I’ve been working with NHS Trusts now for the past seven years and the last couple of years seem to have encompassed an amazing amount of change.

Structural, Political, Financial and Societal factors all seem to have converged to provide the NHS with a huge number of challenges.  Pressures such as a massive reorganisation, an ageing population and legislative change all have to be dealt with under the shadow of a £20bn efficiency drive.

Anyway, enough of the gloom!

Looking at this in a positive light, the coming together of these factors is an almost serendipitous event if you consider innovation as an outcome.  The Trusts I am working with are seeing the challenges as a catalyst for change, using them to think strategically about IT, or rather about how IT can contribute to the organisation’s challenges and accelerate the changes that are required.

As a result, this for me is now the most exciting time for Healthcare IT. The value of clinically led IT projects as an enabler for change – something that can strategically improve the way Clinicians access and use information to support improved patient outcomes has never been recognised more. The EHI CCIO campaign is a testament of this.

The advent of the information anywhere and anytime culture is changing the way we expect to be able to work.  Mobility and flexibility in how information is accessed is critical to meet the expectations of Clinicians and to align with the changing shape of how care is being delivered.

To support this transformation Enline and Ultima, working with Microsoft have developed a Clinical Desktop solution that improves the way Clinicians interact with, and use IT on a day to day basis.  At a high level the Clinical desktop allows a clinician to log in to any device and access clinical systems without needing to remember any more passwords.  This can be across PC’s in a consulting room, a shared machine on a ward, or even a mobile device such as a tablet. 

When the Clinician moves from device to device their applications remain open so they can pick up where they left off – this includes keeping the same patient record in focus across all systems if required!

Data protection, auditability, security and reliability are critical as you’d expect when information is accessed from all these different locations and on different form factors.  That’s why the Clinical desktop has been developed on Microsoft’s proven platform with all of these in mind.  We’ve had great feedback from Trusts about this solution and see EHI as a really exciting forum to discuss how technology can make a real difference.

by Jack Clarke, Microsoft Business Manager, Enline.

By Derek du Preez | Computerworld UK | Published 12:47, 04 October 12

Enterprises will be forced to invest in Big Data technologies to monitor employee behaviour in order to better control remote access to company systems, which is becoming a problem thanks to the ongoing surge in consumerisation.

This is the opinion of Ben Bulpett, director of Enline, a company that has been identified by Oracle as a specialist in identity and access management. Bulpett spoke to Computerworld UK this week at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, where he said employee profiling and behavioural analysis will become an important element of enterprise security controls.

“The whole concept of Big Data is interesting. Organisations will want to start profiling users’ log-on activity. It’s about an element of risk, profiling and managing that set of users,” said Bulpett.

“Companies will start collecting user data to conduct real-time risk based analyses.”

Bulpett provided the example of an employee that logs on at 3am from an unknown IP address, which based on the user’s past behaviour could be identified as unusual, and so an algorithm run by the company would then lock that user out.

“The younger generation of employees will drive a lot of this, remote working across multiple devices, and organisations have to be prepared. The only way you can do this is if you catch as much information as possible, profile it, and then put it through some sort of algorithm,” said Bulpett.

“Security is always a challenge because it is often seen as just an expense, but companies won’t have a choice. The market is moving so quickly, people have to find ways to invest.”

Bulpett also said that employees, if they want to use multiple devices of their choice, they will have to accept that companies will collect information on them.

“The next generation of employees are going to have to accept that if you are going to interact with an organisation, you are going to have to share information about yourself. People don’t want to carry around vast amounts of equipment around, they want to use their own,” said Bulpett.

“Companies will also start looking at using social networks instead of creating user accounts, because if you create a user account you impact licencing and a lot of administration goes with that.”

He added: “Companies will say: ‘I’ll let you log on using Facebook, I’ll let you use whatever device you want, you are an employee of the company, that’s fine’. You will see more and more of that starting to occur.”

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Introducing Identity Management 11gR2

We call the latest release of Oracle Identity Management 11g the evolved platform. And for good reason. It simplifies the user experience, enhances security, and allows businesses to expand the reach of identity management to the cloud and mobile environments like never before. 
 

