Oracle OpenWorld Industries Stream

Industries Tracks

Communications and Media

In a challenging economy, 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. These businesses need a modern, integrated, standards-based infrastructure that automates and accelerates every step of the process from new service creation to monetization. The Communications and Media track provides a comprehensive overview of Oracle's products and solutions for the industry and details some of the strategies communications and media companies are using to flourish in the current downturn.

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Consumer Goods

In today's economy, it is important to make sure that you are fully leveraging every investment you have made throughout the years. In the Consumer Goods track at Oracle OpenWorld. you will see how consumer goods companies are leveraging Oracle solutions to effectively address a multitude of complex business issues facing this industry. Hear how Oracle is partnering with customers to help them become more consumer-centric, increase the success of product launches, improve the ROI on trade promotions, and increase shareholder value. Join your peers to learn how Oracle applications and technology can deliver operational efficiencies that support profitable growth and improve the predictability of financial results.

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Education and Research

Education administrators increasingly are looking for new ways to use information technology. This year's Education and Research track examines how school districts, higher education, and research institutions are using Oracle applications and technology today to meet and adapt to the changing needs and demands of all their constituents—students, teachers, parents, faculty, staff, graduates and alumni, governance bodies, and the extended community of supporters and stakeholders. Take advantage of these targeted sessions to learn how Oracle can support the requirements of small institutions as well as large, multilocation school districts and university systems.

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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.

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Health Sciences

Today's life sciences and healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented challenges in a dynamic economic and business climate. Organizations across the entire health sciences ecosystem—from traditional manufacturing-based medical device and pharmaceutical companies to contract research organizations, academic medical research centers, and world-class healthcare organizations—are leveraging technology to prepare for growth and success while building on their common synergies in this transformative environment. In this track, learn how Oracle's comprehensive industry-leading solutions for health sciences are accelerating insights for better health and delivering measurable results for life sciences and healthcare organizations of all types.

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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 gain competitive advantages in the face of the current economy. Learn how to best manage shrinking product lifecycles; slimming margins; the need for continuous product innovation; international product collaboration and manufacturing outsourcing; multifaceted demand planning and supply chains; distribution channel expansion; expanding lines of service to grow profits; 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 successfully innovate, increase enterprise efficiency and productivity, reduce operational costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

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Insurance

Insurers have always dealt with a set of challenges unique to their business—challenges increased by recent global market dynamics. At last year's Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle launched its Oracle Insurance line of applications, a modern, complete, and innovative insurance software solution to help insurance companies solve key business challenges and manage the entire enterprise—from infrastructure to sales, service, administration, and financials. This year, the Oracle Insurance track will focus on how Oracle's solutions can help insurers get new products to market faster, drive more effective distribution management, and improve overall operational efficiencies. Sessions also outline plans for further developing and integrating Oracle's best-in-class, insurance-specific applications with the company's technology and business infrastructure. Sessions include Oracle industry experts and Oracle customers discussing how Oracle technology and applications can help insurers manage their business to thrive in a dramatically changing global economy.

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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. By attending the Manufacturing sessions at Oracle OpenWorld, 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. Sessions will focus on the specific requirements of industrial manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace and defense industries.

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Oil and Gas

The Oil and Gas track at Oracle OpenWorld examines how the oil and gas industry is using Oracle applications and technology to provide energy to the world in a cost-effective and safe manner. Oracle offers one of the largest portfolios of software solutions for the oil and gas industry, including business intelligence applications; master data management solutions; data warehousing; RFID capabilities; Oracle SOA Suite; Oracle Spatial; and Oracle's Crystal Ball, AutoVue, and Primavera solutions. Coupled with Oracle's solutions for asset management, talent management, financials, supply chain, field service, demand planning, and customer relationship management, this Oracle portfolio is transforming the way the oil and gas industry conducts business. Join your peers for a lineup of sessions that speak to current issues, and hear success stories from some of the top leaders in the oil and gas industry.

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Public Sector

Government managers and leaders are seeking new ways to use information technology to improve services and reduce costs. The Public Sector track at Oracle OpenWorld examines how governments 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, and increasing efficiency and transparency to deliver better information for decision-making, better deployment of resources, and better-targeted public policy.

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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.

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Services Industries

Globalization, the rapid expansion of the internet, and new technologies have enabled a worldwide service economy in which services can be delivered to customers anywhere in the globe, by service providers anywhere in the globe. Business service companies, logistics services providers, airlines, hotels, and engineering and construction firms all face common challenges in bringing new, innovative services to market, predictably delivering those services, meeting regulatory requirements, retaining and growing loyal customers, maintaining a productive workforce, and streamlining front-office and back-office processes. The Services Industries track at Oracle OpenWorld explores the issues service companies face, provides an overview of key solutions Oracle has developed for service companies, and showcases case studies from real-world implementations that are transforming the customer experience, reducing costs, and growing revenues through service innovation. Attend sessions in this track to meet your peers and partners, get the latest product insights, and share in best practices and experiences to ensure success in your service transformation journey.

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Utilities

Join utility 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, efficiently manage your smart metering initiatives, enable smart grids and reduce the impact of outages, optimize work and asset management, transform field service operations, streamline end-to-end retail operations, and increase customer service levels at reduced costs to maximize overall 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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