Oracle Open World is busy, it is hard work, but it is also great fun. To me there is very little difference between the fun and the work, but in this post I want to concentrate on all the great things I had a chance to do.
I meet so many people at Oracle events and yet I am useless at remembering names. I am more likely to remember something silly you have done, a (more...)
User Experience is my favourite team in Oracle. How successfully we use the applications is what we are all striving to do and how easy and intuitive they are is a big part of that success. This is the UX.
The day before the Oracle ACE Director briefings is now traditionally the Applications UX Day, where they share their roadmap and what they are up to. For me this is another not to be missed (more...)
As promised I kept up my tradition of a fun triathlon.
On the Saturday before Open World, many people take the opportunity to cycle the bridge, there is actually a group arranged by Bryn Llewellyn but I know I couldn't keep up with them, so I like to go off with just one or two people.
Fiona has never done the bridge by bike so we decided we would have a go. Fiona has just (more...)
I gave my overall thoughts about the messages and where I think Oracle are in another post, and I said important to me is where PaaS, Platform as a Service, is going. The development tools part of the Oracle offering.
There was lots of PaaS content at the ACE Director Briefings and much more at OOW itself. They talked about delivering the PaaS portfolio in suites, grouping together products that you might want to use (more...)
I always feel guilty at OOW, that I don't have the time to man the EOUC (covers all uaergroups within EMEA) stand. In fact this year I spent more time finding it than actually talking to people on it, which is a shame, it was quite hidden away on the exhibition floor.
I did however pull together the third annual #EMEADBAs session which Tim Hall captured in a quick video. Tim didn't include me in (more...)
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