15/10/2009
A sense of palpable excitement was in the air in the run up to the event’s final keynote as it was announced that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was to join Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on stage. Governor Schwarzenegger discussed how technology is a key driver of California’s economy, and inherent to the state’s innovative spirit. Also in the keynote, Larry Ellison restated the importance of Oracle Exadata Server V2 and the Sun Oracle Database machine, re-issued a $10 Million challenge to the industry to match Oracle’s performance, launched an innovative approach to maintenance and support, and previewed Oracle’s next generation of Applications, Fusion Applications. Photographs from the keynote can be found on the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 Flickr site.
Oracle also announced the recipients of the 2009 Oracle® Innovation Award, which recognizes organizations for innovative deployments of Oracle Application Grid, Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System.
EMEA recipients of the 2009 Oracle Application Grid Innovation Award included: Bank Zachodni WBK S.A., Barclays Global Investors, Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Scotland and VocaLink.
EMEA recipients of the 2009 Oracle Business Intelligence/Enterprise Performance Management Innovation Award are: BT, Dubai Aluminum, EuroChem, Pearson and Pernod Ricard.
The award is co-sponsored by Oracle, the Australian Oracle User Group (AUSOUG), Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG), Oracle Application Users Group (OAUG), Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG), Quest International Users Group (Quest), and United Kingdom Oracle User Group (UKOUG).
Oracle Applications
The final two announcements from Oracle OpenWorld 2009 were in the Applications space:
To help organizations drive employee effectiveness, Oracle unveiled the latest release of Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise, with PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.1, PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.50, PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management 9.1 and PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 9.1. This latest release was developed with feedback from more than 150 customers, and offers a broad range of new features designed to accelerate business performance, increase user productivity and lower the cost of ownership.
Finally, the company unveiled Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process (PLM) 6.0. This includes integrated formula and label development, embedded compliance and traceability tools and out-of-the-box solutions and services for the food and beverage industry. The new release helps customers in today’s demanding and fast paced food and beverage industry drive profitable innovations, ensure product quality, compliance and traceability, lower costs and improve productivity across the entire product lifecycle. Agile PLM for Process 6.0 is the latest milestone for Oracle’s “Applications Unlimited” program.
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