If you missed my day 1, you can view it here.

I know it’s been 3 weeks since my last blog post 🤦🏽‍♂️, just been extremely busy, but with many people asking me when am I going to finish the series, “the suspense is killing me”, it gave me motivation to just get it completed! 😎

Oracle CloudWorld Registration

Oracle CloudWorld actually starts on the Tuesday but you can register from Monday, so after spending the morning on bid work, I headed over to The Venetian Convention Centre, where the conference was held.

I would use the Las Vegas Monorail daily, and on route I would see The Sphere, it would light up in many different way, but inside was a concert hall. Pretty cool, below is how it looked as I passed:

Once arrived, it was surprisingly starting to get busy:

I heard over to registration, which thankfully wasn’t that busy:

Many people working on the registration desk, getting through the queue:

Right that was me registered 😎:

Oracle Partner Success Summit

I attended this event last year, it was pretty good and Safra made a flying visit. So I got there early to get front seats:

As expected Doug Smith opened up the Oracle Partner Success Summit:

And then welcome Safra Catz, the CEO of Oracle to the stage 😁:

Safra started with thanking the Oracle Partners:

“Thank you, thank you, thank you, every single one of you, we’ve had the most incredible year, because you have been a huge part of it, and you made our customers incredibly successful!”

Then Doug and Safra went on to discuss:

• Innovation is key to success
• Doing things fast, costs less
• Benefit from economies of scale
• Growing 45% year on year in OCI
• Minimising labour, maximising efficiency
• AI, data everywhere, the cool startups coming to OCI
• All about customer success, change is hard, it’s the sociology, partners working with our joint customers for their success
• Enterprises harnessing the AI for their customers/end users
• Speed and security is important for our joint customers where their data is their Crown Jewels
• Microsoft announcement, Azure with OCI, allows customers to bring Oracle workloads to the Azure Cloud. Openness is key, allow customers to choose what is best and not be locked in. Customer free choice, opens up for more and more business and success.

Next Jae Evans and Mike Sicilia came to the stage:

The topic was “Innovation: Building Solution Together”.

They talked about:

• Integrating applications together is the most costly element. Oracle has end to end applications along with industry expertise.
• Better, faster, cheaper Cloud. Differentiate by the ability to right size different option of Clouds. Sovereign Cloud, Cloud@Customer and Alloy.
• Openness, integrate not only for Oracle apps, but others, the data fabric, the public APIs, presenting the best solution for the customer.

Next Jason Maynard, Mark Hura, Garret Llg and Cormac Watters came to the stage:

The topic was “Business Impact: Achieving Go-To-Market Success Together”.

They talked about:

• Partners bringing industry expertise to enable customer success. Oracle helping partners navigate Oracle, so partners can help our customer to gain success.
• Partners to do 70% of implementation.
• Engaging early with Oracle, single account exec model. Industry focused, technology platform, utilising innovative.
• Have to commit, and follow through together! To gain better outcome.
• Partners as trusted advisors, advising customers to better gain success.
• Start-ups, ISVs, Enterprises and Government, 4 types of customers. What is the architecture and transformation. Migrate, manage, and transformation.
• 80% of go-lives via partners for Oracle Apps. Partners then bring innovation to the customers.

Key takeaways:

• OCI differentiates from a technical and commercial perspective
• Engage early, partners are more closer to customer
• Mutually commit, and see it through together

Next Dan Haller and Ross Brown (I sat next to Ross last year at the Oracle Partner Success Summit 😉) came to the stage:

The topic was “Business Impact: Winning Together”.

They discussed:

• Building differentiated solutions together
• Leaning in, look at the whole of OCI to bring value to customer
• See the economic benefits
• Looking at workloads, moving them and then looking at the rest
• Understand the distributed services
• Clouds are built not bought
• Build more together
• One Oracle with you the partners

The final segment was Doug and Gary Miller:

The topic was “Customer Success: Delivery Together”.

They discussed:

• Driving customer success together
• Getting the value from Oracle technology
• Working together, getting it right first time
• More demand than capacity by two fold, so if more partners are up to speed and trained, can do more business
• Don’t engage reactively, but proactively

Next Doug mentioned the Oracle CloudWorld Tour, so if you missed Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas, you could attend one more closer to home:

Doug closed the Oracle Partner Success Summit by announcing the Global Winners of the 2023 Partner Awards:

Version 1 had won the EMEA “2023 Oracle Partner Award Apps/ SaaS” for “Innovation” (more info on day 1), so we were entered into the global tier for judging but unfortunately we didn’t win. Well done to the Partners that won, detailed below:

After the Oracle Partner Success Summit, was the reception in the foyer, where hundreds of people from partners got the opportunity to network:

I met a few familiar faces, had a few soft drinks before heading to my next installment 😊.

Oracle Database Premiere Customer Appreciation Event

I’ve really enjoyed the Oracle Database Premiere Customer Appreciation Event in the past, as I get to met the majority of the Database and Exadata Product Management team, discuss challenges, customers, what would be good, etc. So was looking forward to this one! Especially as it was at the Madame Tussauds Las Vegas:

In association with AMD, no surprise seem as chipset in Exadata switched from Intel to AMD, more details here:

I took photos of every wax model, too many to share, but I will share a few below.

No idea who this is, drop me a comment if you know who she is:

This neither:

This I know is Vin Diesel 😎:

This is Whoopi Goldberg:

Johnny Depp:

The one and only “The Rock”:

Brad Pitt:

Evander Holyfield:

A favourite, Snoop Dogg:

The legend, Michael Jackson:

My all time favourite Tupac:

Pretty surreal, as his murderer was found in Las Vegas only days after Oracle CloudWorld 😲:

A good friend of Tupac but later rival The Notorious B.I.G.:

The American Boxing promoter Don King:

The legend Mike Tyson!:

On the way out, a wax model of Spider Man!:

I big one of The Hulk:

After playing a 4D game with Sai on the exit of Madame Tussauds, it was a trip back to the hotel on the Las Vegas Monorail and capturing some more Sphere photos:

Tomorrow will day 1 of the actual Oracle OpenWorld conference 👍🏽

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Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)