Recent Posts by Ultan O'Broin

Just back from an awesome PaaS Forum 2017 in Split, Croatia. Another superb community event organized by Oracle's Jürgen Kress (@soacommunity) and team. This event featured the usual flawless planning, marketing, and execution. It was Platform as a Service (PaaS) heaven on the Dalmatian coast. PaaSForum: Always well presented and marketed. And then it delivers. There was great interest and energy generated from no less than three chatbot-related sessions, including a super one...

We have been on the road with the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) strategy and resources for Oracle PartnerNetwork members again! In early March 2017, we were in Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) India to tell our partners the latest about the OAUX strategy, design thinking, and our enablement roadmap. It's all about maximising participation! Visionary: How the Oracle Applications User Experience strategy develops The OAUX team, led by Group Vice President, Jeremy Ashley...

Gift of the Gab* Hits Croatia Chatbots and conversational UIs are HOT. So I am excited to share that Oracle Applications User Experience will be at the PaaS Partner Community Forum 2017 in Split, Croatia in March and showing off some chatbot and conversational UI PaaS4SaaS goodness as part of our user experience sizzle showcase. See how chatbots can provide a great user experience for SaaS users with our PaaS4SaaS guidance. Accelerate into the Oracle Cloud We'll also be showing...

In Dublin's Fair City I've just been to the first Dublin Tech Summit (@DubTechSummit) where I was wowed by the awesome depth and breadth of the event, learned some new things, renewed old acquaintances, and forged new business relationships too! Robo Thespian from Engineered Arts: "We Can't Unbite the Apple" Dublin Tech Summit (DTS) offered a powerful schedule covering topics from Fashion and Healthcare to IoT and FinTech and a geansaí load morefor an audience that ranged from...

Oracle Cloud Day 2016, held in the RAI Amsterdam, was a huge, rip-roaring, soaraway success! OAUX Was There  Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) attended and was in action, showing off our SaaS user experience (UX) and innovation goodness and also contributing a UX enablement for developers session to the day's development track, sponsored by Oracle Partner AMIS NL (@AmisNL). We were also delighted to make even more Oracle Cloud connections happen through the...

Ever experienced frustration with an ATM or an in-flight entertainment system? Think about how you felt and what that experience meant for the company you were dealing with. This short presentation explains why UX matters not only to users of software and services, but what that means for business ROI. <span id="XinhaEditingPostion"></span>   More information and...

Many hands make light (emitting diodes) work. Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) gets down to designing fashion technology (#fashtech) solutions in a fun maker event with a serious research and learning intent. OAUX Senior Director and resident part-time fashion blogger, Ultan “Gucci Translate” O’Broin (@ultan), reports from the Redwood City runway. Fashion and Technology: So, What’s New? Wearable technology is not new. Elizabeth I of England was a regal early adopter....

Financial technology (#FinTech) innovation and the future of banking are hot topics. If you wondered for one tiny moment how the importance of financial applications and the cloud fit into the Oracle Cloud User Experience #PaaS4SaaS enablement that Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) offers Oracle Partners, well, here's one rocking example from EMEA! Recently, we (OAUX) held a hands-on enablement event at Oracle Nederland in Utrecht to work alongside one of our leading...

Tales and Sales I am just back from an awesome Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) communications and outreach event in Sydney, Australia. This was not my first time in Oz, but engaging with a regional audience eager for our Cloud UX message and PaaS4SaaS enablement, it was clear I wasn't in Kansas anymore. Woah! A-Game time! Over two days, customers, partners, and internal sales folks were treated to the best of Oracle Cloud user experience (UX) with a packed-solid,...