A Learning Community

Every year, Oracle’s vast community of IT and business pros comes together at Oracle OpenWorld to solve problems, learn about the latest product innovations and roadmaps, and get inspired. This year’s event, to be held in San Francisco October 22 to 25, will feature more than 2,000 educational sessions, including main stage and product keynotes, product training and certifications, tutorials on emerging technologies, meetups with product experts, and peer-to-peer networking.

Among the headline speakers: Golden State Warriors President Rick Welts, string theorist Brian Greene, former CIA and US National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden—and, of course, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison and CEOs Safra Catz and Mark Hurd. Come join us.

Cloud Strategy Can Eliminate CFO Blind Spots

Moving legacy systems to the cloud tends to be an incremental process, delivering tangible benefits along the way. For example, when cloud-based ERP and supply chain systems are integrated, CFOs get the data they need in order to analyze which product lines and even which customers are truly the most profitable. What else should CFOs focus on?

The Autonomous Advantage

How does Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud reduce the mundane workload for database administrators and free them up to do more high-value work? For starters, an analyst or developer can spin up a new database (even a very large one) in seconds or minutes without the technical expertise of a DBA. Two more big benefits.

Explore the New Role of Finance at Oracle OpenWorld

Disruptive finance is one of the key trends at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld, including at the annual Finance Executive Networking Luncheon and CFO Workshop, hosted by Oracle CEO Safra Catz and her finance executive team. Discover eight can’t-miss sessions for finance pros.

Patient-Centered Supply Chain Is Critical to Healthcare

Oracle helped one inner city hospital with a supply chain optimization project that eliminated $1.5 million in medical supply costs. Here’s how technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things can help providers put patients at the center of demand and fulfillment strategies.