cLvvOXDX6xBwrITBLPAiA-qxy0MlS2ntpMs-mGtOsQ3rGfDc-s4IKlA/s800/official.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="800" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurB08LNIq15OaZA_Lp1zMIyujIDzdxn1JhFcrm3b2svxMKwGQM1CZl4mVgVYZSdj6Ams0AnEmM09iomufYyK991Z41CtQyDH0uRgTX8r9Y6tDUN3TZfpSyW_r7GLGFC8Gbx2cLvvOXDX6xBwrITBLPAiA-qxy0MlS2ntpMs-mGtOsQ3rGfDc-s4IKlA/s320/official.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span>Next we will give a full presentation for Customer Connect and produce content for the Resource Centre.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #161513; font-family: verdana;"><span>Congratulations to the other winners.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #161513;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="OracleSansVF, OracleSansVFCyGr, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #161513; font-size: 16.128px;"><br /></span></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-41588658365694335832022-10-29T16:17:00.004+01:002022-11-01T08:55:09.176+00:0022 OCW Inoapps on Tour<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBp_zbp29MgOM_-Z5nkZv8xtgKQ3fQ6x4pV0LKa4RJFgh8Za-0i91Qu0LEjLtEqZ6suTpHXB2o_vgDhJ-KrsfJSrNGaY3EIC2mkm4rV3Cy_3BiCPgiNbiQo-Br9oyMai7_dN4GS72Qlw5tXNfnfKlc8QUQ49LL6bFShL7zsgKcaAgh_dY144Hh25meA/s1066/booth.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBp_zbp29MgOM_-Z5nkZv8xtgKQ3fQ6x4pV0LKa4RJFgh8Za-0i91Qu0LEjLtEqZ6suTpHXB2o_vgDhJ-KrsfJSrNGaY3EIC2mkm4rV3Cy_3BiCPgiNbiQo-Br9oyMai7_dN4GS72Qlw5tXNfnfKlc8QUQ49LL6bFShL7zsgKcaAgh_dY144Hh25meA/w150-h200/booth.jpeg" width="150" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>This was my first big event with Inoapps. They were Gold Sponsors of OCW and had a good stand near the keynote room and amongst the big guys, so we stood out. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQIQtPVDUMaPLYo2gJweuyBUjT2d05f5CDVeMBD8Oez5X7ZwoAvhWauTqNM0qA6EhGYxCI2KMKSjtLrxAu2HLIWBLR8BFa2200-CiFuDm6Wy2KzHb85k6iWrb8qCT9945qB08b1lGtiuQHyGfGocDjYLBJjdkL2idKfBsIuC_IyTjR0lOOGz003SCRA/s4032/IMG_2916.HEIC" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQIQtPVDUMaPLYo2gJweuyBUjT2d05f5CDVeMBD8Oez5X7ZwoAvhWauTqNM0qA6EhGYxCI2KMKSjtLrxAu2HLIWBLR8BFa2200-CiFuDm6Wy2KzHb85k6iWrb8qCT9945qB08b1lGtiuQHyGfGocDjYLBJjdkL2idKfBsIuC_IyTjR0lOOGz003SCRA/w150-h200/IMG_2916.HEIC" width="150" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>On our stand we had a shoeshine, perhaps a nod to the past of professional services, how many people wear leather shoes today? But it was popular and many people said if they had known they would have worn them, they are bored of trainers and like how dressing properly makes them feel. Me I packed two pairs of boots and they look amazing.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-pLYWIwclkGR3E8JAKCjJQ3Zw_zc31W1W5oBOhRMqKFQ9e3zz48GQMK0jcVT7yH4SAh2-6qxb1KrFcBK9KxmxggKCd94YKk5NrvEFAzPpFQYFUFWIY2b_nM3ahcgKvVi_Nl5mDmlhCun8o8kq_ndnUf477w-AMwQ3WNorlEIrokVuymDKHIXv0yocQ/s1066/DJ.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-pLYWIwclkGR3E8JAKCjJQ3Zw_zc31W1W5oBOhRMqKFQ9e3zz48GQMK0jcVT7yH4SAh2-6qxb1KrFcBK9KxmxggKCd94YKk5NrvEFAzPpFQYFUFWIY2b_nM3ahcgKvVi_Nl5mDmlhCun8o8kq_ndnUf477w-AMwQ3WNorlEIrokVuymDKHIXv0yocQ/w150-h200/DJ.jpeg" width="150" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>At the other end of the scale we sponsors the DJ booth by registration. People walked past several times a day and had the chance to request music and many times we saw people dancing. Inoapps, caters for all.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>As well as the stand we had a speaking session where our CEO and founder </span><a href="https://www.inoapps.com/about/our-leadership/executive-team/andy-bird" target="_blank">Andy Bird</a><span>, along with board member </span><a href="https://www.inoapps.com/insights/news/inoapps-appoints-lyle-ekdahl-to-global-board-of-directors" target="_blank">Lyle Ekdahl</a><span> and an amazing customer </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobhiyah-tobie-engel-4403886/" target="_blank">Tobie Engels</a><span> from </span><span style="background-color: white;">Equitrans Midstream. They talked about the reality of moving to the Cloud, and their Q&A session was moderated by <a href="https://accelerationeconomy.com/author/bob-evans/" target="_blank">Bob Evans of Cloud Wars</a> (if you don't follow <a href="https://accelerationeconomy.com/category/cloud-wars/" target="_blank">Cloud Wars</a> you should).</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG90_4nIZoh2O167WfKq0U0H6fXFxA8KaLl3fVZF0Pc0nnCBVd7ejuBqHrYlJAXm5ZHbXfqcOZq8jIv2T0k062oJ0_mwyHjghFkd_4Y9QwE_G-xwbdQCsir4-3-faZkjfQw6KWTmzzn5MTQuKt53RDGkT3xRrXSiYk_PheHg8mTrWxsnnJjnRJ1zh28w/s2436/IMG_2958.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2436" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG90_4nIZoh2O167WfKq0U0H6fXFxA8KaLl3fVZF0Pc0nnCBVd7ejuBqHrYlJAXm5ZHbXfqcOZq8jIv2T0k062oJ0_mwyHjghFkd_4Y9QwE_G-xwbdQCsir4-3-faZkjfQw6KWTmzzn5MTQuKt53RDGkT3xRrXSiYk_PheHg8mTrWxsnnJjnRJ1zh28w/s320/IMG_2958.PNG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The session was full, although I felt the rooms for the conference were quite small. 100 people is not a lot for this size of conference. That said, the questions flowed. Surprisingly the number one question was all about the update cadence. We see this all the time with customer before or just starting their journey, but half of our room said they had been on Cloud for a while.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCVfq8fpFz9zzhDkjK8A_zq0ybadMDoFd4lIdtTOqVflVG6HTqLrVXzJbC34cryWgrvQdKMTRIZtzfGSBpH-MJJQoDhQrjk1bB6F6Bs8iwquMbCMcZdAL4Sr2m6g_TsTgtvlELjkGj_CkcIp0efs_Z7vQBolnBOKgkjcvbZJw49hyS5PWVfN6EZsgRg/s1707/Screenshot%202022-10-25%20at%2010.26.15.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1707" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCVfq8fpFz9zzhDkjK8A_zq0ybadMDoFd4lIdtTOqVflVG6HTqLrVXzJbC34cryWgrvQdKMTRIZtzfGSBpH-MJJQoDhQrjk1bB6F6Bs8iwquMbCMcZdAL4Sr2m6g_TsTgtvlELjkGj_CkcIp0efs_Z7vQBolnBOKgkjcvbZJw49hyS5PWVfN6EZsgRg/s320/Screenshot%202022-10-25%20at%2010.26.15.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Oracle had lots of customer stories and this is what people want to hear and I think this session was even more popular as it was unscripted and total driven by questions. I know it was appreciated by those who attended, Oracle scheduled the session after they opened the bar in the exhibition and being the last session there was no rush to leave the room and people asked questions way beyond the end time.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There is no better endorsement than a happy customer who will share their story. Thank you Tobie.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We had another presentation for our Oracle ME Award but that's in another post.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIst1Mk0NzDQm1YhnCNfhJZxJKtCtn2z7HfYmdfmBRq5wu9N9AeWQlyxyrTODpuj0ubCYcAuIfbRCpIW3OCXmZlAf-0TdYbxNj-MLzP928b2qy0bSjFiwojscemMyXcl66g6idMCyXxwE0n70J0mk2kGe176ABUmA_mO2BAOI4aIT70AW7dqxmNRc0TQ/s4032/IMG_2953%202.HEIC" style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIst1Mk0NzDQm1YhnCNfhJZxJKtCtn2z7HfYmdfmBRq5wu9N9AeWQlyxyrTODpuj0ubCYcAuIfbRCpIW3OCXmZlAf-0TdYbxNj-MLzP928b2qy0bSjFiwojscemMyXcl66g6idMCyXxwE0n70J0mk2kGe176ABUmA_mO2BAOI4aIT70AW7dqxmNRc0TQ/w150-h200/IMG_2953%202.HEIC" width="150" /></span></a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Like many partners we had a customer event on the Tuesday and held this at a cocktail bar in the hotel. We recently adopted Transform - Optimize - Innovate as a strap line and had 3 signature cocktails to celebrate. Lots of existing and hopefully new customers as well as Oracle people joined us for a fun evening.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/11/oracle-cloud-world-2022.html" target="_blank">Back to main post:</a></span></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div><br /></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><br /></p></div>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-59836585846926196602022-10-29T15:29:00.001+01:002022-11-01T08:55:24.350+00:0022 OCW Even The Travel<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have often written a travelogue alongside a blog post for an event, and after almost 3 years here is a new one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Travel has NOT returned to normal, shortage of staff at all airports is causing my difficulties and in my main hub, Heathrow, it resulted in <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c14e7d73-e619-45c9-a807-50c56513dc67" target="_blank">passenger number caps</a>. In order to comply airlines have removed many flights from their schedules and for me living in N Ireland the cap means only 3 flights a day instead of the normal 7. That is bad enough but demand for those flights has seen prices rocket, and with flights almost twice the cost of last year it isn't the airlines that are suffering. For me this has meant either long lay overs in Heathrow or being forced to travel from Dublin with a 2 and half hour drive or taxi each way. I am getting used to it but it has taken much of the fun out of travel.