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Recent Posts
- OAUX team attends OHUG Global Conference 2016 – 10th anniversary of team's presence
- Building a "smart office" with today's emerging technology
- Millennials, Oracle's Modern CX conference, and the future of work
- Teaching old(er) emerging-tech dogs new tricks
- Oracle Partner Network invites OAUX along to HCM Cloud, ERP Cloud summits
- The Product Usability Testing Lab is Springing into Summer
- Let's Get Down to the Big Easy for the 2016 OHUG Global Conference!
- Partners: Take these Steps to Build UX Competency for the Applications Cloud
- Oracle HCM World 2016 includes 'one of best sessions we ever had'
- Smart user experiences: Machine learning and the future of enterprise applications
Wednesday Jun 01, 2016
Thursday May 26, 2016
Let's Get Down to the Big Easy for the 2016 OHUG Global Conference!
By Geet Singh-Oracle on May 26, 2016
By Jeannette Chadwick, Oracle Applications User Experience
The 2016 OHUG Global Conference will take place in New Orleans, featuring more than 150 educational sessions consisting of speaker tracks divided among Oracle's core product lines. The conference is expected to draw a crowd of over 1,500, providing attendees with an excellent platform to both expand their networks, and to discuss challenges, opportunities, and insights with like-minded industry professionals.
This year we are bringing something new to the conference! It is a unique opportunity to participate in a Design Jam and drive the design of an Oracle HCM Cloud application. A design jam is the time to bring out your creativity and innovative thinking and develop something that is useful.
Participants are encouraged to think outside the box and work with an Oracle designer to create an idea you would like to see in an Oracle HCM product. You will be working in groups and will have to pitch your idea to the judges in the end. Participants will be briefed on the activity and the judging criteria. For more information on the past design jams, check out our Apps UX Innovation blog. Make sure you choose the Design Jam option when you sign up!
Attend a session with Aylin Uysal (@aylinuysal), Senior Director, HCM User Experience and Thao Nguyen (@thaobnguyen), Director, Research & Design to learn more about how Oracle HCM Cloud User Experiences is designed for work styles across devices. Learn how we are addressing mobility by delivering the best user experience for each device as you access your enterprise data in the cloud. At Oracle, we design the user experience so that the right amount of information appears on each device — whether it's a laptop, tablet, smartphone, or smartwatch. In this session, we'll also talk about the future of enterprise experiences and the latest emerging trends we see in the consumer market.
Thao Nguyen Aylin Uysal
Topic: Oracle HCM Cloud User Experiences: Designed for Work Styles Across Devices
Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Time: 11:00 a.m — 12:00 p.m.
Our onsite usability lab will be up and running and we invite you to join us in one of our usability feedback sessions to test the Oracle HCM Cloud applications. Participating in a feedback session is a great way to get a peek into future releases of Oracle HCM Cloud applications. Pre-Registration is required so sign up and get involved at the OHUG Global Conference 2016 today! The Oracle Applications User experience team is excited to host an onsite usability lab, present a session and offer you much more at the OHUG Global Conference. We look forward to seeing you there.
Sign up today because spaces fill up quickly!
Date: Tuesday, June 7, and Wednesday, June 8
Time: Sessions will be conducted throughout the day
Location: Room Celestin F, Hyatt Regency New Orleans
Sign-Up: Pre-registration is required. Sign up here
Never participated in a usability session before?
Check out the video to hear what Oracle customers and partners have to say about their experiences. To learn more about our team��s presence at the future events, please visit UsableApps.
Monday May 09, 2016
Oracle HCM World 2016 includes 'one of best sessions we ever had'
By Annie Kwong-Oracle on May 09, 2016
By Sarah Smart, Oracle Applications User Experience
Oracle unveiled Release 11's Oracle HCM Cloud user experience at this Chicago conference in April – and we are very excited about it here on the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team. Look at this tweet from an Oracle customer:
There were more great tweets. These next two are from industry analysts, who make it a priority to study Oracle products critically.
The OAUX team's second onsite usability lab of the year was up and running April 6-7 at conference. This is where we ran testing on the applications user experience, held customer advisory boards, and gave presentations. As usual, our labs enjoyed a mix of attendees from both the partner and customer community. We ran both individual testing sessions as well as group format sessions. More than 90% of participants said they were new to the world of user experience.
Well-attended sessions were the icing on the usability lab cake.
Photo: Gozel Aamoth
Aylin Uysal, Senior Director, Human Capital Management User Experience, tested individual flows and ran focus groups for future Oracle HCM Cloud user experience enhancements.
During her session presentation, she highlighted the key points of Oracle HCM Cloud Release 11 highlights, including consistency across professional roles. "We have 100% consistency across all of the roles and flows in HCM Cloud with R11," she said. "They were happy to hear that." A few smartwatch use cases were also very well received. "We had one of the largest attendances and a very engaged crowd," Uysal said.
Jake Kuramoto, Senior Director with the AppsLab, the OAUX emerging technologies team, also gave some demos in tandem with Uysal. "They really enjoyed the [Amazon] Echo Time and Benefits demo," he said. "Several people in the front rows, who I could easily see, were visibly surprised and had looks of awe on their faces."
"I should have taken a photo of their facial expressions. It was pretty awesome," Uysal said.
"It was probably one of the best sessions we ever had," she said. "Jake and I changed our presentation format a little. I focused on the product story; Jake talked the future. It was a pretty clear message."
Even the Q&A session at the end was a success. "Although we went over time, most people stayed until the end," Kuramoto said.
Want to read more?
• Check out the big-picture story on the Oracle HCM Cloud roadmap on Oracle's platform on Forbes.com, OracleVoice.
• Catch up with Release 10 if you're not up to date.
Friday Mar 11, 2016
Gaining STEAM in Australia: Applications Cloud User Experience Heads to Sydney
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Mar 11, 2016
Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
Photo by Misha Vaughan
The Applications User Experience team is back from a jam-packed three days in Sydney, including a partner expo, partner UX strategy presentations, partner deep dives on UX tools, sales training on UX investments, a press tour, and customer deals.
We covered:
- Oracle's investment in Applications Cloud user experiences for HCM, CX, ERP, and SCM
- Oracle's UX tools capabilities out of the box with extensibility
- Oracle's UX approach to PaaS4SaaS with our Rapid Development Kit
- The future of the cloud user experience with IoT, visualizations, and wearables
When we began planning this series of events — the day-one presentations, hands-on demos, and day-two deep dives — I was confident that product development would get a lot of value out of the opportunity to connect with such a dynamic region.
Andrew Gilmour, event mastermind, with Greg Nerpouni, our go-to-UX-extensibility guy, both Oracle, getting settled and ready for the main event
Photo by Brian Geach
So, how did it go?
Tim Ebbeck, Senior Vice President and Regional Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, spoke about the strengths of the cloud platform, the changing landscape of the partner ecosystem in the cloud, the nature of customer demands for cloud providers, and a new style of business that requires rapid response to change.
Tim Ebbeck, addressing the room
"We are working globally to radically simplify the way we operate. We are moving fast. We are moving in the right direction," he said.
Tim is also a trustee for the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and spoke about his firsthand perspective on the importance of integrating technology and design. "Great design is critical to the advancement of society. This is why we are so thrilled to have the team leading the change that makes the cloud easier to use."
Ashley addressing the need to view the cloud as the new platform to Oracle partners
Jeremy Ashley, Group Vice President, Applications User Experience, then took the stage and discussed how soon we will have five generations in the workforce along with the pressures of constantly emerging consumer technologies requiring a new strategic focus on design and what that means for partners and customers.
Scott Robinson shows what the ERP Cloud UX R&D looks like during the hands-on portion of the day for partners
Noel Portugal, setting up the smart office demo to show the future with off-the-shelf technology available today
Ultan O'Broin and Lancy Silviera, both Oracle, do a deep dive on the UX Rapid Development Kit with partners
One of our local sponsors, Chek Ang, Senior Director, SaaS Applications, Alliances & Channels, Oracle Asia Pacific, said, "We are at the right juncture with the Australia and New Zealand Cloud partner community to focus on the Oracle Cloud user experience. Seeing is believing. Bringing the UX team to the partners accelerates UX adoption and completes the Oracle Cloud story. The partners were very engaged, and they can see how developing UX expertise can help value-add and differentiate their Cloud offering."
Why do we do it?
In addition to all of the ongoing customer research we do, we pick a key city to visit each year as an investment area for our team. We look for the regions with a lot of Cloud customer action and interest , where we know we can be an accelerator and learn a lot in a short period of time. Our approach allows us to get a full 360 — customers, partners, press, sales — in one event.
We had great attendance, great participation, and now a much better understanding of the regional impact of Applications Cloud user experience strategy decisions.
A highly competitive submission process gates the privilege of attendance by members of the OAUX team. We do this to ensure that only our best work goes out the door and is shared with the regional community.
We owe a huge thank you to our team on the ground: Andrew Gilmour, John Pisani, Shy Meei Siow, Jenny Chew, Chek Ang, Paul Schlawe, Rebecca English, Scott Dawes, and Angela Colantuano.
