6th Annual Oracle EMEA Customer Advisory Board for IAM held in Berlin

This year the EMEA Customer Advisory Board (CAB) for Identity & Access Management was held in the historic city of Berlin, Germany from 24^th to 26^th March.  Representatives from Oracle product management and engineering teams met with customers from all over the Europe to discuss market trends, product direction, and to get feedback on current products.

Day 1 started after the lunch when Christian Patrascu welcomed all the attendees and conducted an introductory session. The day focused on Market Trends of Identity Management and Mobile Security. Andy Smith delivered an impressive presentation to address the growing security needs created by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement. He also demonstrated the Oracle Mobile Security solution which Oracle had recently acquired from Bitzer Mobile. The day ended with the featured updates from Access Management team.

Day 2 started with Oracle’s Cloud Vision and plans for Identity as a Service (IDaaS). The rest of the day contained Product overviews for Identity Governance, Authorization and Directory Services. There were also some moderated discussions, led by Jim Tayler and Andy Smith, on Identity Governance and Enterprise Mobility.

The last day contained customer presentations by Telenor and Electrabel. Audience showed great interest in Telenor’s presentation and asked questions about their innovative implementation of customized layer over top of Oracle Identity Manager. The CAB meeting ended with a moderated discussion on Cloud IdM and Marcel Rizcallah’s presentation on Implementation Best Practices. After the end of official agenda, some of the customers had also booked one to one sessions with Product Management teams to discuss their Organization specific use cases.

Overall, this CAB was a glowing success, and proved beneficial to both the Oracle Product Teams who collected valuable feedback from customers, and for customers to hear directly from the product teams about upcoming product road maps and direction.  Several customers also mentioned that they really enjoyed hearing about other customers' implementations and plans.