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For OCW, I started on an early flight to Heathrow and settled into the British Airways lounge for my almost 7 hour wait. I was not travelling business class but since i have the status I did have lounge access. Luckily for me <a href="https://twitter.com/Abi_Giles_Haigh" target="_blank">Abi Giles-Haigh</a> was on the same flight to Vegas and when she arrived from her first leg, she joined me for the wait. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4aZkyzRp7OzlE5ZrdGtCFJOBFlL7oL_3ROe0-NcqwrCi4-THlMyYCDI6zX5ZWzJhqmKtSlG2JoXwREC_ZSHYdY1aQeXnL71wf6lIXDa19iS8Syb37iFhXhUop7wJ2EKRGPMGnx5oSBKwud0XpyPYiCzISmiGO94_dkaEr_AALzBVJFIFTh0LB-QnvhA/s4032/IMG_2843.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4aZkyzRp7OzlE5ZrdGtCFJOBFlL7oL_3ROe0-NcqwrCi4-THlMyYCDI6zX5ZWzJhqmKtSlG2JoXwREC_ZSHYdY1aQeXnL71wf6lIXDa19iS8Syb37iFhXhUop7wJ2EKRGPMGnx5oSBKwud0XpyPYiCzISmiGO94_dkaEr_AALzBVJFIFTh0LB-QnvhA/s320/IMG_2843.HEIC" width="320" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It would have been rude not to make the most of it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The flight to Vegas was non eventful, the plane was crowded and not particularly comfortable, I didn't get any sleep but I did watch the Top Gun sequel to while away some of the time. On arrival I was so pleased to have Global Entry and fly through immigration only to have to wait almost an hour for my bags.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For some reason Oracle housing said you had to check into the venetian at the Palazzo Tower which meant dragging two large suitcases (one full of company swag), across carpets and 2 casinos, only to be told when checking in that my room was in Venezia Tower, back where I started! And then I kid you not my room was as far away as possible from the convention centre. No problem getting my steps in at this event.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">That all said I had nice room and got myself settled for the next week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fast forward a week and it was time to go home. I was flying out Saturday and had <a href="https://twitter.com/sai_penumuru" target="_blank">Sai Penumuru</a> as my guest in the lounge at Vegas. It sounds like I am proud of being a benefactor in this way, but actually I just love having someone to hang out with and get my moneys worth from the airlines.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFNpOCljaHtDpgnibER3IozHzTIqFaLrsTK_uPweq5YUndFvZa0H0U9rhSXYiRy-jT7I-lt3ggSIzzWUGA2206q1sLX3gu1ojLo9cZGEXmL0YsbWrcl1BuyUrRBoNEa9-PnsRkPaPPYrU3OP8Vd9A4SvOMW3n3E8yqPr_f51pAX6lEIHyyF4sf1yPuw/s595/Screenshot%202022-10-29%20at%2015.25.51.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="595" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFNpOCljaHtDpgnibER3IozHzTIqFaLrsTK_uPweq5YUndFvZa0H0U9rhSXYiRy-jT7I-lt3ggSIzzWUGA2206q1sLX3gu1ojLo9cZGEXmL0YsbWrcl1BuyUrRBoNEa9-PnsRkPaPPYrU3OP8Vd9A4SvOMW3n3E8yqPr_f51pAX6lEIHyyF4sf1yPuw/s320/Screenshot%202022-10-29%20at%2015.25.51.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The flight back to London was pretty good, and I slept for almost 2 thirds of it, so I was happy. We landed about 3pm on Sunday and I said goodbye to Sai as he ran through immigration and security to get his flight home, but I, true to form had a long layover till 7.30pm. So back to the lounge.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I didn't really notice the thunderstorm, I was so tired but another friend messaged me to say was i getting home? Of course I said, all on time, and it was at that point. The storms were followed by a beautiful sunset and then just as I was expecting the gate number to come up, they cancelled all short haul flights. As it was due to weather their only need was to give me a new flight, which I had to do online.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">On leaving the lounge the queue to exit the terminal was horrendous, everyone having to be checked out by security. If you know Heathrow Terminal 5 the queue snaked around the entire area. I did however get a hint from a member of staff who told me to get a shuttle train out to the far gates and back again which would take me to main exit and bypass the queue. It was worth the 20 minute detour as I later heard people saying it took over 2 hours to get out.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Luckily I stay at Heathrow a lot and was able to book a hotel without much problem and got into my room 3 hours after the flight was cancelled.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Luckily my status gave me priority and I got the first flight home in the morning, but that was delayed and as expected my luggage wasn't as lucky. So I got home 36 hours after I left my Vegas Hotel and my luggage another 10. I wonder how long it will take for my claim?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh how I have missed travel.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/11/oracle-cloud-world-2022.html" target="_blank">Back to main post:</a></span></div><div><br /></div>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-23340607191354371892022-10-11T04:00:00.009+01:002022-10-11T05:09:35.668+01:00The Importance of Face to Face #JoelKallmanDay<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I love this day - renamed to remember one of the best exponents of community ever - Joel Kallman.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the Oracle world, user groups are the heart of community and they have had a hard time - not just during the pandemic, but even before, numbers were falling.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There is no one reason why but a big part in my opinion is generational. I'm old, I learnt from people, face to face, at school, my first programming language, consultancy skills, even when I finally tried post school education, I did that face to face.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2019/01/encouragement-pays-rich-rewards.html" target="_blank">superstar graduate</a> needed to learn something 15 years ago, I went off to look for a training course and he came back to me and said 'I've done it, I found something online'. That is great, but the theory he learnt was bolstered by working side by side with people in the office and with customers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So as people looked more and more to the web for education, face to face events were less the obvious choice. User groups added online content but it is so difficult to provide content that has to be funded by membership fees when organisations simply push it out themselves for free.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Don't get me wrong, online is really important, and how would we have survived the pandemic without zoom, teams, etc - user groups had to switch to all virtual content, and with many relying on their annual events for funding, it has been hard.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wrote about in-person </span><a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/04/have-in-person-conferences-had-their-day.html" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">events last year</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">, but I have been thinking about it even more.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Events are back, some are still all virtual, some in person and many hybrid. Even Oracle's Cloud World is hybrid. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxivnji6kvXKXVkKBQMPeq9vJ_Ii1ZFgHY2pLQIWEkjo3tpVGHa-l-o3f_KpmFhbIytb2uhvsaqDU6633-evls9Xsay8FHzHR89Z7_7QobOdDcoquGgBAIHQYA2vk7GM2BJTqVrzlFPowLHkcBjWKvU3VCSh0CGT4ScjxHORJDFee2yB5-FKoYPrNTQ/s306/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="306" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxivnji6kvXKXVkKBQMPeq9vJ_Ii1ZFgHY2pLQIWEkjo3tpVGHa-l-o3f_KpmFhbIytb2uhvsaqDU6633-evls9Xsay8FHzHR89Z7_7QobOdDcoquGgBAIHQYA2vk7GM2BJTqVrzlFPowLHkcBjWKvU3VCSh0CGT4ScjxHORJDFee2yB5-FKoYPrNTQ/s1600/images.png" width="306" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">But people are fighting back. We are social creatures and we want to see people, but being with people for the sake of it, or as in my case for the sake of a hug, is not enough of a reason. Many organizations are not back to being in an office full time and may never be, so at first glance along with a very difficult economy - sending people to in-person events may still be off the cards.