Andrew Gilmour, Jenny Chew, Misha Vaughan, Shy Meei Siow, and John Pisani. Thank you guys for an awesome event!
Want to learn more?
• IT News, Peter Gutierez on the whole deal (pending)
• Check out a summary by Ultan O'Broin over on the UsableApps blog of the partner UX tools showcase and partner sales training
• A summary by Jake Kuramoto featuring the innovation showcase his team brought
• For Partners page on UsableApps
• Release 10 page on UsableApps
Friday Mar 04, 2016
Partners: Wow your customers in demos
By Kathy.Miedema-Oracle on Mar 04, 2016
Newly updated training creates experts in the selling points of Release 10 Cloud User Experience Highlights by product family
By Sarah Smart, Oracle Applications User Experience
To give partners a leg up on selling Release 10, the Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience 2016 Implementation Specialist guided learning path has been updated for sales and presales consultants. The online training provides in-depth information to help Oracle partners knock customers' socks off with demonstrations that showcase Oracle's investment in user experience for the cloud.
Debra Lilley, left, Vice President, Certus Cloud Solutions; and Basheer Khan, Principal, Knex Technology, share Cloud UX competitive strategies at Oracle OpenWorld 2015 in San Francisco, Calif.
"Oracle partners gain tremendous advantage by knowing how to sell and implement the Oracle user experience," said Jonathan Vinoskey, Director, Oracle Applications Partner Enablement (HCM). "Imagine customers using compelling, tailored applications on their mobile devices — at no additional cost! Knowing the problems being solved, articulating the different options and best solutions and then actually deploying the compelling and innovative user experience solutions provided by the Oracle Applications User Experience team will drive business for both Oracle and the partner. This is what partners will learn in the Oracle Applications User Experience 2016 Implementation Specialist training."
You've watched the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team develop Oracle's UX strategy since Release 7, and we've had a mind to increase participation even more with Release 8 and Release 9.
In Release 10, Oracle makes its biggest step forward for cloud applications yet. We're focusing on the second part of our "Simplicity, Mobility, Extensibility" story, and the key to that piece is increasing the participation of users. This is a crucial Release 10 selling point for partners. We know that if users don't find value in the application, they won't use it, costing your customers time and money.
The training dives deep into the most important and exciting features of Oracle Applications Cloud Release 10, including the gorgeously updated, consistent, mobility-focused user experience.
We also show you those dead-simple tools for making the experience look like your company for your users and a seamless way to add what is unique for your business or industry with our user interface developer toolkit. Finally, pupils will understand Oracle's ongoing investment in refining, adding to, and updating the user experience based on customer feedback.
Extensibility in Release 10 offers more options for visual design and organization in a friendly UI as well as a seamless way to add what is unique for your business or industry with our user interface developer toolkit and Page Integration, which aspiring Specialists will learn.
"We have 750 Oracle Partners certified through our Cloud User Experience Specialist Role up through Release 9," said Shannon Whiteman, Manager, Communication Operations & Online Training. "Our Release 10 update to the Specialist Role is a must-see for all of our partners who are serious about selling the Oracle Cloud."
Ready to dive in?
Start now to become an Oracle Applications Cloud UX Implementation Specialist.
Thursday Feb 04, 2016
Oracle Cloud Analyst Summit: Meet Me at the Clock
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Feb 04, 2016
By Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience
The World's Fair Clock at the Waldorf Astoria New York.
Oracle hosted a landmark summit on the Oracle Applications Cloud for industry analysts in New York City on Jan. 19 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. It was an honor and a privilege for the Oracle Applications User Experience team's Jeremy Ashley, Group Vice President, to take the stage along with the likes of Oracle executives such as Steve Miranda, Thomas Kurian, Mark Hurd, Shawn Price, Inderjeet Singh, Dibby Malakar, and Brandon Watson.
Jeremy spent his portion of the agenda laying out how Oracle is using a design and development strategy to address an industry that is very much in transition. Five generations will be in the workforce by 2020, there's a new reality for companies with mobile workers, and the constant challenges of emerging technology all push enterprise applications in a new direction.
The analysts were also invited to attend a hands-on social hour where they could see for themselves nearly public around our mobile strategy with Tony Orciuoli, cloud UX extensibility strategy with Greg Nerpouni, cloud UX Paas4SaaS strategy with Ultan O'Broin, and emerging technology investment areas with Jake Kuramoto. "We set up all these hands-on examples of our work. We want analysts to hold, touch, and use what we do," Jeremy said. "We haven't done this to that level before. It went very well."
Being able to show our work to important people in the enterprise software industry allows us to share and test our vision and collect feedback on our strategy, in case we're missing something and need to course-correct.
So, what did attendees think about the day? Read on for reactions, collected from Twitter.
Read More
- Nucleus, Rebecca Wetteman "Oracle Weds Cloud UI with Simple and Flexible"
- Ovum, Jeremy Cox "Oracle CX Cloud: An Effective Platform for Orchestrating the Customer Experience"
We're heading to Sydney, Australia, next to show our work to customers there. Stay tuned for another report soon!
In the meantime, visit our new Release 10 page on the Usable Apps website.
Tuesday Oct 27, 2015
Oracle HCM Cloud Release 10 UX highlights: Increasing worker participation through context
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on Oct 27, 2015
As you may have heard, the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team is shifting its focus to the second part of our "Simplicity, Mobility, Extensibility" story for Release 10. The linchpin to that part of the story? Increasing the participation of users. We know that if users don't find value in the application, they won't use it, which could cost you time and money. You've seen how we've developed our strategy since Release 7, and we've had a mind to increase participation even more with Release 8 and Release 9. Here, we'll demonstrate the ways in which Release 10 of Oracle HCM Cloud provides that value.
The top takeaways for Oracle HCM Cloud Release 10 user experience?
- A gorgeously updated, consistent, mobility-focused user experience
- Dead-simple tools for making the experience look like your company for your users
- A seamless way to add what is unique for your business or industry with our user interface developer toolkit
- An ongoing investment in refining, adding to, and updating the experience based on customer feedback
A simplified, unified user experience
Now that we think of the cloud as our platform, making the HCM UX experience seamless across devices and applications is imperative.
One-stop shopping
The clean, modern, contemporary entry experience for Oracle HCM Cloud provides everything the user needs in one stop. The user experience still focuses heavily on the "Glance, Scan, Commit" design philosophy: The home experience allows you to take a quick glance at your device to see what you need to know, then scan if you need more information, and finally commit to a work task if necessary.
This is the tablet- and laptop-friendly home experience in Release 10 of Oracle HCM Cloud. With just a few clicks, we styled it up.
Glanceable, scannable, convenient access
A grouping (such as "My Team" for HCM managers) allows users to combine areas and access them directly from the home page. The icons in groupings are organized in logical, related categories that are still glanceable. Groupings are at work in HCM Cloud R10, under My Team. Accessing groupings is convenient from anywhere in the user experience via the filmstrip at the top of the screen when you are in a work area. Only icons specific to a grouping are shown in the scannable filmstrip at the top. Icons are even more scannable because the user experience design clusters them and places them under category icons when appropriate.
The filmstrip view of groupings provides convenient access to what you need to work productively.
Increasing context for workers
Infolets allow users to get context -- necessary additional information about a task -- in an efficient, timely, and engaging way. You can scan My Team's Goals to determine goal-completion status or My Reputation Profile for current reputation scores and roles. If something needs your attention, it's easy to commit and dig a little deeper into the task.
Context goes even deeper on the HCM Cloud Release 10 home screen with infolets.
Information tiles allow users to scan information in greater detail, all from a single page. They encourage participation from those users who need to orient themselves quickly on intense, repetitive, highly focused tasks. They can glance to see what is going on, then scan for details, no matter the size or complexity of the data.
As users navigate through information tiles, the supporting in-context data is refreshed accordingly.
Conversations in context
Time for everyone's favorite application-spanning feature: Social. In Release 10, a convenient slide-out panel lets users easily view conversations or lists of activities without leaving the application, and they can also view integrated conversations in the context of the current task. Just like in other social conversations, you can view your flags and those you've assigned to other users. You can also see your flags from any screen in the global header.
Design Your Cloud, Your Way
Visual design is such an integral part of the Oracle Applications Cloud user experience, so we've paid particular attention to it in Release 10.
Now it's even easier to configure your cloud visual design to match your branding and identity for a consistent user experience.
There are now even more options for matching your business's color scheme and logo in Appearance.
Customers have more flexibility to define the logo, the background, and the color scheme according to your branding, using either files or URLs. You can also modify button colors and add corner rounding.
You'll recognize flat dark, flat light, matte, rich, and shiny icon styles from previous releases, but the dot style is new.
Oracle has also enhanced general usability and provided some updated visuals in Release 10, such as icon style. The icon styles are the same, but they have received a different visual treatment. You can now exactly match your organization's color palette to enforce consistency across applications, because modifying the logo or color schemes applies the changes everywhere.
