I know many people complain that the same speakers present every year.  I can tell you I get rejected more than I get accepted.  The last few years ODTUG added the option for members to vote on speaker abstracts.  I want to thank all of you that voted for me because the only reason I am honored with this opportunity is because of the great feedback you provided.  I was on the content selection committee and there was a concerted effort to have new speakers.  No, I couldn’t vote for myself!

I really hope the following will be beneficial.  You all pay to attend and I take that responsibility of participating very seriously.  If you plan on attending, please make your way to the Accelytics booth and introduce yourself.  I am really looking forward to meeting you.

Hidden Gems in PBCS – The Benefits They Don’t Tell You About

Tue, Jun 25, 2019 (02:15 PM – 03:15 PM)
602/603, Level 6

Session Summary for Attendees
There are a million reasons to move to the cloud, but these enhancements are not marketed. From somebody that fought the drawbacks, I now cringe when I have a client that is still using the on-premise version of Planning.
This session will provide an administrator 5 to 10 hidden secrets that you won’t hear from your Oracle sales rep. Unless these are pointed out, or you go to training and they are discussed, they will likely never be found. We will discuss foundational improvements like how to evaluate where to focus your time on calculation performance issues, debugging calculations by stepping through the calculation, and stress testing your application. This presentation will include hands on demonstrations of all the functionality and features discussed.
Attendees will leave this session with the knowledge and examples that will allow them to go back to their workplaces and use them to improve their applications. Users looking to move to the cloud will learn about some of the hidden gems that often go forgotten.

Detailed Abstract for Review
This presentation will walk attendees through multiple features that they may not be aware of if they are using PBCS and functions they don’t have access to if they are using the on-premise version. It will begin with an overview of these. It will demonstrate the functions with live demonstrations that will allow participants to make an immediate impact in performance and improve the user experience.

The presentation will be structured as follows:
• Introduction
• Basic Navigation in the cloud UI
• Demonstrate the options to debug calculations
• Demonstrate the option in calculation manager to find and improve time intensive calculations
• Discuss the option of stress testing PBCS
• Provide a checklist for administrators to take with them and implement improvements

Getting Started with Groovy for the Non-Technical Superstars

Mon, Jun 24, 2019 (11:45 AM – 12:45 PM)
602/603, Level 6

Session Summary for Attendees
Groovy calculations are not just accessible to those with lots of experience writing Java, Groovy, or other coding languages. With a little guidance, you can become extremely productive and add some world class functionality to your applications. This session will be delivered with both the experienced, and non-experienced, by a person with a finance degree that learned it on the fly.
This session will provide an administrator with the knowledge needed to get started writing Groovy calculations immediately. We will introduce how to get started with Groovy and use it to interact with PBCS via the API. Three to four key concepts will be covered for you to leave understanding the possibilities. We will discuss where and how to get help, learn from examples, and avoid spending time going down some of the wrong paths like I did.

Attendees will leave this session with the knowledge to implement basic Groovy calculations, examples of more complicated solutions, and the foundation to grow on. They will take home working examples, and references to all the concepts needed to go from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds.

Detailed Abstract for Review
This presentation will walk attendees through multiple features that they may not be aware of if they are using PBCS and functions they don’t have access to if they are using the on-premise version. It will begin with an overview of these. It will demonstrate the functions with live demonstrations that will allow participants to make an immediate impact in performance and improve the user experience.

The presentation will be structured as follows:
• Introduction
• Understand how to get started
• Demonstrate and break down how to add user functionality
• Demonstrate and break down how to add pre-save validation
• Demonstrate and break down how to add real time data model synchronization on data form save
• Where to go to get help

If you haven’t signed up, please go out and do that today I hope to see you at one of my sessions.