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">But go back to my graduate. He learnt on-line but needed the osmosis effect of working with people to solidify those skills. Many of us have changed jobs in the last few years, being onboarded remotely and doing so more from home. It works but we are missing that osmosis and actually spending time with peers and learning from what others are doing may be the 'top up' we all need. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So talk to your boss, explain why you think being part of a community is so important, and make a special effort to be part of a user group community and if you can, attend in person, I promise you won't regret it.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-73610578520556702202022-10-05T15:00:00.002+01:002022-10-05T18:18:07.587+01:00Please Vote for ME - Give me a chance to make a difference<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Last year I was elected to the board of ODTUG. I tried the year before but in such a popular and thriving community the choice of people to vote for is high.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyway, you voted for me, thank-you.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A few year's ago ODTUG changed their governance model so that board members had a term of 3 years, however it took a couple of years for that to filter in and so my initial term was only 12 months. That isn't a lot to make a difference, but I believe my fellow board members would say I bring board / user group experience and Oracle organization knowledge to the table.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This year KSCOPE happened, against the backdrop of coming out of Covid and the increasing costs at every turn. Did we get it right? Yes we did, everyone who attended got something out of KSCOPE. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Every news bulletin talks about the cost of living and how people have to make tough choices, and we did, and it left us in the situation that we delivered KSCOPE and can continue to rebuild it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Could we have done better? Yes, we learnt tea and coffee were paramount and I promise whoever you vote for that is already sorted for next year. The conference committee and board are very clear on that. Members gave feedback and we have listened.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So I am asking for you to vote for me again. I want to continue to fulfil the pledges I gave last year and make a difference to ODTUG.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Again there are<a href="https://www.odtug.com/page/board-of-directors-2023-election" target="_blank"> 6 good candidates</a>, please look at them and decide who your valuable votes will go to. What is important to the the good running of the organisation; all the communities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY1htioMnCIvSgU_AMUeIA3biQogE8QEU7dgfMFIFOGFO2ZDCu2WE2XewM8ZfGylCb0yrhnpSjo4m0wM9bNWXlpVIvNSSnZEWQxSJm4w6wbFFgWU-NIdzQ54AaHuTDx0rYfiIFKecTjEE0N7AaxRFaXybTady72Oakvo7ZP0hcVDIhPVoCiaCbJvFuJw/s227/2146566981-please-vote-4-me.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="200" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY1htioMnCIvSgU_AMUeIA3biQogE8QEU7dgfMFIFOGFO2ZDCu2WE2XewM8ZfGylCb0yrhnpSjo4m0wM9bNWXlpVIvNSSnZEWQxSJm4w6wbFFgWU-NIdzQ54AaHuTDx0rYfiIFKecTjEE0N7AaxRFaXybTady72Oakvo7ZP0hcVDIhPVoCiaCbJvFuJw/s1600/2146566981-please-vote-4-me.webp" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><br /></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-76562849774973718722022-06-27T01:22:00.007+01:002022-06-27T01:54:12.003+01:00'C 'to the power of many - a quick look back at KSCOPE22<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My June conference season is over. 3 weeks back to back, and it finished with <a href="https://kscope22.odtug.com/page/kscope22-about" target="_blank">KSCOPE22</a>. The conference of <a href="https://www.odtug.com/" target="_blank">ODTUG </a>for whom I am a <a href="https://www.odtug.com/odtug-board" target="_blank">board member</a>. My UKOUG board experience meant I knew what I was letting myself in for, and as expected is was non stop.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih4uHgDSsoOQctsHvhwhTnEHY0NVO04hhZbrJkEDEbt7h8QnYUJQCXrOm5J_MBdsmmvwlvbDhLfvnIOirFsa9WQsAsuy_T1m36YXAhkWEwpuP6SVjXKBAq4zK5uQ_F52FtiM0iZw5GqSR33b72gvgiemNo6TKxQah2KeOoIBVy0zSJxrhN5nMDGqZJeA/s1466/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2015.59.44.png" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1466" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih4uHgDSsoOQctsHvhwhTnEHY0NVO04hhZbrJkEDEbt7h8QnYUJQCXrOm5J_MBdsmmvwlvbDhLfvnIOirFsa9WQsAsuy_T1m36YXAhkWEwpuP6SVjXKBAq4zK5uQ_F52FtiM0iZw5GqSR33b72gvgiemNo6TKxQah2KeOoIBVy0zSJxrhN5nMDGqZJeA/s320/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2015.59.44.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ODTUG Board 2021-22</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />As I made a list of things to include in this blog I realised most began or could begin with 'C', so as KSCOPE is all about empowering those attending, '<b><i>C' to the power of many</i></b> seemed a good title.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Composition</b> - ODTUG serves 4 communities - APEX , Database, EPM & Analytics - </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At first glance, what is in this for me? Well I dabble in solution architecture and need to know a bit more than just the applications I work with. Also extending around the applications, the development of these extensions is my dream for the Modern Apps Development Track within the Database, The OCI tools plus the APEX, EPM and Analytics we use.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">At the last KSCOPE we had good content but very few attendees in this area. This year the sessions were better attended. Not necessarily attending just for this, but crossing streams and that is something I really encourage.</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Coming Together</b> - the week started for me with a full day board meeting. Planning for 2023 has already started, and there is more than that to plan and strategise on. Being all together gives us the chance to spend a full day in person.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5eaJivlCO5wFSJ37AtvuQLgB5_FVWMpNayuaOucQ7DiTdSyIyrVvdN77IpF_qoyhOr2ak0ZRa53Iyo-BF2_VaA4KEpY3lUDRR8KRHmqqJ3mund9HXio_RSpkfoUnZESKgkM5JzO7SodnIWelyrrYUsFPNOTaE3ABEwA6uHps_kUPS3QOdxsQSO60Sg/s3520/IMG_0075.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3520" data-original-width="1980" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5eaJivlCO5wFSJ37AtvuQLgB5_FVWMpNayuaOucQ7DiTdSyIyrVvdN77IpF_qoyhOr2ak0ZRa53Iyo-BF2_VaA4KEpY3lUDRR8KRHmqqJ3mund9HXio_RSpkfoUnZESKgkM5JzO7SodnIWelyrrYUsFPNOTaE3ABEwA6uHps_kUPS3QOdxsQSO60Sg/w230-h232/IMG_0075.JPG" width="230" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Carpet </b>- the location was the <a href="https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/listing/gaylord-texan-resort/6/" target="_blank">Gaylord Resort at Grapevine Texas</a>, and there was no forgetting where you were with a bright colour carpet to remind you. in the conference centre. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Community Service Day</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - it makes the week long, but many people give up their weekend and start Saturday with giving back. This year we helped at the thrift store process for <a href="https://www.gracegrapevine.org/" target="_blank">GRACE</a>, a local organisation supporting those in need. It was very hot and although we only worked for a couple of hours we got a lot done. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellekolbe/" target="_blank">Michelle Hardwick</a> and I priced more Christmas decorations than I ever want to see again.</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0Ox4XpvMnZGeAGmZhNKbSHumeYyXA_cLkMdEfZWh43051u5nb2awQU3nCHTJIgWZ29w2R99ABHeQ1jm0H09bDf7qoNTSJSqukp2f-sgP2b9lFtw5vXlkWis4JPQQZaMKLgtu5RhjI9G_oG0gMbZoYkWyb90VRO4pFGY38hq3rGyx2kWIzQcim67Z4Q/s3520/IMG_0063.