Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:Balancing partnerships and full-service: Mike says that Oracle is thrilled to work with partners to fill "last-mile solutions" and regulatory-specific needs, but also that Oracle is looking to fill vertical edge cases with its own solutions.HCM in healthcare shows Oracle's differentiation: The gig economy is impacting hospitals and other care settings, so Oracle is stepping up with a suite of tools including HCM and more to help business leaders in a holistic way.The cloud shifts conversations to velocity over function: Thanks to the cloud, Oracle can help customers stay on the bleeding edge of technology through regular releases and updates, delivering greater speed to customers' businesses.The Big Quote: "The ability to speak in the language of the business—because you're delivering the technology that our customers are using to engage with their customers—is a core differentiator." Interested in Oracle CloudWorld 2022?Get an Oracle TV pass for live coverage, or register to join in person. This episode is sponsored by Oracle. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:Customer demand for multi-cloud: Oracle has been focused recently on partnerships with Microsoft and Amazon that allow mutual customers to pick and choose the cloud services they get from each vendor, and Jae says that big-name brands are very hot on this idea.Cloud @ Customer offers even more flexibility: For customers in highly regulated industries or that prefer more control and security, Oracle's Cloud @ Customer offering provides all the benefits of a fully managed cloud region in an on-premise environment.What customers can expect at CloudWorld: Jae says that if customers can come to the event with a clear understanding of their business goals and desired outcomes, they'll find a plethora of information about how Oracle's cloud solutions can help achieve them.The Big Quote: "These are more multi-cloud-type solutions that are making it simpler and advantageous for our customers to use. We have a lot of customers who are excited about it—AT&T, Marriott, and Veritas to name a few—who have really voiced their interest and excitement about what this can do for them... getting that flexibility and optionality so they can get the best cost, best performance for their cloud business."Want to learn more about Oracle CloudWorld 2022?Explore content, speakers, and registration options.This episode is sponsored by Oracle. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:Tech's "cancel first" policy: From Amazon to Twitter and beyond, tech platforms seem to be far too quick to remove accounts, content, and products without asking any questions about the rule that's allegedly been broken.Brands are abandoning customer service: Trying to reach a human to discuss a customer question is nearly impossible these days. Christopher points to Southwest as a remarkable exception to this rule, and encourages companies to get humans involved again.The limitations of AI- and ML-driven regulation: Bots don't get sarcasm yet, and users across many platforms are dealing with account suspensions for posts that do not actually break any rules.The Big Quote: "We have asked these major platforms for their free speech policy... They send a link, you read the link. And here's what you discover when you read the link: the word free, the word speech, or the two together don't appear in the document."Want more from Christopher Lochhead and Category Pirates?Explore his podcasts, blog, and books, including the new "Snow Leopard." Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:The "fourth phase" of Match Group's business: Following the launch of Match.com in the 90's and the breakaway of Tinder in the 2010's, a new phase is coming that's heavily focused on video, AI, augmented reality, language translation, and more.Eliminating manual work and "cycles of death": Trey shares some of the struggles his team had before installing Workday Financials, and the impact that those challenges had on employee morale.Helping the accounting teams demonstrate value: Generally, accounting is a cost center, but Trey says that the implementation of game-changing software like Workday is an important way to highlight his department's value to the larger business.The Big Quote: "We believe that adding technology and adding the right people can provide that value, so [employees] get to spend more time with their families. So we've more or less revolutionized where we were, to provide that better value."Get more from Workday Rising through on-demand content. This episode is brought to you by Workday. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:Enhancing the developer experience: This is a major focus for Oracle, and many CloudWorld sessions will focus on work that's been done to help developers use Oracle DBs, including Autonomous Database.Oracle Exadata: Along with database and cloud, Juan says that Exadata is one of three core initiatives for the event.Oracle Database 23c release: CloudWorld will feature the very first preview and discussion of Oracle's next major DB release, called 23c.The Big Quote: "We're also talking about what we're doing for distributed apps, like micro-services and events. We're building a lot of this technology directly into the Oracle database to make it dramatically simpler. We'll be talking about things we're doing with documents and document databases—that's going to be a really big deal."Want to learn more about Oracle CloudWorld 2022?Explore content, speakers, and registration options. This episode is sponsored by Oracle. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

