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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.

Sriram Vaidyanathan

Speaker:  Sriram Vaidyanathan
​Enterprise Solutions Architect EMEA
​Tricentis

Sriram Vaidyanathan is an Enterprise Solution Architect at Tricentis with more than a decade of experience in test automation and quality assurance. He has helped organisations across industries design and deliver scalable, end-to-end testing frameworks that support complex enterprise transformations. Sriram brings extensive experience working with Oracle environments and helping customers adopt AI-driven, automated testing approaches to improve quality, reduce risk, and accelerate delivery across Oracle applications and business-critical systems.

Oracle Fusion Quarterly Updates: From Quarterly Scramble to Silent Go-Live.​

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Overview of the Session

Four times a year, Oracle Fusion customers face a significant operational challenge: preparing for mandatory updates within a limited testing window while maintaining confidence that critical business processes will continue to perform as expected.

For many organisations, quarterly updates require substantial manual effort to assess change impact, prioritise testing, and manage deployment risk. As Oracle environments grow in complexity, identifying what needs to be tested—and proving that it has been tested effectively—becomes increasingly difficult.

In this session, Simon Evans, Head of Enterprise at 2i, and Sriram Vaidyanathan, Enterprise Solutions Architect EMEA at Tricentis, will explore how organisations can take a more structured and data-driven approach to Oracle Fusion updates. They will discuss the role of AI-assisted impact analysis, risk-based testing, and test automation in helping teams focus their efforts where they matter most.

Attendees will gain insight into common challenges associated with quarterly Oracle updates, practical strategies for improving test coverage within constrained timelines, and approaches for reducing uncertainty ahead of production deployment. Whether you are looking to streamline your testing process, better understand update impacts, or strengthen release confidence, this session will provide useful perspectives and real-world lessons learned.

What you’ll learn:

💡Understanding Where Risk Really Sits in Oracle Fusion Quarterly Updates

Quarterly updates are often viewed as a testing challenge, but the underlying risk is usually more complex. In this session, attendees will explore why update-related issues rarely originate from standard Oracle functionality alone. Instead, risk tends to concentrate in the customisations, integrations, business processes, and configurations that make each Oracle Fusion environment unique.


Participants will gain a clearer understanding of the factors that drive testing complexity, why traditional testing approaches struggle to provide confidence within limited release windows, and how leading organisations identify and prioritise areas of greatest risk. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating their own update-readiness approach.


🤖 Learning How AI-Assisted Impact Analysis and Test Automation Work Together

One of the biggest challenges in quarterly update testing is determining what actually needs to be tested. This session will examine how AI-assisted impact analysis can be used to identify affected business processes, integrations, and customisations before testing begins, enabling teams to focus effort where it matters most.


Attendees will learn the principles behind impact-based testing, how automated regression testing supports broader coverage within constrained timelines, and the role of modern test automation platforms in maintaining testing effectiveness as Oracle Fusion evolves. The focus will be on understanding the methodology, practical application, and outcomes of a more targeted testing strategy.


✨ Building a More Predictable and Sustainable Update Process

Many organisations approach quarterly updates as recurring, time-intensive projects that place significant pressure on testing and business teams. This session explores how organisations can move from reactive update cycles to a more structured, repeatable, and evidence-driven approach.


Attendees will learn how greater visibility into change impact, combined with automation and risk-based decision making, can improve confidence in production readiness and reduce uncertainty during deployments. The session will share lessons learned and best practices for creating a testing process that is scalable, measurable, and sustainable over time.


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