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24 Jul
Olympus Consulting Wins Three Top Speaker Awards at Kscope26
Olympus Consulting presenters Brian Marshall and Stasi Verges earned three Top Speaker awards at Kscope26, the annual Oracle technology conference hosted by ODTUG.
Kscope26 wrapped up in Denver this June, and Olympus Consulting came home with three award categories between two speakers. Brian Marshall was named Overall Top Speaker for the entire conference, along with Top Speaker in the EPM Platform & Strategy track. Stasi Verges was named Top Speaker in the EPM Reporting track.
Between them, Brian and Stasi delivered five sessions covering everything from foundational report building to AI driven forecasting to a real world integration case study. We're making all five Kscope26 presentations available to download below.
Stasi Verges
🏆 EPM Reporting Top Speaker
Stasi is an Oracle EPM Reporting Specialist and Managed Services Consultant with 20+ years in Information Technology, beginning her career at Ernst & Young before working as a software engineer at a growing tech startup. She is also Olympus' Reports and Smart View trainer, presented at Kscope25, and holds the 2025 Oracle OCI AI Foundations Associate and 2022 Oracle Cloud Support Specialist certifications. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Plan II Liberal Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.
Brian Marshall
🏆 Overall Top Speaker
🏆 EPM Platform & Strategy Top Speaker
Brian is a Partner at Olympus Consulting and an EPM Solution Architect with 20+ years of Oracle EPM experience. He is also an Oracle ACE Alumni and has spoken at Kscope from 2010–2018 and again from 2022–2025, earning Best Overall Speaker in 2022 and 2025 and Best Speaker in 2015. He has worked on over 250 projects and architected more than 100 of them, with deep experience across FCC, Planning, ARCS, EDMCS, Cloud Data Exchange, Essbase (ASO, BSO, and Hybrid), HFM, and Groovy/REST API-driven automation.Brian Marshall's Sessions
MDX Reloaded: From ASO to Everywhere
MDX has been around for over 20 years, but it's historically been limited to ASO cubes — until now. With Oracle bringing MDX into cloud forms, this session builds MDX from the ground up: the history of the language, how it compares to traditional Essbase calc scripts and SQL, the core building blocks (members, sets, tuples, axes), and hands-on query examples using functions like Children, Descendants, TopCount, Filter, and Crossjoin. It closes with a look at what MDX-based forms will look like once Oracle ships them in the cloud.
From Prediction to Presentation: IPM Insights and AI-Driven Reporting
A practical tour of how AI actually shows up across Oracle EPM Cloud today — not just the hype. Covers the evolution from Predictive Planning through Insights, Auto-Predict, and Advanced Predictions, including which products get which features and what's required to turn each one on. Also covers the three new generative AI features in Narrative Reporting: Comparative Analysis, Causality for Exceptions, and Describe Exceptions — now expanded beyond Narrative Reporting into Planning, FreeForm, EPBCS, FCCS, and Tax as of the June 2026 update.
NetSuite-Driven EPM: A Case Study in Seamless Integration and Success
A real-world case study of a national mortgage lender — 750+ branches, 7,000+ loan officers, $22B+ in annual funded volume — replacing a maxed-out Excel reporting process with NetSuite EPM Free Form Planning. Walks through the full architecture, including the EPM Integration Agent, Groovy event scripts, and how 750,000+ historical loans get automatically categorized and reported at the loan-officer level. The full nightly refresh completes in about 25 minutes.
Stasi Verges' Sessions
Oracle EPM Reports—A Practical Guide for New Users
A beginner's walkthrough of Oracle EPM Reports for anyone new to the tool or still migrating off Financial Reports. Covers the full lifecycle: accessing the Reports module, creating a report and a grid from scratch, setting up headers/footers with dynamic text formulas, saving and testing habits that'll save you a rebuild, formula and formatting basics, and exporting to HTML, PDF, or Excel. Wraps with an introduction to Books, Bursting, and scheduled Jobs for automated distribution.
From Good to Great: Elevating Your Oracle EPM Reports
The follow-up for anyone already comfortable with the Reports basics. Goes deep on advanced techniques: sophisticated formulas and prompts, hidden grids for pulling in secondary data sources, conditional formatting and suppression (including where GenAI conditions get configured), alternate alias tables for multi-language or multi-division labeling, visualizing Supporting Detail, "butterfly" report layouts, fixing ugly Excel tab names, and automating distribution through Books, Bursting, and Jobs.
These presentations were delivered to hundreds of Oracle EPM professionals at Kscope26 and cover reporting, AI, Essbase, Oracle Planning, and NetSuite EPM best practices.
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