Multiledger review5/10/2023 ![]() “Cloud user questions still seem to be quite “generic” (e.g. ![]() > let’s promote the OATUG especially as 65% of all Oracle Users seem to be on EBS.” Oracle’s Cloud World will have no EBS information and not EBS team members. “It seems that the OATUG conference is the only conference focused on EBS. > Stop doing front-stage lectures unless there are more than 50 people in the room, organize questions, dialogue, and direct engagement.” Oracle veteran Hans Kolbe of Celantra Systems, chair of the OATUG Multi-National SIG, has published his insights in to the conference. ![]() I haven’t spoken to anyone who attended virtually, so I wonder what the experience was like, versus just watching the recording later, That’s a good innovation continuing from last year. Most sessions were being streamed as well as in-person. It was certainly good to see so many booths, including long term friends at Innovate Tax, Config Snapshot, Celantra Systems, Enginatics, APRO, IT Convergence and Inspirage Education Sessions There were an increased number of offerings in the test automation space, especially popular for the quarterly testing regime needed with Fusion. For example, only PwC from the big four were exhibiting. My feeling was there were more partners offering products and maybe fewer of the pure system implementers/consultancies than I remember at Collaborate. Overall, there was a good mix of exhibitors. One of the great pleasures is to catch up with partners and consultants on an ad-hoc basis, find out what they are working on the kind of thing we would never learn without the chance to meet in person. And of course we spoke with folks who had never heard of FXLoader, some of whom will no doubt take advantage of our trial to load FX rates into their ERP. We met with a good number of clients, some who have been using FXLoader for many years, up to others who have been using the product for a few months. The hall felt more open and hopefully easier to spot the logos and booth numbers you are looking for. Most booths were the pre-built variety this year, which removes a little individuality perhaps, but that is more than compensated by the professional look and especially the spacing and layout. ![]() The exhibition hall is where we live for most of the conference, so it was fantastic to see some many folks exploring the offerings from Oracle Partners. Overall in-person attendance was around 1,000 people, which feels like a good return after the pandemic. We met some who had attended both conferences, spending two weeks in Vegas, but that wasn’t for us this year. Particularly for users of Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps, it seems a shame that education and opportunities to mix with other users are now split across two conferences, but I’m sure there are good reasons behind it. Quest had their conference, Blueprint 4D, also in Las Vegas, the week before Ascend.įrom a purely selfish point of view, we much preferred a joint OATUG/Quest conference, as our client base runs Oracle E-Business Suite (OATUG), JD Edwards (Quest), Peoplesoft (Quest) and Oracle ERP Cloud (both). Collaborate was the conference for the OAUG, Quest and IOUG user groups, but since the pandemic there has been a re-grouping, at least for conferences. The main Oracle user group conference for years was Collaborate, we had exhibited at these great conferences since Denver in 2013. Ascend is the second annual conference run by the OATUG (Oracle Applications and Technology User Group) and OHUG (Oracle HCM User Group), held this year at the Aria in Las Vegas.
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