We have the opportunity to attend Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, happening from September 19th till 22nd 2016. With over 60k+ attendees, multiple show floors, Howard Street closed, it is the mega event that we always expect it is.
 
 
So catch the video of the key areas to watch:
 
 
No time to watch here is the one slide summary:
 
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Oracle IaaS 2nd Gen – Ellison unveiled what Oracle calls its 2ndgeneration of IaaS. Coming from the ‘skunkworks’ project in Seattle, Oracle is operating on a new data center and networking design. Having challenged (and attracted) talent by starting with a green slate, Oracle now plans to provide 3 data centers at one location for redundancy, all of this highly abstracted between compute and storage, flat network, isolated cross site traffic etc. think of a modern SDDC data center times 3 for each location.

 
PaaS more ExaData, more development models – No OpenWorld without a new release of the Oracle database, so Oracle 12c Release 2 is here, with many housekeeping items – and a cloud based consumption model, at an aggressive entry point. Interesting is also Oracle’s push into visual programming – Ellison showed a graphical programming UI creating a chatbot (what else).

 
SaaS becomes intelligent – On the SaaS side (combined with DaaS) Oracle announced the Adaptive Intelligent applications. Oracle stopped short of calling them AI (we agree), as Ellison said ‘this is not AI’. But it is Oracle’s foray into Machine Learning – that was long overdue, with interesting use cases across CRM, ERP, SCM etc. All coming next year. My colleague Doug Henschen has a whole blog on this - check it out here. 

 
Customer Momentum - CEO Mark Hurd was up next on Monday, offered his usual keynote, this time behind a news desk setup. Economic changes, what is a CEO going to do, what it means for IT and what Oracle offers to help. Different this year were remarkable customer stories, Orange and HSBC (all in for SaaS on Oracle) stood out. 
 
 

MyPOV

A good start for OpenWorld, with over 18 announcements made in Ellison’s keynote – reminding us what a 5B+ R&D budget produces on all fronts of the stack. All eyes are on the new IaaS capability; Oracle needs to get this right in order to keep delivering its vision of the integrated stack. That vision would literally break in half if IaaS does not deliver. Stay tuned for more.

 
The Storify of the Hurd keynote can be found here - see below for Ellison's.
 
Recent blog posts on Oracle:
  • Event Preview - Oracle OpenWorld 2016 - What to expect, what to watch for ... will IaaS start Clicking? - read here
  • Market Move - Oracle acquires NetSuite - Oddly consolidation means more options for customers - read here
  • News Analysis - Oracle Unveils Suite of Breakthrough Services.. or short: Oracle Cloud Machine - read here
  • Progress Report - Oracle Cloud - More ready than ever, now needs adoption - read here
  • Event Report - Oracle Openworld 2015 - Top 3 Takeaways, Top 3 Positives & Concerns - read here
  • News Analysis - Quick Take on all 22 press releases of Oracle OpenWorld Day #1 - #3 - read here
  • First Take - Oracle OpenWorld - Day 1 Keynote - Top 3 Takeaways - read here
  • Event Preview - Oracle Openworld - watch here

Future of Work / HCM / SaaS research:
  • Event Report - Oracle HCM World - Innovation around the Core - read here
  • Event Report - Oracle HCM World - Full Steam ahead, a Learning surprise and potential growth challenges - read here
  • First Take - Oracle HCM World Day #1 Keynote - off to a good start - read here
  • Progress Report - Oracle HCM gathers momentum - now it needs to build on that - read here
  • Oracle pushes modern HR - there is more than technology - read here. (Takeaways from the recent HCMWorld conference).
  • Why Applications Unlimited is good a good strategy for Oracle customers and Oracle - read here.

Also worth a look for the full picture
 
  • Event Report - Oracle PaaS Event - 6 PaaS Services become available, many more announced - read here
  • Progress Report - Oracle Cloud makes progress - but key work remains in the cellar - read here
  • News Analysis - Oracle discovers the power of the two socket server - or: A pivot that wasn't one - TCO still rules - read here
  • Market Move - Oracle buys Datalogix - moves more into DaaS - read here
  • Event Report - Oracle Openworld - Oracle's vision and remaining work become clear - they are both big - read here
  • Constellation Research Video Takeaways of Oracle Openworld 2014 - watch here
  • Is it all coming together for Oracle in 2014? Read here. 
  • From the fences - Oracle AR Meeting takeaways - read here (this was the last analyst meeting in spring 2013)
  • Takeaways from Oracle CloudWorld LA - read here (this was one of the first cloud world events overall, in January 2013)

And if you want to read more of my findings on Oracle technology - I suggest:
  • Progress Report - Good cloud progress at Oracle and a two step program - read here.
  • Oracle integrates products to create its Foundation for Cloud Applications - read here.
  • Java grows up to the enterprise - read here.
  • 1st take - Oracle in memory option for its database - very organic - read here.
  • Oracle 12c makes the database elastic - read here.
  • How the cloud can make the unlikeliest bedfellows - read here.
  • Act I - Oracle and Microsoft partner for the cloud - read here.
  • Act II - The cloud changes everything - Oracle and Salesforce.com - read here.
  • Act III - The cloud changes everything - Oracle and Netsuite with a touch of Deloitte - read here. 

Want to learn more? Checkout the Storify collection below (if it doesn’t show up – check here). Find more coverage on the Constellation Research website here and checkout my magazine on Flipboard and my YouTube channel here.


 
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