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Today, Hurd oversees the corporate direction and strategy for Oracle's global field operations, including marketing, sales, consulting, alliances and channels, and support. He focuses on strategy, leadership, innovation and customers. Susan Reda, editor of STORES Media, had the opportunity to chat with Hurd at Oracle's recent CrossTalk event.

Highlighting that utility executives will gather at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco conference, October 2-6, 2011 at Moscone Center, to share new ways to leverage Oracle applications, technology and systems that help enable smart grid and other priority industry programs. The release notes that as part of a series of more than 40 sessions, demonstrations and networking events focused on utilities trends and solutions and will deliver presentations on how they work with Oracle on technology initiatives that help support strategies for improved efficiency, performance and customer service. The release also includes comments from Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities noting that Oracle designed the dedicated Utilities track for attendees to gain valuable information on how to respond to a changing business environment, stay ahead of environmental initiatives and offer customers better service.

The upcoming JD Edwards Mid-Atlantic Conference is scheduled for May 11, 2011 at the upscale Doubletree Hotel in Columbia, MD. The event hosts an opportunity to network with other JD Edwards users in their area and hear presentations from Oracle JD Edward

Starting at 6:00 a.m. PT on Tuesday, June 28, partners - and potential partners - can tune in to hear the latest updates at partner.oracle.com. Watch Judson Althoff, senior VP of worldwide alliances and channels, as he hosts this year's OPN Kickoff event,

The Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff event for fiscal year 2012 is coming a few days after Oracle announced 4Q 2011 financial results. This article examines how Oracle is performing heading into this new fiscal year.

The live, virtual session will provide partners with specific sales strategies, messages and opportunities that will enable them to successfully plan and engage in the OPN program for Oracle fiscal year 2012.

Hosting a cross-industry event like this one isn't easy and Oracle nailed it. A galvanizing topic was the overarching inter-industry trend that no one could have predicted just ten years ago; the "consumerization" of customer-centric industries like telecom, healthcare, and utilities. During a Customer Experience general session panel moderated at the conference by Oracle Retail SVP and GM Mike Webster, I found myself reflecting on the fact that Chris Hall CIO at prepaid mobile leader 2degrees, Penni McLean-Conner, Chief Customer Officer and SVP at Northeast Utilities, Gwen O'Keefe, VP of Analytics and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Group Health Cooperative were all taking cues from Stage Stores CIO Steven Hunter, subject of our March feature story.

Retail industry's formidable challenges is not so much not knowing what consumers want but what to do with it. Every retailer wants to become a robust destination for consumerization, likeability, following, innovation and revenue. At this event, Oracle tried to improvise on its hitherto hardline product-centric message into an end consumer-centric vision. And to an extent it worked. I for one am encouraged and would like to see what happens from here on. How does this message transformation and "customer first-solutions second" strategy turn into real execution?

Coverage announcing the release of the Oracle Retail Week Awards 2013 Shortlist in the Retail Week publications.

Luxury chocolatier and cocoa grower Hotel Chocolat has been awarded 'Speciality Retailer of the Year' at the Oracle Retail Week Awards 2013.

The Feb. 16 edition of Intelligent Utility highlights the discussion during the Grid Analytics Solution Workshop at the Utility Analytics Institute Summit. The article features comments from Brad Williams, vice president, industry strategy, Oracle's Utilities, and Samuel Harrell, industry director, Oracle Utilities.