Jet into the Oracle OpenWorld 2016 User Experience Exchange

September 17, 2016 Leave a comment

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10, 9, 8, 7 . . .  Ignition Sequence Start . . .

Oracle OpenWorld 2016 lifts off in September! And boy, have we been putting some passion and power into that user experience (UX) greatness to share with you. Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) Senior Director Misha Vaughan (@mishavaughan) tells us:

"I am proud to say that the team has even more fantastic experiences lined up for attendees at Oracle OpenWorld this year. Near and dear to my heart is our Oracle OpenWorld User Experience Exchange. This will be our fourth annual event, and it just gets better every year for partners, customers, and analysts alike!"

Consider Yourself Invited

If you are an Oracle Fusion Middleware and PaaS Oracle PartnerNetwork member, Oracle SaaS customer, Oracle Technology Network Ace of any species, or a UX thought leader discovering the world of digital transformation, then you cannot afford not to spend an hour at our Exchange.

If you are a partner, you just might be interested in building a PaaS4SaaS simplified UI using the Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) and Oracle Alta UI, for example.

Design and build a SaaS simplified UI in Oracle Jet? No problem. When you sign up for the Exchange.

Or perhaps, an Oracle Mobile Application Framework accelerator kit for SaaS UX takes your fancy?

Apply UX design patterns to Oracle MAF in Oracle JDeveloper and use smartphone native features? Find out more at the Exchange.

Register here: http://tinyurl.com/OAUX2016

About the Exchange

This is an exclusive, hands-on, in-person event that demonstrates the Oracle Applications Cloud UX and our shared enablement on offer,  as well as some near-future Oracle UX and technology-based proof of concept ideas that’ll inspire you to explore new business opportunities.

Your Exchange Experience

We’ll be showing the roadmap for the full Oracle SaaS portfolio; extensibility tools for business users to make the Oracle Applications Cloud their own; new mobile app and JavaScript front-end UI Rapid Development Kits for partners to design and build Oracle Cloud service solutions; some cool social innovation projects, such as the award-winning Asteroid Data Explorer; innovative magic sauce from the OAUX emerging technologies team, including the incredible "step-in-and-try" Smart Office; and more! For registration details please read Ultan’s article here.

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NEW PaaS4SaaS TOOLS: Rapid Development Kit

June 12, 2016 Leave a comment

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NEW PaaS4SaaS TOOLS: The OAUX team has launched a Rapid Development Kit to help partners grow their Oracle Applications Cloud business and offer more value to customers. It’s a work in progress, but the design patterns for Release 10 are already available for download via ebook. See why user-centricity, simplicity, and consistency remain front and center in Cloud user experience designs. Check out the Forbes Oracle Voice interview with Ultan O’Broin, who leads the partner enablement effort for the OAUX team. The Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog has also published a recent post on extensibility in Release 10.

UX NEWS ON ORACLE VOICE: OAUX Group Vice President Jeremy Ashley, who leads the OAUX team, tackles new trends in the workforce and, specifically, what the OAUX team is doing in regard to mobility on Forbes.com’s Oracle Voice in Mobile UX: We’re No Longer Slaves To The System.

Simplified User Experience Design Patterns for Oracle Applications Cloud Service

This eBook contains user experience design patterns that Oracle uses to build the sleek, modern simplified user interface for the Oracle Cloud Applications portfolio, such as the Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle HCM Cloud, and Oracle Sales Cloud. Get the free eBook here.

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Oracle’s UX strategy: See where it’s heading on the VoX blog

January 7, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Want a preview of what Jeremy Ashley, Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) Group Vice President, will say at Oracle OpenWorld 2015 in October? Three new posts on the Oracle UX strategy have been published on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog to give you just that.

Going Beyond the Notification: Transitioning With the Evolving Enterprise

In the first article of our strategy series, we talk about the transition of the enterprise — the changing workforce, the increasing mobility — and decipher how the user experience of the Oracle Applications Cloud is transitioning with it. Wondering when the innovation will reach your company’s Oracle applications system and affect you, or how much it’s all going to cost? Look no further. This transition doesn’t have to hurt.

