Posts Tagged ‘Open World’


So Your Manager Wouldn’t Spring for Oracle Open World This Year?

October 14th, 2009 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

You wanted to be here but it’s another year of budget cuts.  Sure the executives are still flying first class all over the country but you are stuck at home again.  I know it’s a bummer but there is a tiny silver lining for those who are unable to attend.  You can still get access to those sessions you wanted to see.

Unlike those who attended you won’t have sore feet and lack of feeling in your posterior.  And you won’t be off work for scheduled back surgery to repair your ruptured disc caused by carrying around all of the swag during the day.  Even better, you get to avoid all of the boring sessions where the presenter laboriously reads the same slides which were shown previously in six other sessions.  Seriously, you should count your blessings for not being subjected to these problems.

Here’s your consolation prize:

Oracle is releasing all 1800+ conference sessions, plus the keynotes for only $245.  If someone from your organization did attend, they can access the same content for free. The sessions will be available as downloadable mp3’s.  Slides will be available in Powerpoint format.

More information is available at the links below.

You can also visit the official Oracle OpenWorld Web site for more information, to purchase, or for access.

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Oracle OpenWorld Updates Start Sunday

October 7th, 2009 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

This Sunday, Oracle OpenWorld will be kicking off in San Francisco.  Five of us will be attending from SSG and several of us will be providing udpates via our blog.  The event will continue through Thursday afternoon at the Moscone Center.

The five of us will be focusing on the general sessions and attending dozens of presentations on Service Oriented Architecture, Business Intelligence, Communications Billing and Revenue Management, and Business Process Management.

This year I’m hoping to include more pictures in the blog, so I encourage you to subscribe and get our updates from each day of the conference.

As a preview, Sunday we will be attending several Special Interest Groups (SIG’s) and the Oracle Partners Network meeting.

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Collaborate 2009 in the Rear View Mirror

May 7th, 2009 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

Today is the final day of the OAUG Collaborate 2009 conference in Orlando and here are some final thoughts as I look back at the last 5 days.

First, Orlando is a great location for the conference.  Great weather, easy access and plenty of restaurants and lodging.

The attendance was down but I can only speculate how much.  Someone said about 40% but that’s a guess.  It was clear that organizations are not spending money as freely to send individuals.

The quality of the sessions I attended was excellent.  In almost all of them I walked away with new information and something I wanted to explore even more.  The presenters were readily available for questions after their presentations.  And there was a good mix of non-Oracle and Oracle presenters.

The exhibitors were here in full force and there didn’t seem to be a drop-off in their participation.

The opportunity to network and meet other attendees was great and getting to hear others experiences with various applications/products was also valuable.

Oracle’s products and product strategy continue to be impressive even in a down market.  Fusion Applications, EBS 12.1, Fusion Middleware 11g with Weblogic, JDeveloper 11g, …  all of these are impressive products.

Collaborate seems to be a better value for me than Open World because there is more end-user interaction and the ability to have more discussions about the good and the bad of working with Oracle products and organization.  The independence of OAUG makes a difference.

Lastly, the efforts of OAUG will save Oracle customers lots of money because of the decision to not charge the additional 10% for licenses on those products moving to Extended Support in the next year (Database 10g, EBS 11i and others). That alone should save organizations enough to send at least one person to the next Collaborate.

Next year, Collaborate 2010 will be in Las Vegas.  In the coming 12 months there’s much to look forward to with new product releases, like the Fusion Applications, making their entrance.  Stay tuned and make your plans for next year!

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Your Private Line to OAUG Collaborate 2009

May 1st, 2009 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

This next week I’ll be attending OAUG Collaborate 2009 and blogging about the latest and greatest that I encounter.  If you are unable to attend I hope you’ll enjoy my posts as I explore the seamy underbelly of OAUG… ;-)

My presentation is on Tuesday or Wednesday (I need to check) but there will be lots of other sessions I’m planning on attending.

I’ve noticed that after a long drought, there are actually several sessions on “Fusion Applications”.  I’m looking forward to see what that’s about since it was not even mentioned at Open World last Fall.

Stay tuned, my flight leaves early Saturday morning so I’m getting there early and staying late next week!

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Making a Bee-line for BeeHive

September 22nd, 2008 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

Oracle has introduced a new collaboration product, BeeHive, at OpenWorld.  It was the topic of the keynote address this morning (Monday).

This is another attempt by Oracle to crack into the collaboration market, which has been difficult for the previous product, called Collaboration Suite, since it was a rip and replace type of product.  Obviously organizations weren’t crazy about replacing Exchange, Active Directory and the Microsoft Applications (Outlook) with Oracle’s collaboration product.  That said, Oracle approach had some great merit by using the database as the storage repository and minimizing multiple copies of documents being sent all over the place.

