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Oracle OpenWorld General Sessions
Your Technology Area, Your Industry, Your Leaders
Oracle OpenWorld streams help you find the content most relevant to your industry and technology implementations. Oracle OpenWorld general sessions bring the top development and strategy leaders from Oracle and its partners to you for targeted, inspirational presentations focused on best practices, new developments, and upcoming innovations in those stream areas—applications, database, management and infrastructure, middleware, and industries. Don't miss this chance to meet the executive leadership responsible for developing the technology that runs your business. Learn what they're planning for the products and services you use, and see what they're predicting for the months ahead for your business and industry. All general sessions are scheduled for Monday, October 12. See details below for topics, times, and locations.
Applications Stream
Complete, Open, and Integrated Applications for Your Business
IT is the biggest lever CEOs and CIOs have to meet the ongoing challenge of improving operational performance and increasing business competitiveness. Oracle delivers applications that optimize every function across both service- and product-based industries. With the world's best products for managing all aspects of your company, Oracle Applications will improve your company's economic, operational, and competitive performance. Please join Steve Miranda as he demonstrates how Oracle Applications can help improve all aspects of your business.
Database Stream
Lower Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Oracle Database 11g is helping many organizations reduce their IT costs through consolidation on enterprise grids, reduction of storage requirements, and the elimination of idle redundancy. The latest generation of database innovation—Oracle Database 11g Release 2—completes the vision to deliver a higher quality of service at a much lower cost. It offers a raft of new features and enhancements such as grid plug-and-play to streamline grid provisioning, Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System to manage all your data and files, unique online application upgrade, Oracle Exadata optimizations for even more extreme performance, and much more. Join Andy Mendelsohn and learn why Oracle Database 11g Release 2 is the compelling choice for your organization.
Management and Infrastructure Stream
Get the Most Out of Virtualization: Manage Top-Down from Application to Disk
Business pressures and operational limitations are driving fundamental transformations in the data center. Virtualization has arrived in your data center, bringing with it lower cost and greater agility but also management challenges. Join us at this general session to discover why virtualization is not just about servers but also about applications and services. You will hear firsthand how Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) unleashes the power of virtualization. You will also learn about new virtualization and management solutions from Oracle that will help you simplify deployment and management of applications and maximize the return on your investments in any environment—virtual or physical—and how to build your private cloud.
Middleware Stream
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g—Foundation for Innovation
With the release of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle delivers a foundation for organizations to innovate business models, cost structures, and customer connections—while maximizing IT efficiency. Be the first see how the latest release of Oracle Fusion Middleware delivers on the promise of the agile and intelligent enterprise. Hear how transformational technologies such as SOA, enterprise content management, business intelligence, and application grid provide the foundation for customer-driven innovation and Oracle Fusion Applications.
Communications and Media
In today's economic environment, communications service providers and media companies need to find innovative new ways to grow the top line while improving employee productivity and making more-efficient use of capital and operating expenditures. In this session, Oracle's senior communications executive Bhaskar Gorti joins Adrian Dilworth, CIO of Vodafone Qatar, to detail some of the strategies that communications and media companies are using to flourish in the current downturn: streamlining business processes, improving the customer experience, and increasing their agility.
Financial Services
Financial services firms globally face economic challenges, intense competition, and an ever-increasing regulatory burden. More institutions are looking to the wide range of ways Oracle can help them meet these challenges aggressively. In this session, learn how Oracle's powerful combination of technology and comprehensive, integrated business applications for financial services help meet the needs of banks and capital markets firms. Hear from the leadership team of Oracle Financial Services for an update on Oracle's product strategy and insight on the industry.
Health Sciences
Leading health sciences organizations are moving toward modernizing their business process, architecture, and technology infrastructure in an attempt to address the challenges faced by the industry today. At this general session, you will hear from Oracle and its customers about how Oracle's continued product innovation; complete, open, and integrated applications; and enhanced end-user experience enable healthcare providers and life sciences organizations to address their most critical business challenges.
Insurance
The past year has been fraught with challenges for insurers across the globe. From financial turmoil and real estate market collapse to compliance woes and ever-more-critical consumers, insurers are contending with survival, no less with the need for business growth and expansion necessary to be competitive. But is it possible that new opportunities rise from the rubble? Can the industry find ways to balance conflicting needs and an uncertain environment to forge a path to success? Hear from Oracle Insurance executives and Oracle partner Capgemini how global insurers are finding ways to succeed and prepare for a future where often opposing needs, market ambiguity, and competitive pressure can attract the most compelling results.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing companies in the automotive, aerospace and defense, and industrial manufacturing industries are under relentless pressure to be more agile and responsive in adapting to ever-changing global business challenges. In this session, John Barcus, Oracle's vice president of manufacturing industries, and Eileen Sweeney, president of CSC's Manufacturing Sector, present their vision of the future. Learn about Oracle solutions that help manufacturing companies address the needs of ever-demanding customers, adapt to rapidly changing economic conditions, address new regulations, deliver innovative products and solutions, and differentiate themselves from new competitors.
Public Sector
In this session, Mark Johnson, Oracle senior vice president of Public Sector Sales, provides an update on Oracle in government. You will learn how Oracle can help you achieve organizational goals through its recent acquisitions and integration strategies. The session includes a review of frequently asked questions about Oracle in the public sector.
Retail
The world of retail has undergone a major shift caused by economic decline, changing consumer demographics and shopping behavior, and the increasingly significant role and impact of technology. Retail has traditionally been a product-centric industry, but the new normal is for the industry to be customer-centric. The key business transformation for retailers will involve generating cash, taking out inventory, and cutting costs. This session addresses how to better connect with consumers and do it at scale. Technology is the key to this transformation: retailers must capitalize on technology to compete and reinvent themselves by enabling customer-centricity with operational excellence and agility.
Services Industries
Driving the Services Economy
Across the globe, the services sector continues to expand, adding significantly to the GDP of industrialized economies. Simultaneously, a service transformation is underway in product-based companies spawning a new line of comprehensive end-to-end service capabilities. As this services-based economic engine grows, new businesses are evolving and existing businesses are consolidating to provide a services model that can scale globally. Predictive service execution is becoming key as enterprises grow their service portfolios, their customer base, and their global footprint. This general session explores the challenges and opportunities for companies operating in or entering into the services economy, and how these companies can take advantage of Oracle's broad solution portfolio to drive success.
Utilities
In the Oracle Utilities general session, senior executives from Oracle Utilities address some of the biggest challenges facing the utilities industry and how Oracle is prepared to help its valued customers meet those challenges. Don't miss this opportunity to hear about market deregulation, changing business environments, the green agenda, rising customer demands, the smart grid, smart metering, and more. Find out how Oracle and its partners can help your utility be more successful through in-depth industry expertise, integrated end-to-end solutions, and mission-critical software that improves performance and reduces risk.