Big-Picture Innovation on the Path to a Better User Experience

In our second strategy post, we focus on the theme of mobility alongside the theme of simplicity and discuss where we get our inspiration. All of Oracle’s user experience projects are based on innovation, understanding the most important aspect of a task, and helping improve efficiency and productivity. If you want to know how we’re innovating and what we’re researching, read on. Emerging technology is only the beginning.

Consistency, Context, Convenience, Participation? Check!

Our third strategy post digs into specifics and discusses the challenges and opportunities Oracle’s R&D team is facing in order to design that mobile user experience. You know that if users don’t like the system, they won’t use it, so what do we need to do to maximize participation? You won’t want to miss this.

New content for partners

The UX PaaS4SaaS: Enabling Oracle Applications Cloud Partner Confidence social story tells how partners and customers use Oracle PaaS to build SaaS integrations focused on a quality user experience, to innovate in the Cloud and benefit their businesses. Find out how the Oracle Applications User Experience team’s Rapid Development Kit (RDK) lets partners differentiate and build modern, must-have user experiences for the Oracle Applications Cloud. And hear what industry thought leaders have to say about building modern apps in faster and smarter ways by using Oracle UX and the Cloud toolkit.

Visit Oracle University for a new webcast for partners, “Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Innovations: Visualizations.” The webcast is also available via Customer Connect playback.

Check the UsableApps YouTube channel for a new playlist, “We recommend watching this …” It has some new customer perspective videos and a new demo of Glance, an app we’re developing for wearables based on the “Glance, Scan, Commit” design philosophy. To read more about what’s behind the Glance step, visit the AppsLab blog for a post called “A Framework for Wearables, Glance.”

Ultan O’Broin, with the OAUX Communications & Outreach team, writes on the Usable Apps blog that the ERP user experience is no longer just icing on the cake. It’s central to user happiness and business productivity, satisfying that ever-ravenous appetite for consumerlike apps in the enterprise. Read his post, “From Cupcakes to the Cloud: Oracle ERP User Experience Bakes In Exceedingly Better Business*,” for more.

Finally, Gretchen Alarcon, Group Vice President, Product Strategy, takes a look at what’s coming for the Oracle HCM Cloud in Oracle Applications Release 10 Spotlight on HCM Cloud, a new video on YouTube.

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RELEASE 9 PAGE User Experience Highlights

August 2, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The Usable Apps website now contains a location for externally facing Release 9 material. You’ll find links to product-specific blog posts, demos, and recordings. (These recordings are for Oracle employees and Oracle partners. Customers do not have access unless otherwise noted.)
If your focus is the Oracle HCM Cloud, watch “Oracle HCM: Manage and Retain Your Key Talent” and watch the simplified UI get the spotlight in this story about the user experience of Ted, a rising star in a global architecture company. See how he can easily understand his individual goals and performance and drive his development in a review with his manager.
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY (AKA GADGET) NEWS: Head to The AppsLab blog if you’re interested in emerging technology that our team is researching as we build the next evolution of the Oracle user experience. There’s a new post on the Android Wear watch and another recent one on Automatic, a gadget that purports to make you a better driver.
Over on the Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog, we’ve given a recent Storify post on the Internet of Things some extra fresh air. Read it to learn how the Internet of Things is influencing Oracle’s user experience strategy.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Have you seen where the Oracle user experience is heading? If you didn’t get to attend one of our recent events in San Francisco or London or if you can’t come to Oracle Headquarters to tour the new Cloud UX lab (and even if you can), check out our new e-book on the Oracle user experience strategy. You can also watch Thomas Kurian, President of Oracle, explain why user experience is pivotal to customer experience in this recent video.

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Applications Cloud Release 8 User Experience Rapid Development Kit

January 27, 2015 Leave a comment

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If you’re building or integrating the Oracle Applications Cloud or building SaaS through PaaS, use the User Experience Rapid Development Kit laid out here to get the guidance you need and point you to the right tools to use.

The Oracle Applications User Experience team has released a User Experience Rapid Development Kit on simplified user interface (UI), the same user experience design in Oracle Applications Cloud release 8. The kit is designed to help Oracle ADF developers get up to speed quickly so they can start designing and building the Oracle Applications Cloud simplified UIs, which are the tablet-friendly UIs for Oracle Sales Cloud and Oracle HCM Cloud, in a matter of hours.