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3520" data-original-width="1980" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0Ox4XpvMnZGeAGmZhNKbSHumeYyXA_cLkMdEfZWh43051u5nb2awQU3nCHTJIgWZ29w2R99ABHeQ1jm0H09bDf7qoNTSJSqukp2f-sgP2b9lFtw5vXlkWis4JPQQZaMKLgtu5RhjI9G_oG0gMbZoYkWyb90VRO4pFGY38hq3rGyx2kWIzQcim67Z4Q/s320/IMG_0063.JPG" width="180" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Conference Keynote</b> - after the board said their bit , <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/titow/" target="_blank">Tim Tow</a>, a great friend but also Chief Geek of <a href="http://appliedolap.com" target="_blank">AppliedOLAP</a> who where the Titanium sponsor spoke and then introduced the motivational speaker - <a href="https://youtu.be/VqfWdWtjSV8" target="_blank">Miral Kotb - ILuminate</a> wow, she never gives up and almost uses setbacks to refuel her ambition. Simply amazing. She talked about us all '<i>being artists of code'</i> a term I heard repeated many times during the week, but all those of us who are adopting it. Here is <a href="https://youtu.be/nC3i02iJyU8" target="_blank">another link</a> if you are interested.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Congratulations</b> - during the keynote <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-cannell-thtech/" target="_blank">Karen Cannell</a>, VP and Conference Chair announced that the Oracle Contributor Award from ODTUG would be renamed to J<a href="https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/r/apex_pm/joel/memories" target="_blank">oel Kallman</a> Oracle Contributor Award in honour of Joel, and that <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnicholson2/" target="_blank">Jennifer Nicholson</a> , who manages the Oracle ACE Program and some of the many user groups would be the first recipient. Jen and not yet arrived so Karen asked everyone to keep the secret. Despite a couple of almost slip ups, the secret held and Jen was presented her award at the ACE reception.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Community within a Community</b> - The ACE program in the early days got together at KSCOPE and it has always been seen as a home for us. This was our first get together since OOW 2019, and it was just amazing to hug everyone and catch up. IT was also good to have some alumni, great ACE Directors who are now at Oracle like Connor, Doug, Scott & Michelle. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Can't Eat it All </b>- I also attended a Texan BBQ with some of the ACES and Jen, and learnt that whilst portions may be bigger in Texas, my capacity to eat more is not!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid221fn_EG1SeC0uye2Uo22L6r6DRzEmFQrRtlb4gNf4Le5mpBcWhg0yw9RBrYHHEeALcUzNHGt7JFz3ImOo_V1Z8FURx5WWP9n3AAx3dPpjsWASZ-LB0qUOo7dma6Vogjce8dySLVo9QDu6fNfbHiN0f_gMxlVL3YXxXOgtFCeHLCUVXmGxg8cCu6oQ/s1232/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2019.53.26.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="1232" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid221fn_EG1SeC0uye2Uo22L6r6DRzEmFQrRtlb4gNf4Le5mpBcWhg0yw9RBrYHHEeALcUzNHGt7JFz3ImOo_V1Z8FURx5WWP9n3AAx3dPpjsWASZ-LB0qUOo7dma6Vogjce8dySLVo9QDu6fNfbHiN0f_gMxlVL3YXxXOgtFCeHLCUVXmGxg8cCu6oQ/s320/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2019.53.26.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Can't Dance</b> - Later in the week we would be <b>Celebrating</b> 25 years of ODTUG, and as this is Texas there would be dancing. They had 2 step lessons on Monday evening and a fair group (mainly us from overseas) took part. It was great fun but not sure I moved from useless along the scale very much.</span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Contributors</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - the sponsors and exhibitors are what makes the event possible, it was great to talk to them about their products and services, and for me several conversations about how that might add value in my world of the apps.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Content </b>- Sunday is Symposium Day, each community has an in depth look at what is coming from Oracle or community speakers. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then 3 days of full program finishing with Hands On Labs or special Sessions on Thursday. I couldn't attend as many as I wanted as I had board duties but learnt so much from those I did,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The speakers were amazing, I can't highlight them all but I do want to call out <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigail-giles-haigh/" target="_blank">Abi</a> who stepped in to run a Thursday deep dive at the last minute and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsantrod/" target="_blank">Ruben</a> who agreed to do a Digital Assistant session in the MAD track.</span></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VCpRyAKJs8smLeVrOYxikMJHPrs8V8rwkwrRckwh2dg4HXAHEIMrI_FOr1ksHBMz0oh6xG5rSIGW2-dwAhPkhqVOQ7DkmCPqvIQBuBaPaSsXs0X1rwgZBMjZuUlZ97f_5gnryfBo65GROUyQfVmKcFLKI_ulK-BYs2dQA8b5A9GjItid7eBI8K_WdQ/s686/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2018.12.33.png" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="686" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VCpRyAKJs8smLeVrOYxikMJHPrs8V8rwkwrRckwh2dg4HXAHEIMrI_FOr1ksHBMz0oh6xG5rSIGW2-dwAhPkhqVOQ7DkmCPqvIQBuBaPaSsXs0X1rwgZBMjZuUlZ97f_5gnryfBo65GROUyQfVmKcFLKI_ulK-BYs2dQA8b5A9GjItid7eBI8K_WdQ/s320/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2018.12.33.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Challenge Coin</b> - I was presented with an <a href="https://fuzziebrain.com/content/id/2001/" target="_blank">APEX challenge coin</a>, this is an amazing honour. I do not know who sponsored me but thank you. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianp/" target="_blank">Adrian Png</a> who runs the program said it was to do with blogs supporting the community as use of APEX.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2Xn0PU46TF1gCqG5xF46n52VLZnmi0I4fp9bG273OMV1qiE4lcmkHuDRDTbSJ7Rbg436hH-xUtNzZ3ypKG9DkIFARJAQKsv_sb8zebcaScdB9hYLWOjYivQneWcjf4ngZV76j9Ii9VcXjJK7cyNRB6x0MP3h2X6e-Oxz6IdNpGkET9sf4xiJIkYIzg/s1513/IMG_0078%202.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1513" data-original-width="1470" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2Xn0PU46TF1gCqG5xF46n52VLZnmi0I4fp9bG273OMV1qiE4lcmkHuDRDTbSJ7Rbg436hH-xUtNzZ3ypKG9DkIFARJAQKsv_sb8zebcaScdB9hYLWOjYivQneWcjf4ngZV76j9Ii9VcXjJK7cyNRB6x0MP3h2X6e-Oxz6IdNpGkET9sf4xiJIkYIzg/w239-h246/IMG_0078%202.heic" width="239" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiq66eXxXbjhmSWHWce2pC_X3YWP9FMcgLOeWCtmB66fArbWUOGylZpRMyYThv4jqLMLB1YSYOax3CPyysmEk3hBIzBFjA40jI09f_9RfAPhKK00mNXLvPoNpsaeLrXRap2pKSlWnzpQwp0EP7vwaSmJZZOniiZ9V-enKJtNQH86Ot4buYycKEEdq36g/s856/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2018.13.41.png" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiq66eXxXbjhmSWHWce2pC_X3YWP9FMcgLOeWCtmB66fArbWUOGylZpRMyYThv4jqLMLB1YSYOax3CPyysmEk3hBIzBFjA40jI09f_9RfAPhKK00mNXLvPoNpsaeLrXRap2pKSlWnzpQwp0EP7vwaSmJZZOniiZ9V-enKJtNQH86Ot4buYycKEEdq36g/s320/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2018.13.41.png" width="229" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Celebrating Diversity</b> - The Women in IT lunch was a great opportunity to talk with other attendees and had a good sprinkling of men. I think there needs to be more but we can work on that. My group talked about how Covid may have changed the dynamics, in many different ways.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDJBztmUth6i-ckj43p5Ne9ckalVWW7aXCh8kwZXfnorNAqvzq65ovBo1LNaZw6UtrhhXANkief-qH5PHHd59VNIalJXO5mojJ66slFFxfgjZtUgvjUGYdwlsX1lt53WarBDCV6CKEs7LJOdxC9kBkKCm6aNAf2ISVwy234WT42y1jd9Qnagd7wSobg/s4032/IMG_2495.JPG" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDJBztmUth6i-ckj43p5Ne9ckalVWW7aXCh8kwZXfnorNAqvzq65ovBo1LNaZw6UtrhhXANkief-qH5PHHd59VNIalJXO5mojJ66slFFxfgjZtUgvjUGYdwlsX1lt53WarBDCV6CKEs7LJOdxC9kBkKCm6aNAf2ISVwy234WT42y1jd9Qnagd7wSobg/s320/IMG_2495.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My WIT Table ladies</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Celebrating our Silver Anniversary</b> - the party, so we dressed in silver and I loved it. The dance lessons didn't help but never mind.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRVmz2klZk1rb9TY_KKLR-nPB4MmArf-_VnCyFGpvv6CCflKFblt6XigpIYPKWDSkaiA6LuIrZ43-rS0rkrLl3MYR9j1ZaJrlKyFwnXJBl-zoOTv5n4tIJhe0W4p7pvTuay8b7tIl71qXpxK88oxO8AoOsJiMVEzlG3FFhuxp4Bn1W2xWE1ytJPk7SQQ/s1600/6c1b3df6-006e-49ad-8d7e-dfdb076c8b6c.JPG" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRVmz2klZk1rb9TY_KKLR-nPB4MmArf-_VnCyFGpvv6CCflKFblt6XigpIYPKWDSkaiA6LuIrZ43-rS0rkrLl3MYR9j1ZaJrlKyFwnXJBl-zoOTv5n4tIJhe0W4p7pvTuay8b7tIl71qXpxK88oxO8AoOsJiMVEzlG3FFhuxp4Bn1W2xWE1ytJPk7SQQ/s320/6c1b3df6-006e-49ad-8d7e-dfdb076c8b6c.