Oracle Cloud World 2022

I had the opportunity to attend Oracle Cloud World (October 17th to October 20th). It was a great experience, as always. 

I've been attending Oracle Open World (now Cloud World) for quite some time; my first Open World was back in 2003, I attended it as part of the demo booths for something called Oracle Collaboration Suite. It has passed almost 20 years. Also, my first JAVA ONE was back in 2001 while I was working for Hewlett Packard when they used to have something called Total e-Server (an application server that HP acquired from a company called Bluestone). I have a lot of fun stories about Open World, both with my company (SPS) and also when I was an Oracle employee (from 2002 to 2010). 

Also, as part of the Oracle ACE program, I've been attending the ACE dinner for quite some time. Even before being an ACE, when I worked for Oracle, I managed to enter those parties and have fun with the community. Then, since 2012 when I joined the program, I've been attending it and participating in multiple activities, I am very grateful to be part of such an amazing community.

This year's Cloud World was special because the last Oracle in-person event that I attended was back in 2019. I had almost 3 years since that, so I had a lot of thoughts about how the event will unfold and how similar it might be to the previous ones. I had some concerns about it, I actually mentioned to some of my JAVA friends that I had the opportunity to talk with during the event, that I had some worries about it. But I was obviously wrong, the event was a blast and as fun as always.

I also was very surprised by what Oracle presented in terms of Cloud Innovation. I strongly recommend you read about Oracle Alloy.  Taken from here https://www.oracle.com/cloud/alloy/:

"Oracle Alloy is a complete cloud infrastructure platform that enables partners to become cloud providers and offer a full range of cloud services to expand their businesses. Partners control the commercial and customer experience of Oracle Alloy and can customize and extend it to address their specific market needs. Partners can operate Oracle Alloy independently in their own data centers and fully control its operations to better fulfill customer and regulatory requirements."

Oracle is now in a position to innovate and is no longer another player trying to catch up with the rest of the providers. Oracle is innovating, and is actually recognized as a visionary by Gartner:

I also identified the multi-cloud openness that Oracle is promoting. And Oracle is right; customers have the option to use any cloud and any service that better fits their needs. We live in an era of the internet of the clouds,  and that pretty much means that companies are relying on different providers. And again, that is good, that openness needs to be promoted not only by Oracle but by all the vendors.

Larry Ellison was very clear in terms of offering solutions and development around Health Care technologies and applications. I understand it as part of what Oracle can offer to have a better world, a better way to identify diseases, and ultimately to help on finding a cure for them.

The NVIDIA services incorporation into OCI is also something to highlight. NVIDIA offers a lot of AIs that can serve many industries, in particular in Healthcare which happens to be one of Oracle's top objectives in the future.

I am from Mexico, and during the first day's keynote by Safra Catz, a Mexican company (Grupo Bimbo) was part of it. Raúl Obregón (CIO and CTO, Grupo Bimbo) shared with the audience how Oracle is a key part of their digital transformation and their transformation in general as a company. And how Oracle Tech and Applications are making a difference for Bimbo's organization.

My background is related to Integration, API Management, Services exposure, etc. I have had a long relationship with Oracle's integration tools, from the very beginning (back in 2002). I was invited for a couple of roundtables with Oracle Product Managers that are the ones who define the strategy in this regard and I was very pleased with what they presented. I really like their approach to automation. Automation through experiences (conversational UIs), processes, and data. They presented a demo about automation for Human Resources and through it, they've incorporated the term: digital employee. Those digital employees can support different tasks for different workforces within an organization and automate work that persons need to perform through different UIS, processes and applications. 

I have created very good relationships with many members of the Oracle community. People from around the world that has been very kind with me in many ocassions. People that I consider not only colleagues but friends. Friendship is they key for communities, from any kind. And I can say that the thing that I enjoyed the most during Oracle Cloud World, was to hang out with them one more time. I am not going to mention names because there are a lot and I do not want to take the risk to omit one of their names. But you know to whom I am referring to.

I need to  mention Jennifer Nicholson who is our leader for the Oracle ACE community. She has always supported me and trusted me. I appreciate all her support and I will continue working with the community. I am already looking forward for Cloud World 2023.

Thank u, Oracle!