We will be joined this year by the following 10 Oracle Industries: Financial Services, Retail, Communications, Utilities, Public Sector, Health Sciences, Oil & Gas, Discrete Manufacturing, Project Intensive, and Travel & Transport. 

Please see below for an abstract from each industry's breakout session. 

Financial Services 

Session 1: Oracle Financial Service Analytical Applications (OFSAA)

Insight, Ideas and Innovation in Information Management (Financial Services & Insurance)

A discussion of market demand for enhanced information management, governance and disclosure in the light of aggressive legislative and regulatory moves, from the point of view of a solution employed by three-quarters of the most significant financial services firms in the world.

Session 2: Oracle Banking Platform (OBP)

Progressive Modernization of Core Systems for Digital Enablement of Banks:

How a componentized, modern platform can help banks step into the Digital World without overhauling their core systems; reducing risk of failure and assures tangible “quick-wins” in the market.

Session 3: Oracle Banking Direct (OBDx)

Digital transformation with Oracle Banking Digital Experience

How banks can deliver end to end modern digital experiences rapidly with a best of breed solution that offers modern digital marketing, customer and product acquisition, service and social engagement tools, all at the same time leveraging their existing investments in core platforms

Retail

Oracle Retail provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution that allows retailers to transform their business. Retailers must transform and innovate to meet their customers’ and shareholders’ expectations. They must expand their assortments, mix of selling and distribution channels and their market reach and grow internationally. Oracle Retail has invested its support into a Commerce Anywhere focus that enables omni-channel functionality within each of the solution units, assimilating strategic assets from the MICROS acquisition into the business and delivering solutions in the Oracle Cloud. The sessions for the Industry Day will encompass what customers are using today and what is coming in version 15 of the suite:

Session1 - Enterprise Solutions Update:  

Come and hear the latest news about Oracle Retail Enterprise solutions in Merchandising Operations Management, Retail Planning & Supply Chain Management and how they are enabling some of the world’s leading retailers to seamlessly execute core retail operations across channels, countries and business models.

Session 2 – Omni-Channel Solutions Update:

Understand how Oracle is providing end to end capability across customer journeys, offering deep insight into customer behaviour via a suite of solutions that includes Order Management, Order Broking, Loyalty, Commerce and Store Systems and Hardware.

Session 3 - Oracle Commerce Update:  

Come and hear the latest news about Oracle Commerce and how it’s enabling some of the world’s leading retailers to deliver a consistent, personalised, and interactive digital experience to consumers. Including customer successes, new product updates and a brand new Cloud offering.

Communications

Oracle Communications solutions span the communications industry landscape — from cross-channel customer experience and business and operational support systems, to network service and session delivery and control solutions — enabling service providers and enterprises to deliver and monetize innovative digital lifestyle services, build strong customer relationships, and streamline operations. 

Session 1: Oracle Communications Industry Strategy

Communications is transforming nearly all industries and significantly accelerating innovation and socioeconomic change. Communications service providers (CSPs) must evolve rapidly to continuously meet customer expectations, capture new revenue streams, innovate faster, derive value from big data, and continuously drive efficiencies across their business. In this session, hear about the Strategy Oracle communications is pursuing to allow the transformative value of communications to be made real and enable the Now Economy

Session 2: Communications Service Provider (CSP) Positioning and Solutions Overview

Session 3: Enterprise Communications – Positioning and Solution Overview

Utilities

For Utilities today, relentless and disruptive innovations such as new energy sources, decentralized energy, the adoption of smart devices, continued liberalization and market integration have redefined the operating environment. Oracle Utilities delivers greater value faster to electric, water and gas utilities with mission critical solutions that increase customer satisfaction, enhance meter to cash processes and deliver operational efficiency.

Join Oracle Utilities at their repeated breakout session to learn how we can partner to exceed customer expectations, transform complex data into immediate business value and provide distributed energy resource management and network reliability to reduce cost and accelerate investment return.

Public Sector

Public Sector is facing major budget challenges but investment in technology is a key way to deliver efficiency and improved citizen services whilst showing savings. These three separate but complementary sessions will discuss Oracle’s strategy and approach for the sector for both customers and partners; leveraging our joint strength in our installed base and looking forward to transformation through Cloud initiatives. The final session will include an open Q&A time with the speakers.    

Session 1: Public Sector Commercial Approach and Technology Solutions

This session will be led by Stuart Provan, Sales Director for Technology in Public Sector. Stuart will cover the new MoU which was agreed with Crown Commercial Services recently, an update on some new commercial developments that are key for software licencing and a discussion of opportunities for partners. The session will include a case study of a Fraud and Error solution and an update on Oracle’s Technology Cloud focus (PaaS, IaaS) for PS.

Session 2:  SaaS/Cloud for Public Sector

Session led by Tim Hughes, Business Development Director, Applications for Public Sector. Tim will provide an overview of Oracle’s extensive Cloud portfolio for PS including solutions for ERP, HCM, CX and EPM – if you don’t know what those TLAs mean he’ll explain! He will also discuss the key role of partners and the opportunity to work together in this sector.  

Session 3: Strategy and Relationship in Public Sector

Session led by Stsve Gold, VP Public Sector Technology and Guy Staals, Snr Director - Public Sector Industry Business Unit, Oracle EMEA. Steve will summarise our overall position and approach to the PS market and our relationship at the ‘centre’ (Cabinet Office, CCS, GDS).  Guy will cover our global strategy and role of partners. We will conclude with an open Q&A session with all the speakers.

Health Sciences

Oracle HSGBU is a leading strategic software solutions provider to the health sciences industry, helping pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare organisations become the most successful in the world.  The HSGBU provides the most innovative products and services that deliver compelling customer and shareholder value.

Oracle's comprehensive industry solutions include clinical trial management and analysis, electronic data capture, adverse event reporting and pharmacovigilance, as well as healthcare analytics and interoperability.

In each of these working sessions, Oracle partners will learn how they can partner with the Oracle Health and Life Sciences team to develop innovative services and solutions that enable our mutual customers to achieve their business objectives.

Oil & Gas

Fourteen months long of dwindling oil prices and a myriad of economical and operational challenges are putting greater pressure on Oil & Gas companies to become data-driven and to invest in technologies that add value. Learn what Oracle is doing to maximise such value through solution innovation and a tighter partner engagement model at this breakout session.

Discrete Manufacturing

Manufacturing in the Digital Age: The content for this breakout session will focus on the main Industry Solutions for Industrial Manufacturing, High Tech and Auto. As well as success stories, aspects around the physical infrastructure used by some elements of the aforementioned Industries will be covered as well as discovering new ways of delivering value whilst reducing costs.

Project Intensive

This session focuses on the growing need for companies to focus on major capital investment, how they make decisions about which projects to invest in and, once these decisions have been made, how to effectively manage and execute these projects. In this session you will learn about the solutions that Oracle Primavera can provide and also how you, as Oracle partners, can engage with the business.

Travel & Transport

Travel and Transportation companies play a critical role in the global economy as they move "people" and move "freight". To win in the marketplace, airlines and hospitality companies need to deliver great experiences to their customers across the travel lifecycle. On the freight side, logistics service providers and freight rail companies need to simplify and modernize their IT environments so they can speed time to market for new services and deliver service excellence. Oracle brings a compelling set of industry solutions to the Travel & Transportation industry to help them address these challenges. Join this breakout session to discover more.