Educational Tracks - Ascend 2024

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The Ascend Education Team will open the call for presentation proposals in late November 2023 and will be soliciting presentations in the following content areas.

Technology

If you’re wondering what these technologies mean to your day, you’re not alone. In these innovative sessions, we’ll help to dig through the buzzwords and get to a real definition of how these technologies work, and how they’re changing your day and your business. Attendees can learn more about both on-premises and cloud technologies supporting all forms of Oracle’s products. Learn from Experts in managing the tools and technologies to streamline your Oracle experience.

Middleware and Integration
Code Management
Development Fundamentals
Development Tools
DevOps (CI/CD, Docker, etc.)
Oracle Development (PL/SQL, APEX)
Automation
Chatbots
Cloud Hosting

Analytics

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

Cloud Analytics
Data Science
Data Warehouse
On-Premises Analytics

E-Business Suite

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

AppsTech
Financials
Manufacturing
EBS on OCI
Order Management and Logistics
Procurement
Projects
Enterprise Command Center (ECC)

E-Business Suite HCM

Oracle E-Business Suite was designed to help businesses improve decision-making, reduce costs, and increase corporate performance. E-Business Suite Human Capital Management (HCM) delivers a robust set of best-in-class human resources functionality that enables you to increase productivity, accelerate business performance, and lower your cost of ownership Oracle also has pre-integrated its business intelligence applications with E-Business Suite to provide EBS users with BI and analytics capabilities.

HCM Core, HCM Foundation
Payroll, Time and Labor, Absence Management
Compensation and Benefits
Performance, Talent, and Learning Management
Talent Acquisition, Onboarding/Offboarding
Workforce Analytics
Technical and Integrations

Cloud EPM

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

Cloud Essbase
Cloud Financial Close and Consolidation
Cloud Profitability and Cost Management
Cloud Reporting and Analysis
EPM PaaS for SaaS
Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

Cloud ERP

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

ERP Financials
ERP PaaS for SaaS
ERP Procurement
Project Financial Management
Risk Management
SCM

Cloud HCM

You’ve made the decision to modernize your HCM processes in the cloud. Oracle Cloud HCM provides your business with one solution for HR—with the workforce visibility, flexibility, and intuitive experiences needed to quickly adapt to change. With Cloud, you can digitize processes, improve efficiency, and deliver innovation – all while taking your workforce to the next level with best-in-class experiences.

HCM Core, HCM Foundation
Payroll, Time and Labor, Absence Management
Compensation and Benefits
Performance, Talent, and Learning Management
Talent Acquisition, Onboarding/Offboarding
Workforce Analytics
Technical and Integrations
Oracle ME

Database/Database Cloud

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

Database 101
Database HA / DR / Recovery
Database Performance
Database Security
Database Upgrades and New Features
Autonomous Database
Platform as a Service

Professional Development

Increasing your knowledge and skillset is important to continued success in your career. In addition to enhancing your functional and technical skills, there are many areas of focus that can help propel you in your chosen profession. This track is dedicated to helping you learn more in areas that can help in managing your department/team, your own work, working with others, ensuring that your organization attracts and retains valuable employees, etc. Recently, there is significant focus on workforce trends such as remote/hybrid work, employee engagement & satisfaction, organizational culture, diversity & inclusion, social issues, and more. Gain control over your career by attaining proficiencies in these areas.

Evolve Your Role
Networking for Success
Emerging Leadership/Career
Build Your Brand
Project Management
Collaboration
Workforce Trends

PeopleSoft HCM

Today’s PeopleSoft delivers continuous innovation with new features, functionality, and enhancements across the applications suite. PeopleSoft applications are designed to address the most complex business requirements. They provide comprehensive business and industry enabling organization to increase productivity, accelerate business performance, and provide a lower cost of ownership.

HCM Core, HCM Foundation
Payroll, Time and Labor, Absence Management
Compensation and Benefits
Performance, Talent and Learning Management
Talent Acquisition, Onboarding/Offboarding
Workforce Analytics
Technical and Integrations

Taleo

Taleo/Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud product offerings primarily focus on talent acquisition, recruitment, sourcing, and onboarding. These capabilities combine to provide an enhanced level of insight into candidates and employees. Get the talent you need with the world’s marketing-leading, best-of-breed, standalone cloud talent acquisition suite, providing recruiters and hiring managers with powerful tools for sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding.