December 06, 2007
A Really Great Presentation from a Big Time Corporate Guy
I was at an Oracle conference here in Denver yesterday, listening to dour presentations of their attempt to unite all of their varied middleware under the name of Fusion when I was pleasantly surprised by one of the best presentations I've seen in a long time.
After a pretty boring keynote presentation and lackluster demo of BPEL (which seems to be their magic bullet for unifying "Fusion"), on walks Vince Casarez. For the next 45 minutes I was riveted.
Vince took all of the basic elements of a software presentation and simplified it, designed it, and added a little flare. His presentation had:
- Good vocal cadence. His voice ranged up ad down and changed rhythm throughout the presentation
- Simple, clear slides. The slides kept to the Presentation Zen ideal of limiting text and using high end graphics very nicely
- Good anecdotes to help illustrate certain points or to better answer audience questions
- Spelled out acronyms he used in the presentation (THANK YOU!!!)
For that little bit of flair, he inserted 3-4 thirty second videos of customer interviews discussing the value they found in the new product. While the video had some sync issues and the content was pretty thin, the idea was sound.
The presentation was not overly technical nor too basic. This one presentation did a great job of what the whole day was intended to do, explain how the new Fusion project would unify all of Oracle's tools and applications into a single unified framework.
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