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
09:00 – 14:00

DoubleTree by Hilton London – West End
92 Southampton Row
WC1B 4BH London, United Kingdom

Join Amit Jasuja, Senior Vice President Identity Management and Security, Oracle, and Peter Boyle, Head of Identity Services, BT in London on 24th October 2012 for the UK launch of Oracle Identity Management 11gR2. You’ll learn more about the evolution of this exceptional business solution and get the unique opportunity to network with existing Oracle customers and speak directly with Oracle product experts

The agenda includes:

•An overview of capabilities
•Product demonstrations
•Customer presentations
•An interactive panel discussion

Amit Jasuja will also be available for 1:1 meetings. Please email oracle.events@ketchumpleon.com to request a meeting with Amit.

Space is limited – Register today

Keynote from Intel was albout Big Data and how Intel is supporting the Big Data drive.

John Fowler Head of Hardware presented why Oracle can achieve such performance enhancements – System Level thinking and having the Hardware and Software engineers working together.

The remainder of the day was spent preparing for the presentation that was extremely well  received by the audience and Oracle Product Management.  Perry has been asked to support a global webinar and at the Customer Advisory Board was asked to present at the launch of Oracle R12 in October with Amit.  Great profile building for Virgin Media and us.

Spent 2 hours in press interviews, which out for my comments in Computing, ComputerWorld and Business Cloud.

Also had the opportunity to meet with the aurionPro Board at a small offsite arranged by Samir and Robert.

Signing off as got to go and watch Pearl Jam and the Kings of Leon !!!!

Last Report from San Francisco, see you all next week.

Best Regards you overseas Oracle OpenWorld Correspondent.

Ben

Oracle Openworld Day 3 report,  the best day to date,  this morning’s keynote was by EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci

The theme was all about how EMC and Oracle are helping customers take advantage of Cloud and Big Data

Effectively the CIO has two Challenges
Lower Operational Costs, Increase Revenue.

Joe outlining EMC’s view as to how organisations can start to use the cloud.
1. Standardise
2. Virtualise – interesting note In 2009 Virtualisation crossed the Chasm as in 2009 there were more Virtual servers than physical
3. Automate

EMC outlined that the next data centre will be a Software Defined Data Centre with build in Security and Management, and that the Cloud offers companies -  Efficiency + Control + Choice = Greater IT Agility

Another big theme was that the  amount of unstructured Data accounts for 5-7 times the data in a company and it is growing 3 times faster than structured data.  In the Digital Universe 5000PB/Day of data created.

EMC Data Scientist Report – Data Scientist – The sexiest Job in the 21st Century – HBR.  In EMC’s view the ability to take massive amounts of unstructured Data and analyse and offer customer meaningful interpretation will the next advance in IT.

Thomas Kurian followed EMC….

He outlined Oracle’s Cloud Mission – Bring Oracle Leading solutions to any customer or partner via any browser.

He announced a couple of New cloud based services – Collaboration Service and Analytics all provide in the cloud..

Thomas and one of the product management showed a demo as to how easy it is for people to consume a number of services and how Oracle Cloud can offer development and database services for people and how easy to deploy and manage using Oracle and all managed using Oracle Enterprise Manager which is also offered in the cloud.

We then had a demo of HCM all using Oracle Apps Cloud services.

Steve Miranda then gave a demo using Oracle CRM services in the cloud.
     Social Marketing services

We then had a demo showing how Oracle Social can address issues such as customer service with the ability to monitor Social sites and react to people’s negative comments etc.  Interestingly 1 unhappy customer can reach 1300 people today, in 1996 1 unhappy customer could reach 15 other customers, so the ability to react to social media has massive impact.

Oracle Social help organisations:-
Engage – Build relationships
Integrate listen and engage
Support the Enterprise – transform the business process

Two new services
     Social Data and Insight
     Social Sites

Customer Experience Demo
  Public and Private Channels
   Able to listen into Social media services.
Aggregated the channels into a cloud service to support customers.