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Connor McDonald and I in our best silver</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Collaboration</b> - One of the biggest values of ODTUG is how close they are to Oracle Product Managers and the board and community leads had meetings with each group to understand how that can grow even more in the future. The list of those attending from Oracle was unbelievable and all of them presented to their communities. These are the people who build the products, not salesmen or marketing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Controversial?</b> - The APEX v Visual Builder question was explored again. I talked more to product management and I </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">started (will finish) an </span><a href="https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/dbpm/r/livelabs/home" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">Oracle Live Lab</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> on Visual Builder. As my colleague Dermot says, <a href="https://www.inoapps.com/insights/news/oracle-visual-builder-low-code-platform" target="_blank">time for another look</a>. I speak on the value of VB for extending SaaS and need to update that presentation. My talk at this conference was on what Inoapps have learnt extend at scale, creating SaaS products to extend Oracle's.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cary Millsap</b> - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/carymillsap/" target="_blank">Cary </a>gave an in-depth look at performance, based on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Faster-Optimize-Mr-Cary-Millsap/dp/B09Q6SYBJR" target="_blank">his book FASTER</a>. I knew there was a story from me in the book, he had my permission and I had read the pdf last year. The book contains > 100 quick stories that explain how to improve system performance. What I didn't know was that the book cover was a simple picture explaining the problem depicted in my story. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Certifications </b>- <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellemalcher/" target="_blank">Michelle Malcher</a> held exam krams and I am pleased to say <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/debra-lilley_oracle-cloud-data-management-2022-foundations-activity-6946917503453290496-rkDh?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web" target="_blank">I passed the Data Management Associate</a> exam this morning.</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I also worked my way through a hands on lab for Fusion Analytics Warehouse, so the training was pretty intense at times.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Catching Up with Friends</b> - I can't list them all but it was so fantastic to meet old friends, catch up and meet new friends. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Clap, Clap Hard</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - thanks to everyone who attended, the sponsors, exhibitors, presenters and attendees. Thanks for all the learning and conversation and thanks to YCC the team behind the logistics who pulled off another amazing conference.</span> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Continues</b> - Next year KSCOPE is in Aurora, Colorado 25th June 2023 - see you there.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Ca2Tg7hy8zzNo9YGABONI7UfvA_O_IowPnuxu4OoRJNeYXHvOJI6hIg9ASemFyp8kwzkqcTxGavInYiuBBC41GJYapNBscyEmoqRwY_SsAUwVlOUX9ZaZYl3AvymMzQK9NJK0tbv4aDe2oA1I1gFDRxDpdVjDCS_dfb-1C7BJaQDHh-zCwo9yVuqBg/s1400/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2019.21.54.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1400" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Ca2Tg7hy8zzNo9YGABONI7UfvA_O_IowPnuxu4OoRJNeYXHvOJI6hIg9ASemFyp8kwzkqcTxGavInYiuBBC41GJYapNBscyEmoqRwY_SsAUwVlOUX9ZaZYl3AvymMzQK9NJK0tbv4aDe2oA1I1gFDRxDpdVjDCS_dfb-1C7BJaQDHh-zCwo9yVuqBg/s320/Screenshot%202022-06-26%20at%2019.21.54.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-63184588127677923442022-06-18T17:02:00.000+01:002022-06-18T17:02:02.013+01:00As KSCOPE Kicks Off A quick look back at Blueprint4D & ASCEND 2022<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> In an earlier post I talked about <a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/05/busy-few-weeks-exciting-hybrid.html" target="_blank">my busy conference season</a>. Almost done, but I've kept the best for last - <a href="https://kscope22.odtug.com/" target="_blank">KSCOPE</a> (I am on the <a href="https://www.odtug.com/odtug-board" target="_blank">board of ODTUG</a> and my interest is the technology we use to extend SaaS, VBCS, APEX, OCI, ODA etc etc.). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Actually that is an unfair claim, user groups have a specific audience and which one is right for you is your choice, but do be a member of at least one. Just yesterday a friend posted this on twitter - I don't know the context but boy do I agree.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="484" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8W9kCImduyPjQXVY4HE80N_Uk-nLMTDYINe-C2Vu6hOsTE0ZchQIoI2YTgbmATePvSlH1mB45hawVpnUncYEnMGy4-PG-3wGtLE1vK0UTPMv33YkJiVNldCX-Z04Aj-89wH8IuzAapF9KRq_zrDS0Fo_NFajnDeaPNx8j58VwgOWNRyLVmFkcHSbhIQ/w400-h153/Screenshot%202022-06-17%20at%2022.24.37.png" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So let's look at the other two I have just attended, <a href="https://questoraclecommunity.org/events/conferences/blueprint4d/" target="_blank">Blueprint4D</a> and <a href="https://ascendusersconference.com/" target="_blank">ASCEND</a>, both in Vegas.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">First up was Blueprint4D, the <a href="https://questoraclecommunity.org/" target="_blank">QUEST</a> event at the MGM Grand.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZAmfmJFJ7Cblhss-NYhoYOTkvb12Lw9Z4Q8RT0NKx3ncWOPHNwSg83AchCa5btdeF69V4VDTyFLZc6rkwxuv6TYGykoXjxnNEDJlvWK1GRj6v8W9HBSKOblijLPb6BMO4R3X7YqyoZcXdHN23gXVZO0pVNTgRVza_5H_0czselBFefxWdu_43HeMGsQ/s1193/fbd3474b-8b87-41bf-9206-475c61253411.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1193" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZAmfmJFJ7Cblhss-NYhoYOTkvb12Lw9Z4Q8RT0NKx3ncWOPHNwSg83AchCa5btdeF69V4VDTyFLZc6rkwxuv6TYGykoXjxnNEDJlvWK1GRj6v8W9HBSKOblijLPb6BMO4R3X7YqyoZcXdHN23gXVZO0pVNTgRVza_5H_0czselBFefxWdu_43HeMGsQ/s320/fbd3474b-8b87-41bf-9206-475c61253411.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have always loved QUEST and this event did not disappoint. There were a lot of sessions on Fusion that I attended and learnt from. Learning more direct from Oracle Development on <a href="https://www.oracle.com/human-capital-management/employee-experience/" target="_blank">HCM My Experience</a>, which is timely as I was preventing on my take of this exciting new area. I spent many hours discussing our thoughts and plans for ME with HCM strategy.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">QUEST represents JDE, PeopleSoft and Fusion plus the technology previously covered by IOUG. The JDE lead, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-grieshaber-a22653/" target="_blank">Gary Grieshaber</a> also has responsibility for some industries in Fusion JDE, so it was really interesting to hear his take on JDE & PeopleSoft customers who want to make the move.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For years I have had the pleasure of sharing time and sometimes lodgings with other f<a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2018/04/ugr-user-group-royalty.html" target="_blank">ormer female usergroup leaders</a> (and more importantly such friends), and this year was no different, apart from the amount of catch up required. </span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRFdLBKNDwFXJE6BdNnFjNfBl4TTUb-L6AIYxXL7IF4QWcqBIi1ygEz1j_lJZIFaeXJ8CL5vgayVPLqdxNxmLIfvviqi4b4ub8TEUXHqyN1ycZgymDGjPPIuyJd0CMRsd0SUBby0rt3EuenDz81EKRey_wascglTrRhWykUF5xW56fWXtW2kGDc7XUgg/s3088/IMG_3638.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRFdLBKNDwFXJE6BdNnFjNfBl4TTUb-L6AIYxXL7IF4QWcqBIi1ygEz1j_lJZIFaeXJ8CL5vgayVPLqdxNxmLIfvviqi4b4ub8TEUXHqyN1ycZgymDGjPPIuyJd0CMRsd0SUBby0rt3EuenDz81EKRey_wascglTrRhWykUF5xW56fWXtW2kGDc7XUgg/w150-h200/IMG_3638.HEIC" width="150" /></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.askmserp.com/" target="_blank">Sue Shaw</a> led a workshop on the Stairway to Cloud, well attended and great questions. Sue uses a decision chart (with my permission) on what to consider when deciding your next move and that chart is part of my still most popular presentation, exploring whether to stay on premise, use OCI, move to Fusion or a hybrid approach.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://twitter.com/malcherm" target="_blank">Michelle Malcher</a> is also at all 3 conferences, holding exam cram sessions for various OCI and Database exams. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">At the end of the event the 3 of us had a tiny girly weekend and had the chance to go see Sting, which was excellent.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJqkciq2Vlbjg4biHPRUdOMsjTG2vz4e2vGQCX0dCQ2_Wm80u8XvBqUhnkDOc9cdsQZD96Nhdk3C8xLr6buowsPZTDfv1VIV5DIu7VPyANGeZTiUhOYglQQMs4ZwSUAj8MXgBZDpiPNAMg4-zwJlqS4HMXHXbn0CXOx4vQZ9ZAjdrhKe4twRFHFuqWg/s320/IMG_3650.HEIC" width="320" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then a quick move to the ARIA for ASCEND. OATUG & OHUG event. This covers EBS and Fusion as well as some PeopleSoft and EPM. There is a fair bit of AppsTech which is great as I love this.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A couple of months ago at UKOUG Scotland, I rekindled my EBS knowledge, spending a lot of time with Nadia Bendjedou and I shared that in <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/05/oug-scotland-in-glasgow-in-person.html" target="_blank">an earlier post.</a> I was able to follow up with Nadia, meet with her boss Cliff Godwin and spend time with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-lowell/" target="_blank">Jeanne Lowell</a>, talking all things EBS and when it does make sense for an org to move to Fusion Cloud. I really wished I could get my session mentioned above included in this conference it was so relevant to the whole audience, but competition was so high and I never got any paper accepted. I did offer to step in for onsite drop outs but it never happened. Perhaps next year.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6Qg4uEuncziYNP6B4HWyQdncV-vF8jOIuK-5wbkSTXtTn22Ayx0ek3vQ79VZ0Mu2P-8x65-nIh3PpEkahO980QkE7zeMtFDGLk-BCdU9ap-PVXzfkEjKY1i3QUMS35osuQWpkj-0PcZ9WaXduybm-qlMpKBwEHpS2vecOrWIuYJfVIwTFAvRGvSviQ/w150-h200/IMG_3671.HEIC" width="150" /></span>I kicked off my ASCEND by attending one of Michelle's exam krams and if I ever find time may give Data Management a go, it is a new certification.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ASCEND had a motivational speaker who talked about being your own rockstar. It was high energy and thought provoking the key to a good motivational talk. I love this picture as if you weren't there you have no idea what he is talking about. But </span><a href="https://www.marvellessmark.com/" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">Marvellous Mark</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> was great and you can get some of it on his website</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJmn0OX3OIIRszcLWA-0dtQffPPYITotQj3rMKgUQHnOWRGRBQQKT0un0d47F5PGKfbDAhIO07QRpzJiONE4tUZ088phH8WPzOTe49UYdH8KYzMZQmVD4cojUUECm5FgG13mRAXG1IfX_AWnrUYIPMm9urL7GH4r9vAgUkXQvPlrPqOIVgZ3eAHjP7w/s320/IMG_0012.HEIC" width="320" /></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJmn0OX3OIIRszcLWA-0dtQffPPYITotQj3rMKgUQHnOWRGRBQQKT0un0d47F5PGKfbDAhIO07QRpzJiONE4tUZ088phH8WPzOTe49UYdH8KYzMZQmVD4cojUUECm5FgG13mRAXG1IfX_AWnrUYIPMm9urL7GH4r9vAgUkXQvPlrPqOIVgZ3eAHjP7w/s4032/IMG_0012.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNFszhdYXKAzND-9K1KcjR-VJLqxQsclH_o1ZHfX3_Ay65t7eE25DSOoEpSgQGOSyEZLaNNGP0WBLgbCzo72DpbGA2A0uYla46Kib1CNuZjUusRg-aGFa_5m3mi0A96-QWC1k__QWrbytqbqTwfbMhDGXyggsub1iMWGi1lic_RgM8iCMEvN_NB33Yw/w150-h200/IMG_0036.HEIC" width="150" /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the Fusion side, my awesome friend <a href="https://twitter.com/fteter" target="_blank">Floyd Teter</a> (Customer Connect fame) was there, talking more about journeys and I learnt so much more. Floyd included me in his sessions and allowed me to talk about my experience and thoughts. I met again with strategy including <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/prabuiyer/" target="_blank">Prabu Iyer</a> were we discussed APEX v VBCS. The answer I think will be hybrid as both give value depending on customer preference, skills and use case.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNFszhdYXKAzND-9K1KcjR-VJLqxQsclH_o1ZHfX3_Ay65t7eE25DSOoEpSgQGOSyEZLaNNGP0WBLgbCzo72DpbGA2A0uYla46Kib1CNuZjUusRg-aGFa_5m3mi0A96-QWC1k__QWrbytqbqTwfbMhDGXyggsub1iMWGi1lic_RgM8iCMEvN_NB33Yw/s4032/IMG_0036.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNFszhdYXKAzND-9K1KcjR-VJLqxQsclH_o1ZHfX3_Ay65t7eE25DSOoEpSgQGOSyEZLaNNGP0WBLgbCzo72DpbGA2A0uYla46Kib1CNuZjUusRg-aGFa_5m3mi0A96-QWC1k__QWrbytqbqTwfbMhDGXyggsub1iMWGi1lic_RgM8iCMEvN_NB33Yw/s4032/IMG_0036.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I also stepped up and gave a partner comment on the <a href="https://www.rapid4cloud.com/" target="_blank">Rapid4Cloud</a> session. We use this tool in our implementations it saves so much time and opportunity for error. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">All too soon it was time to say goodbye to so many friends and new contacts and time to join the travel chaos and make my way to Dallas for <a href="https://kscope22.odtug.com/" target="_blank">KSCOPE</a>.</span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazing was meeting up with so many friends and making new ones, and meeting on the dance floor an old colleague I had no idea would be there. Awesome.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzRt7d5KsX4_bcdSnZswStoQVu9LFD8dlV20p8ozNvsNkd8Cd6pqnFzNAILbsX9SgFXWZkOwqq7gn8Bwsyk3atElMve3faJQSjDfyIPR13eHvsF2zaHOm1sy29vs2BDvoq-NfYF7CquCdpHX0OWIaltGnAdb21R5RFEVWIAiUhm6_bHg8dssa2-YAuw/s3088/IMG_3627.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzRt7d5KsX4_bcdSnZswStoQVu9LFD8dlV20p8ozNvsNkd8Cd6pqnFzNAILbsX9SgFXWZkOwqq7gn8Bwsyk3atElMve3faJQSjDfyIPR13eHvsF2zaHOm1sy29vs2BDvoq-NfYF7CquCdpHX0OWIaltGnAdb21R5RFEVWIAiUhm6_bHg8dssa2-YAuw/s320/IMG_3627.HEIC" width="240" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lucia Jarrett, what an awesome surprise</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-36386098467496150552022-05-21T08:40:00.003+01:002022-05-21T08:40:35.306+01:00Such Fun and Hopefully Useful - My Afternoons with ACEs slot<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">Yesterday I took part in 'Afternoons with ACES' - a conversational approach to sharing Oracle expertise.</span></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">The topic was 'Extending SaaS with PaaS and how innovation has changed that', but we also talked about User Group events and my plans for the conference season. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are in a difficult period. Without technology, zoom, teams, skype, GoToMeeting etc, we would not have survived the pandemic commercially, however people are, to be fair, looking to reduce their screen time as we try to get back to normal, and optional webcasts are becoming less popular. Numbers are dropping a bit and no shows rising, (when you were in lockdown there were less distractions).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For me, and fellow speakers, most of us are excited by in person events, but covid is still here and people are correctly sending away if testing positive even if asymptomatic. Many people are still working for home, or in a hybrid world, and their organisations are not keen to let them go to events. So numbers are not as high as they could be, especially amongst end users. But user groups need to hold their ground, for both virtual and in person, if they give up, there will be nothing to go back to.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I said in <a href="http://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/05/busy-few-weeks-exciting-hybrid.html" target="_blank">the last post</a> I have 3 in person conferences in June, and am typing this as a break to the packing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We then moved to the advertised title. #PaaS4SaaS, the development tools for extending SaaS, how to approach it and how the portfolio has gone from strength to strength. Discussed APIs and how SaaS is update proofed which does mean checking your extensions as part of your update cycles.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I also had a shout out for <a href="https://kscope22.odtug.com/" target="_blank">KSCOPE </a> with ODTUG, the Modern Apps Development track has lots for the #SaaS world, VBCS, Digital Assistant, APIs etc and whilst you are there cram for your OCI exams. Still time to come and join us, it will be amazing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Thank you for the invite </span><a data-attribute-index="0" data-entity-hovercard-id="urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAC6uSYBh6p5g97WbFra-wP0xH41pyWyVDI" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAC6uSYBh6p5g97WbFra-wP0xH41pyWyVDI" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Lee Briggs</a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> and </span><a data-attribute-index="2" data-entity-hovercard-id="urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAACtwBUBCZRcBEk7L8QGa7ZqffkO-XG2j6E" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAACtwBUBCZRcBEk7L8QGa7ZqffkO-XG2j6E" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Thomas Simkiss</a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> and please have me back again.