The description from today's keynote is:
Cloud computing is the #1 IT priority today. Join Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO, as he discusses Oracle’s cloud strategy and services. Oracle Cloud Application Services provide businesses with the broadest range of enterprise applications available in the cloud, with unique built-in business intelligence, social, and mobile capabilities. Ellison provides insight into Oracle’s Oracle Cloud Social Services strategy, the broadest and most complete enterprise social platform in the cloud today, and how those services are integrated with Oracle Cloud Application Services to improve customer and employee experience. Infosys CEO and Managing Director S. D. Shibulal also takes the keynote stage Tuesday afternoon.
Join us for our live commentary.
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21:50
Christopher White
Wright Brothers, Alexander Fleming, Tim Berners-Lee -- all three changed the world.
21:55
Christopher White
We used to get inventions from individuals, then major research labs, and now corporations do most of the inventions.
22:01
Christopher White
Business process optimization is important - get rid of processes you don't need.
22:01
Christopher White
The window sticker is an expense that will grow with the incremental volume they want to sell.
22:02
Christopher White
There were five processes that had to merge to make that window sticker. Wow....
22:05
Christopher White
Watching these other CEOs talk really makes me appreciate Ellison and others who can at least be engaging.
22:09
Christopher White
Different modules let BrandEdge customers get all sorts of data and do campaigns. Not really a competitor to SalesForce from what I can gather.
22:13
Christopher White
Never really thought of UL as a company... Just that you see UL stuff on every product known to man lol
22:16
Christopher White
UL used to be "underwriters laboratory" but are now broken into 5 groups and have made 18 acquisisions.
22:18
Christopher White
CEO of Infosys back on the stage. We're patiently waiting for Uncle Larry...
22:20
Christopher White
Talking about Cloud computing now. Cost savings from renting instead of buying.
22:29
Christopher White
partnered with Oracle and Infosys to help with this. more marketing fluff imho.
22:38
Christopher White
Larry talking about Java -- "We develop all of our SaaS applications in Java."
22:39
Christopher White
Oracle uses those tools to build their applications, customers use the same tools to extend and interconnect.
22:42
Christopher White
Made a number of key acquisitions for social relationship management technology.
22:46
Christopher White
They are an "ondemand" customer. Computer dedicated to them in Oracle's data center.
22:47
Christopher White
As a reminder, Red Robin uses your phone number as a password and says to not share it with anyone... http://www.neowin.net/news/red...-password-says-not-to-share
22:48
Christopher White
You like Salesforce, it runs in one place. You can't move it inhouse, you can't make it private behind your firewall, you can't purchase those licenses.
22:51
Christopher White
Ellison: "I'm only planning on showing 380 of the 400 customers using our cloud. I figured all 400 would be too tedious."
22:53
Christopher White
All of the applications are built on industry-standard Java using industry-standard middleware and SQL.
22:53
Christopher White
Standards are still important. Just because we're in the cloud doesn't mean we can make everything proprietary.
22:54
Christopher White
"Just because we're in the cloud doesn't mean we forget everything we've learned over the last 20 years."
22:57
Christopher White
Their social is built into every one of their fusion apps and all are accessible via mobile devices.
23:02
Christopher White
Netsuite was the first SaaS company in the world in 1998. One year later, Salesforce. This isn't new.
23:02
Christopher White
Those two offerings built multi tenancy into the application because there were no VMs back then.
23:06
Christopher White
More attaching of Salesforce.com -- Oracle uses their own platform, Salesforce doesn't.
23:07
Christopher White
Oracle cloud runs on the engineered systems -- Exadata X3 (26TB memory, runs Java faster, in-memory analytics, InfiniBand networking)
23:10
Christopher White
SRM tool scans social feeds (ie: Twitter) and lets you respond - either via Twitter or even a phone call if you know the customer.
23:13
Christopher White
Collaboration. Each fusion tool has collaboration built in using the social metaphore.
23:16
Christopher White
Ellison just took a shot at Apple: "Follow Twitter to see that there's problem with your mapping sw and then tell them you'll fix it." #oow
23:17
Christopher White
Big Data: 4.9 BILLION tweets from the Twitter Firehose (API that gives you lots of Tweets 
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23:17
Christopher White
Analyze both structured and unstructured textual data - in real time, not batch.
23:18
Christopher White
Tweet has more info than just 140 chars - we know geography information (if enabled), the time, the date, how many followers the person has, etc, etc.
23:19
Christopher White
Big Data Gets bigger: 4.9 Billion tweets, 27 billion relationships, 100 million authors, 2.7 billion mentions, and 890 million hashtags.
23:22
Christopher White
Blackberry was almost as big as Android and neither was much smaller than IOS.
23:24
Christopher White
James has a lot of followers from NBA - not necessarily related to Olympics. So we want to look at "Reach," during that 14 day Olympic lifecycle.
23:25
Christopher White
Labron is still first, but Serena Williams moves from 2nd to 8th. Locthe moved up to 2nd (used to be really low)
23:28
Christopher White
Now drill in and look at tweets about cars and see how many of them are ranked to celebrities.
23:29
Christopher White
Now Labron is 8th and Phelps is #1 and Gaby Douglass (gymnastics) is making the list!
23:30
Christopher White
Used DECA for structured/unstructured analysis, sending between Exadata and Exalogic.
23:34
Christopher White
Definitely want Gaby Douglass selling my car because she'll make the Lexus look huge since she's not even 5' and Phelps is big. LOL
23:34
Christopher White
Anyone else think that Big Data = Big Brother? http://www.neowin.net/news/hp-...s-big-data-mean-big-brother
23:34
Christopher White
Anyone else think that Big Data = Big Brother? http://www.neowin.net/news/hp-...s-big-data-mean-big-brother