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OpenWorld Grand Opening

OpenWorld Grand Opening

By Denis Pombriant on September 29, 2014

Oh, what to write about Sunday night? Sunday must be the hardest night to do a keynote, especially at Oracle OpenWorld. People have been flying all day or the day before and have traveled great distances — 19 percent came from EMEA while 70 percent came from North America — so they’re tired and running […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #oow14, Larry Ellison, oracle, Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Takes New Role - What Does it Really Mean?

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Takes New Role – What Does it Really Mean?

By Michael Fauscette on September 21, 2014

Just prior to Oracle’s Q1 FY15 earnings announcement hitting the wire, the company made an announcement about changes in the Oracle executive suite. Something of a surprise to many, but perhaps not really that much of a surprise, Larry Ellison, co-founder and CEO for 37 years steps out of that role to assume the role […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Board, catz, CEO, chairman, CTO, executive, finance, hurd, Larry Ellison, operations, oracle

Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison

By Denis Pombriant on September 19, 2014

I was going to write a post about Larry Ellison leaving Oracle after he announced his retirement on Thursday but it is probably pre-mature. Ellison will become the executive chairman while Safra Katz and Mark Hurd run the shop as co-CEO’s and I have a lot of doubts. It’s not that Safra and Mark are […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Mark Hurd, microsoft, oracle, Safra Catz, Steve Ballmer

Workday: Linking technology design and user experience

Workday: Linking technology design and user experience

By Michael Krigsman on February 3, 2014

Workday is among the most high-profile examples of a new breed of enterprise software, based completely in the cloud. Started by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, who led PeopleSoft prior to the acquisition by Oracle, Workday is now a public company. As part of the CxOTalk series of conversations with innovators, we spoke with Workday’s Chief Technology Officer, Stan […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #cxotalk, gartner, ibm, Larry Ellison, PeopleSoft, Stan Swete, workday

Oracle OpenWorld 2013: A conundrum solved

Oracle OpenWorld 2013: A conundrum solved

By Paul Greenberg on October 7, 2013

For years I couldn’t resolve how and why Oracle approached the market so differently than other major apps providers. Finally I have. They aren’t truly an apps provider – at least not primarily.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #oow13, America Cup, Conference Scorecard, Larry Ellison, oracle, Oracle OpenWorld | 4 Responses

Last Look at Oracle OpenWorld 2013

Last Look at Oracle OpenWorld 2013

By Denis Pombriant on October 3, 2013

The ghost of Anthony Lye presided over Oracle OpenWorld’s third-day customer experience, or CX, keynote. For CRM and related things, it was the moment I’d been waiting for. Lye is in robust health as far as I know, but he has been gone from Oracle for about a year. He was the architect of Oracle’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #oow13, Endeca, getsatisfaction, Larry Ellison, oracle, Oracle OpenWorld, RightNow Technologies

Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Sails On

Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Sails On

By Denis Pombriant on September 24, 2013

Like any major trade show of long standing, OpenWorld has been in planning for a long time.  But this OpenWorld might be the most planned show of its kind ever because in addition to the extravaganza taking place in the Moscone Center, many of the hotels in the area and even in closed-off streets, an […]

Posted in Business | Tagged #oow13, America Cup, Larry Ellison, Oracle OpenWorld

Event Report: Day 1 At Oracle Open World 2013: The Quest For Innovation #oow13

Event Report: Day 1 At Oracle Open World 2013: The Quest For Innovation #oow13

By R "Ray" Wang on September 23, 2013

Past Oracle Open Worlds Have Disappointed Customers and Partners Let’s be frank.  The past five years at Oracle Open World have disappointed even the faithful.   The over emphasis on hardware marketing and revisionist history on cloud adoption bored audiences.  The $1M paid advertorial keynotes had people walking out on the presenters 15 minutes into the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #oow13, acquisition, Apps Strategy, Big Data, BigData, Box, Business Analytics, business intelligence, CEO, CFO, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Wars, CMO, collaboration, Constellation Research, Constellation SuperNova Awards, Consumer Tech, Consumerization of IT, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Vision, Corporate Vision And Strategy, CRM, CustExp, Customer Experience, customer experience management, CXP, Data to Decisions, Digital Business, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, event report, Exact Target, innovation, Internet of Things, IoT, Larry Ellison, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, oracle, Oracle 12C, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Apps, Oracle Open World, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social business, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, user conference, User Experience, ux, vendor strategy

Salesforce and Workday Get Closer

Salesforce and Workday Get Closer

By Denis Pombriant on September 18, 2013

  I started getting rumors last week when a reporter called me to ask about Oracle buying Salesforce.  She was riffing on the announcement over the summer by Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, that the two companies would use some of each other’s technologies and make it easier for […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Aneel Bhusri, Larry Ellison, Marc Benioff, salesforce.com, sfwday, workday

Informix Damn the Torpedoes

Database Billboards: Times and Cars and Oracle Competitors Gone By

By Dennis Moore on August 16, 2013

Driving up or down 101 these days, you can’t avoid the new SiliconView billboard – it’s a double-sided electronic billboard, so you can see it whether you are going north- or south-bound, and most of us on 101 are driving slowly enough that we get to see several iterations of the billboard content as we […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Billboard, Database, DB2, ibm, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Informix, Larry Ellison, oracle, San Francisco, sap, SAP Hana, Sybase | 3 Responses

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