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UKOUG24 Recap!

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The UKOUG Discover 2024 Conference held on 1 st -3 rd December in Birmingham was a great success yet again, solidifying the UKOUG as the standout annual event for Oracle users in the UK. Oracle users, implementation partners and product management joined together to share knowledge and explore new features, making for a fantastic conference! Here I’ll share some of my highlights. Monday 2 nd December The conference kicked off with the keynote, presented by Oracle with representation from both Oracle Customer Success and Applications unlimited, demonstrating their commitment to apps unlimited, along with a strong focus on AI functionality. Andreea Vasiliu continued the AI theme, detailing the enhancements to EPM AI functionality which are coming soon (safe harbour), including the ability to create summaries for IPM insights and link them directly into Narrative reports, with Oracle AI providing the most suitable chart for review. Brovanture had several sessions on the Monday, ...

Kscope24 Recap!

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The ODTUG Kscope conference attracts Oracle experts from all over the globe to learn and share knowledge with other Oracle technology users. This year Kscope24 was held in Nashville (aka music city), at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center. Representing Brovanture this year was myself (Lydia Maksoud) and my colleagues Sarah Dow and Roger Cressey. Friday As Sarah and I were travelling over from London, we flew in on Friday and after a relatively smooth journey (compared to the connecting flights last year) we arrived in Nashville on Friday evening. The first thing that hit us was the heat, it’s around 38 degrees in Nashville and very humid! The second thing was the size of the hotel – the Gaylord Opryland has multiple regions, almost like a small town, and is quite literally the biggest hotel either of us had ever been to. Saturday Luckily on Saturday we had some spare time to explore a bit of Nashville before the conference kicked off. This of course meant we had...