Oracle had its yearly user confernce, Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas from September 10th till 12th 2024 at the Venetian Convention Center. Oracle is on a roll across its product suite, fuelled by getting its cloud strategy and partner strategy right, with AWS being the last of the big three cloud providers who can deploy the Oracle database in the cloud. Oracle is ready to compete on the benefits of its database across the different clouds. The datalake on the Analytics side is going to be key to form a repository for the data foundation for AI. The HeatWave database keeps pushing acros its wide portfolio and is the leading open source database from a depth and breadth perspective. Similar push on the AI side - particular the push on Manufacturing and AI. On the HCM side Oracle leads with AI adoption, push for Redwood UX, more payroll support and native workfroce managment support.