After the key notes I attend the Mobile Access Management session with Dan Kilmer and Lee Howarth, this was aimed at how Oracle Identity Management is supporting and able to react to the demands of Social and Mobile.

Challenges for Mobile and Social.. services in the enterprise.
• IAM infrastructure not ready
• Device security not sufficient
• User experience suffers
• Lack of visibility and control
• Social integration concerns
• Developers not focused on security

What’s needed……A Solution that
• Simplifies developer access to IAM capabilities
• Protects native apps
• Protects context driven risk aware access management
• Turn social integration into admin action
• Streamlines mobile access to user identity and simplify user registration
• Provide complete visibility and control
• Works for both enterprise users and consumers

Oracle Access Management solution provides
• Mobile security platform
• SSO
• Strong Authentication.
• Internet / social integration
• REST/Cloud interfaces

Oracle Mobile and Social solution built from the ground up based upon 4 keys themes
1. Risk
2. Cost
3. Scale
4. Convenience

The following are a couple of photos of the presentation which I thought people may like to see

Fully flexible SDK support
Real time and historic device reporting

The following shows how the Oracle Social and Mobile can allows users to link their Social Media / Personal Identities to services.

The demo that was shown was outstanding and something we need to get hold of and Perry from Virgin Media was really excited about this new solution and wants us to come and show the senior leaders in the business.

At the end of the presentation there was a customer panel with, all talking about the IDM implementations and how they were all looking to take advantage of Oracle Social and Mobile:-
• Toyota Motors Michael Colbus
• Netapp John Donovan
• Intuit Ivan Pysarevskyy

I then attend “Integrating GRC and identity management – Help Minimize risk across your organisation” Presentation by Deloitte
Interestingly when asked no one in the audience had their IDM integrated with GRC……

Overall the session was not very good and Deliotte were very patronising in their delivery, however after the session I met with a senor Oracle Sales Director Derren Nesbit who wants SENA to look at the Oracle GRC solution that is bundled with some of the apps as only 1% of Oracle apps customer have implemented Oracle GRC.  A great opportunity for us to look at the technology and see if we can support Derren’s request.

Product overview GRC:-
GRC Manager
GRC Controls
• Application Access
• Configuration
• Transaction
• Preventive
GRC intelligence
After the GRC session I was able to listen to attend a session about how Oracle is able to scale its identity services to support 250M users, as you would al expect this was using Oracle Exadata.  Some of the stats were extremely impressive and as we support more of our customers like Virgin Media, YBS, BT, Barclays etc and they look to support their customers performance and scale will be extremely important.

Here are some of the stats:-

OAM test was able to support 19M log on per hour on a 2 node Exalogic with client session management enabled.
For OAAM on a Exadata or 3 node machine it was able to support 12.6 million per hour performance.
For Oracle Mobile  & Social performance was also tested on a 3 node Exadata box and it can support 35M authentication per hour with 105M sessions.

A report will be issued to all the attendees of the session, which we can send out.

In the afternoon I attend  the Infosys key note which was based upon “Radical Progress” and how corporations need to drive radical progress in areas such as:-
• Products and Services
• Consumer experiences
• Business models
As you would all expect using Cloud services can help organisations…… we then had Audi, Ricoh and UL, all customers of Infosys talk about how they are address the three areas working with Infosys,

Finally we had the pleasure of Larry Ellison re-enforcing the Oracle Cloud offering and that Oracle is the only cloud provider offering real choice.  Interestingly Oracle Identity Management actually got mentioned by Larry as one of the foundations to support any cloud offering.

We were then give a demonstration of Oracle Analytics running as a service,  and how the power of Business Intelligence and the ability to analyse massive amount of data.

Finally I attend a session for Partners about Identity with Scott Bonnell and Robert Levine, great profile for aurionPro SENA, I will send the presentation round to everyone when I get back.

At the end our session with Virgin Media got a real plug..

Must go now as last few tweaks to make to the presentation before our 45 mins of fame at OOW..thanks for all the notes of support.

