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Hosted by Brian Hamel, Senior Vice-President Converged Infrastructure Sales, this years’ VAD appreciation reception took place on October 3rd at the restaurant  Le Colonial, with over 150 participants.

Bharath Natarajan, Ravi Sundaramurthy and Randy Batterson

Dedicated to VADs across the globe, this well established annual event is a welcomed opportunity for VADs to meet and network with their peers and Oracle stakeholders.

Restaurant Le Colonial

The relaxing French colonial Vietnamese ambiance and exquisite cuisine supported networking and discussing the latest announcements from Open World, and gave us the chance to thank our honored VAD community in person for their huge contribution to Oracle’s business success.

As a very exclusive by invitation only event, the Global VAD Executive Forum took place on 4th October - luncheon is the perfect format for the VAD senior management to network and liaise.

Hosted by Brian Hamel, Senior Vice-President Converged Infrastructure Sales, this high-level event took place on October 4th at the Golden Gate Yacht Club.

With 40 VAD executives globally and Oracle senior management including the regional VAD sales leaders Al Patel(EMEA), Dale Weideling (North America), Francislaine Muratorio(LAD) and Lalit Malik (JAPAC), the meeting was to transfer just top key messages during a short presentation.

View of the Golden Gate Bridge

The welcome and introduction to the rich history of the America’s Cup by Norbert Bajurin, Commodore of the GGYC, the stunning view from across the Golden Gate bridge and seated luncheon made this an enjoyable and successful meeting in a very exclusive atmosphere.

VAD Impressions from Oracle OpenWorld 2017

VADs at Oracle OpenWorld 2017: Impressions by Denis Ferrand – Senior Director, Global Vendor Management, Arrow

Lunch with the VAD Team

ICOS Top management in meeting with Oracle VAD team

Arrow team meeting with Al Patel to maximise our joint opportunity across the board

Our fantastic Russian and CIS VADs turning up in force at OOW

ECEMEA VAD Executives at the Golden Gate Yacht Club

Our Great VAD Axis covering ZA and SADC (left) and Tech Data EMEA with Paul Thompson already working at 7 in the morning (right)

Our great VADs LinkPlus and Artim from Turkey

Jacques@Axiz with Oracle SouthAfrica GM, Niral Patel

By Ulla Strobel, EMEA VAD Marketing Manager

On Tuesday Accenture released new benchmark results on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Enterprise Workloads meet the Cloud!

“Companies should be ready to consider moving their Oracle mission-critical workloads to the Oracle Cloud - and reaping the benefits of greater flexibility and more manageable costs.”

Accenture at Oracle OpenWorld 2017

Accenture also launched their Cloud Suite for Oracle to accelerate moving clients to the Cloud.

These releases came on top of an already very packed and successful Oracle OpenWorld 2017 for Accenture. There has been a great partner commitment with more than 70 participants from 16 countries in EMEA. Accenture is a Grande sponsor of the event, with a fantastic and very busy booth and presenting 25 keynote speeches incl. many presenters from our EMEA core team such as Julian Dontcheff and Sergio Peris.

Accenture received the Global Specialized Partner of the Year award for HCM Cloud as well as the Largest Revenue Deal award at the MSP Global Council meeting.

In addition, Oracle team had a number of pre-meetings at Redwood Shores, Accenture participation in Infrastructure Tour, MSP Summit, PaaS Advisory Council and Oracle Cloud Platform Partner Advisory Council.

After Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle team will host the Accenture EMEA team at our Redwood Shores Exec Briefing Center on October 5th, to kick off their new fiscal year. Our results so far have been great, our ambitions for the Alliance much higher.

By Jeroen van Boven, Senior Director, Accenture Alliance

On Saturday, 30 September 2017 the EMEA Partner Appreciation Reception took place at one of the best-known galleries of its kind on the West Coast - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

During this year’s Oracle OpenWorld Partner Appreciation Reception and award ceremony, the EMEA A&C organization recognized the outstanding contribution, commitment, and value which our partners bring consistently to the Oracle business.

The 10 award-winning partners represented in an exemplary way the wide spectrum of solutions and geographies covered by the partner ecosystem.

More than 300 attendees joined the reception at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art which offered a unique space with stylish installations.

