AST’s Cloud Olympics is Underway!

We have challenged all of our employees to obtain at least one Oracle Cloud Certification before 2017 arrives, and we’re calling it the AST Cloud Olympics.  It hasn’t been long since this announcement, and we are already on our way to being a 100% Oracle Cloud Certified team!  Read on for this month’s massive list of new Oracle Specializations within AST!

Raja A. from our EPM practice has earned his Enterprise Performance Reporting 2016 Cloud Service Specialization and Tom G. is representing our PMO practice with his Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience 2016 Implementation Specialization.

Three of our Middleware team members are now Oracle SOA Suite 12c Certified Implementation Specialists:  Goutham G., Gayathri P., and Divya S.  Great job!

Kosta G. and Pavan V. from our Managed Services practice achieved four certifications!  Pavan V. obtained his Oracle Applications Cloud Data 2016 Implementation Specialization, Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service Specialization, and Oracle Applications Cloud Reporting 2016 Implementation Specialization.  Kosta is now an Oracle SOA Suite 12c Certified Implementation Specialist!

Ashley A. is going for the gold for our BI practice, achieving 12 (twelve!) certifications!  She has achieved the following:  Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service Specialist, Oracle Data Integration 11g PreSales and Sales Specialist, Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 7.9.6 PreSales and Sales Specialist, Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation 10.1.3 PreSales and Sales Specialist, Oracle Data Integrator 12c PreSales and Sales Specialist, Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation 11 PreSales and Sales Specialist, and General Product Support Specialist (v3.0).  Wow!

Manoj G. and Duckenson J. are also helping the BI team out towards their goal:  Manoj with an Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service Specialization, and Duckenson with Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service and Oracle Data Visualization Presales Specialization!

Our ERP practice is also pulling in big numbers!  Cynthia H. is now an Oracle Financials Cloud 2016 PreSales Specialist; Atul S. is an Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience 2016 Implementation Specialist; and Siva V. is an Oracle Applications Cloud Reporting 2016 Implementation Specialist!  Arun S. is an Oracle Financials Cloud 2016 PreSales Specialist, as well as an Oracle Financials Cloud: Payables 2016 Certified Implementation Specialist!

Michelle T. has added three more Oracle Certifications to the mix:  Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Management 2016 PreSales and Sales Specialist, and Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience 2016 Implementation Specialist!

Joe L. is an Oracle HCM and Financials Cloud 2016 Sales and PreSales Specialist, an Oracle Application Development Cloud Platform 2016 PreSales Specialist, and an Oracle Human Capital Management Midsize Cloud 2016 Presales Specialist!

Nagaraju P. hit the books and walked away with 4 certifications:  Oracle Applications Cloud Data 2016 Implementation Specialist, Oracle Applications Cloud Reporting 2016 Implementation Specialist, Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience 2016 Implementation Specialist, and Oracle Applications Cloud Security 2016 Implementation Specialist!

Vishal K. achieved his Oracle Fusion Applications 2014 User Experience Specialization, Oracle Fusion Financials 2014 Data and Reporting Implementation Specialization, Oracle Fusion Financials 2014 PreSales and Sales Specializations, and his General Product Support Specialization v4.0!

If this wasn’t already amazing, Deepa V. from our ERP practice achieved a whopping 20 (TWENTY!) certifications this month!  Deepa achieved (BIG DEEP BREATH):  Oracle HCM Cloud 2016 Presales Specialist, Enterprise Communications Support Specialist, Enterprise Taxation Management Support Specialist, General Product Support Specialist (v3.0), Instantis EnterpriseTrack 8 Support Specialist, iStore Support Specialist, Network Session Delivery and Control Infrastructure Support Specialist, Oracle Argus Safety 7 Enterprise Edition Support Specialist, Oracle Cloud Application Foundation Sales Specialist, Oracle Database Performance Tuning 2015 Support Specialist, Oracle Exadata Database Machine 2014 Support Specialist, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud 2014 Support Specialist, Oracle Linux 6 Support Specialist, Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Support Specialist, Oracle Policy Automation Support Specialist, Oracle Solaris 10 Support Specialist, Oracle Taleo Enterprise Cloud Service 2013 PreSales and Support Specialist, Oracle Virtual Networking Support Specialist, and Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 6 Support Specialist!

We are absolutely amazed by Team AST this month!  Congratulations, everyone!  That’s 68 new Oracle Specializations since our last announcement!