Hope you are enjoying the blogs –

Regards

Ben

Day two started early with the first keynote starting at 8am

Oracle’s Cheif Marketing Officer – Judith Sim gave us an overview of OOW:-

• OOW is the largest I company in the world
• 50,000 attendees
• 1,000,000 on line largest technology conference
•  30% of attendees are from overseas and 144 countries are represented at OOQ
• 100% of Fortune 500 attending
• This is the 35th year of Oracle OpenWorld
• At OOW 2012 3500 speakers (and I’m one of them !!!!)
• 458 companies exhibiting
•  CNBC presenting at OOW
•  Oracle have 390,000 customers

Mark Hurd then gave us update on the Oracle strategy, much of which was covered off at the partner forum on Sunday.
Customer want to save money but also need to innovate
The Value for customer considering the cloud should engage Oracle for the following reasons:- Why Oracle for the cloud

• Complete set of applications – modern, modular, oracle cloud, private cloud, on premises
•  Complete cloud offering saas, iaas, pass
• Engineered systems
• Exadata EX3
• Compression
• In memory Technology
• Platinum Services 5 min response

Jan Loaiza SVP Systems then gave us an overview of Exadata and Nat Natarajan from Paypal gave an insight into their experiences of moving to Exadata and the scale of information Paypal have to manage -  Petabytes of information to support their OLTP

Andy Mendelsohn gave an insight into Oracle Database 12c and how it can support customer considering the cloud.  However it is important to note that 78% of customer looking to deploy private clouds, Oracle believe that whether it is Private, Hybrid or Public the Oracle Database 12c is able to support all solutions and has been architected to allow people to flex.

At the session Trends in Identity Management I was able to see where Oracle are looking to take their solutions:-

•  Enabling the new digital workplace – Work is an activity not a place.
• Four themes for 11gr2
• Simplified Experience
• Cloud, social and mobile
•  Extreme Scale
• Upgrade path

It’s the end of work as we know it

•  Business Transformstion
• Labour Transformation

 We then has the opportunity to see three excellent demos showing the following ability:-

• Cloud, Mobile, Social sign on
• Social trust
• REST sign on
• Fraud Detection
• Mobile sign on
• Device Attributes
• Location Data

1st demo – Mobile Provisioning
Excellent demo showing provisioning of a user and the secure delivery of apps to a users device after certain security checks, with single sign on.

2nd demo – Continuous Compliance
Event driven attestation
Demo showing single data model, convergence of OIA and OIM event driven certification.
Able to combine a people and role review to support managers ad app owners.

3rd – Social Sign On
Demonstration use logging in with social media identity
Account linking social account with a corp account.
Oath for cloud to cloud

We were then able to hear from Kaiser Permanente – Kurt Lieber and Supervalu – Phillip Black about their use of Oracle IDM Solutuons

Finally the Oracle IDM R2 is based upon Platform Approach and offering customers secure solution with Anytime Anywhere Context Aware solututions

I was then fortunate enough to hear about the Oracle strategy in the Communications Sector
Gartner Analysis
2/3 of company’s IT is just to keep the lights on
Only 21% is on growing the business and 16% in transforming the business

Oracle Message – Need to simplify IT to achieve cost savings

5 Key Themes for Communication companies:-
1. Oracle designed whole suite of technologies to support simplified IT
2. Over last 12 months spent lots of R&D on engineering systems for performance eg Oracle Comms Converged Apps Server can handle 3 billion calls per day
3. Engineered for Deployment – entire Oracle suite can be deployed in two hours, looking to reduce deployment costs and Oracle recommending partner with global SI’s who have local knowledge
4. Oracle Network Application Form – 1st industry specific carrier grade platform designed to reduce costs, reduce app integration / complexity, accelerate innovation – vertically integrated from the ground up on std hardware
5. Oracle Communications Elastic Charging Engine able to process 3 billion events per hour equivalent to all phone calls on earth or 4 times the worlds SMS traffic.

