1809 POUG
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You would also be forgiven for thinking POUG stood for Polish Oracle User Group but the official name is Pint with Oracle User Group.
Congratulations Andy – Lucky UKOUG
UKOUG have just announced that Andy Nellis has won the user vote for Oracle Scene.
Congratulations Andy.
I did stand for this and I wanted to do so to continue my volunteering for UKOUG, but I'm not disappointed, Andy will make a great Editor and I hope he will go on to other roles in UKOUG.
Read his linked profile, UKOUG is very lucky. He has been an end user and had many roles within (more...)
UKOUG – I’ve Still Got Something to Give
I've been a volunteer at UKOUG for over 15 years, but my time on the board finished in March. I said at the time I hoped I would still be of use to the user group and I am now standing for Editor of Oracle Scene.
I want Oracle Scene to represent the whole community and have articles within an edition that will drive everyone to read it. I love walking into an Oracle Office (more...)Best Way to Celebrate the Old Certus – A grand Finale – Vote for Us
In May Certus was acquired by Accenture and I posted then about how it was a fitting outcome, much deserved.
Technically we move to Accenture on 1st October, so today we are still Certus, and it is business as usual.
It would be fantastic to have a grand finale and celebrate all that Certus has achieved. A wonderful way to do that could be success in the UKOUG Partner Awards which will be announced at (more...)
Rant – OPN and ADDM!
I should have good statistics for this blog, it should appeal to many different communities, OPN or the Oracle Partner Network will spark the interest of one community I work in and ADDM or Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor will have my technical friends thinking I have crossed to the other side.
Actually the acronyms need to be used together: OPNandADDM
Oracle Product Names and Acronyms Drive Debra Mad!
I'm an Oracle ACE Director, a software (more...)Thank you to all at UKOUG
My time on the board of UKOUG came to an end in March, and although I am still an active volunteer and have not left the organisation, I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you.
First for the opportunity to grow both as an individual and in my professional career. I would recommend volunteering to anyone in our community, it will motivate and educate you.
I was very touched to receive a (more...)
OUGF 2018 – Kiitos kutsusta
Last Oracle Open World, Pasi Jaakkola the President of the Finnish User Group asked me if I would like to give an Applications keynote at their 2018 conference, their 30th Anniversary. I have spoken for this usergroup twice before, their 20th Anniversary Event and as part of an OTN Nordic Tour in 2014.
This year the event was held in Vanajanlinna just over an hour from Helsinki. Not only was it a fantastic location (more...)
UKOUG Applications Conference 2018
We need your input!
The Oracle Applications world as many different answers as there are user organisations. So what content do we need to include in our UKOUG_APPS 2018 Agenda?
When I first got involved with UKOUG, we simply has E Business Suite, sliced by the different modules. Today we still have EBS, but we also have those looking at Cloud, and those who have already moved.
The apps tech community is busy supporting (more...)
Thinking About Oracle Cloud Applications Support
Last week Oracle announced a revision to their Cloud Applications Support . At first glance it looks great, anything that gives the customer more is welcome.
I haven't seen a lot of commentary on this but I like this from Denis Beagle from my friends at Diginomica oracle-announces-autonomous-services-media-day, he talks about it being paid for from the actual subscription costs. I totally agree with that statement but actually think Oracle is moving some of the (more...)
VBCS Goes Technical – but i still love it
Last weekend VBCS was upgraded and in this new version (18.2.3) it is so much more technical to look at.
I first saw this release at the PaaS Forum in March and was deflated, I loved that the product was so easy to use and felt that it did have a market in the system support teams as EBS customers moved to Cloud Applications.
The Product Management team were very helpful, at the PaaS (more...)
Sharing in Success – The Next Chapter in Certus
Mergers and Acquisitions are all the rage at the moment - Yesterday's Financial Times reported deals are now higher than before the 2007 crash.
On Monday amongst several high profile deals (Sprint, T Mobile ; Marathon Petroleum, Andeavor : Sainsbury, Asda) you could be forgiven for missing the very exciting announcement: Certus is joining Accenture.
This is all about the success of Certus and whilst the future looks great and full of opportunity for us all, I (more...)
2018 Collaborate – Women and the ACE Program
My final post from Collaborate.
There was a WIT lunch and I really enjoyed it. My fellow #UGR Michelle introduced the speaker Heather Parks who I thought was very nervous. She had a great story to tell as a successful #WIT in Las Vegas and once she started to take questions all the nerves disappeared and she was much better.She told a couple of jokes, one which I can't put in print! But the (more...)
2018 Collaborate – Feeling Good
I had a great time at Collaborate 18 even if it was in Las Vegas (not my favourite destination).
I had plenty of sessions to deliver and even had time to attend several. The best one was from an old colleague in Fujitsu who did a comparison of EBS and Cloud Finance.
It was great to spend time with old friend, make new friends and room with the other 2 thirds of #UGR.
One of (more...)
2018 Collaborate – Certus Presentatons
Certus had 5 sessions at Collaborate, with both Quest and OAUG.
My first presentation was on Chatbots with HCM Cloud. This isn't the concept of internal chatbots with HR Helpdesk, but using Oracle Mobile to create a chatbot. Thank you again to Grant and Rohit for all your help.
I had a good crowd for what was the first delegate session after the main keynote. Tim Warner, my boss was my assistant and thanks to (more...)UGR – User Group Royalty
A irreverent look at life after Leadership.
Just a few weeks after my term ended on the UKOUG board I was at Collaborate in Las Vegas with two other past presidents, Michelle Malcher IOUG and Sue Shaw Quest.
Chatbots – A Public Apology at Collaborate
One of the first sessions at Collaborate 2018 is my chatbot presentation.
Last year at Oracle Open World I blogged about a chatbots session I had seen when visiting Oracle's User Experience labs the week before.
The blog was about how the idea of a chatbot seemed alien to me as a reason to use Oracle Cloud. I did recognise that this is a common reaction to new technology and that I (more...)
Passing on the Baton, Still Supporting the Team
As you will have seen in today's UKOUG eBulletin my participation on the board has come to an end. The time has come to hand over the baton to Neil Chandler and leave the organisation in the very capable hands of our current board.
It is a little bit sad. I know it right to go but I also feel there were things I had not finished however the board are perfectly capable of taking (more...)
Women in Technology – Paying it Forward
At the UKOUG conferences in December I had the pleasure of inviting Caroline Apsey to talk about what Oracle are doing supporting the Bloodhound project.
Afterwards I asked Caroline if she would consider an interview with Oracle Scene about being a WIT with such a high profile and she was happy to do so with her colleague and Oracle Intern Lahini Sivaganeshan.
This Oracle Scene was so successful we are going to do a series (more...)
2018 OUG Ireland
This year on 22 March we had OUG Ireland. Sometimes it is hard to let go. I have been the project lead for Ireland for many years, but this year Tony Cassidy took the lead. He and his volunteers (of which I was still one), did a great job and we had a wonderful couple of days.
This is the third year it has been at the Gresham and was a case of 'last chance' (more...)2018 PaaSForum Budapest – The Content
I'm a member of several advocate communities within Oracle and the leaders are a special breed, ensuring we had the product access we need to be up todate and to keep us motivated. I'd like to call out Jennifer Nicholson and Lori Lorusso in the ACE Program and Misha Vaughan in the Apps UX Advocate Program.
Normally these roles don't extend to the sales side of the business, but there is an exception, Juergen (more...)
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