Ascend 2026, the annual conference presented by OATUG and OHUG, brought together over 1,000 Oracle users in Orlando, and Flexagon was right in the middle of it at Booth 404. Flexagon’s platform, which combines deployment automation and configuration management for Oracle EBS and Oracle Cloud (Fusion), was a natural fit for the conversations happening across the show floor.
Over the course of the event, our team had the kind of discussions that make trade shows worth attending: real questions from real Oracle practitioners, candid assessments of where their environments stand today, and genuine curiosity about what a unified platform approach can do for them.
Here’s a look at what we heard, what we shared, and what we’re thinking about as we head home.
The conversations that stood out
The range of organizations represented at Ascend was striking, from manufacturing and energy companies to public sector agencies, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations. Attendees were running a broad mix of Oracle technology: E-Business Suite, Oracle Cloud (Fusion), and everything in between, often simultaneously. That reality came through clearly at the booth.
A few themes kept coming up. Organizations currently on EBS are watching their cloud migration timelines with a mix of urgency and uncertainty. Several teams told us they were handling deployments and configuration tracking manually, relying on spreadsheets, email threads, or tools like Quest STAT that weren’t fully meeting their needs. More than a few people hadn’t realized Flexagon now covers both EBS and Fusion Cloud in a single platform, and that discovery shifted the conversation immediately.
One of the most common reactions we heard was from people who knew ConfigSnapshot well. ConfigSnapshot is a purpose-built Oracle configuration management tool that captures, compares, and tracks configuration changes across EBS and Oracle Cloud environments. It built a strong reputation in the Oracle community, and many attendees had worked with it or recommended it to others. Pulleswara Kakkirala, Senior Principal Consultant at Apps Associates, put it simply: “Wherever I go, I use ConfigSnapshot.” What surprised attendees like him was learning that ConfigSnapshot is now part of Flexagon, and more importantly, that its capabilities are now integrated into a much broader platform. For teams who had been tracking ConfigSnapshot as a point solution, seeing the full scope of what the combined platform delivers was often a genuine eye-opener.
That reaction was echoed by Brett Barnhart, Director of Enterprise Applications at Videojet, a longtime Flexagon customer. “Three companies now we’ve implemented Flexagon,” he told us. “Now with ConfigSnapshot, it’s been a huge timesaver.” For customers who had already seen what FlexDeploy could do, the addition of ConfigSnapshot’s configuration management depth made a strong impression.
On the HCM side, we heard from teams managing large, complex payroll environments who described their Oracle Cloud configuration processes as entirely manual. One team supporting over 100,000 employees was candid about the scale of the problem and expressed strong interest in getting a demo scheduled quickly.
We also had great conversations with partners and systems integrators who are recommending Oracle configuration management solutions to their clients and wanted a current look at where Flexagon stands.
What we walked people through
At the booth, two resources anchored most of our conversations: our platform mind map and an interactive FlexDeploy demo.
The mind map gave people a visual overview of everything the Flexagon platform covers today, from Oracle Cloud configurations, reports, BPM, VBCS, and integrations like OIC and Boomi, to EBS CEMLIs and configs, Database and APEX, Analytics and EPM, Salesforce, SAP, and more. For anyone who hadn’t followed the evolution of our platform since the ConfigSnapshot acquisition, the breadth of coverage was often the moment things clicked.
The FlexDeploy demo let people see the platform in action. Specific features that generated the most interest included document capture and comparison, change tracking, release orchestration, and environment cloning and refresh. For teams wrestling with how to manage configuration drift across test and production environments, these capabilities addressed problems they were dealing with every day.
Everyone who stopped by received a copy of the mind map. If you attended Ascend and would like a copy, or want to see the interactive demo for yourself, reach out and we’ll get that set up.
A little fun along the way
Trade shows are work, but they don’t have to feel like it. We ran cornhole and bingo games and gave away flashlights, pens, hats and socks to attendees who stopped by to engage. Our grand prize, a pair of Bose headphones, went to Dheeraj Muthyampet from Graco Inc., who was a good sport and a great booth visitor.
What comes next
The conversations at Ascend confirmed something we already believed: Oracle users are navigating real complexity, and many are doing it with tools and processes that weren’t built for the scale or the pace of change they’re facing today. The appetite for a platform that connects Oracle EBS and Fusion Cloud deployment automation, Configuration Management, and environment management in one place is there, and it’s growing.
If you were at Ascend and want to continue a conversation we started, we’d love to hear from you. And if you missed us there, we’d still love to show you what the platform looks like today.