Executive Solution Sessions at Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle partners include the most respected, successful, and innovative technology and services providers around the world. You'll find many of those partners here, at Oracle OpenWorld, in the exhibition halls, pavilions, and sessions. Select partners also present their best practices, experience, and visionary guidance in Oracle OpenWorld Executive Solution Sessions and Oracle OpenWorld InPosition Interviews. Don't miss this chance to get in-depth knowledge from Oracle's vibrant and growing partner community—and the chance to win great prizes while you're at it.
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Moscone South, Room 303
Realize your Oracle Investment with the Next-Generation EMC Information Infrastructure
In this general session, EMC executives will share direction and strategies for accelerating time to value from Oracle Database and Oracle Applications. EMC and Oracle will unveil new solutions based on industry-changing infrastructure technologies, including new ultra-performance EMC Symmetrix Flash Drives, virtualization, and application-aware continuous data protection. Attendees will also learn best practices from Oracle Global IT, which leverages more than 3 petabytes of EMC to help achieve cost savings of more than US$2 billion dollars.
Special Promotion: Attend this session and enter for your chance to win one of three $500 AMEX gift cards.
Mike O'Neill | Vice President, Technology Alliances, EMC Corporation | biography [+/-]
Mike O'Neill is vice president of Technology Alliances for EMC. He is responsible for managing the EMC partnerships with all key technology partners, including Oracle. Prior to joining EMC, O'Neill was a senior director of Alliances at Network Appliance. O'Neill has also held executive positions in sales and business development at several other enterprise technology companies, including Attachmate, Data General/EMC, and Stratus. O'Neill holds an M.B.A. from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, and a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Puget Sound.
Rich Wells | Chief Solutions Architect, EMC Corporation | biography [+/-]
Rich is currently the Chief Solutions Architect for EMC's Global Solutions Group. In this capacity he has developed and delivered multiple solutions designed to help customers reduce cost and risk while optimizing the deployment of mission critical applications. Rich has worked with EMC for the past 14 years in various senior management positions while his high tech career has spanned 30+ years.
Rich currently holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Boston University, located in Boston, MA.
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Moscone South, Room 303
How to Build an Agile Foundation for Change
Change is something that is now continuous, constant, and unrelenting. And achieving sustainable business success requires embracing a new core competency: agility. Creating efficiencies through process standardization and IT investment alone is no longer an effective way to create competitive advantage. It requires a new approach of strategic and operational agility that balances standardization and flexibility in people, processes, and technology. Learn the secrets to agile success when Randy Browning, Clients and Industries leader for the U.S. Advisory Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, shares his company's insights in this Executive Solution Session.
Special Promotion: Attend this session and enter for your chance to win one of three $500 AMEX gift cards.
Randy Browning | Clients and Industries Leader, U.S. Advisory Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers | biography [+/-]
Randy Browning is the Clients and Industries leader for the U.S. Advisory practice and is a member of the U.S. Advisory leadership team at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is responsible for the development of Advisory's client- and industry-centric approach to the market, raising awareness of the practice's capabilities in the media and marketplace, and is instrumental in furthering the development of Advisory's market positioning, differentiation, and value proposition.
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Moscone South, Room 303
Intelligently Communicate with Customers and Optimize Billing Operations
Businesses today continue to improve the customer experience, while driving billing operation costs down and profits up. From creating targeted messages and high-impact communications delivered in your customer's preferred print or electronic format to improving customer service with fast access to exact-replica documents, Pitney Bowes Business Insight Chief Technology Officer Laurence O'Hagan explains how Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software solutions help overcome customer-care and billing inefficiencies. Learn how these solutions, which are integrated with Oracle billing and customer relationship management systems, help you streamline billing, maximize USPS discounts, and ensure accurate customer data.
Special Promotion: Attend this session and enter for your chance to win one of three GPS systems.
Laurence O'Hagan | Chief Technology Officer, Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software, CCM Division | biography [+/-]
Laurence O'Hagan is the chief technology officer for the Customer Communications Management division of Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software. A physicist by background, O'Hagan has been in the electronic printing and publishing space since the late seventies. He originally conceived and architected DOC1, Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software's flagship software solution for Customer Communications Management, as well as other products pivotal to Group 1, including EngageOne Interactive, DCS, and Content Author, among others. He is an expert in the field of document automation and related technology. A senior spokesperson for the organization, O'Hagan speaks frequently at industry events and trade shows and has sat on a variety industry technical-standards boards.
