Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Oracle OPN Days - Virtual Event

Much more the "virtually helpful"...











What are Virtual Days?
Somewhat of a hybrid between web conferencing and social networking these events offer a unique opportunity to gather subject matter experts from around the world with industry thought leaders have dynamic discussions about technology, architecture, but most importantly ... How do you make your organization more successful?


Challenges with a traditional conference:
We have all been to many large conference halls from the San Francisco Moscone Center to the Venetian Hotel & Conference Center in Vegas or the Orlando Florida Conference Center. While the face time to build relationships is important there are many draw backs, for example consider these scenarios we have all experienced:
  • You make it to the booth of someone you need to connect with but the expert on your topic won't be here until tomorrow.
  • A key customer approaches but Jim Thompson who runs product management just went to the bathroom
  • Despite being at the event, Tom Jones the architect whose advice is highly valued by the CIO and decision maker is too shy to approach face to face so you never knew they were there or could find Tom.
  • You are talking to a potentially large customer but they are interested in a new product or partnership and the collateral did not make it to the show.
  • You agree to share content on a pressing issue but the action items get scribbled on a conference flyer and get lost.
  • You finally connect with the right people and you can't find a place to sit and talk or hear one another over the crowd
  • You get cards from everyone you meet but it would take another week to index then and store the information virtually and it becomes difficult to follow up.
  • You get to the booth in the morning but your technical sales manager was out with a client the night before and did not make it to the booth in time to meet another key client

Instead with a Virtual Event you can:

  • Dynamically grab the content you need and provide it electronically
  • Pull in experts from anywhere in any language instantly
  • Digitally share contact information and action items
  • Avoid the high cost of traveling to conferences
  • Save your feet and time running between sessions

Why the Oracle OPN Days?

  • Support for 9 languages
  • Product, alliance, and sales experts in 1 place
  • Information across Oracle database, middleware, and applications
  • This event is focused on partners and how they can be successful with Oracle and benefit from our many sales and marketing programs.
  • Rapidly navigate the ~85,000 Oracle organization

To learn more visit the site:

http://events.unisfair.com/index.jsp?eid=491&seid=26&code=OPNDaysVEOracleMailSignature

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