OpenWorld 2007: Day 1

General OpenWorld news

A number of Keynotes have been held during the first two days of Oracle OpenWorld. On Sunday Larry Ellison and Safra Katz where going over 30 years of Oracle history and how their pizza boy became Oracle’s first CFO.

• Yesterday Charles Phillips started OpenWorld officially with his keynote. No spectacular announcements but here is a small list:
  Application Integration Architecture 2.0 (with new process integration packs
• Database Vault & Audit Vault
• Oracle Agile PLM (Product Lifecycle)

After the introduction Chuck Rozwat (responsible for the development of Fusion Middleware) gave a couple of demo’s on stage of Fusion Middleware parts.

• BPA Suite to BPEL transformation
• Enterprise Manager based on Services
• Database Vault & Audit Vault

Use this link to view all keynotes: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html

Download and read the OpenWorld Daily Newspaper: Monday, November 12

Fusion

Oracle’s Charles Phillip: Fusion on track and Saas for all

In a meeting with Enterprise Irregulars after his keynote at OpenWorld, Oracle President Charles Phillips discussed the future of Fusion, software-as-a-service (SaaS), his notion of “acquired innovation” and other topics. Fusion is Oracle’s next-generation suite of applications, built from the ground up on SOA principles. He was asked if Fusion is “real.” He responded, “I’ve been trying to clear this up for three years.”

Oracle Delivers Communications Industry’s First Pre-Built Integrations Across Enterprise Business Applications

New Class of Process Integration Packs Enables Rapid Implementation, Lower Total Cost of Ownership and Faster Time-to-Market for New Communications Services.

Oracle Introduces the Application Integration Architecture for SAP Initiative; Enabling SAP Customers to Unify Enterprise Applications

Oracle today unveiled the Oracle(R) Application Integration Architecture for SAP initiative, which is intended to extend Oracle’s application integration offering to joint Oracle / SAP customers and provide them a standards-based method to unify their enterprise applications and rapidly adopt a Service-Oriented Architecture.

E-Business Suite

On Sunday there where held around 100 different user forums. There is no information published yet on the internet. As soon this will be available we will communicate this to you. Check this link to see what User Groups are doing and what they have done last year for Oracle.

Link: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/feature-user-group.html

SGI Sets Another Record in Oracle(R) E-Business Suite Benchmark Tests

At the world’s largest gathering of Oracle software users, SGI today announced its SGI(R) Altix(R) platform has again broken the performance and scalability record for real-world, multi-tier applications running Oracle(R) Database 10g Release 2.

PeopleSoft

Quest Software introduces a new version of Stat on OpenWorld. Stat is a change management tool for PeopleSoft.

Link: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071112005236&newsLang=en

Oracle launches Oracle Virtual Machine (available as of PeopleTools 8.49.07)

Link: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM14012112007-1.htm

According tot the blog of Tom Kyte the biggest surprise news so far is: Oracle VM… Sharing this point of view Fahd Marza also speaks of Oracle VM and Oracle VMware

Podcast about PeopleSoft relevant information and sessions on OpenWorld.
Link: http://media.techtarget.com/audioCast/ORACLE/
10_25_2007_sOracle_PeopleSoft_OpenWorld_OAUG_Wagner.mp3

Siebel

Siebel keynotes

• Siebel Contact Center and Service
  This keynote explores product updates and road maps, customer successes, and broader customer relationship management integration and connectivity opportunities. http://www.expobadge.com/dldev/dc/file/Siebel%20Contact%20Center_and_Service_DS_013007.pdf
• Siebel CRM Overview
  This keynote focuses on the Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) family of products and provides information on the latest product releases, updated road maps, and customer successes across industries.
• Siebel Self-Service Overview
  Learn how your organization can take advantage of Oracle Fusion while continuing to leverage your investment in Oracle’s Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM). The session demos upcoming features in Siebel eCommerce, eService, and eBilling Self-Service products. Learn how these offerings fit into your multichannel strategy. http://www.oracle.com/applications/crm/siebel/resources/ecustomer-data-sheet.pdf

Siebel and Oracle Fusion Middleware

This session describes how Oracle’s Siebel is adopting standards-based Oracle Fusion technologies to deliver greater value and services to CRM deployments. It covers the migration path from Siebel Customer Relationship Management to Oracle Fusion CRM and shows where we are today with migration tools. http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/fusion-middleware-for-siebel.html

Oracle Adapters for Siebel: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/integration/adapters/
pdf/DS_OracleASAdapter_SEBL.pdf

• SOA Magic for Siebel
  This session addresses how application developers can use Siebel’s SOA architecture with Oracle Application Integration Architecture and Oracle Fusion Middleware to accelerate the development of custom Web applications exposing Siebel functionality.
• Improve Efficiency with Siebel Business Process Management
  This session discusses how business process computing with Oracle’s Siebel can help businesses improve data quality, deliver consistent service, and keep pace with changing market demands.

Siebel Marketing

• Transforming Marketing Effectiveness and Customer Loyalty
  Learn how Oracle marketing and loyalty solutions can help organizations deliver on the CEO’s agenda and make marketing more relevant, effective, and strategic to their organization. http://www.expobadge.com/dldev/dc/file/siebel-marketing-loyalty-management-data-sheet.pdf
• Siebel Marketing Resource Management (MRM)
  Learn how Oracle’s Siebel Marketing Resource Management solutions enable organizations to align and optimize marketing resources for greater effectiveness and efficiency. http://www.expobadge.com/dldev/dc/file/siebel-marketing-resource-management-data-sheet.pdf

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