4 Next Steps

Here are some suggestions for next steps for your EPM Center of Excellence.

• Use the best practices in this guide to reflect on your first cloud adoption initiative and build momentum for future cloud transformation.

• After following the recommendations in this guide, the enterprise architect should report back to your CoE on the results of your initial cloud adoption initiative.

• The enterprise architect should also identify other cloud opportunities. In cooperation with the CoE, they can prioritize opportunities based on your organization's business goals. New opportunities can generate a workload pipeline and help your organization develop a roadmap for future cloud transformation.

• As you implement Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, follow the best practices in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Adoption Framework.

• Integrate Generative AI (genAI) into your CoE or establish a separate AI CoE.

  • According to Deloitte, State of AI in the Enterprise, 4th Edition, companies that succeed with AI deployments have an enterprise-wide AI strategy in place.

  • Get considerations and best practices for building your AI CoE by reviewing Oracle Playbook for AI Excellence and Oracle AI CoE checklist. This will help ensure that you have the right AI resources, skills, and strategies to stay ahead.

• Ensure that you communicate successes to your internal communities of practice and externally on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

Additional best practices:

• Understand updates in Cloud Readiness and What's New. Review the feature summary matrix that shows where some features are automatic, others are opt-in, and others might require effort to implement.

• Use these User Assistance and Training resources to ensure continued success.

• Refer to the Oracle EPM Cloud Operations Guide for information on troubleshooting, release change management, making EPM Cloud-related requests, and asking questions about EPM Cloud.

• Be active in the Cloud Community to learn from the community, receive timely announcements, and take advantage of webinars on new and updated features.

• Be a part of local user groups and identify individuals and roles for attendance at conferences, such as:
  • Oracle CloudWorld - leaders, visionaries, and functional leads
  • ODTUG Kscope (Oracle Development Tools User Group) - practitioners, implementers, developers application administrators, and power users)
  • OATUG (Oracle Applications and Technology Users Group) - application administrators and power users to ensure a strong alignment to Oracle ERP.
  • UKOUG (UK Oracle User Group) - application administrators and power users
• Participate in industry activities to help build relationships, gain recognition, strengthen your network, and promote your brand. For example:
  • Peer Insights
  • Trust Radius Reviews
  • Oracle references

Additional Resources

For inspiration, review these stories by Oracle@Oracle that showcase their successes:

• Oracle powers its business with Oracle Cloud
• Adapt to a changing world; Reimagining Oracle’s Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Processes for an Unpredictable World
• Operations at Oracle with Oracle Cloud EPM, Oracle@Oracle: Our Journey to the Cloud
• Outpace Change with Oracle EPM Cloud