Cloud EPM Week 2024: Schedule of Events

Additional session descriptions are being finalized by speakers now. The final schedule will include three sessions each day.

Monday, August 19

11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

EPM Week Overview & Welcome

Join the OATUG EPM Special Interest Group for an overview of EPM Cloud Week events and get to know the SIG and their work.

    Tuesday, August 20

    11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

    How Albertsons Revolutionized their Capital Project Budgeting and Monitoring using EPM Planning!

    Join us as we discuss how Albertson's upgraded their manual and cumbersome capital project budget creation and monitoring process into Oracle EPM Planning. We'll share some of the challenges they had to overcome. Learn how you can create and submit capital projects using pro formas, and how we reworked the version and leveraged the emailing functionality in the REST API for a unique workflow experience. Let us inspire you and show you how the EPM platform can be used to solve operational planning functions that don’t fall into the standard Financial or Workforce models.


    Learning Objectives:

    1. Understand how the user experience was addressed using Navigations Flows and emailing functionality using REST API.
    2. Learn about Albertson's three major problems and solutions with Capital Project Budgeting and Monitoring using EPM Planning.
    3. Customers and developers will come out of this session with a new way of looking at the platform to solve some concrete business needs around Operational Planning.

    Speakers:

    Karin Johnson, Capital Planning Director, Albertsons

    Todd Brown, EPM Consultant, Bas Brun Conseil

    3:00 - 4:00 PM ET

    Meet the Experts Panel

    This Panel will allow attendees to connect with one another and collaborate with our sponsors and business leaders to explore how EPM Cloud solutions help improve decision-making. Whether you’re taking a hybrid approach or cloud-only, you’ll have the opportunity to get answers and learn about which applications can offer the fastest, highest value, and most cost-effective ROI for your organization.

    Speakers:

    Dimpy Sharma, VP of Product Solutions, Opkey

     

    Wednesday, August 21

    11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

    How to Harness AI to Simplify Oracle EPM Monthly Update Testing

    Join us for an insightful education session on harnessing the power of AI to simplify your Oracle EPM monthly update testing. Discover how AI-driven solutions can streamline your testing process, reduce manual effort, and enhance accuracy, ensuring seamless and efficient updates. Learn about the latest AI technologies and best practices to optimize your Oracle EPM system, making your monthly updates more reliable and less time-consuming.

    Learning Objectives:

    1. Implement best practices for AI-driven testing.
    2. Gain practical insights and best practices for effectively implementing AI-driven solutions to simplify and optimize your Oracle EPM monthly update testing process.
    3.  Understand how Opkey can enhance the efficiency and accuracy of your Oracle EPM update testing through AI- driven automation

    Speaker:

    Dimpy Sharma, VP of Product Solutions, Opkey

    Thursday, August 22

    11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

    How Coterra Energy Uses Oracle Cloud EPM Account Reconciliation to Reduce Costs Associated with the Process

    This session is the success story of Coterra Energy, a leading energy company, streamlining and cost-effectively managing account reconciliation processes. By adopting Oracle Cloud EPM Account Reconciliation, Coterra Energy achieved remarkable reductions in the cost and time associated with delivering account reconciliations. We will also cover how this strategic initiative and a focus on transaction matching and data integrations significantly reduced the cost and time associated with large data sets.

    Learning Objectives:

    1. Explore the challenges Coterra Energy faced in managing manual account reconciliations and transaction matching, and how these challenges impacted operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
    2. Gain insights into the decision-making process and best practices behind Coterra Energy's adoption of Oracle Cloud EPM Account Reconciliation.
    3. Delve into the strategies employed by Coterra Energy to reduce the cost of account reconciliations and learn about measurable results and improvements achieved.

    Speaker:

    Laura Vassallo-Lee, Director, Financial Reporting at Coterra Energy

    Terrance Walker, Vice-President, Delivery at Argano

    Friday, August 23

    11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

    Unraveling the Mysteries of EPM Data Pipeline

    Data Pipeline is one of the most exciting new features introduced by Oracle in 2023. It enables users to combine multiple objects like Integrations, Business Rules, Data Maps, etc. to orchestrate an end-to-end process. This can involve pre-processing, data load, and post-load operations as well. Combined with Groovy, this is one of the most versatile features of EPM. In the session we will explore what Data Pipeline has to offer. I will show how to create a simple data pipeline including cross-pod operations, and we will check out how to invoke the Pipeline from Groovy 4. 

    Learning Objectives:

    1. What Data Pipeline offers and what it doesn't.
    2. How to create a data pipeline including cross-pod operations.
    3. Invoking a data pipeline from Groovy.

    Speaker:

    Arun Raj, Manager, Deloitte