Thursday 24 January 2019

Oracle OpenWorld Europe 2019

Last week I attended the first Oracle OpenWorld Europe Conference in London.   It was a huge success with far more people attending than anticipated.   Was this because it was free, or London's Docklands are an easy place to get to from anywhere in the UK or mainland Europe?   Either way, it was a very well attended event.

I focused my attention on the HCM Cloud streams, and had the honour of speaking alongside Chris Leone, SVP Oracle HCM Development, in one of the HCM Keynote addresses.

The theme of the keynote was that Oracle is delivering continuous innovation in each release.  As releases are now quarterly, it is clear that innovation is happening rapidly and frequently within the application.

I spoke about how to manage the pace of change and together with my esteemed colleague Debra Lilley, gave some examples of innovative ideas which can be used now - epitomising Accenture's strapline "New Delivered Now".

I'll be writing in more details about some of these ideas in the near future.