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Moscone South, Room 303
Optimizing Shared-Service Centers by Implementing Virtualized Service-Oriented Infrastructure
This session profiles a project whose objective was to establish a single easy-to-use, coherent framework operation and external interfaces; improve and integrate the dialogue between the councils; and collaborate, without barriers, in research, training, and knowledge-transfer activities. Teaming with Oracle, Fujitsu Services and Fujitsu Siemens Computers helped the customer achieve this objective by delivering a sophisticated service-oriented architecture/service-oriented infrastructure (SOA/SOI) solution based on Fujitsu Siemens Computers' FlexFrame for Oracle. Richard McCormack, senior vice president of marketing at Fujitsu Computer Systems, shares the details in his Tuesday Executive Solutions Session.
Special Promotion: Attend this session and enter for your chance to win a prize.
Richard McCormack | Senior Vice President, Marketing, Fujitsu Computer Systems | biography [+/-]
With more than two decades of industry experience, Richard McCormack brings the vision and tactical experience necessary to develop and drive the marketing strategy for Fujitsu Computer Systems in North America. With his team, McCormack is responsible for all aspects of marketing in North America, covering corporate and consumer products, solutions, and services. McCormack is a frequent spokesperson on behalf of Fujitsu in North America speaking on industry, technical, and marketing topics. During his career, McCormack has led engagements involving mission-critical OLTP, system consolidation and customer relationship management with customers in a broad range of industries. Prior to working with Fujitsu Computer Systems, McCormack was vice president of Storage Marketing for Amdahl Corp., where he developed and managed both open systems and S/390 storage solutions. McCormack's extensive background as an open systems consultant in the U.K. brought him to the United States in 1995 to serve as Siemens AG's director of Product Marketing, where he was responsible for Siemens Cluster and High Availability strategy.
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Moscone South, Room 302
Green IT and Sustainability: A Business Imperative for an Energy and Environmental Framework
Environmental responsibility is a business and social imperative. With Information Technology energy demands growing 12x overall demand, energy waste cannot be ignored and IBM works with many enterprises on Energy Efficient Data Centers and other solutions. Hear how IBM's Project Big Green is reaping significant reductions in CO2 emissions while doubling computing capacity without increasing power consumption. Learn how IBM's Energy and Environmental framework and Green solutions are changing the way enterprises are meeting such challenges.
Ed Trevisani | GBS Oracle Lead Executive, NE Europe, IBM | biography [+/-]
Ed Trevisani is a Senior Global Executive with many years of consulting experience. He has worked with many joint IBM/Oracle customers on their Green Information technology issues. His experience covers a variety of public and private clients, including multi-plant operations; M&A, turnarounds, IT assessment and implementations, end to end supply chain in industries such as: Chem/Petroleum, Industrial Manufacturing, consumer products, high tech, software, metals, and retail.
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Moscone South, Room 303
CSC: At the Forefront of Thought Leadership and Next Practices
Visionary Lem Lasher, president of CSC's Global Business Solutions and chief innovation officer for the company, speaks to the industry trends and challenges customers are facing in the marketplace. Attend this session to learn more about CSC's Leading Edge Forum, an innovative global network of thought leaders and a powerful body of research and practices that help organizations realize benefits from using advanced business and technology. CSC spans Oracle's full portfolio, providing consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing services to customers worldwide.
Special Promotion: Attend this session and enter for your chance to win one of three Nintendo Wii video game consoles.
Lem Lasher | President of Global Business Solutions and Chief Innovation Officer, CSC | biography [+/-]
Lem Lasher is president of global business solutions and services with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). He is also vice president and chief innovation officer with CSC's Office of Innovation, which includes The Leading Edge Forum, The Research Network, Global Solutions Organization, Corporate Alliances, and Knowledge Management & Enablement. Prior to this assignment, Lasher held numerous managing director positions within CSC's European Group, including BAE Systems global account; European Consulting; CSC Belgium and Luxembourg; and director, industry practices for Benelux.
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