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NEWSLETTER
May highlights a defining chapter in Kovaion’s growth journey, from a landmark showing at the UKOUG Community Awards 2026 and continued momentum in Oracle APEX innovation to expanding our footprint in Dubai and advancing AI-led enterprise transformation.
This edition brings together the milestones, ideas, and initiatives shaping how we continue to scale impact, strengthen customer outcomes, and build the future with purpose.
Founder and Director’s Desk
Building AI-First Enterprise Applications — In Nanda’s Vision
“I am excited to share that Kovaion continues to position itself as a strong Oracle APEX innovation partner, backed by a dedicated and rapidly growing team focused on delivering enterprise-grade applications, AI-powered solutions, and scalable digital transformation initiatives across industries. Kovaion is already part of Oracle Apex Partner’s edge program.
Oracle APEX lets you build entire enterprise applications from scratch. It scales the Oracle applications you already run. And it’s AI-first, with intelligence built into the platform itself.
Every business runs on a ton of workflows that don’t have a ready-made product. APEX gives you the flexibility to build all of them on one platform that is secure and scalable with OCI-native architecture.
The next generation of enterprise won’t rent software. They’ll build it. APEX makes that possible today, by helping you build your own software, that’s AI-first, ready in just six weeks.”
— Nanda Kumar
Celebrating Excellence Across the Oracle Community
Kovaion Marks UKOUG 2026 with Five Gold and A Bronze
At the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) Community Awards 2026, Kovaion received six recognitions, across five categories, marking our biggest year yet.
Here’s the full list of awards:
🏅 UKOUG Fusion Cloud HCM Partner of the Year 2026 – Gold
🏅 UKOUG GenAI and Innovation Partner of the Year 2026 – Gold
🏅 UKOUG Leader of the Year 2026 – Mohana Priya – Bronze
🏅 UKOUG GenAI and Innovation Champion of the Year 2026 – Srinivas Nadella – Gold
🏅 UKOUG Managed Services Partner of the Year 2026 – Applications – Gold
🏅 Global Project of the Year 2026 – Hartree Partners – Gold
What makes this truly special is that the recognition comes from the people who work alongside us and see our delivery firsthand.
The Global Project of the Year, awarded for our work with Hartree Partners, recognised the scale and complexity of a real enterprise engagement. The Fusion Cloud HCM Gold, our second consecutive year winning in this category, reflects the depth of our Oracle Cloud HCM practice across global rollouts, migrations, and post-go-live optimisation. And the GenAI and Innovation Gold speaks to the work we have been doing to bring AI into production Oracle environments, where it delivers measurable value rather than staying at proof-of-concept stage.
This builds on our triple Gold sweep at UKOUG 2025 for Fusion Cloud HCM, Applications Unlimited, and Inspiring Individual of the Year. Back-to-back recognition from a community as experienced as UKOUG is something we take seriously, and it drives how we continue to raise the bar for our customers.
Recognising the People Behind Transformation
Spotlight at the UKOUG Community Awards 2026
Behind every enterprise implementation are the individuals who hold the complexity together, navigating timelines, building trust with customers, and making sure the work delivers what was promised. This year, the Oracle community recognised two Kovaion professionals whose contributions have been monumental across engagements.
🏅 Mohana Priya UKOUG Leader of the Year 2026 – Bronze
Mohana Priya, our Chief Projects Officer, has been recognised as UKOUG Leader of the Year 2026 – Bronze. Mohana leads the way our projects are delivered at Kovaion. Every complex rollout, every challenging timeline, every customer who trusts us with their most critical transformations, her leadership is at the centre of all of it. She sets the standard for what it means to show up for our customers and our teams, consistently and quietly, without ever needing the spotlight.
This recognition from the UK Oracle User Group community means a great deal to all of us.
🏅 Srinivas Nadella — UKOUG GenAI and Innovation Champion of the Year 2026
Srinivas Nadella has won Gold for UKOUG GenAI and Innovation Champion of the Year 2026. At a time when every enterprise is asking what GenAI can truly do, Srini’s work stands out for bringing innovation closer to real business value.
His curiosity, customer focus, and commitment to meaningful implementation continue to make a difference. This recognition from the Oracle community is well deserved.
Expanding Our Global Footprint
Kovaion Opens New Office in Dubai
Kovaion has opened a new office in Dubai, adding regional presence in the Middle East to its existing offices in the UK, US, and India.
