Recent Posts by Lauren Harris

Do you remember when organizations needing Enterprise Software began by asking the question: 'buy or build'? These days, except for a handful of very small, very niche areas, no one would ever consider building their own Enterprise Software; 'buy' won the day. But 'buy' was a bit of a misnomer. It was never 'buy' in the same way that you buy a freezer. When buying your on-premise ERP application, for example, itwould take time to research a solution and all its components,...

When it comes to Cloud, customers expect a solution that enables personalization, constant connectivity and security. And, through it all, we know that customers want an easy business relationship with their Cloud provider. To enable this, we focus on “Ease of Doing Business” attributes and in this post, I outline some of Oracle’s specific efforts. First, as of March 2015, we have completely refreshed our Cloud documentation repository. All documents related to technical andfun...

Striving for success is what drives Oracle and our customers to continually discover innovative uses for Oracle technology and to deploy groundbreaking solutions and best practices. This is why I am delighted to enter a new season of Oracle Excellence Awards where we have the opportunity to recognize those customers that have excelled in driving business value working in partnership with Oracle. Our customers amaze us with their successes, and we appreciate the chance tocelebra...

In our Q3 earnings call, held in March for the investment community, our CEO Mark Hurd mentioned a handful of our new SaaS deals at Saudi Telecom, BAE Systems, Hawaiian Airlines, KPMG, and FEMSA in Mexico - the world's largest independent Coca Cola bottler. These are all certainly strong brands that we're very excited have in the Oracle family, but in the world of 'as a Service,’ winning these new deals is actually the easy part. The point is that, for many of our customers,...

From time to time, I ask guest contributors to provide posts on timely and important topics. Today, I’m sharing a post by Jim Jiang, who runs our APAC User Groups relationships. Jim shares the story of an innovative program launched collaboratively by the China Oracle User Groups and Oracle University. The new initiative is designed to address the rapidly growing need for skilled and certified IT professionals, while providing participants with a career boost. As a reminder,...