Constellation Research’s annual customer conference, Connected Enterprise is like no other conference you’ll have the pleasure of attending. It is two intense days of keynotes, forums and meetups. But it’s also immensely collegiate. Anyone you meet in the audience at this conference could have been presenting on the stage. In between sessions you will rub shoulders with startup innovators, enterprise CEOs, analysts, inventors and even artists.
But if you were unable to make this year’s conference, some of the sessions are now available online. In this interview, R “Ray” Wang, founder of Constellation Research, speaks with Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle. They discuss the future of enterprise software and delve into the disruption that large scale businesses will face in the coming years.
It is a rare opportunity to hear directly from Oracle’s new CEO. Some of the standout topics include:
- The challenge of the next generation of leaders and how Gen Y will change the way we consume software in the enterprise
- Oracle’s clear strategy around “The Cloud” (“best of breed in applications, segment by segment … AND suite”)
- The flexibility of integrated SaaS and PaaS and the challenge this presents for system integrators.
This also means that Oracle will be well positioned to tackle the challenging mid-tier and small business end of the market. And that will make it interesting for the startups who survive on servicing smaller customers. What’s that? More acquisition targets for Oracle?