What's Unique to Your Business, Your Industry: Designing Your Own User Interface
We know there are pieces of functionality that you want that are custom to your business and industry. You also want them to look and feel like the rest of your cloud. The Oracle cloud user experience strategy has included a toolkit for just this need since Release 8, and now it's being updated for Release 10. Sketch the user interface in an hour using our tools, get the buy-off you need, and then use the prepackaged tools to build it and deploy it.
Page Integration allows your administrators to add a new page containing an iframe. This allows external applications to be integrated seamlessly into the Oracle Applications Cloud, creating a consistent user experience. Administrators can conveniently manage all new pages from a single location. You can even pick a matching icon.
Core features updated in Oracle HCM Cloud Release 10
Oracle has continued to invest, based on ongoing customer feedback, in updating, adding to, and enhancing core HCM Cloud functionality. Updated candidate designs, updated goals designs, and updated performance designs are all examples of our ongoing commitment to providing a superior user experience.
Fresh designs promote end-user adoption
Remember that card metaphor from previous releases? Well, it's back and better than ever in Hiring. This concept is deployed throughout the design for glanceability and consistency, as users can take action right from this screen. You can find all relevant information for a qualified application in one place, and scanning is even easier with the redesigned Talent Timeline.
Examine the new candidates matching open requisition in your organization with the Requisitions card view.
The goal management pages have been redesigned in Release 10. In these pages, you can decode the progress of your team, a single employee, or your entire organization at a glance and take new goal-related actions in context from this single page. Managers can approve or reject changes to multiple goals at once.
Timely updates from the list view eliminates drilling into goal details.
Performance pages have also been redesigned in Release 10. This new, pared-down page lets managers see the most important information at a glance. Drilling down is easy with the information tiles on the left.
The supporting information included on the page in previous releases has been moved to easily accessible information tiles.
Broader options for employee development
Self-service transactions, such as promotion and termination, streamline and simplify the manager's experience in Release 10 of Oracle HCM Cloud. You can promote, terminate, or transfer from a single page as the user experience is unified across tasks, functions, and devices.
New to HCM Cloud in Release 10, Career Development encourages employees to get involved. The engaging, employee-focused experience makes participation in creating and maintaining a development plan a must.
Pulling it all together
Release 10 of Oracle HCM Cloud demonstrates some real ground gained as the OAUX team gets fully into the mobility chapter of the user experience strategy. Users want to participate when the experience is consistent and convenient, as in the easy-to-use home experience and the goals and performance features. And contextual information, as in integrated social and the Talent Timeline, helps keep employees in the "Glance" or "Scan" steps of the design philosophy as much as possible, providing more control over how and when the user chooses to work as well as streamlining the work process and increasing productivity.
Find out More
Release 10 of Oracle HCM Cloud demonstrates Oracle's ongoing commitment to users who want to participate when the experience is consistent and convenient.
- Oracle HCM Cloud Release 10 Readiness
- Oracle User Experience Release 10 Readiness
- Oracle HCM Cloud Release 10 Videos
- Cloud User Experience Tools: The Full Extensibility Story for Release 10
- Cloud User Experience Tools: The UX Developer Toolkit
Sunday Oct 25, 2015
Oracle Applications Cloud Release 10 UX highlights: Enhancing your cloud through extensibility
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Oct 25, 2015
We want you to be able to run your business your way, including making your Oracle Applications Cloud look like your business. Changing the user experience to reflect your business needs is easier than ever with Oracle's modern cloud extensibility tools. These tools are tools designed with simplicity and ease of use in mind.
Our goal is to increase your users' participation through a familiar and relevant experience, deliver tailored productivity to your employees, and extend the value of your cloud. We've covered how the extensibility features have evolved, from Release 7 to Release 8 to Release 9, and we'll show you below how these imperatives translate to the extensibility features of the Oracle Applications Cloud Release 10.
The key takeaways in Release 10 Cloud User Experience Extensibility:
- Even more visual design options, in a friendly UI
- Even more options for organizing the UI
- A seamless way to add what is unique for your business or industry with our user interface developer toolkit and Page Integration
Appearance: See the difference
Visual design is an integral part of the Oracle Applications Cloud user experience, so we've paid particular attention to it in Release 10. Now it's even easier to configure your cloud visual design to match your branding and identity for a consistent user experience.
Customers now have more options for matching your business's color scheme and logo in Appearance.
Administrators have more flexibility to define the logo, the background, and the color scheme according to your branding using either files or URLs. There are 6 different homepage icon styles delivered out-of-the-box. There are 8 different themes, or color and style combinations, delivered out-of-the-box. But we know that sometimes that is not enough; you can make an almost infinite number of changes to tailor the visual style for your users. You can even modify button colors and add corner rounding.
You'll recognize flat dark, flat light, matte, rich, and shiny icon styles from previous releases, but the dot style is new.
Oracle has also enhanced general usability and provided some updated visuals in Release 10, such as icon style. The icon styles are the same, but they have received a different visual treatment. Can't decide? Save all your themes for later use. You can now exactly match your organization's color palette to enforce consistency across applications because modifying the logo or color schemes applies the changes everywhere.
Streamline your layout in Structure
Structure helps
you configure the layout of the user experience for consistency with
your business requirements. You have the ability to drill down into
landing pages and make edits to the pages, hide or unhide applications
to streamline user roles, reorder applications, create new page entries
or categories, and set system options.
Admins have the power to create and edit landing pages, hide, expose, or re-sequence items, and move them to other categories to streamline user roles for convenience.
Protecting Your Cloud
of these features would be useless without the protection of sandboxes.
We've made it easier not only to configure the applications but also to
make and test changes before pushing them live. The administrator must
deploy a sandbox session to make any changes. The new sandbox header
appears on every UI where configuration changes are being applied, so
those changes are metadata-store-enabled (MDS-enabled) and upgrade- and patch-proof.
What's unique to your business, industry: Designing your own user interface
We know there are pieces of functionality you want that are custom to your business and industry. You also want them to look and feel like the rest of your cloud. Page Integration
lets administrators add a new page containing an iframe. This
allows external applications to be integrated seamlessly into the
Oracle Applications Cloud, creating a consistent user experience.
Administrators can conveniently manage all new pages from a single
Bridging the gap between the Oracle Applications Cloud and a third-party application couldn't be easier with Page Integration, which seamlessly loops in external applications.
You have so many
new options for icons in Release 10. An administrator can easily select
one that feels intuitive and best fits your needs from the included
icon library to ensure a consistent user experience.
This is an example of editing a landing page icon for your integrated application.
Partners can seamlessly integrate their PaaS-deployed applications that emulate the Oracle Applications Cloud user experience through Page Integration. You can select from the Oracle Marketplace or design your own. The Oracle cloud user experience strategy has included a toolkit for just this need since release 8, and now it's being updated for Release 10. Sketch the user interface in an hour using our tools, get the buy-off you need, then use the pre-packaged tools to build it and deploy it.
Improve support with Record Issue
This is an example of navigation to Troubleshooting: Record Issue in the Oracle Applications Cloud, which can help you keep records of problems relayed by your help desk.
Improve your support ticket accuracy, help shorten issue time, and reduce support costs with a feature called Record Issue. Organizations working with Oracle Support or managing their internal help desks can use Record Issue to help reproduce and document any errors or performance issues.
Administrators can collect page diagnostics and performance statistics from the Oracle Applications Cloud, and recordings can be configured to focus on selected modules with various levels of detail.
Pulling it all together
Of course, you could use the Oracle Applications Cloud right out of the box. But we know customers must continually find ways to differentiate themselves, internally and externally. In Release 10, we're offering you tools in Appearance, Structure, and Page Integration to grow a familiar user experience organically, to keep the focus on what makes you unique, and to safeguard the value of your cloud. Since it's so easy for you and powerful for your employees, the latest features make extensibility a must for meeting your business needs with the Oracle Applications Cloud.
Find out more
- Oracle Release 10 UI Customization blog
- Oracle User Experience Release 10 Readiness
- Oracle Release 10 Extensibility videos: Structure, Create New Infolet, Edit Infolet, Developer Connect
- Cloud User Experience Tools: The UX Developer Toolkit
- All Oracle Release 10 Customization Articles
Monday Sep 14, 2015
If you build it, they will come: Applications Cloud UX Tools sessions at OOW 2015
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Sep 14, 2015
by Misha Vaughan, Applications User Experience
Greg Nerpouni, Senior Manager, Cloud UX Extensibility, showing off the latest capabilities of the Oracle Applications Cloud user experience
If you are an IT manager or business systems analyst trying to get a view into how the IT skill set is evolving, you will want to check out these sessions.
Greg Nerpouni, the shepherd of our Cloud UX Extensibility strategy and roadmap, and Tim Dubois -- standing in for our own Ultan O'Broin (@usableapps), who has spearheaded our PaaS4SaaS UX rapid development kit - will be sharing the road ahead.
By attending the sessions below, attendees will understand that admin personalization of the Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle Service Cloud, and HCM Cloud user experiences include a range of tools. The spectrum runs from a simplified approach for rebranding the applications to match your company's culture and image and page-level admin personalization and extension to building your own simplified Cloud application in a platform as a service and integrating it with your Cloud application with PaaS4SaaS.
