Oracle Day 2012 – Kuwait

Customer experience has become the most important and defensible differentiator for your business. The customer experience is a journey that transcends all customer touchpoints and all stages of the customer lifecycle. Come figure out where you are in this journey and how to identify how to begin optimizing the experience for your customers.

Less than half of companies realize the improved business agility they expect from Cloud. Why is that? Customers who entrust their business to multiple niche cloud providers are not able to complete business processes nor collaborate or report across the enterprise, geographical regions, and multiple devices. In order to realize the benefits of cloud without compromising on functionality and have the right level of control and flexibility, you need to ask the right questions. Attend this session for insight into Oracle’s cloud applications strategy and how it can deliver faster innovation with less risk for your organization.

Economic, political, and social changes have created an air of uncertainty that is impacting consumers, businesses, and governments faster and more acutely than ever before. At the same time we are living in a period of re-invention that has radically transformed how we communicate, consume, and commercialize ideas more in the past 5 years than in the past 50 years. Will your business capitalize on the next wave? How quickly can you move to operational execution? Learn how and why the businesses and business leaders who are best positioned to predict, adapt, and transform will lead the pack.

Business applications are critical to growing your business and making better decisions, but deployment realities can be an inhibitor to seizing market opportunities in a timely manner. If you’re spending too much time and money putting hardware and software components together, it’s time to consider a new approach. Engineered Systems from Oracle are a pre-integrated, tested and certified platform, built from the ground up to consolidate your critical databases and applications and run them with blazing performance. Join us in this session to learn why Oracle Exadata and Exalogic are the logical choice for running Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and other business applications while lowering your risk, reducing total cost of ownership and simplifying IT operations.

CEOs are asking for more results than ever from their HR leaders. Whether it's to improve employee experience and productivity, deliver insight into the workforce, or ensure effective and efficient HR best practices, HR leaders must deliver on the CEO agenda. Join Oracle executives to learn the key transformations HR teams must put into place to power the business.

According to a recent global survey from CFO Research Services, growing complexity, talent scarcity, and technology deficits are most likely to put the finance function’s effectiveness at risk.  Indeed, to succeed in the 21st century, CFOs must ensure their organizations have agile business processes and systems to maximize their resources and deliver the results demanded by stakeholders. In this session, Oracle executives will review three key strategies for effective 21st Century Finance: Strategize and Plan for Profitable Growth, Manage Risk from Strategy to Execution, Modernize Systems and Processes to Reduce Costs.

Your ability to quickly innovate and meet market demand is one of the key ways to differentiate your products or solutions from the competition. Yet most companies are experiencing significant structural and systems obstacles to realizing this. Understand how transforming your value/supply chain will unleash your ability to innovate.

Data is becoming the new raw material of business: an economic input almost on a par with capital and labour. But, it’s not the raw data that powers change, it’s the insight derived from the data that drives better outcomes. Build your own big data solution or deploy an engineered system? In this session, understand Intel’s view on Big Data and how Intel’s own IT department are using this technology to improve our own security. Then learn how we provide performance, efficiency and security in powering Oracle engineered systems.

Big data has the potential to transform every industry, both public and private. But, it’s not the raw data that powers change, it’s the insight derived from the data that drives better outcomes. New innovations in analytics technology are delivering more insights across more data and empowering business to take rapid action.  Analytics have suddenly moved from structured data analysis to exploratory data discovery – from historical data insight to predictive data analysis – and from the web to mobile.  With this explosive pace of technological change comes a rare opportunity to outpace the competition and outperform your stakeholder expectations.  Are you ready?  In this keynote you will learn how Oracle is delivering an integrated approach that allows you to infuse these powerful new analytics technologies across your enterprise.  Join us to learn how you can leverage the power of big data and analytics to drive better outcomes in every aspect of your business.

The architecture for solving big data problems isn't a single product; it is a suite of products with many moving parts. Many organizations don't have the time or expertise to integrate and support such a new and different environment. In this session you will learn how Oracle's end-to-end big data platform, featuring engineered systems and other integrated components, make it easier to cost-effectively jump start your big data projects.

As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and roadmap for moving to an enterprise cloud. Faced with different approaches for building an in-house private cloud, IT organizations need a pragmatic blueprint to follow. What’s your first step to leveraging the advantages of cloud computing? This session explores different approaches for implementing a private cloud, and offers best practices for how organizations can successfully move to the cloud.

This two-hour skit for executives, cloud architects and IT operations professionals features an interactive role-playing Intro, Episode sessions, and product demos using real-world scenarios. The event will highlight all the requirements for planning, preparing, deploying, monitoring, and managing enterprise clouds. Participants will learn how to deploy enterprise applications on an enterprise cloud powered by Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, OVM 3.0, as well as Oracle’s full range of hardware using Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Learn how the Oracle Optimized Data Center provides the roadmap for IT organizations to implement a truly Optimized Data Center, enabling them to accelerate business innovation and growth. Senior Oracle Executives, along with IT Industry Analysts and Customers will present acompelling story and evidence of how current Data Center design and deployment inhibits innovation and business growth, and how Oracle provides a unique approach that simplifies data center complexity, frees up precious resources, and ultimately enables IT to deliver strategic value to their business.

The architecture for solving big data problems isn't a single product; it is a suite of products with many moving parts. Many organizations don't have the time or expertise to integrate and support such a new and different environment. In this session you will learn how Oracle's end-to-end big data platform, featuring engineered systems and other integrated components, make it easier to cost-effectively jump start your big data projects.

What would it look like if the most critical steps in the path to service deployment were solved in advance -- by the most knowledgeable experts for those decision points? Oracle's experiences in designing, deploying -- and running -- the world's most comprehensive hardware and software solution portfolio has yielded unique insights into how to deliver optimized elements and complete solutions for the most challenging business problems. See what this means for giving businesses of any size a simpler, faster route to IT as a competitive edge.