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Education Tracks

COLLABORATE 20 features multiple education tracks across a range of topics and Oracle products. Specific COLLABORATE 2020 sessions will be announced soon.

Hot topics at COLLABORATE 20

Key Tracks

Analytics, BI, and Big Data

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-premise 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, BI and Big Data
• Data Science
• Data Warehouse
• On-Premise Analytics, BI and Big Data

DevOps, Development and Deploy

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

• Code Management
• Data Modeling
• Design Fundamentals
• Development Fundamentals
• Development Tools
• DevOps (Ci/CD, Docker, etc.)
• Lightweight Code (Python, Rest API, Javascript, GraphQL, Etc)
• Oracle Development (PL/SQL, APEX)

Emerging Technologies

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Automation
• Blockchain
• Chatbots

Middleware and Integration Tools

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

• API Platform
• Data Management and Integrations
• Integration Cloud Service
• Internet of Things
• Process Automation
• Self-Service Integration
• SOA

Professional Development

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

• Evolve DBA
• Grow Your Role
• Networking for Success
• New to IT
• Prepare for your Next Role
• Professional Brand
• Project Management
• Working with Others

Product Tracks

CX Cloud

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

• Commerce
• CPQ
• Customer Data Management
• CX PaaS for SaaS
• Engagement
• Sales Performance Management
• Sales/Marketing
• Service

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.

• Apps Tech
• Asset Life Cycle & Service
• Financials
• Human Capital Management
• Manufacturing & Planning
• Mobile / Self Service
• EBS on the Cloud
• Order Management and Logistics
• Procurement
• Projects
• Testing Suite

EPM Cloud

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 & Consolidation
• Cloud Profitability & Cost Management
• Cloud Reporting & Analysis
• EPM PaaS for SaaS
• Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

ERP Cloud

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

• Financials
• PaaS for SaaS
• Procurement
• Project Financial Management
• Risk Management

Database

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

• Database 101
• Database HA / DR / Recovery
• Database Internals
• Database Performance
• Database Security
• Database Upgrades and New Features
• NoSQL Database

Database Cloud

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

• Autonomous Database
• Autonomous Data Warehouse
• Autonomous Transaction Processing
• Platform as a Service

HCM Cloud

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

• PaaS for SaaS
• Human Resource
• Payroll
• Talent Management
• Taleo
• Work Life Solutions
• Workforce Management
• Workforce Rewards

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

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

• Development
• Financials
• Human Capital Management
• Infrastructure as a Service
• Manufacturing and Distribution
• Technology
• Upgrades
• World to EnterpriseOne Migration

On-Premise EPM / Hyperion

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

• General
• On-Prem Data Management & Integration
• On-Prem Essbase
• On-Prem Financial Close & Consolidation
• On-Prem Profitability & Cost Management
• Planning & Budgeting

PeopleSoft

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

• Financials
• Human Capital Management
• Infrastructure as a Service
• Procurement
• Supply Chain Management
• Tools and Technology

SCM Cloud

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

• Logistics
• Maintenance
• Manufacturing
• Order Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• SCM PaaS for SaaS
• Supply Chain & Collaboration

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

UX One

A powerful tool, UX One is the latest advancement to provide an innovative user experience that enables users to perform their job more efficiently. With role-based solutions and personalization options, UX One can help transform the user experiences. Join us to learn about creating re-usable templates to support “Alert, Analyze, Act” paradigm, how this tool will provide a visual representations of business process, how to implement the capabilities and provide a customizable user experience so users can work the way they want.

Orchestrator

EnterpriseOne Orchestrator is becoming the communications backbone for your connected systems. It can help you rethink your entire JD Edwards integration strategy. The Orchestrator uses the same technology that drives JD Edwards Mobile Applications and UX One – the AIS Server – to expose the functionality built into JD Edwards applications. Learn how you can create orchestrations to help your organization eliminate time consuming and error prone manual processes as well as learn how Orchestrator Studio enables business analysts to create, test, and deploy orchestrations without having to understand the complexity of the underlying code required for processing orchestrations.

Upgrading to 9.2

Learn what customers have implemented during their upgrade, how it’s improved the user experience, the business process, and what to think about to have a successful upgrade.

Continuous Delivery

Oracle will continue to enhance the 9.2 release with incremental enhancement packs, two to three times per year. What does this really mean? How will this affect you? Join us to learn what it means to live in a world of things always changing, recommended strategies, and how to create a strategy to move from upgrade to update mentality.

JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud

This refers to running Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. Learn how this can help you provision new instances, deploy development tools on the cloud, clone existing instances, and the benefits you can receive by using JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud.

PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud

Rapidly deploy PeopleSoft environments while Oracle manages the infrastructure. This will allow you to use your configuration, customization, and data of PeopleSoft while Oracle handles the hardware and storage. Learn the value of PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud, how to migrate, best practices, and lessons learned as companies embark on this journey.

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is an open-source, broadly-distributable, readily-scalable, enterprise-grade search engine. Accessible through an extensive and elaborate API, Elasticsearch can power extremely fast searches that support your data discovery applications. Elasticsearch will be the only search engine supported in People Tools 8.56 and later releases. Learn how to transition to Elasticsearch, deploy and administer it, and understand how it will improve performance in indexing and results retrieval.

Configuration

In the ever-changing technology environments, being able to provide information you need, where you need it and when you need it is becoming more important. Learn how to personalize the user experience using PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface and understand how related content and simplified analytics allow you to get the specific information you need.  Also hear about new PeopleSoft tools and frameworks such as Page Composer, Page and Field Configurator, and Activity Guide Composer that enable updates without costly customizations.

Oracle Cloud

Move to the Cloud

Developing strategies for moving your business-critical applications, providing access to your environments, exploring migrations options, and discovering best practices, lessons learned and frameworks as you move to the Cloud.

Innovate in the Cloud

Your cloud journey has just begun, share insights on how to extend your cloud capabilities while being innovative.

Build in the Cloud

Share how you can create and deploy applications in the cloud and how to use the Cloud architecture.

Database and Technology

DevOps and Deploy

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

Database

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 have to be sure the data are available 24/7 and compatible with other systems. This track is designed to provide DBAs of every experience level and industry with the tools to productively and creatively administer your data.

Data Science & Analytics

Learn how organizations are using Data Science & Analytics to transform their operations and sustain their competitive advantage, addressing the challenges of managing rapid growth for data storage and availability, and how analytics are enabling organizations to function more efficiently. You’ll hear how other users are proactively using customer data to create opportunities, what how to make better, Big Data-driven decisions.