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

So day 2 was registering for Oracle CloudWorld, then attending the Oracle Partner Success Summit and Oracle ACE promo video recording session in the afternoon and attending two events in the evening:
1. Oracle EMEA Welcome Reception
2. Oracle Database Premiere Customer Appreciation Event

Registering for Oracle CloudWorld

The morning was spent blogging about day 1 and having breakfast.

Last year Oracle CloudWorld was split over The Venetian mainly and parts of Caesars Forum, however this year it seemed it was limited to only The Venetian with Caesars Forum for SuiteWorld. I went to The Venetian midday for registration for Oracle CloudWorld, it was starting to get busy.

However, I registered within few minutes along with my colleague Rishin.

In the corridor, I met Jeremy the American Sign Language interpreter for all the Oracle CloudWorld keynotes. I had met him first in 2022 when he did his first CloudWorld gig. Now I meet him every year and catch up. It’s really good that Oracle provide this service for the deaf and making the event inclusive.

Oracle ACE CloudWorld Promotion Video Session

Jennifer Nicholson who heads the Oracle ACE Program had asked all the ACE to come record a CloudWorld promotion video from the Oracle ACEs. So we all took part and follow Connor McDonald instructions.

Sai Penumuru on camera 😎

And Osama Mustafa!

You can watch the video here, which came out pretty decent 😎. Well done all that were involved 👍🏽

Oracle Partner Success Summit

After the Oracle ACE CloudWorld promotion video session, I headed over to the Partner Success Summit, which the doors had already open. I headed over to the front as close as I could get. The room was getting pretty full.

Leah Yomtovian, Senior Vice President, Partner and Operations Strategy was the host and welcomed us all.

She had mentioned:

• Shifting from product oriented company to service oriented company
• Achieve more with less
• Win more together, succeed more together

She then welcomed Jason Maynard, Executive Vice President, Revenue Operations to the stage.

Jason, mentioned how Oracle has over 100 OCI regions.

He also mentioned, 3 success factors:

1. Great products (innovation)
2. More oriented to customer success
3. Partner alignment

He talked about:

• How partners are the ones that guide customers
• Oracle was able to close its book in 9 days! Oracle is one of the customer success itself
• Incorporating GenAI for account planning
• Sales people can use time selling and less admin
• Oracle centralises it’s Enterprise Applications when it does mergers and acquisitions, to gain efficiency and save money
• Standardisation is key, Oracle Fusion
• Oracle is everywhere, announcement today of the partnership on AWS!
• Oracle at any hyper-scaler cloud provider
• Oracle taking approach of making Oracle available everywhere
• Bring AI to your data

He next went onto explain that AI transforms everything.

Leah then went on to talk about working with partners, ISV, to help them go to market.

She then went onto talking about partner credits.

Next she welcomed Rod Johnson, EVP, Applications North America and Mark Hura, EVP, North America Cloud Infrastructure to the stage.

Mark talked about:

• Incredible performance and scale, with efficient costs
• Perform at difficult scale, benefit for customers
• 2/3rd of OCI consumption is not Oracle workload!
• It’s not Oracle on Oracle as people perceive
• Cost saving and flexibility
• Economic differentiation
• Provide customer choice on how to use Oracle infrastructure, how to optimise, most flexible deployment options
• We live in a multi cloud, giving customer choice and flexibility
• Oracle 23ai, enables customer to be AI data capable

Rod talked about:

• Oracle in a category of 1, integrated suite of Enterprise Applications to allow efficient core solutions. All under one Oracle stack.
• Applied AI, AI driven enterprise
• AI assist model
• We’re just at the begin, profound shift to come

Next, Leah welcomed Andy Mendelsohn, EVP, Database Server Technologies to the stage.

He talked about:

• Oracle database founded in 1970 and still going!
• Not many tech companies can claim their product still going that strong.
• 98 of fortune 100 run Oracle database.
• AI vectors search, allows search on unstructured data. Do suffocated searches.
• Differentiators, converge database, can do all types of workloads, not just one.
• Agility and simplicity.
• Autonomous database, anyone at push of button can get a suffocated database.

Next, Leah welcomed Gary Miller, EVP, Customer Success Officer to the stage.

He talked about:

• Partners said Oracle hard to navigate, Oracle is simplifying account management, to work easier with partners.
• Customers more happy due to partners bring more customer success.
• True partnership, is when customer can’t tell when it’s Oracle or partner.
• Amazing technology but it’s not enough, Oracle needs partners to bring this to customers.
• Partners have the relationships, can bring the potential, and why Oracle investing in partners.
• Partners to be that trusted advisor.
• Training for partners to ensure know the products.
• Collaborative working together approach.

For the final segment, Leah welcomed Douglas Kehring, EVP, Head of Operations to the stage.

He talked about:

• Converting our install base on existing license model to cloud licensing.
• One of the fastest company to be able to close books and report finance earnings.
• Oracle wants customers to achieve the same.
• Transform from traditional on-premise to cloud product.
• SAP, Workday, and Salesforce getting dropped by customers to go to Oracle Apps.
• Oracle is here not to compete with partners but to work with them.
• Win together and succeed together. New dawn.

Once the summit was over, there was a reception for the 500-600 partner delegates that I briefly attended and spoke to Steve Ramsay from Oracle and David Schmidt from Syniverse.

Oracle EMEA Welcome Reception

Richard Smith was hosting the Oracle EMEA Welcome Reception, so I thought I’d make an appearance before heading to my 2nd event of the evening. It was at the Cheri Rooftop.

It was pretty busy, but I managed to catch up the following people:

• Martin Jenkinson
• Leona Chauhan
• Lucia Hustatyova
• Kerry (Stuart) Wilson
• Philip Wilson
• James Herbert
• Richard Pepper

After an hour or so, I left this event to catch the remaining of the next event which was more my area and I wanted to catch up with the various Product Manager in the Database and Exadata space 😎

Oracle Database Premiere Customer Appreciation Event

I decided to walk from Cheri to Madam Tussauds in the Venetian where the event was held.

I got to met Karl O’Connell, CIO of Irish Cattle Breeding Federation and a very good customer of Version 1. We manage their Exadata Cloud @ Customer / Exadata Cloud Services.

Also got to met Alex Blyth, Exadata Product Manager, who I know quite well 😊

Also got to meet some old friends from last year when I attended the same event 🤣

I also got to meet:

Dominic Giles

Gavin Parish

Martina Keippel

Tomorrow I will be attending the first day of the actual conference – looking forward to it! 😎👍🏽

You can view my day 3 here.

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Thanks

Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)