Top 10 Tips for a Successful HCM Cloud Implementation - James King, Oracle & Duncan Davies, Cedar Consulting

New approaches and leading edge technologies to help companies become more agile in their planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes. Original presentation delivered on 9/14/17

Application development is already challenging in the best of times, so how can you handle it when your entire development team is suddenly working from home? According to a Gartner survey, 88 percent of companies have encouraged or required employees to work from home since March 2020. Unfortunately, this has set too many AppDev teams adrift, unprepared for the new normal of telecommuting. Some businesses have adopted stopgap solutions that aren’t sustainable in the long run, while others are feeling the pinch of tightened budgets and stressed employees. If you’ve got challenges here too, we can help. Watch the hour-long webinar where we’ll discuss the three essential factors that separate the high achieving remote application development teams from those struggling to adapt.

- Dr. Alan Harbitter discusses how an engineering mindset can be beneficial for corporate management compared to an MBA. He shares his experience of co-founding a software company in 1985 and rising to COO with an engineering background. - He provides examples of how engineers can use analytical skills and tools like spreadsheets to evaluate acquisitions and forecast revenue and earnings. - While an engineering education provides strong analytical abilities, it does not teach business, management, communication skills which must be developed. Overall an engineering mindset can solve many business problems through technical analysis.

The document summarizes Oracle's 2019 Spring Update for its HCM Cloud product. It highlights new features focused on making work more human, including a digital assistant for answering HR questions, a redesigned employee experience with mobile-responsive design, and tools to customize and personalize the HR experience. The updates are part of Oracle's broader strategy to rapidly innovate and adopt new technologies through its cloud applications on a quarterly basis.

How can I benefit from the cloud? I hear about the cloud all the time, but what will it really do for me and my business? These and other questions about “cloud” and IT services are part of the day in the life of every SMB (Small to Medium-sized Business) customer in the U.S. market. The reason they are in business or running a business does not center around Cloud and IT, but on their business. Whether it is keeping the retail sales flowing or food products going out the door, which is why they are in business. A good IT services and Cloud provider is there to provide the support they need to run their businesses more efficiently and effectively so they can truly focus on what they love, their business. Michael Toplisek, the EVP of Marketing and Product at EarthLink will use real customer examples to illustrate how excellent cloud services can help the smb customer lift some of the burdens of their daily business allowing them to do the things they do best.

Presenter: Lou Hunnebeck, co-author of the ITIL Practitioner Guidance and Principal Advisor, Fruition Partners, a DXC Technology Company Whether planning, designing and deploying a new service or conducting ongoing continual improvement activities, ITIL has defined 9 principles to use to guide service management initiatives. In our session we will explore the nine principles and share practical examples of how service leaders can leverage them to change behaviors and drive results.

This document discusses the services provided by Enabling Technologies including: - Implementing and supporting Office 365, Skype for Business, custom apps, Azure, and managed services. - Providing end user productivity, infrastructure optimization, business agility, and IT innovation solutions. - Enabling has extensive experience as a Microsoft partner, winning multiple awards and competencies.

High-level introduction to the Agile SAP methodology for projects and its place in the bigger IT Governance picture.

IT organizations are under continual pressure to develop and deliver high-quality applications – at speed - in order to provide key competitive advantage for their company. They’ve adopted Agile and DevOps practices. But particularly for large organizations with complex application portfolios or compliance pressures, these practices have yet to fulfill the promise of enhancing an organization’s ability to continually deliver customer value. Agile has improved development and test; and DevOps has streamlined getting code into production. But these advances have been localized improvements; to get to the next step software delivery leaders must take a more holistic approach to improving the entire lifecycle. In this webinar guest speaker, Forrester Senior Analyst Christopher Condo will present his analysis of practices used in modern application delivery and will describe how creating an integrated value stream can help organizations regain their focus on the delivery of customer value.