Emerging Tech and the Enterprise

January 28, 2017 Leave a comment

clip_image002:Wearables — your Apple Watches, Fitbits, and Misfits — are finally coming out to play in the world of enterprise applications. The Internet of Things (IoT) is also changing the game, so adopting a smart strategy is key. If you haven’t yet, check out this post on the Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog, “Wearables, IoT push Oracle’s emerging tech development.”

Enterprise use cases can be hard to come by for some technologies, such as voice and gesture as input, but Oracle needs to keep up with the latest developments in those fields anyway so that we’re ready when an enterprise use case comes up. Another post on VoX, “New ways of input still on the verge of the enterprise,” explains how we’re doing that.

Interested in how we research, design, and develop for these emerging technologies? We’ve got three new emerging tech articles that describe the challenges and provide insight into how the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team gets it done. For a look at how this technology influences Oracle’s cloud user experience strategy, head to this recently updated article from Jake Kuramoto, director of the AppsLab, the OAUX Emerging Technologies team.

PLATFORM FOR JEREMY ASHLEY: The OAUX Group Vice President has two new pages live on Oracle.com. You will find him among Oracle’s Thought Leaders, and he’s also listed as a corporate spokesperson for North America.

This is part of an ongoing effort to give Ashley a platform as a Thought Leader at Oracle. Since mid-2015, he’s been publishing on a variety of topics related to user experience and design on Forbes.com. He’s been speaking at events around the globe, and a new push is being made to capture the recognition his team deserves for their hard work on the Cloud user experience. Jeremy’s Thought Leader page contains several links to recent key posts on Forbes.com, links to Jeremy’s LinkedIn profile and Twitter feed, videos in which he shares his perspective on innovation and user experience, and links to the Usable Apps website and the VoX blog, where you can find posts and articles from many members of the OAUX team on projects you’ve all had a hand in.


CUSTOMER CONNECT WEBINARS: The OAUX team has several new webcasts to share. Please take a look. You must be a member to view the webcasts.

· Winning with User Experience in CPQ Cloud, by Shirin Lange and William Gobber, Oracle

· Oracle Applications User Experience – Emerging Technologies, Building Tomorrow’s Experiences, by Jake Kuramoto, The AppsLab, OAUX

· Oracle’s Investment in Cloud Application’s User Experience, by Julian Orr, OAUX, and Basheer Khan, Knex Technologies

· Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit (RDK), with Julian Orr and Karen Scipi, OAUX

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The Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team has loads of new content that we’re eager to share

December 29, 2016 Leave a comment

clip_image002The Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team has loads of new content that we’re eager to share. Beginning with Oracle Voice, Oracle’s platform on Forbes.com, Group Vice President Jeremy Ashley describes in a recent post how Oracle is addressing specific HCM trends and issues in our cloud application services while keeping that “suite” perspective. What else did we write about in the past month?

LOOKING TO THE ENTERPRISE FUTURE: The OAUX team reports on wearables and IoT devices as well as Oracle’s investment in the challenges of bringing them to the enterprise in a new post on the Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog. Wearables lie at the center of many IoT discussions, and the possibilities they create when they work in tandem are endless. The OAUX team has been keeping an eye on both areas for several years and is investing heavily in research and development behind the challenges of interweaving the capabilities of both types of devices and bringing them to the enterprise.

UX STRATEGY: We know you’re craving the latest in Oracle’s UX strategy, and we must deliver. Learn more in a new VoX post with a bird’s-eye view on our new strategy ebook, or dive right into the (free!) download.

NEW TO DO AND SEE: If you’re an Oracle partner, we’ve got some updates just for you. Check the recently refreshed For Partners page featuring Release 10 content. Want to come to one of our partner events? We’ve got you covered on our Events page. Finally, we’re also bringing you a new Cloud User Experience Specialist Role, freshened up for Release 10. Find out more here.

RDK: We recently announced updates to the Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit (RDK) on the Usable Apps website, and we’re so excited by it that we’re still talking about it. Check out the following posts:

  • Get a tour of the Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit for Release 10 in Overview of the PaaS4SaaS User Experience RDK, including the new Microsoft PowerPoint-based wireframing tools and the software templates and components that are available for developers on OTN and GitHub.
  • In Integrating Google Maps, IFTTT, and OpenWeatherMap APIs into the Oracle Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit , Lancy Silveira writes about APIs used in the Release 10 Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit and how they are integrated into the RDK simplified UI pages, encouraging partners and developers to explore more possibilities that will enrich the Cloud UX for customers in simple, fast ways.
  • Silveira also talks to Customer Connect’s Frank Cowell about the Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit. If you’re a member of Customer Connect, access is easy through the website. HCM Talk Radio, a regular podcast where experts and guests share the latest in HCM Cloud best practices and knowledge, is also available directly. If you haven’t tuned in yet for these informative podcasts, go to Oracle’s Podcast Center or to iTunes and sign up for the feeds to receive and listen to the talk shows regularly.

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Applications User Experience OpenWorld 2016 results

December 4, 2016 Leave a comment

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See what the Oracle Applications User Experience (#OAUX) team did during Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco in September on the Voice of User Experience blog, or VoX, where we’ve reposted our most recent Storify collection. Here’s a short summary of the big stuff:

 The OAUX Cloud Exchange, where the OAUX team demos near-future and future concepts, was extended to three days this year. Participants included Oracle partners, industry analysts, private customer tours, global media, legislators learning about technology, and a robot, which was part of an emerging technologies demo on virtual reality.

