Cloud Leader, Week of September 11, 2017 |  Web View   Forward to a Friend CLOUD LEADER News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy   Editor's Note Big Ideas, Real World It doesn't matter whether you're a developer or a DBA—or a finance pro, marketer, or HR leader—Oracle OpenWorld 2017 will deliver fresh emerging technology ideas to change the way you work. And these aren't just broad, generic sessions about chatbots or artificial intelligence—these sessions are dialed in to how you can use those and many other technologies to transform your everyday work. Given that focus on your role, we're posting Oracle OpenWorld preview articles highlighting some of the top sessions most relevant to different specialties. We already have posts spotlighting the can't-miss sessions for developers, IT pros, and HR leaders. Look to this newsletter and the Oracle Blog in the next two weeks for top sessions about finance, marketing, and startups. And you can browse the session catalog—or just register. See you in San Francisco October 1–5. — Chris Murphy, Oracle director of cloud content Video: A Better Way to Learn at Oracle OpenWorld More Cloud News New Tech Simplifies Internet of Things Deployments in the Field Oracle is embedding IoT and data analytics technology into specific business applications such as those for employees in sales, field service, and supply chain. That helps companies to better manage field equipment and assets and improve customer service performed by field technicians. How this can make IoT deployments two to three times as fast. How to Do Your Own Guerrilla Research on Emerging Tech Oracle has a team known as the AppsLab that researches whether new tech is easy to adopt and will make it easier for enterprise employees to do their jobs. To get spontaneous feedback, the team brings technological innovations to conferences such as Oracle OpenWorld for "guerilla research." The five key steps of this method. Banks Blend Cloud Plus Legacy Tech to Survive Many banks are burdened with technology developed long before the internet and even personal computers. With the right technology partner, however, they can continue using mainframes for core transaction processing while transitioning their customer-facing operations to lower-cost cloud platforms that ratchet up their agility. And digital innovators in other industries can learn the same lessons. Here's how banks can rethink their approach. Why AI Isn't the Robot Apocalypse for Jobs A recent Wall Street Journal article makes the job creation case for automation: besides producing the same thing more cheaply, companies find ways to offer entirely new products, which leads to more hiring. Oracle's Shruti Bhat shares her insights in that article and here offers three examples of AI creating new job opportunities. Five Ideas: Blockchain Experts discuss what blockchain is and where its impact will be felt first. Get Inspired: October 1–5 in San Francisco Oracle OpenWorld Meet the experts who will help you grow your business JavaOne Find your next breakthrough Oracle Code A free one-day developer event on microservices, containers, DevOps, and more Get Started with Oracle Cloud Experience Oracle Cloud with $300 in Free Credits  Build Your Oracle OpenWorld Schedule  Artificial Intelligence @ Oracle OpenWorld 2017  Three Key Attributes of the Agile Finance Function  Video General Assembly Grows Fast with Oracle Cloud "The cloud enables companies such as ours to get off the ground at a fraction of the cost that it used to be," says Jake Schwartz, CEO and founder of the global educational and training company. What products did General Assembly choose first? Events Live Webcast: Conversational Bots Driven by AI September 20 | Online Oracle OpenWorld October 1–5 | San Francisco JavaOne October 1–5 | San Francisco Oracle Code October 3 | San Francisco Stay connected Subscribe to get Cloud Leader newsletter every week. Visit your profile page to subscribe to other Oracle publications.   Global Contacts     Sales Chat Live Please send questions or comments to newsletter_feedback_us@oracle.com.