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Just came out of the keynote of day 2, the first speaker Dr. Didier Bonnet, SVP and Global Practice Leader at Capgemini  focused on Digital transformation of business. He used examples of Starbucks, Asian Paints, Vail and so on... ""Digital technology will remain the endless agitator of the business world."   It was good to hear GE's Industrial Internet as a transformative concept. Thomas Kurien spoke at the later half and had several invited folks to show the live demo of many new offerings on the Cloud, Big Data and Analytics front. It was interesting to see the demo using SQL Developer to show the speed-up due to use of in-memory computing. I posted a lot of images from the keynote from my Twitter account     It was interesting to see that Thomas covered mainly Technology topics topics today as against "Applications" topics. More to come...

This year the Oracle User Group Leaders are meeting just before Oracle Openworld world for two days - Sep 25-26, 2014. Selected Oracle User Group Leaders immerse themselves into activities and sessions that help to manage the User Groups, Special Interest Groups (SIG's) and Regional Groups throughout the year. This is a good meeting point of the Leaders from different parts of the world. Check out the pictures of the activities these such as the Customer Journey map: https://twitter.com/MeKolbe/status/515272230997983232/photo/1  OR here https://twitter.com/hashtag/IOUC?src=hash I am doing a pitch on Internet on Things (Embrace IoT) later today. More to come...

BIWA Summit 2015 Agenda, Speakers and Workshops Early Accepted Submissions Track:   Big Data Big Data SQL: Oracle SQL Access to Hadoop         Brian Macdonald, Oracle Enterprise Architect As adoption of Hadoop continues to increase more users are requesting access to the data that on Hadoop.  These users want to continue to use the tools they have and leverage the skills they already know.  The most common way people and tools access data is via SQL.  And for the majority of companies, it is SQL against an Oracle database.  Oracle Big Data SQL provides a mechanism to issue SQL on relational and Hadoop data from one environment.  One fast SQL engine to all your data.  Oracle BIg Data SQL leverage a smart scan service just like Exadata to provide fast performance with all the security and robust capabilities of the Oracle database.  This session will explain what Oracle Big Data SQL is, how it is architectected and what its benefits are to Oracle customers. Naval Postgr

Lawrence Joseph (Larry) Ellison - The Man the Myth the Legend! Those were the thoughts when I first heard the news that Larry is stepping down as the CEO of Oracle on Sep 18, 2014, in the middle of my work day. As I scanned the web to read more about the announcement, I was soemwhat relived to read that he will remain the Chairman of the Board as well act as the CTO to focus on Product Engineering. I thought that was interesting, shift of focus from management to product innovation. His successors are no surprises, at least not as much a surprise when Mark Hurd replaced Charles Phillips. Safra Catz has been around for ever in Oracle and Mark brings the experience of running a $100B+ company, HP, prior to his role at Oracle. Interestingly, this news came just a few days before Oracle Openworld this year. Historically, a lot of announcements are made at Oracle Openworld, well I guess product announcements not people announcements! What I found interesting was that this announceme

The Annual BIWA Summit will take place Jan 27-29, 2015 at Oracle HQ in Redwood City, CA . The best way to attend an event for free, is to become a speaker, The call for speakers for the event is open here :   This year IOUG's Spatial SIG and BIWA SIG are joining hands along with NoCOUG , to bring this event together.This implies coverage from Advance Analytics, Big Data, BI, Spatial and Graph, Internet of Things (IoT), Data Warehousing and much more!  See the content from the previous years here . We will soon post the early acceptance list of the Featured talks and the other sessions from the Industry experts.

We are two weeks away from Oracle Openworld 2014 ! One of my favorites are the high profile Keynotes, you can see the lineup here . I noticed that while Larry Ellison used to speak only on Wed afternoon, a few years ago, now he is a regular on Sunday evening and then on Tue this year. The Sunday evening allows a preview of the new announcement at the OOW and those do not have to wait till Wed. There is no title or theme for the Sunday evening keynote by Larry, I guess that leaves room for any new announcements! However, the Intel speaker Renee James will speak on the hot theme today "soft-define anything!" Unlike last year, when the Thursday keynote by Edward Screven, was about Internet of Things (IoT), there is no talk with specific IoT focus this year. However, both OOW and JavaOne had IoT as a major Track and is full of rich content. I will speaking on a related topic of Industrial Internet / IoT on Sunday under IOUG's user group sessions. On Monday, I will be at an