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Advancing excellence within the Oracle community
Advancing excellence within the Oracle community

Speaker: Simon Evans

Head of Enterprise 
2i

As Head of Enterprise at 2i, Simon works with organisations navigating complex Oracle transformations. A seasoned enterprise specialist with a track record of 125% YoY growth and international teams built from the ground up, Simon challenges conventional approaches - harnessing AI-driven risk management and a relentless focus on user experience to protect brands and deliver real results.

Patrick Haston

Speaker:  Patrick Haston
​Founder and CEO 
​ ERP Mentor

Patrick is one of the leading independent ERP experts in the UK with over 20 years of experience leading and advising on some of the largest ERP programmes. He is the author of ERP Success.

I’ve Rowed the Amazon and the Pacific. Your Oracle Programme Is Riskier.​

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Overview of the Session: Q&A
Simon Evans has rowed the Pacific Ocean and the full length of the Amazon, two of the most dangerous human endeavours on the planet. He will tell you that survival came down to one thing: treating risk as a discipline, not an afterthought.

 

Oracle programmes deserve the same approach. Yet most transformations and quarterly Fusion release cycles still treat testing and quality as something that happens at the end, when the hard work is done. The result is predictable: delays, failed go-lives, and costly remediation.

 

Joined by Patrick Haston, 20-year Oracle expert and author of ERP Success, Simon draws a direct line between expedition-level risk thinking and enterprise programme delivery, showing how the organisations that get Oracle right are the ones that made the outcome uneventful by design, not by chance.


What you’ll learn:

🚀 Why Testing Is the Difference Between Oracle Programmes That Deliver and Those That Don’t

Oracle transformations fail for predictable reasons, and most are detectable long before go-live. Attendees will understand how a structured quality engineering approach directly protects programme investment: builds predictability for your timelines, reduces cost, prevents business disruption, and gives senior stakeholders genuine confidence in their go-live date. This outcome reframes testing not as a technical afterthought, but as the enabling discipline to deliver what your organisation committed to.

🌟Building a Testing Capability That Absorbs Quarterly Oracle Fusion Releases

Quarterly Fusion releases introduce continuous change. Without a structured testing approach, each becomes a risk event, consuming disproportionate effort and eroding confidence in the platform. Attendees will learn how leading organisations have made release cycles faster, cheaper and more predictable: where automation delivers the greatest return, how regression coverage scales with each release, and what a right-sized testing model looks like. The outcome is a silent go-live and a release cycle the business barely notices.

💡From Reactive to Resilient: Making Quality Engineering a Strategic Asset

Organisations that treat quality engineering as a strategic function consistently outperform those that treat it as a cost to minimise. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of testing maturity at each stage of an Oracle programme lifecycle, from transformation through to steady-state release management, and the practical steps to move from a reactive, effort-heavy model to one that is embedded and built for continuous change, with the language and framework to make the case at board level.
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