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">You can listen to the replay here</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><a data-attribute-index="9" href="https://lnkd.in/exVGXT8Q" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">https://lnkd.in/exVGXT8Q</a></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-FF-DPiZEMzwLtf7foE5QaFPsK18MIXDSwU24dYofTP5eWXWFqNXjUboDSTlqroiceSFof0ybDS0M1Nf23ULedGFPLs1sN1QX6lG0cP2fjjD9C0VZz5goUkcUnSNB-OGu66yvlgOsc1rtxROLQmAy6vFl0y96UT-kCalr7Jb3VVEGkEh_OvdDgkIJoQ/s1441/Screenshot%202022-05-19%20125520.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1441" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-FF-DPiZEMzwLtf7foE5QaFPsK18MIXDSwU24dYofTP5eWXWFqNXjUboDSTlqroiceSFof0ybDS0M1Nf23ULedGFPLs1sN1QX6lG0cP2fjjD9C0VZz5goUkcUnSNB-OGu66yvlgOsc1rtxROLQmAy6vFl0y96UT-kCalr7Jb3VVEGkEh_OvdDgkIJoQ/w640-h362/Screenshot%202022-05-19%20125520.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><br /><p></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-67407222083995318852022-05-16T20:20:00.003+01:002022-05-19T11:35:59.795+01:00Busy Few Weeks - An Exciting Hybrid Conference Season<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Conferences are back - still a bit hybrid - some in person - some virtual and some a mixture of both.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A few weeks back I was in <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/05/oug-scotland-in-glasgow-in-person.html" target="_blank">Scotland for UKOUG</a> - loved it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Last week work had an in-person event in London and despite it being <a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/05/what-links-premier-league-football-to.html" target="_blank">football centred</a> I loved that too.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In person events are my preference and give me so much energy. That said I recognise that virtual has moved to a much more professional platform and makes sense occasionally. Hybrid is here to stay.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This week I am presenting remotely for the <a href="https://www.ausoug.org.au/" target="_blank">Australian Usergroup</a> <a href="https://www.ausoug.org.au/news/design-your-employee-experience-with-oracle-journeys-by-debra-lilley/" target="_blank">AUSOUG webinar series</a> on Fusion Journeys.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCo_XdXMIhQY-L1MJYaId0BjLjhWvZAwOH59pIIjfq56Ru8PAMaQhWQL-EqppbwIAM6ySWEWWZU0aqYaaJnZgwN6a98PLDViDvr8gx068qCKgW51IsyO6kz_VzqjWcHDPpddIIqQtpFM4knakN7MrhOhQymF5_5rJ3l5ZyUovy-pfxEYv75DWgWWlaBA/s2466/Screenshot%202022-05-16%20at%2009.55.04.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="2466" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCo_XdXMIhQY-L1MJYaId0BjLjhWvZAwOH59pIIjfq56Ru8PAMaQhWQL-EqppbwIAM6ySWEWWZU0aqYaaJnZgwN6a98PLDViDvr8gx068qCKgW51IsyO6kz_VzqjWcHDPpddIIqQtpFM4knakN7MrhOhQymF5_5rJ3l5ZyUovy-pfxEYv75DWgWWlaBA/s320/Screenshot%202022-05-16%20at%2009.55.04.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Then next week I am taking part in a new idea of '<a href="https://www.creoal.com/event/afternoons-with-aces-extending-saas-with-paas/" target="_blank">Afternoon with ACES</a>' - answering questions on #PaaS4SaaS. Despite being virtual, this is a format I love, no </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">presentation</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">, simply answering questions.</span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHC29HOfFl3-jQpWatx4u1dhVekrxadVaLt0Mg4pZru0etpSeVpAnNJ2f1jTjVPYaFMgo5E2ZPP8PiFNY3uj4oM4niG3LwhF2xrX4Kl97DoAfzixKl7jriWbMOQG6ekjCUhmc86dSmNHB-XQCRlOOW2y8wlW8igFV8py6DQvN6Au507nR9og-5Vee2zg/s720/Screenshot%202022-05-07%20at%2010.49.23.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="720" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHC29HOfFl3-jQpWatx4u1dhVekrxadVaLt0Mg4pZru0etpSeVpAnNJ2f1jTjVPYaFMgo5E2ZPP8PiFNY3uj4oM4niG3LwhF2xrX4Kl97DoAfzixKl7jriWbMOQG6ekjCUhmc86dSmNHB-XQCRlOOW2y8wlW8igFV8py6DQvN6Au507nR9og-5Vee2zg/s320/Screenshot%202022-05-07%20at%2010.49.23.png" width="320" /></a></div></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>'Journeys' is a presentation I will also give remotely for the Spanish Usergroup </span><a href="https://spoug.es/" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">SPOUG</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">. </span><a href="https://events.spoug.es/SPOUG22#/?lang=en" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">SPOUG 22</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> is an in person event and I so want to be there, but will present remotely as I will actually be in the US, just prior to 3 back to back in person events.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTyMKkXt0rCgPgsBOV18euAQRmOEA95cqznktdgy4yIT5flF7eWGqyu6DIlZPHXKo8dCXlNSslfUjrAA_v0AJVFTB_JY1u6KrOYsKnX_s_L0fBKMSJrOT075qJmbUNqhQ29El_48lCxUBTUXt6jCqwaey2U_MNENmyQuSlrlSaRsw2RQrvrAzMazA2pw/s3508/spoug22_card_09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTyMKkXt0rCgPgsBOV18euAQRmOEA95cqznktdgy4yIT5flF7eWGqyu6DIlZPHXKo8dCXlNSslfUjrAA_v0AJVFTB_JY1u6KrOYsKnX_s_L0fBKMSJrOT075qJmbUNqhQ29El_48lCxUBTUXt6jCqwaey2U_MNENmyQuSlrlSaRsw2RQrvrAzMazA2pw/s320/spoug22_card_09.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first of these is <a href="https://questoraclecommunity.org/events/conferences/blueprint4d/" target="_blank">Blueprint 4D</a>, the <a href="https://questoraclecommunity.org/" target="_blank">QUEST</a> event June in Vegas. Again I am talking about Journeys. This session is based on the one I did for <a href="https://community.oracle.com/customerconnect/events/603603-hcm-embark-on-journeys-office-hours-5-nov-2021" target="_blank">Customer Connect</a> but updated to include the new <a href="https://www.oracle.com/uk/human-capital-management/employee-experience" target="_blank">My Experience </a>messages and my thoughts on that. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6m1ZZUKWoU9Of9U1rpvf9Mdih2dnJewhFlyWdYwNHaX2IamzpIignXFvX5HQs5e-lPGwTCA98FxZWt-AoTHgveQb571jmQNmqrw0hc2XbRDkYq2Nbkt2UnyWvBOmHv4RcAkVbkEZB9wcwX9CnBLVWUeeG9uOU5yMYC_kdqzsdktSBB4bsdwSO-1d1Kg/s1600/Screenshot%202022-05-19%20at%2011.30.02.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1600" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6m1ZZUKWoU9Of9U1rpvf9Mdih2dnJewhFlyWdYwNHaX2IamzpIignXFvX5HQs5e-lPGwTCA98FxZWt-AoTHgveQb571jmQNmqrw0hc2XbRDkYq2Nbkt2UnyWvBOmHv4RcAkVbkEZB9wcwX9CnBLVWUeeG9uOU5yMYC_kdqzsdktSBB4bsdwSO-1d1Kg/s320/Screenshot%202022-05-19%20at%2011.30.02.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">The following week I am attending <a href="https://ascendusersconference.com/" target="_blank">ASCEND</a> the <a href="https://www.oatug.org/home" target="_blank">OATUG</a> event. I am not speaking which disappoints me but gives me an opportunity to catch up with more EBS from Cliff Godwin and Nadia Bendjedou. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">Nadia was at </span><a href="https://debrasoracle.blogspot.com/2022/05/oug-scotland-in-glasgow-in-person.html" style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;" target="_blank">OUG Scotland</a><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"> and having moved to a company that has EBS as well as Fusion customers, I had a lot to catch up on.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then I want to spend time with Floyd Teter and Prabu Iyer from HCM Development to help </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">fill in some of my gaps with My Experience and help me further develop ideas for the future.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then quick flight to Dallas for <a href="https://kscope22.odtug.com/" target="_blank">KSCOPE</a>, the <a href="https://www.odtug.com/" target="_blank">ODTUG</a> conference. This is my busiest week, I am the track lead for <a href="https://kscope22.odtug.com/page/kscope22-tracks#modernapp" target="_blank">Modern Apps Development</a> - The place to be if you use #PaaS4SaaS, I will be speaking on what we have learnt in Inoapps but extending Fusion on an industrial Scale using APEX, but most of all I am part of ODTUG Board this year so will be very very busy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLKnBDSU9gfxJjPSU8mRsEL0oXZNmEi7W-2KJwvDxaGRu_0mBYuYNP--EJLtXi0DqHeuhDm0N0PAmnkYRyn9qAwPSFBBIe1kRcvdVCYW_Qfe4qn9gD_l9mM2-WkwT6g4v4bBQqpT6dEstzYe3MTLrA8raQu04n6ReyhMJ2oJuY3sIqnAVqVL-1n2B2A/s555/Screenshot%202022-05-16%20at%2010.16.09.