Highlights of the evening included the award ceremony hosted by Alistair Hopkins, the animating music of DJ Celeste and the free access to part of the Museum’s extraordinary collection of Modern Art. The vivid networking between partner attendees from all EMEA geographies, representatives from Oracle Corporate, Sales, EMEA A&C and other teams made this a very special evening.

Congratulations to the Oracle Excellence Awards 2017 - Specialized Partner of the Year - EMEA Winners:

Get first impressions  from the awards ceremony on our Twitter pages: #emeapsand @oracleemeaps.

By Christian Peter, Senior Director, Partner Marketing, Oracle EMEA Alliances & Channels, live from Oracle OpenWorld 2017, San Francisco

@Christian1Peter

Dear all,

We are pleased to say that another great edition of the #OracleInTouch PartnerCast was broadcasted on Wednesday 5th April 2017.

On the cast David Callaghan and his guests covered a wide range of topics;

• Andrew Sutherland, SVP Business Development Technology, APAC and  EMEA  returned to the studio to give us an update on the Oracle Cloud Platform Infrastructure as a Service workloads
• Once  again,  we welcomed Al Patel, Senior Director of Oracle EMEA VAD Channel Sales, back to the cast, this time Al spoke with Jesper Trolle, Vice President  North West Europe and APAC from Arrow to discuss the many ways in which Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a  Service can support Partners on their journey to the Cloud.
• Michel Mariet,  EMEA Director  Partner Marketing for  Digital Transformation,  tuned in live from Dublin, where he spoke about Digital Transformation and how we can all be a part of this. Michel also spoke of the all-important Digital  & Social eBook that has been downloaded over 600 times, if you haven’t seen it yet you can download the e-book here.
• Alistair Hopkins,  Vice President of EMEA & APAC Cloud  MSP Sale,  joined us live from the slopes to discuss the mountain of opportunity that  non-oracle workloads represent for partners
• New to this cast Robert Scapin, Senior Sales Director Alliances &  Channels Oracle Italy and Ilker Kocer, Regional Senior Director of  East  Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa provided our regional update looking at the Cloud Platform use cases from  Western Europe and ECEMEA.
• Paul  Thompson wrapped up the cast where he gave us four commercial highlights in just four minutes.

You can now catch up on the demand below and watch all previous Oracle ‘In Touch’ PartnerCast episodes.

As always, we encourage you to engage and share information with your customers, you can now do this easily by using the Oracle IaaS TCO Calculator.

We really do value your post-cast comments and feedback. Please share your opinions by using the hashtags #OracleInTouch and #EMEAPS. Or email to us at emea-intouch_WW@oracle.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,
Oracle 'In Touch' Team

Dear all,

We are pleased to say that  another great edition of the Oracle ‘In Touch’ PartnerCast  was broadcasted on last Wednesday 1st February, 2017.

On the cast David Callaghan  and his guests  covered a wide range of topics;

• Al Patel, Senior Director, Oracle EMEA VAD Channel Sales discussed  how  we are transforming our VAD offerings as we move from on premise to Cloud
• Havovi Yazdabadi, Systems Sales Director, Oracle Alliances & Channels gave us  a progress report and shared her opinion on how VADs are crucial to the synergy  of our eco system
• Monia Bosetti, Director Customer Success Programs & Partners, Oracle talked  about  what we can jointly expect our customers’ demands to be as they journey to the  Cloud
• Western  Europe and ECEMEA leaders Eric Fontaine and Orla Ni Chorcora  advised that along with their teams they are looking to continue to work with  you all to increased partner Cloud specialization
• Alistair Hopkins, Vice President, Oracle EMEA & APAC Cloud MSP Sales joined  us live from a partner Data Centre to see just how the increase in workloads is  being supported
• Paul Thompson, Commercial Senior Director, Oracle gave us an update on  our latest commercial and contractual offers

Would you like to hear what else  the studio team covered during the cast? You can now catch up on the demand  here and watch all previous Oracle ‘In Touch’ PartnerCast  episodes.

We really do value your post-cast  comments and feedback. Please share your  opinions by using the hashtags #OracleInTouch and #EMEAPS. Or email to us at emea-intouch_WW@oracle.com.

We look forward to hearing from  you!

Best regards,
Oracle PartnerNetwork

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