BLUEPRINT 4D 2025 - Build Your Agenda
The Quest annual BLUEPRINT 4D 2025 conference continues to be a must-attend event for Oracle user community, offering a dynamic mix of innovation, education, and real-world solutions. This year’s agenda is no exception, packed with sessions that tackle emerging technologies, efficiency gains, and the future of enterprise applications.
With so many valuable opportunities on the table, narrowing down your schedule can be a challenge. That’s why we’ve curated a list of the top 10 sessions you won’t want to miss. Whether you’re driving IT transformation or leading business strategy, these sessions offer practical insights and fresh ideas to help you power progress in your organization.
We can’t wait to see you at BLUEPRINT 4D 2025!
How to Add Sessions to Your BLUEPRINT 4D 2025 Agenda
To add sessions to your schedule, log in to the BLUEPRINT 4D 2025 Event App and search for your desired session, session ID, or company presenting in the Agenda tab. Tap on the presenter’s name and select the Related Session. Click on the star icon on the left side of the session to add it to your schedule and it’s added to your agenda. We can’t wait to see you there!
1. JD Edwards: A Platform for Innovation and Intelligence
Gary Grieshaber & Paul Houtkooper, Oracle America, Inc
[Session ID: P-050703]
June 10th | 9:45 AM
Join us to learn about strategic investments made in EnterpriseOne 9.2 and hear what customers are doing today to automate, optimize and transform their businesses. Gary Grieshaber and Paul Houtkooper who will showcase how customers are leveraging investments from JD Edwards and Oracle Cloud to adopt new innovation and accelerate their IT modernization.
2. Orchestrator Product Updates from JD Edwards Engineering
A.J. Schifano, Oracle America, Inc
[Session ID: P-050696]
June 10th | 2:45 PM
Hard to believe, but it’s true: Orchestrator is soon turning 10 years old! And it’s still getting better thanks to your enhancement requests, new technologies, and a good bit of ingenuity from the JD Edwards product development team. In this session, we will take a look at yet another year’s worth of enhancements to the tool that’s changing how customers use their EnterpriseOne system.
3. Reimagining the Future of JD Edwards: Driving Innovation in a Changing World
Paul Houtkooper, Oracle America, Inc
[Session ID: P-050726]
June 10th | 4:00 PM
In an era of rapid transformation, the key to sustained success requires embracing innovation and fostering agility. This session explores forward-thinking strategies and technological advancements that are reshaping your industries. Together we will examine emerging trends and share insights that empower your organizations to create value from JD Edwards solutions. Join us as we delve into how to inspire creativity, harness change, and pave the way for a thriving future.
4. Oracle Cloud ERP: Finance Strategy and Innovation Roadmap
Gary Grieshaber, Oracle America, Inc.
[Session ID: P-050660]
June 11th | 9:00 AM
Tomorrow’s leaders are capable of adapting to change today. Oracle’s Fusion Cloud ERP suite provides your teams with advanced capabilities, such as AI to automate the manual processes that slow them down, analytics to react to market shifts in real time, and automatic updates to stay current and gain a competitive advantage. Join Gary Grieshaber to learn more about Fusion Financials.
5. JD Edwards to Cloud: Maximizing your Oracle Investments
Ward Quarles, Oracle America, Inc.
[Session ID: P-050708]
June 11th | 11:15 AM
Is now the time to evolve your business and adapt Oracle Cloud Applications? Join us to understand your JD Edwards and Cloud options, including how to run JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, surround JD Edwards with Fusion Cloud Applications, or migrate to Fusion Cloud Applications. Oracle provides you with choices for adopting Oracle Cloud. Learn how JD Edwards customers are leveraging Oracle Cloud and where you can go next in your journey to the cloud.
6. Workshop: Task Tracking in Release 24 & Beyond: Solutions to improve efficiency, provide controls, and simplify the user experience
Bryan Rose, Terillium, Inc.
[Session ID: P-050708]
June 11th | 3:00 PM
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Release 24 and 25 delivered awesome new functionality for Task Tracking – are you effectively using these new tools in your business? This workshop will give you insights into how Task Tracking can be used to drive and guide business process execution, provide process controls and timely notifications, and improve the user experience. We will also go behind the scenes for a high-level review of configuration.
Join us as we explore practical applications of Task Tracking and provide insights into how to use the tools in everyday business execution. This is applicable whether you are supporting process improvement, trying to make your business users happier, developing solutions, or managing delivery of those solutions.
7. EDI or Orchestration? Choosing the best solution for generating inbound electronic sales orders
Bernadette Dannemiller, Terillium, Inc.
[Session ID: P-050414]
June 12th | 2:00 PM
As we strive for efficiency in our sales order processes, interfacing sales orders from front end portals and web sites is an obvious way to reduce manual entry. But what is the best way to create those sales orders in JDE? We’ll look at how the standard EDI process stacks up against using orchestrations depending on the business scenario, and consider the pros and cons of both approaches.
8. AIS Architecture for Orchestrator and UDO Performance
Christopher Haraf, Terillium, Inc.
[Session ID: P-050367]
June 12th | 4:00 PM
Organizations use of Orchestrator and UDO’s are growing exponentially. Ensure your system is providing the backend performance for Orchestrations and maintaining the critical end user experience provided by UDO’s.
Key Discussion Points:
- Growth & Importance: Organizations are increasingly adopting Orchestrator and User Defined Objects (UDOs), leading to a greater need for robust system performance.
- System Readiness: Emphasis on ensuring backend infrastructure can handle the rising load from Orchestrations without compromising the critical end-user experience tied to UDOs.
- Technical Focus:
- Deep dive into configuring AIS (Application Interface Services) and HTML instances.
- Review of architecture options tailored to different user volumes and processing demands.
- Overview of runtime parameters essential for supporting performance and scalability.
9. Streamlining Production Reporting with Orchestrations and Custom Applications
Scott Masker, MacLean-Fogg Company
[Session ID: P-050236]
June 13th | 10:00 AM
Manual production reporting and outdated methods of weighing parts in JDE led to inconsistencies, inaccurate data, and system-wide disruptions. The reliance on additional hardware, servers, and a fragile reporting chain caused costly delays whenever issues arose.Discover how MacLean-Fogg leveraged orchestrations and a custom application to revolutionize production reporting. This innovative solution eliminated inaccuracies, enabled location autonomy, and reduced reliance on costly equipment and redundant software, saving thousands while delivering faster, more accurate reporting across the corporation.
10. Logic Extensions: Something Old, Something New
Haiyan Wang, Oracle America, Inc.
[Session ID: P-050701]
June 13th | 11:00 AM
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne extensibility framework is the no-code approach to extending your EnterpriseOne system at every layer: user interface, data, and thanks to logic extensions, even the logic layer. It’s programming without coding. In this session, we will explore the power of logic extensions, the various approaches to applying them to solve business problems, and the latest enhancements. No JD Edwards development experience required to join the session.