We will also be offering a preview of the soon-to-be released Release 10 Rapid Development Kit that @Ultan and @LancyS have been hard at work on. There are some outstanding upgrades coming along with a surprise OAUX Advocate who has been helping to vet our partner enablement training material. You can expect to hear about an updated design patterns ebook, updated and easier to use wireframing tools, and a rockin' new code kit.
Tailoring Your User Experience in Oracle Sales Cloud and Oracle Service Cloud
Presenters: Greg Nerpouni, Senior Manager, Applications User Experience, Oracle
Tim Dubois, Senior Director, User Experience Product and Program Management, Oracle
Session ID: CON9132
Date: Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015
Time: 2:30 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Moscone West—2000
Tailoring Your User Experience in the Oracle HCM Cloud
Presenters: Greg Nerpouni and Tim Dubois
Session ID: CON8011
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015
Time: 3 - 3:45 p.m.
Location: Palace—Gold Ballroom
Want the latest info?
Check the OAUX Events page for any last-minute changes and the full list of what you can see and do to soak up every bit of that Cloud UX goodness at OOW 2015.
Saturday Sep 05, 2015
Building your agenda for OOW? Find your Applications Cloud UX strategy sessions here
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Sep 05, 2015
By Misha Vaughan, Applications User Experience
Photo by Rob Hernandez
If you are making plans to visit Oracle OpenWorld 2015 this year, make sure you block out some time to drop into the Applications Cloud product family user experience strategy sessions. Whether you work with HCM Cloud, CX Cloud, or ERP Cloud, in a quick hit, you'll have the big-picture vision of where the design is headed.
You'll learn how the themes of simplicity and mobility guide the roadmap for the Oracle user experience. Since this is the UX team, you will, of course, see demos of the next generation of user experiences. Discover how the unified user experience moves consistently across devices to address the needs of the changing workforce, making the learning curve disappear while boosting participation and productivity for all users. These sessions will also show you the future of user experiences we consider most relevant to each product family. Take your chance to glimpse the future, and walk away inspired by the Oracle Applications Cloud.
Oracle Applications Cloud User Experiences: Trends and Strategy for FY2016
Presenters: Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), Group Vice President, Cloud Applications User Experience (UX), Oracle
Jake Kuramoto (@jkuramot), Senior Director, Emerging Technology
Jatin Thaker, Senior Director, Cloud Applications UX Development
Session ID: CON8419
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015
Time: 5:15 - 6 p.m.
Location: Moscone West—3002/3004
Oracle ERP Cloud User Experiences: Trends, Tailoring, and Strategy in FY2016
Presenters: Jeremy Ashley, Oracle;
Killian Evers (@keversca), Vice President, Applications User Experience for Sales and Service, Oracle;
Aylin Uysal (@aylinuysal), Senior Director, Applications User Experience for HCM and ERP, Oracle
Session ID: CON9337
Date: Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015
Time: 12 - 12:45 p.m.
Location: Moscone West—3005
Oracle Sales Cloud and Oracle Service Cloud User Experiences: Strategy for Mobility in FY2016
Presenters: Jeremy Ashley, Killian Evers, and Jake Kuramoto, Oracle
Session: CON9219
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015
Time: 11 - 11:45 a.m.
Location: Moscone West—2016
Oracle HCM Cloud User Experiences: Trends and Strategy in FY2016
Presenters: Jeremy Ashley and Aylin Uysal
Session ID: CON8981
Date: Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015
Time: 2:30 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Palace—Gold Ballroom
Want the latest info?
Check the OAUX Events page for any last-minute changes and the full list of what you can see and do to soak up every bit of that Cloud UX goodness at OOW 2015.
Friday Aug 07, 2015
Get a look at the future Oracle cloud user experience at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on Aug 07, 2015
Lucas Jellema, AMIS & Oracle ACE Director (left), Anthony Lai, Oracle (center), Jake Kuramoto, Oracle (right) at OOW 2015 during our strategy day
Photos by Rob Hernandez
Who: Applications Cloud partners and customers (especially HCM, CX, or ERP Cloud), Oracle ACE Directors, and Oracle-internal Cloud thought leaders in product development, sales, or Worldwide Alliances and Channels
To get on our waitlist.
Active confidential disclosure agreement required.
Chloe Arnold and Mindi Cummins, Oracle, during OOW 2014 at the OAUX Cloud Exchange
Save the Date: Oracle Applications User Experience Cloud Exchange
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Monday Jun 22, 2015
Consistency? Check. Context? Check. More convenience, better participation in the mobile user experience? Oh, yes!
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on Jun 22, 2015
A visualization should be easy to use. These visitors at the Oracle usability labs instinctively know how to use forecast shaper.
Tuesday Jun 16, 2015
Big-picture innovation on the path to a better user experience
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on Jun 16, 2015
Our studies recently have focused on wearables, and developing ways they can evolve the Oracle user experience.
- new technology or materials that we can use to see opportunities for enterprise potential
- research to identify a pattern or trend that gives us insight
Innovation plays an important role on the OAUX team. We have to understand our changing environment to know how to adapt, and we put a lot of passion into understanding what is right, Ashley said. "Just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should." We need to ask ourselves, is this applicable, and does it make sense?
Oracle dedicates a team to researching emerging technologies. This is how we can accelerate our rate of innovation in the Oracle user experience and drive forward the evolution of the Oracle Applications Cloud.
To Learn More
Saturday Jun 06, 2015
Going Beyond the Notification: Transitioning With the Evolving Enterprise
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on Jun 06, 2015
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series on the current strategy behind the Oracle user experience and the ideas that drive that strategy forward.
You may have read about the "Glance, Scan, Commit" design philosophy that informs innovation in the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team's research. This is part of our Oracle Applications Cloud story on simplicity, mobility, and extensibility.
You might be wondering: When does this innovation trickle down to my company's Oracle applications system and affect me? And how much is that going to cost?
Put aside your pessimism. The answer is: faster than you think. Here's why.
The Transition
The whole enterprise industry has been undergoing major transitions, according to Group Vice President Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), leader of the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team. The workforce is changing; no longer confined to certain generations and geographical locations, a team of employees can span many age groups, and each member can work from anywhere in the world.
Group Vice President Jeremy Ashley
It's also becoming more mobile, meaning one employee in an office in New York can work seamlessly with another on a mobile phone inside a taxi in Abu Dhabi.
As Oracle's customers go through these transitions, so do we. Oracle is taking the time and making the investment to understand the needs this transition brings, Ashley said. But we know our customers already have made a huge investment in Oracle Applications, so even in the midst of transitioning, we are building our platform based on 100 percent Oracle technology. What's new is the way that we are designing the user experience.
The themes of simplicity and mobility are guiding us as we continue to develop a simplified UI and explore emerging technology for ways to improve the Oracle user experience. We want to reach beyond the standard notification and visualization while maintaining the technology with which our customers are already familiar.
That means that the investment you already made is still solid. And the integration problems you might be expecting if you want to tap into our simplified user experience – well, it's far less complicated than you might think.
Our Inspiration
We know that we need to anticipate what's coming so that we can respond appropriately, Ashley said. We want to take advantage of emerging technology and trends and develop a strategic approach to the Oracle Applications Cloud user experience that helps users increase their productivity and makes participation in using the system a no-brainer.
To figure out how to anticipate the needs of our users, Oracle invests in its own research on industry, innovators, and media. The OAUX team looks at where companies are spending their money and time, where people are putting in sweat equity to get things started, and the way the media is influencing how people perceive technology.
Here's what we've learned in our research about current innovation trends:
Connectivity: We expect to be connected 99 percent of the time, and we expect our devices to work in any location.
Devices: We want to get work done regardless of the device we are using, and we need all of our devices to be convenient. The laptop is no longer the Swiss army knife it used to be, so we now use the device that best fits a particular task.
Interactions: We want to see what's essential immediately and understand what we need to do about it now with small, quick, casual interactions.
Oracle's approach
The future of enterprise applications revolves around Oracle's simplified UI design philosophy of "Glance, Scan, Commit." An application should allow the user to glance at something and make a decision about it, but then offer an array of active choices to the user (scan) without forcing her to commit to entering the larger system at that moment. This level is a happy medium of personalized detail and encompasses the 10% of tasks that 90% of users are doing 90% of the time.
The Oracle user experience strategy has been successful because of the focus on simplification. Because we've built everything on Oracle technology, users don't have to start over in their investment with Oracle (learning new software, adapting to new patterns, etc.), and neither do we. As we continue to refine the user experience, always keeping in mind how best to use the Oracle database, middleware, and apps technology, we look at actual changes that organizations are making and rethink how Oracle products may be able to support those trends.
There are no integration and capability issues with this approach, Ashley said. With a new Oracle release, customers shouldn't have to start over with a new learning process or investment.
The point is, transition doesn't have to be painful.
We've covered simplicity in a big way in the Oracle user experience with our current releases, and we've been working on mobility in a big way, which you'll see with the coming ones.
