OOW Monday Evening
I spent a good part of the day in the Exhibit Hall (Moscone West and Moscone South). Some of the things that caught my attention were: 1) Pretty Large Presence of Salesforce.com ( I think it is their first time at OOW) 2) Focus on Oracle on the Cloud, Amazon is also present 3) A real Sumo wrestler in the booth on Application Security - You don't know who you are up against? Steve Miranda is talking now about Oracle Applications including Application unlimited. The customer Smucker is also expected. Janet Foutty of Deloitte will be on the stage. Deloitte is the sponsor of this session. "Business Led and Technology Enabled" is the mantra. Tie back every penny to shareholder value. Janet is talking about Value maps that Deloitte uses to map business problems to Oracle products. Janet has a financial services background. Clients are focussed on cost cutting, efficiency and re-tolling their IT. What's next, in the mind of clients - Improved Agility... is one of them. Nex...