For a fleeting moment I felt guilty I am not at SuiteWorld. Mark Hurd was talking about shipments from Shanghai and inventory allocations while in transit. I perked up at the webstream. But just as quickly he was talking about recruiting. And his comments were from a decade ago when he was at HP. I went "here we go again - like at Oracle MBX/MCX couple of weeks ago, finance and HCM seem to be Oracle's comfort zone. They are allergic to talking operational applications in the cloud".
The next session I was told to watch was about NetSuite products but the stream did not work. I can see from Albert Pang's tweet they are talking operations "Allison Auclair, VP Product Mgmt of Oracle NetSuite, outlines what it takes to do next-gen manufacturing & retailing, covering everything from sourcing to online selling and from ordering to warehousing in its stepped-up effort to improve commerce & CRM experiences." Just my luck. I will try and watch a replay.
This is the first SuiteWorld I have missed in years. I much prefer analyst summits but NetSuite has never held one - I have asked multiple times. Oracle has moved away from them. I feel I am intruding on customer time when I go to user conferences. When I do go, I like a schedule which has plenty of customer and executive time. Oracle has not been able to deliver that so I have been watching their events from afar. Sorry, NetSuite.
I hope Oracle and NetSuite convene an analyst summit like I requested here. Every one of their competitors does one and they keep getting better each year.
I WILL show up for such a summit. If I am invited, and if the agenda does have operational and vertical functionality.