Accenture gave their view of the market:-
150% rise in number of You Tube videos watched on mobile devices
66% of mobile data forecasted to be video by 2015

The internet is mobilising
79% of users go on line from home using their mobile device
43% of users prepared to give up beer for constant internet access

The mobile device is becoming the consumer of all things digital, the digital customer expects to be able to access services in several ways  “Integrated treatment”

Communications Industry best placed to connect with the digital consumer
Challenge and Opportunity – how to leverage to gain advantage to access other verticals

In this highly connected digital world the opportunity for Communication companies is fantastic but they must be able to offer the following:

• Integrated view of the customer
• Customer segmentation
• Product Mix Analysis
• Multi Channel Experience

More to follow….. tomorrow.

Regards

Ben

First day of the event and despite whatever you are all thinking, I have been working since 11 so have missed one of the best comebacks in golfing history, however I am sure Mike and Richard will send me their recording of our famous victory over the Americans in the Ryder Cup !!!!! Should be fun tonight in San Francisco as we go out to celebrate, at the moment everyone blaming the 18th hole.

Back down to business, feedback from my posts last year was positive, hopefully this year will be just as well received.

Started the day at the Partner Kick Off with Judson Atlhoff

Innovation big theme use technology better
85% if IT used to keep systems running

5000 partner staff registered for the event

Oracle Strategy Remain unaltered

• Best of Breed
• Engineered systems
• Fusion apps
• Industry Focussed

This year there will be dedicated session for Cloud services
Oracle investing  $5billion in R&D

Oracle believe that their cloud services will help customers to do business better.

3 types of partners ISV, SIs, Resellers

• 1500 ISV ready for Oracle 225 Exa ready
• SIs value added services 111 specialisations
• 70000 partner staff specialisation certified

Through Oracle’s research Partners with 3 or more specialisations have:

• 50% more opps 
• 55% closed deals
• 38% larger opps in pipeline
• 56% larger closed deals

Oracle have made over 80 acquisition last 9 years, 15% cloud based acquisitions
Oracle offer – Private and Public Cloud but also off “The Hybrid Cloud” both on and off premises which gives customer choice

5 announcements for partners

• Oracle Cloud Builder Specialisation -rapid start implementation giving partners IPR
• Referral Eco systems
• Register opportunity
• Receive compensation resell programme
• Platform services for ISVs

Focus for FY13 want partners take advantage of the Oracle cloud services and get more specialised

Mark Hurd gave an update on Oracle and the industry, he was very relaxed and open
35/40% data growth YoY – 20% of IT budget on storage means budgets will grow just to manage data
Average app age is 23 years
Big drivers for customers Innovate & Save money

Interesting fact the average CIO last 2.5 years

In the Q&A 

• Growth of engineered systems across all verticals mainly large database customers
• Oracle growth in engineered systems is small against market opportunity
• Announcing new Exadata 26 terabytes of memory
• To get the most out of Oracle get behind the big Oracle strategy.
• ZFS same compression as Exa, Oracle putting more storage sales rears coming off a small baseline.
• Global 2000 accounts for 60% of Oracle rev 240 customer account for 40% rev.

As a FYI PWC won Oracle IDM award

I attended the General Session – Partner Insights Win with Oracle Database, Servers and Storage

300K of Oracle customers not running on Sun

Focus on implementation services for partners as it represents 50% of any Oracle deal.
50% services, 24% Software, 26% Hardware

John Fowler – VP Engineered Systems
Software partners can move into the hardware far more easily due to the optimised integration

Oracle hardware building in services I.e. virtualisation, compression etc.
Oracle hardware can scale but offering partners entry level at the department through to the enterprise.
Hardware offering consolidation savings.
T4 fastest growing hardware in Suns hardware.
1.2m of Sun servers in use today.

ZFS $16b opportunity going head to head against Netapp
Better compression
Performance
End to end security management

Larry key note was the best I have seen in the three years of attending:-

Theme for Cloud computing a new era of utility computing
Larry gave us an overview of the history of cloud computing
Cloud computing today is the same as electrical and other utility companies.

Oracle cloud 2011
Build the platform before launching the suite.
Oracle decided to get into cloud in 2004 when it started Fusion apps development.

