Your Industries Stream
Understanding the competitive and strategic dynamics in your industry is critical to your success over time. Oracle can help you determine which go-to-market strategies are best suited to your needs and will deliver measurable value to your bottom-line results. The several industry tracks at Oracle OpenWorld this year are designed to encompass issues ranging from transformational business strategies to more intimate discussions around solution-specific challenges and approaches. Oracle understands industry market dynamics and customer needs. In this stream, you will have the opportunity to learn more about Oracle's industry strategy and how Oracle has invested to deliver on industry-specific solutions that address the global business needs of key industries worldwide.
Communications
In the complex and competitive communications market, service providers must bring innovative, targeted offerings to market rapidly to drive profitable revenue growth and retain customer loyalty. To make this possible, service providers need a modern, integrated, standards-based infrastructure that automates and accelerates every step of the process from new service creation to monetization. The communications industry track provides an overview of Oracle's products and solutions for the communications industry, including Oracle Application Integration Architecture. Find out what's new, and learn how Oracle is enabling telco transformation in the face of a rapidly changing industry.
Financial Services
This past year has seen the financial services industry move from the business page to front-page headlines. The recent subprime mortgage crisis and major fraud scandals have increased awareness of the importance of this industry to the global economy. In the financial services industry track, you will see how Oracle can help you navigate today's treacherous environment of complex and interrelated risks, decreasing margins, increased public scrutiny, and new competitors unknown to this industry just a few years ago. Sessions include Oracle industry experts and Oracle customers discussing how Oracle technology and applications can make a real difference with your customers, provide competitive differentiation, improve cost effectiveness, and help you holistically manage your compliance and corporate governance initiatives.
Health Sciences
Quality patient care and appropriate use of technology are synonymous in today's healthcare industry. Healthcare providers and payers recognize that without the underpinning of a solid technical architecture, the goal of moving to electronic health, medical, and personal records will not be realized. Quality is defined now by the technology-enabled communication mechanisms for delivering care, and Oracle has invested years of research into the best practical solutions for an industry where minutes and even seconds make a difference. Oracle has participated in the National Health Information Network (NHIN) prototype and has helped develop, meet, and maintain the Health Information Exchange (HIE) standards. The imperative to share data within healthcare requires standards and data definitions that are unique to the healthcare industry. Oracle is a leader in these areas and continues to develop products that support not only the rapid integration of meaningful data but also the ability to query the data for immediate best practices, research, public health, translational medicine, and a myriad of purposes that promote wellness and disease control. Join your peers for a lineup of healthcare sessions that speak to current issues, and hear real-life success stories from some of the top leaders in our industry.
High Technology
Learn about Oracle solutions tailored specifically to address the complex challenges high technology enterprises face today. In this track, you'll see how Oracle's applications and technology solutions help customers survive and thrive in the face of shrinking product lifecycles and slimming margins; challenging international product collaboration and manufacturing outsourcing; multifaceted demand planning and supply chains; distribution channel expansion; expanding lines of service; and the need for integrated, complex analytics and business intelligence to enable decisive action with little risk. Discover how your high technology company can leverage Oracle's breadth of products and services, taking advantage of end-to-end business process solutions that utilize Oracle's best-of-breed applications and technology to enable you to continuously innovate, increase enterprise efficiency and productivity, reduce operational costs, and improve customer satisfaction.
Manufacturing
As product commoditization, global competition, and rigorous compliance requirements threaten today's manufacturing industry, the pressure to accelerate time to market, deliver superior customer experiences, and maintain a lean enterprise is reaching unprecedented levels of intensity. In the Manufacturing sessions at Oracle OpenWorld 2008, you will learn how top manufacturers are using Oracle's industry-leading solutions to rapidly deliver differentiated products and services, retain profitable customers, and harness innovation across their highly complex, global ecosystems. Session topics focus on the specific requirements of consumer goods, chemicals, oil and gas, natural resources, industrial manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace and defense industries. Attend these sessions if you want to start optimizing performance within your sales, service, distribution, trade management, and performance-based supply chain operations.
Public Sector and Education
Government managers and education administrators and leaders increasingly seek new ways to use information technology to improve services and reduce costs. This year's Public Sector and Education track examines how governments, school districts, and higher education institutions are using Oracle applications and technology today to become more innovative, integrated, and intelligent in order to meet these challenges. Take advantage of these targeted sessions to learn how your peers are transforming service delivery, modernizing the IT infrastructure, increasing efficiency and transparency, and strengthening student recruiting and retention.
Retail
Retailers have never faced a more challenging yet opportunity-rich environment. The world in which retailers operate has undergone radical change, yet the chance to drive growth may be greater than ever before for retailers willing to invest in a model built on customer knowledge, agility, adaptability, and intelligence. With the help of Oracle, today's retailers are leveraging insight-driven applications to prepare their organizations for growth and success in the next generation of retailing. In this track, learn how Oracle's industry-leading technology and applications for supply chain, merchandising, store systems, planning and optimization, and business operations are transforming the economics of retail and delivering measurable results for retailers of all sizes.
Utilities
Join utilities industry professionals and technology experts for a broad range of sessions focused on demonstrating how utility companies can expand market opportunities, maximize operational efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, leverage new technologies, and address environmental challenges. Hear about the critical issues facing your industry peers today, including how to increase returns from advanced metering infrastructure investments, enable intelligent grids and reduce the impact of outages, optimize work and asset management, transform field service operations, increase customer service levels at reduced costs, streamline end-to-end retail operations, and maximize customer lifetime value. Oracle representatives will be on hand to answer your questions and to demonstrate Oracle's mission-critical solutions, technology, and applications for the utilities industry.
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