In this rendering of infolets from Release 10, we show how a design that embraces simplicity also works for our design theme of mobility. Infolets work across devices.
Look for our next post soon on how we define innovation and what that means for the Oracle user experience.
To Learn More
Monday May 25, 2015
Laying out the Oracle Applications User Experience Strategy for Partners in Beijing
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on May 25, 2015
- HCM Cloud
- Sales Cloud
- Service Cloud
- ERP Cloud
- Cloud extensibility
- Platform-as-a-Service for SaaS (also known as PaaS4SaaS)
- Emerging Technologies including wearables & visualizations
Deep-dive sessions on the second day focused on Applications Cloud UX tools for implementation specialists, along with pre-sales messaging. Led by Ultan O'Broin (@usableapps), Killian Evers, and Anthony Lai, the goal was to raise awareness with partners of how they needed to begin developing in-house skills around:
- Positioning and selling with user experience as a differentiator for the cloud.
- The range of tools for modifying the user experience from the simplest change of a logo to adding and removing fields to changing pages.
- How to close the gap with Application Development Framework and our Paas4SaaS Rapid Development Kit for the simplified UI.
O'Broin said partners engaged in an intense way with the PaaS4SaaS UX enablement message, were eager to know more and make things happen for their Cloud business in a way that would see them building smart, secure, reusable value-add Cloud solutions of simplicity for customers in a matter of hours. "Our APAC partners also recognized the huge potential of PaaS with SaaS. With 95% of our products lifting off into the Cloud by OOW15, the PaaS4SaaS UX business propositions could not be ignored by any partners keen to grow their Cloud business, sure, but any partner who also demands to be seen and recognized as a leader and influencer in the ecosystem."
Friday May 22, 2015
Showing the Oracle Applications User Experience Roadmap to Oracle's Asia Partners
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on May 22, 2015
- Our momentum worldwide in the cloud, including Mark Hurd's comments on reaching $200 million in annual recurring revenue in the cloud and closing in on being the largest service provider in the cloud.
- Complete SaaS wins the deal, and players who have the most complete SaaS suite will win. Oracle now has every category from HCM to ERP to CX, and according to Mark Hurd, expects to have 95% of its products in the cloud this year. We are either a leader or competing to be a leader in the space. We are the only vendor to offer IaaS to PaaS to SaaS.
- Partners have an opportunity in the customization, integration, and extension space for customers, who are looking for support from trusted advisors.
- Positioning and selling with user experience as a differentiator for the cloud.
- The range of tools for modifying the user experience from the simplest change of a logo to adding and removing fields to changing pages.
- How to close the gap with Application Development Framework (ADF) and the OAUX Paas4SaaS Rapid Development Kit for the simplified UI.
Want to find out more?
Monday May 18, 2015
Customer Connect: Oracle's online community for Applications Cloud customers
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on May 18, 2015
When you have a question about Oracle Applications Cloud, where do you turn? If you don't want to navigate a help line phone tree or wait an entire weekend for a response, try asking the Oracle Applications Customer Connect community.
- Oracle Sales Cloud: The User Experience Strategy Going Forward
You have seen Release 7, Release 8, and Release 9. Now, find out what's coming next in this session on our vision for the Oracle Sales Cloud user experience going forward.
- Oracle HCM Cloud: The User Experience Strategy Going Forward
The design philosophy of "Glance, Scan, Commit" is the language guiding our user experiences, and this session will show you what's in our mind's eye about our UX roadmap.
- Oracle ERP Cloud: The User Experience Strategy Going Forward
The Oracle Applications Cloud user experience design strategy is about simplicity, mobility, and extensibility, so watch this presentation to discover its next evolution. We'll discuss some highlights of Release 9, Release 10, and a few more bells and whistles.
- Oracle Cloud Extensibility: Making the Cloud Your Own
The Oracle Applications Cloud user experience design strategy is about simplicity, mobility, and extensibility, and this session focuses on the last piece of that strategy -- in addition to our approach to PaaS4SaaS and user experience.
Monday Mar 23, 2015
Helping Partners Compete on User Experience with the Oracle Applications Cloud
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on Mar 23, 2015
When a customer comes to you and asks, "I have a business identity and process, but how do I maintain that with Oracle Applications Cloud?" how do you respond? Understanding and embracing the Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience is a multifaceted process encompassing the full product experience, from desktop and tablets to smartphones and, yes, even wearables. But even if you're excited about the product, it can be a challenge.
To better educate customers as well as meet their needs on user experience, you need a way to learn. That's why Oracle created the User Experience Specialist role for Oracle Applications Cloud partners. We now have a UX Guided Learning Path and assessment live on the Oracle Partner Network for this role, which better enables partners to sell the Oracle Applications Cloud.
New Partner Page
New Partner Events
Thursday Dec 18, 2014
Oracle HCM Cloud Release 9 UX highlights: 'Glance, Scan, Commit' design philosophy at work for Hiring
By Kathy.Miedema-Oracle on Dec 18, 2014
By Sarah Smart, Oracle Applications User Experience
As Oracle Applications Cloud Release 9 gets under way, the simplified UI continues to improve the Oracle user experience. Continuing the prime directives of Release 7 and 8, Release 9 delivers even more improvements to the applications' simplicity, mobility, and extensibility. Here's how Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud moves the Oracle user experience forward.
"Glance, Scan, Commit"
The Oracle HCM Cloud dashboard
Oracle's Release 9 user experience unites even more seamlessly with the design philosophy driving Oracle Applications Cloud. This is the first example of a unified user experience with Taleo. In Hiring Activities, users can easily update the hiring process from a macro view -- at a glance. But if they need to, they can scan for the important pieces and commit to drill deeper.
Viewing actions to take in Requisitions: Use the drop-down in this innovative "smart card" view to reject, move forward, or add comments on a candidate from any level of commitment.
Timeline: Visualize data on candidates in different stages of the hiring process, from the first interview to the offer, and quickly scan for a glance at status and next actions.
Better Understanding: Infographics in Analytics
Simple, modern, well-designed analytics help executives and managers effectively evaluate their organizations with a speedy once-over. The graphics are large, smart, and colorful, making them great for presentations, and progress toward goals is easy to see.
Analytics: See performance ratings in one simple view, and eliminate digging through reports to understand how your organization is doing.
Headcount Budget view: Check your employee count quickly and easily, and if you need an extra pair of hands, you can jump directly into creating a requisition.
Maximum Engagement: Social and Competitions
Expanded social capabilities and competitions give employees across generations an extra push to engage in their work life. The Social Panel allows users to access Conversations and Walls to update information without having to leave the home page, and they can have as many Conversation threads as they desire while keeping them organized.
Social Panel: Post to your Wall or the Wall of a business object in which you are actively involved from anywhere in HCM.
Competitions uses the same glance-able view found throughout Release 9, allows actions at multiple levels of commitment, and gives users more information on request.
Competitions: Perform the most common competition-related tasks from this level, or drill deeper to check rankings or add a score -- number of steps taken for a wellness competition, for example.
Competitions Leader Board: This design approach makes reaching goals as a team fun and engaging.
Pulling It All Together
Oracle HCM Cloud Release 9 provides a smooth, streamlined, more unified experience for human-resources activities and processes. The "glance, scan, commit" design philosophy, the beautiful and easy-to-understand analytics, and the maximized wo
rk-life engagement encouraged by Social and Competitions complement one another in the simplified UI.
What People Are Saying
"Oracle has also simplified the alphabet soup of its many business-intelligence tools and embedded them in applications, created a single mobile-user experience and introduced many on-premise integration toolkits and pre-packaged integrations." Bill Kutik, Human Resource Executive Online
" ... In Release 9 of Oracle HCM Cloud, much of the focus is on usability. The company has worked to unify the user experience of HCM Cloud applications with those of Taleo Recruiting and Taleo Talent Management so that they function as a consistent suite of applications. One aspect where this has improved the applications is the new "smart cards" for the recruiting application, which organize candidate information in a readable graphic format. Leone espoused the larger goal of providing the same user experience in all the enterprise cloud HCM applications." Stephan Millard, Ventana Research
" ... Release 9 of HCM Cloud enhances functionality in the Oracle Mobile application. It aligns several parts of mobile recruiting including the hiring work list and interview evaluation screens as well as parts of performance management to look and work similarly to the user interface for the Web-based version of the application. Future versions will continue the effort to harmonize the mobile and Web user interfaces for talent management. ... In addition, our benchmark research on human capital analytics shows that a solid majority (65%) of organizations are using mobile applications for talent management today or plan to do so over the next year." Stephan Millard, Ventana Research
To Learn More
- Read the Release 9 readiness documentation
- Download the new UX strategy e-book
- Tour the new Cloud UX lab at Oracle HQ
- Meet up with us on the road!
Saturday Dec 13, 2014
Meet the OAUX team on the road! Next stop: Mexico City!
By Kathy.Miedema-Oracle on Dec 13, 2014
By Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience
If you missed meeting up with the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team at Oracle OpenWorld 2014 this year, you still have a chance to connect with us. The next stop on our regional update tour is Santa Fe, Mexico, just outside of Mexico City. Our first stop during the first week of December 2014 was London.