With Microsoft Outlook, I receive a 5MB PowerPoint presentation.  I then forward it to five other people and now there’s 30MB of PowerPoint on the Exchange or mail server.  Oracle’s approach was to save a single copy and provide links and versioning for the presentation.  This was only one of the innovations that Oracle had, but clients were not convinced, and the Collaboration Suite remained a niche product.

BeeHive, however, is a more “join ‘em” approach which provides the same sleek database background but now works happily with Outlook, Thunderbird and other email clients using plugins.  Oracle also offers improved document security, including “self-destructing” documents/attachments, and role management for devices.  It integrates both personal computers and smart phones and manages to get along with with other apps while providing a mature content management and collaborative (ie Microsoft SharePoint) environment for documents.

Check it out.  More information is at www.oracle.com/goto/beehive

Oh… did I mention it also integrates with E-Business Suite?  Interesting….

Incidentally, if you’re entering Triora Group’s “Oracle Open World Get Me Some Bling!” contest, I’ve highlighted the answer to today’s question. Just click on the answer, and you’ll be taken to the questionnaire.

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Looking Ahead to Release 12.1 of the E-Business Suite

September 22nd, 2008 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

As noted in a previous post, the current release of EBS R12 is 12.0.5 and a future 12.0.6 is expected that will include a Financials Family Pack.  Soon after that we should expect Release 12.1.

What will R12.1 include?  In one of the sessions today at OOW 2008, a glimpse was provided.

From Oracle’s perspective R12 is stabilizing, with fewer reported bugs and issues, so the focus for 12.1 is to add more functionality.  Some of the areas mentioned in the session were the addition of new capabilities in:

  • Talent Management
  • Warehouse Management/Logistics
  • Asset Utilization (Asset LifeCycle Management)
  • Manufacturing Executing Systems (Discrete and Process Mfg)
  • Supply Chain

One noted item was a new Supplier Self-Service capability that allows Suppliers to update their important information (contacts, etc.)

Another topic was the introduction of the Oracle Site Hub which has some of the characteristics of Master Data Management.  Like MDM, it consolidates information from multiple applications, provides the ability to cleanse the data and then simplifies the ability to manage and share that data, providing a consistent view across the organization.

New changes will be coming to Enterprise Manager with enhancements to the Applications Management Pack.  These include automated “hot” cloning, improved patch automation, better pro-active management, and improvements to help with customization management, and functional setup management.

In summary, Release 12.1 will include bug fixes but focus more on filling out functionality in some specialty areas.

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Oracle Open World Kicks off Today

September 21st, 2008 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

For those who haven’t been to San Francisco, it’s one of those places blessed with ideal weather.  Of course it does get foggy and colder in the winter, but September is a great month to be here.  Nice, cool with some humidity, so you aren’t too dry.  Meanwhile, in the downtown area of San Francisco, things are heating up as Oracle Open World 2008 kicks off.

I decided to fly in yesterday and avoid the travel rush of Sunday.  It was a good choice, the airports were not crowded at either end.  Many attendees will arrive today, since the conference kicks off in full-force tomorrow.

Today’s schedule is primarily focused on many of the Special Interest Group meetings.  I’m planning on being at several OAUG SIG meetings today, including the OAUG Upgrade SIG and the Middleware SIG.  But there will be dozens of other Users Groups holding sessions as well, including QUEST, IOUG, IDTUG, and a lot of other acronymns I don’t recall.  There will also be other sessions that are more focused on new learning topics such as:

* IOUG and ODTUG: Building Web 2.0 Social Applications in Ruby on Rails with BEA AquaLogic Interaction
* Using Oracle SOA Suite to Integrate Oracle E-Business Suite with Your Enterprise
* Oracle Database 10g 10.2.0.4 Upgrade and Changes
* IOUG and ODTUG: BEA AquaLogic Versus Oracle Fusion Middleware Shootout

This will go on all day and then wrap up with a keynote speech by “Washington’s best-loved political couple, Mary Matalin and James Carville, who will entertain the crowd with a bitingly humorous look at the world of politics”.

Not sure what this has to do with Oracle’s products but given this is a heavy political year why not invite a couple who disagrees on just about everything in politics, right?

I’m rooming out near the airport to avoid the high prices of hotels in the downtown area so I’ll be commuting back and forth via BART.  This will be interesting, so stay tuned…

Incidentally, if you’re entering Triora Group’s “Oracle Open World Get Me Some Bling!” contest, I’ve highlighted the answer to today’s question. Just click on the answer, and you’ll be taken to the questionnaire.

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