 Several Cloud UX demos and messages popped up in general sessions, like the Oracle ERP Cloud. The simplified UI designs central to the Cloud user experience were a new and exciting story to share with ERP customers, so we saw it in several sessions. For more user experience excitement, this time in the Oracle HCM Cloud general session, check out this tweet showing a voice demo from the OAUX team. (The audience actually applauded.)

 About 250 people came through lab tours at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., and nearly 100 customers and partners participated in customer feedback sessions, focus groups and a design jam at the onsite lab.

 A new UX Rapid Development Kit (RDK) was also announced in time for OpenWorld. Read about what’s available now in this post on the Usable Apps blog.

 The OAUX IoT workshops, a joint project with the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), pulled in about 200 people who attended workshops during three days at both JavaOne and OpenWorld conferences. More tweets are on Twitter, including a short video by ACE Director Tim Hall, who is using the chip that the AppsLab, the OAUX emerging technologies team, provided post-show. He also wrote about it in this post. The AppsLab team wrote about their experiences on their blog as well.

ORACLE HCM CLOUD: In September Aylin Uysal, Senior Director, HCM User Experience, was part of an Oracle Partner Network Partner Cast. She discussed Oracle’s HCM UX strategy with host Jonathan Vinoskey, Director of Global Partner Enablement, HCM Cloud, Oracle Sales and Partner Academy.

Aylin also points to a recent video from industry analyst Holger Mueller from the Constellation Group, where he talks about what makes a great user experience.

STRATEGY DAY WITH ACE DIRECTORS: During OpenWorld, the OAUX team held a special Strategy Day for several hand-picked ACE Directors who are interested in the Oracle cloud user experience. For a look at what they took away from that daylong meeting, read these posts:

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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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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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On wearables, IoT, and how they fit into Oracle’s UX strategy

November 25, 2015 Leave a comment

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There’s a lot to be excited about on the emerging technology front right now, especially around wearables. Oracle’s investment in user experience around emerging technology — what we’re researching, how we think wearables and other new technology like the Internet of Things (IoT) could fit into the enterprise world, and defining Oracle’s strategy in user experience going forward — is a major focus for us now and in coming months.

You may have seen The AppsLab’s post on the Apple Watch, The Apple Watch Arrives, in this space last month. We also talked about how the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) design philosophy of “Glance, Scan, Commit” fits the wearables model on the Usable Apps blog. We’ve had some more time to sit with it all. Take a look at these new posts on — of course — the Apple Watch, as well as other devices that can activate the Internet of Things.

We also have a free ebook, in which you can get a strategic look at the roadmap for the Oracle Applications Cloud. Download your copy today.

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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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See the Oracle Cloud UX roadmap in action at our lab

May 12, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The new Oracle Cloud User Experience (UX) lab is officially open for business! Located on the bottom floor of the 200 building at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., it hosted its first tour during Oracle OpenWorld 2014. We can’t stop talking about it though. The Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team has written about it on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX blog, and again on the AppsLab blog.

Can’t come to HQ to see the Oracle Applications user experience for yourself? Learn about the UX roadmap in a new, free eBook from the Oracle Applications User Experience team. Find the download link on the VoX blog.

Oracle Applications User Experience Vice President Jeremy Ashley in the new Oracle Cloud UX lab.
Onsite labs: Head to YouTube for a new video that shows what happens in the OAUX onsite labs, held at user group conferences near you! The video has also been posted on the Oracle Media Network.
Oracle Voice: Also on YouTube is a series of videos that show Oracle Voice, a new voice-activated application, in action. Visit the Usable Apps YouTube channel for a playlist  that collects up all the latest demos.
Simplified UI in PeopleSoft, EBS: The simplified UI is continuing to enhance the user experience in recent versions of PeopleSoft and E-Business Suite. Visit Oracle blogs to see the PeopleSoft Fluid UI  and new user interface features in E-Business Suite.
Oracle Partner Network (OPN): Misha Vaughan, director of the OAUX Communications & Outreach team, takes part in a discussion on the Oracle Applications User Experience in this video for Oracle partners.
UX Direct website: The Advanced Research and Tools (ART) team has rolled out a newly redesigned UX Direct site for customers and partners. Among the resources on the site are:

•    A simple user-centered design process
•    Oracle user experience design patterns and guidelines
•    Oracle templates, tools, and examples
•    A user-experience readiness checklist

Wearables: The AppsLab team has been digging into discussions on wearable technology on their blog. Wearables have been part of the OAUX team’s research and development for some time now. Head over for a post on “Google Glass, Android Wear, and Apple Watch.” Also posted in the last month: “Pseudo-Philosophical Observations on Wearables, Part 1,” and you’ll find a bit about wearables from Samsung, among other things, in this post as well: “Musings on Samsung Developer Conference 2014.”
Hack space; save the planet: In case you didn’t hear about the very cool asteroid hackathon in which members of the OAUX team participated — or if you want to know more about what happened there – here are a few new blog posts:

· Asteroid Hackathon, from co-host EchoUser

· Asteroid Hackathon, from Oracle’s The Apps Lab

· Asteroid Hackathon – The Winning Team

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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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