The User Experience Rapid Development Kit contains the following tools:

  • Coded ADF page templates.
  • Coding tips from Oracle’s developers.
  • ADF screen overlays showing the use of components in the simplified UI.
  • An eBook on user experience (UX) design patterns and guidelines(right), and example wireframe stencils of page types and components in Microsoft Visio and Balsamiq Mockups formats.
  • Sample wireframe of a simplified UI page flow.

How would you like to get started?

Tell me more about the simplified user interface for Oracle Applications Cloud.

Show me demos of simplified UI in the Oracle Applications Cloud.

What’s coming next in the Oracle Applications Cloud user experience?

Start Designing and Building a Simplified User Interface

Learn more

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Simplified UI in Release 8

August 30, 2014 Leave a comment

Succession PlansThe simplified user interface (UI), designed by the Oracle Applications User Experience team, extends its reach in the recent Oracle Applications Cloud Release 8 with user experience enhancements that include expanded simplicity, expanded visualizations and analytics, and expanded extensibility and customization options – all in the cloud.  Check the Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog for a look at some of the simplified UI user experience highlights.

New tools to help you tailor your applications.

Want to build or tailor your own application? You don’t have to be a developer to use these tools. Check the Usable Apps website for new podcasts, presentations, UX design patterns, and success stories and leverage Oracle’s best practices from our newest releases. Our UX design patterns, in particular, will save you time and money while increasing your users’ productivity. If you’re looking to speed up a customization project in PeopleSoft, go to the UX Direct blog for information about the PeopleSoft 8.53/9.2 prototyping tool kit that was just released. This tool kit provides user interface components in Microsoft PowerPoint format that you can use by simply dragging and dropping into your slides to create user interface designs for your application.

User Experience highlights in JD Edwards and E-Business Suite

Hear about the JD Edwards user experience from Gary Grieshaber, Senior Director, EnterpriseOne Product Strategy, in this video, which showcases today’s user experience highlights in Oracle’s JD Edwards applications. Hear about the Oracle E-Business Suite user experience from Nadia Bendjedou, Senior Director, Oracle E-Business Suite Product Strategy, in this video, which showcases today’s user experience highlights in Oracle’s E-Business Suite applications.

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Customer Experience & SOA Integration Demo

August 28, 2014 Leave a comment

At our SOA Community Workspace ( SOA Community membership required) you details about a great customer experience demo using SOA Integration technology:

5Red_CX_Boxes2.pngWith this release the number of viewlets (video’s) has grown from 21 to 37. Each viewlet can be shown individually or in conjunction with any others and can show either technical feature or business centric demo’s.  There is a matrix of options for using the demos, to help you select relevant materials  there is a ScenarioMatrix.xls spreadsheet, you can filter on any of the columns to reduce to the viewlets that interest you.
In this release feature enhancements have been made to:

  • RightNow – New business scenario’s.
  • RTD – Integrated into several front-ends, Composite Pagelet for RightNow, plus back-end viewlets.
  • WC-Sites – updated with latest MyBank demo with SCV MyProfile.
  • SCVLite VirtualBox VM (due to be uploaded to retriever mid-may).
  • Retail Banking Client-OnBoarding viewlets.
  • Documentation on Design Pattern and SCV Service.
  • New MDM / EDQ scenario viewlet.
  • Improvements to ATG, eBS.

Want to learn more about the cool CX demo? Contact Vince Keehan | SC Manager UK E-Mail: vince.keehan@oracle.com

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Simplified UI in Oracle Applications Cloud

July 26, 2014 Leave a comment

The Simplified User Experience Design Patterns for the Oracle Applications Cloud Service eBook has been published recently. The free eBook provides the user experience design patterns that Oracle uses to build simplified user interfaces (UIs). Read more about it on the Usable Apps blog, or download it directly at tinyurl.com/SimplifiedUI.  You’ll also find a new article on the Usable Apps website about extensibility in the simplified UI: "Making the Complex Simple: Extensibility and Customization in the Oracle Applications Cloud." Read and learn more about how easy extensibility aligns with the overall Oracle Applications Cloud’s user experience strategy of simplification.
ABOUT RELEASE 8: Take a look at these recent blog posts to find out what analysts and others are saying about the usability they see in Release 8.