He made 4 announcements

1st announcement

Announcing Infrastructure  as a service the Oracle Cloud
OS, VM, storage, Exa
Primary competitor Amazon.

2nd announcement 

Oracle Private Cloud
Oracle owns and manages the infrastructure
Infrastructure installed in customer data centre
Customer pays monthly service fee based upon usage

Cloud summary

Oracle offer all three tiers saas, paas, iaas
Oracle Cloud built on Industry stds
Oracle Offer Private cloud option
Oracle Cloud Best in class security
Oracle Cloud Best in class reliability
Oracle Cloud Best in class performance and scalability

3rd announcement 

Oracle Database 12c
Multi tenant pluggable database architecture

4th announcement 

Exadata v3
Database in memory machine
26 terabytes of mem
10x data compression
Infrastructure for Oracle Cloud
All active data moving into memory
New Exa eighth rack list price $200K

Cost remains unchanged
Larry suggesting that customers could store all their databases in cache and on a single rack of Exa 3

Overall an interesting start, looks like the Cloud is the future and Oracle are going to come to market with a number of offerings for customers:-

Buy Our Software
Use our Software as a Cloud Service
Pay someone else who uses our Software

Following our very succesful panel debate with Richard Mardling of aurionPro SENA & Andy Bushby from Oracle on the topic of Bring your own device (BYOD) at yesterday’s V3 Security Summit, we would like to share with you some of the questions and answers which were raised after the debate.

The debate was recorded and is accessable for the next 3 months along with all the collateral on our stand, so please log on and watch it if you missed it yesterday.

Here are some of the questions & answers;

1. Is the solution browser based or client or sandboxed combination?
The solution can be browser or app (REST) based, the control is within the infrastructure, solution focussed on security rather than presentation

2. Can you remotely wipe the device?
There are remote wiping options, but this would need to be defined by Acceptable Use policies agreeing on what would be wiped. There are also options for locking access to the Corporate Network from a stolen or lost personal device, so you would not necessarily have to wipe the device. It is also important to control what information/data is allowed to travel to the device in the first place.

3. What factors should be considered when devising a BYOD policy?
The sensitivity and risk profile of the information, the culture of the organisation and its tolerance to loss or misuse of information, legal issues

4. How can an organisation control which devices are used to access corporate information?
A small app can be dropped onto the device which detects whether or not it is jailbroken – if the device is jailbroken the policy within the infrastructure can deny access.

5. Do administrators need to access every device if there is a BYOD policy in place?
No, not necessarily. You could use an enterprise app store to allow BYOD users or company issued devices to download and install your app

6. How can Oracle help an organisation mitigate risk associated with BYOD?
Oracle takes a complete ‘Defence in Depth’ approach with multiple layers of security. The Identity and Access Path can be secured based on a complete view of where/who/when/what users are accessing (using Oracle Adaptive Access Manager).

Our team were on hand all day yesterday and will be happy to answer any questions which you may have, or if you woudl like to arrange to meet to discuss your BYOD requirements please let us know.

Questions can be raised via the V3 Summit or you can send an email to info@aurionprosena.co.uk or please call our office direct on 0844 800 1985.

Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 09:00 – 17:00
The Marriott Renaissance, Blackfriars Street, Manchester M3 2EQ

Join us at this interactive event to learn how Oracle simplifies IT, whether it’s by engineering hardware and software to work together or making new technologies work for the modern enterprise. Sessions and keynotes feature an elite roster of Oracle solutions experts, partners and business associates, as well as fascinating user case studies and live demos.

The full Agenda, Track Details, Speakers, Sponsors & Venue details can be found on the registration page.

Register now, before the event sells out

Tuesday, 06 November 2012, 09:00 – 17:30 The Brewery 52 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD, United Kingdom

Join us at this interactive event to learn how Oracle simplifies IT, whether it’s by engineering hardware and software to work together or making new technologies work for the modern enterprise. Sessions and keynotes feature an elite roster of Oracle solutions experts, partners and business associates, as well as fascinating user case studies and live demos.

The full Agenda, Track Details, Speakers, Sponsors & Venue details can be found on the registration page.

Register now, before the event sells out