The expansion is driven by a growing base of customers in the region who need closer support for Oracle Cloud implementations, managed services, and AI-led transformation work. Dubai provides proximity for on-site engagement during critical go-live phases, and deeper alignment with regional requirements around payroll, labour law compliance, and local statutory reporting.
For our existing Middle East customers, this means even faster response, more hands-on support, and a team that deeply excels at the local operating environment. For the region more broadly, it extends Kovaion’s Oracle Cloud HCM, ERP, and AI capabilities to organisations navigating enterprise modernisation across the Gulf.
The Shift Series:
Asking the 10X Question
True transformation happens when you think. Think differently. This edition of the Shift Series explores how mindset turns merely operational teams into successful innovative engines.
From AHM – “What would it take to improve by 10X?”, the question posed at the recent All Hands Meeting that reframes how Kovaion approaches every challenge.
FOUR PILLARS
- Becoming a thinking company: Task completion keeps the lights on. But the companies that pull ahead are the ones that never stop asking: is there a smarter, more scalable way to do this? That shift, from doing to thinking, is where long-term value comes from.
- Why 10X mindset matters: Small improvements optimise. But 10X thinking forces you to rethink the entire approach. That is where automation, reusable frameworks, and productised innovation come from.
- From reactive to proactive: When you solve a problem once, it is a fix. When you turn that fix into a framework, it becomes an asset, a repeatable playbook that compounds over time.
- Connected to TSO goals: Mindset without structure is just ambition. Structure without mindset is justprocess. TSO brings both together, innovation as habit, governance that scales.
ASK YOURSELF THIS MONTH
- Can repetitive work in my team be automated rather than just managed?
- Can our delivery model become a reusable framework for future clients?
- Can our internal knowledge become an accelerator or a product?
- Can a client challenge we solved become a scalable solution for others?
The transformation equation
Execution helps organizations grow. Thinking differently helps organizations evolve. TSO is not only building governance and structure, it is enabling the mindset required to become a transformation-led organization. Challenge your assumptions. Think beyond incremental change. Build value that scales.
Kovaion AI
Advancing AI Through Automation and Edge Innovation
AI Agents for Faster Operations
- eInvoice Agent: Creates invoices in minutes instead of over a day through automated GST portal integration, while maintaining compliance.
- Sales AI Agents: Enrich and qualify leads automatically, reducing manual updates and enabling faster follow-ups.
AI Assistants for Smarter Decisions
- P&L Dashboard Assistant: Gives CXO leaders real-time financial insights for better visibility and quicker decisions.
- Multimodal AI Agents: Connect across systems to improve coordination and deliver more efficient outcomes.
Edge AI for Real-time Intelligence
- NVIDIA Jetson Orin Deployment: Enables real-time, low-latency AI processing at the edge across vision, voice, and interaction use cases.
- Offline AI Chatbot: Supports visual and audio inputs without heavy cloud dependency, making it suitable for secure and compliance-driven environments.
- Smart Holobox Integration: Powers immersive 3D holographic experiences with live AI avatars and dynamic data visualizations.
- Scalable Enterprise Use Cases: Designed for future-ready applications across retail, events, and enterprise engagement.
Webinar on PeopleSoft
Performance Document Advanced by Administrator
Performance management works when it is structured, transparent, and consistent. But getting there inside PeopleSoft takes more than just turning features on, it takes knowing how to configure them properly and use them well.
Our recent webinar on PeopleSoft: Performance Document Advanced by Administrator led by Chaitanya Kasaragadda, Consultant, walked through how administrators can get more out of PeopleSoft’s performance documentation capabilities.
The session covered how to set up structured evaluations that are consistent across teams, how to use advanced administrative controls to streamline review cycles, and how to turn performance data into insights that actually help managers make better decisions.
If you are an HR professional, system administrator, or business leader working with PeopleSoft, this one is worth your time.
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Every Step Creates Impact
Kovai MarathON 2026 is Coming to Coimbatore
At Kovaion, the marathon mindset runs deep.
We believe in showing up, staying the course, pushing limits, and moving forward together. That is why Kovai MarathON 2026 is more than just another run for us. It reflects a philosophy we live by.
This August, Coimbatore comes together to run for fitness, community, and a larger purpose.
Kovai MarathON 2026 takes place on Sunday, August 23, 2026, and we invite runners of all levels to be part of it. Whether you are taking your first 5 KM, pushing yourself through 10 KM, or going for the 21.1 KM challenge, this run is for you.
This marathon brings every step closer to supporting education and creating meaningful impact beyond the finish line.
Lace up. Show up. Run with purpose.
