Description of the CloudWorld 2024 Interview with Doug Kehring
In this in-depth CloudWorld 2024 interview, Oracle Executive Vice President and Head of Operations Doug Kehring joins hosts Kendall Fisher and Fritz Nelson to recap the biggest announcements and themes from the event. The conversation highlights Oracle’s groundbreaking multicloud strategy, including its headline-making partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and how these collaborations empower customers with unprecedented flexibility, choice, and performance for Oracle workloads.
Kehring explains how Oracle is uniquely positioned at the center of the multicloud ecosystem, enabling enterprises to run Oracle technologies—including OCI, Oracle Database, and mission-critical workloads—on the cloud provider of their choice. Customers like State Street are already benefiting as Oracle brings its hardware, support, and capabilities directly to other hyperscalers, delivering seamless performance without forcing customers to re-architect.
A major theme of the week is the Oracle AI Advantage, where Oracle embeds advanced AI and automation across its entire technology stack—from applications and infrastructure to analytics and industry solutions. Kehring shares powerful real-world examples, such as AI-driven financial planning and analysis through Oracle EPM and transformative use cases in healthcare, where AI augments clinical decision-making to improve patient outcomes.
The discussion also covers Oracle’s expanding Industry Suites, which unify Oracle’s horizontal and vertical technologies to drive end-to-end transformation across sectors like healthcare, construction, telecommunications, and government. Kehring emphasizes Oracle’s focus on delivering complete business experiences—customer experience, employee experience, patient experience, and more—rather than isolated applications.
The segment concludes with insights into the Oracle Playbook and the company’s deepening commitment to customer outcomes through Oracle Customer Success Services and the Cloud Success Navigator. Kehring reiterates Oracle’s total commitment to ensuring customers not only purchase world-class technology but unlock its full business value through guided transformation, best practices, and continuous partnership.
This dynamic CloudWorld 2024 conversation delivers essential insights into Oracle’s strategy, innovations, and customer-first approach—highlighting why Oracle continues to lead in multicloud, AI, industry solutions, and enterprise transformation.