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="555" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLKnBDSU9gfxJjPSU8mRsEL0oXZNmEi7W-2KJwvDxaGRu_0mBYuYNP--EJLtXi0DqHeuhDm0N0PAmnkYRyn9qAwPSFBBIe1kRcvdVCYW_Qfe4qn9gD_l9mM2-WkwT6g4v4bBQqpT6dEstzYe3MTLrA8raQu04n6ReyhMJ2oJuY3sIqnAVqVL-1n2B2A/s320/Screenshot%202022-05-16%20at%2010.16.09.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">These events are still open for registrations. User groups feedback to Oracle and many organisations selecting software vendors demand this, but if we don't support them they will loose their relevance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Take a look at all the websites and see which one suits your needs best. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So if you see me over the next few weeks, be gentle, it may sound fun, and it is, but I still have my day job to do too.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733464449819279412.post-52204643727618748662022-05-14T18:47:00.000+01:002022-05-14T18:47:45.564+01:00What Links Premier League Football to Enterprise Planning? <p><span style="font-family: verdana;">New technology is exciting, to start with the use cases are part of the marketing process, but as people start to understand the capability, it will become more main stream and the bit I love, useful for organisations.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQteyeY0W8-Gq9wKh2aEKWsY_RDTH0rgF8XtyMVI8KmSprayjJAxt65DelvoJZfYl4q2SoOEa2t8fUCod3PrOwC9rWY0Ab5s5lEafcOxsxDa2xocVr41ZMRfJy5USrt_htHE76nJ01M5k-0nV12x1hIAPjSrtjK1J7RMpYfCi0rHHqqkVtdejdvGcwg/s1356/Screenshot%202022-05-14%20at%2017.41.57.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="1356" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQteyeY0W8-Gq9wKh2aEKWsY_RDTH0rgF8XtyMVI8KmSprayjJAxt65DelvoJZfYl4q2SoOEa2t8fUCod3PrOwC9rWY0Ab5s5lEafcOxsxDa2xocVr41ZMRfJy5USrt_htHE76nJ01M5k-0nV12x1hIAPjSrtjK1J7RMpYfCi0rHHqqkVtdejdvGcwg/w320-h157/Screenshot%202022-05-14%20at%2017.41.57.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This week I had the opportunity to talk to people in person about this at an event jointly hosted by my employer <a href="https://www.inoapps.com/" target="_blank">Inoapps</a> and Oracle, in London.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The event was entitled <b>'What can Fully Connected AI-driven Finance, HR and Analytics Do For Your Business'.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oracle technology especially in Analytics uses Machine Learning and AI to give us far more than just statistics, they allow us to plan for the future, based on patterns from the past. Real insight and foresight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">To get the message out, Oracle partner with sport. This is not simple sponsorship to get their name seen, it is about using their technology to improve the sport.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_WBttmKvQeA" width="320" youtube-src-id="_WBttmKvQeA"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZU1Zm26DL2mB8w8rjsxtcNEpoms7tyVG2JzMOnsq7UMNs7lG8LZXE5PticeXh02OUMTETYdjoj2HR_uYCZCtirEJH6sD623xOM9NY88qyd7CishL1F0SIcLwiSe_mvkwczGjj_BEfed0gxAc6I72SIYo422MValeog3hjX4g-KwcjKXXWlJEpDtrWg/s504/Screenshot%202022-05-14%20at%2018.25.28.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="504" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZU1Zm26DL2mB8w8rjsxtcNEpoms7tyVG2JzMOnsq7UMNs7lG8LZXE5PticeXh02OUMTETYdjoj2HR_uYCZCtirEJH6sD623xOM9NY88qyd7CishL1F0SIcLwiSe_mvkwczGjj_BEfed0gxAc6I72SIYo422MValeog3hjX4g-KwcjKXXWlJEpDtrWg/w320-h206/Screenshot%202022-05-14%20at%2018.25.28.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think most people have heard about their partnership with Redbull Racing in F1, but they also partner with <a href="https://www.oracle.com/uk/premier-league/" target="_blank">Premier League Football </a>where they provide real time insights for the viewer. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was the hook for the day, Oracle would talk about how the technology I would give customer examples in business, they would show how it is used in Premier League, Inoapps would talk about how we used it to raise our recent funding and then how no technology transforms without change. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/leebonfield/?originalSubdomain=uk" target="_blank">Lee Bonfield</a> works for Oracle but he is also known for his <a href="https://twitter.com/FPLFamily" target="_blank">Fantasy Premier League</a> podcast and was an obvious choice to be the Oracle advocate for their partnership with the Premier League.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNUa_7qtmX6FyChskntFGVGkcRaLOTbasNGzEwaNzJS2rE3mmvyTcADsPZnkoDJDfWvpkvqDO7e_5mVZ-SiHP1RytRyzUkZupLagwP-RQJL0IohsZCcHOA7rbzJoeqd7T6UOmmTmPTmeRbFVJnfwejQfsDCfpStIvW06WGIyVxYy-SJojOU3D7VPqujQ/s1004/Screenshot%202022-05-13%20at%2008.56.49.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1004" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNUa_7qtmX6FyChskntFGVGkcRaLOTbasNGzEwaNzJS2rE3mmvyTcADsPZnkoDJDfWvpkvqDO7e_5mVZ-SiHP1RytRyzUkZupLagwP-RQJL0IohsZCcHOA7rbzJoeqd7T6UOmmTmPTmeRbFVJnfwejQfsDCfpStIvW06WGIyVxYy-SJojOU3D7VPqujQ/w320-h256/Screenshot%202022-05-13%20at%2008.56.49.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The venue for the day was the London Stadium, once the heart of the 2012 Olympics but now home of West Ham Football Team, an ideal location for this event.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm not a football fan but I loved the location. I was part of the implementation of E Business Suite for the Olympic Development Authority, that was created to host the Olympics in London, so it almost felt full circle. Walking up to the stadium was quite magical.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My session with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gardner-92694634/" target="_blank">John Gardner</a> from Oracle was on Planning and Budgeting Cloud used with Fusion Applications. He talked about how much data we have, and how to use it to make a real difference. I got to do what I do best, interrupt John and give customer examples, what it actually meant to organisations and the challenges they overcame.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then I interviewed ur Chief Finance Office, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ally-rule-815a831b/" target="_blank">Ally Rule</a>. He told our story and our <a href="https://www.inoapps.com/insights/news/inoapps-announces-abry-partners-investment" target="_blank">recent investment</a> success. Key to this story is our use of Oracle. We have Fusion HR and ERP, some amazing APEX applications to support industry specific needs, Oracle Analytics to bring this data together and Planning and Budgeting to give us that foresight. Ally explained that when we were looking for investment we selected an organisation to help us build the proposal, the analysts assigned to help us were taught Oracle Analytics by our in-house team and then let loose with our data. When Investors did their due diligence ,Inoapps were able to run every scenario they asked for and drill down behind the figure, in real time. </span></p><p><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1380" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKeOZb8LYtgFtLA502gNWhBWr5sLrq1fpceWC3NVl8LywfUgDKK-QeBJOkLB_jvrPyi6fx5snGAJ7ClKimXy9W4ONZg31O6fqfoGLZrXftFCkqQnZmNqcxVPea7j3H4ZxgShh2pLFnfVkfj7o_ugD0LZQadrXC_QV6Dr0cbfiUnRGhoHPYPhrCZZygA/s320/Screenshot%202022-05-14%20at%2017.42.30.png" width="320" /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Inoapps is an Oracle partner that uses Oracle to improve organisations businesses and Inoapps is also our most important customer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Despite my lack of interest in football I enjoyed Lee's talk and my colleagues finished the content with talking about the important of change when adopting any technology. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">After a quick lunch there was a tour of the stadium and I loved the legacy of the Olympics still found around the stadium.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Great content, great discussions and so great to be away from the screen.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKeOZb8LYtgFtLA502gNWhBWr5sLrq1fpceWC3NVl8LywfUgDKK-QeBJOkLB_jvrPyi6fx5snGAJ7ClKimXy9W4ONZg31O6fqfoGLZrXftFCkqQnZmNqcxVPea7j3H4ZxgShh2pLFnfVkfj7o_ugD0LZQadrXC_QV6Dr0cbfiUnRGhoHPYPhrCZZygA/s1380/Screenshot%202022-05-14%20at%2017.42.30.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p><br /></p>Debra Lilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501850988908291461noreply@blogger.com0