And several videos about the simplified UI in Release 8 are now available:

Oracle President Mark Hurd educates Baylor University students on the impact of big data in “Big Data in a Shrinking World.” bit.ly/1m33hJg
Oracle Platinum Partner AMIS Services BV, a friend of the Oracle Applications User Experience (UX) team, has been awarded the Oracle SOA Community Award and the SOA Partner Community Award 2014. Visit the SOA Community Blog for a post on “Fusion Middleware Partner Community Awards 2014” to read more.

  • Amis played host to the OAUX Expo in March, and posts about the Oracle Applications UX themes of simplicity, mobility, and extensibility continue. Dutch developer Richard Olrichs, who attended the expo, wrote “What I learned from the UX Event.” Tech author Chris Koenis also wrote a post in Dutch after the expo called “World travelers hunt futuristic interface.” A translated version is available.

“PeopleSoft Talk with Marc Weintraub: PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface featuring Willie Suh”: In this PeopleSoft Talk, PeopleSoft Senior Director Marc Weintraub talks with Willie Suh, Vice President of PeopleTools Development, about the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface.
Oracle ACE Director Basheer Khan shares his thoughts on Oracle’s Cloud strategy in the April 2014 edition of Profit Magazine. The interview, “Clouds in Vegas,” focuses on Khan’s session at Collaborate 2014 and how he thinks organizations can benefit from moving to the cloud.

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Architecture & Usability & AppAdvantage Section: AppAdvantage Resouce kit, documents, videos and roundtables

May 14, 2014 Leave a comment

Achieving Superior Digital Experience with Oracle AppAdvantage Find out how Oracle AppAdvantage and Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions, such as those for web experience management, web content management, and self-service portals, can help you create a superior digital customer experience. Read More.

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Learn more about Simplified UI for Oracle Cloud Applications

March 29, 2014 Leave a comment

Visit the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog for a new post about the strategy behind Oracle’s Human Capital Management (HCM) simplified UI. Learn what’s new from the Oracle HCM Cloud UIApplications User Experience team in Release 7, and find links to new video demos on simplified UI for self-service users and managers.

Floyd Teter, of EiS Technologies and an Oracle ACE Director, also writes about simplified UI and Oracle Fusion Applications HCM in his recent blog post, “Oracle Fusion HCM – The Kettle Is Beginning To Boil.”
There are also a few new posts about Oracle Sales Cloud, such as a post  on the Oracle Applications Blog called “Wow Sales Managers and Reps with An Unmatched User Experience.” A separate post published on VoX last month about Oracle Sales Cloud focuses on what’s new with simplified UI in Release 7.

Also on VoX, Oracle partner Anne Meyer, of MIPRO Consulting LLC, talks about seeing the direction of the Oracle user experience, including simplified UI, in “Partner Gives a Thumbs-Up to Insight on Oracle User Experience.” She says, “I’m anxious for these products to make it to the marketplace. Some may be game-changing for Oracle, and how people view Oracle products.”

Exploring new user experience concepts
Oracle invests a great deal in creating a user experience for its applications that empowers customers to be more productive and efficient. One way that investment is made is by exploring new technologies and looking for ways to use them so that the Oracle user experience continues to evolve. Much of that research takes place among the ranks of the Oracle Applications User Experience (UX) team.

Recent posts on the Usable Apps blog and on TheAppsLab blog look at what and how members of the Applications UX team are exploring new concepts. We invite you to join the conversation! Tell us about your experiences with new technology, and how you think they could be used. To read more about what we’ve found, head over to the Usable Apps blog for new posts on Voice, social network integration, and Google Glass. Then check out Jake Kuramoto’s new post about exploring new concepts on TheAppsLab blog.

Support for building your own good usability practices
Visit the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog for a new post from Misha Vaughan, an Oracle Applications User Experience director, to see what she writes about “Six Things You Can Do Today to Jump-Start Your User Experience for Enterprise Applications.” Her post tells you how to build in good usability practices, even on a small budget.

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