The goal for the visit is to update Oracle Applications Cloud partners, as well as a few select customers, on the Oracle Applications Cloud strategy and roadmap. Oracle is continuing to invest in moving the user experience forward, and by spending a couple of hours with us at this event, you will find out what to start thinking about for your own organization down the road.
Jeremy Ashley, Oracle Applications User Experience vice president, talks with Dionne Healy, of Oracle, about Oracle's cloud user experience strategy for Oracle HCM Cloud at the OAUX Exchange during Oracle OpenWorld 2014.
What: Oracle is hosting a series of executive briefing events, each two hours long, for director-level and above Oracle partners and Oracle customers located in Latin America. These events near Mexico City will focus on the Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience strategy for HCM Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, ERP Cloud, extensibility, and emerging technologies (wearables and beacons).
Oracle employees Kristin Desmond, from left, and Killian Evers talk about the next generation of the Oracle Sales Cloud user experience being shown during the OAUX Exchange, held during Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco in September.
Holger Mueller (@holgermu), left, and Ray Wang (@rwang0), both analysts with Constellation Research, are shown at the OAUX Exchange in September 2014, with Oracle Applications User Experience VP Jeremy Ashley, far right, and Director Misha Vaughan, center right.
Who (maximum of 30 attendees for each session):
- The briefings are for Oracle partners, ideally director level and above, who are located in Mexico City or Latin America generally, for Oracle's HCM Cloud, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and ERP Cloud.
- Select Oracle Applications Cloud customers, ideally director level and above, who are located in Mexico City or Latin America generally, are also invited to attend briefings for Oracle's HCM Cloud, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and ERP Cloud.
Why: Our team would like to share strategy and roadmap on Oracle's ongoing investment in its cloud user experiences for applications, as well as to collect feedback and perspectives from our partners and customers.
- Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 - For Customers
- 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
- Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 – For Partners
- 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Oracle Office Santa Fe
Prolongacion Paseo de la Reforma 600, Álvaro Obregón, 01219, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México.
Conference room: Yautepec
Agenda: Jeremy Ashley, VP of the Oracle Applications User Experience team, will listen and respond to the issues that are top of mind for attendees around user experience, as well as share the big-picture trends Oracle is paying attention to, and where Oracle is doing research and development from an enterprise software perspective.
Attendees will also have an opportunity to engage with the OAUX team, talk to the experts, and try for themselves the forward-looking user experiences for Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle Service Cloud, Oracle HCM Cloud, and Oracle ERP Cloud. It's a great way for us to get direct feedback about our investment approach.
Attendees will also have the chance to take a deeper dive into the user experience plans for Oracle Applications Cloud Extensibility and Paas4SaaS.
Finally, we will be bringing along representatives from our Emerging Technologies team to demonstrate and discuss what we think about new technologies such as wearables and beacons for the enterprise space.
Tuesday Dec 09, 2014
What's next for Oracle's Cloud User Experiences post-OpenWorld?
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Dec 09, 2014
By Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience
Oracle OpenWorld 2014 was quite the whirlwind this year. As Floyd Teter (@fteter) said, trying to keep up with the press releases alone required real work. (This is a great summary of his perspective, by the way, and worth the read.)
Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, center, showing off the user experience for Oracle Sales Cloud
Cloud UX Strategy Day
It is an exciting time to be on the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team, and I really think this was our best year ever. We had our largest Oracle Applications Cloud UX strategy and roadmap day yet. Attendees encompassed the gamut of the OAUX community and included Oracle ACE Directors, UX Sales Ambassadors, key Applications Cloud partners, and a few select customers. They are a pushy lot, so you get you get with these guys, but it's also time well spent if you want to put your messages and vision through a crucible of refinement.
It was a great place to launch our FY '15 plans. We started the day with Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), vice president, talking about the overall trends and strategy that are shaping our user experience investment areas including wearables, Internet of Things, and session portability. Also, on display were the Oracle Sales Cloud UX Strategy, with Killian Evers, senior director; Oracle HCM Cloud UX strategy with Aylin Uysal, director; and Oracle ERP Cloud UX Strategy with David Haimes, (@dhaimes) senior director. We also had a packed house discussing user experience extensibility with Greg Nerpouni and Tim Dubois, and our complement to the PaaS4SaaS space, the simplified UI rapid development kit, with Ultan O'Broin (@usableapps). It was also the first time Oracle's UX innovation history was put into perspective by Jake Kuramoto (@jkuramot).
A special bonus for me was getting to see some of our UX Sales Ambassadors, Mike Klein, Tuan Nguyen (@tuan735) and Anand Subramanian (all the way from Dubai), and to witness their excitement at what was coming next.
Everyone was genuinely excited and pleased to see how much progress has been made across the board – from SaaS to PaaS – in moving Oracle's cloud user experience strategy forward.
Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Exchange
As most folks who have crossed paths with the user experience team know, partners and customers get their biggest "ah ha!" moments when they see the work firsthand. I liken it to the difference between telling you how well a car drives, vs. handing you the keys and saying, "take it for a spin yourself." There is nothing quite like trying out the next-generation design work for yourself to really digest where things are going and what the enterprise possibilities are. We had excellent participation from the Oracle Partner Network, Oracle Analyst Relations, and Customer Connect.
Sherry Mead, Architect, discusses next-generation UX technologies.
Special thanks to Vlad Babu (all the way from Romania) and Bharath Ram and Sona Manzo (@sonajmanzo) of Hitachi Consulting for hanging out at the Simplified UI Rapid Development kit station to talk about their own successes.
So what was the reaction to the user experience message at OpenWorld?
For a quick digest, read the Usable Apps Storify post to see what folks Tweeted or otherwise posted. And here are a few additional comments:
Floyd Teter (@fteter), Oracle ACE Director, said "user experience is not only important, but is a value-add product in and of itself.'' Read his thoughts yourself.
Debra Lilley (@debralilley), Oracle ACE Director, calls out her particular interest in the investment in PaaS and user experience as well as her interest in the growing capabilities of Voice.
Lucas Jellema, (@lucasjellema), Oracle ACE Director, writes perhaps more than anyone I know. I'm not actually sure he sleeps. You can read his lengthy and thoughtful analyses of all things OpenWorld and UX-related.
Jeremy Cox of Ovum, center right, chats with Oracle's Ultan O'Broin, far left, Vlad Babu, and Tim Dubois about extensibility in the cloud at the OAUX Exchange.
A special bonus was running across a Tweet from Debra Lilley via Ultan calling out the Constellation Research mention of user experience at OpenWorld.
Ray Wang (@rwang0), Constellation Research, said: "One of the things that was really astonishing was going into the UX lab. There was a UX lab that was set up. And you could see where Oracle was thinking about different paradigms. Where consumerization of IT could match back to what enterprise applications could look like. So anything from that to what was going on with BLE (Blue Tooth Low Energy). They had a whole BLE lab."
Dr. Natalie Petouhouff (@drnatalie), Constellation Research, also wrote about the UX labs at OpenWorld: "I did see that, and I thought that was really interesting and really forward-thinking. Because that is what customers expect. Being on the CX side of things, really that's what people expect apps to look like. So that they are thinking about that, what that says to me is that they actually have the customer in mind."
Analyst Rebecca Wettemann, of Nucleus Research, gets checked in and set up on a personalized wearable that will help guide her around the demos at the OAUX Exchange thanks to Raymond of @theappslab team.
Find out more
If you want a quick way to find out what you missed, download our Oracle Applications Cloud UX strategy e-book.
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Download the Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Strategy e-Book
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Nov 14, 2014
By Misha Vaughan, Applications User Experience
Our core strategy still focuses on simplicity, mobility, and extensibility for Applications Cloud user experiences. This year we have fleshed that out with more discussion of our current design approach, Glance – Scan – Commit, as a method of building specific, consistent experiences across platforms.
At OpenWorld 2014, we first released our Applications Cloud User Experience strategy e-book, which explains what we are focusing on, what we see coming, and what we think may impact the next generation of cloud user experiences, including things like geo-fencing, wearables, virtualization, and Internet of Things. Some of these concepts may make it to the finish line, others may not, but these are the areas where we are actively conducting research and development.
We are launching it publicly today!
Tuesday Nov 04, 2014
Come tour the New Cloud UX Lab at Oracle HQ
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Nov 04, 2014
By Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience
Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), vice president, and designer of the new Cloud User Experience Lab @HQ in Redwood Shores, CA.
If you were lucky enough to catch one of our usability lab tours during Oracle OpenWorld 2014 in September, you know how awesome it is. This space is specifically designed to handle the challenges of demonstrating how a user experience can move across devices. It's also where we are exploring the next generation of devices, such as beacons, to understand their impact on and value for the user experience (UX).
Ashley stated, "New technologies, changes in work patterns, mean new methods to research and test design solutions. The Cloud UX Lab is equipped to accommodate the changing work patterns of our customers."
Steve Miranda (@stevenmiranda), Executive Vice President, Applications Development, showed a video during his OpenWorld keynote speech that highlighted some of the UX innovations we have been exploring in the lab. I can't help but be excited when I see this video, which was created by UX friend Martin Taylor (@theothermartin).
