Johannesburg, 19 Aug 2004
Oracle today named the keynote speakers for the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld London 2004 exhibition and conference, being held at the ExCeL Centre in London`s Docklands from 6 to 8 September. Featuring some of the industry`s foremost pundits, the keynote series will address how grid computing and enterprise applications can help European companies significantly improve information management and slash operating and IT costs.
The programme will include addresses by industry leaders, strategic partners and Oracle`s leading visionaries. The keynote speakers include:
* Sergio Giacoletto, executive vice-president, Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa, who will discuss the degree of readiness among European companies for grid computing.
* Charles Phillips, president, Oracle Corporation, who will discuss the growing importance of high-quality information and the emerging technology architectures required to create real business value for the modern enterprise.
* John Manley, director, Application Services Department, HP UK, and Peter Hindle, business manager, Enterprise Solutions, HP UK, who together will look at the reality of utility computing solutions today, and offer a view of where these are headed in the future.
* Ron Wohl, executive vice-president, Applications Development, Oracle Corporation, who will discuss how Oracle provides open, integrated business processes with full business intelligence built in.
* Chuck Rozwat, executive vice-president, Oracle Database Server, on how enterprise grid computing using low-cost, modular systems is now delivering mainframe quality of service and making information management easier than ever.
* Tim Pitcher, vice-president, Northern Europe and Middle East, Network Appliance, who will review how companies can develop storage strategies that help them better manage asset utilisation, safeguard mission-critical data and achieve high levels of performance and availability for Oracle 10g and Oracle E-Business Suite environments.
* Tom Garrison, director, Enterprise Marketing, Intel EMEA, who will talk about how the combination of Intel and Oracle architectures is helping to transform entire industries.
"Oracle is helping both large and small organisations across the region gain better business information from their IT investments, while lowering the cost of computing," said Sergio Giacoletto, executive vice-president, Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa. "Attendees at our event will learn how innovations such as grid computing can create competitive advantage while maximising existing IT investments, and learn about customers who have achieved true return on investment using Oracle products and services."
The exhibition hall at the show will give attendees the opportunity to experience first-hand the full range of Oracle products, as well as hear from many of the biggest names in technology, including Accenture, Capgemini, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP, Intel, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems.
Participants will also have the choice of attending approximately 100 different interactive sessions where they can question Oracle`s most experienced architects and engineers about the newest applications and technologies. These sessions will cover topics ranging from business intelligence (BI) to customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM), covering all Oracle`s products for industries, including healthcare, communications and financial services, among others.
Top five reasons to attend Oracle OpenWorld 2004:
1. Keynote: Charles Phillips, president, Oracle Corporation
For more than 25 years, Oracle has worked with hundreds of thousands of customers to capture and manage critical information and to move from business-as-usual to e-business. Charles Phillips, president, Oracle Corporation, will discuss the growing importance of high-quality information and the emerging technology architectures required to create real business value for the modern enterprise.
2. Sessions: Customer Data Hub and Oracle Information Architecture
Oracle`s Customer Data Hub addresses the critical modern-day business issue of data fragmentation and maintenance. This presentation will discuss the central role of the Data Hub strategy in the Oracle Information Architecture framework. More information on the sessions can be found at http://www.oracle.com/openworld/london/conference/.
3. Exhibition Hall
For those customers interested in learning about Oracle`s strategic partners, there`s no better place to do it than the Exhibition Hall. Exhibitors will include Accenture, Capgemini, DataMirror, DecisionPoint Software, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP, Network Appliance, Novell and Sun Microsystems.
4. DEMOgrounds
To see Oracle products in action, stop by the DEMOgrounds where customers can ask Oracle experts the questions that have been keeping you or your IT staff up at night. Oracle employees will also provide demonstrations of products including Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Applications Server 10g and Oracle E-Business Suite.
5. Oracle Partners
Oracle PartnerNetwork is holding its ISV Forum for the first time in EMEA at Oracle OpenWorld London. At this gathering of more than 500 delegates, both existing and potential ISV partners will learn how to speed industry solution development and ease integration and solution delivery on Oracle products. Charles Phillips, Sergio Giacoletto and Bronwyn Hastings, vice-president, Worldwide Alliances and Channels, will keynote at the ISV Forum.
For more information on Oracle OpenWorld, visit http://www.oracle.com/openworld/. For more information on Oracle OpenWorld London, visit http://www.oracle.com/openworld/london.
Oracle will also conduct OpenWorld conferences in:
* Amsterdam: 22 to 24 September http://www.oracle.com/openworld/amsterdam/registration
* Milan: 28 to 30 September http://www.oracle.com/openworld/milan/registration
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