Oracle OpenWorld

Here is a press release concerning Oracle OpenWorld:

Oracle Press Release

Contact(s):

Jessica Epple
Oracle
+1.650.506.8741
jessica.epple@oracle.com

Kimberly Pineda
Oracle
+1.520.572.1627
kimberly.pineda@oracle.com

Oracle® OpenWorld San Francisco to Feature Solutions for Industries
Sessions to Showcase Oracle Applications and Technology in Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Communications and Other Industries


REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. 29-AUG-2005 Oracle today announced that it will offer industry-focused sessions at Oracle(r) OpenWorld San Francisco, Oracle's global business and technology conference to be held September 17 - 22, 2005, at Moscone Center. This year's event will highlight 18 key industries, offering attendees the opportunity to see real-world deployments of Oracle technology and applications in specific industries.
The industry sessions at Oracle OpenWorld will help attendees understand how they can better solve business problems specific to their market. The sessions will also highlight how organizations are using business intelligence, collaboration, integration, grid computing and security technologies to meet industry-specific demands. Some of the key industries featured in the program include:

* Retail: Will introduce Oracle Retail, which brings together the best retail expertise and technology of Oracle, Retek and ProfitLogic. Oracle Retail solutions deliver an insight-driven enterprise which enables retailers to achieve higher sales, maximized profitability and improved operational performance;
* Financial Services: Will focus on customer insight and management, streamlining general ledger rules and improving service while reducing costs;
* Communications: Will feature leading service providers who will discuss how they are leveraging Oracle solutions to improve customer relationship, service ordering, field service operations and network asset tracking processes;
* Healthcare: Will discuss the challenges of the National Healthcare Information Network and how to provide, and pay for, quality healthcare services with constrained resources, regulatory demands;
* Life Sciences: Will focus on how advanced computing technologies and biological research are converging to drastically change drug discovery and development and how these technologies improve supply chain and manufacturing efficiencies while meeting regulatory compliance requirements; and
* Public Sector: Will highlight how government organizations are implementing initiatives to streamline processes, reach their citizens and deliver new services.

Other industries showcased at the event include Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Education and Research, Engineering and Construction, High Technology, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas, Professional Services, Travel and Transportation and Utilities. For more information about Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco and the industry sessions visit: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/sanfrancisco.

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For those who can't attend, a podcast will be available:

Oracle has announced plans to offer content content via podcasting for the Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco conference, Sept. 17 - 22, 2005 at Moscone Center.

"Oracle is one of the first companies to bring podcasting to a conference to reach audiences who may not have been able to attend," said Oracle Senior Vice President Judy Sim. "By podcasting, OpenWorld attendees will be able to listen to relevant content long after the show is over."

The Oracle OpenWorld podcasts will deliver news and information about each daily theme including Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Applications and Oracle Database and Grid technologies. Attendees will be able to download audio programming and store content for future use and those who are not able to attend the show benefit from access to valuable, relevant information.

During Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle will conduct interviews with technology experts that will be syndicated through the OTN TechCasts RSS feed. By subscribing to this feed, users will be able to download these podcasts in the common MP3 audio format via iTunes 4.9 or podcast clients such as iPodder or Doppler to portable music players free of charge. Users can subscribe to the OTN TechCasts feed, or download standalone MP3 podcasts, from the OTN website....

Why all the talk about Oracle OpenWorld? This event is actually one of the things that inspired the creation of this blog. Although I didn't mention it at the time, I am scheduled to attend Oracle OpenWorld, and will try to blog about it while I'm up there. It's better to blog about Oracle OpenWorld in a technical blog than in a general interest blog (OK, here's some Oracle Database 10g news...here's some Stacy Nadeau news)...

I'll try to post information before the conference also as I encounter it. Please be advised that my primary interest is in the database technologies, but if I run across something interesting in one of the other product lines I'll talk about that also.

Also be advised that I am not a DBA. Heck, I'm an economics major. Nuff said.