Mobile Expert Interviews: Oracle's Lyle Ekdahl

This is the last in a series of interviews I recorded at Oracle Open World 2014 this past week.  I recorded five different interviews with Oracle's enterprise mobility experts on different aspects of their mobile platform and enterprise mobility apps.  In this interview with Oracle's SVP Development, GM Oracle JD Edward, Lyle Ekdahl we discuss their ambitions and goals for their enterprise mobility solutions and platforms.  Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/_cOZa9EPbW4?list=UUGizQCw2Zbs3eTLwp7icoqw



Mobile App Testing Strategy Webinar: Shift Mobile Testing Left Using Selenium and Eclipse
Date: October 7, 2014, 11am EDT

Learn how the “shift testing left” dynamic is impacting Developers and Testers. Learn how Perfecto Mobile can facilitate this while supporting your Agile and Continuous Integration effort. The webinar includes a hands-on demonstration of the MobileCloud, including:

• How to create a new mobile testing project in Eclipse
• How to run a sample project on multiple devices in parallel
• How to leverage existing Selenium scripts and extend them to mobile 
• How to "Shift Left" and decrease mobile app time to market

Registration link: http://bit.ly/1nH42g4

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***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Interviews: Oracle's Kaj Van De Loo

In this interview recorded this week in beautiful and warn San Francisco, I have the pleasure of asking Oracle's VP, Development and Middleware, Kaj Van De Loo, many questions about their newly announced suite of enterprise mobility solutions.  Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/EVEoz6YMkes?list=UUGizQCw2Zbs3eTLwp7icoqw


Upcoming Mobile App Testing Strategy Webinar: Shift Mobile Testing Left Using Selenium and Eclipse
Date: October 7, 2014, 11am EDT
Description: Learn how the “shift testing left” dynamic is impacting Developers and Testers. Learn how Perfecto Mobile can facilitate this while supporting your Agile and Continuous Integration effort. The webinar includes a hands-on demonstration of the MobileCloud, including:

• How to create a new mobile testing project in Eclipse
• How to run a sample project on multiple devices in parallel
• How to leverage existing Selenium scripts and extend them to mobile 
• How to "Shift Left" and decrease mobile app time to market

Registration link: http://bit.ly/1nH42g4

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Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Senior Analyst

Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

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Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

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Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

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Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Interviews: Oracle's Chris Tonas

I was able to attend the Oracle's Open World user conference this week in sunny and warm San Francisco.  This year was a special year.  It was the public unveiling of Oracle's suite of enterprise mobility solutions - both on-premise and cloud.  In this interview with Oracle's VP Mobility and Development Tools, Chris Tonas, we discuss how these tools and platforms will be used to mobilize all of Oracle's solutions and for use by their customers to mobilize their bespoke apps.

[Apologies]: I have a new microphone that does not require me to yell into, however, it takes me a few videos to realize it...

Video Link: http://youtu.be/JxqoloukitE?list=UUGizQCw2Zbs3eTLwp7icoqw



Upcoming Mobile App Testing Strategy webinar: Shift Mobile Testing Left Using Selenium and Eclipse
Date: October 7, 2014, 11am EDT
Description: Learn how the “shift testing left” dynamic is impacting Developers and Testers. Learn how Perfecto Mobile can facilitate this while supporting your Agile and Continuous Integration effort. The webinar includes a hands-on demonstration of the MobileCloud, including:

• How to create a new mobile testing project in Eclipse
• How to run a sample project on multiple devices in parallel
• How to leverage existing Selenium scripts and extend them to mobile 
• How to "Shift Left" and decrease mobile app time to market

Registration link: http://bit.ly/1nH42g4

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Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Senior Analyst

Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Subscribe to Kevin'sYouTube Channel

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Interviews: Oracle's Amit Zavery

2014 is the year of mobility in the calendar of the Oracles.  This year at Oracle Open World 2014, Oracle made a series of announcements about their end-to-end mobility solutions for both on-premise and in the cloud.  In this interview with Oracle's Amit Zavery, VP, Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware, we discuss these announcements and what they include.  Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/GW8uAqxJZe4


Upcoming Webinar: Shift Mobile Testing Left Using Selenium and Eclipse
Date: October 7, 2014, 11am EDT
Description: Learn how the “shift testing left” dynamic is impacting Developers and Testers. Learn how Perfecto Mobile can facilitate this while supporting your Agile and Continuous Integration effort. The webinar includes a hands-on demonstration of the MobileCloud, including:

• How to create a new mobile testing project in Eclipse
• How to run a sample project on multiple devices in parallel
• How to leverage existing Selenium scripts and extend them to mobile 
• How to "Shift Left" and decrease mobile app time to market

Registration link: http://bit.ly/1nH42g4
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Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Senior Analyst

Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Subscribe to Kevin'sYouTube Channel

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Interviews: Oracle's Denis Tyrell

Oracle made several interesting announcements about their new enterprise mobility solutions here at Oracle's Open World 2014 including Oracle's Mobile Cloud Service MBaaS and MADP.  In this interview with Oracle's Senior Director of Product Management we discuss them.  Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/GqkE8AIx378

Upcoming Webinar: Shift Mobile Testing Left Using Selenium and Eclipse
Date: October 7, 2014, 11am EDT
Description:
Learn how the “shift testing left” dynamic is impacting Developers and Testers. Learn how Perfecto Mobile can facilitate this while supporting your Agile and Continuous Integration effort. The webinar includes a hands-on demonstration of the MobileCloud, including:

• How to create a new mobile testing project in Eclipse
• How to run a sample project on multiple devices in parallel
• How to leverage existing Selenium scripts and extend them to mobile 
• How to "Shift Left" and decrease mobile app time to market

Registration link: http://bit.ly/1nH42g4

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Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Senior Analyst

Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Interview: Oracle's Suhas Uliyar

Oracle took their time jumping into the enterprise mobility market, but in 2014 they have come on strong with an enterprise centric approach focused on scalability, security and enterprise-class performance. In this interview, Oracle's Suhas Uliyar, VP of Mobile Strategy and Product Development shares their views on strategy, trends and developments.  Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/sUIMkM0Uu9c?list=UUGizQCw2Zbs3eTLwp7icoqw


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Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Senior Analyst

Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Oracle Mobility Emerges Prepared for the Future

Suhas Uliyar

My friend Suhas Uliyar is now the VP of Mobile Strategy Product Management at Oracle, and he is eager to get the word out that Oracle mobility is real and here today. While SAP jumped big time into enterprise mobility in 2010 with the $5.8 billion acquisition of Sybase, Oracle has been quietly watching the market and practicing patience. They seemed for a long time to be content with standing on the side lines and treating mobility as just another channel or interface for their backend servers, solutions and databases.

Today, however, they have a multitude of rapidly growing enterprise mobility solutions and an aggressive plan and strategy for enterprise mobility.  Among their mobility products are the following:

• Oracle Mobility Suite - MADP
• Oracle Mobile Security Suite - Mobile Application Management/Security
• Oracle ADF Mobile, soon to be named Mobile Application Framework - mobile app SDK
• Oracle Mobile Cloud - MBaaS category of products

In recent years, Oracle has been surrounded by rumors they would acquire a leading MADP (mobile application development platform) vendor like Antenna Software, Kony, Verivo, etc. However, mobile platform vendors have come and gone without Oracle acting.  Analysts (I was one of them) and competitors (read SAP) were publicly challenging Oracle on their lack of action in the enterprise mobility space.  At one point, Oracle product managers called me to request the use of my enterprise mobility presentation at their conferences.  Yikes!  Clearly someone was desperate!

History, however, may reward Oracle's patience.  While veteran mobile platform vendors (including SAP) have struggled to keep up with the fast changing market, R&D investment requirements, the fickle preferences of mobile developers, and the emergence of cloud-based mobile services, Oracle has kept their focus on supporting mobile developers with integration services and tools that extend their solutions out to mobile apps. This enabled them to follow a long term, methodical and standards-based approach to mobility insulated from the ever changing mobile app development and platform space of the past few years.  It is good to have some quiet time to think and observe.

As we near the mid-year mark in 2014, it seems like the enterprise mobility market is finally stabilizing. The lessons of early adopters have been learned and shared, strengths and weaknesses of various strategies have been exposed, and the preferences of developers and IT leaders are starting to clarify.  I bet SAP wishes they had their $5.8 billion back in their pocket to invest today.

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Kevin Benedict

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Senior Analyst, Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

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Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

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Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Video Series: DSI's Dave Edeal

This week I am in Chicago speaking on mobile strategies and trends.  While in Chicago I was able to interview DSI Global's Partner Manager, Dave Edeal.  In this interview we discuss mobile trends, Oracle and mobility in manufacturing.  Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/BVuy6GGLuqs

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***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

What Mobile Software Vendor will Oracle Buy in 2012?

What mobile software vendor will Oracle buy in 2012?  This is the question I asked, and sixty-six people shared their thoughts.  Here are their answers:

• 42% - Antenna Software
• 27% - Kony Solutions
• 13% - Verivo (formerly Pyxis Mobile)
• 12% - Syclo
• 4%   - Rhomobile

I asked this question because SAP bought Sybase, IBM bought WorkLight, HP bought webOS (oops!), and it seems like Oracle must make a move into enterprise mobility soon.  The market will not wait for Oracle, so if Oracle wants to control their future they need to act.

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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.