Next time you head in the direction of Oracle's headquarters in the Bay Area, book a tour. We'll meet you there!
Tuesday Oct 28, 2014
Meet the OAUX team on the road! Next stop: London!
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Oct 28, 2014
By Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience
If you missed meeting up with the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team at Oracle OpenWorld 2014 this year, you still have a chance to connect with us. The first stop on our regional update tour is London, during the first week of December.
The goal for the visit is to update Oracle Applications Cloud partners, as well as a few select customers, on the Oracle Applications Cloud strategy and roadmap. Oracle is continuing to invest in moving the user experience forward, and by spending a couple of hours with us at this event, you will find out what to start thinking about for your own organization down the road.
Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), Oracle Applications User Experience vice president, talks with Dionne Rodrigues, senior client executive, of Oracle, about Oracle's cloud user experience strategy for Oracle HCM Cloud at the OAUX Exchange during Oracle OpenWorld.
Oracle is hosting a series of executive briefing events, each two hours long, for director-level and above Oracle partners and Oracle customers located in the UK, Ireland, and Northwestern Europe. These events will focus on the Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience strategy for HCM Cloud, Sales Cloud, ERP Cloud, extensibility, and emerging technologies.
Oracle employees Kristin Desmond, from left, and Killian Evers talk about the next generation of the Oracle Sales Cloud user experience being shown during the OAUX Exchange, held during Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco in September.
Holger Mueller (@holgermu), left, and Ray Wang (@rwang0), both analysts with of Constellation Research, at the OAUX Exchange, with Oracle Applications User Experience VP Jeremy Ashley, far right, and Director Misha Vaughan (@mishavaughan), center right.
- The briefings are for Oracle partners, ideally director level and above, in the UK, Ireland, and Northwestern Europe for Oracle's HCM Cloud, Sales Cloud, and ERP Cloud.
- Select Oracle Applications Cloud customers, ideally director level and above, in the UK, Ireland, and Northwestern Europe are also invited to attend briefings for Oracle's HCM Cloud, Sales Cloud, and ERP Cloud.
- All attendees will need to be under non-disclosure.
Our team would like to share strategy and roadmap on Oracle's ongoing investment in its cloud user experiences for applications, as well as to collect feedback and perspectives from our partners and customers.
Maximum of 30 attendees for each session.
- Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 – For Customers
- 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
- Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 – For Partners
- 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
- Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 – For Partners
- 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Oracle London, One South Place, London EC2M 2RB.
Waterloo conference room
Jeremy Ashley, VP of the Oracle Applications User Experience team, will listen and respond to the issues that are top of mind for attendees around user experience, as well as share the big-picture trends Oracle is paying attention to, and where Oracle is doing research and development from an enterprise software perspective.
Attendees will also have an opportunity to engage with the OAUX team, talk to the experts, and try for themselves the forward-looking user experiences for Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle HCM Cloud, and Oracle ERP Cloud. It's a great way for us to get direct feedback about our investment approach.
Attendees will also have the chance to take a deeper dive into the user experience plans for Oracle Applications Cloud Extensibility and Paas4SaaS.
Finally, we will be bringing along representatives from our Emerging Technologies team to demonstrate and discuss what we think about new technologies such as wearables and beacons for the enterprise space.
Register your interest for the event.
Saturday Sep 27, 2014
Day of sharing UX Cloud strategy kicks off OpenWorld for us
By Kathy.Miedema-Oracle on Sep 27, 2014
By Kathy Miedema, Oracle Applications User Experience
For the Oracle Applications User Experience team, Oracle OpenWorld 2014 got off to an early start with an invitation-only Applications Cloud UX Strategy & Roadmap Day the week before OpenWorld kicked off.
The audience included many dedicated OAUX Speakers, Oracle ACE Directors, strategic partners, and key Oracle sales reps and solution consultants who are part of the OAUX Sales Ambassador (SAMBA) program. Several of the participants had been trained already on the Oracle user experience and often speak at user group conferences or write about Oracle frequently.
Photos by Rob Hernandez, Oracle Applications User Experience
Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), vice president of the Oracle Applications User Experience, above, set the stage early for a day of sharing and outreach. As he gave an overview of the Oracle user experience strategy, he reminded the audience that a simplified user experience was first launched a year ago for the Applications Cloud at Oracle OpenWorld 2013. "We're not just talking about what we've got anymore, we're actually showing it," he said. "When we talk about the roadmap, we have examples of products already released to show you what we mean. This is part of a cultural shift for Oracle – we're responding more quickly to the market and our users' needs than ever before."
He added that what OpenWorld attendees see this year won't be conceptual. "What you'll see at OpenWorld is product or will be released soon," he said. "We're proud of what we have, and we're showing it."
Questions from the audience centered on how all of Oracle's applications products, such as HCM Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, ERP Cloud, E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft, are integrating the simplified UI into current releases. The answer is that many updates have been released throughout the past year, and examples of user experience features are visible throughout the application suites.
But the user experience team always wants to go beyond "when can we get this?". An example that struck a chord with the audience repeatedly throughout the day was geo-fencing – concepts around built-in security that is tied to wi-fi access and location. Is anyone else talking about this?, audience members asked. And then they added what we always love to hear: "This is cool."
There were several breakout sessions throughout the day that highlighted new user experiences in the Oracle HCM Cloud, Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle ERP Cloud, PaaS for Saas and extensibility, and the path to product for many user experience concepts. Visit the Usable Apps Events page to see where you can catch bits of these presentations at OpenWorld this year, or watch our channels (links are available on the Usable Apps website) for new content on the same topics. You can also check back with VoX on these topics – we'll get something posted as soon as these user experience features are released.
The day ended with a showdown, followed by more cool demos (because that's what we do best) provided by our own AppsLab (@theappslab), George Hackman, and Laurie Pattison. Our audience was game, and several stepped up to the front of the class to talk about what they had learned and why they had a passion for user experience.
Gustavo Gonzalez (@ggonza4itc), from left, Oracle employee Ultan O'Broin (@usableapps), Sten Vesterli (@techthatfits), Floyd Teter (@fteter), Lonneke Dikmans (@lonnekedikmans), Debra Lilley (@debralilley), and Oracle employee Misha Vaughan (@mishavaughan) pose for a picture of the winners' circle after a speaker showdown at the end of the OAUX Day. Ultan and Misha judged the competition. All were declared winners and received fabulous wearables hand-picked by the OAUX team. Floyd won the grand prize for including the OAUX design philosophy of "glance, scan, commit" in his presentation.
But in the end, all of the speakers were winners in our book, and everyone took something fun home.
Where can you find us next?
The OAUX team will be on the road in FY 15 (Oracle-speak for June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015), visiting EMEA, LAD, and APAC. We will have a specific focus on Oracle Applications Cloud partners, and a few of their key customers as follows:
- Dec 4-5, 2014 - London. Contact: Ishacq.Nada @ oracle.com
- Feb 25-26, 2015 - Sao Paulo, Brazil. Contact: Marcelo.Medeiros @ oracle.com
- May 4-5, 2015 - Singapore & (tentatively) Hong Kong May 7, 2015. Contact: John.Pisani @ oracle.com
In addition, we will be at usergroup conferences throughout the year - stay tuned to this blog for updates on that or check out our upcoming events page.
Not enough for you? Join our quarterly call hosted by Michael LaDuke, michael.laduke @ oracle.com.
We look forward to meeting you in the year ahead!
Friday Aug 15, 2014
See the latest Applications Cloud user experiences at Oracle OpenWorld 2014
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Aug 15, 2014
OAUX Day: Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Strategy & Roadmap .
This event is for partners, Oracle sales, and customers who are passionate about Oracle's commitment to the ongoing user experience investment in Oracle's Applications Cloud. If you want to see where we are going firsthand, contact the Applications UX team to attend this special event, scheduled the week before Oracle OpenWorld.
All attendees must be approved to attend and have signed Oracle's non-disclosure agreement.
Register HERE.
Date and time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014
Location: Oracle Conference Center, Redwood City, Calif.
Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Partner & Sales Briefing
This event is for Oracle Applications partners and Oracle sales who want to find out what's up with release 9 user experience highlights for: Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle HCM Cloud, cloud extensibility, and Paas4SaaS. It will be held the day before Oracle OpenWorld kicks off.
All attendees must be approved to attend.
Register HERE.
Date and time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014
Location: Intercontinental Hotel, 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, Calif. , in the Telegraph Hill room.
Oracle OpenWorld 2014 OAUX Applications Cloud Exchange.
This daylong, demo-intensive event is for Oracle customers, partners, and sales representatives who want to see what the future of Oracle's cloud user experiences will look like. Attendees will also see what's cooking in Oracle's research and development kitchen – concepts that aren't products … yet.
All attendees must be approved to attend and have signed Oracle's non-disclosure agreement.
Register HERE.
Date and time: 1 - 4 p.m. and 6 - 8:00 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, 2014
Location: Intercontinental Hotel, 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, Calif., on the Spa Terrace.