Road to Oracle CloudWorld 2022 Oracle Cloud Analytics EVP T.K. AnandThe Big Themes:Fusion Analytics showcases what makes Oracle Cloud unique: T.K. argues that Oracle stands out among the competition as the only full-stack enterprise cloud vendor, since Oracle is both a cloud platform and application provider.The next wave of analytics transformation: Following the self-service and the SaaS revolutions in analytics, now the industry is moving exploring AI and machine learning and natural language. T.K. will be talking about this in his CloudWorld keynote.Multi-cloud and customer choice: Granting flexibility to customers has been a major theme within Oracle recently, and T.K. says that Oracle Analytics has a strong multi-cloud perspective and can work with data regardless of where it lives.The Big Quote: "The world has changed dramatically, as you know, but Oracle's been executing relentlessly on its cloud strategy. And we're seeing tremendous success in the market. My team has been busy building the next generation analytics platform, and integrating it with all our cloud applications."Want to learn more about Oracle CloudWorld 2022?Explore content, speakers, and registration options.This episode is sponsored by Oracle. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:Looking beyond the walls of IT: As the CIO and VP of IT, Samantha obviously fills a specialized role at Smith, but she says that her "team" is everyone at the college, and that achieving the IT department's goals requires input from many other departments.Continuous iteration as a North Star: Samantha shares a favorite quote of hers, which comes from the center for teaching and learning on campus but that she applies to IT: "There are many ways to teach well, and all teaching is improvable."Prioritizing user experience with Workday: Students today have high expectations for digital experiences, and many academic platforms do not meet those expectations. Samantha talks about how Workday's UX tools are helping her deliver for Smith students.The Big Quote: "I think I and my team are seen as partners in a much stronger way. Partnership isn't just delivering utilities. Partnership is being in conversations, it's bringing people together. It's calibrating, is this a big problem or a small problem? Will this solve something that's been bothering us for three years? So I think that has helped me be positioned as a strategic partner."This episode is sponsored by Workday. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:The biggest enterprise tech M&A in history: The planned $61-billion acquisition of VMWare by Broadcom has implications for Goya Foods, says CIO Suvajit Basu, and many other large global firms, because of VMWare's omnipresence in data centers.The cybersecurity side of the deal: When a company that powers data centers is taken over, questions must be raised about access to the data centers and the data within them. The "risk profile" of VMWare is raised by this acquisition.The responsibility of CXOs in these situations: The Broadcom-VMWare deal has generated a lot of FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Whether these feelings are valid and have merit or are unfounded and distracting, is a question that CXOs must focus on answering, ASAP.The Big Quote: "The importance of VMWare permeates to every industry. I'm in food and beverage. Healthcare is running VM. Wall Street finance is running VM. Military is running VM. There is no single industry that I can think of that is not running VMWare today. And that is the cyber threat. We're talking about a heightened level of risk." Want to hear more from Suvajit? Connect with him on LinkedIn and catch highlights from his talk at Cloud Wars Expo 2022. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:Investing in vertical solutions: Oracle's deep engagement in healthcare through the acquisition of Cerner has provided a strategic framework for how the company will invest and expand into other industries, including with new HCM solutions.New platforms and tools: Chris previews the award-winning employee-experience platform Oracle ME, the evolved Oracle Recruiting Cloud, and new offerings that power upskilling and reskilling demands.CHRO priorities in 2022 and beyond: Based on his many conversations with HR executives, Chris outlines what is top of mind for CHROs, including creating inclusive workforces, internal mobility, and more.The Big Quote: "We're going deep in healthcare, obviously, with the Cerner acquisition... In HCM, we're making investments around scheduling, optimization, skills, making sure we can hire and support and schedule nurses at the right time, the right shift, the right bed, all of those things, but we're taking that strategy across multiple industries." Want to learn more about Oracle CloudWorld 2022?Explore content, speakers, and registration options.--This episode is sponsored by Oracle. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:Cloud technology supercharges startups: New companies must focus on scalability, by bringing on new customers, building new features, hitting new markets, and more. The cloud is a game-changing tool in how it helps CXOs scale up and scale down as needed for certain things.The "aha" moment: Each panelist shared stories about how and when they realized that the idea behind their company had legs and could truly address an unmet need or longstanding challenge for customers.The benefits of being a startup amid established competitors: Startups face unique challenges, but can also be more nimble and flexible than large enterprises. The panelists speak about how they've leveraged the startup mentality to connect with customers and grow their businesses.The Big Quote: "First is to understand my role as the CEO. I am the chief everything officer." - Min Chen, WisyWant to learn more about Cloud Wars Expo and the Innovation Path?Check out our plans for Expo 2023. Visit Cloud Wars for more.