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The founder and Chairman of Oracle , Larry Ellison , is always present when his company gathers customers and partners for the annual conference in San Fransisco . This year he highlighted increased focus on the cloud solutions of the company . Photo : Flickr / Hartmann Studios

Oracle Open World 2016

With operations in nearly 150 countries , large dimensions dominate when Oracle gather 60,000 of its own employees , partners and customers to an annual conference in San Francisco . The conference , as illustratively enough has been named - Oracle Open World ( OOW ), consists of presentations , lectures and demonstrations of new products . The participants get updates on news , products , trends and innovation , while social events facilitates for more contacts in the industry .
SYSCO employees have attended OOW for many years , and were this time also joined by a record large delegation of both employees and customers . The SYSCO consultant , Fransisco Arturo Rivero , was also one of the speakers . An important recognition of him and the expertise the company now possesses .
Regional Director East , Runar Vestrheim and Sales Director Oracle ( Nordics ) Ole Petter Berg , were some of the SYSCO participants this year , and have also been at
OOW several times before . They give good feedback on both the academic and the social program of the conference , and consider this as one of the IT industry ’ s major highlights . The updates that come here , set the tone for everything that happens in the following year , so it is important to be present in order to keep up to date , they explain . Vestrheim says that Cloud solutions were in focus from Oracle under this year ’ s conference , and noted especially Oracle chairman Larry Ellison who clearly aimed
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