Wednesday Jun 11, 2014
So, how is the Oracle HCM Cloud User Experience? In a word, smokin'!
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on Jun 11, 2014
By Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience
Oracle unveiled its game-changing cloud user experience strategy at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 (remember that?) with a new simplified user interface (UI) paradigm. The Oracle HCM cloud user experience is about light-weight interaction, tailored to the task you are trying to accomplish, on the device you are comfortable working with. A key theme for the Oracle user experience is being able to move from smartphone to tablet to desktop, with all of your data in the cloud.
What are people saying?
Debra Lilley (@debralilley), an Oracle ACE Director who has a long history with Oracle Applications, recently gave her perspective on release 8:
"Having had the privilege of seeing a preview of release 8, I am again impressed with the enhancements around simplified UI. Even more so, at a user group event in London this week, an existing Cloud HCM customer speaking publically about his implementation said he was very excited about release 8 as the absence functionality was so superior and simple to use."
Photo by Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience
Vance Morossi, left, and Shane Bliss, of the Oracle Client Success Team, at an Oracle HCM Southern California Customer Success Summit.
Deepak Rammohan, left, and Jake Kuramoto, both of Oracle, debate the merits of a Google Glass concept demo for recruiters on-the-go.
Want to read more?
Want to see where our cloud user experience is going next? Read more on the UsableApps web site about our latest design initiative: "Glance, Scan, Commit."
Friday May 02, 2014
Thank you, Oracle Partner AMIS, for an excellent Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Expo
By Edith Mireles-Oracle on May 02, 2014
Author Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience
We recently co-hosted an OAUX Expo in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (near Amsterdam) on March 18, 2014 with Oracle partner AMIS. The goal of the event was to excite and inspire attendees about the future of Oracle technology and Oracle Applications Cloud by leading with our work on the Oracle user experiences. We wildly exceeded my own expectations about the event. Students walked away excited about careers with Oracle technology, partners walked away with a sense of how they could grow their businesses, and customers walked away with confidence in Oracle's UX investment strategy.
The timing was quite lucky, as this was the first event where attendees got to see the newly available Oracle Applications Cloud Release 8 user interface.
A personal thank-you to Lucas Jellema, Amis CTO, who was enthusiastic and inspired enough to spark this project.
To get a recap of what you missed, AMIS CTO Lucas Jellema (@lucasjellema) blogged live about the event, which drew nearly 500 attendees. Just prior to the event, Bob Rhubart (@OTNArchBeat) of OTN Archbeat hosted a video interview that previewed the event nicely, with Lucas and our VP, Applications User Experience, Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), on the Oracle user experience vision and strategy.
What did you miss?
- We demoed and discussed the newly available Oracle Applications Cloud Release 8 for Sales Cloud and HCM Cloud.
- We demoed the new approach to tailoring our Applications Cloud user experiences with a spectrum of tools, which is nicely recapped in this article.
- We showcased the always popular eye-tracking tool that we use to collect detailed feedback on our designs.
- We created awareness for our newly launched developer's section on UsableApps for customers and partners looking to build great-looking, usable apps.
- We discussed our newly available e-book on our Simplified UI design patterns that front our Cloud Applications.
- We talked a lot – along with AMIS and two of our own OAUX Speakers, Lonneke Dikmans (@lonnekedikmans) and Sten Vesterli (@stenvesterli), at sessions throughout the day. You can find links to the presentations here.
- We showed attendees a view of the future of user experiences with demos of wearables by the AppsLab (@noelportugal, @jkuramot), HCM Cloud (@aylinuysal), Sales Cloud, and Oracle Voice (@mvilrokx).
Here is a recap in pictures of the event. Photos by Rob Hernandez, Oracle Applications User Experience.
The Oracle Applications User Experience and AMIS teams pose just before the big day for a snapshot.
Ultan O'Broin talks about wearables and enterprise use cases.
Aylin Uysal discusses the future of Oracle HCM Cloud user experiences.
VP Jeremy Ashley and Amis CEO Paul Uijtewaal discuss Google Glass.
Lonneke Dikmans listens poised to talk about UX Direct and Oracle's UX best practices.
Killian Evers leads a discussion about the next generation of the Sales Cloud user experience.
Vlad Babu, one of our Apps UX Sales Ambassadors, talks with attendees about UX Direct and UX design patterns for building great looking usable apps for the Cloud.
A few lucky attendees got to see what's behind the door to the secret chamber.
Noel Portugal shows off Google Glass.
George Hackman demos forward-looking user experience concepts.
Jeremy Ashley, Lucas Jellema, and Sten Vesterli rest their weary legs after hours of presentations.
One of our own UX Sales Ambassadors, Edward DeWolf, demos the new simplified UI for Oracle Sales Cloud.
Jake Kuramoto draws observers into a huddle as he shows some user experience concepts.
Find out where the UX team will be next if you want to see what we are working on.
If you would like to read more:
• Take a look at where it all started.
• Read the latest on our cloud tailoring strategy.
Thursday Mar 20, 2014
Simplified UI and the Oracle User Experience in Oracle Applications Cloud Release 8
By Kathy.Miedema-Oracle on Mar 20, 2014
The simplified UI is the modern, intuitive, streamlined interface for the Oracle Applications Cloud that brings to the surface frequently performed tasks, works across platforms, and requires no training. Oracle debuted this simple, mobile, and extensible interface in Oracle Applications Cloud Release 7, in Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud and Oracle Sales Cloud. That release in Fall 2013 illustrates the interface's focus on quick-entry, light-touch, contextual tasks that are tailored by role.
Oracle Applications Cloud Release 8 is an extension of the same themes of simplicity, mobility, and extensibility that set the simplified UI apart. Oracle HCM Cloud and Oracle Sales Cloud can now take advantage of these user experience enhancements:
- Expanded simplicity: Additional self-service, quick-action tasks are brought to the surface in this latest release, enabling more people in your company to easily access the essential information and actions that support the way they work in the cloud.
- Expanded visualizations and analytics: Additional infographic-inspired, tablet-friendly, and interactive visualizations and embedded analytics appear throughout the UI in this release.
- Expanded extensibility and customization: Not only can you rebrand the simplified UI with your own company logo and watermark and add unique company news and announcements to the simplified UI home page, but you can now restructure and rename the available functional areas and pages.
Time in Oracle HCM Cloud Release 8
Sales Campaigns in Oracle Sales Cloud
Succession Plans In Oracle HCM Cloud
Dashboard in Oracle Sales Cloud
Settings in Simplified UI: Structure
Check the Usable Apps web site to read more about the user experience in the Oracle Applications Cloud.
Saturday Mar 01, 2014
OAUX Expo: Oracle & AMIS bring new Applications Cloud user experiences to Europe on March 18th
By Mvaughan-Oracle on Mar 01, 2014
By Misha Vaughan, Oracle Applications User Experience
Photo by Martin Taylor, Oracle Applications User Experience
Lucas Jellema, Chief Technology Officer of Oracle partner AMIS Services BV, gets a look at new Oracle user experiences during a demo with Lulit Bezuayahu, of Oracle, at an OAUX Expo at OpenWorld 2013. The expo was his source of inspiration for an expo in The Netherlands in March 2014.
Lucas Jellema, Chief Technology Officer of Oracle partner AMIS Services BV, first saw the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) Expo at OpenWorld in September 2013 in San Francisco.
"The expo further enforced the message - simplicity, mobility, extensibility - and what that boils down to in terms of actual user interfaces," Jellema said after the expo. "It also strengthened my confidence in what the UX team is doing. It helps me believe that Oracle actually can be a leader in UX in the enterprise space." He said he recognized the excitement and possibilities for inspiration for Oracle customers and asked if the UX team could bring the same experience to Europe in partnership with AMIS.
Join us on March 18 at the AMIS offices in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Oracle Applications User Experience team will be showcasing the latest thinking in Oracle's user experiences from noon to 8pm, along with talks by speakers including Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), Vice President, Applications User Experiences; Sten Vesterli (@techthatfits), Senior Principal Consultant, Scott / Tiger; Lonneke Dikmans, (@lonnekedikmans), Managing Parter, Vennster; and, of course, Lucas Jellema (@lucasjellema).
The event will be open to the public, including students, customers, and partners. Registration is necessary to make sure we can accommodate everyone.
Attendees can expect to see the latest in Oracle's thinking on Oracle Applications Cloud user experiences, meet the creative AppsLab development team (@theappslab) try out Oracle's eye-tracking usability research tool, and participate in talks ranging from wearable technology (@ultan) to Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) to Oracle Apex by a slate of Oracle and AMIS experts. There even may be a Tesla user experience on display.
By special request of the AMIS team, Oracle will also host a Secret Chamber that requires customers to be under non-disclosure. Behind these doors, customers will be able to see Oracle's applications cloud user experience roadmap.
Photo by Misha Vaughan
We hope to see you there! Please remember to register in advance to ensure your access!
More information is available on the Usable Apps web site.


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Dorint An der Messe Köln, Cologne
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Dorint An der Messe Köln, Cologne
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