The OTM User Conference (OTM SIG) brings together passionate transportation technology professionals to share stories and consider what the next year of evolution looks like. A few points stood out to me as I attended and presented as a sponsor for the first time this year.
Community
The Oracle community is tight knit and dedicated to the success of each other. Most Oracle team members, service providers, and solution providers have a storied history focused on the development, implementation, and growth of Oracle transportation systems.
Earning the trust of the community is the best way to help customers achieve success. Shipium's credibility will help build that trust over the years ahead.
- Gartner — Shipium is the 2025 Cool Vendor™ recipient in logistics (download report). As a leader in the MCPMS space, the analyst community views Shipium bringing genuine innovation to the world of shipping technology.
- Customers — Case studies help tell the story, but our customer list and referenceability hammers home our commitment to value.
- Carriers — Dozens of carrier executives share the same testimonial: Please use Shipium!
Volume — With several hundred million shipments flowing through the platform annually, the industry is consistently turning to the reliability of our solutions.
Product-Driven
Oracle has a strong history product development, and they approach solving problems primarily from a product orientation.
The community — Oracle, services, and solutions — look through the lens of use cases, focusing on what someone is trying to accomplish, and then putting together the right tools to get the job done.
Sometimes it's Oracle tech, sometimes it's custom development, and sometimes it's pulling in a third party solution.
The result is assurance that projects are getting done within scope and on time.
Shipium helps by being an easy to integrate and use parcel system that targets complex and valuable use cases. Here are some of our favorites:
Data DNA
Oracle revolutionized relational databases and has had data at the center of its products ever since.
This is important because changing the parcel game relies on data leverage. Shipium is a natural and unique fit in this regard.
Underpinning all solutions on the Shipium platform is a powerful intelligence layer, providing a collection of 20 active models.
The most famous is our Dynamic TNT model, which gives accurate real-time delivery estimates from any origin to any destination. The model uses platform-wide data and pairs with multiple static factors (like when carriers pick up at your warehouse), and multiple real-time factors (such as a blizzard in Chicago), and multiple predictive factors (weighting from our data science team's tests).
You can view a live demo of our Dynamic TNT model powered by ML here.
Ask us about the other 19 models if curious. The intelligence layer is a perfect complimentary fit for Oracle customers looking to embed Oracle AI and agents into their operations.
The Potential within Parcel Shipping
Lastly, I came away with a belief that progressive minds at businesses with heavy parcel shipping operations are thirsty to innovate. The historical options available served their purpose to manage and execute rating and labeling, but the modern use cases and benefits Shipium brings to the industry have not yet made their way to the Oracle ecosystem. We are poised to help revolutionize shipping operations the same way we have with customers across multiple industries.
Kris Gösser
CMO
Diagonal thinker who enjoys hard problems of any variety. Currently employee #5 and the first business hire at Shipium, a Seattle startup founded by Amazon and Zulily vets to help ecommerce companies modernize their supply chains. Previously was CMO at Datica where I helped healthcare developers use the cloud. Prior to that I came up through product and engineering roles. In total, 18 years of experience leading marketing, product, sales, design, operations, and engineering initiatives within cloud-based technology companies.
