2023-04-19 CloudWorld

It seemed very partner focused rather than purely technology focused.  It was much smaller than any Oracle conference that I have ever attended.  It seemed to be as much a networking opportunity as an educational opportunity.   That having been said there were some Oracle heavy hitters on the agenda.  

Great showmanship on the keynote.  We heard from a number of customers about their implementations.  However, there was not a product or process theme.  It was very varied.  

• Nespresso – talking about new data that describes the customer experience.

• Network Rail – Talking about IOT data and the more efficient repair scheduling based on sensor data.

• London Stock Exchange – Talking about process alignment with recently acquired companies.

• Volvo – talking about a new business opportunity for them in providing a brokerage for haulage and the data needed to support it. 

Clay Magouyrk, Executive Vice President, OCI gave an overview of what Oracle is doing with Dedicated Regions.  There seems to be a new balance being struck between control of the data and having the datacenter professionally managed, that Oracle feels it is better placed to exploit than other cloud vendors.  It seems to stake out ground in the private cloud space.   

Steven Miranda, Executive Vice President, Applications Development gave the applications keynote.  Steve went through a host of customers, industry by industry and gave upcoming priorities.  Healthcare was noted as one of the forward focus areas as well as one of the categories of customers that he went through. Steve obviously saw me in the crowd because he ran off before I could speak to him. 

I attended this theater session.  The acoustics were very bad as the theaters had little soundproofing.  What I did catch from the session was the timings from first client contact to letting the client loose on a conference room pilot of their set up.  They stated 4 months.  That seems a reasonable, rationale goal.  

Rich Clayton,VP Product Strategy for analytics ran through product directions and some case studies for Fusion Analytics Warehouse.  We got to speak with him briefly after his presentation.

They had the Oracle, Redbull racing team run through how they have planned out race strategy for every scenario in the race.  They run these scenarios, in Monte Carlo simulation in real time during the race as probabilities change and branches in the network are replaced with unfolding events.  The session was mostly for entertainment, although it did make me think through disease progression through a population and running those sorts of scenarios.